The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1899, Page 2

() o ) CALL, TUESDAY, RCH 21, 1899 s Dufficy ac MARTHA PLACE DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR rch 20 Place was executed at Prison . to-day. woman to die EW YORK, ) Martha was t ne quietly. Her death was instantaneous. But two shocks were given. State Elec- trician Davis threw down the lever at exactly 11:01 a. m. The voltage of the current was 1760 and it was continued for four seconds. It was then gradu- ally diminished to 200 voltage, which was continued for fifty-six seconds. Dr. Irvine, the physician of the prison, ex-{ ered a me as amined the woman and then or second shock. That was the the first in power and continued same th of time. The second shock has always been administered at: Sing Sing. Mrs. Place murdered her ter, 1da M. Place, a mere girl, on She first threw s and then -smothe tepdaugh- Feb- ruary 7, 1898, ES ed her. home in Brooklyn. She waited the en- tire day for her husband to return and then attacked him with an ax, actur: ing his skull and otherwise seriously ihjuring him. Place, however, re- | covered Mrs. Place was co ed and sen- tenced to- death, but for a moment believed t claimed she could nounced to her that Governor osevelt had absolutely r d to interfere with the cou: of § ce and that she must die on Monday. It was a great shock to the woman, but during the last four days she bore up wonderfully well. She suffered in two ways learned that must di eeplessness and from loss of & terday the warden Vv there might be no r and told her that she must be ready at 11 o’ ; morning. She wa at that hour, and no one who watched her could unde and what change must have taken > in the w to so dull Her senst g0 to her death so calml - It had not bee D 1t she would do so. T t woman condemned to die in this State went to the gallows shrieking and figh Place uttered a sound. She merely d a prayer, with closed eyes, turned partly upward and y unconscious of things about xth electrocu- ison, but none be- 1 as that of to- here no scene, but Within three min tion at Sing ¢ fore was so utes 2 through the iron doors the o the law had been carried out. were twelve wit- nesses present, and on who watched every moven itnessed Mrs. Place’s death were able to 1 sée the raising of th v as the trical shock passed t only when the c off that they c It was an easy way to die. On Sunday ad her regu- Jar attendants, and durirn the night she was visited by her ritual adviser, Rev. Dr. David Cole of Yonkers, and Mrs. Meury, a mission worker of Brook- lyn, who has taken a great interest in the woman’s welfare. Mrs. Sage, the warden's wife, also spent an hour or so with her, but 9:30 Mrs. Place was left alone with the night matron, Mrs. Coyltrick, with the keepers in an outer room. The con- demned woman was very restless. Out- side a terrific gale was blowing which rattled the windows in the gloomy old hospital building where Mrs. Place's quarters was located. There was a driving snow storm, too, and several times the woman went to her window to watch the storm. She did not retire until 2:30, and after that she was up several times to pray. Never for a moment did the matron relax her vigil- ance. Mrs. Place was followed with watchful eyes for the twenty-four hours that preceded her taking off. It cannot be denied that Warden S: was anxious in the extreme regard the execution and jt was with th mind that he ordered every precaution taken to insure the best results, He sent Rev. Dr. Cole to her at 9:15 this morn- ing, first inquiring whether the aged clergym: Cole assured him that he could. and was so full of sympathy for the woman He had known since she was a child that he was anxious to be with her and comfort her to the end. Dr. Irvine also visited her in the morning, and with him was a woman physician, who had been sent to attend the execution at She | in| the electric chalr in the State of | New York and she went to her death | or the | acid in | f the murder and anity was submit- n 3 It was not until Thursday last that Warden Sage an- | could stand the strain. Dr. | Mrs. | .*'MW®+®+@W—®*M+O—M+®W—. R e e S LAt oS SV SN SNS o6 [ | | | ! | | | | i e e e i S > + K¢ & + & be & ! ¢ L4 ? 3 : bt $ " % @ | ¢ I« < | the suggestion of Governor Roosevelt. | Mrs. Sage was the last of her friends to say good-by. During the last few minutes of her life Mrs. Place was again and again urged to go bravely to her death, and she promised that she would. She tol@d her pastor | | that she believed that her sins had been | forgiven, and rted her faith in the hereafter. She was buoyed up with this feeling when the warden came to lead | r to the chair. She was dressed in | a gown that she had made her- | simple and plain. She had expect- | ar it at her new trial, or when | erty. | around her throat hair, now lurnin!’ | { | d to she received her 1 A white band w and her light bro gray, was brushed back smoathly over her forehead. It was clipped away only where the electrode was to be placed. Mrs. Place said simply that she was ready, and the warden took her arm in his. They went slowly through the de- serted old hospital building, along sev- eral hallways and finally through the last corridor of all. On either side the | murderers’ cells were draped with | heavy curtains, and the procession moved more quickly through this dis- mal place. | Meanwhile the witnesses had been | called into the death chamber. The | electric apparatus had been given its final test and all were waiting with | suspense for the coming of the woman. | Suddenly the side door through which | | the party would enter was thrown open, a keeper stepped in and called for an- | other keeper and turned rapidly away. | The keeper returned and was folowed | almost at once by Mrs. Place, leaning | heavily on the warden’s arm. Her face | was v white, her head uplifted and | her eyes closed. The white band | around her/ throat seemed scarcely | whiter than her face. | _ The warden held her arm closely with | his and with his other arm he sup- ported her. ‘Behind came. the women attendants, one a physician and the other a day matron. Rev. Dr. Cole came next and after him were the two keepers. As they came over the thres- hold Mrs. Place gave no sign of fear, | nor did she even seem to know what | was ‘about to happen. She passed al- most like a blind woman across the short space that separated her from. | death. She was gently pressed down | into the frame, and Dr. Irvine, who was in waiting, stepped in front of her. He motioned to the women and they came | up on either side. It took but a moment | to strap her in. The edge of her skirts | was lifted quickly, the stocking drawn | down over her shoe and the electrode | fastened by one of the women to the | right leg. Then the skirt was dropped. | The head cap was clamped on, the straps buckled across the face and the | pad dropped over the forehead. The | two women stood with outstretehed | waist and placing her stethoscope be- | B e+ 40096060+00000sbedbedosiedetedede® | skirts, with Dr. Irvine and a male at- tendant on either side, almost shutting out the view of the witnesses, and the signal v given. Quicker almost than a flash the elec- trician threw down the lever. The body straightened, the fingers gripped tightly into the palms and the little praye book she held in her left hand was drawn across the wrist: No one had expected that the shock would be given so quickly, and the body was relaxing almost before the witnesses were con- scious that the execution had occurred. Only the woman's mouth was visible and it changed merely in the drawing down of the lips and a little darkening ¢f the skin. Mrs. Place murmured as she was seated in the chair, “God help ! me; God have mercy."” o H There was no sound after that, not even a moan. The visible effect of the shock was less than had ever been ob- served in the death house before. There was not the slightest distorticn ! of the features; the ey were covered | and when the straps were removed they | were still closed. On the second shock | the body straightened out again and a | little foam cozed from her lips. When | the current was shut off the body re- | | posed naturally in the chair. Dr. Irvine called upon the woman physician to make an examination, which she did by merely opening the tween the folds of the dress over the heart. She performed her work quickly | and then the other physicians present were asked to complete the examina- tion. Dr. Irvine gave it as his opinion that death had been instantaneo The body was allowed to remain in the chair until all the witnesses had re- tired, when it was taken to the autopsy room and a post-mortem examination held. No one was present but the operating surgeons and their ~report was sealed and will be filed in Kings County, together with the other docu- ments relating to the woman's death. The autopsy was a rapid one, and al- though no information was made pub- lic, the indications are that the or- gans were found in a healthy condition. The insamity plea entered in behalf | of Mrg. Place had never impressed fa- | vorably those who knew the woman | best. Her spiritual adviser, Rev. Dr. | Cole, was one of those who never for a moment thought Mrs. Place was any- { { | thing but a sane woman, and this was | Irvine and | the opinion also of Dr. finally of the commission appointed to | | inquire into the condition of Mrs. Place —Drs. Dana and Polk. The body was taken to the Sing Sing station, where it was shipped to East Millstone, N. J. Dr. Cole was asked to | officiate at the funeral, but he felt that | he could not stand the .strain. He | promised to be present, although he could not conduct the public service. SUPREME COURT HEARS BRASLAN Union Bank Director’s Petition. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 20.—The Ilegal ‘wrangle relative to the closing of the Union Savings Bank of San Jose has fairly begun. The heavy guns of the Bupreme . Court were brought into ac- tion in San Francisco to-day. This was upon the consideration of the petition for a writ of certiorari by Charles F. Eraglan, who wishes to have reviewed the recent acticn by Superior Judge Lorigan in appointing a new board of directors. The petition recites that the bank in question is in the hands of the lower court and the Bank Commis- sioners. At the time insolvency pro- ‘Ceedings were begun the board of directors was served with the papers in the proceedings. The directors re- gigned one by one and a new board was elected to fill the vacancies. Braslan was one of the latter. On the 8th inst. six of the directors elected by the stockholders resigned, but Braslan, the seventh, held his office. Soon after- ‘ward Judge Lorigan. of the Superior Court made an order filling not only the six vacancies but the position held by Braslan. It was this order that the petitioner geked to have reviewed. He comtended that the action of the Judge of the jower court was illegal so far as he was concerned, as he had been duly elected by the stockholders and had mever been removed from office by the ‘parties in interest, and, further, that ge is still a director. Another point that Braslan makes Is that three of the directors named by the Judge of ‘the lower court are not stockholders and have no right to a voice in the set- ‘tlement of the affairs of the institution. The contention is made that unless the order of the ‘lower court be set aside the Bank Commissioners will turn over to the alien board of directors all of the property of the bank, to the injury of the stockholders. ‘When the petition came beéfore the higher court to-day Attorney General Tirey L. Ford represented "the Judge of the Santa Clara court, the Bank Commissioners and the new board of directors. His first move was to attack the right of Braslan to take the matter into the court upon a writ of certiorari. He claimed Braslan was not a director. and consequently had no standing in the court. When action was begun inyl the lower court all of the directors were served with the parers in the liguida- tion action, and if Braslan was not served with the liquidation of the bank he was not subject to the order of the court, and consequently his relief, if he had any, would lie in injunction, mandamus_or quo warranto proceed- ings. Mr. Ford further contended that the order appointing the new board of direetors was not a judicial order, hence this was not a judicial proceed- ing to be reviewed. As to the appoint- ment of directors not stockholders, that was a matter purely discretionary with the court, which was conceded to look after the best interests of the stockholders. Attorney Metson represented Mr. Braslan. He made an able argument to show that the order of the Judge of the lower court was a judicial order and therefore subject to review, and that uniess it were reviewed and the new board ousted the interests of the stockholders would suffer. The Supreme Court Justices took the cage under cgnsideration. Louis Callisch, Amasa Eaton and Cy- rus Jones torday filed - withdrawals of their resignations with the County Clerk. They. were elected directors of the bank after the failure, but subse- quently resigned and were reappointed by Lorigan, , Their action would indi- cate they thihk tHe Supreme Court will overrule Judge Lorigan’s action. Nich- olas Bowden; another director, asked that, in case the appointment of the fpresent board of directors be declared void, his resignation be considered withdrat n! A lot of seeds stored at Santa Clara was attached to-day in an action com- mencéed by H. Cheeseman against C. P. Braslan for $1050 alleged to be due for services and money advanced. Cheese- man was employed as salesman by the PBraslan Company. Braslan denounces the action as spite work because of his part in Union Bank affairs. and savs SLAYS HIS FIVE YOUNG ~ CHILDREN Continued from First Page. covered his senses and then he did not try to save his children for he knew that they must be dead, as the fire had started in the room in which they were sleeping. His riding away from the fire he explained’ by stating that his wife was away from home attend- ing a sick friend and that he went to tell her of their loss. Moore showed Iit- tle concern when the jury returned the verdict charging him with murder. The family came here from Emporia about three weeks ago and rented the little two-story house in .which the tragedy occurred. Mrs. Moore's father, M. W. Franklin, whose family came here from Emporia about the same time, stated this evening that Moore -had always been a silent, morose char- acter, but that he appeared to have a great attachment for his children. Of late, according to Mr. Franklin, Moore has been morbid over the fact that he was out of ‘work, and the father-in-law seems to think that if Moore com- mitted the crime he must have lost his reason brooding over his troubles. Moore, however, seems to be sane, and outside of his actions during the fire there has been nothing to bear out the Insanity theory. LOS ANGELES HIS HOME. Paul de Longpre,—_t—h: Artist, Comes to California. LOS ANGELES, March 20.—Paul de Longpre, the famous painter of pictures of flowers, arrived in Los Angeles last night. In an interview to-day he said he intended to remain here permanently. He has brought all the furniture an tures from his former home in the west end of New York. He is accompanied by the seeds in question belong to a Kan- sas firm. . his wife, two daughters and a mald ser- | vant. . % | and Ashley counties, Do S S e o e WAS THE LARGEST Ruins Show Eleven Mil- lions Lived There. DISCOVERED IN ARKANSAS WORK OF MOUND-BUILDERS. They Had Constructed a Great Me- tropolis and Hundreds of Canals Led Up to It. Special Dispatch to The Call, JACKSON, Miss.,, March 20.—Major Lamar Fontaine of Lyons, Miss, a widely known and accomplished civil engineer, has just returned from a pro- fessional engagement in Dosha, Drew Arkansas, and brings a story of the largest city in the | world. He said: “In a recent survey I passed through the ruins of the largest metropolis of the known world yet dis- covered. On a direct line east and west for thirty-five miles, and as far as my eye could reach, the ruins still con- tinued. Turning north for a distance | of twenty-five miles the ruins did not end. . “Computing the area surveyed by me CITY EVER BUILT | MAJOR FONTAINE TELLS OF THE | KOREA’S EMPEROR SHORN OF QUEUE Parts With the Headgear and @Also Adopts American Stylg of Dress. ~ TACOMA, March 20.—The Emperor of Korea and his ccurt have caused a sensation at Seoul by suddenly adopting Al pean fashions in the matter of both peror’s recent audience with Mr. Su _Chinese Minister to Korea. form cut in the American fashion. were likewis ereign. hereafter to Occidental customs. He ioned after American ideas, and ha The riots which recently occurred zation as an important sign that ne i _ tures. 2,000,000 Korean yen in both items. tures include 1,400,000 yen for paying ven for an increase in the civii list. 8001 8301 83 0230 B30T SOLTOBIOTICES O SOBNCIIRC SO ~ooujaoad oy} Uy S[00YIS wOw | Eed ORGSR DR ORONROR T RSN portant occasion on which the new styles were The Emperor was then attired in a full uni- The Emperor's attendants and guards clothed in American style after the.manner of their sov- The Emperor was so highly pleased with his new dress, which was made by a Seoul firm of Japanese tailors, to the master-of the firm and 20 ven to be distributed among his workers. A dispatch from Seoul to Tokio announced that the Emperor has cut off his topknot, or short queue, avhich from time immemorial the top of the Korean Emperors’ heads. In several other ways the Emperor has shown just given an order to a Japanese firm for the construction of a roval carriage some respects after the style of carriage used by the Japanese Emperor. tive elements of Korea have subsid2d. a large measure, and regard the Emperors ‘Western countries, Korea is also expanding her revenues and expendi- The budget for the current fiscal year shows an increase of ahout One million yen of the new revenue is derived by appropriating it from surplus funds. 190,000 yen for the war office and edu- cational appropriations for the establishment of normal, middle and com- 2T RN merican and Euro- carriages. The first ini- displayed was - the Em- the newly appointed dress and Sheu-Pang. that he presented 100 ven has adorned his desire to conform desires to ride in a carriage fash- which will be modeled in between the reform and conser The reformists were victorious in adoption of Occidental civili- s imbued with their own ideas. Like CRORORIOROI LIS QRTINS CF S0 ig vl The increased expendi- off the debt due to Japan, 150.000 BRORORORUR SO GRORORIR O ROROR MA | 2 | | officers. B OSONRKONN 0% 05 G ROROKORIL R NIAC LASSOED TO PREVENT HIS DEATH clothing, rushed about the hills. velling at the top of his voice. A coach- man of Willlam Babcock telephoned for Sheriff Taylor, who repaired to the scene with Constables Lewis Hughes and W. J. Treanor, Express- man George Agnew and a number of citizens. side-of a cliffy nearly sixty feet from the ground. mouth and savagely biting at the rocks, and paid no attention to calls from the officers. Taylor and Agnew ¢limbed the hill and appeared on a rock about twenty feet above the maniac, from where a lasso was thrown over him. He was hauled up, and after a hard struggle bound hand and foot, then lowered to the ground with a rope. The man was carried to the County Jail and there had to be placed in a straitjacket on account of his violent attempts to scratch and bite the He was identified by a number of laborers as Jos SAN RAFAEL, March 20.—The eastern part of town was thrown into g itement this evening by the actions of a crazy man who, bereft of & g 2 pd 202 They found the man hanging from a small ledge jutting from the ge He was foaming at the G b= 2 laborer employed on the San Pedro dairy farm. probably consigned to an institution for the insane to-morrow. HoWw the lunatic scaled the cliff is a mystery to the officers. OLOBR OROROLOR O ROBRALOLONT RO ph Azveda, a He will be examined and GO ORI LY # and estimating that each dwelling con- tained five inhabitants, I found that 11,000,000 people had their homes in this great city. “This city is spread over three coun- ties, namely, Dosha, Drew and Ashley, in the State.of Arkansas, and was the grand metropolis of that prehistoric race called mound-builders. These peo- ple numbered countless millions. and the Yazoo Valley of the Mississippl was their fields. The entire delta of the | Yazoo was in a high state of cultiva- tion. Every acre was utilized for agri- cultural purposes, and was the chief source of revenue for the busy little ex- tinct dwellers. Thousands of canals were dug and used by them for irri- gation and navigation, and countless pottery factories show that they manu- factured superior articles of earthén- | ware for domestic purposes: Pots, cups, plates and baskets in sundry and various patterns yet exist, some in beautiful colors of red, white and black enamel, with ugures of man, bird or | beast raised or cut in intaglio upon them. “Many acres are covered six feet deep with the bones of those unknown people. Their teeth, yet sound and perfect, can be picked up by the hatful at this distant day. They were a small race and their anatomy is precisely the same as that of the Chinese in every particular. They came to rhis country from the overcrowded tegions of China. I have traced their footsteps from the shores of Kamchatka and Siberia, across the Aleutian Islands down the Western shores of America, across the continent to the valley of the Missis- sippi and many of its tributaries to the northern confines of - Mexico. There they -cease. No trace could I find in South America. Coming back to the Yazoo, Miss., delth, we find that 90 per cent of all the streams or bayous that flow through it were dug by these peo- ple, and all the gateways point to the great metropolis beyond the Mississippi in Arkansas.” ONLY A WIRE CABLE THAT RUNS TO CABANAS HAVANA, March 20.—Captain T. L. Huston of the Voluntéer Engineers was questioned to-day by a correspondent of the Associated Press on the subject of the story printed by a.local newspaper at Cincinnati, Ohio, saying that the location of the keyboard by which the United States battle-ship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor on February 15, 188, had been found by him in a gunroom of the Fonseca prison while engaged in cleaning out the fortifications. The captain said the use of his name in this connection was not authorized. He showed the cor- respondent a cable with several wires running into_the harbor from Fonseca prison opposite Cabanas fortress. One wire was connected with a disused tele- graph instrument in a neighboring Gov- ernment building: Thuu%h the cable has not been investigated by the United States engineers, the supposition is that it runs to_ Cabanas, across the harbor, and has been used for telegraphing. There is a remote chance that the wires in the cable were connected with mines or torpedoes, but there is mo {ndication that it had anything to do with the blow- ing up of.the Maine. The end of the cable sticking out of Fonseca ?(flson has_been Seen by tourists for weeks past. Many soldiers have also seen the cable and many have expressed the bellef that it was used to blow up the Maine. ———— ARTIST CONFER DEAD. STOCKTON, March 20.—Charles Confer, well known in. this city, who has been the head artist of the San Francisco Wasp for the past two years, dropped dead at the residence of his father, tm North t, this morning of .consump- g;?:‘ ¢ lvgxt:e:mther. a brother and a sister died of the same disease, The deceased, who would have been 26 years of age next June, leaves a widow, who is at pres- ent in San Francisco, and a brother, Frederick Confer, l!vlr;s in Stockton. His widbw has been notified of his death. —— Track Cleared of Wreckage. AUBURN, March 20.—The engine ditched in the train wreekmneul.l' Cl‘l-pmr Gap .on Saturd ht st es af e bntplem of a flll‘y‘lsn{le‘et below the track. z]hgnreut of the wreck was cleared last ght. —————————— To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists retund the money Uf it falls to cure. ! 2" The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. KIDNAP CAPTAIN - WALLACE'S CHILD Crime of Sailors of the Sea King: Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. C.,, March 20.—De- serting sailors from the bark Sea King, now loading lumber at the Chemainus | mills near here for Sydney, N. S. W,, | for which port she will sail on Wednes- day, have wreaked a fiendish revenge | for alleged wrongs upon Captain John | Wallace, master of that vessel. Four | deserters from the lumber ship are said | to have stolen his five-year-old son. | It was at st thought the boy had | fallen from the gangplank which ran | between the ships between which his | father's vessel- was moored, but from evidence discovered this afternoon the boy was kidnaped. While the remain- ing sailors were dragging the bottom of the bay members of a party that had been searching the wilderness in the vicinity of the lumbering towns re- turned and reported that the child had | been seen late on Saturday afternoon in company with three of the sailors who | had deserted. The quartet, who are thought to have taken this terrible re- venge on the shipmaster, left the ship | early last week, vowing when they did 80, according to their messmates, that | they would “make-it hot for the cap- tain.” The crew shipped at San Francisco. The trouble was caused by the refusal of the captain to send them to.the hos- pital ashore when they were feigning fllness. The four men lay in their bunks for weeks, refusing to turn to and complaining of sickness, and when Chemainus was reached they asked to be sent to the Marine Hospital, their plan being, now that they' had secured their advance, to get away from the ship. Captain Wallace called a doctor, who pronounced them in good health, and the captain then made them join the rest of the crew at work. - Seeing that the captain was deter- mined to keep them aboard they left under cover of night, with threats of vengeance, which it seems they have carried out by kidnaping the captain’s n. Mrs. Wallace, who is with the cap- tain, leaves for San Francisco on ‘Wednesday, -when the ship sails. e ACCUSES HIS DEAD . CANADIAN LAND GRABS N ALASKA Governor Brady Gives the Facts. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, March 20.—Some im- portant statements concerning the Alas- kan boundary situation are given in of- ficial correspondence now on file in the State and Interior departments which have never been made public. Governor Brady of Alaska, as long ago as the lat- ter part of February, called attention to the extremely threatening condition of affairs. On February 21 Governor Brady, | who was here, had a conference with Sec- retary Bliss, who was then just leaving the Cabinet, and Secretary Hay, in which he urged that the aggressive acts of the Canadians be promptly met. He submit- ted a formal note of warning of the pend- ing trouble and the possibility of blood- shed. The note was considered at the next Cabinet meeting. On February 23, the records show, the Governor submitted a formal communi- cation to the Secretary of the Interior, in which he speaks of the bitter feeling along the line that made the presence of troops, in his opinion, imperative, and, among other things said: The Canadians, from our way of looking at matters, have constantly shown a spirit of aggressiveness, so far as tne boundary line is concerned. This is shown in three instances. There is a point on the Stickeen River which for years has been regarded as the boundary line.” Thousands of miners have passed up and down the river; merchants have done mmense business, and this was always recognized as the boundary line. An American citizen is operating a ‘quartz ledge six miles below the ecognized boundary. The Canadian officials ave gope down six miles below him, thus naking a gap of twelve miles. They compel him to pay duties on his supplies which he carried in to operate this ledge. Last year, in February, an order went out | to the customs officials of the mounted police to remove from the recognized stations on the boundary lines to. the summit of the passes. Our people had no notification of such inten- tion; but they made the move, and some of our citizens were at that time in favor of go- ing up and compelling them to move back by force, but when I was sounded upon it, of course I peremptorily forbade any such actjon. I took the trip to the summit of Chilkoot Pass and found the British flag flying there and the Canadian officlals collecting duties from all who bad their goods piled up there on the now. 1 asked the officer in charge by what au- thority he had moved from the lake to the summit, and he replied by the command of his superifor officer. Now our customs officials at Skaguay have not recognized these lines so far as Sending convoys over with British goods. The convoys get compensation from the persons they con- Yoy 50 far as Log Cabin, the point from which the British moved €0 the summit of the White ass. Recently the news has reached us here that two convoys were imprisoned for two days for undertaking to continue to convoy as far as Log Cabin. Tate last autumn gold diggings were discov- ered on a creek called Porcupine Creek, which is a tributary of the Chilkat River, which is upon the third trail, viz., the Daiton or Chilkat trail, These discoverjes are proving to be very rich, and they are very close to - the thirty-mile limit, which we also always have regarded as the boundary line. The claims have been worked during the winter and people are satisfied of their richness amd many men have gone in with stocks of goods and pro- | pose to start in business with the prospect of a lively mining business. This immigration has_been extensive from the fact that a few weeks ago the Parliament of British Columbia passed an alien act, which will throw part of the intended immigration into the Atlin coun- try into the Porcupine district Instead. The same aggressiveness which has been shown upon_the Stickeen and upon the passes would impel the Canadians to move down and claim this country as belonging to them. T think I know the temper of our people and feel sure in &aying that if such a Step be at- tempted op the part of the Canadians & con- flict will ensue. This danger is so imminent that I deem it wise that our troops in Alaska be ordered to take possession on these lines and maintain our sovereignty over the soil which we claim. I see no other step for us to take if we want to avoid a conflict with Great Britain. 1 regard the Porcupine district especially as the point of danger. Secretary Hay, on February 23, wrote to the_Interior Department a letter in which he adyerts to the boundary nego- tiations. Among other things he said: In the whole stretch of the coast boundary line between Prince of Wales Island .and Mount St. Elias there are but two localities in which a boundary has been provisionally estab- lished pending the eventual determination of WIFE OF FRAUD Rty Boirpi ity ‘William Brattan Baker of San Jose Sues His Sisters to Recover Property. SAN JOSE, March 20.—Willlam Brattan Baker of this city to-day filed a sensa- tional sult in the Superior Court, in which he accuses his deceased wife, Emily Marija Baker, and his three sisters—Ma- tilda, Emily and Annie Baker—with de- frauding him of $23,500 worth of stock in the W. B. Baker Company. Baker's father died some -years ago, leaving a valuable estate. This was afterward in- corporated into the’ Baker -Company, with a capital stock of $50,000. Baker and his | wife each received 830 shares, valued at $23,500, and the rest was divided among his sisters. The complaint alleges that as soon as he received his certificate of stock he, unknown to his wife, assigned it to her in case of his death, but kept the matter a secret and the certificate in his pusses- sion. Shortly after his wife either found or. stole it and had the stock secretly transterred to his three sisters. By this means he was ousted from the company and deprived of his share of the property. He asks the court to set the transfer of stock aside, on the ground that he was fraudulently deprived of it, and return it to_his possession. Baker’'s father was formerly Governor of Indiana Dyea and Skaguay. Continuing, Secretary Hay sald: The location of the so-called Panhandle boundary line between Alaska and the British Northwest Territory is now under negotiatipns, without agreement so far. Until the two governments shall reach an accord as to the definitive boundary it would appear that the point provisionally located on the BStickeen River should be respected by both governments as a modus vivend! without prejudice to the final fixation of the line. The very full report of the Canadian engineer, Joseph Hunter, should, it is thought, suffice to determine whether there has since been such encroach- ment upon the jurisdiction of the United States as is alleged In Governor Brady's letter. Secretary Hay concludes by suggestin, that unless it should distinctly appng that the provisional understanding of January and February, 1878, has been dis- reflrded by the British agents in the Stickeen Valley, this Government should nn: ma‘lze compllunn! or inquiry of the not make complaint or inqui statements. Ay oF e TEACHERS IN SESSION. Marin County Institute Held at San Rafael. E SAN RAFAEL, March 20.—The annual gession of the Teachers' Institute of Ma- rin County opened this afternoon in the grammar school on Fourth street, near E. There were fifty-six teachers present. Robert Furlong, County Superintendent of .| will go to Alameda to-morrow morn Schools, presided, and Mi as musi ect 4 rintendent Furlong, in a ‘brief in trggsstnry address, outlined the work o the institute for the four days it will be in session and introduced T. L. Heaton professor of pedagogy at the U of California, who spoke inter the subject of education from nature distinguished from mere book learnin With the teachers present he entered intc a discussion of the third annual report o the State Council of Education, especially with regard to the subject of mathematict he schools. ‘nt{ J. Sullivan, principal of the Alame public schools, invited the teachers sembled to visit that city and insg work in his department to-morrow. a followed with a good paper on the subj of general education. His kind in: was thankfully accepted, and the t the 9:20 train. The institute w vided into five committees by Supel tendent Furlong te report on the V arious branches of the work they will inspect. e RAILROAD COMPAN CAPTURES KNOB HILL Southern Pacific May Drill for 0il .in Los Angeles Residence District. LOS ANGELES, March i has been captured by the oil men and t! Southern Pacific Railroad. The ordinance that has stood in the way of trespasser in that aristocratic neighborhood amended. This afternoon the report the Fire and Water Committee was su mitted to the Council and adopted, t only dissenting votes being those of Pres ident Silver and Councilmen Toll and Vet fer. This report recommended the amend ment of the.ordinance, which prohibit oil well drilling within 1600 feet of West lake and Sunset parks. The amendment recommended adopted by a 6 to 3 vote was that inst of the former comprehensive bounds new line of demarkation be adopted. happens that the new line is exactly what the ofl men and the Southern Pacific ha wanted. It will leave outside the inter dicted district the lots “that have be« Jeased by the Southern Pacific—that the Los Angeles Railway Company—! the purpose of oil development. The opposing factions were present i full force in the lobby of the Council. T¥ oil men were there to flank the petition & thousand business men asking for : amended ordinance. The Westlake P district citizens were there to lend sup ort to their protest against any change It the protective measure. The petition ana protest were read and laid away and the Knob Hill people’s hopes wera blasted. Now the Southern Pacific may with its oil drilling. % YOUR LIVER Is out of order if you have the symptoms enumerated on this chart. Study each symptom carefully and you will find that they are yours. 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