The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 14, 1900, Page 12

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1900 RIOT CLOSES A DAY OF SENSATIONAL INCIDENTS Mrs. Craven's Maintenance Suit Sets Factions Battling. Claimant Testifies That She Was Married to Senator Fair by Judge Simpton of Sausalito and Has Her Proofs. V/ ingly reticent as reg: !/ Crav Fair person who they intend springing some that their client is the wife of the Recorder George W. Simpton of S ceased Senator and Mrs. Crav effect, which was given into the kec According ven & dozen hotel registe: bad made the entry. persons who saw Mrs. ( and are thus ready to tes: some w3 at Sausalito to come to this daid not return to Sa After the last boa: message to come to this £t Parrott build a late hour. “Some tim 1t ton, one of Mrs. Craven's attorney tion at the Sa har!,” said Sy’ Fair case came up. we had tal time Simpton said: thing that will surprise you.” I pro Senator Fair and Mrs. Craven in 1 the affair a secret sation be had B T Tl BT B B i e il e e B i i force. ““The attorney present at the time then saild that Mrs, were in possession of leaves taken from a doze! 3 e ent: ‘e State, in which Fair had made t of certain persons who saw Mr OMEN screaming with terror, led impact of swing- the curses of m lice the Mrs establish he: © the circle of relgning sensa- tions. It was thought that the case had been thrashed out during the trial of ac- ed and gone, but Mrs. Craven's on the stand yesterday that isge to Senator Falr, by con- ad been subsequently ratified e performance of a regular ceremony, in which Judge G. W. Simpton ©f Sausalito officiated, threw the Opposi- tion into a con: »n approaching dismay. through SIFMTIPTON CREATED ASTONISHMENT Told Town Trustee A. Sylva Last August That He Had Performed the Ceremony. HILE the attorneys representing ds what thelr next on of man facts bearing on the case that al testimony in proof of their contention eased James G. s person s who Dbears witn last year A. Sylva, & Town Trustee of Sausalito, usalito stated that h n 1892 and had tak whart disembarked and took a car uptown. g Sylva went to Charles Falr's office, where he was closeted nk it was In August or September—Judge Simp- you will say nothing about it I w ised, and he told me that he had married He further said that a short time previc made an affidavit that he had 'C request of Attorney W. W. Foote, and had given keeping. Simpton declared that he had and asked me to say nothing about it un , and I suppose the obligation of sec j made, I was further toid, are in the possessi Craven's law- i The affidavit referred to by Sylva Is known to be in existence and has been i several persons. It d on the authority of person who read + cument that it was not at the request of Atto! Foote, but that + Simpton went to the laws e and v . 4 jat time he had refused to have any z in the possession of Attorn: + ¥ L3 A R e widow of the late James A Tew minutes later the court ordered an | adjournment until this morning. as J. W. Barling, a friend of the claimant and her attornevs, had been assaulted in the To- tunda of the City Hall by twé private de- tectives and beaten into a condition bor- dering on Insensibility. The assault on Mr, Barling was not unexpected by him or his friends, but that it should come Quring the period of & temporary recess occasioned surprise, and the truth of the sssault expressions of regret and condem- nation At opening sesslon of the court Mrs Craven stated that she objected to the re- moval of her contract of marriage from the court by the opposition, but she con- sented that the document be taken to the studip of Theodore Kytka that it might be photographed for Getense. All p: in interest adjourned to Mr. Kytka's studlo, the photographs were taken, and at the opening of the af ternoon session Mrs. Craven took the stand. She t the marriage ¢ ber to Senat stified thai she had shown tract she alleges bound decedent’s on Fair, durin nds Mrs. fu McArthur an others ‘whose names she was unable to recall at the time. This contract was drawn up in June of 1882, and it was during & visit the benefit of the to New York that she made its contents | Enown to her daughter. uestions of Lafe In answer to dence, who is caring or her interests, Mrs. Craven further testified that the marriage was subse- Quently ratified by tor Fair and her- self in the presence of Judge G. W. Simp- ton of Sausalito in the month of July, 152, This evidence went before the court under various objections, and a following ques- | tion calling for Mrs. Craven's testimony es to whether or same room with the deceased millionaire on the night following the ratification of the marriage resulted In & recess. Coun. not she occupied the | i s. awyers are in possession of leaves from arious towns in the State In which Fair himself James G. Fair and wife,” aven with him at the time these entries were made, that the word wife refe ¥ or other those who are contesting Mrs. widow’s allowance from the income of the estate h facts and are in consequence oonsiderably exer Early yesterday morning Recorder Simpton re He took the 10 he reached San Francisco presumably met Mrs. Craven's legal advisers. He lito last evening. Marin shore Trustee Sylva also received a took a launch and arriving at Clay-street @+0+6+040 I S A e o e te b S e o e e Sn e o o 4 & i Mrs. Craven's interests are exceed- move in e celebrated he ement of a t is known from & of Attorney W. * as well as the affidavits of d to Mrs. Craven. In Craven's claim for a become aware of these d a telephonic message a. m. boat and when ar in front of the Leaving the ged in conversa- n of the Craven- P s for a short 11 tell you some- d m abo nd at their earnest request had kept to our conver- ed the ceremony, at the ote's never y before til it came o It is now recy imposed on me is no longer In Craven’s lawyers s throughout and wife.' Af- hen these entries hotel reg! J: an detect a4 C local agency. . and in an ins was on. Young Curtin, with th tance of ano Curtin’s men, jumped Barling dozen blows were exchanged and Barling fell. A few well direcied KIcks left him prostrate and bleeding on the marble floor, Young Curtin and his confederates were ret unsatisfied and they kept up the fight. _ screamed for help and in an instant almost a crowd of men were surging toward the scene of battle. An unknown man broke through the door and the crowd, fearing a 1 fight, parted. By this time Theodore vtka, the han: writing expert, was trying to pull Curtin off his prostrate enem ped {n and in & mir g cared for by fr ssigtant were allow for freedom. N eard Attorney Pe t you call a your addressing Attorney gang off? Hegg representing Charles L. Fair. Know who is responsibie for th Heggerty. “Well, w will the stand and d ou ans and the crowd then followed Barling into the law library. Barling was bleeding and bruised a as h. itered the library he was met by Mrs. Koehler. We can’t have a friend in the world,” was all that Mrs. Kochler said. Barling was taken to the hos tment and then the pursuit 1 nts began. Theod Kytka, with a cobble in his hand, has followed -young Curtin, and they played a game of hide and seek until Mose Wasesenberg of 1004 Golden Gate avenue got on the track of the fugitive, whom he pointed out to Officer Joy, who {arrested him, and, with Detectives Wren and Dinan, charged him with an assault with intent to do great hud:lf‘ harm, A short time later Captain Curtln appeared on the scene. “It's a pity they didn't kill him,” sald Captain Curtin; ‘‘he’s been hounding these young men’ for woeks past’* Curtin put up 3100 for the release of his nephew and they left the prison. In the meantime Mrs. Craven had re- turned to court, but owing to the excite. ment the court was of the opinlon that a continuance would benefit all parties and he ordered an adjournment unti 11 o’clock this morning. oubtless the cause of the trouble will be the subject of ju- | dicial investigation and more injudicious | squabbling. BOER ARGUMENT ENDS IN STABBING AFFRAY Thomas W. Rollet Receives Injuries Which May Result in His Death. Thomas W. Roliet and Thomas Fahey, elias Charch, engaged in an altercation yesterday afternoon in a saloon kept by Juck O'Leary at 728 Davis street, during which Rollet was severely stabbed In the abdomen and received injuries from which he may die. Both of the men are team- sters in the employ of the Pacific Gas Improvement Company. They entered the saloon together about 4.30 o'clock to take a drink. While they were discussing a couple of schooners of beer their con- versation drifted to the Boer war. Evi- dently their opinions differed, for they be. came angry and Rollet made a pass at Fahey. 'The latter was cutting a piece of wbacco with an old rusty knife, and when bis companion attempted to strike him he made a junge at him and sunk the knife to the hilt in Rollet's abdomen. The wounded man was taken to the Harbor Here:vm¥flospuu. where he wus sttended by Dr. Frank Robinson and Dr. Cherry, who expressed the opinion that on account of the condition of the weapon blood poison will unquestionably -esult from the wound. Fahey was arrested by Officer Crosby and taken to the Cen- tral Police Station, where he will be keld pending the outcome of Rollet’s wounde. | Gurn, ———————— In the Interests Wa recently in uced into Con- .é.'." ‘é.:%‘m. fc?r’u.u appropriation of on the work of the $200,000 for cerrying o o g | large number of the lawmakers, recogniz- | ing the good that the institution is ac- | complishing, have pledged to support the | measure. In order that there might be 1o hitch the museum officials requested the local Chamber of Commerce to sup- port the bill by urging the Pacific Coast representatives to vote for it. At the meeting yesterday the subject was dis- | cussed and it was declded to comply with | the request, two reasons being urged for | this action. One was that it s in the in_ | terests of the commerce of America and | the other is that Western support of an Eastern Interest will pave the way to Eastern support to & measure appropri- ating money for the proposed Pacific Coast Museum. o R IR Special Sale of Boys’ Shoes. 1000 pairs of boys' shoes will be sold to- morrow for only 85¢ a pair; all sizes. These shoes are standard screw, made out of calfskin and kip leather, good to wear | for dress or school and worth no less than $1.75 a pair. Sale will begin at 9 a. m., at | the sale of shoes, 717 Market, near Third.® | ——————— | New Parlor of Natives. | i A new parlor of Native Sons will be | organized this evening to be composed ex- | clusively of Californians who fought In the Philippines. The meeting will be held | in Shasta Hall, Native Sons’ building. | Addresses will be made by several grand | officers of the order. e committee | which has been arranging for the organi- | zation consists of Lieutenants Gwrsenl., { Petty, Charles L. O'Donnell, H. F. Mo- | H, V. O'Brien, George Knacke, Sergeant T. J. Fitzpatrick, Private B, V. Moody and Musician Vincent Devlin. The jodse will ‘be christencd Philippine Par- ————————— Dr. Parker's Cough Cure. One dose will stop L o e L e PRI PO B DD D PO TR OE Ul b O N S e DR D B S R e e I ] ¢ (] and anchored off the Presidio wh : b ¢ i : ¢ : ; : : % ¢ {1l be landed. laced In quarantine. ; ! i t : ; t United States Hospital Ship Missouri. The Missouri reached port Monday night and was at once pl arf, where the sick soldiers w! Early yesterday she was released, WATERLOGGED WHILE ON HER WAY UP RIVER Robert and Jennie in| Trouble. BURGLARS AT WORK ON FRONT | sl Movements of Transports—Steamer Irrawaddy Having a Hard Time. Narrow Escape of the Ship Louis Walsh. i Ll de The ex-transport Zealandia was towed to Martinez yesterday. She will be “lald up” there for a month or so and then will come back to San Francisco to be docked and got ready for the Nome trade. For several weeks past it was thought that the Zealandia would be sent to Honolulu to relieve the glut of trade to the Hawallan Islands, but as the plague is now almost stamped out the local steamers can handle the business, so the | Zealandla will go into retirement until the opening of the Nome trade. She was towed to Martinez yesterday by the tugs Sea King and Sea Witch. Be- yond the Brothers the river schooner Robert and Jennie was met in & water- | logged condition. She had left San Fran- | cISco with a load of lumber for Stockton, | but, drifting down on a hidden rock near the’ brotigrs, she sprang & leak and be- | waterlogged. The tugs towing the | ndia saw fer signals of distress ;\__ud. | altering their course, went alongside. Captain Johnson of the schooner said he was in no immediate danger, so the tugs proceeded on thelr way. As soon as the Zealandia was taken to | her anchorage the Sea Witch cast off and | vent back to the assistance of the Robert | 1d Jennie. She was p! ed up when her load was awash and the captain and | crew had taken to the rigging for safety. | Capiain Dave Shaw of the Sea Witch towed the derelict to the Misslon flats, where she was run ashore. To-day her load of lumber will be unloaded, after whic] she wi &0 on the ways overhauling. One of the boldest attempts at burglary | ever made on the front was accomplished | early yesterday morning. The offices at | 44 East street were entered and money | and goods stolen while o desperate effort wes made to break Into the saloon, res- taurant and dry goods stors on the | ground floor. Nothing but the Iron door and shutters on the ground floor saved the place from being looted. All the offices on the upper floor of the | | for an | building are being remodeied, and the thi evidently expected to find the carpenters’ tools there when they broke in. Had they done so they would have cut their way through the ceiling and made a rald on the store balow. fn the Favorite saloon, run by J. H. Flathmann, there 18 a great play on the nickel-in-the- slot machines, and this seems to be the objective point of the thieves. Failing to break in through the ceiling, they went | through the offices of (‘axtuln Cogan, who is fitting out the bark Alaska for & trip to Cape Nome; Captain Charles A. M Phee, the stevedore: B. H. Tietjen, man- ager of the tug Ida W, and Charles Meyer, the tailor. Captain Cogan is $200 richer by leaving his safe unlocked. He had two minutes to catch his boat and | ran for it, leaving the safe closed but not | logked. he ‘thieves found It that way an passed it by with the comment Thae ang open safe never contained money. Tietjen & McPhee's offce they ut’ 2 EE cash and 50 in postage an revenug stamps: in Mever's place they s.cured two boits of cicth and thea thoy turned | thelr attention to the lower floor. ’rhely_: | | tore the woodwerk away from the 0T of the Favorite saloon with g smdf afm | then fcrced an entrance through the zinc lining around the sink. Crawllngi through the hole, they found iron doors | and iron shutters barring the way, and | failing to burst these open. they made | their escape. The Favorite is one of the | best fialronlzed places on the front, and | had the burglars gained an entrance they | would have made a haul. | The transport Leelanaw loaded horses and mules for Manils yesterday. probably sail to-day, The B8t docked at Harrison street 'z will be fitted out for the once. The transport Thomas Is coaling and she will be ready to sall in & week, The Sherman was to sail to-morrow with @ general cargo and 400 casuals, but 1t will be next week before she gets away. The American steamer Irrawaddy | which put Into the Bermudas for repairs’ | lost her jibboom, started her knight heads and sustained other damage during a storm on January 25-6. At one time there was twelve feot of water In the fore and eight feet in the second hold. All hands thought the steamer would go down, =o there was general rejoicing when the Ber- mudas were reached. The Irrawaddy bas been rechristened the Chas. D. Lane and Paul | esterday. She | ome trade at g | She will | Ro she is Intended for the San Francisce- Cape Nome trade. The ship Louis Walsh had a narrow escape from total destruction in Oyster Bay. She was helping to salve the carj of the wrecked colller Miami. when she broke adrift and went on the reef. She was got off the next day with the loss of her anchor and seventy feet of chain. For Coast Defense. At a meeting of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce vesterday a reso- lution was passed to support the bill now before Congress for the reorganization of the United States Consular service. The | bill provides for the appointment of for- elgn representatives cn the merit cys- tem. They must pass examinations as to their qualifications in general, and knowl- edge of foreign languages, trade condl- tons of the world, etc.. in particular. The chamber also indorsed the proposi- tion of several Eastern commercial bod- ies which are endeavoring to have the War Department increase the artillery force for the coast defenses of the United States. FRESHD WELCMES SENATOR BARD Rousing ReceptionGiven the Statesman. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Feb. 13.—United States Sen- ator Thomas R. Bard has been the gucst of the city of Fresno since the time of | his arrival from the north last night. Re- publicans, Democrats and Populists vied with one another In welcoming the new representative and his stay (n this clty has been one continual ovation. This morning the new Senator was taken for a drive through the surrounding colonies by a committee of prominent citi- Mr. Bard enjoyed the drive and ex- pressed himself as being well pleased with the country. In the evening a reception to Senator Bard took place at Elnstein Hall, which was attended by nearly every prominent man in the community irrespective of party afiliations. H. Z. Austin, chairman of the Republican Cen- tral Committee, presided, and after call- ing the meeting to order introduced Miles | Wallace, who welcomed Senator Bard on behalf of the Democrats of Fresno. “'I desire to assure Senator Bard,” sald Mr. Wallace, “of our very high apprecla- tion in this reception and of the sincere wish of his Democratic friends and con- stituents of Fresno County that his abili- ties and usefulness may soon be deter- mined in the Senate of the United States, and that when he returns and redelivers his commission to the people of the State we may feel a matter of satisfaction and congratulation with his choice that we to- night have met to express.” Mr. Rowell, who g0 firmly supported Mr. | Bard, ard concluded by expressin, the hope that the new Senator would Qistio- guish himself In Congress. T, 8. Van Meter spoke on behalf of the Populist party, extending Mr. Bard a wel- come In the name of that Ofgflnllafl\)n. He declared that Bard's election was a grand victory for principle, a victory of right over might. The next speaker was Frank H. Short, the first Republican speaker of the even- ing. He congratulated the people of the State upon the happy outcome of a dan- gerous situation and congratulated Mf. Bard vpon being the means to that end. He also paid a tribute to Senator Rowell for the fight he had made in favor of decency at Sacramento. Senator Rowell was next called on and made a brief speech telling of the contest at Sacramento and explaining how the battle in favor of principle was won. concluded by expressing his hearty ap- reciation of the reception tendered Mr. ard and concluded by introducing the Senator. “1 am deeply touched,” sald Mr. Bard, “by this evidence of your good feeling and confidence in me. I know that this good feeling and confldence are at- tributable largely to your apprecia- tlon of the character of my friend and your friend, Dr. Eowelf. representative in the Benate. not attempt to express my- self to-night. I am too much touched by this demonstration. If my friend, Dr. well, has sald to you of me that T am a free man without entanglements of any kind or of any character, no corporate interests whatever, that I will, to the best of my abllity, attempt to discharge the duties, great responsibility of the office to which I have been elected. I wish now here to ux that I will confirm all that he has said in my behalf and that it will be my high ambition to carry out and fulfill his and your expectations. I desire to express In my feeble way my appreciation of all this and to say that I regard you as my friends, and as a token of that I should like to grasp each one of you by the hand and will attempt to say nothing further.” A balf-hour of handshaking followed. Senator Bard left-for Ventura shortly afterward, Wallace paid a high tribute to Dr. | He | HOW WHISKY WAS DRUNK O THE MANAUENSE |Bad Day for Engineer McDonald. |PROSECUTION HAS CLOSED Ll e T Assistant Engineer Walters Says the Difficulty Was Not Water Com- ing In, but How to Get It Out. A e The investigation of the Manauense matter proceeded before the British Con- sul and his naval court yvesterday as far as the conclusion of the prosecution and the start of the defense. The prosa- cution finished its case rather unexpe edly, too, for it was supposed there was a long string of witnesses in its train. 1he defense proceeded as far as its third wit- ness, Assistant Engineer Walters. W ters’ testimony went Into all of th= charges, but it was most interesting in its references to affairs in the engineers ac- | partment. |~ The morning session was taken up main- ly with the amount of whisky an enginecr | can drink and still run his engine proj | erly and look out for his fireroom fore. | All' the morning’s testimony and a goo art of that of the afternoon was alec olic. C. G. Stimpson, the Manila 2 of the ship, told how he had seen McDon- all lying in Manila. He said he knew noth- ing about the condition of the ship, but from what he saw of the engineer Eo am not think him fit for duty. A, Hart, a purser, was then called to tell of the bibulous goings on aboard the ship. He sald McDonald’s bill at the bar for the trip out and back amounted to $20. ‘here was a bill for champagne of $L50 out of this, however, a small bottle of the effervescent having been opened by the engineer on one occasion of import- ance: and having set apart this item, the conclusion was arrived at that the re- mainder of the bill was for red liquor. The purser told further how on two oc- casions at least he had refused to_sell liquor to McDonald—once because McDon- | ald was already drunk, and again when | he had been drinking, It was a pottia McDonald wanted each time, and Hart | said he had given the enginéer a drink | while he had refused to sell him a bottle. Hart also told how McDonald used to get M%uor for his men In the engine room when they were working in the water | that had come in, but he remembered that | the men had beén working in the water evary time liquor was asked for for them. John Johnson, the third officer, opened the defense. He had never geen the en- ineer drunk, nor anything llke it, snd e sald so in a somewhat hesitating way, for although he is third officer of the ship, | he has hardly that rank in the Queen's English. The prosecution, under crosus- examination, tried to show that the third officer had been sent to his room because | he was drupk at Manila, but they falled, | officer and the engineer had ever had a drink together. Johnson testifled that he had held the rank of first lieutenant in the Norweglan navy. NEARING COMPLETION. Valley Road Getting Everything in Readiness to Enter This City. The progress of work on the Valley road is moving along with great rapidity now that the weather is such as to permit of the construction being pushed right ahead without any delay from water, soft earth or_the like. One continuous line of track has been laid from Stockton to the mouth of the great Franklyn tunnel, a distance of fifty- two miles. The tunnel itself is in such shape that the rails can be extended into it and trains run through as soon as those having the work in hand desire. From the tunnel there remain only eighteen miles of track to bs put down to connect Stockton with tide water at Point Richmond. The grading and other reliminary work on this stretch have een completed, and nothing now re- mains for the laborers to do but place the rafls. The whart at Point Richmond is now finished with the exception of a few de- talls to be accomplished on the slips and aprons, and these Elecou will probably be completed within the next two weeks. As goon as they are done the heavy work of the road will be finished with the excep- tion of that necessary to the laying of a few miles of track beyond the tunnel. It 1s expected chat the Ocean Wave.will carry passengers from this city to Point Richmond in about forty-five minutes, which will make the trip from here to Stockton one of about three or three and a half hours’ duration. To accommodate the freight trafc on TWO CARS CRASH TOGETHER AT A DANGEROUS CROSSING HERE are indlcations that the Market-street Raflway system is competing with the Southern Pa- cific Company in the number of accidents and smash-ups it can charge to its account in a given time. Fol- lowing close on the hind-end collision of Sunday an accident occurred yes- terday noon at the Intersection of Heaight and Fllimore streets which was equally Inexcusable and fully as disastrous. Car 179 of the Haight-street line, in charge of Gripman W. E. Downes and Conductor W. J. Norton, reached the Fillmore-street crossing just as an electric car was coming down the grade along Fllimore strest, going south. The electric car had the right of way and the motorman made no : i i i i i effort to stop before crossing the ca- ble track. The gripman of car 179, however, disobeyed orders and at- tempted to cross in front of the elec- tric car. His car was half way over when the electric cur struck it with a crash. ’ Fortunately the accident occurred at an hour when travel is not heavy; otherwise it 1s more than likely that it would have been attended with some fatalities, The only person In- jured was a young woman who was riding on the outside of the Fillmore- street car. When she saw that the collision could not be averted she Jumped to save herself and was se- verely injured on the hip in the fall. The front of the electric car was smashed to splinters and the side and cough. Nover falls. Try it. All drughists. * | @4 S+ 04040400040+ 040 49+ 90 VIV 420 04D 90+ VIV +IT VP 4P 04D 49290 490+ P40+ D0 0+ windows of the Halght-street car were stove in. The superintendent of the Fillmore-street division would not glve the names of the motorman or conductor mixed up in the wreck and prohibited employes from Iimparting the information under penalty of dis- missal. The superintendent refused to give any explanation of the accident. At the office of the Haight-street sys- tem it was claimed that no statement concerning the collision could be made until a thorough investigation had been completed. Agents of the rallroad company ‘were on the cars that collided and lost no time in rushing the young woman who was Injured out of the way be- fore any of the bystanders could learn her name or address. % z % ; i They also failed to show that the third | drunk twice while the Manauense was | New WasI] Dress Fabrics! We will place on sale this week a splendid assortment of NEW WASH DRESS French and Amer FABRICS, both ican manufacture. In the collection are : FRENCH PRINTED CHALLIES, SILK-STRIPED TENNIS FLANNELS. MERCERIZED COTTON FOULARDS. IRISH AND SCOTCH PRINTED DIMITIES. ENGLISH GALATEAS AND CHAMBRAYS. COVERT CLOTHS AND CRASH SUITINGS, FRENCH AND AMER GANDIES. ICAN PRINTED OR- PRINTED PERCALES AND SATEENS. SCOTCH ZEPHYRS AND GINGHAMS. WHITE AND COLORE JAPANESE WASH CR D ENGLISH PIQUES. EPES. To our patrons residing outside of San Francisco—Please write for samples of above goods at once, while the assortment is complete. i, u3, us, uv, ns, 121 POST STREET. the water the Xai;]ey rolad po-'ibple -l-tu nm; ug and three large barges. Th Ploy o g g ieen Comaieted by the tu Fuiton Iron Works and is one of the best vessels of her class on the bay. She is 105 feet in length, 26 feet beam and 1s fitted with triple-expansion compound enginei capable of driving her through the water at_a speed of seventeen knots. The Ymrsen are three In number. Each, 1s 240 feet in length, wide enough te hold three tracks for the cars to rest upon. and each is expected to carry seventeen freightcars at one load if necessary. ——— e PUNISHED ENOUGH ALREADY. Mrs. Dr. Gwyer Got Married and the Stern Features of the Law Relaxed. The prosecution of Mrs. Florenco F. Gwyer, allas Mrs. Dr. Gwyer, by the pos- tal authorities has been abandoned at thelr request. Assistant United States | Attorney Banning yesterday moved 10 dismiss the indictment against her, which charged her with having sent improper nrticgcs through lhe‘mall_ and his request was granted by United States District Judge de Haven. Since her arrest Mrs. | Gwyer has got married and Is start'ng East on a honevmoon trip. She brought @ marriage certificate to the office of the United States Attorney as proof of her statement, and announced that she had retired from the practice of medicine. such 2s it was, and that she will try to cure nobody in future but her husband. The happy man is Samuel Sylvester of Maine. lge was an old sweetheart of Mrs. Gwyer, and when he learned of the latest legal entanglement of the ladv he came to this city to see her through. They were married by Justice of the Peace Kerrigan a few days ago, and will leave for the southern part of Alaska to- day. —_————— TQO STAKE NOME BEACH. Proposed Law That Is Alarming Hundreds of Miners. Miners who contemplats digging wealth from the Nome beach next spring are somewhat alarmed over one clause of a bill now before Congress regulating min- ing at Nome. This clause provides that the beach may be staked off in claims. The miners say that if this proposed la: {s adopted there will be room for com- paratively few men to work on the sands and that the vast number who go to Nome expecting to make money from the beach will be rfiu.gpolm.ed. The businese of the town will be injured, too, by the failure of the disappointed ones to make money. Ahother fear expressed by the miners is that people now going Into Nome over- land will, expecting the law to pass, form companies and stake off all the paying beach, and that thus the profits of the sand diggings will reach the pockets of > tiends ‘of the proposed 1 it riends o e 2 aw sa) should b6 adopted, bs serlous trouble may arise on the beach if it cannot be definite- ly determined what each man owns. R o sl el MRS. BAERMAN MISSING. Her Mind Was Unsettled and Shs May Have Killed Herself. Robert Baerman, a machinist residing at 828 Howard street, reported at the Cor- oner’s office yesterday morning that his wife Marle had disappeared under cir- cumstances tending to prove that ] was insane and Intended to commit sul- cide. She had been exhibiting symptoms of aberration of mind for some time, brought on by sickness, she being past middle_age. Mr. Baerman sald that his wife arose as usual yesterday morning and pro- ceeded to cook breakfast. He went up- stairs for a little while, and when he re- | turned he found a note on the table. It was In the handwriting of his wife. She declared that she was becoming insane and that she intended to leave the world before she lost her reason. The couple have one child, a daughter 15 years old, who works for the Taylor box factory. She had already left the house before her mother. The missing woman is 45 years old, five feet, two inches tall, 145 pounds welght. grny eyes and black hair. She wore a lack straw hat, velvet coat, black skirt and gaiters. ———— Barrel Victim Identified. The body of the man who was found drowned In a water cask on Mission -umi near Third, by Officer Sullivan on . was Identifled at the Morgue last night as that of Patrick Connell. The dead man was & longshore- man and had been in the employ of James B. Chase & Co,, stevedores, for over twe: nty vears. 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