The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1899, Page 2

SDAY. MARCH 22. 1899. 2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WED ) SHOT HIS MAN IN COLD BLOOD in a Chicago Cafe. Tragedy JEALOUSY WAS THE CAUSE HARRY HAMMOND TRIES TO MURDER SHAYNE. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, March 21.—John g Shayne, a wealthy furrier and a prom- inent Democratic politician, was shot and probably fatally wounded this afternoon by Harry Hammond, a mer- chant tailor. The shooting occurred in the cafe of the Auditorium Annex, where Shayne was sitting at lunch with Mrs. Hammond, the divorced wife of Hammond, two other ladies. Mr. Shayne w shot in the” back as he sat at the table. He fell under the table and Hammond, pulling up the tablecloth, deliberately fired two more bullets into the helpless man. He then walked out into the office of t hotel where he stood waiting the arrival of an officer. He was quickly placed under arrest and taken to the Harrison-street station, where he declined to make any | statement. | Shayne, who was a widower, had been | in company with Mrs. Hammond a | great deal since her divorce from Ham- mond and there was talk of an approaching marriage between them. Mrs. Hammond secured a divorce from Hammond nearly a year ago on the ground of habitual drunkenness. No cause for the shooting is known un- less it can be attributed to Hammond’s jealousy of his divorced wife. All three bul. struck Shayne in the back s at first the opinion of the doctors that his death was Inevit- able in a short time. Later, however, they declared that he had a chance if d it w More Evidence Miles Has the CHICAGO, March 21.—~The Govern- ment court of inquiry to-night exam- ined two witnesses with reference to the beef question—Dr. Nicholas Senn and Lieutenant Colonel A. W. Corliss. Dr. Senn entirely disapproved of can- ned roast beef as an army ration for any length of time, and Colonel Corliss told of the soldiers’ dislike of it. The court will hold an all day session to- motrow and will leave for New York to-morrow evening or Thursday morn- ing. The remaining witnesses will be those suggested by Major Lee in be- half of Major General Miles. = Dr. Nicholas Senn of Chicago. who served in Cuba and Porto Rico, testified that the troops in Cuba lived largely on canned roast beef and bacon. He had every reason to believe that the canned beef was not roasted but boiled. It was tasteless and certainly appeared to lack nutritive qualities, as was ap- parent from the condition of the men who returned from Cuba to Montauk— men who had never been fll, but were greatly emaclated. He belleved that the meat was overdone—that there was | some fault in the process of prepara- tion—that the process had not been perfected. The bacon was of good quality. He could say nothing about refrigerator beef, because he did not see any of it in Cuba or Porto Rico. He made no formal inspection of the canned roast beef, but had eaten some of it, and his statements were based on his own experience. He thought one of the meat supplies of the future for the army should be dried beef. Men could be fed once or twice a week on canned roast beef blood poisoning does not set in. without ill-effect to their health, but as the Controversy. ROAST BEEF IN CANS MADE ALL . THE MEN SICK to Show That Right Side in a daily ration for any length of time he would not consider it safe or ad- visable. When the packers learned how to make real roast heef. he thought it would be an excellent thing. but not as an exclusive diet. In reply to General Davis, the wit- ness said that he saw no evidence of the use of chemicals in the canned roast beef. He had heard of cases of ptomaine intoxication, but did not see any. Ptomaines would not develop if the meat were thoroughly sterilized «and properly sealed. When opened the meat should keep.twenty-four hours. It would not be safe to eat it after that time. In answer to questions of Colonel Gillespie, the witness said he really could not say whether the fresh meat he ate in Porto Rico was refrigerator meat or native. He thought it was the latter. The meat was wholesome | and palatable. General Corliss, who was attached to the Seventh Infantry in Cuba, testified that he was shot on the 1st of July | and knew nothing of conditions there- after. “Up to that time,” he said, “we got a good deal of canned corned beef and canned roast beef, also bacon in small quantities. Complaint were received about the canned roast beef; it was dis- liked very much. The officers and men had the same ration. We tried to eat the canned roast beef and did eat it. but in order to do o had to mix it up with hardtack and fry it. We tried to eat it plain, but could not; it made us sick; gave us bowel trouble.” Major Lee did not cross-examine the witness and the court had no questions to ask. The court adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. ENRAGED C HINESE OUST THEIR JOSS Wreak Vengeance Upon an Idol Because It Heeded Not Their Prayers. TACOMA, March 21—Because h tions of pigtailed adorers, the god of not go well with the Chinese colony Joss house and prayed fervently. T still salmon did nnot commence runn In a fit of frenzy Chinese leaders into the brush outside of the Joss h place. When things go wrong with the do not turn atheists as white men d and get a new one. supply of the particular Chinese Woo! hand. Several Chinese artists were new idol. To-day it W North Pacific, along with seventy town to begin their season’s salmon up and Anacortes Chinese will aga! the dictates of their consciences. LSO OISO O SIS ST 13 S OBORORORORIONR D ROROROROR dethroned and thrown by the wayside. enabling the Chinese to get employment at good wages. tal has been vacant, but by lo;mormw a new one will be installed in his In this instance they sent to FPortland, where a 2s sent to Anacortes 'tween decks of the steamer chattering e turned a deaf ear to the supplica- the Anacortes Chinatown has been Several weeks ago things did at Anacortes. They went into their Jozens of candles were burned, but ing-and neither did springtime come, pulled the idol down and threw him ouse. For several weeks his pedes- devout but heathen Chinese they o. They merely discharge their god a used in Joss making is kept on employed to carve out a hideous Chinamen going to that fishing. This week it will be set in be able to worship according to g § g | OLRS DIORG0 N RO JAILOR BATTLES. WITH A CROOK Fight in the County Jail at Portland. - PORTLAND, Or., March 21.—Harry | Tracy, a notorious crook, who is under arrest here with several charges of | highway robbery hanging over him, at- | tempted to murder Jailor Edward | Dougherty in the County Jail to-day. | Jailor Dougherty was taking 'I‘racy} from his cell to the courtroom, where | he was to plead to the several indict- | ments, when Tracy drew a revolver and | quietly said: “Unlock the corridor, or | I'll kill you.” | This move on the part of Tracy was presumably to release the other pris- oners confined in the corridors await- ing trial that ‘' they ~ might escape in the confusion. Dougherty, in- stead- of obeéying -the command, quickly dropped on his knees. Just as the jailor dropped -Tracy °fired and the ball whizzed by his ear. This attracted the attention of Deputy Sher- iff_Jordan, who stood close by. Jordan | fired three shots at Tracy, but his re- volyer_refused to operate Jonger. Tracy took a shot at Jordan and. ran around toward the north corridor. | In the meantime the jailor rushed | into his office, obtained another weapon and followed Tracy. As he came in sight of him the outlaw threw up his hands, shouting: “Don’t shoot; I'll surrender.” The rattle of the discharge of firearms brought all the deputies from the Sher- iff's office, but not before Dougherty had his prisoner disarmed. Tracy is wanted in Denver, Salt Lake apd several other Western cities on charges of murder, robbery and burg- lary. FIFTEEN BODIES FROM THE WINDSOR RUINS| Five Victims of the New York Hotel | Firp Have Not Yet Been Identified. NEW YORK, March 2L.—Three bodies were recovered from the ruins of the Windsor Hotel to-day. They were badly charred and great difficulty is being ex- perlenced in their identification. There are now five bodles at the morgue, each tagged with a number, which, with the known dead, brings the list to fifteen. The | list of missing is still very large, num- bering forty-eight persons. The injured | at the hospitals are all recovering. | "Although the work of clearing away the debris 18 progresslnz as rapidly as possi- | ble, it seemed to-night, when the shift of 400 'men was made, that but a small part of the ruins had been removed. An e was made to pull down | | | | | Epecial Dispatch to The Call. 1 | i ort | was estimated that the section of the | ty-seventh street side the pile of debris is_very formidable. The workmen have succeeded in clear- ing away considerable of the debris tu{ a distance of about twenty feet toward the interior of the mass and to a distance downward over this territory to the ceil- ing of the cellar. They had struck at in- tervals what appeared to be partition walls, and to-night are digging around them ‘toward the ground. % The servants of the hotel were for the | most part on the top floor of the Forty- seventh street side, and the workmen have unearthed many articles of cheag clothing, and cheap jewelry as well, whic! evidently belong to the domestics. It at the speed with which the work is pmgressmf at present it will be at least a week before the pile will have been gone over, and it may be longer. All during the night articles of more or less value were Brought to the surface and turned over to the police- men who were stationed about to recelve and take them to the station house to await identification. All of the most valu- able of the articles are turned over to the Coroner's office officials. | BOLIVIA’S PRESIDENT BESIEGED IN ORURO Cannot Much Longer Maintain His FPosition Against the In- surgents. LIMA, Peru, via Galveston, March 21.— Dr. Zoilo. Flores, who has just arrived here from Bolivia, said in the course of an interview to-day that Senor Cevere Alon- zo, President of Bolivia, who, with the Government troops, is now within the walls of Oruro, besleged by the Federal- ists, or insurgents, cannot much longer maintain the position. Deprived of sup- plies, he must either fight or withdraw from Orurp, if, indeed, he will not be com- pelled to disperse his froops. The insurgent army, in the .opinjon of | Dr. Flores, is in every way superior, and existing conditions cannot be. prolonged beyond the first fortnight in April. it Flores believes implicitly in the triumph of the revolutionary movement. |DOES NOT DESIRE TO : TAKE ALGER’S PLACE Embassador Porter Declines to Dis- cuss the Rumor That He Will Be Named. Specfal Cable to Tha Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1589, by James Gor- don Bennett, PARIS, March 21.—General Horace Por- ter, United States Embassador in_ Parls, declines to discuss the question of his ru- | mored appointment to succeed Mr. Alger as Secretary of War. In diplomatic circles it-is considered lmprobah& that General Porter desires the position, and some as- sert he would refuse it if offered, but there is a feeling that if President Mc- Kinley, who is a personal friend of Gen- eral Porter, were to press the matter, the latter might be induced to accept. prisimirsd v GARDNER DEFEATS BOGAN. Knocks Out the Pacific Coast Lad in Five Rounds. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 21.—Oscar Gardner easily beat Freddfe Bogan of the Pacific Coast in five rounds at Whitting- ton Park this afternoon. Bogan was game but could not stand the constant hammer- ing over the heart administered by Gard- ner. Gardner brought first blood on Bo- gan’s left ear in the second round. In the fourth Bogan scored a clean knock- down with an uppercut on the chin. Soon after the bell tapped for the fifth round Gardner knocked Bogan down and he took six seconds. Soon afterward a heavy year wall by means of a cable, but it was | unsuccessful. Lines are drawn all around the ruins, and are ka;’a‘t. 'at a safe distance. On the For- the crowds that still gather | swing on Bogan's right ear put him com- pletely out. Gardner escaped without a scratch. NEW CRUISER T0 PLY THE PACIFIC May Be Built in San Francisco. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Headquarters, Wellington Hotel, ‘Washington, March 21 Admiral Hichborn, chief constructor of the navy, is now engaged in prepar- | ing plans for the new third-class cruiser of about 2600 tons displacement author- ized by Congress. The plans and | specifications will be ready for bidders | within a month and the contracts will be immediately let, as no armor is to be used. The action of Congress in specifying the price to be paid by the Government for armor will prevent the | letting of contracts for other vessels | authorized by the naval appropriation bul. - 7This third-class cruiser is intended primarily for use on the Pacific Ocean{ and will probably be built by the Union | Iron Works. The vessel will be sent to | the Asiatic squadron immediately upon her completion. Many improvements will be made in | the vessels now being designed. The | most important will be the sheathing | of all vessels with copper. The steel hull vessels become foul from tropical growths and barnacles ~after being afloat four or five months. The Wil- mington and Marietta have been sheathed and the experiment has proved of great value, particularly where there is an absence of drydocks. Copper-sheathed vessels can remain at sea without beccming foul about five times as long as an ordinary steel hull The woodwork on warships will be reduced to a minimum and in every case fireproof material will e used. It will be omitted from all decks except the upper, for which it is used to give protection from heat. In the matter of coal bunkers many changes will be made. During ihe lute war with Spain it was demonstrated that the bunkers of the swift ccmsgrs Columbia and Minneapolis had been ¢ vided into such small compartmen that it required an unnecessarily lorg | time to coal. This was adopted be- cause it was belleved small compart- ments would give greater security in the event of injury in battle. The bunk- ers will henceforth be made larger and more accessible. Increased cvaliaz ca- pacities will demand more coaling scut- tles to get the fuel from its sicrage to the frrnaces. ACCUSED OF INCENDIARISM. Aged Tailor Inca.cerated in Knights Landing’s Jail. ‘WOODLAND, March 21.—Chris Ram- law, a tailor, who is probably 60 years of age, is in jail at Knights Landing charged with attempting to burn the Snowball warehouse. The examination will take place before Judge Taylor on Wednesday. On Monday evening at 5 o’clock Havey Snowball discovered a blaze in the ware- house. He promptly extinguished it, but noted that there was. strong evidence that. the fire was the work of an incendi- ary. He found a sack, some dry leaves and shavings and the odor of coal oll. Ramlaw was the only man seen in that vieinity and he was arrested by Deputy Constable Milt Snowball. The suspected man stoutly protests his innocence and it must be sald in his favor that the evi- dence is purely circumstantial and there has been nothing in his actions during his residence in Knights Landing to put him under the ban of suspicion. For some- thing over a year Ramlaw has occupied a cabin near the bank of¢the river, the property of J. W. Snowball. POWDER EXPLOSION. Disaster in a Government Laboratory in France. PARIS, March 21.—The series of ex- plosions in Government ammunition depots which commenced with the ter- rible disaster at La Goubran, near Tou- lon, followed on Saturday by explosions at Bourges and Marseilles, was con- tinued this evening when an alarming explosion accirred in a laboratory at- tached to the War Department, where experiments were - being made with a new kind of gunpowder. Chief Engineer Veil, Assistant Engineer D'Ouiville and a third official were injured. All the windows in the neighborhood were smashed and considerable other dam- age was done. Although it i not belleved the ex- plosion was the result of foul play, great excitement followed. ———— Ryan and Stift Matched. CHICAGO, March 21.—“Tommy" Ryan of Syracuse and “Bllly” Stift of Chieago have been matched for a twenty-round contest at Davenport early 1 il will meet at 162 pounds. R e TOM REED IS STILL A POSSIBILITY Only Waiting for Something to Turn Up in Poli- tics. WHAT GOSSIPS SAY Attaching Some Little Significance to the President’s Visit to Jekyll Island. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Headquarters, Wellington Hotel, ‘Washington, March 2L The meeting of the President and Speaker Reed at Jekyll Island, as by prearrangement, has set the political | gossips working over time. While none of the friends of the two men here seem to know anything of their purpose, the impression prevails in Republican cir- cles that the meeting has more poiitical significance than appears upon the surg YET UN IN HAVANA, March 21.—The Cuban army has 13,219 men all told. This number includes corporals and ser- geants, but excludes commanding offl- cers. The figures are the result of the official inquiry instituted under the di- rection of the department commanders for the use of the military administra- tion. The reports of the governors of the provinces are as follows: Santiago, none; Puerto Principe, 300; Santa Clara, 4769; Matanzas, 2200; Ha- vana Province, 2450, which includes 375 in the city of Havana, and Pinar del Rio, 3500. . General - Gomez originally reported that there were 42,000 privates and non-commissioned officers. General Roloff, Inspector-General of the Cuban army, was to have presented an ac- curate muster roll to Governor Gen- eral Brooke, but he has not done so. As a creature of the Cuban Military Assembly, he has joined with it against General Gomez. His muster rolls, in whatever form they may'be, have been glven to Senor Rafael Portuendo, pres- ident. of the executive committee of the Assembly, but the Governor Gen- CUBAN SOLDIERS Not Nearly So Many Men as Had Been Supposed From State- ment of Gomez. DER ARMS THE ISLAND eral has assurances that they will soon be turned over to him. Brigadier General Ernest will repre- sent the military administration in distributing the $3,000,000. It has not vet been decided whether the whole amount is to be distributed pro rata or $100 given to each man and the bal- ance retained by the United States Government. The statement that there are no Cu- ban soldiers in-_the province of San- tiago has caused considerable surprise here, as it was supposed there were many Cubans still in arms there. Nev- ertheless this is_the report of Major- General Wood, the Military Governor. In to-day’'s session of the Cuban As- sembly a motion was made in favor of disbanding the Cuban army and dis- solving the Assembly, with permission to the Cuban soldiers to accept gifts of money from the United States if they so desired. After’ conslderable ar- gument, the gist of which was that the Assembly could not discuss matters of such importance without previous con- sideration on the part of individual members, it was decided to postpone the discussion of the motion until Fri- day. JOSEPH AZEVEDO’S , PECULIAR MANIA Seeks to Hqsfier) the4Millennium Through the Slaying of a Bluejay. come the millennium. | SAN RAFAEL, March 21.—Joseph Azevedo, the man who was.ar- rested yestérday by Sheriff Taylor after having been taken from a ledge on a high cliff, was examined by man to-day and declared insane. . He was committed to the Mendocino Asylum by Judge Angellotti. Azevedo's trunk, brought from San Pedro Point, contained $417. District Attorney MclIsaac will petition the court to appoint a guardian to take charge of the maniac’s property. The delusion of the mania¢ is that he is divinely appointed to bluejay, which is the incarnation of all wickedness. With its death will OO0 O 5 10 83 X OO L0 Drs. W. F. Jones and J. Wick- kil a 123300 22 5 250 23028 DROIOONR O LI face. 1t is not supposed that Mr. McKinley would avoid a meeting with the former Speaker, nor is it to be considered that Mr. Reed would break away into the woods to keep from meeting the Presi- dent in the middle of the big road, but | neither of them would purposely go out of his way to meet the other. That the two leading members of the Republican party are not upon friendly terms, either personally or politically, |is a well-known fact, and why they should meet, not apparently by ac- cident, but by advanced planning, is, in the opinion of many of their friends and political advisers, a mystery and that is tvhat at the present time is rocking the political boat. In the opinion of a great many of Mr. Reed’s friends that gentleman may decide to become a candidate for the | Presidential nomination next year, no matter how futile that attémpt may ap- pear this far in advance. It is argued that as palitical condi- tions change so rapidly in this coun- try and the unexpected so frequently happens, Mr. Reed’s candidacy may as- sume greater proportions than political prophets at the present time are will- ing to concede. That the man from Maine stands not the least possible ghow for the nomination, as far as signs point now, is acknowledged even by his most enthusiastic admirers, but “gomething may happen,” and that fur- nishes, it is said, the chief reason for fear upon the part of Mr. McKinley and Senator Hanna. INCREASED REVENUES Interior Department’s Gratifying Report for February. ‘WASHINGTON, March 2L.—The month- ly statement of the collections of internal revenue show that the total receipts for February, 1899, were $19,648,99, an increase as compared with February, 1898 of $7,- §62,145. The receipts for the several sources of revenue are given as follows, -together with the increases, as compared with the same month in 1898: Spirits, $5,024,726, in- crease $1,034,500; tobacco, $4,318.233, incredse $1,686,409; fermented liquors, $3,787,525. in- orease $1,625.253; oleomargarine, $159,724, in- crease $49.587; miscellaneous, $3,208,492, in- crease $3,236,377. Of the first amount $3211,484 was re- cefved from the sale of documentary and roprietary stamps; mixed, flour, $578; ankers, ; billiard rooms, $4038; stock- brokers, $9966: commercial brokers, $8730; aggregate of special taxes, $30,246. or the eight months of the present fis- cal year the total received from internal revenue sources was $178.783,084; increasc, a8 compered With the same perlod of 1898, $68, 2 . WOODLAND WHEEL RACES. Professional Riders Will Contest in the Events. . WOODLAND, March 21.—John Lawson, fhe great bicycle rider, better known as “the terrible Swede,” was in this city to-day and made arrangements with a number of local wheelmen to hold a bicycle meet at the Woodland racetrack on Sunday, April 2. There will be a fine programme of events to be contested by ihe profession long and short distance riders who recently took part in the tour- nament in San Francisco. Besides Lawson_there will be Ziegler, Wells, Downing, Cotter, Ashinger, Good- man, Barnaby, Chapman, Turville broth- ers, Bulins, Stevens, Weinig, Leonard and other noted riders. There will be profes- sional races, both open and handicap, and tandem .races. Several local races will also be arranged, among them a tandem relay between Sacramento and Woodland teams. Inspecting the Valley Road. STOCKTON, March 2L.—After a tour of _inspection of the construction of the Val. ley Road line between this city and Point Richmond, W. A. Bissell, assistant gen- eral freight agent of the Santa Fe, Chief Engineer W. B. Storey and Vice President A. 1. Payson of the Valley Road system arrived in Stockton last evening on their way to examine the road in the San Joa- quin Valley, They expressed themselves well pleased with the work across the marshes. They will leave to-morrow morning for Bakersfield. e Plans of Don Carlos. MADRID, March 2L.—Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is expected to Issue a manifesto at an early date regardls plans for the future. It is Offlclglfl v Sinf'els that the Carlists have succeeded in intro- dducing arms into Spain. FINDS HER BABE TIED IN A CHAIR Search for a Kidnaped Child Ends. Special Dispatch to The Call. PAINESVILLE, Ohio, March 21.— A sequel to the abduction of Gerald | Lapiner, the three-year-old 'son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lapiner, which oc- curred in Chicago on May 30, 1898, de- veloped here to-day in the recovery and restoration of the child to his mother and the arrest of Mrs. Ann Ingersoll and John Collins, who live about a mile west of Painesville, at whose place the child was found and where he had been kept since last June. On the 30th of May Gerald Lapiner was abducted by a woman from in front of his parents’ home, 8435 Prairie avenue, in ‘Chicago. A large reward was offered for the recovery of the child, and although the Chicago police made every effort to bring the kidnap- ers to justice, nothing further could be learned. About two months ago a newspaper account of the abduction and the re- ward offered cagme under the notice of F. F. Ferris and his sister, Miss Annie Ferris, neighbors of the Ingersolls. Mr. and Miss Ferris suspected that the lit- tle boy who had been at the residence of Mrs. Ingersoll since last June might be the missing child, and they entered into correspondence with the Chicago police. After about two months’ inves- tigation and correspondence it was de- termined that the child was the miss- ing Gerald Lapiner. Mrs. Lapiner was notified, and she arrived here this morning to identify the little one. She was met at the station by Deputy Sheriff A. F. May. who had been in charge of the case here, and was taken in a closed car- riage to the Ingersoll place, while Sher- iff St. John went on ahead, to prevent the escape of the abductors. Access to the house was gained through the rear door, and there, tied in a high chair, half dressed, the boy was found. Both Mrs. Ingersoll and Colling were placed under arrest and were held for trial later in the day. Mrs. Ingersoll denies the charge of abduction, and could not be induced to say anything about the case. The hearing of the prisoners was continued to Thursday. They will probably be removed to Chicago as soondas requisition papers can be se- cured. ARGENTINE TRANSPORT LOST. The Villaino Founders on the Pata- gonian Coast. Spectal Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1599, by James Gor- don Bennett. BUENOS AYRES, March 21.—The Ar- gentine transport Villaino has foundered near Cape Camarones, on the Patagonian coast. The crew was rescued,but the ship was totallg lost. United Btates Minister Buchanan .will pronounce his judgment in the Punta- Atacama question next Thursday. - Shasta County’s Copper Mines. REDDING, March 21.—A great deal of attention is being attracted in this county to the Pittsburg mining district, abound- ing in copper and gold ores. ~Twenty claims were filed in the County Recorder’s office on Monday. Within this district is the old Copper City camp. An extremely rich ledge of cgf) er ore is being devel- oped on Bully "Hill, and as other copper and a number of free gold strikes have lately been made in the district ususual attention has been attracted. Crushed by a Falling Tree. CHICO, March 21.—August Rieger, aged 62 years, while engaged in ‘‘grubbing out” heavy oak timber near Chico, met a hor- rible death to-day.” He was standing in an excavation at the roots of a large tree when the tree fell, crushing him to the round. The unfortunate man was held so the part of his two sons ‘to extricate him. He lived but a short time after having been released. He leaves a widow, { three sons and two da:xshtul. ightly that it required great effort on | MRS, TENNANT GETS A DIVORCE Granted on the Ground of Cruelty. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March 21.—Mrs. Mary Tennant was granted a divorce from | Fred W. Tennant to-day by Judge Hy- land. The ground was extreme cruelty. The Tennants were until lately very prominent in society affairs. Mrs. Ten- nant was formerly Miss January, | daughter of Tax Collector W. A. Janu- ary. They were married twenty years | ago and have a famjly of four children. The eldest, Miss Marguerite Tennant, is married to Otto Ziegler, the bicyclist. Shortly after his marriage Fred W. Tennant was given property worth $150,000 by an aunt. This is alleged to | |have turped his head and he com- menced leading a fast life, and of which to-day's divorce was the culmi- nation. Wine and women figured in his | pastime, and on more than one occasion | he and his wife have been on the verge | of a separation. About ten years ago he became enamored of a prominent | society young lady of this city and his | wife threatened to leave him. The dif- ference was patched up. Three years ago Tennant made a fiying trip to South Africa. Since his | return he has been wilder than ever, | and has spent but little time at home. | It is allezed that he frequently beat Mrs. Tennant and on the last occasion knocked her down and injured her so | badly that she has been compelled to use crutches. One evening, it was| | charged, he drove up to his home with | | Miss Kittie Welch and insisted on bringing her in and installing her as | mistress of the place. Miss Marguerite, | his daughter, objected to this and horsewhipped Miss Welch. About this time Cyclist Ziegler was | drawn into the affair. He took Mrs. | Tennant's part. Tennant ordered him | to keep away from the house. This the bicyclist refused to do, and several | times he and his now father-in-law | came near indulging in fisticuffs. i Tennant's fortune has nearly all been squandered, and what little remains is | heavily mortgaged. It is sald he| agreed to divide evenly with his wife, | and she in turn will rear and educate the minor childre: Petaluma-Judge Dead. PETALUMA, March 21.—Much sorrow was expressed here to-day over the death | of Judge J. Cavanagh, one of the oldest | citizens of this city. He was a native of | Ireland, aged 74 years, and has resfded | here since 1%2. In 1861 he organized the | first military company of this city. In 182 he was elected City Marshal, which office he held for three terms. He leaves a large family. WILL RUN DOGS IN SAN MATEO COUNTY INGLESIDE COURSING CLUB 1IS| LOOKING FOR GROUNDS. The officers’ of the Ingleside Coursing Club do not propose to violate the law rel- ative to pool-selling on dog races at Ingle- side Park. On Sunday last a meeting was | held at Ingleside which doubtless will be the final so far as the old park is con- cerned. But the Trojans of the old sport of | coursing will not remain idle and turn a cold shoulder upon a favorits pastime because the law will not sanction pool- selling on dog racing in this city and county. The president of the Ingleside Coursing Club, D. Shannon, is a very energetic and progressive business man, who 1s now fl%;mngs upon a new site for a_coursing park in San Mateo County on the line of the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railroad Company. Mr. Shannon has been approacxed by business men who are anxious to be- come stockholders in a company to be | organized for coursing purposes, and he is of the opinion that when a favorable location for a coursing park is discov- ered the necessary money will be forth- coming for the construction of a d stand and whatever improvements may be_deemed requisite. The land which has beeh used by the club for coursing at Ingleside is the property of the Spring Valley Water Company, which has the right, accord- ing to the terms specified in the lease, of shutting off coursing on a very short notice. The club was consequently un- easy at all times that the water company might need the grounds for special pur- poses, and nntlclpnnni that at any time an order to vacate the premises might be given, it was slow in advancing sug- ) gested improvements. In fact, there are among the leaders of the club’ prominent sportsmen who favor a new coursing ark, provided a lease can be drawn up most deeply-interested in its future can TR ot at anl babl s not at all improbable that a_lease of Pat Canavan's old park near Ocean View may be obtained from the owners | for a term of years. If the Ingleside Club | shall be succesful in leasing the iand | for the purposes intended, it will not be very many weeks before coursing will again be in full blast. Mr. Shannon said vesterday that all that will be necessary in the wa% of improvements to start the |'zame is the fencing of the grounds and the erection of a temporary grand stand. There is some talk of holding Surday coursing meetings at Newark fi’nk untl such time as the Ingleside Club can move n such a manner that the ones who are | 600D CROPS IN SALINAS VALLEY Two Days of Continuous Precipitation. IRRIGATION DITCHES FILLING WATER ENOUGH TO LAST ALL SUMMER. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. KINGS CITY, March 21—Rain has been falling here at intervals Guring the past two days and a southeast wind has been blowing, which presages the coming of more rain. The Salinas Val- ley is fast assuming an emerald hue and further signs of spring are coming into evidence every day. The residents of this section are greatly elated over the prospects. Stock on the ranges is improving greatly, and by the end of the month will doubtless be in a normal condition. The suceess of the season now depends upon the April showers and should the usual amount of water fall during that month aboundant ¢ will be assured. The irrigation dit are fast filling up and the pros sufficient water for the summe are becoming more and more b WALNUT CREEK, March 2 rainfall since Tuesday last amounts to 4.50 inches and the prospects are good for a further precipitation.” From tele. phone reports received here from the various parts of Contra Costa Couniy it would seem that crops in this county have never looked so promising at this season of the year. An exceedingly large yield of all kinds of farm and ranch products is looked for. Fruit especially looks well and George Reed, superintendent of the Bancroft ranch, the largest producer in the valley, says that on account of the cleaned-up con- ditlon of the dried fruit market on the Pacific Coast and owing to the blighted crops in thé East, <California fruit- growers will have little to complain f this season. Commissicn merchants are already offering good prices for fruits on the.trees, and a Hamburg, Germany, firm is offering very good prices for a shipment of prunes for the German market. SAN JOSE, March 21.—Showers have been falling here since 10 o'clock to- day. ORANGE, March 21.—Last night there was a precipitation of .87 of an inch. The total for the storm was 1.43 inches; for the season 5.58 inches, against 5.49 inches for last season. The crop prospects are improvi SACRAMENTO, March 21.—Rain been falling slightly here to-night. Up to 11 o’clock it had not amounted to much, but the outlook is quite threatening. The | weather has been the finest possible for growing croEIS. soft and moist. STOCKTON, March 21.—Rain begau falling to-night at 9 o’clock. At midnight it is still raining, and indications point to a continuance. Passing of a Veteran. NAPA, March 21.—Henry Kruse, a na- ive of Germany, aged 69 years, died sud- denly yesterday of asthma. 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