The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1899, Page 3

£ uines from all over the coast have been THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1899. AN ARMY OF MEN ON THE TRAIL OF DESPERADO MOORE If Taken Alive the Cowardly Slayer of| Kilroy Will Be “Hanged First and Tried Afterward,” When the posse left | EVADA CITY, April 4—Desper- | hopeful in spirit. | ; [ do Moore is still successful in | town. this morning n.hrodc in a waglon, 5 9 . | at the back of which was strapped a 1 L )""',, Ts“f far the | G air taken from Moore's cabin. Deputy it has baffled every ef- backward Ashburn sat in this, facing thus commanding a view on all sid The posse spent the entire day beating | through the underbrush on Federal | Loan ridge. Speculation as to the murderer’s | hereabouts and his means of possible scores of man- have been on his trail morning to get even.the e of his hiding place. The s uding Sheriff Get- Pascoe, City Mar- | riff w e cape absorbs conversation from one Deputy Sheriff Ash- d of the county to the other. Nearly I Attorney Powers and y agrees that Moore will not | 1 of the National Guard, attempt to go south. If the lone desp d over their repeated do is game enough to at- T hope. They | temPt to push further ,east into the iven up hope. N®Y | snow-capped peaks of the Sierra still within a few Neva he may possibly cheat for the the sce of his erime and they | time being the justice that awaits him. theories advanced by the few | Should he take to the ol mmigrant V& ABAL HE AN ie his road ridge between Bear Valley and this place and follow it through Steep Hollow, passing through a thinly set- d district, he might succeed in get- She M The that the rugged to the county line and into the State of Nevada. That seems to be - only unguarded means of escape , however, would b year, with the chances a thous to one against the man who attempted it. The only sound theory that has been advanced thus far seems to be that of Under Sheriff Pascoe, who is firm in the belief that the murderer is safely tucked away in the mountains by a friend. “1 have come to the conclusion that Moore being shielded by a friend,” said Pa »e when he returned from the hunt to-day. “Moore has a few friends left in the mountains. He has resided in this county twenty odd years and knows the country like a book. I trongly suspect that he is being housed at night in some cabin in the woods, whence he could creep away at day advantages to a place the scene is par- ypearance S posse were | hreak and hide in the thick brush till | 1) r fter search- | nightfall. Every cabin in the vicinity | success returned | has been thoroughly searched and its | A large litary rifles orning and | country in tain. It has indications ! 1ain in the | to find the owner closely questioned, but ail deny all knowledge of the murderer’s where- abouts. 1 still entertain strong hopes that we will run across his trail to- | morrow. The excitement over Moore's succe ful efforts in baffiing his pursuers in creases daily. The citizens here await with anxiety every day the return of the searching parties and when they re port one after the other lack of succes the gloom increases. There were more in | man-hunters on Moore's trail to-day d there are any | than there have been at any time since the neighboring | the murderer took to the woods, and men = of discovering | each succeeding day promises to bring 1b out others who have become enraged i n placed on the dis- | at the ill-success of the lone bandit's I I I outlying dis- | pursuers. t I reports to town to the ( Moore is said to have a father living | y had seen Moore. For|in Oakland and some believe the mur- | to the ¢ other 1 derer will attempt to go there for funds cape from the untains. In antici- T pation of this Sheriff Getchell has tele- | ard of $1000 | graphed to the Chief of Police of Oak- > body of Moore | Jand requesting him to be on the look- | toolish enough | out for the murderer. : fugitive. That | An additional reward of $300 was of- “her | fered yesterday by Governor Gage. The s | people here are criticizing the body is asking | for having offered such a ot make an at- | {n the name of the ate, and making swering his do. Net- it void unless Moore were arrested and the road | convicted. The person who is lucky . five miles below | enough to capture the desperate man heading for the lower | will never earn the State reward, for A i ere do not | the citizens here have vowed to judge story. Three | Moore in their own way—hang him first nt over that country | and try him afterward. It is doubtful 3 1 they doubt |if Moore will be brought to this town ) come out | alivy He knows the fate that awaits 1€ He | him here, and if cornered will make his 1 and the | Jast stand there and then. I s adhere to the belief t a late hour to-night no word had | b stay in the woods as long | been received from the searching par- ASt ties and for another night at least 11 return to the | Moore may fling defiance in the face of morning, thor- |the outraged citizens of Nevada rhaps a bit murel('nun!}'. nd | McKINLEY’S TRIP T THE PACIFIC COAST |, | that April 4—The President to-night decided upon the d trip to the Pacific Coast the coming summer. He gton about Juiy 10 and go first to the northern penin- . where he will inspect the recent marvelous develop- r region. From there the party will go to Duluth Northern Pacific to the mining region of Montana. Nearly spent in Yellowstone Park. The Puget Sound country d about August 12. After visits to Tacoma, Seattle and jump will be taken to San Ftancisco, thence to Los Angeles interest in Southern ifornia and home over the y of New Orleans and Atlanta. bout ten in the party, which will travel in special cars, used to give the personnel of the party. He insisted the de solely for pleasure and would have no political sig- IINGTON. 0 2 OO0 OLOTS T 2USLOTITIINHN S VOLOTL 008 QUOR MAY BE SOLD coming into the city all day long to take part_in the third annual bench show of AT MILITARY POSTS nta Clara Valley Poultry and Ken- nel Club, which opens at Turn Verein '”iill to-morrow morning and will cor | tinue the balance of the week. There are | TON, April 4 —The Secretary | nearly 500 entries, and they include all | ested the opinfon 1 as to whether at the ¢ from the small, homely pug to the | {umzmn(wm St. Bernard. It promises to | best dog show ever held in the| passed last ses- g the efficiency | —— continuance of To Vote Upon a Charter. xicating drinks by the| VISALIA, April 4—At | canteen sections of | election a Hew oharier ii fe oming city K r will be voted upon | and a lot of discussion 1s being indulged | In regarding the advisability of its adop- tion. At present sentiment is about equal. | ly divided. on the proposition. The ad Vo purpoge to be provements At present the tax rate s $1.065 % and this is already | 0 high. £ not believed the new char- ter will be adopted e aechar l s of ‘the new charter concede thelr | to make possible, more public Im n section to do the selling. T e T 52505 Trunks, valises, pocket-books and_di- | GHT . | aries; best goods and best values - G TRAIN WRECKED. | born & Vail's, t values, at San April 4 freight train was | was elected by a vote of 148,000, against | north and west towns, the Republicans | or allowed | a week longer it would have been settled.” | must be commenced within two months HARRISON RE-ELECTED MAYOR, OF CHICAGO CHICAGO, April 4—Carter H. Har- rison was re-elected Mayor of Chicago to-day by a total vote of 145,914, against 108,304 for Zina Carter, the Republican candidate and 45,401 for John P. Alt- geld, the independent Democratic can- didate. Harrison’s plurality is 39,610. In the last Mayoralty election Harrison ,342 for Sears, the regular Republican nominee, and 69,637 for Harlan, the in- dependent Republican. The Democrats have elected their candidates for the town offices in the carrying the south towns, although the final count may take this from them. The returns at midnight, however, in- dicate that they have a safe majority. The vote from the wards shows as far s it has been counted that the Repub- licans have elected fourteen Aldermen and the Democrats nine. The contest in several of the wards is very close, and the official count will probably be nec- ary to determine the result. The Council has been composed of forty-five Democrats and twenty-three Republicans, and the Democrats will without doubt retain a working ma- jority. The election was entirely upon local | issues, no element of national politics entering into the campaign. The firm stand taken by Mayor Harrison against | the proposed fifty-year extension of the streetcar franchises was a strong ele- ment of his popularity and gained for votes from the Republican sides holding closely to him many of the Democratic party who might have cast their votes for the in- dependent candidate. Another fact that drew to him many Republican votes was the existing opposition to the Republican machine among the rank and file of the Republican party. Thousands of votes were cast for Har- rison that would have been received by Carter, the Republican nominee, had not the latter been backed by the ma- chine politicians. Several independent and Republican papers supported Mr. Harrison, among them the Times-Her- ald and Post, which have been known as McKinley organs. The election revealed some remark- able changes in the Republican vote, particularly in the strong Republican wards, where the shifting to the Dem- | In < | ocratic candidate was very marked. the Third Ward, which has alw: been a Republican stronghold, and in which the Democrats were not able to secure a candidate this year, so sure > ® s+0+®+6+@+@+ o~ D o O O e o e e S S SR o o o o 4 ? CARTER H HARRISON. f B@eo+OeO e b O e ooy was the party of defeat, Harrison re- ceived a majority of 51. In the last Mayoralty election this ward cast a total of 3428 Republican votes, divided between Sears, the regular Republican nominee and Harlan, the independent Republican candidate, against 2524 for Harrison. To-day the Republican can- didate for Town Treasurer received in this ward 3447 votes, against 2389 for his Democratic competitor. The Fourth Ward cast two years ago 3967 Republican votes, for Harrison. To-day it e a Republi- can Alderman by a m of 1800 and Harrison carried it b over Carter of 611. In various other wards in this city, a like result was shown, there being a strong Republi- can slide toward Harrison, many of the wards which gave him strong ma- Jorities returning Republican candi- dates for Aldermen, The election w one of the most quiet that the city has ever experi- enced. There were rumors of coming trouble in the First and Eighteenth Wards, where the Republicans claimed they had secured positive evidence of “colonizing” on the part of the Demo- crats, but the matter came to nothing and there were no difficulties to speak of. Several arrests were made, one man, Robert Ferguson, having in his possession before coming to the polls a marked officlal vote. He informed the police that he had received it from Timothy O'Connor, a Republican poli- LEGAL CONTEST Famous Murdock Case Comes to a Trial. Spectal Dispatch to The Call, WILLOWS, April 4—The celebrated Murdock case came up for trial this afternoon and the work of empaneling | the jury began. Only three talesmen | vere examined, but no jurors were | sworn. At least a week will be con- | sumed in getting a jury. The courtroom | was crowded, many women b(‘ing) present. William Murdock, a wealthy rancher of | slenn County, residing near Willows, iled about the Sth day of January, 1804 He was unmarried, and left an estate val- | 1 of $300.000. After the pro- | ate was commenced a claim | was presented by Mary Helen Murdock, | wife of one of the large ranch owners in that section, for $100,000 and a amount of Interest. i on a promissory note for $100,000 | Septembe ble tw | after ing Interest at cent month, and purporting to e o signed by William Murdock. The | as follow | 0,000, OLIMPO, Sept. 5, 1877, ‘nty vears after date I promise to pay o the order of M v Helen Murdock the sum of one hundred th iand dollars (§100,000), with in- terest at the rate of 1 per cen! r month until paid, principal and interest p: ble In United States' gold coin. WILLIAM MURDOC The attorneys representing the estate loud In thelr denunciation of the | and attempts were made to show by shed in the newspapers | urdock never signed the | sion to sign a note xecutors, strange- | wer note, affidayits publ William note nor had any occa for that amount. The ly enough, while protesting that the note | was not genuine, never acted on the | claim, alleging in the papers filed that | they did not do so because they did not | know whether it was genuine or not. They | have never up to this time either rejected | the claim. It was currently | reported at that time that one of the | executors had remarked that the note | was genuine and “‘had Bill Murdock lived | When the executors failed to act on the claim suit was begun by the claimant to establish the validity of the note. It wa found that the action was prematurely brought, so it was dismissed. Immediate- ¢ after the note became due the present | Quiggle applied a torch to the vapor, suit was commenced in accordance with [ which instantly ignited. On Sunday the the probate law, which provided that|flame was extinguished by Quiggle's son, suits upon claims not due when presented | after the claim becomes due. The note | fell due on September 5. 18 Up to this time no word had come from the claimant regarding the history of the note, she biding her time apparently until | she had her day In court. But during the | course of the litizgation the executors took Mrs. Murdock's deposition and the real consideration of the note was made | public for the first time. It appeared from the deposition that Sam Murdock was the father of Gawn Murdock, husband of the plaintiff. They | had two small children. Sam was a | cousin of Willlam Murdock, the deceased. | Away back in 1861 Sam was engaged in the sheep business with his son, Gawn, and they had thousands of sheep Tunning on_Government land. From these sheep and their wool, which brought high prices in those . Gawn and his _father cleared large profits annually. William Murdock also at that time was in the sheep business, and besides was buying and taking up Government land. Samuei | had absolute confidence in William's in- | tegrity, often remarking that “Bill was | better than any bank.” Year by year he turned his surplus savings, together with some thousands of dollars he received from the estate of his father, John Mur- dock, over to William Murdock for safe keeping. This course was strongly op- wman Station at 6 o’clock | In consequence no trains for twe hours, but much damage gine and the track. kes four accldents between here 1 one resulting of an engineer and fireman. was This and in BROOKS C pril 4.—Through a le- d in the option agree- | Co ific Coast Crack- § [ ] h: bine finds its ef- | § hd ® ® suggestion of Governor zas parish, province of Matanzas. This firm ‘ v to avold selling, as the Syra- Major General Wilson, : to paying a blg glace candy feature exclus v controlled by Bishop & Company, s said in commercial circles to-day that tk nding the combine controls the rm California Cracker Company's t. the combine and the firm holding t for larger bonus will not reach an Military tion suddenly | Eed n has been seeking an o o him on his own responsibility. General Wilson was requested to S San Jose’s Dog Show. SAN JO| April 4.—Aristocratic ca- AUSES A PRIEST'S REMOVAL HAVANA, April 4—Monsignor Santander, Bishop of Havana, at the General Brooke, has removed a priest in Cabe- b ot ] This request is the first intervention y the military administration.in ecclesiastical affairs. Matanzas, wrote to headquarters that “drunken, worthless, dirty old scoundrel”; horse in the cemetery and let the consecrat that if the Bishop did not remove him he ( ferent form, which he did. The latter was referred to Monsignor San- tander with®a recommendation that he take “proper action,” and this re- sulted in the removal of the offending priest. SLEIDLGLIOLLOLN & LOLIOLIS AOLIGLLS K SLOLIOTIOLIOLIOLE & Governor of the Department of the priest in question was a that he had pastured his ed inclosure go to weeds, and General Wilson) would eject make a report on the case in a dif- TS 0o L O STV @ : FOR A FORTUNE : 3 posed by his son Gawn, and was the cause of frequent quarrels between father and son. Between Samuel and his daughter- i . the claimant, the best feeling al- prevailed. and Samuel was espe- ally fond of his two grandchildren. This situation culminated in 1576 with a ssolution of partnership between Gawn and his father, Gawn paying the father a large sum_of money over to William. Shortly after liam induced Samuel to leave his hou i more money under threats lawsuit, William claiming that Gawn had not paid Samuel enough o ttlement. To avoid trouble Gawn | father $20,000 mor: amuel then | came back to the house, and on the ¢ the note was made Willlam Murd came to the ranch and he and Samuel had a settlement, A balance of the amount due Samuel from Willam was struck and the note in question was made, pa his daughter-in-law, for the benefit of the two grandsor He had it made pa able twenty years after date, so that it would fall due about the time the boys be- me_ of age. Samuel n Gawn to handle any of his money. carefully preserved and now interest through- The note was is exciting most intense | out the whole northern part of the State. The executors claim t months before his d. h Willlam heard of the note and instituted an in- quiry as to its hold Tt 1s claimed that those around him avoided letting Mrs. Murdock know of his serious illness, evi- arful that she would call She was not even notified The de that it forgery. The plaintiff is represented by Cannon man, attorneys of this city, and Charles L. Donohoe of Willows, and defense by F. C. Lusk of Chico, Richard Bayne, E. oury and W. H. L. Barnes of and others. FLOW OF NATURAL GAS NEAR WHITTIER LOS ANGELES, April 4—In an en- deavor to develop. water for irrigation on the 1300-acre ranch of Mathias Meyers at the Santa Fe Railroad tion near Whit- tier an unexpected flow of natural ga was encountered that, according to re- ports, exceeds in volume anything of like character known in this part of the State. M. Quiggle, who has the work In charge, say that a depth of 375 feet the drill struck a strata of rock. An un- derground explosion took place, throwing water, sand and rock to the surface. The water was forced four feet above the collar of the standpipe, while roc! some shot h into the ¢ sions followed, hurling up more ‘sand than other matter. When the water subsided a flow of air aroused speculation among those who had been attracted by the unusual spectacle. ho fired the contents of a ross the mouth of the standpipe. Arrangements are being made to pipe the gas to neighboring houses and to the Puente ofl fields for fuel and domestic purposes. e RUSSIANS SLEW MANY CHINESE AT TALIEN WAN VICTORIA, B. C., April 4—According to mail advices brought to-night by the steamer Empress of Japan, ninety-four Chinese were killed and 123 wounded by the Rus: s in the recent riot at . A Russian interpre- still raging in Formosa. According to the latest advices eleven deaths had occurred in Tainin and one in Talkoku, bringing the total number of deaths since January 1 up to 232. An attempt was made to assassinate Hoshi Toru, formerly Japanese Minister to the United States, recently. The village of Nahone was destroyed by fire on March 13, a hundred houses be- ing burned and seventy lives lost. — HONOLULU’S GARRISON. NEW YORK, April 4—A Newport News, Va., special to the Tribune says: Batteries I and K of the Sixth Regular Artlllery passed through the city this morning over the Chesapeake and Ohio on their way from Fort Monroe to San Francisco, where they will board a trans- port on April 12 for Honolulu. These bat- teries will be permanently stationed there, The officers of the other batteries of the Sixth Artillery at Fort Monroe expect to start on Saturday for San Francisco, from which city they will sail on April 17 for Manila. URGING A REVOLT. LONDON, April 5.—The Constantinople correspondent of the Times says that Turkish pamphlets have been found scat- tered about the mosques of the city ex- hortin, the Ialthh(l‘ to overthrow the regimé of Abdul Hamid. Robbed by Masked Men. ELKO, Nev., April 4—E. M. Guthridge, proprietor of the Club Saloon, who was held up in his place of busine: i and robbed of About $600 by three masked men, this afternoon swore out a warrant for the arrest of John Page, J. F. Cook and Bart Holbhrook, charging them with the robberfr. 1hey are now in the county ail and will have a hearing to-morrow. son’s | did not want his | . | e urged against this note is | the | shotgun | tician, and the latter was arrested. Mayor Harrison declared himself to- night as being greatly pleased with the result of the election, saying: “It shows that the people of Chicago are pleased with the administration and I am glad of that, for I honestly endeavored to give them the best ad- ministration I could. The result shows for 1tself.” Mr. Carter, the Republican candi- date, said: “I do not take the Harrison victory to be a rebuke to the Republican party. | Indeed I think that national issues were not in the minds of the people when they cast their ballots—simply the idea was uppermost that Carter H. Harrison was alone to thank for de- feating the attempt at long term fran- chises and that a re-election was due to him as a reward for that act. Per- zonally, I have no regrets over the re- sult.” The suburb of Austin was annexed to the city of Chicago as a result of the election. This will add 11,500 to the population of Chicago. John P. Altgeld said of the result of the election to-night: “One reason for the election of Mr. Harrison was that the press supported him almost without exception, and the great Republican papers were on his side. Why did the Republican papers support Harrison? The reason is not hard to find. They saw that Mr. Har- rison had already betrayed the Demo- cratic party, as he had it in his power | to do, and he will carry the betrayal a great deal farther and thus make the re-election of McKinley a certainty. The Republicans look on this fight as the first battle of 1900 and feel that the Harrison re-election of Mr. RONAWAY ENGINE » CAUSES A WRECK ON THE SANTA FE Passengers on the California Limited Have a Narrow Escape From Death, POMONA, April 4—The workers at | respondent Conductor Hickson said he the North Pomona Orange Packing | first felt a terrific grating jar. Then House were startled at 2 o'clock this | BlS car was overturned and he Lo 4 & rown under a seat, but escaped wi afternoon at seeing the engine of the | 'y e q choulder. westbound California limited from | N ~ CHIdae ol Eroatiidtas s fro e teades Pullman Conductor Connell reported | only fifteen pa 'ngers on his list. and go dashing down the track. With | Four sleeping. ears aere half deralled a broken side rod flying wildly about. | and bs y W nched. The observation The tender jumped the rails, followed by the baggage and dining cars, which car remained on the track. A section in one of the sleepers was pierced by were badly demolished. The orange |2 10ng rail, which tore through the g s floor. As far as San Bernardino the men rushed to the assistance of pas- section was occupied by Capitalist sengers and train men. Fortunately none were killed and but three injured. Porters W. J. Lee and Joe tles suf- John E. Packard, who was returning Mr. Pack- thanking himself that he to Pomona from Chicago. W ard is n fered broken ribs and News Agent C. |left the car at San Bernardino. B NIler i ibroEeni saite H. H. Vincent, the local Santa Fe Mhot cansht of i he B o raa itk ?l?t':‘)f. went .immn{]u!(n! ((;_tho‘sccne i ; o he W k and was active in at- :;ezki:ffmofmz casiing which support- | tonding to the wants of the passen- s ; n the latter be- | g He telegraphed to Los Angeles came free it separated the tender from | and made arrangements for all to be the engine and tore a hole through the | taken thi by a local train. A boiler. The steam came pouring out | Wrecking 15 - nowy; - WOIKINR: £ &b and. Engineer Neavin and Blroman ‘ North Pomona and the tr;\("‘ks \\‘i‘nhl';e = cleared for to-morrow's traffic. Vhile Wells jumped back of the deck for this will prove a costly wreck for the protection and stopped the runaway | gant Fe, e that it oc- engine at Lordsburg. At the time of | curred upon a sandy roadbed. Had it the disaster the train was running | occurred on hard ground the cars about sixty miles an hour. would have piled upon one another and In conversation with The Call cor- | loss of life would have been inevitable. /. 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