The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY,H JANUARY 25, 1899 SUISUN MURDER SUSPECTS LIKELY TO BE RELEASED Evidence at the amination Not cient to H Jan. 24—TNe mystery BUrs | e assassination of Daniel H, his ranch on the Nuisun rnad} is still | ht of October 5 solved. The preliminary amMsation | of William J. Miller, Mrs. Elizabeth &. | Dickinson, his mother, and Mrs. Addie} Wilson, his sister, jointly charged with | the murder of the latte ex-husband, is ended, so far as the testimony is con- cerned, ‘and while the three prisoners are yet confined in the Solano County Jail they will in all probability be given their liberty in the morning on motion of District Attorney Devlin. The prosecuting officer of the county intimated that this course would be | pursued when he moved for a continu- ance of the case until 10 a. m. to-mor- row, after the conclusion of the testi- mony at 5 o'clock this evening. Mr. Devlin said that as over a soore of wit- nesses had been examined he desired to have time to fully digest the im- portance of the evidence before making up his mind to ask the court to com- mit the three prisoners for trial and his motion was granted. The result of the day's was a surp proceedings se and a disappointment to the officers who have been instrumental | in placing the accused behind the bars. | While some of the ce tends | strong to oconnect with the murder, it is by no means conclusive. | With . few exceptions, the witne S who were depended upon to establish the guilt of Miller and the women ed completely when placed on the to fulfill expectations. their previous state- | " denied outright ever having | e remarks attributed to them. y, who rented the rig in | is alleged to have driven | from Vallejo to the Wilson ranch on the night of the ssination, posi- tively identified the principal defendant n the case as the man who procured the horse’ and buggy at the Callender stable on the evening of October 9, 1896 William 8. Craig was reasonably sure Miller was the n who returned the | rig to the stable befor aylight on the foll orning, but as the fellow | face muffled with the collar of 1t and his hat pulled down over to having en Wilson's alleged in his yard at about 5:30 o'clock morning of Octeber 10, fully aring a. long coat. e three witnesses none stand whose testi- d go far toward convincing | the guilt of any one of the a Sheehan of Val- | W and conversed | in front of her house at | evening of October 9, while 0 daughters, Maggie and Katie, d that they spent several hours | house that evening and were with Miller 5:30 on the her t d by him. These alibi wit- h told the same story detail, emple langua itnes n extent picturesque, connect the failed prisoners with - eliminary examina held before Justice of the Peace A. F. Hitchcock, in the Superior Court room at Fairfield. Lo before 10 o’clock, the for the hearing, the courtroom | crowded with curious spectators, | ing many women W. D. Downing of Suisun, who | S summoned to the Wilson house on | night of the shooting, was the first | ind told briefly of the condi- | the body when he arrived there, | | and of the cause of death. E , and | A general craning of necks to | view of thg woman who saw > old man fall dead at her feet on his | own doorstep, and who was herself one of the first to be suspected of the mur- | der. Mrs. Owens tcld a very circum- | stantial story of the events that trans- pired on the Wilson ranch on the af- ternoon and the evening of the murder. She repeated the story of the shooting | of the old rancher by the unknown as- | ion, as he stood on the doorstep of | his house, and how she stood just in the | doorway and _saw him fall dead. She | described the terror of herself and her aiece, Ada Rice, who was stopping with | her, and how, after calling vainly for help, they climbed through-the window | of their room and ran to the Hatch | ranch and gave the alarm. s denied that -she had ever heard W he intended to deed the ranch to Virgie O'Brien. She knew however, the O'Brien woman was to supersede her as housekeeper on the | Sunday following. Ad tice, a stunning blonde, neatly dressed in a tailor-made suit of some blue material, was the next witness. She confessed 18 s, but looked sev- eral years.older. She claimed San Fran- cisco as her home and gave her occu- pation as that of a nursegirl. Miss Rice corroborated her aunt in every particu- lar, dnd in addition testified that while 2 Owens was out at the pump she heard the click of a gun almost under her window and saw the shadow of a man through the giass. She was ter- rified by the occurrence and sat up in bed waiting for her aunt to return. Then she heard the fatal shot fired. Daniel M. Wilson, son of the mur- dered rancher, took Miss Rice's place on the stand. Young Wilson is 18 years old and appeared to think he was one of the chief attractions at a minstrel performance rather than a witness against his mother and grandmother, who were on trial for their. lives for the murder. of his father. His tes- timony amounted to little, but his an- tics, while they caused the spectators to laugh, seemed slightly out of place. He admitted having told his mother some time before the murder that his father had pramised to deed the home place to Virgie O'Brien and she re- plied: “It looks to me as though you had just as good a right to the property as Virgie O’Brien.” He could not say whether or not his grandmother was present at that in- terview. He had told his father he did not think it was right to give the prop- erty to the O’Brien woman. Mrs. Lillle Bailard, daughter of Dan Wilson, who was livipg with her mother on the McEwen raneh when her father wag killed, was expected to give some damaging testimony against her mother, but the expectation was not realized, assher testimony was of no particular value to either side. G. A. Bailard. testified that just before he started on 4 camping trip with Dan | Wilson, a few weeks before the murder, Mrs. Wilson said to him: “Wilson will be fixed pretty d—n The neighbors will take a hand.” s, Craig could not be positive. ¥ Mary 3 a next- | neighbor lejo, tes- | Preliminary Ex- Deemed Suffi- old Them. and the young witness appeared fo hugely enjoy the notoriety he had sud- denly attained. He was evidently pre- pared to tell of other conversations, but Attorney George Lamont pricked the bubble of his importance by forcing him to admit that the remark quoted was made while discussing Wilson's flag- rant immoralities and the, feeling in the | neighborhood caused by his doings. Sam Riley testified that he was. en- gaged by Willlam Craig to take the lat- ter’s place in the Callender stable at Vallejo on October 9, 1896, while Craig went to San Francisco. ‘At about 5:30 in the afternoon,” said Riley, “a man came in and wanted a rig. I hitched up a horse in an open road wagon and he got in and drove off. I asked him when he asked for the rig where he wantegd to go, and he said, ‘To take a little drive.’ " “Have you seen that man since?” asked District Attorney Devlin. “Yes; about two weeks after the murder. City Marshal Savage of Valle- Jo, the present Sheriff, came to me and asked me if I could recognize the man who hired the rig that night. I told him I could. A few days later I saw Miller at the Vallejo crossing and pointed him out to Mr. Savage.” “Do you see the man in, this room?” “Yes; that is_ the man,” replied Riley, indicating Mi Are you positive “'As positive as a man can be.” The witness said that Craig returned at 7 and asked him to stay a while | longer, as he (Craig) wanted to at- tend a “blowout” being given that night by the Neptune Firemen, of which he was a member. He did so, and when Craig came back about 11 o’clock he decided to stay all night. He and Craig slept together, and when Mil- ler came back with the rig at about 5:30 in the morning Craig unhitched the horse and put him away. Riley did not see Miller at that time. William Craig testified to having hired Riley to take his place in the stable for a day and gave uncon- trovertible reasons for fixing the date at Friday, October 9. He said that when Miller brought the rig back Miller stepped out of the bugggy directly in front of him, but as he had the collar of his coat turned up and his hat pulled down over his eyes he could only sec a small portion of the man’'s featu The fellow had a scar or scratch on his He was asked if he Miller as the man. Craig,” “but I did not see much of his face and I could not swear to it.” Miller was asked to put his hat on, head. “Pull it down over your eyes,” said Crajg. “Further—now, that's Now hold you hand over your chin so I can just see your nese and mouth.” Miller ‘complied and the moment he did so the witness exclaimed: “I am almost ‘positive that is the ma (& testified that the horse driven by the man alleged to ~ have. been Miller on the night of October 8 was badly used up from hard driving and could not be used again for several days. He had not seen- Miller at the stable on the following Sunday, when the latter claims to have hired a rig there, although he was there attending to his duties all day. He was positive Miller got no rig there on that day. Mrs. Mary Hayes of Vallejo said she was awakened between 5:30 and 6 o'clock on the morning of October 10, 1886, by an explosion. She looked out of her window and saw through the open kitchen door of Miller's residence, | which was next door, the flames from a gasoline stove, which had exploded. A moment later Miller came out into the yard, carrying the stove. He wore a long overcoat at the time. On thé Sunday after the murder she heard Miller and his wife talking in the yard. Miller said, addressing his wife: “I would like to g0 up to see Addie.” Mrs. Miller replied: “It seems to me you take an awful lot of interest in her. Let her get out of the trouble the way she got into it.” On another occasion she heard Miller tell his wife the officers were watching him, and he “hoped they would not put his mother in jail and feed her on bread and water until’she told all she knew.” On cross-examination the witness tes- tified that Miller’'s house and that of her mother, where he lived, were sep- arated by about twenty-five feet. Ferdinand J. Bendel, who was report- ed to have said that Miller told him he was obliged to kill Wilson in order to save the property, was one of those who “fell down” when put to the test. George Hughes testified to a wrangle between Miller and Mrs. Wilson while the latter was living on the Wilson ranch after the murder, in which Mil- ler accused his sister and niece of hav- ing caused Wilson's. death, and Lily replied: “¥ the truth was known, you are the one who shot him. Hughes' testimony, however, is no longer given the importance it was at first credited with. Mrs. Eliza Sheehan was called by the defense. She and her two daughters gave testimony supporting the Miller alibi. The defense closed with the Shee- hans, and District Attorney Devlin, addressing the court, said twenty-five witnesses had been examined. and that while some of the evidence that was expected to be produced had failed to materialize, some strong testimony tending to show the guilt of the prison- ers had been given, »~ well as testi- mony in their defense. He wanted time to fully consider the evidence offered before making a motion to either com- mit the defendants or discharge them, and he, therefore, moved that the case be continued until 10 o’clock to- morrow morning. + NICARAGUA CANAL & BILL CONSIDERED . Disposition of the House Committee Is for Control by the Gov- ernment. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—The Nicaragua canal bill question was considered by the House Committee on Commerce to-day. The Senate bill was received and read, but no motion was made to agree to it. The purpose of the committee had here- tofore been pretty fully matured to report its own bill, with Government ownership as the essential feature. No votes were taken, but the disposi- tion of the committee was toward a measure giving the President authority to acquire from Nicaragua and Costa Rica the right to build a Government canal. e i Has Seven Wives. PEORIA, 1Il.. Jan. 24.—George Beres- ford Foyle of this city was arrested to- day at Davenport, Jowa, on a bench war- rant issued at Des Moines. He is charged with having seven wives scattered through the cities of this country and Canada. His newest wife, who lives here, left last Friday to meet her husband at The spectators. pricked up their ears | Chicago silk house. Des Moines. r. FPoyle travels for -a # “He looks very much like him.” said | which he did, setting it far back on his | Went to work on a bar and.got front 100 GOLD FOUND ON CLOCOHENE RIVER New Fields Opened in Alaska. PROSPECTOR’S GLOWING TALE GRAVEL BARS FLAKED WITH YELLOW METAL. Driven by Water From a Promising Brospect .Hole, but Will Return to Work His Find. BY HAL HOFFMAN. Special Correspondence of The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 15.—A man has been found by S. O. Wheelock of Juneau who has discovered gold on the Clocohene River, a tributary of the Taku, along which for a considerable length runs the Taku trail to Atlin. He is P. R. McGuire, formerly a Mon- tana miner. He has been at work this winter at the Treadwell mine, and last summer prospected around the Taku during June and July, the high water months, when the snow melts most rap- idly. 5 The latest maps issued by the Land Department of the Government show this river to be named Slocoh, but on most maps and in Alaska the name fis Clocohene. The river is about fifty miles long and heads up into a lake of | considerable size and of the same name. | This lake is only about ten miles from | the lower end of Atlin. The Indians | have a summer trail up the Clocohene, and as it is much shorter than up the Silver Salmon and down Pike River it | is thought this will be the trail next summer. The Clocohene comes in al- most opposite the Inklin, which, with the Nakina. forms the Taku River. The present trail goes up the Nakina to the Silver Salmon. Water drove McGuire out of his prospect hole, but he is go- ing to try it again this winter while | | all the fresh water in Alaska is asleep in its valley cradles. Mr. McGuire said: “The trouble about prospecting those bars in the summer time is the water. If you sink a hole and leave it, for in- stance, half an hour you will find it full | of water. You can't see where it comes from, except that it must come from the ground, and you may be half a mile away from the stream. Some prospecting has been done up the Taku, but nearly everybody has gone to the | right up the Inklin River. Last sum- | mer I thought I would go to the left and so followed up the Clocohene. I to 150 colors to the pan. I did not get to bedrock on account of the water. I am going up there this winter and try it in a different way. Two of us ex- | pect to start up the Taku in about ten days and prospect along:.that way. K ‘We are going up the ClocShene instead;of the Silver Salmon, and will take hqrses. I am_ going to cut wood,build a fite on the Clocohene, thaw out the ground and go down to bedrock. If we find pay dirt at bédrock we can drift, and in the | winter time the water does not bother us.” Some Germans found a promising | prospect last season up on a creek | which empties into the Inklin. While there has always been some travel by | the Taku trail to the interior;, and chief- Iy by Indians, the crowds that are go- ing in that way are expected to find new placer diggings in that section. Pioneer prospectors and citizens of Ju- neau have always expected something | to be found up the Taku. One hundred | to 150 colors to the pan means 2 or 3 cents, and it is generally considered among miners a very encouraging sur- | face prospect. DEBATE ON ARMY REORGANIZATION BILL Final Vote on the Measure Will Be Taken Next Tuesday After- noon. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—The debate on the army reorganization bill opened in the House to-day under an agreement by which the general debate is to run fifteen hours, exclusive of three night sessions, the final vote to be taken not later than 3 o'clock next Tuesday. Prac- tically " three propositions are before the House, the House bill providing for a standing army of 100,000 men; the minor- ity substitute increasing the standing army to 30, 000 men and lodging with the President discretionary power to call out 50,000 volunteers for emergency” service and 2 proposition to continue temporarily the regular army at its present war strength— 62,000 men. It is also understood that | (R)) of Tllinois will champion the bill. Among the supporters of the ¢ Dbill there are those who, lellan (D.) of New: York, a son of General George B. McClellan, favor a provision for a general staff made up of officers of the line, so as to make the army organization responsible to a single head. The fate of the measure is still considered doubtful, although Chairman Hull and his friends profess great confl- dence in it 3 . The debate to-day was not ex | e TRIAL OF GENERAL EAGAN BEGINS TO-DAY Will Probably Plead Not Guilty, and Then Urge That His Lan- guage Was Justifiable. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.—Genéral Mer- ritt and-most of the members of the court-martial which will hear the charges against General Bagan are in_the city. The court meets at the Ebbitt House to- morrow morning, and it is not expected that more than two or three days will be necessary to complete its work. General Bagan will plead not guilty in a general way, and then he probably will enter the plea of l’ustmcnion. This ac- tion is customary in cases of this char- acter, but it rests with the court alone 1t is not likely that it will be denied Gen- eral -Eagan. Judge Advocate Davis said to-day that he expects to have no difficulty in prov- | ing that General Eagan ‘made the state- ment in the specifications before the War Commission, even if he cannot: produce the original type-written statement read by the accused or obtalh one of the copies of it given out by General Eagan. “The War Commissioners have ears;” said he, “‘and heard the statement read.” Colonel Davis said that he would call very few witnesses, because there is no necessity for a large number. e Sl e, Preparations for Patti’s Wedding. LONDON, Jan. 24.—Elaborate prepara- tions are being made at Craig-y-nos-and at Brecon, South Wales, to celebrate the marriage to-morrow of Mme. Adelina Patti to Baron Cederstrom. Mme. Pattl gave a dinner to a large number of her neighbors this evening, and later sang and took part.in a pantomime show as Pen- elope. SCEpgE Honored by Stanford Seniors. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan. 24.— The senior class held a meeting for the election of officers for this semester. Ralph Arnold of Pasadena was elected resident; A. H. Suzzallo, vice-presiden like | G whether or not the plea will be allowed. | g iss Francis Wolfenbarger, secretary; F. A 8. Fisher, treasurer. ANXIETY AS T0 FUGITIVE YOUNG HAWAIAN BILL| ~ STILL AT LARGE ) Poor Prospect for Island Legislation. CROWDED BY OTHER MATTERS CHINESE IMMIGRATION CAUSES APPREHENSION. Since the Decision of the Supreme Court of Hawaii the Subject Is Left' All in a Jumble. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON. Jan. 24—The sup- porters in the Senate of the bill for the government of the Hawaiian Islands as a territory of the United States are growing somewhat anxious over the prospect. In view of the crowded con- dition of the calendar and the apparent indifference toward Hawaiian legisla- tion, they express the fear that the bill may not receive attention before ad- Journment, and they say if it does not there will be a most perplexing condi- tion of affairs in the islands, which be- came a part of the Union by the adop- tion of the Newlands resolution in July last. The decision of the Supreme Court of Hawaii in the matter of the landing of Chinese immigrants in the islands is the immediate cause of the present ap- prehension. The full text of this de- cision has now been. received in Wash- ington and it is found to be very far- reaching in its effect. It deals not only with the landing of Chinese in Hawaii, but also incidentally lays down the doctrine that it is, as a court, without Jurisdiction in construing laws of the United States dealing with other than the Chinese immigration question. Discussing this phase of the Ha- waiian question Senator Cullom, who has charge of the general bill, said to- day that the decision left the people of the islands in a most unsatisfactory predicament. “They do not know where they stand,” he said, “nor what to depend on in the enforcement of the law. Im- portant legal questions are lfkely to arise at any time, and naturally the Hawailans want to know where they stand.” Continuing, Senator Cullom said he would call up the Hawalian bill as soon as there seemed any possibility of get- ting consideration, but so long as the peace treaty maintained its present position it was impossible for him to say when this would be. Inquiry develops the fact that there would be opposition to the Hawaitan bill in its present shape, and some Senators hesitate to act in this matter until there are further developments with reference to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. There is a feeling among Senators of this class that any legislation in the interests of Hawaii will be taken as a precedent for the other islands, and that hence the Ha- wailan question should be postponed until the legislation for. all the new ac- quisitions can be considered together. The Hawailan advocates contend, however, that that territory constitutes a class of its own, and they are urging action at the present session as a right which Hawaii can assert now regard- less of any other section. They con- tend that the Chinese decision accen- tuates this right and makes the ques- tion one of such weight that it cannot be postponed. The point is made that under the decision of the Hawaiian court it could not take cognizance of the questions arising under our consti- tution nor of admiralty cases, and hence great confusion is probable until our laws are extended to the islands. Father Hynes IIl. WOODLAND, Jan. 24—Father J. J. Hynes, for many. years pastor of Catholic_church {n ‘this city. {8 in :Rg Sisters’ Hospital in Sacraménto and his friends are much alarmed on account of his condition. Lo g s Deputy County Clerk Resigns. WOODLAND, Jan. 24.—Deputy County Clerk V. A. Fenner, now in San Fran- cisco, has forwarded his resignation to Counlir Clerk Duncan, having accepted a lucrative position in San Francisco. Vain Search for the Al- leged Firebug. ILL HIS WIFE IN PRISON REFUSES TO PARTAKE OF FOOD OR MEDICINE. Asserts That She Is Being Perse- cuted and That She Cares Not What Is Done With Her. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 24.—The flight of Henry Young, the alleged firebug of Tiburcn, and the arrest of his wife, Mrs. Augusta Young, on a charge of arson, form the sole topic of conversa- tion in this city and the place where the crime was committed. There are few who do not also criticize in unmeasured terms the reduction of the missing man’s bail and the suspicious circum- stances attending the affair. Both in San Francisco and in Ala-| meda, where Albert C. Walsshow, the defendant’s brother in law, resides, the police have deseriptions of Young and are endeavoring to discover his where- abouts. Constable Lewis Hughes went to the metropolis in quest of him to- day, but nothing in the way of a clew regarding his hiding place has yet ap- peared. It is believed by the authori- ties that Young intended to stand trial until the evidence of his wife’s alleged complicity was published in The Call. Mrs. Young lay in bed in her cell all day, playing the role of martyr. She refused a pillow on which to lay her head, and even while admitting that she was cold on the previous night would not state whether or not addi- tional blankets would be welcome. She told Sheriff Taylor that the last thing she ever expected of her husband was to desert her. “Don’t let anybody come to see me,” she requested; I am disgraced and don’t care if I am sent to San Quentin. If they let me out of here it will be only two days until I do something to make them place me back again.” The pretty little prisoner is suffefing from a slight attack of la grippe, but would accept no medicine to relieve herself.© She ate nothing all day, but announced her intentfon to partake of good meals to-morrow in order to be strong enough to stand the preliminary examination next Thursday. Delicate and apathetic as she is, this little wo- man can “show her teeth” at times. “I will eat heartily to-morrow,” she declared, with face set and hardened as she rose on one elbow, “and I will g0 before those Tiburon people and show them my scorn. They are per- secuting me, but they shall see that for them T have only a feeling of unut- terable contempt.” SUPPGRT OF PROPOSED ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION Berlin Statesmen Think That Ger- many, Great Britain and the United States Should Act Together. BERLIN. Jan. 4—The Minister of the Interior, Count Posadowski-Wehner, in the course of the debate on the Home Of- fice estimates in the’ Reichstag to-day, said that Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial Chancellor, was prepared to support the proposed Antarctic exploration. If the expedition proposed starting in 1501 the Minister said a decision on the subject must speedily be taken in regard to grant- ing funds from the imperial treasury. as | |it will take two years to construct a ship, whose cost will be about 1,000,000 marks. Count Posadowski-Wehner also ex- pressed the -belief that Germany, the United States and Great Britain should act conjointly in the matter. 7 o ‘Salmon in Monterey Bay. MONTEREY, Jan. 24—The exception- ally large run of sardines in this bay of late ‘has’brought in large numbers of sal- mon whose prey the sardines are. These fine fish are so plentiful in the bay. and especially about the Monterey shing rounds, that they are being caught from he différent in wharves with hook and and every morning for the past 1 lin week fishing boats have come in with big Large quantities of both salmon and sardines are being daily shipped to San Francisco and other markets. The report comes here from Moss Landing that for the first time in twenty years salmon are running up the Salinas River. This is regarded by the Monterey fisher- men as a phenomenon: CATS DIED AFTER EATING THE BEEF Meat Supplied the Army Was More Than Ponce Felines Could Stand. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—Major Rufus M. Townshend, commissary of Subsi?t- ence, U. S. V., testified before the War Investigating COmmissionhiO-‘g:llyhlha.t hs had constantly inspected the kitchens an supplies_and said that both the re(nier- ated and canned beef were good. He had never heard of chemical treatment of the beef until he heard of it in the news- apers. P¥eneral Beaver announced that the commission had received from Major Gen- eral Miles several cans of roast beef for- warded to him by Captain Bean of Bat- tery C, from Phoenixville, Pa.. v&ho‘ is quoted as having said that in Ponce cats to whem he had fed this same beef had died.from eating it. The cans h'led pee‘n received from the express company r; General Miles's office in the Rreii’nce '2 Major Mills, the recorder of the commis- slon, who certified as to their identity. One can was_opened ‘and its appearance and taste produced a favorable impression on the members of the commission, V'Vho inspected and sampled it. The cans were then sent to a Government chemist for analysis. INTERESTS THE COAST. Colonel Chittenden’s Reservoir Pro- ject Finds Favor. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. BI.A—The‘de- mand was so great for the report of Col- onel Hiram M. Chittenden on surveys for reservoir sites that the first edition has heen entirely exhausted. A second edi- tion of 3000 cop'es is now being printed. Those who want a copy should make their application at once to some member of Congress. This is the report in which it was recommended that the Federal Gov- ernment should build storage reservoirs as part of its policy of internal improve- ment to reinforce the natural flow of streams, the Federal Government reserv- ing control of the reservoir and making no charge for the use of the water, but allowing it to be distributed under the laws of the State. George H. Maxwell of San Francisco, who is in Washington as a representative of the Irrigation Con- gress, says an effort will be made to get from' this Congress an appropriation to build one of the reservoirs surveyed by Colonel Chittenden. A number of Western Senators, especially Senator Warren of Wyoming and the California Senators, are much interested in the matter and will use every effort to secure the appro- priation. Pacific Coast patents were granted to- day as follows: California—Edmond Daly, Monterey, miners’ pick; Benjamin F. F. Giiman, San Francisco, apparatus for working frazen auriferous earth; John D. Harvey, San Francisco, linotype or line-casting machine; Robert Schlegel, San Francisco, assignor of one-half to J. Bauman, paddle wheel. X Oregon—Edora V. Anderson, van pierack; Liston H. Hopkins, Rosedale, weeder. Washington—Rudolf Sperbes, Seattle, station indicator; Andrew Thompson, Tacoma, dredg- ing machine. I Wertheimer was to-day appointed postmaster at the Geysers, Sonoma Coun- ty, California, vice R. N. Curry, resigned. Pensions _for Californians: 'Orizinal— | Willlam Reese, Veterans' Home, Napa | $8; Henry Zook, Soldiers’ Home, Los | geles, $i0; Err Scoville, Alhambra, 35 | Samuel B. Simmons, Compton, $6. In crease—Joseph Hyde, Stockton, $8 to $12; Eugene Callahan, Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles, $8 to $12. catches. Oregon: Original—Levi 8. Harper, Jack- sonville, $8. Additional—Daniel J. Slover, Oregon City, $6 to $10. Washington: New Whatcom, $6. Increase—George W. Olney; Seattle, $6 to $8. ——— Abalone Fishing at Monterey. MONTEREY, Jan. 24. — The Japanese fishing company of this place has begun 2 new lne of industry of late and is mak- ing considerable money out of it. The fishermen have set up a camp on Carmel are employing two small boats’ crews in catching abalones. The Japanese are es- pecially’ stecessful at this, as they have several egpert divers, who spend most of their time ‘in the water diving for the deep sea.abalone. They can the abalone meat and sell'the shells to curio dealers. Often small arls of some value are found. in the shells, and these are shipped to Japan, where they find a ready market. Carmel Bay ‘is full of the finer kind of abalones and the catches are always good on that. ground. e More Dunham Suspects. SAN JOSE, Jan. 24—The Sheriff's office is being deluged with letters and photo- graphs of Dunham suspects. Two arrived to-day, one from the Sheriff of La Junta, Colo., and the other from N. P. Miller af Clark, 8. D. The photographs make it plain that neither suspect is the man ‘wanted. . Sheriff Langford is still in a quandary about the Burlington, Ia., sus- pect. Earl Parr is due from Iowa on any train now., When he has been seen it wiil be determined whether it is necessary to send a man to Burlington or net to iden- tify the man. The officers are not so strong in their hopes that he is the man as they were a week ago. Original—Ozro B. Furbe!“ Bay, about six miles from Monterey, and | FCTS DISPADIE NQUEST VERDCT Mystery Still Cloaks Bragger’s Death. OFFICIALS ARE NOT ACTIVE CONTENT TO AGREE WITH THE CORONER’S JURY. Old Ferryman Said to Have Died of Natural Causes, but the Cir- cumstances Indicate Murder. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN ANDREAS, Jan. 24.—The death of Jacob Bragger at Reynolds Ferry on Sunday night is still shrouded in mys- tery. An inquest was held last ev en- ing at the scene of the possible crime, and a verdict of death from natural causes brought in. At this point the officials rest. An examination of the Body and premises was made by The Call correspondent, and there seems to be more reason in the theory of murder than in that of natural death. The blow on top of the head is in such a position that it would have been almost impossible to be inflicted by a fall un- less the body were precipitated over a precipice. The body was discovered in a position that would be perfectly natural for one to fall into after having been struck on the head. : Tha_t the old man feared violent death is evident. He had expressed such a fear to his nieces, Mrs. Carrie Sherman of Chicago and Miss Minnie Turner of St. Louis, who had visited him at the time of the Midwinter Fair. The ladies had told of this fear while visiting a neighbor. The murder theory is strengthened by the fact that two old-fashioned cap and ball pistols and a muzzle-loading shotgun were found within easy reach of Bragger as he lay upon his bed. The old man must have had money on the premises, as he owned a vine- yard and manufactured a large quan- tity ‘of wine each season. This he re- tailed, and as he had carried on this business for a number of years and was never known to send money to a bank, he must have had a large sum in hidin,~. The officials in searching the house found but $8 35 in coin and about $10 in gold dust. No autopsy will be helC to ascertain whether death resulted from natural causes or concussion of the brain, which the blow causing the wound on the top of the head could have pro- duced. CONCERT ENLIVENED THE CREMATION Relatives of the Late Mme. Henri Paquet Adopt a Distinct Innovation. | Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrignted, 1599, by James Gor- | don Benn-ett. PARIS, Jan: %.—The cremation of Mme. | Henrl Paquet at Pere la Chaise Crema- tory yesterday, has. made some stir on account of an innovation in connection with it. In general this ceremony is' rather | dreary for mourners who have to wait in an adjoining room while the body is be- | ing incinerated. In order to make the time pass more cheerfuily in this case the relatives of the deceased lady engaged a small orchestra, directed by M. Danbe, formerly with the Opera Comique. The little concert given was a perfect success. | M. Danbe, according to the papers, was warmly congratulated. e Irrigation Plant Tested. WOODLAND, Jan. 24.—Gibson & Clan- ton to-day tested an irrigation plant which they have just completed. 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