The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1899, Page 2

TH AN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY JULY 31, 15899 *****t***tt*ttt**‘k**********t*******k*******g A THEATER PARTY FOR THE LATEST ARRIVALS 1 : latest comers among the he Ori the first to come’ to the hundred seats to its performances. 1y to the executive domm ing of volunteers. hundred s red for to-morrow night k men a few ni; nd the Nebraska and t the si Utah men IR EE R E RS TR SRR dokok kok ok ok ko ke ok ok ok kkkkkk kg B B o kst s THOSE WHOSE BLOOGD FLOWED FOR THE FLAG Blakeley, Company A ry by in the Martin Herpolsheimer, Wadsworth, Ric NEBRASKA. FIRST Discharged, but R Reg' 1aining With the Charles John W Walter G. 1 Private H. W vate Walter win F. Gr an, K erson ookover, anki, Company Company K; P 16, A8 oINPTy ny Private R vate Will Humpt 1ce Kennec . Compan Company Pri- t Sergeant R. M. 0 _SAN any F I: Priv Priv Willa T( 1pany Pr Compar Company I Wi I Died of W M UTAH LIGHT ARTILLERY. Discharged Soldier Remaining With Their Regiments. Wounded. ~ Russell —J. 3.V - 5-7—MANTLA—Corporal G Private Anderso B. er, Com- rew Pote Private Jc . Com )N — Corporal Private J. Al- Disease. Died of P e G David Private John CALUMPIT— n, Company B ompany B; Private F. Satmer; Com- Killed and Mortally Wounded. S—BATTLE OF N g, Compa February ILA A; ¢ Al J. Young, Company A. February fi—Private Wilhelm Goodmani, 2 14 —SAN FERNANDO — Ford A. Fisher, Company A Died of Wounds Received in Battle. April 26—Moritz Junsen, Company B. | March 14 Company SPLENDID RECORD | OF NEBRASKANS IN BATTLE IN LUZON 1te Ay OOOOOOOU')ODOOOOQ-‘JOO000000660000000000000"QOOOGOD-‘.‘NJOO y A Harry I Company nson; Pr liam Maddox; mon J McKinney s ar 19, 1895, ern troops the army Private Charl vate Enoch Dx minendation by J. Tuntiy or and soldierly bear. Trimble, Com- second mi ‘, 5 ‘mm.m”l';‘ O Eohst e 5 and arrived off Maniia July I7. On disembarking at Paranaque t Marcl LABON — Pri r 1de 1 Greene's vance, wit h inued, che fully rforming every duty . | them, until the capture of Man he first An blood shed on Phil- ippine soil was drawn by a Spanish bul- on Jul Private Willlam | Cos K of this regime 1 f t ith the insurgents on the t of Fi t and bore the brunt of the made by ’ scutive | K an fnch rth > ty-nine days they were ontinual service, marching, & and f after a th being only relie: the capture of San F pension of the purs Private fvate M e Sum- sener: of ¢ ; s :xrm:»'.f when there W ® SO oAl less than 300 men out of the whole regi- (}’I X ”]\r{,x‘u-‘[:y).—”-" ;'\»‘1\]‘{ ment fit for duty. They. took part in Captal Dpé P PRY2se Levery | engagement incident to M V. T. | Arthur's movefner welve in all without | ing skirmishes—with a total loss of 60 killed 3 wounded, among he former beir gallant commander, Colonel Stotsenberg, with six of his lin officers. - | OREGON BOYS WELCOMED Special Servces at Calvary| Church Last Eveéning for the Webfoot Braves. The boys of the Or George Perl John °gon regiment were welcomed at the Central Presbyterian Church, corner of ry and_ Powell | stree The pastor, Rev. Dr. | ey tthews, | H. He vered a brief address in mpany, I Reed, Com! | whic ted {hat his belief was that pany GiiPrivaie, I . _Grossman, | the soldiers came back better Christians Compan; Hy Drivar - Younse were when they left their 6o it the battles of their cour e G try. Chaplain J bert of the Second Oregon Re it followed with a retro- e Campbell, Ci ik on the morale of the Oreson prFienty. Hickman,:.Q during their stay i Manila, Private Jdack L. Beach, Com. | . Some of them went wrong in the s Christian virtues,’ he said, “but 1 found GUIGUINTO TO ALOLOS— from inv: igation that as a rank and file Eh R, {Clabp JCompany 11:| thev. Wer > to the same moral princ bert McConneli, Company ples which guided them when they w hert M. Barber, Company | at their own fitesides. T found that they | e ‘William _Logsden,” Company (| did mot drink much they gambled e George R. Bommer, Company | ey, little aud tha came back, as C: Private Lynyers Dur Com IR men than when el Oompany b ¢atas | many uniformed Orcgon boys were e Company E: Private | tered among those listened to the jweth, Compan Byl SoguEntRed of the chaplain. 7 el iyl - S The cholr, consisting of A. M. Lawrence WA S DRt Y“:”"-‘ any | 3V C. Campbell and Mis Susie Hurf C. Marshgil, Company | Mazk and Car Boyle, rendered a Lteor AT GOMBARY | special programme of sacred songs and patriotic choruses under the directio; Professor J. Burness, the orgamier 0" U e ] oy Duncan, Company | “Aarch 31-MALOLOS—First Lieutenant James Cosgrove, Company D; o) i i Toant W L. Baker, Compaay Li Pri Knife Duels in Spain. John Wektover, Company D; Private Her- | _Knife duels are very frequent among bert Rasmugsen. Company B; the lower clasges of the cities in South. | Willlam L. Whitcomb, Compan | ern Spain. When two are about to| te Albert Hisey, v ‘ fight they blow whistles to attract spec- | on., tators. Their left legs are tied together | nk A._Graham pany I Tt e A Bvarson. Cambane | at the knees, and then at a signal they | K: Private Bert S. Donaldson, Com- begin attacking each other with long | | pany K; Private Emil Sail, Company L; | knives. In a duel recently witnessed | month. in i licante one of the combatants re-z -ived 14 wounds and the other 17.—| The Rival. | The Badge, and the Horse Limped to BY GAS RECOGNIZED ] DIRECT FROM A METER Its Owner for Relief. “One reads so many stories about ani- ¢ mal intelligence that it would be hazard- | ¢ for a doubter to express his disbellef | [ in almost gathering of men at the| ¥ present ¢ remarked a well-known | ¢ Western physician to a Star writer re- ® centl “A little instance came within | my ¢ n obs ation a number of years go when 1 studying medicine that convinced me that tlhie members of the horse family should at least be credited with the possession of a very considerable | amount of reasoning power. It was the | s ym for the students at the medi stitution at which I pursued my studies to wear a small badge upon their coats to distinguish them fromr others: at the col-( lege. horse belonging to the establish- ment was used a great deal about the medical department, and the animal | scemed to have:a special preference for | he embryo doctors. Well, one day while | mber of us were gathered in a little | > upon a lawn in the rear of the col- the animal in question, which used to turned loose to nip the grass in the lo- lity, came toward the group limping very badly. He came to a stop a dozen more fe away from the crowd, and fully, surveying the lot of us, finally | ade up his mind what he wanted to do, 1d without any hesitation limped direct- to my side, whinnied, stuck his nose | v body and held up his left fore- ng down, I discovered a large 1ded in the frog of his hoof. This -idently caused the lameness, and I i the inte: | desired me to attend.to his foot. | wcted the nail with some difficulty horse whinnied with relief and wway. Being curious to know why \st had picked me out to attend to wd, 1 glanced at my fellow stu- | s and found the solution to the prob- lem. Not one of the group had his medi- cal badge upon his coat but myself. The horse had therefore plainly recognized the insignia_and acted accordingly.”—Wash- ington Star { COOC000C000CO0D00 IVY CHAPTER JEWELS * : - 4 r ® * ® % : * Iy | | | R B e R o S 2 02090680006+ STRANGE DEATH OF the residence at 387 Geary street his folded arms, fluid was escaping. to account for the odor, he finally ret The man was poorly dressed and is sug nity that infest the city. He had nott identified. The leak came from the meter regu instrument is in working order, but wh FOR WORTHY PAST PATRONS. g the stairs to sleep or for the purpose o /‘\ N the night of September 26 B nown. \ the members of Ivy Chapter | C‘;. f the Order of the ern B L \J Star, of which Mrs. Lydia A. Steele is the matron and SEEKS T PUT Dr. ssaway is the patron, will give a grand entertatnment in Golden Gate Hall, and on that oc- on will present to each of the of the chapter a mag- his rank in the The jewels, which are heing m a design by R. Bujan- , are said to be the most hand- some that e ever been made for | officers of that rank. The picture herewith presented shows the ex- act size of the jewel, which is, in *> the guage of the ritual, “the emblem of the past patron is the Mrs. A. C. Dunn De- juare compass within the A £ star.” The star itself is suspended termined to Die. by two chaing from a crown and pter, and five points of the —a— star are each in one of the colors of the order, enameled red. blue, yellow, white and green, while a S ey small diamond takes the place of H the rivet in the compass. Those g PREVENTED FROM DROWNING, who are to receive these jewels are John Hatfi . Frank Moxon, George William ry Patterson, John P. McMurray, Harry Ascroft, Cyrus Clinton Dow, Ellwood Perry Morey and Charles Lewis Patton. SHE TRIES TO CUT AN ARTERY | —_— © | Unfortunate Woman Is the Wife of a Fresno Physician, Who Is Suing for a Divorce—Believed to Be Insane. — OOO0O00000000OOOOOOOQOOOOOOOOQOOQOQOOOOOO:'OOOOOOOO ol CCOCOC000C0000000 GIANT POPLAR Dies in Maryland at the Age of 1200 | Mrs. A. C. Dunn, a well-dressed, mid- | Years. | dle-aged woman, attempted to commit tree in Talbot suicide by jumping into the bay at the s been dying for | foot of Fourth street last night. She w -five years or mo The tree is a a young man, who grabbed her oth tulip poplar in a field of Poplar Her re: r induced her to ac- arm, near_the public road leading | ton to Trappe. about a mile ang | Plunge. Her rescure induced her to ac- 2 half from n. The farm has been | company him along Fourth street until | named for the tree for at'least 200 years, | he met a policeman, to whom he told the nd is the prope of Mrs Amund L story of the woman's attempt to destr Rogers, nee Plater, of Baltimore, and w ‘he office! 1estiones ar, and e ar e oy Bl more; and was | nerself. The officer questioned her, and, 4 colonlial {imea) Seientiflc: men WHO she seemed determined to drown -her | have from time to time visited this sorrows in the waters of the bay, he have said that it would take at took her to police headquarters. 1000 years for this species of poplar to | Lieutenant Martin, after satisfying grow to such a size In this loeality, It |himself that Mrs. Dunn had been drink- stands alone, a picturesque feature of the | ing, ordered Ler locked up and a charge i cape, in an open field, and can be | Of drunkenness placed against her. seen for miles from all roads and from | The woman is-the wife of Dr. Dunn, a the er courses. The wonderful size | well-known resident of Fresno. Some of the tree is in the magnitude and helght | time ago the physician commenced a suit of its trunk. Approximately it is 230 feet | for divorce, alleging intemperance on the Yigh and 20 feet in diameter. The head is | part of his wife. Pending the hearing of tively small, and the limb | the suit Dunn had_been sent to a feet from the groun carries | private m on Second street in mmetrically ay up. | this city ruy after 8 o'clock last at night, for many venture. | vening caped from the sanitarium | Sowis mno asile cilinlita beive aseenaen tarted out to drown her troubles and it, the light in Sharps Island lighthou If at one and the same time, Upon arriving at the foot of Fourth <he removed her outer garments about to throw herself into the bay when she was discovered and turned over to the police. A short time after being placed in a cell | in the City Prison the unfortunate woman can be plainl behind it publje road. | 2t Sk seamed and gashed and split by | the many holts which have struck it, and | which have also knocked huge limbs from seen. A horse and carriage | indt he seen from the nearby The lightning has not spared its top. Tradition says that 200 vears ago. | | Whieh s as far back as tradition elaias | pleaded with a trusty to give her & hat fo have known the tree—it is named in | pim as she wanted to sever an artery land deeds 150 years ago—it had lightning | 10 her wrist.” Falling to get the pin she marks on it, and even then showed signs | Sunk her teeth into her wrist in a vain OF failurc. “hiree years ago it was striuck | attempt to accomplish her purpose. One four times in one summer. = This flas | of her cellmates, seeing the blood gushin; Hitack Tundoubtedly hastened. its Tenc | from her wrist, summoned Corporal Well, the giant is dead. The old poplar | Hickey, who quickly found the unfortu- | nate woman still engaged in trying to sever the main artery of her wrist with her teeth. After considerable trouble she was removed from the cell and sent to the of Poplar Hill probably saw the beginning of the tenth century and died just be- fore the beginning of the twentieth. It | s the Mount Shasta of the Talbot land- | i | | | | i ston (Md.) special Baltimore | Recelving Hospital, where a watch was placed over her. o It is believed that the woman is ment- | ally deranged OFFICER HILL ARRESTED. Overzealous Watchman Fires a Ran- ACCIDENTAL DEATHS. Startling Res:lts From Innocent Abuse of Familiar Things. | A strange case of accidental death is recorded by the London Dvening Stand:| dom Shot at a Crowd of Revelers. nrd, AT man went 10 bed exsestiveyy | Special Officer Hill, who is stationed at drunk and was found dead in the morn- | Davis and Market streets, fired a shot ing. The mnatural conclusion was, of | into a crowd last night which is likely to coirse, that he had died from alcoholic | cause him some trouble. The incident poisoning, but the doctor who made the | post-mortem was not satisfied with this. | Iie examined the body and found over the , region of the -heart a tiny hole like a pin prick. On investigating to find a cause | for this puncture there was found in the mattress an old rusty needle. The man | ing. One of the young men, in pure ex- had gone to bed very drunk, and his con- | uberance of spirits, pickea up a broken dition had prevented him from feeling the | half of a grindstone from a pile of mer- prick of the needle, which penetrated his | chandise ‘and carried it a.out half a heart and caused death. | block. Another accident equally remarkable | Hill, who is one of ..orse’s men, com- was caused by a snake of a harmless | manced him in a very decisive manner to ‘pecies. A man was out shooting when he | take .t back. The man refused, a scuffe accurred on Davis street about hau-past 10 o'cloc A hilarious party .of mfl'ri'm(\l(c‘rs. about sixteen in all, bad just left Lu- chetti’s restaurant on Davis street, where they had spent a decidedly pleasant even- saw a snake, and in order to stop it get | ensued, and at its close Hill deliberately ting away he placed the butt of the rifle | fired into the crowd. " Fortunately the on its neck and thus pinned it to the | Shot hit the pavement, and by a miracie ground. Naturally the snake objected, N0 one was injured. Poiuceman Stevens and in its struggles to free itself coiled | Promptly took the man into custody. around gunstock, one of the coils | ——————————— striking the hammer, which was down on the cap at _the time, so forcibly that the | rifle_was discharged. The contents en- tered the man's chest and he was killed on the spot. A third case of accidental death is that of a man jnhaling tooth powder. He chanced to hiccough just as he was piac- ing a brush full ‘of dry powder in his e dust got into his windpipe v ived July 30—Stmr Prinz Re. and formed a species of paste, which xfi?fi’n@m{"&m (gt e R caused his death by suffocation in a very | fon SHOTE LHe | “SoUTHAMPTON — Sailed_July 31 — Stmr Bremen, from Bremen, for New York. HAVRE—Salled July 30—Stmr La Bretagne, for New York. QUEENSTOWN-—Sailed July 30—Stmr Cam- | panfa.” from Liverpool, for New York. Tortoiseshell, as it comes from the West Indies, is coarse, dirty and lusterless, and ulation makes it the rich and beautiful material that it eventually becomes. _— e LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS. Love may be blind, but it dictates a lot of fool letters that sooner or later get the writers into trouble. which escaped from the meter, but could not be definitely ascertained. within a few inches under the staircase some time Saturda) stein made an Investigation and lit the gas all over the house. . He had been asphyxiated by gas | whether it was a case of suicide H The dead man was lylng face downward, with his head resting on H of the meter from which the deadly He had probably crawled through a narrow doorway M v night. L When J. P. Goldstein, who lives In the house, came home with his fam- W s at 10 o'clock Saturday night a strong odor of gas was discovered. Gold- | ot being able ‘I when he was horrified to find the body under the stairs. The Coroner was immediately notified and the body taken to the Morgue. only the most skillful and patient manip- | F R R R B R SR SRCLECORS SR 2ebedetebetetet ede AN UNKNOWN MAN. N unknown man was found dead vesterday afternoon under the steps of Wl ired and yesterday resumed his search, »posed to be gne of the tramp frater- hing upon him by which he could be ulator which is used to determine if the hether the man simply crawled committing under ot suicide may never be MEETS DEATH BY DROWNI 1R TIRURDH Henry Smith Falls Out of a Launch. MAKES TWO FUTILE ATTEMPTS FATALITY ON A FISHING TRIP g {ANOYHER SUNDAY CATASTRO-| PHE ON THE BAY. { == | The Victim Is an Employe of r:heE Overland Freight Transfer Com- pany and a Member of the Knights of Honor. e Henry Smith, a teamster in the employ of the Overland Freight Transfer Com- pany, fell out of a launch and was drowned off Blunt Point, Angel Island, about 10:30 yesterday morning, while en- joying an outing with a party of friends. The party, which consisted of Georga [ A ag @*0-0—0—@—+@+@+H& - + L4 . g B R R S 3 @ : Hy ES * t L4 ¥ & 40 ® ¢ ; + . . [ e e = ) HENRY SMITH. Spelling, Dave Carroll, James Campbell, S. Berendst, Garrett Spelling, James Brown, Charles Ash and Smith, was out for a day's fishing in the launch Pride. The tide was running strong and the water was somewhat rough. The boat lay about seventy-five yards off Rlunt Point and the party was quietly fishing, when Carroll, who happened to be facing Smith, the latter being seated near the rail, was horrified to see him throw up his 'hands and pitch forward over the boat's side. Those in the boat made every effort to save the unfortunate man, who struggled fully & minute in thelr sight before finally going under for the last time Smith wus irobably attacked by dizziness, to which e was subject when on the water, hav- Ing on a_previous occasion fallen off a wharf. No trace of the body has yet been found. he deceased, wha leaves a widow, re sided at 33 Freelon street. was an mdu trious, hard-working man, with a wide circle ‘of friends. In the fraternal order to which he belonged, the Knights of %«xrlm;n nm}ntvhsTn‘;l was very- popular, eing one of the leading me: - chor Lodge Nor 236, "5 members of An Notice to Election Officers. Registrar of Voters J. Steppacher re- quests all citizens who have been ap- | pointed election officers for the primary election: to call at his office in the City | Hall without delay for the purpose of taking the necessary oath of office, and to receive instructions and a copy of the election laws that they may thoroughly post themselves as to thelr duties, ———— Deserted by Her Husband. Any one knowing the whereabouts of T. Jorgensen will confer a favor on his wife by dropping a line to 99 Mission street. rs. Jorgensen claims her husband de- serted .her a week ago and carrled off their little girl. The lady states that she i1s sick and Is In destitute circumstances. BLUFES THE INMATES W HS REVOLIE Sheriff Blackington in WORK FOR THE GRAND JURY OF CONTRA COST Charges Against Two Constables. an Ugly Mood. FREIGHT TRAIN ROBBERIES OUT LOOKING FOR TROUBLE s | SRS LIVELY SCENE CREATED BY A NEW MEXICAN OFFICER. R SAID TO BE IMPLICATED WITH WELL-KNOWN THIEVES. | —_—— | I"an in San Quentin for a Burglary Said to Have Been Planned by One of the Consta- bles. PR A He Visits “Russian Rosie’s” House, Becomes Unruly and Threatens to Kill Those Who Offend Him. T Sheriff Blackington of Socorro County, N. M., evidently wants it known that is a man who will not and any fooli S He arrivea here last Saturday w E. V entry, a supposed desperate irain robber, and after safely landing his man vi d before | in the City Prison he started out to have el e ; & good time all by himself. He visited v nty, so that it | e e | several Market-street saloons, and failing On April 9, 12 and 14 freight trains on | to meet any adventure he asked to bo ai- ? Pacif 5 oSty | rected to some place where he.could a the Southern Pacific route from this city | rected to soi r Coviy ere robbed and articles comprising hard- | 19:3;:9“}?“; i peone W;‘“;:ofle;lp‘r:‘"fi ware, clothing, siiks, cotton goods, hose, | Of® Of e el 1 WO ¢ Co ous A most extraordinary case of robbery has been unearthed by Detective T. L. | Ryan of the local force and Special De- tectives Crowley, Maloney and Kindelon | of the Southern Pacific stafft. Two con- stables of Contra Costa County are impli- corsets, brushes, leather goods, Worces- 3 : it a notorio! o > ous pt by “russian Rosie” on Stock- | tershire sauce, handkerchiefs, _scarfs, | House MepC R e | overshirts, linen collars, black silk ties | "% R Vou hear from me,” re- | ana ribbons and other miscellaneous | malced Blackington, drawing two re- volvers and closely examining them. “1f they try any funny business on me some- body will go to the Morgue. A few minutes later Blackington ar peared at the house of ‘“‘Russian Ros and rang the doorbell. The servant who ushered him in, concluding he was a hay- seed from his appearance, lost no time in trying to make him feel at home. This is a grand house, no_doubt marked the Sheriff from New M goods stolen, including a box of tea con- taining 100 half-pound packages, a case of brass faucets and a nickel-plated cork- puller. The Southern Pacific detective depart- ment, after being notified of the robberies, soon ascertained that Joe Petancue, a young man who had been sent to the In- dustrial School from Oakland, Joe Wil- re- co, I 8, allag “\. hitey,” and “John Doe” | JARREd Sn€, SRRCCo vere to see that hé Rice, alias “District,” were implicatgd in | haq not been “touched” for them. “Trot | the robberies. Williams is now servi.g | out the landlady, 1 want to have a talk | a sentence of two and a half years in | with her.” gl | San Quentin for burglary in Crockett and | _‘“Russian Rose” at thl;1 J!lnctll'f” o i ; i peared and greeted the Sheriff with the | Rice is walting his trial in Salinas for | PEArCC UG S0 Yand. remarked Blacking- al look at the mistress Be g¢ you own burglary. | | No trace of Petancue was found till a | “You're a peach ton, taking a crit house. few days ago. when it was discovered |of the house. “Be EoSb YOUL. 0T at he had enlisted and was a casual at | Socorro County if you were only re.” the' Preatdio. Late Inday ‘night ‘he was | - In order to make himself a good feliow | arrested at the Presidio by Detective | Blackington ordered _\(;..mlp (1»[ )‘1‘}«."}- .;2 Ryan, Special Detective Kindelon and | Some way he got the ieed ‘NP0 (L 00 Sheriff Veale of Contra Costa County. | that he wa: hrt\ln‘g RSB e Saturday morning he was taken to Marti- [ and with a wild whoop that o > nez Detective Ryan, Sheriff Veale and ;}.vurd__n;.’:'r‘ ‘;:‘rm.(u-h ;x\: "1\?5‘ dr Specis ctive Ma and info guns' a eatened to shoote Special Deteetive Malo and on infor- | ‘guns’ and t ienel (o ahoot evin Poos mation given by him n application was made to a Justice of the Peace there for three search w ants. About five houvrs were occupied In getting the search w-r- rants, and when the officers went to lne | saloon of Henry Gambs, at Antioch, late in the evening. where the property was supposed to be, they only found the nickel- | I plated cork puller, and they have no he | alarmed, ra from the house and sum- moned Policeman Purvis, who entered the xl.n‘l‘ and finally induced the bloodthirsty Sherlff to leave: _ Sheriff Blackington does not gainsay the | fact that he resisted an attempt to cozen wealth. ‘I went out for a racket.” he and had an acquaintance aid last with me. i- ay tation in saying that owing to the de night. had an a : ne. in issuing the search warrants ample time | \ € Went to a certain plac x‘ con’t kn :l.w Wi iven for the property to be con- | the street or number. I had reason to cealed. 3 think that 1 was being robbed, and I h I put two pistols on stopped the game. the table and ordered ym. Everybody left. In the presence of Charles A. Sweeney a_Constable and Deputy Sheriff of Contra all foes to leave th I placed my pi Cian Cotniy, M CoRE Se L Ly my pockets, fefi, the place, umbe in the tral i ing impli- |46 my cab and was driven to the Palace. | cated in the train robberie: He said that I hate. to this matter published, bu =y his part of the robber s to get on to {s the truth, the what I have told you the trains, break into the cars, and as | W ¢ 3 > | they ‘were' passing Antioch to throw out | Whole truth, and nothing but the truth. | the stolen property, which Sweeney. who | = e | was provided with' a horse and wagon, | QUEER TREES. was to_pick up and take to Gambs' s —— Both Sweeney and Gambs denied any rarticipation in the robberies, but corroboration of Petancue's statements | was found in the fact that on the mght | of April 14 Sweeney hired a horse and | wagon from Chase's livery stables at | Asntloch and the horse answered the de- | loon. From Japan, and Other Curious Flo- ral and Arboreal Plants. An exhibition of Japanese floral and arboreal plants is being held at the American Art Galleries To repro- | seription given by Petancue. Further cor- | duce a Japanese garden plants and roboration was found in the fact that | decorations have been brought over, Sweeney had shipped through Wells- | and some are very rare specimen: Fargo's, under the name of Davis, a case | panv of them being the oldest in exis- a | of faucets to Willlam Stultz, a plumber | on Seventh street, Oakland. i Gambs accounted for his possession of | the nickel-plated cork puller by stating | plants, pour tea in the gardea, the en- that he bought it from two young men | trance of which is like an old gatewa | who dropped into his saloon. Petancue | decorated with old stone ornaments. falq he gave It to Sweeney, and Sweeney | e trees are nearly all dwarfed, this Constable Moiles of Crockett is also im- | being done by clipping the roots. In licated by Petancue from the fact that | the collection are a number :\i ever- e offered him and Willams and Rice the | greens, ranging in age from 25 to 200 use of his boat in connection with the ar- | years_and most of them are trained to ticles stolen from the freight cars. Petan- | {he shape of Fusivama, the Japanese cue also told an interesting and romantic | « s re Story about Molles. He said that Motles | sacred mountain. One evergreen is re- was an enemy of Chief Detective Crowley | puted to be 1100 years old, and the only one of the kind in the world; it is only 10 feet high and weighs about a ton. tence. Geisha girls, who came over with the of the Southern Pacitic, and wanted the train robberies perpetrated so as to bring discredit upon Crowley and curry favor | Ope of the beautiful specimens is the | with the Southern Pacific by notifying - i them that he could lay his hands on the | chi-sho, or red mar;]lg. it is rz'ulg'e un- robbers. Moiles also planned with Petan- like any maple in this country having | cue_and Williams that they should rob | fine, small leaves, and being of a deli- | Davis' general store at Crockett. The cate peachblow tint. It is nine feet | rangement was that Petancue and Will- | high | jams should break into the store, and = One of the remarkable specimens is a piece of mountain sponge about two feet square, out of which there are growing ten dwarf trees of different varieties, such as pine, cedar. ever- green and juniper, some of them only a few inches high. A curious and rare specimen is the densiflora pine. The Japanese, in the training of this tree, | when they came out with their hooty | woiles and his brother would be on hand and attempt to arrest them, which would show that Molles was conversant with the | perpetrators of erime in the county. This was in the latter part of May. The plan was carried_out, but before breaking into the store Moiles gave Petancue some | money anl a revolver. Moiles had noti- fied the hc1d clerk of the store that it was | to ‘ht: hrgk:ln litnm. h\}x‘t w *""‘fllhf-’" to keep have shown their usual love for re | quiet about it, as he wanted to capture | ya ings: | the burglars. 'When Petancue came out :};;sxr';f“;h:““?‘;‘:;fi] der o e | of the store with his booty Moiles | . Yo SXpod n put a revolver to his head. and Pet. | rowing In the air, while the tree, in- ancue dropped his plunder. Moiles’ | stead of being supported by the roo brother rushed at Petancue, but Mofles | really supports the roots. The idea is shoutes o him to let him alone, and | v rill ke o | Petancue ran.” Molles fired ‘six shots | Lo 5¢¢ just how little root will keep th tree alive, with the hope that in time, by great cultivation, this trec may flourish with barely a root.—New York Evening Post. SR S s S ALIMONY CEASES At the Death of the Victim Who Has % to Pay It Justice Wilmot M. Smith of the Equity Term of the Supreme Court. Brooklyn, handed down a decision in which he holds at him, and the bullets came so close to | him as to be unnleasant { Motles actually intended to kill him and, | drawing his revolver, he emptied it at | Moiles, but none of the shots took effect. | Meantime Williams had come_out of the | store, and was captured by Moiles and | his brother, and for this he is now serving two and one-half years in S8an Quentin. Petancue went to Antioch after the | | burglary and gave Sweeney two watches that he had taken from Davia® stora sy told Sweeney that he wanted to get away. Sweeney gave him $3 and promised to | forward the watches to him at Sacra- |that a wife who has obtained an absoluta mento, which he did, as verified by the | divorce from her husband, with alimony officers. A xer(l getting away Petancue | cannot_enforce the payment of the a went to Coloradg and recently came back | mony by his estate after his death. and enlisted in this citv, as he wanted m‘ The case under consideration by Jus- EOioIMants tice Smith and In which he made the rul- e ing, was that of Annie E. Johns against a vearly pass | Henry W. Johns Jr., Emily L. Johns ai and early in- Robert H. Martin as executors of Henry According to Special Detective ) ; Molles was anzious 6 st a yesloney, from the Southern Pacilc, ay he spoke to Maloney about the train W. John Dhianes =2 ?:fig‘efiflmm {pat another | The latter, prior to his death in 183, anxious o know his Informan: an yfyaS | Was president of the Johns Manufactur- | anxlous to know his informant, but Moles | ing Company tn New York, and was cor Sere no other robberies, | "Mity. There sidered Wwealthy. He married Annie I P oy % Johns, plaintiff in this action, in 1863. 1 | Mastines and Wi m the County Jail at |iss2 she obtained a diverce from him. ) e vaorayl be tried for the train | Johns married again, and his former wife | He e g reoktess ooy le own confession | was awarded $2400 & Year alimony. and belonga to Oakiand. “He was on ‘S | 27 Do SeIonns Sued the executors of | - \ g estate to co e 2, the pattle-ships during the fight before | aside a sum of money {0 Secure payment SRR Santlago. e of alimony during her lifetime. | Quick Changes of Fortune. Counsel for Mrs. Johns, at the trial be- S fore Justice Smith, cited the case of G Quick changes of fortune and occupa- | lusha against Golusha, ~decided by il tlon I have always understood to be a General Term of the Supreme Court in feature of American life,’ S hich LR R 1§87, in which it was held that the asinterpreted, required the payment ished in Texas, as well as amused. by | &limony to thé plaintiff after death. a revelation concerning ‘the life of "y | Counsel in opposition cited the case of Wits ' well-dressed and oo there. He | Gt R ot n the court neld hat | educated Bostonian, traveling for a L. | Mony was an obligation resting upon ihe ufacturer of agricultural muchisery A" | husband and ending with his death put on a good many airs. 1 mnc Nt | Justice Simth is of the opinion that the the town of Bowie, Montagae 'aim 0| case of Field agalnst Field Is correct, and and thought him rather a superiog ooy | that alimony can only be obtained dur- for a drummer. We were drinking flan ing the husband’s lifetime, sald a young I was aston- bar when in came a rough rancher ot to ‘l‘lrmil(x The hardware travelor deciiney g Do T armk““‘f,{‘r?;u Excuse me, sir; 1| Here is a novel and economical “'Oh, we're not R'g:'rs.[' method of destroying a large brick parane;, reforted the (-higtf‘ strangers, | Smokestack. The stack was 266 feet | remember when y rful Texan. °I| height and 21 feet in diameter, and its ou last summer.’ Wwas through here ‘I never was here befor: air L DevE e in my life. Sire Answered the drummer, with offended “Just then two more Te and the first one t d to roboration. Fedte removal was accomplished in the fol- lowing manner: The brick was removed from one side at a height of about three feet abcve the ground, and the opening thus formed filled with built-up wooden blocks, between which were packed tar ans came’ in, them for cor- * ‘Haven't sawdust and paraffin. This materia before? he askeq|l Se€n this gentleman | was then set s fire, and caused the “‘Looking the chimney to crack and fall within a ot man carefully over, the ‘* ‘Sure, Bill. He wa summer. leading & Gancing L, here last space that had been previously mar on the ground. Not only was the cc much less than if the brick had be nla?.“g ;2;;?&'%3:‘ fl:‘;ta‘;;"":rfr(end's de- | torn down, but there was also recover 1 right.'—New York Meibung, 1eXans were }?.l:fi]:. lflfienal in good condition for