The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST. 29, 1899. 3 e ———— HARAVAY ADMITS THAT HE ACCUSED DREYFUS FALSELY e Expert Confesses His Error and Declares Esterhazy Indicted the Bordereau. SHIELDING DE CLAM Jouaust Assents to a PlanThat Will Save, Him From a Cross- Examination, Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ENNES, Aug. 28.—The balance of the evidence to-day, for a change, was In favor of Dreyfus. Five witne n and two against b The most interestir that Chief Handwr “haravay, who hadc ad changed er ch in 1894 was Dreyf: were for s testimony was ting Expert me to declare that error satis- reet ed with murmurs ¢ in court, which became d in spite of Cc proval, onel when he s mnly at the bordereau was writ- rtant nel incident, Jouaust" mining magist m at h in the nspired adm ept the generals and the T for the pro ion d of him and scowled d. Captain Freystm in here until the end i1t will leave Rennes in a few et, formerly Minister this afternoon and will -morro -— FIELD DAY FOR EXPERTS ON HANDWRITING llon’s Testimony Punctured by Witnesses Cajled by the Defense. 23 s Minister st tried, in 1884 the front row o iy met w was pr f the wit- g to the e rrest M Paray- ightsman, wt yted on Saturday i was interrt g irnment of t t. M. Para led by the defer refute the m by which M. I on, chief of | e @ opometric department of the Prefecture of Police, last week at- o prove that t soner wrote us bordereau disguised ns of key-word not have n although the a handwriting resemb- With the aid of Paray-Javal demonstrat- of M. Bertillon's calcula- zed the latter’s unf; terhazy’'s handwrit- as the prisoner's ame time the draughts t even if M. Bertilion resuits would not have be th session field who de may for a sblic followed the sut the judges and coun- | the greatest attention. said a word . whole morn- su and Generals Gonse i down the court- ‘Was not pres- has been absent and It is rous of leav- general staff. in the courtyard s farine orably to eemingly rel, who was of 18%4, in of the latter's ssed in a blue- trousers and held a_ veri- who pressed and. These civilians. not spoke to him, of his frankness of the determina- clique to ostracise him. fter two fied and ‘stem, it athizers’ of of the 1 simply e latter irt, Colonel specialist taking the uld never mj to go over b ground w Jouaust's | oul and con- | how- | fes- | r when || -Javal | ess | seem to be very | 1 @+2e006-00 o & B e A e Sl Gl S Gl e e e ‘e P NP PP P ‘e e .ie v ee e > - s e e ‘e ® 6, the sitting of the court beginning fi 4 Lycee has to pass through a double rc | @ toward him. It is only a short dist + get a glimpse of the accused.—London @osieieieieieieieies ment to make But he had nd mounted tt ardly uttered 2l Jouaus platform. | ling satisfa n announced th e Ministry nd who 0 in turn norrow, and the session was with the request that a rogatory c be sent to Colonel Du Pat fllnes wh pre h the defense, mmission mony on is better a loaf 1, draughtsman, resumed the opening of the court his mo hd with the assistance of proceeded to show -the fal- acy of lations of M. Bertillon ar ss in not submitting terhazy to the same He declared. how- ad gdone d'an: Th witnes: C insi Bertillon had shown ‘a viciot in only making a partial exper! 1ing. that d_ by M. Berti ; . He pointed out a number of irreg- ties in the handwriting of the border- 2d said the same irregularities were cularly noticeable in E He contended that word and pro on th 1 M of the key approximate his arguments b % howing proofs applied Dreyfus. Finally, M clared at. M. Berti the word “interest the basis for the whole em. was en- rely false and therefore M. Bertillon's ntire system Is_to the ground and T (Great se ation.) This ened t interest ned that the bor- asurement rved as : t have been traced, add- ing that it was an r impossibility. He then proceeded to il ate why t va e the falsene: 1 to pre aid that a very lligent man, but that his system was false and b -$s, was convinc th f-esteem pre ted M. Ber- ti itting his error. ard, an inspector of mines, who took high honor at the polytechnic school, Paray-Javal at the who followed M. ness bar. said he appeared to refute a por- | tion of M. Bertillon’s evidence, which was based on lations. As a matter | of fa he it w on such a basis stem rested. Witness 1 sed that M. Ber- 0 have recourse to psy- chological arguments to prove: | First, that the bordereau was fabri- Second, that the methods which might | have been employed in writing certain words were such as to constitute proof against Drevfus. M. Bernard also said he was astonished | at the fact that M. Bertillon had under- taken to account for the shape of letters and the space between words. There was not millimetre as alleged by M. Ber- | tillon, but 1 Moreover, the writing of | | the bordereau was ratural and rhythmic, | | which its character and size showed it was not written by either a short-sighted or a long-sighted person. The witnes: then proceeded to illustrate photographi ally his contention that the bordereau was not a bricated document and also | ointed out important differences between | M. Bertillon’s photographs and the orig- | inal. I M. Trissonieres followed. He said he ad- | hered in_all respects to his report dated | October 29, 1894, in which he expressed the | opinion that the bordereau was the work | | of the writer of the documents selzed at the prisoner’s residence. For the purpose | of comparison the witness lengthily criti- | cized the bordereau letter by letter, point- | {ng out resemblances in the prisoner’s | handwriting. 8 In conclusion M. Trissonleres said he thought it was impossible to find more tangible reasons than those which in- duced in him the belief, which he hoped the court would share. (Sensation.) Replying to the court, M. Trissonieres said he had not noticd the prisoner's handwriting was illegible, and he had | never seen the document dictated to Drey- fus. The copy of the bordereau made by Dreyfus was_then handed to the witness, | Who declared it had never been given to | end if every expert did the s An amusing scene follo . M. Bertil- lon pleaded that he had a personal state- | urposes of comparison. (Sensa- | 5‘1’:5?1.11‘":!'1139 Mitness added that he would | | writing. CAPTAIN DREYFUS LEAVING HIS PRISON FOR THE COURT-MARTIAL. | Every morning Captain Dreyfus leaves the military prison for the Lycee, where the trial is held, at a quarter past He is attended by military who are drawn up, as shown in the sketel from one door to the other and very few among the g ft. s later. minu ldiers, dally Graphle. o e R R R R O Rt s s ok S b o SENATE T0 PROBE THE CONSPIRACY PARIS, Aug. 28.—According to the Matin therecent discoveries of documentary evidence of a plot st the security of the state has caused the Govern- ment to decide upon calling the Senate together as a high court justice. Documents in the s of M. Fabre, the examin- ing magistrate, leave no possible doubt in regard to the existence of a plot. A fortnight will be allowed the to return, so it is un- the court will be called re the second half of Sep- tember. R R R R T R I T S AR R S S R R R e e R o R R R e A R R e e He could not conclude his examina- ion on the spot. He must have time. Here a member of the court-martial, giving the result of his examination of the bordereau, remarked: “The letter “I" is always isolated, even at the beginning of words."” TG this M. Trissonieres replied that this peculiarity was also found in the prison- er's handwriting. When he was invited to reply to the wit- n Dreyfus said that M. Trissonieres’ remarks seemed to him ‘“quite incorrect,” and that in order to reply properly he, the prisoner, must have the documents under his eyes. “‘As regards the criticism on the subject of para Dreyfus added, “1 beg to reply that one does not make a fresh paragraph pt when beginning a new idea. Every time I begin a new idea in anything 1 write I make a paragraph.” The prisoner, in conclusion, asked the sident of the court to request the wit- e retired to produce the doc- ents furnished to him for comparison, of which the defense had no knowledge. | Colonel Jouaust—Certainly. After a brief suspension of the session the cours resumed hearing testimony, and M. Charavay, the archivist and reporter on ancient manuscripts, was called to the i n was so inaud- ed to speak up. Charav with two colleagues, though acting under sepa- rate instructions, was commissioned to mine the bordereau and a number of documents for comparison, unsigned and in different handwriting. 1 examined the latter documents, and by the proce of elimination fixed tpon one resemblin the bordereau, I was then furnished with specimens of the handwriting In question, but was not told the name of the writer. 1 asked if the document could be regarded | genuine, and was told the place whence it emanated, which could not be mentioned by me and which could leave no doubt in ard to its value. I make this remark ause I think it explains my opinion, for I could not consider that a document of this nature which was not marked by a certain dissimilitude of handwriting. 1 therefore attributed to the dissimulation the differences 1 was careful to note in my report. I must inform the court that in view of thefact that handwriting which was not produced in 1894, and which is evi- dently akin to the handwriting of the bor- dereau, as the handwriting of Dreyfus, | has since been submitted to me, I cannot | maintain with the same degree of certain- ty the conclusions of my former report, | and I can only make one statement, name. | ly, that those two handwritings resemble | the bordereau. I should, however, point out one-of the | typical dissimilarities upon which 1 laid | stress in the writing of the bordereau and the documents submitted for comparison, namely, that the double ‘s’ is not found between the bordereau and the new hand- In other words, the double ‘s’ in is found' in Esterhazy's the bordereau } writing. After repeating the evidence he ga\'e1 the Court of Cassation M. Charavay de- | clared it was the new element, thé hand- | writing of Esterhazy, which led him to declare he did not adhere to the conclu- sions in 189 in conclusion M. Charavay energetically | protested against General Merci ac- cusations, adding that what convinced | him that he had made a mistake in 1594 | as the publication of Esterhazy's letters, | the discovery of the Henry forgery, the | inquiry of the Court of Cassation and Es- | terhazy’s confession. The conscience of the witness compelled him to say that in | 1884 he was misled by similarity in hand- | writing. “It is a great relief to my conscience,” | Charavay added. “to be able to suy | M. before you and before him who Is the vic- | tim of my mistake that the bordereau is | pot the work of Dreyfus but of Ester- | M. Pelletier, another expert, prefaced his _evidence by saying that he desired to make a_definite statement on the point on which he was in entire disagreement with General Mercier. The latter had tes. tified that the witness refused to use cer tain documents submitted to him for com- parison, In common with the other ex- erts, and said” he had been led to regard M. Pelletier's work with some suspicion because of certain incidents in which M. Pelletier, being summoned to appear sim- ultaneously in two different courts, had written to both excusing himself on the ground of attendance at the other. General Mercler declared this made him Susgl‘loufi of M. Pelletier's report in favor of Dreyfus, inferring that his failure to | R o S S S SO | *“Canaille de D—"" document means Du s e es e etfeieoedeie R SRCEL SO SO S warders, and on his way to the . with their backs turned * ® * @ * * 4 L4 * * * & + @ * b £ * ¢ ral public are able to o B R ing magistrates in November, 184, was connected with his report, whereas his report, the witness pointed out, was handed in on October to oppose facts to General i crences sald M. Pelletier. October I was Intrusted with the ation in question. I handed In my :port October 26, and it was only in No- vember that 1 was summoned to undergo a complaint lodged rorities. General Mer- ot the slightest reason conclusions which I had question or two from r continued: ‘“After Al matter there re- to maintain_in_their ions to the effect that between the writing and that of the pris- court ) tling th: nothing my cc no_like bordereau but ¥ re the inuing. super ind D » witness said that after 1 examination of the revfus writings he ex- f that the bordereau ribed to Esterhazy. ial expert in the Es- in 1897, then testified that instructed by Major Ravary to examine the bordereau and speci- terhazy's handwriting. ~ The witness insisted upon experimenting with terhazy he W of the original bordereau and specimens of Esterhazy’s caligraphy, written by Ester- hazy in the p 81 Beyond s the exper had no | relations. The Jatter, therefore could not have influenced him and the witness pro- tested ag t M accusation and adhered to his opinion of 1867 that the bordereau was not the work of Esterhazy, He (the witn ) would wager his head on this. (Lau ter.) The Government commiss Major Carriere arose and I have handed ¢ Ve ha the court a letter regarding the health of | Colonel Du Paty Clam. Tt indicates that Du Paty dé Clam is writing his evi- dence and that he will send it to u: That deposition has not arrived. T there. fore ask the president of the court to be kind enough to instruct the reporter of the second Paris court-martial to have the evidence of Du Paty de Clam taken by a court commission.” The president of the court assented to this and at 11:50 o'clock the court ad- journed for the da - POPE LEO INTERCEDES FOR THE PRISONER Would Persuade French Jesuits to Moderate Their Violence Toward Dreyfus. LONDON, Aug. 20.—The Pope, accord- ing to the Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail, yesterday conferred with Father Martin, the ‘head of the Jesuits, with the view of persuading the French Jesuits to moderate their violence toward Dreyfus, his Holiness belng alarmed at the trend of events in France. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mall sa Colonel Panizzardi positively declares that the initial “D” in the bois, which is an alias for Colonel du Paty de Clam. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says he learns on excellent author- ity that General Mercier will be prose- }’\A‘(Pd in connection with the Dreyfus af- air. A 5 DUKE OF ORLEANS LEAGUED WITH GUERIN Such Is the Belief Said to Be Held by the Police Authorities of Paris. NEW YORK. Aug. 28.—A Sun cable from : The Courrfer du Solr says it arned of the importance which the Government attaches to the siege of the house in the Rue de Chabrol in which the anti-Semite leader, Guerin, and a number of his friends have intrenched thémselves against the authorities. If true, it ex- plains the reason why the place was not attacked days ago by the military. The paper declares that the Government ! believes that one of the pretenders to the | Frefich throne, presumably the Duke of Orleans, is in the house with Guerin, and | it wishes to capture him alive, in view of the proof that his presence would furnish of the monarchist conspiracy. If an a: sault should bemade on the place it migit appen that the pretender would be killed, and this the Government wishes to avoid. - Court’s Sitting Resumed. RENNES, Aug. 20.—When the Dreyfus court-martial resumed its session this morning Mercier and the other generals were present as usual. Colonel Cordier, who was deputy chief of the Intelligence Bureau under Colonel Henry, testified to the effect that Colonel Sandherr and not Colonel Henry received the bordereau. Found Dead in Bed. WOODLAND, Aug. 28.—A special to the Democrat from Esparto says: Ephraim Stephens, a man about 6 Years of age, was found dead in his room at this place at an early hour this morning. He com- | plained of feeling ill*on Sunday evening and took some medicine before he retired. When he did not arise as usual this mor ing Mrs, Stephens went to his room and found his lifeless body lying on the bed. It is not known at what time he died or the cause of death. Dr. Craig of Capay has been summoned to hold a post mor- tem examination and Coroner Bean from require three days to give an opinion upon | comply with the summons of the examin- | Woodland to bold an inquest. HOSBAND IV JEALOTS RAGE Thomas J. Cook, a Peatlands Farmer, Shot While \ He Slept. 1 @RECORD The Girl In the Case Flatly Denies the Charges Made By Mrs. Cook. et Epectal Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ANA, Aug. 28.—Thomas J. Cook, a Peatlands farmer, recently ac- VIEE SLAYS - - HVELLMAN | IRRITES 1N ENCLAND Arctic Explorer Tells of His| Voyage in Search of the North Pole. Believes He Would Have Pene- tratel to the Polar Sea but for an Accident. i Speclal Dispatch to The Call. HULL, England, Aug. 20.—Walter Well- | man, the leader of the Wellman Polar ex- quitted of the murder of Jasper Griggs- by of the same place, was shot and killed by his wife Katie this morning Jealousy was the cause and trouble | had been brewing for some time. Cook | was one of the best-known men in the | county and had the reputation of being a gun fighter and a reckless man. He | had resided in this county eighteen | vears, and in that time had engaged in ¢/ fight with his brother, each ng his gun with intent to kill, | | without harm resulting. For some | time he and his e had been on ill terms because of alleged Infidelity on his part. Cook was found this morning by alarmed neighbors lying on a mattress in his wife’s room, with a bullet hole in the corner of his right eye, stone dead. The wife says Cook went out last night and did not come home until 3 o’clock in the morning. When he returned she | upbraided ‘him for infidelity and was told to do the next best thing if she| didn’t like it. Cook threatened to do her bodily harm if she exposed him. They quarreled, and at length Cook fell asleep and his wife took a gun frnm‘\ beneath his pillow and shot him. The shot alarmed the hired man, who aroused the neighbors. The girl in the case is Mabel Moody, apparently about 18 years old, and the daughter of a rancher livihg some two | or three miles southeast of the Cook home. She flatly contradicts Mrs. Cook and also says that Mr. and Mrs. Cook quarreled almost incessantly, and that Cook accused his wife of being too inti- | mate with the hired man: Much interest is manifested over the shocking tragedy as Cook, although a turbulent, reckless man, had many friends who stood by him through the trial in which he was acquitted of the murder of Jasper Griggsbv, and who still stoutly aver his innocence of any- thing more serious than justifiable homicide in that matter. Mrs. Cook also has many friends in the neighborhood, where she is well known as the daughter of J. H. Pope, a prominent farmer of that section. She isCook’s second wife and is but 28 yea. old and had been married to Cook for nine years. Cook has one brother in| Tulare County and has no other known | relatives in this country. Mrs. Cook | was brought to this city is now at the | County Jail. The witnesses to be called at the inquest to-morrow are James | Barton, Mabel Moody, G. W. Moore and W. M. Kesmann. The preliminary | trial is set for August 30. Prominent | | counsel has been retained to repfesent | the prisoner. The defense will be emo- | tional insanity and the feeling to-night is strongly in the woman's favor. CHINA'S EMPEROR FEARS HE MAY BE POISONED ' | | \ i \ I i ; | | | Declares That Treacherous Ministers Who Hate Him May Attempt | to Destroy Him. | TACOMA, Aug. 28.—Oriental advices per | steamer Tacoma state: The Emperor of | | China, Hwang Hsu, is now provided with | three mea . at each of which he | | is only given two Kinds of vegetables and a small bowl of rice. It Is even suspected | that an attempt is being made to starve | and make his Majesty even weaker than | | he has been. To a confidential eunuch { his Majesty recently sald: | “My Tesioration to power is only a| question of time, hence I am only too anxious to maintain my health and bide | my time. I am only afraid that the one or two traitorous Ministers who hate me may by thelr machinations succeed in destroying me, and I have no means of | counteracting their treachery.” | A report has just come of a serious riot | in Chinese Thibet at a place called Paao An, some 130 miles over the border from Kansu. The Christian and Misstonary | Alliance has had a station there for about | two vears or so. and this has been at- tacked and looted by the Thibetans, The | missionaries, the Rev. George T. Shields and wife, with Mrs. McBeth, barely es- | aped with their lives to Lancheo, where | the China inland mission has workers. This party of missionaries left Central China in the fall of last year and had | | consequently not been at Paao An for | more than a few months. The natives had shown themselves rather trouble- some, and to make matters worse the | | Chinese officials, on being appealed to re- fused to help or protect at all, and no doubt the riot was largely due to their action. s | BAR ASSOCIATION MEETS. | City of Buffalo. | BUFFALO, N. Y. Aug. 28.—Judges, | statesmen and men of national promi- | nence composing the American Bar Asso- | ciation met in the Aldermanic Chamber | of the Common Council to-day and were | welcomed to the city by Sherman S. Rog- | ers of the local bar association and Wal- ter S. Logan of the State Bar Associa- | tion. Concluding his speech, Mr. Logan | said: | “I welcome you to the State of Governor Roosevelt—Roosevelt the Rough Rider iand Roosevelt the president of the Civil | Service Commission. We welcome you to the State of Hamilton and Jay, of Kent and Van Buren, of Tilden and Cleveland; | %o the State which delights to honor its | best and foremost citizens.” | In the absence of President Joseph H. | Choate, Embassador to the Court of St. | James, Senator Charles F. Manderson of Nebraska, as_acting president, delivered his annual address. In connection with his address Senator Manderson read a letter from President Choate, under date of London, August 17. In speaking of the study of comparative legislation wh‘ch is now in progress between the ['nited | States and the most enlightened foreign | nations, Mr. Choate says | "4iThe law's delays, which seem to be constantly on the increase, may well en- gage the earnest attention of the asso- clation, and no opportunity should be lost to counteract the inevitable tendency to elaborate procedure and unnecessarily muitiplied appeals which cause a large proportion of these delays. The acting president was instructed by resolution to cable Embassador Choate, extending the greetings of the association and regretting his absence. | © Adolph Moses of Chicago presented tha memorial of the Illinois Bar Association for the creation of John Marshall day, February 4, 1901. The chair was instructed by resolution to appoint a committee of fifteen on the subject. gt el Will Open a Creamery. WOODLAND, Aug. 28.—A. A. Osborne, | manager of the Dixon Electric Light and | Water Company, made a thorough exam- | ination of the Woodland creamery to-day. | He proposes to establish such an industry in connection with his other enterprises in Dixon. AT e Every home should have a copy of The Call’s splendid Souvenir Edition. J | completed operatigns in Franz Josef | northeast parts were practically unknown, | for nearly | ‘Poor Ventzen is dead.’ Session of the American Body in the l pedition, who returned to Tromsoe way, August 17, after having succe has arrived here.” He walks with the aid of crutches, his right leg, which wa. riously injured by a fall into a snow-cov- ered crevasse while Mr. Wellman wa: leading his party, still being useless. The explorer was accompanied by the Ameri- can members of the expedition, who are well. In an interview Mr. Wellman said: “The object of the expedition was two- fold—to-complete the exploration of Franz Josef Land. of which the north and and to reach a high latitude, or even the pole itself. The first object was success- | fuliy accomplished. The second would have been achieved, at least to a greater extent than by previous explorers, but for the accident to myself. Mr. Wellman recounted the starting of the expedition from Tromsoe June 26, 1568, how it reached Elmwood, the head- quarters of the Jackson expedition, July | , and hoisted there the stars and stripes underneath the Unfon Jack, which had Leen fiying over the deserted gettlement | two vears. The provisions left tor Prof or Andree, the missing aero- naut, were found by Mr. Wellman un- touched. After leaving letters about dition and taking a collapsible house with him, Mr. Wellman procecded due east | for Cape Tegethoff and arrived there July | 30, 1893, There the party landed all _the stores and the steamer returned to Nor- way his_expe- Ve established our headquarters in the little house brought from Jackson's ad- quarters,” continued Mr. Wellman, “over which flew the Stars and Stripes. | “Desiring to push further north with the greatest speed, I dispatched Baldwin August 6, with the Norwegians, sledg: dogs and boats, myself and others intend- ing to follow in a few days. “Shortly n after Baldwin discovered that, owing to departure, T sudden break | up of the ice, 1 was unable to proceed, but | I sent two Norweglans to inform Bald- win to build his outpost, leave two men in charge of it, and return to my head- quarters.”” Here Lieutenant Evelyn B. Baldwin of the bureau told of the doings of his ex- pedition. He said: “September 21 m ! party reached Cape Helier, in latitude 81, where we decided to make an outpost. From the very outset we had a constant fight with the high seas, ice and wind, and there was a con- tinual fog. The ice underneath us parted | with terrific crashes, leaving us adrift on | small floes. Here we built a station and called it Fort McKinley. We stocked it with blubber and meat, and leaving there two volunteers, Ventzen and Bjorvig, I started to return Qgtober 22 to Mr. Well- man’s headquarters, arriving there Octo ber 3 in safety, in spite of great hard- . cold, darkness and ice. THe party ably in Hagmsworth House, which was completely buried in snow. They Kkilled many bears. | “Mr. Weliman, February 18, 159, with Norweglans with sledges and dogs, start- ed north.’ Mr. Wellman, continuing, sald: ruary 2, 1889, I arrived at Fort McKin- ley. " Bjorvig, rifie in hand, stood at tie mouth of the snow tunnel. 'He wrung my hand and with tears in his eyes said: | “Feb- * *Of course, you have buried him,’ said 1| No,' Bjorvig replied, e lies there,' | pointing to the hut. ‘I have kept m)" promise.’ | “The two men had made a compact that | in case of death the survivor should keep the body until help came. In the little hut the quick and the dead had slept side by side through two months of Arctic darkness. “Bjorvig said he had ms up his spirits by reciting en's poetry. “The next day we gathered stones and under these we buried our dead comrade. A few fitting words were spoken as we stood around in 70 degrees of frost. After a delay of ten days the party, including Bjorvig, pressed north In sledges and by | march_until we reached S2 degrees, east of Rudolph Island. The prospects the: were most reassuring. We had three | months of the best season before us and were confident of reaching 87 degrees. Though we had_suffered from cold we were all in fine form. ““Then a seemingly trivial accident turned | the advance into a precipitate retreat. While struggling with the sleds in rough | ice my right leg was bruised and sprained by my failing into a hidden crevasse. For | two days T went on, and unless other cir- | cumstances had occurred 1 _should | have pressed onward so far that T would | never have been able to return alive. At midnight, March 22. we were awakened by the crushing of the ice under our feet. | aged to keep MET PARTIAL SUCCESS | Bell | casional excursions to {and spent the winter comfort- | It swayed & nerexices yawhéad atout us. geve'r;!ld dggs and sledges were crushed. In the darkness and storm it was impossible to see a path of safety. Expecting to be overwhelmed at any mo- ment by the ice, scrambled over the field of jce and saved most of our equip- ment, except the dog food. reaching a place of safety in a half-hour. “Our brave Norwegian comrades did not express the slightest fear. While it was possilie to go on for a_time my leg now demairled a retreat. For two or three days 1 stumbled along until I fell. There was nothing tc do then but get on a sledge and be dragged back to headquar- ters by the men and the dogs. Forced marches by my devoted comrades saved my life. “The point at which we turned back was twenty-five miles northwest of Freeden Islands, where Dr. Nansen landed in 1895. North of these islands we photographed | three islands and some large land unseen Nansen. We also either by Payer or so-called Dover found that = Payer's glacler does not st. “I still believe it is possible to reach the pole by Franz Josef Land, but I cannot y 1f I shall make another effort. After Mr. Wellman's return to Harms- worth House April 9th Baldwin and four Norwegians went out to Wilczek Land, charting the unexplored east coast and discovering a_ new ice-covered island ex- tending to 64 degrees ea almost as large as Wilezek Land. They named it Graham Land, after the president of the Ameri Geographical Society. 3aldwin returned to the base April 30th. Harlan of the United States Coast Survey 0 took a separate trip before the reunited exposition sailed July 27th on the steamer Capella. A fairly complete survey of the archi- pelago has been preparsd by Mr. Wellman and party. They all show traces of hardship. Their faces are pale and drawn and Wellman is much thinner than form- erly. His right leg is drawn up a foot from the ground and it is not known whether he will ever again use it. He will consult a_specialist London imme- diately. Otherwise he Is in good health 1d spirits. On board the El Dorado, the Norwegian mail boat which brought the party to Huil, Mr. Wellman the center of at- traction at Hull, the pas- d off. immediately to this after- ors g party n, where seded proc ; they arrived PRESIDENT JORDAN [S BACK AT PALO ALTO STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Aug. 28— President Jordan returned to the unfver- 3 ; after a four weeks' camping trip in the Kings River Canyon and among the mountains of the high Sierras. He was accompanied by Mrs. Jordan and by the other members of the party—Pro- hd Mrs. E. P. Cubberly, Pro- s George M. Richardson, V."L. Kel- logs, G. H. Marx, A. V. Babine and Mr. Swain and Mr. Jarnick. All the members of the party are in the best of health. The party camped most of the time in the upper ley of the Kings River amid wonderfully beautiful forests, making oc- regions above y climbed a number of Th he highest and most re- w from it being Mount nd named by Pro- the snow line. high mountains, markable in the Stanford, climbed fi fessor B. C. Brown of Stanford in 15%. President Jordan climbed three peaks that bad not previously been ascended and the other of the party -limbed still others. also prepared a Jecial map of the Mount Brewer Basin its surroundin while Professor Kellogg prepared several additions to the maps of the other parts of the region. Professor Brown discovered and mapped a large ) containing many lakes which | Tegion had hitherto been left blank on the m ¥ was under the Another Stanford part direction of E. B. Copeland a member of the faculty Chico Normal School, but just sel the_chair of botany in the University of West Virginia. Copeland, ccompanied by Maxwell Adams__of nford and Mr. Henderson, a Uni- of ifornia graduate, all ico, climbed the ~very ' high point. hitherto inaccessible. ‘at the junction of the King and Kern divide with the main Sierras. To this he official- Iy gave thername Junction Peak, deposit- ing the pass cylinder of the Slerra Club on_ its summi appropriate records. rom the University of California Pro- fessor J. N. Le Conte, with a company, ras in the same canyon and made many ascents besides numerous observations and records tending to perfect the maps previously published by the Sierra Club. EIGHETH DISTRICT FAIR. PLACERVILLE, Aug. 28.—The twenty- fifth annual falr of the Eighth District Agricultural Association will begin in this city to-morrow. Already more ex- hibitors have applied for space in tHe pa- vilion t t any previous fair given by n the assoviation. The horticultural ex- | hibits promise to be particularly fine, and a splendid mining exhibit showing the rapld strides that are being made in the ploneer industry of _the historic old county will be an attractive feature of the fair. Weddings at Sausalito. ALITO, Aug. 28.—This town has a marriage record for the past week rivaling ihat of the regular bureau at San Rafael. Rev. Father tini, Justice Bellrude and Recorder Simpton have all taken a hand in the tving of nuptial knots. A Sunday Miss Katie Zaro was uhited to T, Bovinich of Sutter Creek: on Mon- Say occurred the marriage of Miss Camil- la Romero and John Miramontes; on Wednesday Constable John E. Creed took Miss Martha Regli of San Francisco for Weal or woe, and on Thursday Joseph H. Shippee and Miss Virginia Blennerhassett Stood up before the “altar. Three more Weddings are scheduled for the present week. The first, that of Samuel Black and the »ungest daughter of a well- %known citizen cf Sausalito, will take place to-mOrrow — New 0Oil Company. SSNO, Aug. 28.—An oil company was to-day, capitalized at $100,000, in Phebe Hearst is the prin- bal stockholder. Her agent recently 2%592-'"(1 the oil territory and to-day's company is the result. 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