The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1899, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1899. highest councils ¢ the nation., ,And it:all domes about because of the ready ‘‘yes,” because voters and office-Seekers and of- fice-holders haven't stamina enough to sa%' “no." hey fall down before the party lash. They allow themselves to be whipped into line. They go with the current; they give way to tne “push”; they sell out because they lack the stiff, sturdy manliness to resist. Think of a lot of legislators, the chosen representatives of the people, bal- loting and_balloting with no more inde- pendence than an ass on a treadmill. What a beautiful spectacle the ready “yes” is making of a good many of our legislators at Sacramento. \vithout back- bone, independence, conscience, patriotism or public weal, or tF-" own weal, they foi.ow a scheming and unserupulous boss as a lot of stupid and \mreuonlnE sheep follo- the bell-wether of the flock. The disgrace of a gréat State, the disgrace of the United States Senate, the displeasure and denunciation of the hest elemgnts of the people, weigh as nothing against the nll of a gambling. racetrack, purse ana youth-destroying candidate for a great and noble office. With a ready 8’ they propose to send a political trickster and unprincipled wire-puller, a man al- ready damned by his record, to the cham- ber once adorned by such men as Webster and Clay and Enrfi'ilr :\nrlr Blaine. «IF GHRIST SHOULD GO INTO THE GAPITOL” CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 15.—"If Christ should go| into the Capitol.” It was a startling theme and a wide departure from' the usual good old Methodist sermon that Rev. S. J. Car- rol gave to his congregation last even- ing at Sixth-street Methodist Church. His text he took from the story of the third and last visitation of Christ into rusalem, when he went up into the ple and with whip of knotted cord drove out the buyers and the sellers. the money lenders and the horde of Pharisees that had pledged the honor of the Holy City to Mammon and the greed of gain. His inspiration he gath- ered from this mob of present-day Pharisees that has come into the capi- tal city to barter a Senatorship and throw into the scales against the price of it the honor and future of the men they need to effect their ends. J es S. Grant J m of father, 1 ner The honor and le elder Grant fought to win the son 1ld buy, with gold and honor as the Daniel M. Burns, the Mexican ndidate, he stripped with blade of keenest English and laid him in all his thy the W MENTO, Jan. 15.—George A. Knight re- turned s evening, as he says, for the purpose of “being on hand a little ahead of the break that will take place on Tues- Mr. Knight thinks that the comlnF week will develop a general scattering in the Senatorial forces of some of the leading candidates, and then he thinks he will be in the race as a factor. R. B. Carpenter has returned to help out Burns. Ex-United States Marshal George E. Gard has come up from Los Angeles, as he says, *“to help Fflrk the winner,” but he declines to name m yet. SRR SENATOR BRAUNHART EXPLAINS HIS POSITION CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan, 15.—Senator Braunhart made the following statement on the floor of the Senate Saturday in reply to cer- tain ‘published statements concerning bills introduced by him: “For the first time In my legislative career I am under the necessity of rising to a question of privilege. There appeared in the Chronicle of January 1 an article which charged me with proposing to in- troduce a ‘measure in this Legislature which svas-denounced by it as a gigantic steal, and In effect that there was a cor- rupt lobby behind it. Now the facts are that the measure referred to was sent to me along with other bills by the Hon. Tirey L. Ford, then attorney for the Board of ‘Harbor Commissioners during | the last session, providing for the ex- change of certain lots on the water front with. the heirs of the Frank estate in or- der that a bridge might be constructed from the ferry to Market street for the convenience of pedestrians. The bill was d unanimously hy the Sepate, but for some reason defeated in the I had no interest in the matter ever, the bill belng introduced by S Having been informed by Mr. Stratton and also by Regent Reinstein of the University of California, attorney for the Frank heirs, that there was no neces- sity for the passage of the bill because the Code of Civil Procedure gave ample power to the¢ Board of Harbor Cammis- sioners to effect the exchange of realty referred to. For this reason I never con- templated to introduce this bill during the present session, there being no necessity for it, and if introduced it 1 my purpose to oppose its passage. “In.to-day's Chronicle there appears an article in which the insinuation is strong that I have not introduced these bills re- ferred to in the article in good faith, and were it not for the fact that & number of new Senators are unacquainted with my record in official life, I would refrain from adverting to If. I am guilty of any- thing it may be the zeal with which I usually urge favorable action upon my measures before the Senate. “The hold-over Senators know me and I am convinced that they will do me the gortsn are recelving letters from home, ighly commending their course in voting for the general. o 5 Much interest is anticipated fn the pro- ceedings of the Assembly te-morrow. Governor Gage may attend and listen to the speeches. Three Important Labor Bills. CALL HEADQUARTERS, 5ACRA- MENTO, Jan. ls.—Assemblyman J. B. Sanford of Mendocino County has intro- duced in the Assembly three important labor bills affecting the workers in the lumber districts of the northern part of the State. One is Assembly bill No. 83, which regu- In saw mills, shake mills, shingle mills and logging camps. The bill provides that a day’s work in these mills and camps shall not be over ten hours’ duration. The measure |is drafted along the lines of the Utah eight- reme Court of the United States has eclared to be constitutional. At present the men in the lumber camps are compelled to labor from twelve to fourteen hours per day. Assemblyman Sanford has -also intro- duced in the lower house a measure, known as Assempbly bill No. 84, which pro- vides that at least onie hour each Wworking day shall be given for all workmen in all branches of employment for the mid- | day meal. | The "third measure is known as As- [ sembly bill No. & and its obfect is to make blacklisting of employes unpopular. It makes it a felony to {)ubllsh or cause to be published a black list of employes. Mr. Sanford’s Idea is that if the law is enacted and enforced it will give working- men protection and guarantee to them more independence if they desire to ex- ercise it. These measure are now being discussed by the labor unions and trades councils | throughout the State. They will probably be approved and petitions forwarded t Sacramento asking the Legislature to eii- { act them. They have been referred to the flsffimbiy Committee on Labor and Cap- al. THE BURNS PUSH HINTS EXTRA SESSION The flying trip of some of the star mem- bers of the Burns push from Sacramento, which- covered the “business” section of the town yesterday, did not create much noise, but left some very decided impres- sions along the line. Such men as Wolfe and Bettman, who are regarded as be- longing to the ‘main squeeze,” conducted themselves in a very subdued and, for reasons not explained, were not much In evidence. However, they confid- €d to their friends that they saw very lit- tle prospect of.a radical change in_the hour law for miners. which Act the Su-’ manner, | lates the hours of employment of laborers | BUT ONE TOPIC IN CONVERSATION The Downfall of Wright Absorbs Attention in Sacramento. Rumors of Bribery Affecting Other Members of the Legislature May Soon Be Verified and Exposed. BY HENRY JAMES. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 15,—In the places where politicians congregate there has been to- day but a single topic and this the arrign- ment of Speaker - Wright. There are friends who. stilk stand by him who de- ciare he will be able to clear himself, but they do not seem sanguine, and they manifest 4 feeling of pain and sorrow that their associate should have fallen. To me had come the duty of writing with entire frankness concerning Wright and his action in going over to Burns. I think no more pitiful spectacle was ever presented in a public body. Wright knew he was bringing upon himself the con- demnation of good people, that no excuse he could offer could make his act seem other than despicable, and that the good name he had wantonly thrown away could never again be his. It seemed to me an incident to excite commiseration and’ sympathy, for I thought the man, shrinking and cringing in his seat, flushed with a sense of shame, must have been led by stress of some dire circum- stance into an attitude so abject. As to the later developments. I have had no part in searching them out. and the revelations came to me as to others as a surprise, depressing and depiorable. Were not the facts indisputable, to belleve the ticians. publican Committee is fiere in the interest | of Senator Quay and F. A. Vanvalken- | burg of looking after the anti-Quay forces. headquarters of the two factions were but interest may be in a measure diverted to the aspect of affairs brought to light by The Call. This is all there is talked of to-night, and to get a closer view of it several people came up from the city to- night, enough lawyers being in the crowd to excite a remark that “‘somethin’ seemed to be doing.” There will be full accounts of it, for there ‘are riot énough legislators in Sacramento to conduct public business on any closed door basis. Senatorial aspirants are back after a Sunday vacation. They all hope for a break, and each one that when tne break eventuates he will fall heir to.the hopes which are to be wrested from the leaders. QUAY IS CONFIDENT OF HiS RE-ELECTION | His Opponents, However, Declare He Will Be Badly Beaten for United States Senator. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 15.—This was an off day with the legislators and poli- Chairman Elkin of the State Re- the Business Men’s League is The MANY WITNESSES WILL BE CALLED Evidence Against Wilson Murder Suspects. WILL TRY TO PROVE wN ALIBI THE LINE OF DEFENSE MILLER I8 EXPECTED TO MAKE. Mother and Children Are Denied Vis- itors While They Are Confined in the Solano County Jail, SUISUN, Jan. 15.—“Squeeky” Wil- son’s alleged slayers passed a quiet Sunday in the seclusion of the Solano County Jail at Fairfield. No visitors were admitted to see them and their meditations were undisturbed save when their meals were brought to their cell by the jailer. Under Sheriff Robinson issued - an order last night that no one should be admitted to the bastile to-day on any pretext, and the order was strictly en- forced. There were but few who ap- plied for admission, however, as there is very little curiosity among the resi- dents of Suisun and Fairfleld to gaze through the bars at mother, son and daughter who are accused of the mur- der of the old rancher. Mrs, Wilson’s rather dramatic decla- ration yesterday to, the effect that if she ever regained her liberty she would devote the remainder of her life to solv- ing the mystery of the erime and run- ning to earth the assassin of her ex- husband is regarded by those familiar with the case as a rather late awaken- ing. It is remembered of her that at JEATH D FULL HARVEST OB A DAY Passing of Three Well Known People. COL. EYRE LA GRIPPE’S VICTIM WAS ILL A FEW DAYS AND PNEUMONIA CAME, Emanuel M. Heller, the Merchant, Passes Away—DMrs. A. W. Scott & Third on the Fatal List. Death the Reaper was busy in this city vesterday, and among his victims were several well known to the general public. The most striking figure among these was Colonel Edward Engle Eyre, who passed away at his late residence on Pacific ave- nue. Colonel Eyre since he came to this State in the early sixties had been prominently identified with the large business inter- ests of San Franeisco, and Califernia as well. At a time when the Stock and Ex- change Board was a great institution Mr. Eyre was its president and one of the leading speculators in the market. e also conducted a large brokerage busipess, and during the bonanza days he handled the entire stock business of Flood & O'Brien. Deceased was one of the few large operators who had the sagacity to retire at the proper time. He left the stock business with a fine competency, and settled at Menlo Park, where he owned a beautiful estate. The family are gmong the leading society people of the tate. Colonel Eyre continued to take an in- terest in mercantile affairs and was at the time of his death president of the SAMMY, BRAUNHART® To THE Po’ cupola: . TO'ASCERTAIN THE* & DIRECTION OF TRE.WINDL O 5TMARDHAL SHINE'S " BADGE . SHONE THROUGH. DACRAMENTOS ~HEAVYL _ © T CLOUDS; LOOKED, GUY BARKAM, TOLD WumM ? STORIED 191R°95(') SPITE, OF TH s ERAJ(E e Ver - SENATOR sHorTRIDGE WENT 2 PUCK _HONTING = SUNDAY AS SPENT BY SOME OF THE LEGISLLATORS. unloveliness before the eyes of his con- g tion. In biting phrase he scored the methods both men have used in their unholy fight and the men they have brought to make it, and called for the prayers of his flock to high heaven to rid this city of future spectacles of as disgraceful aspect. With the wrong- doing of Howard E. Wright, Speaker of the Assembly, he dealt at length. but in pity and with untold sympathy for a man so weak, though the men who have accomplished his downfall he did not spare. The Rev. Carrol is one of the most eloguent of Sacramento's divines. and to-night the vigor a..d brilllance of his sermon held the interest of his congre- gation throughout. Of the politics of the day he said: hing in the history of any s last visit to Jerusalem, when he drove out the Pharasees from the 1 gave out the last invitation to Human needs, human sins ere the same then as s of old, Chri the Capitol here in our city. tion I know not, but we will pray that he may. If he could but look at the example that Is provided for our young men on the streets; go along the streets and lis- | ten through the swinging baize s into these dens where politics are and could see that which is in the V. he men who make them, What would he do, my thren? Would he go into that temple with his whip of cord or .would he enter in woe he stood aver Jerusalem on that last sad d What would he man ¢ repudi. ~ress of his own held up to the uhln(‘\l and shame of hon- est men, l-prmp. buying, stealing votes for him that he might be our representa- tive in the Senate? A man discredited, a man unfit, who, even here in our city; has tried to force our representatives to do his will. Even If he were innocent of. the charges made against him, and all the press were slanderers, this race track ' candidate arty, would still be not fit, with the cloud of | suspicion that must hang over one of his awful calling, and I do not believe that there is a Christian man or woman in our community or in the county who will agree with the County Central' Com- mittee whic] yvesterday instructed our representatives to get into line with this representative from the race tracks. And to-day I have heard from a m: who knows a thing that has depressed and made sad of heart indeed, that a gon of one of the grandest, the most sub- lime men that ever lived, that this coun- try ever knew, has with his. father's money helped to complete the ruin of one weak man who is sitting as a legisla- tor in yonder house of law. If it be true that this young man, who had every bright prospect nndmsmmhe of brilliant future, has taken $1 as a consideration for his vote, how unhappy will be that young man’s to-morrow: how sad for that man his future. And If Christ should go into the Capitol and see these things, would he, I repeat, go in with the lash or would he come with woe and warning? Hear,ye, my brethren, unless we purge our streets, our corners and our aFl ol of these awful things, God's visitation will be upon us. Let us pray that they may cease. Knight Looks for a Break, CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- { justice that in no vote of mine have I been actuated by other than conscientious motives. “I have introduced no bill affecting pawnbrokers. The bill in reference to ‘in- terest’ reduces the legal rate of interest to 5 per cent, which rate obtains in most of the States of the Union. There were two bills in reference to pawnbrokers in- troduced at the last session and I voted agalinst both of them. I do not favor or oppress any calling, even though that be the loaning of money to the poor. “So far as the bul regulating the charges of stenographers is concerned, a like measure introduced by me Guring the last session received the indorsement edi- torially of The Call, Chronicle and Exam- iner. The abuses of the police courts in reference to these matters cried aloud for redress. As high as $7000 per annum as charges against the eity for reporting cases in a police court of San Francisco have been collected. wrIten innocent par- sons are held to answer before the Supe- rior Court for no other reason excapt fo pile up fees for the official reporter, “I shall press this measure before this body, as did during the last sessfon, | when' the bill was defeated in the Assem- d I believe as we have | st will come | bly for reasons well understood. “T have no controversv with the report- ers of the press as a class, though some of them do nodt seem to understand the re- sponsibility of their calling. In my case, T am laboring under the disadvantage of having incurred the displeasure of asso- ciates of'boodlers and lickspittles, of vul- finr and corrupt political bosses, who are determined to destroy my reputation for probity of character and honesty of pur- ose, acquired during years of servitude n the interest of the people.” Pty el To: Test Fertilizers. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 15.—Assemblyman W. S. Mellick of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, will in a few days introduce a bill in the Assembly which will provide that all fer- tilizers used in the State shall be an- alyzed at the State University. A printed copy ‘of the analysis of the fertilizer made at the university must be placed in every package of the preparation sold, and if on analysis it 1s found that any package fails' to' come up to requirements printed the manufacturer is to be subject- ed to a penalty. This bill Mr. Mellick will introduce at the request of the farm- ers of the State, and the object of it is to protect them from imposition on the part of dealers and manufacturers against “fake” fertilizers. Assemblyman Mellick will also intro- duce’at an early day a bill to amend the horticultural law providing for a quaran- tine under certain conditions against Ha- ‘waiian fruit whenever it is found to be diseased. This bill is presented at the in- stance of the State Horticultural conven- tion, and George Compere, who is now in Hawali, where he was sent by the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County to cultivate a parasite that will destroy the rurpla scale. The parasite has been ound, and Mr. Compere is raising them for shipment to Southern California. gl sl ol General Barnes Gains Strength. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 15—General W. H. L. Barnes, accompanied by his lieutenants, Theo Reichert and A. G. Booth, returned from San Francisco this evening. Sev- eral members of the Legislature who have not- yet enrolled themselves under the banner of General Barnes, went to his headquarters and paid him the mm?l- ment of a friendly call. It is ?redle ed that the bailoting to-morrow will & gain in the ge s sup- Senatorial fight this week; that Burns was in the contest to stay as long as the battle lasted, and that he was not telling gn)'body how long he thought that would ) Mose Gunst has heretofore been re- garded as a reilable oracle, but the Mexi- can colonel seems to have lost faith in the ability of Mose to keep inside infor- mation to himself, and has therefore ceased to make a confident of his gam- blln‘f partner. As a result the common herd are all at sea as to what is about to_happen. E One reason given for the quick trip of the push to s city was that there was considerable anxiety to know somethin; more about the probable proceedings o one Colonel Mazuma. ating this impression the Senator makers left on their trail a very pronounced idea that the Senatorial question would oc- cupy so much time that in order to trans- act the necessary business of State legis- lation it would become incumbent upon Governor Gage to call an extra session of the Legislature. They uoufiht to convey the ijdea that the deadlock would last till after the end of the session; that the Legislature would work a few days without plé', and then adjourn, thus forcing the Governor to call them back to go on with their labors at regular wages. There are pretty shrewd politicians in this city who look upon such a result as very probable. In support of such a theory they peint to the faet that the Legislature has been In session two weeks and has accomplished nothing except to pass a bill npgraprlntlng money with which to run the State printing office, thereby making it possible to war over the Senatorial question. < e Should the hints thrown out prove:to/ be well founded the prospects for accom- plishing important legislation are :not very assuring unless the Burns forces are able to carry out a plan to force an-ex- tra session. On the other hand, there are those who assert that before such a condi- tion of affairs comes to pass somethin, bard and heavy will fall upon Daniel e | smash the Senatorial bee now buzzin, within his bonnet. SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF A WOMAN'S DEATH A Coroner Mobbed and a' Free-For- All Fight Among Members of a Jewish Tabernacle. WEST SUPERIOR, Wis., Jan. 15.—There are likely to be sensational developments in the case of Mrs. Wilfoung, who is thought to have been buried alive. Cor- oner Downs of this city, acting on the order of District Attorney Ross, went to Duluth to-day with the intention of disinterring the remains for the. holding of a post mortem examination to deter- mine the cause of death, as demanded by relatives of the woman. Word was re- ;:alvedh tdo-lzlzm that the Duluth author- es had issued a permit to allow th body to be brought &e this city. Corone: Downs, with a hearse, went to the Ve and commenced to open it. While so engaged a mob of 150 Jews of the faction opposcd to the disinterment ltuckgohim and he was compelled to desist. WIS returned here under close surveillance. He proposes to go out about midnight with ¢nough of a following to bring the bodg- to tl's eity, where Dr. Conklin will hold an examlnation to-morrow. In the Jewish tabernacle this aft a r!gt took place bat.vc ,tl:e “:l;‘nm brothers and relatives o; dead wom ?né".f nr—iu‘ Wl&flt“umu u:d’. h‘#m ll.x quelied uu:m‘v. Nommm In addition to cre-| charge would tax human credulity. I supposed that Wright had listened to the song of the camp followers of Burns, that he had been deluded with promises, given a false idea of his duty, made subject to malign and forceful influences, and would in the end possibly see his error. This was probably the sentiment of the average observer not deedp}iy versed in the ‘ways of politics. They did not know the essential villainy underlying the scheme of which they saw the outward manifes- tation. They couid not think the Bpeaker had been bought for a price, or if such an idea came into their minds it sura,y‘was not coupled with the notion that ht having sold himself to one party, had | delivered the goods to another. There is revalent, and recognized as logical, a octrine as to honor among thieves, and for this doctrine to fail among states- men is to put them on a lower moral plane than tr:e thieves occupy. When any man so far forgets honor, the obligations to friends, the traditions of decency, as to sell himself, he certainly sinks even lower by a retusal to stay bought. It is no part of my duty to try Mr. ‘Wright. The charges have been made, and doubtless he will be given evel 0)‘>- portunity for defense. he episode 1s tragic. ere is a promising career closed, a reputation blighted, or at least the unbiased judgment can reach no other conclusion. liere is a good name risked and lost, and all for so paltry an induce- ment, though that such a name is “rather to be chosen than great riches” is a trur which has stood for ages Immovable ans unassailed. s There are rumors of bribery affecting other, members and they are being run down. If any member is here with a vote for sale or with the price of a sold:ome, the outlook for nim is not pleasant, and I imagine him wondering when his- turn shall come to be exposed, for that it ig coming he need have no doubt. Several ministers here to-day took for texts the general political situation, and the forces of corruption can find Ilittle comfort in what was said. Burns and his touts are particularly scored, and'so were the organizations which are trying to coerce members into voting against con- science and the desire of constituents. A tremendous pressure has been brought to bear upon Knights of Sacramento to make him vote for Burns. Knights has withstood it like a man, and his best friends declare he will never yleld. Never- theless, the Burns lambkins claim him, just as they claim almost everybody else. They still maintain that the colonel can- not be defeated, but what they base their assertions on am unable to divine. Their ‘reserve strength” is a fiction in reiteration of the size and overwhelming impressiyeness of which they take great delight, but they do not trot it out. It is avhf;nuy something too preclous to -be looked at. Further than to say ain that Burns has not a ghost of a show I am willing to leave guessing to others for the present, confessing up to date to having made a few misses. Efforts to elevate and purify the coun- cils of the State are not always appre- ciated. There are threats to bar all Call attaches from the Assembly. Considering the source of the thi they can be taken as a compliment. T do not know that the matter will come to a vote, but am wnl‘d:fi?dg"hat in x:g te;ent ‘would an honest legislator suppo e move. as are ashamed or afrald might do so, and by that act proclaim the manner of men they are. Doubtless there are mem- bers who would like to have all papers not only bafred from the Capitol but pitched off the earth. When one observed xzheorle so scary as this the presumption 2 they have strong vel’!onnl Teaso) for it naturally follows, and to exploit thn: but impera- uun.aul may be a melancholy tive duty. To-morrow the balloting will proceed, '] kenburg said just the reverse. publishes the closed to-day and no efforts were made by either side to make votes. Mr. Elkin sald to-night that he had every reason to believe that Senator Quay would be re-elected. Mr, Vanval- He claims that not a break has been made in the predicts that Mr. ant{-Quay lines, and Quay will fall twenty-five short of a ma- Jority in the House on Tuesday. ‘“‘Senator Quay's third defeat will fols low on Wednesday,” Vanvalkenburg said, “when on joint ballot there will be a majority against him too large for him to overcome. His managers know that he cannot win and are only playing for position and looking for a market.” Senator Quay's friends declare he is so confident of his re-election that he will start next Thursday for a month’s fish- ing at St. Lucia, Fla. Senator Vest of Missouri and Dr. L. Webster Fox of Philadelphia will go with him. There are less than a score of legisiators here to- night, and no one is certain as to the out- come of the contest. On the surface the result i{s very much in doubt, and neither faction is overconfident as to how the fight will end. MORE FIGHTING TAKES PLACE IN THE “OUDAN Egyptian Forces Reported to Have Been Defeated and the Tenth Battalion Destroyed. LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Morning Leader following dispatch from Cairo: - “Rumniofs are in circulation here that on December 28 the Dervishes under Emir Fedil, on the Blue Nile, defeated the, Egyptian forces, the Tenth Soudanese Battallon being entirely destroyed. It is reported that reinforcements are being hurried to the scene and that another battle is imminent.” According to a dispatch from Cairo on January 5 Colonel Lewis with a Soudan- ese regiment and a detachment of irregu- lar troops attacked Fedil, the last re- maining formidable Dervish chief, while he was crossing the Blue Nile on De- cember 26 at the cataract south of Ro- geiro, storming the island on which Fedil took up his position and capturing 1500 Dervishes. Fedil, however, escaped with 300 followers. AN AMERICAN HEIRESS WHO WOULD NOT BE SOLD Countess Rosemont de Rouge-Aix Deserts Her Husband and Be- comes a Governess. -LONDON, Jan. 15—The. Vienna cor- respondent of the Daily Mall says: Countess Rosemont de Rouge-Aix, daughter of Mr. Steward, a Boston mil- lionaire, has been llvinf in this city in- cognito as governess in a gentleman's house. It appears that within. a few minutes after her wedding she learned by gbance that the Count had only married er because her father had promised to By his debts, amounting to £300,000. 'vercome by this disclosure she ran away as a protest against being sold in this way, and she intends to earn her living here until-she can divorce her mercenary husband. AR Oldest Mason in Ohio Dead. ASHLAND, 0., Jan. 15.—Major G. W. Drle, the first treasurer of Ashland Coun- 1 died ‘to-day, to be the oldéluvt l‘duongiu l:!o‘.' il the time of the murder she manlfeatedy no concern whatever to learn who was | the perpetrator of the deed and took no | interest in the efforts to uncover the | assassin. In fact, her indifference was | the subject of general comment and | was one of the chief causes of attract- | ing suspicion to herself. She never even | expressed a desire, so far as is known, | to have the guilty party punished until | she found herself in jail with the shad- | ow of the gallows over her brother and | the gates of the penitentiary yawning | to receive her mother and herself. | This being Sunday, District Attorney | Devlin did not come up from his home | in Vallejo, and Sheriff Savage is still | confined to his house with the mumps. In the absence of these two officials nothing definite can be said regarding the date of the preliminary hearing. It may be held some day the latter part of the present week, in case the pros- | ecution can get its witnesses here by that time, as some of them live at a dis. | tance. However, as a few aré not yet | located it is more than likely the hear- | ing will not come up before some time | next week. | Among the witnesses who will be| summoned to testify by the prosecution are the following: Lucy Owens, Wil-| son’s housekeeper, who saw the old | rancher shot,down before her eyes; Ada | Rice, niece of Mrs. Owens, who was stopping at the Wilson house on the night of the murder; Daniel Wilson Jr., son of the murdered man, who informed his mother that his father was about | to deed his ranch to Virgie O'Brien: | William Craig, Mrs. M. Hayes, Mrs. Frank Carney and Sam_ Riley of Sel- bys, whose testimony is depended on to connect Miller with the crime; Charles Maples, who notified the people at the McEwen ranch of the murder; George Neary of Napa, who was employed on | the Wilson ranch and was first on the scene of the killing; Henry Carpenter, undertaker; Dr. Downing, 'the physi- cian who examined Wilson's body; George Hughes of Napa, in whose pres- ence Mrs. Wilson is said to have ac- cused her brother, Miller, of the mur- der; Fred Bendel of Suisun, who it is claimed will testify that Miller ad- mitted to him in a moment of confi- dence that he had to kill Wilson in order to save the property for the chil- dren of the rancher; “Gib" Bailard and his wife, who was Lillie Wilson, who will tell of certain events at the Me- Ewen ranch which may prove import- ant in the chain of evidence. Virgie O'Brien, the woman to. whom ‘Wilson had promised to deed the ranch, has not been located. Detective Sfran- ahan, who gathered a mass of evidence against the prisoners, will not be called because the District Attorney believes he would not be a safe witness. The only witnesses for the defense so far as known are Mrs. Sheehan, her two daughters, Maggie and Katle, of Val- lejo, who are expected to establish an alibl for Miller. Brakeman Burned to Death. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15.—In a colli- sion between a freight train and a lgca- motive on the Philadelphia and Reading road at Glenside, near here, to-day sev- eral cars were overturned and burned, and John Ruth, brakeman on the freight n, was pinioned under the tim! and urned to death. Germania Lead Works, with offices at 124 Sansome street. He was also one of the first to appreciate the need for the construction of the Valley road and one of the original subscribers to the stock. Deceaesed was the father of Mrs. Rich- ard D. Giryin of the firm of Girvin & Eyre, Miss Mary, Robert M., E. L., Perey and Perry Ejy A widow is also left to mourn hig lo Mr, Eyre was over % vears old at the time of his death, The immediate cause of his demise wds la grippe, followed by pneumonia. He was attended by Dr. De Vecchi, but the dis- ease had secured such a strong hold upon his system that there was no Dosslblfity of saving him. The funeral will be held from his late residence in this city on Tuesday at 11 Emanuel M. Heller died at his resi- dence in_this city, 812 Post street, yes. terday. He was the senior member of the firm of Heller, Beckman & Co., dry goods importers, at 112 and 114 Sansome street, Mr. Heller was one of S8an Franeise most prominent business men and his death will be a surprise as well as a cause of regret to a great circle of ae- quaintances. He leaves a wife, one son and a daughter. and 6 months, Mrs. Emma ‘ineresa Scotf, wife of Albert W. Scott Jr., e well-known -at- mrnes. died in this city yesterday. De- ceased was the daughter of Mrs. Ange- lotti and sister of Judge F. M. Angelotsl of San Rafael. The funeral’ will take place, to-morrew. from 306 Buchanan street. The interment is to be strigtly private. What Theosophists Read. Theosophy finds special welcome with all lovers of the marvelous and:the un- canny. In the catalogue of the Theosophic Publishing Society in Duke street, Lon. don, between three and four hundred ‘dig- ferent works are named, four-fifths of which deal with weird sibjects such as astrology, animal magnetisni, astral light, a.lchemi;i mind reading, mind cure, mythg of the Middle Ages, phallicism, Ch; magic, demonology,” witcheraft, §lmc;al: mysterfes, the elixir of life, géomanoy. ghost storles, hypnotism, soicery, g merism, Yoga philosophy, Rosi ism, faith healing, the cabala, momion Hindu pantheism, ‘the science of breatn: white and black magic, posthumous b manity, Swedenborg, the Buddhist, rejs. carnation, gypsy fortune telling, 'seorat doctrine, sacred mysteries of the Maya, “The World as WL" by Schopenhaiar: somnambulism, zodiacal physfognomy. ballucinations, mysticism. % e greater part of all this is weird and uncaniy sort of mgfin{‘\}?t which in this practical. common-sense pat most people avoid. Yet it seems to o nish the intellectnal pabulum on whien Theosophy specially thrives. It is Suiteq to disardered brains, and might be e pected to peaple our insane asylume abundantly. One does not wonder that the same distracted constituency that mes. y Sup- orted the vagaries of Spirituails y cen swept almost en mnsse T i ranks 0 eosophy.—' e i Review. " Homiletic Gracious Offering. E{dafly Passenger—Here, Miss, take this seat. Stout Young Woman—Oh, I' co think of depriving an old—1 mean I eonys not_think of depriving you. ‘““You go ahead and take it and don't argue. I know vou fat girls always hay lame feet.”"—Indianapolls Journal 2 RV AR SO e When an unmarried woman dles in Brax zil the coffin, hearse and livi HLES TN AP oh8 e of the His age was 41 years ' <