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THE SAN FRA SCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 1899, 21 gestion his house and office have been in a state of sieg |5 THE PRICE SET ON THIo MAN'S HEAD 00000000000 $2000 000000000CCQCQCO0 (-] o [4] [ o eoceoe © For Three Years the Gang of Desperadoes Has Gone Unpunished: Four Sets of Cowbous and Detectives Have So Far Faifed to : Run Them Down. HE man who secures the body, dead or alive, of a murdering ban- ait known as ‘‘Black Jake” along the frontier of the Bouthwest will get $5000 cash and earn the thanks »f many people and corporations in the Territories of New Mexico and Ari- zopa. For two years and a half & band of out- laws known as the ‘‘Black Jake” gang has robbed, marauded and murdered at inter- vals of a few months in widely separated and different parts of these Southwestern Territories. The Southern Pacific Rall- road Company has brought {ts most ex- pert bandit catchers to this region from Texas, Califdrnia and the Territories, and Ever since the announcement was made a few days ago that this physiclan could overcome crime and viclous habits thro Day and night appeal has been made at his door by those who insist that they MK R‘N'/Noobxgs, EARNINGS AND AGES OF AMERI A'S MOST Gross earnings of twelve leading William Gillette. John Drew h Goodwin Mrs. Henry Milier.... William H. Cran Andrew Mach James K. Hackett Averag CEOCOTUTUOVULUBO LT & Average age.... 2,740,000 B /s C UR ED, Says])i ‘:/()lAm szackenbos Of”CoZum‘bzd University. = STEALING BY HYPNOTISM, IMMORALITY AND DRUNKEN- 7h sug- have no strength to resist thieving or strong drink. Young boys and little girls are brought to this man by unhappy fathers and mothers, who have about lost hope seeing their sons and daughters weakening slowly into cigarette fiends. But to one and all Dr. Quackenbos has the cheering counsel that there is no crime or sin, no ter to what degree of viciousness the victim has fallen, but can be overcome by a tic sleep, when high moral alms are suggested to the patient's mind. early in the winter just passed that Dr. Quackenbos begar New York. One or two of the little fellows at first rather timic d were treated with such success by this physician that it was not long before his self-imposed task upon the young boys who lived In the Newsboys' presented themselves to the doctor to be cured of the excessive use of yzens of these small chaps were urging the doctor to 4 them to do without the cigarettes which were shown to be Injurious to their strength and lives. While petty stealing has been cured in man hful offenders, the case in which he take cas s by Dr. Quackenbos since he began to use suggestion for the correction of crime among the greatest pride and upon which he bases the theory that even an habitual criminal may be ANRIZONA . & o o FOFULAR STAGE FAVORITES Gross receipts of eleven star actors in the season of 30 weeks which has American star actresses in this 30- week season: Jjust closed: Gross - Name. Age. Receipts. Name. Maude 21 $ ‘({NV! Richard Mansfield. DOOOOOQQOQOOOQQOOO;&QQO000000000000( aloReR=g=g=f=F--F-F-F-F-F-F-F-Fol-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F - - R -R-F-X-E-F-1 Gross Age. Receipts. 42 $425,000 GOCO Q0 VOV UV RSO The Banta Fe Rallroad Company has had four different sets of cowboys and plains detectives each emploved for a month at a time in' pursuing ‘Black Jake” and his gang on a dozen different clews. Marshals of Arizona and New Mexico have been equelly vigilant, and have been active in sending sagacious peace officers of the plains to catch the bandits, and the United States troops have galloped here and there along the trontier in vain quests of “Black Jake' and his followers. A reward of $i000 is offered jointly by the Executives of the Territories for the capture of ‘“Black Jake” dead or alive, and even now a score Oor two of men are searching over the wild, dreary and uninhabited mountain chaln which stands on the border between Mexioo and the United States, In the hope o .I.rnlnnLths tempting reward offered or the Ing of the outlaws. The rise of the notorious gang dates from the early days of August, 1886. “Black Jake” 18 the frontier name for a former United ‘Btates scout named Jacob Emmons. He enlisted in the military ser- vice &t Fort Whipple, near Prescott, Ariz., after he had been & cowboy in the Territories for eleven years. He came originally from the vicinity of Vineland, N. J., and the cowboys and his comrades at the garrison say he had an unusual education. But he was a born tough. He shot and killed a barkeeper at Willlams, Ariz., when he was but 20, and narrowly es- caped hanging. As a scout he was a fall- ure, because no one had confid him. He was left $1500 by a New Jersey relative in 1883, and when he got out of the service he spent all the mo month in Phoenix and Yum drifted down to Sonora, M o, and the few people who remembered him thought he was probably dead down there until the news came that he was the head of a reckless band of bandits who were after gold coin at the sacrifice of any life that baffled thelr effor On or about August 8, 189, several men employed in the,k general merchandise atore of the Hualapi Mining Company, miles north of Kingman, riz., were roused from thelr noonday sicstas behind the counters one hot, biistering da four cowboys who walked in and a to see some saddles. One of the wo men started to go upstairs to show the strangers his stock of saddles. The others were too warm and sleepy to move, but the moment they saw each of the suppos- ed purchasers whip out two long, mur- derous revolvers at full cock they were very much awa When each of the store men looked Into the muzzle of a pistol as if into the mouth of a railroad tunnel, he knew that he and his store companions were in the hands of bandits. While one bandit, a tall, dark complexioned fellow, with deep-set eyes and mammoth tattooed stars on his hands, went about the store seeking money and transportable valuables, the store men @eliei et etie N eet et o o2 2.‘ The Stirring Story of Poor Frank Bullen, Whose Tale of ‘“The Crulse of the Cachalot” Has Kipling Praised His Work. P ¥ -2 220205 4% 6 5+ 100 BRI NN RIRIRELS N R ReRNeN 85025002 D 2 P ‘u; 200 RNIRIRRS R LRGN HAVE just received .rom a friend in london some passages of autobiogra- phy lately communicated to him by Frank T. Bullen, the author of “The Cruise of the Cachalot,” which so many readers are now pronouncing most enthralling narrative of true sea adventure that has ever come into their hands. These passages indicate that, if anybody wants to repeat Mr. Bul- len’s literary achievement in kind as well as in measure, he will have to begin early in life; for Mr. Bullen's own career was one unbroken succession of unusual ex- periences from the moment of his birth down to about his twenty-fifth year, since when it has had a rather more nor- mal course. “I was born in London in 1857,” he says, “my father being a journeyman stone mason. M mother I never knew, for while I was an infant my parents sep- arated, leaving me, their only child, to the mercy of my father's sister, a poor dressmaker who never married. To her tender care I am Indebted for seven happy years.” Of his life with this aunt he adds: “Her usual bedtime was 2t 1 a. m., mine was at 7 p. m.; 8o as I sicpt with her and she lay soundly ping till 9. the bright summer mornings were almost intermin- ably long to me. But hajpily there stood the on the narrpw mantelpiece 2 few boo! a Bible, a cookery book, somebody’s ad- rvants. a book of common adise Lost.’ And when 1 used to climb cautiously over the head of the bed, get a book and steal” back again. ‘Paradise Beieti e Just Brought Him Fame and Fortune. were kept lookihg at very close range into the muzzles of cocked revolvers. In ten minutes, perhaps, some $1400 in coin was taken, for there is not the convenience of bank deposits in frontier settlements. Then the storekeepers were bound and gagged. One of them, John A. Bishop, re- sisted, and in the scrimmage was stabbed to death. The bandits bound the other men tighter, and, hastening out, were soon on their broncos outside. Before any of the men in the store could get loose and give the alarm the bandits were miles away on the alkall desert, where no one but a few poor starved Hualapl In- dians live in a territory of about 700 Bsquare miles. The Sheriff had no sooner set out to seek the bandits than the information came that the office force of the Resolute Mining Company, fifty miles over toward Ash Fork, had been held up, bound and gagged by the same gang on the day pre- vious to the robbery and murder at King- man. Some' thirty ounces of gold and coin to the amount of $100 had been stolen from the eafe. In the latter part of the following month “Black Jake” and his gang robbed the bank at the rich cattle and mining town of Nogales, Ariz. It was a very bold deed. Three entered the bank. One covered the president, who was outside the railing; another stepped to the win- dow and called the teller, who was sitting at some distance, and ordered him to hold up his hands. The teller promptly obeyed, and started to walk to the window, but was stopped before he could get thers. The third man went down to the end of the railing to get behind it and at the cash. At the end he saw an open door leading into a room where several men were planning an irrigation scheme. He promptly held them up. Each mean was thus busy holding some person with his six-shooter, and there was no one left to shovel the money into the bag. Realizing that something must be done to change the combination, the man who had the Irrigation convention at bay promptly shut the door on it. The slam- ming of the door attracted the attention of the gentleman at the teller's window, and he turned to see what the trouble was. The Instant the robber turned the teller made a jump for his window, under- neath which, on a shelf, reposed the bank six-shooter, which he grabbed and began shooting. Over 100 shots were fired inside of three minutes. Every man who could get a gun and a horse took the trall. A skirmish ensuea among the rocks in the Las Animas Canyon. “Black Jake” lost his horse, but got the one ridden by the Sheriff of Pima County, and escaped into Sonora, Mexico. Three months passed and the Arizona people began to hope and then to think that the Black Jake band had decided to remain permanently In the republic of Mexico. Late one night in January, 1897, when the alr was a little chilly in the “HOW I WON SUCCESS AS AN AUTHOR.” 3 Lost’ soon superseded all the others, and, incredible as it may sound, before I had completed my fifth year T had read it ough, ‘arguments’ and all, twice.” n my ninth year,” Mr. Bullen con- tinues, ‘‘came a calamity fhat swept me like a drifting ship out of the peaceful haven of my aunt's home. Education, love and sympathy all disappeared. In thelr place came hunger, blows, severe exhausting labor from 6 in the morning till 11 at night, and an atmosphere of vile language. At last, when I was in my twelfth vear, after an experience of life in London that would jsound incredible if it were detailed, I escaped to sea as cabin boy In an old tub of a bark bound to Demarara.” From this followed ten or twelve years of almost constant seafaring, marked for the most part by nothing but hardships and dangers. At 22, with an all but empty purse and nothing better in pros- pect than a life before the mast, he mar- ried a girl just turned 18. He was soon, of necessity, at sea agaln, ‘before the mast in a schooner bound for Nova Sco- Finally, the Ilife became per- fectly intolerable to him, and he decided to find employment on land. “But things got so bad,” says he, “that we laid out our last half soverelgn on food for the baby, and began to starve. Credit we had none, or friends or relatives worth a row of pins to us. “In the midst of this came an offer of a berth ashore, as a computer In a public office—a sort of junior clerk, at $10 a week. Great heavens! I thought 1 was Rothschild. I fook it gratefully, and said semi-trople reglons, five men in masks walked in upon a faro game at Deming, New Mexico. While four of the masked men covered the/eleven gamblers and kept their hands away above their heads, the tallest of the masked men gave whole atte to the cashier of the 1 out. That official reached for his pistol, but he was too slow. He was shot in the e and he dropped forward on the green The robbers were gone in a twink- Three murders were added in 1898 to the catalogue of crimes attributed to the no- torfous band. One was the shooting of a passenger on the stage from Tombstone to Grant Springs, in Arizona, when that vehicle was held up, and the passengers plled their watches, purses and other valuables in & heap for the use of tha bandits. Another murder was that of a switchman for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company at Nawajo, because, probably, he was suspected of having recognized the gang and of having plans for telling his suspiclons to the Sheriff. The Santa Fe west-bound overland was held up by the gang west of Gallup last June. The express messenger was shot, the safe was dynamited, and a sack of g0ld and currency was secured. Sherift Lawrence and twenty oarefully picked men chased the gang for two weeks. Heavy rains fell, and not the faintest clew remained for trailing the outlaws across hundreds of miles of sunbaked soil In an uninhabited region. The gen- eral merchandise store of the Phelps Min- ing Company at Huenems, in Yavapal County, Ariz., was robbed one day last November while two employes there were at dinner, and the two other men in the store were bound and gagged, but only a few dollars were had. This gang is well acquainted with a large section of country to the southwest of here and there are few men in that section that will openly and single-handed do anything against them. In a posse it is different. A number of the men are thelr friends and help them with food, horses and information. Others are living on exposed ranches, where the robbers can come in, if they are revengeful, and kill the man who has helped an officer, or they can kill stock and run off horses. The gang is often seen by cowboys and men Uving on ranches, and to them the robbers have told their versions of their experiences. The last Congress overhauled the law regarding the emoluments of United States Marshals, and now If a Marshal sends out a man to make an arrest and the deputy does not get the man he goes after the Government will not pay him anything. Under the provisions of this law it was impossible for United States Marshal Hall to get men to take the trail. Even a Deputy Marshal wants to know that he will be paid for his time from when he starts on a traill until he is killed. He objects more to working for nothing than he does to getting killed. B R R R Y R DR a8 oas’&*&owt b + b * good-by to the sea. But I soon found it was no easy task to step down from the position of a leader of men to that of a deputy junior clerk. In fact, it was al- most maddening at times, only to be borne by remembering the two helpless ones at home. And there was always some reading to be had. Reading had been the salt of my whole life, although I have been shut up to two books for a whole voyage—the Bible and ‘Bleak House,” both of which I read through from beginning to end so many times that if I were to state the number I should certainly be disbelieved.” The need of plecing out his clerical sal- ary as the size and necessities of his fam- Uy increased, led him, about six years ago, to try his hand at writing. He met with many discouragements at first, and with no really substantial success until he brought out “The Cruise of the Cacha- lot,” his only book thus far, though he is to bring out another soon. Of the hit the book has made, he says: ‘“When the Cachalot appeared, men whose names [ had read with awe as (he august arbiters of literature wrote to me, and wrote of me, as if they were all in one grand con- spiracy to turn my head, and the only place where my book has been totally ig- nored is in the London morning datlies.” ————— The rarest pocket handkerchief {n the world is possessed by Queen Margaret of Italy. It is of lace, is estimated to be worth $29,600, and took twenty years to weave. The handkerchief is so light that it 1s scarcely feit if placed on the hand, and so small that it is kept In a little gold case less than an inch in diameter. a young fellov vho for five years had stolen right and left. He had been arrested, and was in a falr way to spend a part Te » reformatory, waen his case was brought to the attention of the doctor. Dr. Quackenbos stands high in the medical world, where his specialty has been the nervous diseases. He belongs to an old Dutch family, and will read generate the New York slums. N Special to the Sunday Call. Nime of the New York lodging houses for boys, the only Institution of nd to which I am accorded access, & humber of intelligent YWS, representing the mewsboy, bootblack and errand boy ® found desirous of being freed from practices prejudicial hysical and moral health, may be classified under the heads of cigarette addic- , sexual perversion, and low or misdirected intelli- ied with cigaretté smokers, some of whom admit- aling of forty to fifty cigarettes a day and exhib- { nicotine pofsoning, was to deprive them gradually 1 on was given to smoke fewer cigarettes each '8 week, until the number was finally reduced to one after ccond hypnotlsm the suggestion was, “You have got through rettes and have no further use for tobacco; it will nauseate you, YOUT nervous symptoms, increase the irregular action of your continue to irritate your throat, and aggravate the eye trouble it iduced. It will Interfere with your success in life’’—this repeated times. The rewards of honesty, moderation and devotion to em- then pictured, ‘and the patient was told to wake °, fecling encouraged, ambitious and happy. These s fulfilled. A disgust for tobacco is produced; some- ng that after the first treatment the patient will almost en- forego its use. One subject, William B., who had been smoking two cigarettes a day, dropped to four a week after a single sitting. A thief 17 years old, who developed kleptomania at the age of 12 and been repeatedly arrested, begged te be cured of his uncontrollable im- ulse to steal. The suggestion was given to him (in the slang that he ed and understood) that he would no longer feel the inclination to steal, and then that he would not steal, each being repeated emphatically three times. He was then told that he lived in a country where an honest boy was sure to rise and an honorable career was suggested to him dependent on his respect for the property -of other people. The final suggestion was to lay aside his hang-dog, on a frank aud mauly, oxpression, and be afrald tol guilty look, to put ook no man in the W of the New York Academy of Medicine, as well as of the New I paper upon ‘‘Hypnotic Suggestion in the Treatment of Crime,” in which he will tell of his work the past year among the vicious and de- pshire Medical Society. Before the latter assoéiation In June he eye. Words cannot express my gratification at meeting my light-fingered young friend ‘a week later with his head erect, an open countenance, & smile of acknowledgment on his face, and at hearing him volunt: the information, “Doctor, I have not had the least temptation to swipe any- thing since last Sunday.’ The sexual perversions that have been successfully treated are many. Ungovernable abuses have been controlled and patients have been obliqued from sex man hich no appeal to & espect, fear of physical or mental ruln, conscience or reason, and whi no use of drugs had any effect on. Animal standards have been displaced from some boys’ minds, and intellectual, moral and spiritual ideals substituted therefor. The thought of marriage with an honorable woman, who would be in sympathy with the patient’s aims and share his life’s work, was made in the case of one subject to take the place of a mania for promiscuous concubinage— from which I am confident a bright young life gas been rescued. Worthy ambitions were suggested to one young man, assurance that he could master the study he was engaged in and would develop intellectually alon; the lines he had chosen—with the result of awakening a superior interesf in his books and clothing him with Eower to overcome tha difficulties of higher arithmetic and geometry. Although the cases so far experimented ‘wlxh' are few in number, they are amply sufficient to establish ng facts: Young persons of either sex under 20 are phenomenally susceptible to hypnotism. Boys addicted to the cigarette habit, to profanity and the sexual vices are curable by this means. The impulse to steal i{s remov- able through hypnotism. Stammerers may be relieved of their defect. High resolve may be made to take the place of sordid and sensual aims, lofty ideals of low standards, mental brilliancy and interest of stupidity and indifference. f I have no hesitation in adding to this list of curable moral diseases the gambling mania 80 marked among American schoolboys as well as the arabs of the street, the growing lack of reverence *for superiors, habits of disobedience, habits of lyinf and general incorrigibility. And I predict that sclentific experiments will shortly be made with insane persons; for I am convinced from personal experience that hypnotic suggestion is adapt to the treatment of delusions, melancholia, mohomania and mild form fi insanity in general 3 he follow- Professor-Quackenbos - Hypnotizipg Newsboy Kelly by Means of a Gold Pencll to Cure Him of the Clgarette Habit.