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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1900. WILL BE A TREAT FOR THEATER GOERS | 220200050 R0t Lo RNeNO 2 230%4 0%+ son-square Theater, New York. piece is a high class farce from t f Willlam Gillette erlock Holmes,” * 1d other great successes J. N. Dodson, the famous eharact actor, is at the head of the compan + P K o * & v K & * 3 * # o + R + o 3 I'd . o . o & 3 B + P + - Py K o S P + * + P + o + Fd s o 3 Ed . @ k3 @ + @ Py * and other prominent members are . Annle Irish, Francis Carlisle, Kate . Meek, Eleanor Braham, Ralph Dean, > Tully Marshall, W. J. Constantine, > Charles Eldridge, Roy Fairchild, Mar- * garet Mayo, Margaret Field . Mar irfax, Francis Coms o and others. . “Because She Loved Him So” has < b styled ““The Little Minister” on * account of the delicate and refined e humor that pervades it and the heart- 4 reaching sentiment of its story. N y < ight plece yet. oftered by Charl - Frohman has given such general - - faction, and none has been so highly > d. It is a play that old and . g alike enjoy, for its story ap- . ¥ strongly to- them both. Seats s for the production will be ready this 2 morning. 3 D A R R % o250 250", DVENTURER IS~ HOUNDED AWNY BY THE POLICE Mongreni de Lassomm, Under Many Cloaks, Is Forced to Quit City. scheme in this group of legendary and which incingly t f diversi- i and h elements wa fr, 1 s W rned ready lea : scored APSRREERE il and won- | facile, and his success in illustra- s hvin urra: given a new and greater interest Oficers Tiviageion Snd WEN=y in his handling of the involute Finish Work on a Pathetic 1}1[(»"]/15 of the last act .y“»q‘.:, Walkure."” he enthusiasm which Mr. Damrosch has Story Told by a Young excited is not so outwardly ent as it i ense and gen ne, and the recitals French Girl. t are to come should Lut add to the fa or and support that have been accorded him. AROUND HE i CORRIDORS Willlam Spiers, a stage owner of Calis- | toga, 1s at the Lick. cting houses PORNE) < of import- Judge L F. Poston of Selma is staying | ; y yurposes, has | at the Lick. Hsgieds Francisco. | W. H. Clary, a mine owner ot Stockton, | . is a guest at the Lick. - ” ig Dr. A. E. Hall, a prominent physician | of San Jose Henry D of Vanco is a gilest at the Lick. a wealthy business man , 1= a guest at the Palace. James McCudden, a Vallejo contractor, is one of the recent arrivals at the Grand. A. J. Ross, a wealthy horse fancier of Sacramento, is at the Grand for a few to a house at 1709 somm claimed d a prisoner investigated v . who gave the L. Hourenon, sick and in | Jesse D. Carr, a capitalist of Salinas, man named Mrs. Sattler- | is among the arrivals last night at the did not w:nhdlur:r— x‘urk( o | Occldental. A and told the officer | O°Cide [ N T T C. W. Fulton, a well-known merchant of her home in France by Astorla, Or., 1s'an arrival of yesterday at d her that she the Occidental. him in Amer-| 5 Ajlexander, a wealthy merchant and land owner of Susanville, is at the Grand for a short stay. E. Lloyd Willlams and Morton Smole, ravelere from London, Eng., are regis- | tered at the Palace. B. J. D. Irwin, U. 8. A., is at| the Occidental, where he arrived yester- | a w esent but 17 years npelled to enter t not be thrust d onel Officer L1 the Prevention »m Chicago. v 2 peraientign | day ;r‘v"mhu:lfl“’if Mrs. Irwin accompa- | i the girl re £ i s e { s after a o Commander J. B. Briggs, U. 8. N., is ci Consul, and left |at the Occidental. Commander Briggs that De Lassomm | returned from the Orlent on the Warren after having completed his term of service with the Asiatic squadron W. W. Foote, the well-known attorney and Paris Commissioner, will leave this | morning for the Paris Exposition. He D e s house of {11 | Will Visit several of the large Eastern cit- street to Loulsa Fay and | ies before crossing the Atlantic. He salls | g e city when he found | from New York April 10, | —_————— e police were on his tracks. Re- | | Cien without tneir knowize | CRAIG TERRORIZES } [ he had visited her a { hed her story and re- | e man. € cers discovered that the giri oty peaizea the nope. | CLARKSVILLE RESIDENTS n they realized the hope- reir efforts in prosecuting the De Lassomm was another woman, | Y5 Well Armed and Hiding in 'the | he claims is his . Mfluence with the girl 1o Brush Near the Town. | repeating the story and | Special Dispatch to The Call time Were gOing to arrest = X ymen on charges of vagrancy. | ~EACERVILL March 7. — John S itmed their efforts n this re. | Craig, who is accused of the attempt to | : arted a crusade which re. | murder Martin Van Winklin, a proml- ng the man from this city. | nent cattle raiser residing near Clark » urchased tiekets 1o | ville, on Saturday last, has not vet bee »sed that that place | apprehended. Five officers are now rly conducted | . searching for et T pont. street, | Cralg, who Is belleved to be hiding near Belden place and in other localities. the scene of his crime. Craig, who is| a half-breed, is a dangerous character. He is an ex-convict, having served time in the State prison for the attempt. murder of one of the Jamison boys > Nashville. T He has en a terror to the pe around Clarksville for some time, ndi 18 reported that he told his uncle Sunday night that he had shot one man there and that four more would be shot be- fore he was captured. He is in hiding in-the brush on the outskirts of Clarks- ville, and the neighborhood is completely terrorized. The stockmen bardly dare 1o attend to their cattle for fear of being shot from ambush, and every one, women and children included, stays under cover as much as possible. 'J. Miser, Al Grigs, of Clarksville, and one of the Freemans, are three of the four men whom Craig has threatened to shoot. Sheriff Bosquit to-day offered a reward of §120 for his arres an Winklin is im. proving and hopes are now entertained that he will' survive the cowardly at. tempt to kill him. LECTUPE AND RECITAL ON “DIE WALKURE” Damrosch Discourses on An- other of Wagner’'s Music- Dramas. Walter Damrosch’s second recital, which was held yesterday afternoon at Sherman, Cley & Co.’s Hall, was devoted to “Die Walkure” and accentuated the success of his first effort as a lecture; n:d lllus; trator. The opera, the first of the grea Nhelungen THiogs, which we had heard prefaced by & most entertaining elucida- tion of the Rheingold ude, was pre- sented to an apprecia audience with gil that charm and intelligence which we have aiready learned to look for in Mr. h's admirable expositions. D'.r!lr;em;:mony that underlies the Wag- Mr. nomina as a surprise to Pacific Coast smen. Perhaps the most | powerful influence brought to bear in Judge Brown's behalf came from v | pally from | of J. W. Fllimore, superintendent of the | 21st, but thi: SXTY-TWD MINERS LOST THEIR LIVES Long List of Victims of the Red Ash Colliery Disaster. ONLY ONE MAN ESCAPED Lone Survivor Declares There Is No Reason to Hope That Any of His Comrades Are Still Alive, . FIRE CREEK, Va., March 7.—The res- cuing parties continued working hard at the Red Ash mine to-day and to-night removing and securing bodies of the vic- tims of the explosion of yesterday. The most conservaiive estimates of those connected with the mines places the nu ber kiiled at fifty-two, while it is genei ally believed that the number will be | found to be sixty-two. Six more bodies | were recovered early this morning. A re- port from the rescuers at the mine after 8 o'clock to-night was that thirty-four vie- tuns had been recovered, twenty-nine be- ad and five seriously injured. Vhile the surviving miners and others ed that there are at least thir nine miners still entombed, General Mai- ager Howell says there are only thirty- | x still in the mine. None of the mines in this district are t working, and thousands of pers visited the scene of the Red Ash dis- to-day. No definite cguse for the on has yvet been learned by Gov- tkinson, or the State and district inspectors, who are investigating. dition to the dust and fire damp it was claimed to-day that nat- gas had escaped into the mine and | it ignited when the miners entered erday with their lighted lamps. 1e work of rescuing parties is retarded by hot air, and it is feared the mine is on fire. Air s pumped into the mine by compression. It will be several days be- fore all the hodies are recovered, as they are scattered along for almost a mile under the ground, and it will require much time to clear the debris from this long subterranean course. The only person who entered the mine and who is known to have escaped alive and without serious injury is Eiectrician vans, who was near the mouth of the In relating his experience Evans ‘I heard a low, to an earthqua stant that fire d fore £ rumbling sound, similar and 1 realized in an in- mp had exploded. Be- force of the concussion reached me I threw myself down upon my face. A sheet of flame, rock and debris shot over my head. I managed to creep to the mouth and into the fresh air. My God, it was awf: 1 saw that I was the only one left. Every one of the other fellows was lost, T know.’ tic feature of the disaster is the ion of the family of B. B. Loug, His wite died some time ago, sole care two little hoys. 1g no one to stay with them in thelr = home, the boys begged to go With r father into the mine, to spend the with him. He consented, and wken earch is finished r blackened lit- will be found beside that of her unexplained cause of the accident terrified miners in adjolning locali- N - afraid to go to work, and 1 require the most searching inspec by competent men to remove their s and induce them to return to thelr aces e — BROWN APPOINTED JUDGE FOR ALASKA Railroad Influence Said to Be in a Measure Responsible for His Appointment. WASHINGTON, March T.—The Presi- dent has nominated Melville G. Brown to be United States Judge for Alaska. This 7 has w York. Judge Dillon of New York City, the attorney in so many railroad reorgani- zation matters, wrote a strong letter to the President in support of Judge Brown, whom he had Kknown as attorney in Wyoming for_the Union Pacific Railroad when Judge Dillon was its chief counsel in New York. There were other rallroad influences back of Judge Brown, princt California, where he has a number of relatives. He Is a_son-in-law narrow gauge branch of the Southern Pa- cific from Oakland to Santa Cruz, and is a cousin of J. A. Fillmore. manager of the Southern Pacific at San Francisco. Judge Brown has been a_practicing at- torney at Laramie, Wyo., for twenty-five vears and s nearly 60 years of age. HAWAIIAN LEGISLATORS ARE IN A PREDICAMENT Receive No Instructions From Wash- ington Regarding the Holding of a Session. HONOLULU, Feb. 24.—According to the Hawaiian constitution the Legislature should have been calied together on the Government had no instruc- tion from Washington, so the lawmakers were not assembled. A few members of the lower house met on the date men- tioned and then adjourned until to-day. They will adjourn from day to day until President McKinley is heard from. The members of the Senate took no ac- MORGAY TELLS NEW COURTHOUSE FOR , CONTRA COSTA COUNTY ’WQ+OW+HMMH—%”W““M““H HANDSCME new courthouse will soon grace Martinez, the county ceat of unanimously approved and adopted. When completed the building w'll surpass anything of its kind in the State. Martini of Clayton. L e e S Magnificent Structure That Will Cost One Hundred Thousand Dollars. of the Board of Supervisors heid last Monday the plans of Cunningham Brothers, submitted The building will be an elegant and commodious structure in the style of the Renaissance. used entirely for the exterior, and the building, which will be absolutely fire- The members of the Board of Supervisors who voted in favoer of erecting the courthouse according to the plans prepared by Cunningham Brothers are: man of Antioch, chairman; P. J. Tormey of Rodeo, E. J. Randall of Concord, Willlam Hemme of Davisville and Paul de R e e e o o Contra Costa County. At a meeting in competition, were Sandstone will be proof, will cost $100,000. J. . Wight- county are opposed to the proposed reser- vation. SENT FROM MANILA American Soldiers Who Have Suc- cumbed to Disease in Philippine Hospitals. WASHINGTON, March 7.—Quartermas- ter General Ludington has been informed | that the transport Sheridan left Manila | yvesterday and ‘the transport Westminster | left there to-day, both bound for San Francisco. Another casualty list was recelved at the War Department to-day from General Otis, as follows: DEATHS. Apperdicitis—March 2, Tilden A. Logan, Com- pany B, Twenty-eighth. | * Diarrhea—March 1, Charles L. Slocum, Com- pany K, y-seventh Infantry. Dysentery—December 6, Henry Alexander, | Twenty-fourth Infantry; February 7, John | McEacheran, corporal,” ‘Company B, seventh Infantry; February 24, Will Seventeenth Infant; OFGEN, CORBIN'S COWARDICE His Actions in Battle Ex- cited Ridicule of Officers and Men. Seeks to Excuse Him, However, on the Plea of Extreme Youth and Inexperience. c Febru- ton, Company C, e ) |s¥ 2, William Banks, Company B, Fnr'ty-mn;(n | r | Intantry; February 27, Ed Stroup, Company K, NEW YORK, March 7.—J. T. MOrgan, | Thirty-seventh Infaniry: February 2, James late colonel of the Fourteenth United | Pryor, Twenty-fourth Infantry. 24, venth John Hendrickson, Drowned—February i v- Infantry, Rio Compan Pagrajan, at Lumband. Enteritis—February 3, Harvey L. Leeman, Company F, Eighteenth Infantry. Typhotd _fe 7, Moss B. Robe, Company C, Nineteenth Infantry; February 22, William Walker, Company L, Ninth Infantry. Malarial fever—February 24, Petronilo Gurule, 57""’{2?“2" [;.) Thirty-fourth Infantry; February States Colored Infantry, has written an cpen letter to the Tribunée with reference | to Adjutant General Corbin's military | record during the Civil War. | He states that he is prompted to write the letter by the frequent mentioning of his name in connection with the Senate | resolution of inquiry as to the military : urth Thtantry ebruary | pecorst ‘of Gengtal COi. | Intantry, and Henry Tilley, quartermaster ser- | Colonel Morgan's letter, deals principally | geant, Company G, Ninth Infantry. with the battle at Nashville, Tenn., De- N e cember 34 and 15, 164, during which he | january . George T Baudsan, Commfany ¥, was in command of an improvised division | Eleventh Cavalry, and Patrick Phelan, Com- 3 of white and eolored troops. The officers | pany I, Eleventh Cavalry; February 23, Wil- - | lam. F ell, Company D, Thirty-seventh | commanding regiments under him includ- | 1A, MGERRS, ogpasy D Thtrseventh ed Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Grosve- nor, now member of Congress; Colonel (now general) W. R. Shafter and Lifeuten- ant Colonel (now general) Corbin. | Writing of this battle, Colonel Morgan says: “Colonel Shafter and Colonel Grosvenor acquitted themselves with great credit, Shafter showing special activity and cour- age and suffering the ioss of many of his men. “I was not with Lieutenant Colonel Cor- bin during the fighting, but officers re- ported to me after the battle was ended that he had betrayed such cowardice as to excite the ridicule of both officers and men. 1 spoke to him abgut it and he at once tendered me his resignation, subse- withdrawing it. report - of the battle I said that I thought that Lieutenant Colo- nel Corbin did not have the courage requi- site to command brave men. Many years afterward, when the ‘Rebellion records’ were about to be published, I was urged to expunge that sentence before the re- port s published. This I declined to.do on two grounds—first, because I did not feel at iiberty to alter the records, bellev- ing that such action on my part and on that of other officers would not only tend to destroy their historical accuracy and value; and second, because subsequent events closely connected with my report and my record would be without proper explanation. “I preferred charges against Lieutenant Colonel Corbin based upon the information I had recelved and believed to be correct, and on these charges he was brought to trial by a court-martial, which, however, acquitted him. "'zsubsequenfly he united with others and preferred charges against me on which I was brought to trial. The findings of the court-martlal were set aside. I was given the command of a brigade by the per- sonal act of Governor Thomas, was sub- sequently promoted by the President as brevet brigadier general and was con- firmed by the Senate. In August, 1865, the war being over, I left the service, Lieu- tenant Colonel Corbin became Colonel of the regiment, and, if T mistake not. he has remained continuously in the army from that time to the present, a period of porel, Thirty-efghth Infantry. | Variola—February 17, Fred §. Johnston, Com- pany I Thirty-third Infantry: February 22, Paul H. Phillps, Fourth Cavairy; February 25, Joseph A. Martin, hospital corps: February Charles B, msey, Thirty-third Infantry March 3, James M. Woodland, Company M, Seventh Infantry. | Pleurisy—February 23, Taylor Johnson, Com- pany F, Twenty-second Infantry. | Chloroform anaesthesia—February 17, Robert M. Bartlett, Company H, Forty-second In- fantry. PRESIDENT KRUGER [ RETURNS TO PRETORIA GLENCOE, Natal, Saturday, March 3.— | President Kruger has returned to Preto- ria. His address to the burghers has fired | them with fresh enthuslasm to continue | the fight for independence and to bring the war to a successful issue. CARNARVON, Cape Colony, Tuesday, March 6.—A refugee who has arrived here from Kenhardt says that early on Wed- nesday, February 28, shots were ex- changed with the rebels, who retired, Thereupon Commandant de Koek arrived with a flag of truce. The magistrate who went from Kenhardt to meet him was Im- mediately made a prisoner and the rebels then poured into the town, hoisted the white flag, proclaimed the district to be Free State territory, sang volkslied and began commandeering. The magistrate was detained for trial at Bloemfonteln. The refugee says the natives are being severely treated. LONG NOW THE WORLD'S CHAMPION TRAP SHOT Defeats Captain Bogardus, Who Has Held the Title for Seventeen Years. tion. They believe that the situation is so complicated that only a call of President McKinley could straighten it out. During the afternoon of the Zlst Attorney General Cooper communicated by telephone with President Wilder of the Senate and Sena- tor Waterhouse, expressing the view that | the body should meet in some manner ana adjourn. Mr. Wilder replied that he had no authority to eall the Senate together and would not attempt to do so until in- structed by President McKinley. The action of the House in meeting has been commented upon in various ways, but the consensus of opinion seems to be that the stand of Speaker Kaulukou was correct. It is agreed that the constitu- tion has been complied with and that the House is now in session on proper lines. Any technicality in this regard has been removed. It only remains now for the sergeant at arms to notify country mem- bers that the House is in session accord- ing to law and their presence is required. EPRARE PLAGUE STORY DENIED. Dr. Foster Says Disease on Nanyo Maru Is Beri-Beri. VICTORIA, B. C., March 7.—Official ad- vice has been received of the appearance of genuine bubonic plague on the N. Y, K. steamship Nanyo Maru at Diamond Head (Port Townsend). SEATTLE, Wash., March 7.—A special dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer -from Port Townsend, Wash., says: Dr. Foster, in charge of the quarantine station, flatly denies the rumor in eirculation to the effect that bubonic plague and not berl beri afflicted the crew of the Japanese steamer Nanyo Maru, which has been de- tained at Diamond Point for some months past. The story is a fake, sald to have originated In Vietoria. ——-—— Peacemaker Shot. Special Dispatoh to The Call, ‘WILLOWS, March 7.—This evening at about 9:30 o’'clock Charles Westenall, a laborer ontth!e h’l‘rfllel;l r:nchfxx?om‘tve!ve iles west of here, shot a fellow lal Pamed Frank Bishop in - both m?om' Neither wound is apt to prove very gerous. Bishop s that he received the wounds_while acting as peacemaker ba- tween enall and another man. Wes- tenall was intoxicated at the time ani Bishop does not belfeve the bullets were intended for him. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 7.—Scores of women were in the big crowd to-day which saw Mrs. Shattuck of Minneapolis, champion woman trap shot of the world, shoot. with C. E. D. Long, the Arkansas champion, after Long had just defeated Captain A. H. Bogardus, who held the world's championship for seventeen years. In the shoot of twenty single targets, Long broke twenty straight to Bogardus’ | eighteen. In the double target event, ten uces each, Long smashed thirteen to ten ?or Bogardus. ong then killed sixteen live birds out of twenty, while Bogardus settled fifteen. Mrs. Shattuck shattered sixteen out of twenty single targets to Long's seventeen. The ten-paces event resulted in 11 for Mrs. Shattuck and 13 for lon? Mrs. Shattuck killed ‘16 out of her 20 live birds. Long scored 19 dead pigeons and won the triang- ular contest. Another Body Found. REDDING, March 7.—The recovery of at least two more bodies of victims of the recent accident at the Iron Mountain mine is near. This afternoon the search- ers uncovered a human foot Jmtrudlng from the debris. The head had not been uncovered at a late hour this evening, so nearly thirty-five yvears. “T regret that any one has seen fit to bring up this matter, for I am of the opin- jon that the Nashville incident ought not at this time to have weight in determin= ing the question as to whether the ad- jutant general of the army should be made major general. Corbin and I were at that time very young volunteer offi- cers, with but little experience in either life or service, and it seems to me {hat neither his act- as a soldier nor mine as a commanding officer ought to be judged in the severe military standard of the regular army. I believed at that time that Colonel Ccrbin had betrayed cow- ardice, so reported and felt it my duty to court-martial him. But the judgment of the court did not sustain me, and the incident should be regarded as closed. "The question whether the adjutant general of the army should be a major general is one to be determined by ex- perts, and 1 do not feel called upon at the present time to pass any opinion upon it. gdy object in writing this communca- tion is to state facts as they occurred. so as to remove from the public mind many mlss,pprehenslnnw and misunderstand- ings.” e —— Pacific Coast Pensions. the identity of the victim is unknown. It Special Dispatch to The Call. is belleved, however, to be A. Oates. He WASHINGTON, March 7.—Penslons— |and A. Van Buren were known to be son, Mount Olivet. $10; Peter C. Anson, | Pectel 10 B¢ LU0 T of J. McBroom 1s Soldfers’ Home, Los Angeles, $3. Increase _James La Niece, San Bernardino, $6 to $8; Andrew P. Peterson, Veterans' Home, Napa, mG 3 nngllssu;o!:ngx :nr:sl;mo— . Gree! n , 38 to T Hongmal: Willlam R, Ward, Gooseberry, $12; Edwin M. Wilkins, Lang- lois, $10. Yncran!e~ Albert Francls. Moni- tor, $12 to xfl; John A. Tracey, M d, $6 to 88; Andrew J. Usher, Columbia City, ”vfrnn‘isn'lnnwn — Original as yet. unknown. Sl F PSS Killed by a Horse. SANTA ANA, March 7.—Meade Burton Matthews, the 7-year-old son of R. A. Matthews, was dragged to a horrible death at Raitt's dairy, south of town, last night. The boy was leading a horse to water, when the animal e fright- ened and ran away. The became en- in the rope around the animal's :__ Stephen K. led Grover, Copalis, $6. TIncrease—Henry | neck and was dn‘f“d over half a mile. tralia, $6 to $8. ‘When the horse finally sto) the bo: A g cr s S0 w“’l)lluleu and his body ost mdue-x to a pulp. Stock Issue Canceled. “HONOLULU, Feb. 2%.—At a special ting of the stockholders of the Ameri- e 5 it it: was de- Reservation Bill, Special Dispatch to The Call. PLACERVILLE, March 7.—The Board of Supervisors of this county at to-day’s session ndop'tedarml lutlon.mmcomrmmn. 2 e?ulonv e C‘fifoprglfiblo lenator o defe extension the Tah E 9 B e s or Gtised = Ok Charles T. Davis’ Participa- an attorney sider, remem | Davis here, but he says that he does not know whether the one in trouble in New York is the one he knew. st Al Davis atta Fhran sco street when the discussion over the adopted in the seventies was hot. Kearney had Davis arrested and he was fined $100 for the vis was working to bear the shares of the big bonanza, and that Keene was playing | on the same side of the market. Agency in_ this statement to C ing are the salient points vis well. San Francisco Alta in 1875. him and told him that he was connected with Humbert Brothers, who were min- ing engineers. inside California and Virginia stocks, and that there was a party in town who had come | to raid these &tocks. made other statements to the sama effect, and the statements were published by Wheeler in the Alta, which was then the leading financial publication of the city. After a while Wheeler found out that the statements were wholly false and without foundation. about 30 build, fres gm'jnl horse to bottomwot the and the pursulng team ran over buggy, throwing out were badly bruised ed to splinters. The horse E Simini, a valuable animal LONG LIST OF DEAD {F ,G”H[D Aw”-H KEENE IN THE BIG BONANZAS tion in the “Great Short Deal.” Arrest of the Wall-Street Editor Re- calls a Famous Mining Transac- tion of Twenty-Five Years Ago. SR T New York dispatches announce the in- dictment by special Grand Jury of Charles T. Davis, editor of the Wall-street Re- view, and five other men on the charge | that they circulated false reports in order to depress Brooklyn Rapld Transit stock and profit by the decline. raigned on three indictments, two alleging felony and held in $11,000 bail. Davis was ar- one misdemeanor, and was Charles Thomas Davis was well Xnown | here in the seventies and especlaily is re- membered for the events of 1875, in which he was a moving figure in connection with the great short deal of “Jim” Keene in “the big bonanza mines, the bonanza firm of Flood, O'Brien, Fair and Mackay were the principal holders. | Many old-timers, now that the rancor of a quarter of a century ago has passed |away, shares in which do not care to antagonize Jim Keene or to throw stones at the grave of one of the engineers who made what was opularly styled ig bonanzas. he bogus map” of the George R. Wells, who was for Flood and was an in- ers that there was a Charlesg Two persons have been discovered who are sure that Charles Thomas Davis is the one who operated in San Fran | eisco to the large advantage of Jim Keene in the campaign to short the shares of the big bonanza. ney; the other is Richard Wheeler, once a writer for the financial One of these is Denis Kear- ock department of the San Francis L. Kearney recollects Davis because cked him with a cane on a San ew constitution” that California ault. Kearpey says that Da- ‘When Davis and Keene were discovered to be working together in New York a New York detective agency put the In- vestigation of the antecedents of Dav Curtin’s Detective ‘Wheeler made a ‘urtin, of which the follow- He knew Da- He was the mining editor of.the He also said that he had about Consolidated information Subsequently Davis The Humberts had prepared a map of the bonanza mines, which was subsequently denounced as was under the impression that Davis was | then only Humberts, ing with money on the market eventually. was on the side all the time that Keene “pretended he bogus map.”’ Wheeler gretendlng to act with the ut _that he was really act- Flood. Keene made much Dayis to be.” Davis was then g;ears old, undersized, medium complexion, an Englishrhan. Friends of Flood do not take the view that Jim Keene was playing on the same side of the market as Flood. On the co trary, they assert strongly that he was fighting Flood, and that after the map made by the Humbert brothers had been used to short stocks it was subsequently proved to be onl ceive. that the vein broke off dividends pald for four took out dividends at the rate of $1,200,000 | {’ enough right to de- After the bogus map had shown were ears and Flood and Mackay r month for a long time. Keene and vis both affected to believe that the bogus map was genuine. NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH IN A RUNAWAY Joseph Bartini’s Team Collides With a Wagon Driven by Louis Simini. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, March 7.—Joseph Bar- tini and Louis Simini, two ranchers, while driving down a steep grade north of the summit house, on the Bolinas road, last night, met with an adventure that came | near costing the Itves of both. Bartini had passed the summit house, when _his team shied at a plece of paj and_dashed at a-furious pace down the de, which is over_ seven miles long. hen half way ggy driven by Louis was unl‘ble to turn o\:’t t:‘;;t“ n.m,r. unaway team pass, and wi s keep ahead of them. At the grade Bimini's horse fell Bartini. and the owned b, Alta stables here, was serlously eut.’ [ e e e e I o I S ] and mining | avis came to | lown Bartin{'s team over- Stmini. his Bo%h men %) PRESSURE BEARS ON MEMBERS OF BROTHERHOODS Railroad Officials Trying to Break Down Phalanx of Opposition. i i | Under Demand From Headquarters | Three Conductors Said to Have Joined the Huntington Relief Bureau. g | Oakland Office San Franeisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 7. Rallroad men find no comfort in the ficlal announcement from headquarte that no compulsion will be used to induce employes to join the Huntington relief | bureau. It is asserted as the belief of the | workmen that General Manager Krut | schnitt’s proclamation is nothing mors | than & device to sway pu opinion if | possible toward the railroad company in | the fight which is on over the insurance | scheme. | That the employes take no stock In tha | manifesto is evident from the fact that it lhll not deterred them from going ahead | with the organization of their union | grievance committee which is to go before the headquarters officials with their ob- Jectiors to the plan. While extremely guarded in their statements in public, the Oakland railroad men do not hesitate | among themselves to attack every phase | of the proposition. That the officials are | alarmed over the situation and fear mors | serfous results than mere verbal critic has been made known to the men fro | developments of the past twenty-four | hours. It is certain now that a lot of spies and ‘“spotters” have been thrown among the men to report upen their bearing toward the scheme. Further than that it is cur- rent talk among the men that the offi- | cials are moving quietly but surely to | create dissension in the ranks of brother- | hood members. In the Order of Railway Conductors there has been a strong attempt to start the men toward an o&en support of the | insurance project. hile nfl‘i greatest | secrecy is maintained concerning ever. | move of the conductors and the other | brotherhoods there is a weil defined re- | port among the West Oakland yards that | the railroad officlals have tried to break | into the ranks of the brotherhoods and have been straining every effort to induce some of the men to openly avow sym- g:!,}'b(y with the proposed relief depart- The report lacks definite confirmation because the men are afraid to remove the ban of secrecy from their meeting is. strongly declared however, that the of the headquarters officials have resulted so far in no serious breaks In the ranks. Three of the main line conductors, it is understood, made application for membership in th | relief bureau, but this defection is not considered of serious importance, as the | men have expected that a few of the en- ineers and conductors would take such a step. Wit the conductors, tralnmen and firemen represented In the grievanc committee, there remains yet to com plete the committee by representation from the Brotherhood of Engineers, which will meet on Friday evening The general committee’s meeting, set for Saturday night, will probably determin just what form the combined opposition to_the rellef bureau will take. Division Superintendent Agler has celved Imstructions to use every endeavor to_conciliate the men and to turn the tide of disapproval of the insuranc project. There has been no evidence that the men have any desire to compromis While they do not openly s In favor of a walkou men n the company But re at present. avow themselv: there are many | emplov- who feel very belligerent. a strike is a matter of the distant future, f such a course shall ever he taken. Death of Mrs. Sevening. ALAMEDA, March 7.—Mrs. Louisa Sev- ening, wife of Henry Sevening, president of the Alameda Savings Bank and Bank of Alameda, dfed at 9 o'clock this even- ing at the family residence on Central avenue. Mrs. Sevening had been fil from dropsy for_a year. There are three daughters—Mrs. Frank Miller of Oakland, Miss Lulu Sevening and Miss Alma Seven: ing. The deceased was 38 years old and a native of Germany. —_——— B. Fay Mills to Remain. OAKLAND, March 7.—The trustees of the First Unitarian Church will be able to comply with the salary requirements of Rev. B. Fay Mills, it is understood, and at _their meeting to-morrow afternoon he will be called to the pastorate of the church. ———— e Stanford Debaters Chosen. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. March 7.— The finals from which to pick the inter collegiate debating team were held m the chapel to-night. The question debate upon was: “Resolved, That the English policy in the Transvaal is Justi The judges were Professors Ross. and “Neweomer. They announ teams as fallo First Springer, Anna rick. Second team—C. Quale, J. English and F. B. Wagner. From t team an alternate will be chosen one week before the debate. —_—e————— Baker Knocks Out Barry. SALINAS, March 7.—George Baker of San Francisco and Kid Barry of Los An- geles, fought before the Monterey County | Athletic Club to-night. [n the seventh round Baker landed a right swing on Barry’s_jaw, knocking him out. James Clark of Watsonville was the referee. tor the E. Fe team—J. Fraser, Cecil M. M. & ADVERTISEMENTS. ? 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