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The VOLUME LXXXV~=NO. 64, FEBRUARY 2, 1899. PRICE : FIVE CEN'TS e fl’ A. BURGLE NTHONY BURGLE; desperate and demented, has made good is threat to end his life. He a horrible and unlooked f )de,of death. He was n the County Jail awaiting portation to‘the.penitentiary, and notwithstanding that he w i arded by two’other pr u s in the same cell with him he eded in setting fire to the mat- tress of his bed yesterday and roast- ing himself to death. His cell- mates in attempting to extinguish the flames w 8 v injured. Burgle was a.caterer and kept a restaurant in the business part of the city. Sigmund L. Braverman, sale jeweler, was his land- d had him ejected from the s for not paying his rent. with the desire to be re- ed he loaded his revolver and proceeded to Braverman's office, at 121 Post street, on -July-4, 1897, and opened fire upon - Braverman. averman was also armed and re- ned the fire, planting four bul- Burgle's body,” himself es- g without injur; Both men arrested for assault to murder, averman proved that Burgle threats -against his life in I R R N R e R EEEEEEEEEEEE R B b B B B B B B B B bl Bl B B B b b b o b B b b it and was-the aggressor. The charge against ‘Braverman was- dismissed, but Burgle was convicted,and sen- tenced to seven-years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Pending an appeal to,the Supreme Court he was confined in the County Jail.. A short time ago the court decided adversely against him, but the jail officials kept it a secret from Burgle, fearing that he would make an attempt upon his life. On July 3 of last year Burgle hanged himself to the wicket of his cell with a rope made-of a bed sheet cut into strips, but he was cut down by jail officials before life 'became-.extinct. Since that time Henry Bacon, accuged of arson, and J. H. Cummings, ac- cused of obtajning money by false pretenses, had been placed with Burgle in cell' 32 in the upper tier, to watch any. attempt -he might make to do away with himself, Between 5 and 5:15 o’clock yester- day morning Deputy Sheriff -James Phillips, in. making the rounds of the jail, passed Burgle’s cell. There were three beds-in -the cell, one on each side and one.against-the rear wall, the latter being’occupied by Burgle. As Phillips passed’ the cell all was quiet, but the next moment L B R B B B B O B A B B HIS PRISON COT A FUNERAL PYRE Horrible Death of An- thony Burgle, Who Cremated Him- self in His he was startled by a scream, and’ running to the wicket he'saw Burgk and his bed wrapped in: flames and Bacon and Cummings:trying to put ‘M out the fire. " Phillips unlocked the door and as- sisted Bacon and Cummings in hustling the burning man into the | corridor. Then he gave the fire @l alarm and the flames were extin- { guished with a few 'buckets of water. Dr. Hereford the City Physician, was telephoned for, but Burgle had died within fifteen minutes after the accident. The two' prisoners W were severely burned about the hands and face, but they ‘will re- | cover. 5 | Burgle's body was taken to the | Morgue and an inquest will be held. gy Last Tuesday evening Burgle serit for a priest and was visited by.one W of .the fathers from St. Francis.. Church, and to' him the prisoner made his confession. He gave mo intimation at that time or after that 1| he would commit suicide. He had | been kept in' the County Jail' pend- ing the arrival of papers from ‘the .| Supreme Court consigning him to u the State Prison. B He - was ~a native of Alsace,~ France, and 50 years old. B BURNS GIVES HIMSELF THE HOLLOW JOLLY HEADQUARTERS, . SACRA- b. 1L.—To show how readily nen®grasp at everything up and claim everything the is cited that when Wright was dis- sraced and practically @cposed from the Speakership and Mr. Anderson was elected to preside ov the Assembly, immediatelv claimed that they se- 1 the election of the latter. Again. 1 Wright was to Lk placed on com- ttee, the touts boasted that Ander- would appoint the -Speaker to chairmanship of the Committee on orations. When the emptiness of the be exposed and Mr. Raub c n of that com- CALL turr st v as the | mittee the claim was at once set up Tuesday next. £ | that Raub'was appointed according to | by the departure of Judge J. W. McK] | Burns’ The son made no programme with or prom- programme. consulting the wishes-of ‘the toutson or off the floor of the Assembly.. This is but another evidence of the desper- ate straits'into which the Burns follow- ers - are driven. Burns has even TFeached the limit of deceiving’/his own touts. This thing of looking wise is played to a finish.' Not being able to deceive others, Burns is now trying to deceive himself. e e Bulla Men Confident. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 1.—The Bulla men feel confident that there will be no change in ! the Senatorial situation between now and | /" | g cold fact is that Speaker Ander- | 715 ise to.the Burns following. He appoint- | ed Raub on his own motion, without | before next Tuesday Their confidence is shown lay and E. A. Meserve, Bulla's man for Los Angeles last evening. B departing both gentlemen expressed themselves as confident that there would be né break in the Grant or Burns forces at the earliest. Therefore they felt perfectly safe in leay- ing:the field of action until that time. Bradner W. Lee, the chairman of the Re- publican committee of Los ‘Angeles Coun- ty, arrived to-night to attend a meeting of the Board of ' Library Trustees, ' of which he is a member, e is also a -firm suporter of Bulla. State Printing Office Inspected. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 1.—The Assembly Commit- tee on Printing met this afternoon and inspected the State Printing Office. It was favorably impressed with the way the work was conducted and will make its re- port to-morrow. | large delegation jnterested ‘in {lie miis- B | be broken and a Senator elected.” Gorporation Influence TRYING HARD TO 0, A, Hale of San Jose Has ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Feb. 1.—W. F. Herrin| of the Southern Pacific Railroad | gives a slight degree of attention | to the company’s law business, | | but devotés his time chiefly to peddling railroad tickets for political bosses. 119; is now active in a long pull and a last | pull to line up every man within the reach of the corporation’s influence to sustain the failing fortunes of ,Dan Burns as a candidate for the Senate. | The last reach is for big merchants and heavy shippers. On the scene to-night appears O. A. Hale of San Jose, a well-known busi- ness man and prominent gitizen of Santa Clara County. With nim is a | | sion which he has at heart. A few days before the Legislature met Mr. Hale professed the highest. admiration for the Senatorial qualities possessed by General Barnes, but, now admits that| hewould vote'for D. M. Burns if he had | a vote in the Legislature. Not having a vote the latest recruit in Dan’s army iis turning his ‘attention to Assembly- man Clark, who hails from the Moun- tain View District of Santa Clara County. - Clark has been voting for U. S. Grant since the balloting began, but his presence in the Burns camp is most earnestly desired. Ordinary methcds of persuasion have failed to convince him that a change of base from Grant to Burns would be advisable. The touts pulled and pulled at the Mountain View lawmaker, but to no avail. Herrin was requested to get in and do some pulling and hauling, hence the presence of the big delegation from Santa Clara, headed by Hale. Hale admits that he had an interview with Clark this afternoon and urged the Assemblyman to use his best ef- forts to break the deadlock. "I did not ask Mr. Clark to vote for Dan Burns,"” said Mr. Hale, “but I told him that the people desired that the deadlock should Five or six times Mr. Hale was asked concerning his own preferences for United States Senator, and the "clever manner in which he diverted the dis- cussion to another current of talk would have been creditable to a dip- lomat. Finally, when all the talk was gone over and over again concerning the desirability of electing a Senator at this session, Mr. Hale, responding to the previous question, said:’ “If I were in the Legislature I would vote for Dan Burns.” There is no_question, therefore, con- cerning Mr. Hale's preference. ' While *he did not in so many words ask As- semblyman Clark to vote for Burns, he suggested that he should. vote for some other candidate than Grant in order to break the deadlock, and also suggested the caucus method of settling the ques- tion of the Senatorship. Every one familiar with the situation here knows that Burns’ last, lingering chance of success lies in a dark lantern caucus. The pressure of county committees and all the force that can be exerted by a rally of touts bear on this point. The spectacle of Hale as a tout for Being Exerted in a Final Roundup. PULL CLARK QVER Now Joined the Army of the Mexican and 1Is Doing His Share of the Wirepulling Among Legislators. Dan Burns is presented to the people of Santa' Clara County. Had a single member of the Santa Clara delegation expressed before the election a pur- pose to vote for Burns an overwhelm- ing vote would have been cast against him. A few of the politicians of San Jose are for Burns, but Mr. Hale knows quite well that the great majority of people of Santa Clara County and a large percentage of the citizens repre- sented. by -Assemblyman Clark would regard Burgs’ election to the Senate as disgraceful and disastrous. Hale is here ostensibly in the interest of legislation favorable to the Agnews Asylum. He does not say that the Sen- atorship cuts.any figure in regard to the proposed legislation bearing on public institutions, but the hint is thrown out that opposition to Burns might imperil the allowances to the institution. There has been a good deal of wild and boast- ful talk about the State patronage which is to be distributed to the friends of -the colonel ‘apd-the smooth sailing in the Legislature which will be given to measures introduced by the friends of the “organization.” Members of the Legislature will stand threats of this nature to a certain limit, BURNS DESPERATE STRAITS \ DEMAND DESPERATE REMEDIES HERRIN HAS HIS TOWLINE OUT FOR MERCHANTS SRS VOVIGLIGLIOLIO LY S1® RO LAOTNOTAOTNOT @ SIIOTEOR(OLAOL O & KEOIIOXOTUGTIOROT SROLAGTIORIORL & LE O LIOLSTAGLI LA HIXOLA O KX SLXO LA OLESLEOLY ! X 1D DORROOTE SRS OLIGWAOTASTATAOTX & KX O DASIAOLED OLOROTAS! NS el %@Q@Q@Q@ o HON. C. G. RAUB. The New Chairman of the Committee on Corporations. but when the limit is reached they will | | turn about ‘and give the Burns men a | dose of the same medicine. Burns can pline up twenty-four men to support or | oppose any measure of legislation, but | if he should attempt to use that force | | to punish members who did not support him_ for, Senator he would soon find a | solid organization in.the Assembly. that | would set at defiance Dibble and his much-talked-of committee on rules. is no ¢ sion for alarm in s mind con ning the allowances for the Agnews Asylum. The Législa- ture, regardl of politics, will attend to the supp: ublic institutions. It is best to brush away all ‘dust and rub- bish- and not attempt to deceive any WARNING given warning of what Burn(fE the Republican State C nation in the distributio mento and seek to puil . desire them to vote. Capitol are thronged wi the Legislature from yie o-e0o-0-¢ 000000900000 . 0000000069 CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. I.—So far as the candidacy of D. M. Burns is concerned, the Senatorial sitnation in Sacramento has reached a point where it is necessary that the citizens of Califernia should be and circumvent the wishes of the majority of her people. : Thousands of doliars are being spsnt to send men to every county. in the : State for the purpose of inducing county central committees to pass resolu- tions instructing individual members of the Legisiature to either vote for or go into caucus. ; missaries of the Southern Pacific Company and of certain members of instructions to use the threat of discrimination in freight rates and discrimi- their consciences dictated and as the majority of the voters of their districts As a consequence, the streets, the lobbies and the corridors of the the legislators and te make'rascals of honest men. ) t tory of California have such shameiul scenes been witnessed during the election of a United States Senator. : 5 t should do what is possible for them to do to save!their representatives. in and the State from lasting disgrace. 9060 0-6-0 060006603 00009 TO THE HONEST is being done to besmirch the fair fames of -the State entral Committee have been sent far and wide with n of State patronage to force men to come to Sacra- down honest legisiators who have been voting as th a certain class of men who are seeking 'to debauch Never before in the his- Honest 'men throughout the State 0000900000000 090090 090 90006 1ding to threats and temptation, and thus save them —0—9-—0-0-0-6-0-0-0 9 | 09060 0 0-0-090 00060 0 0 0090609 WRIGHT Yo =5 THE STORY OF FOUR LITTLE PIG »” S.