The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1900, Page 2

SUPPOSED MURDERER OF MINER R. R. WATTS IS ARRESTED AT RENO| ARE YEARNING Boots of the Unfortunate Victim and His Valise Found in the Prisoner’s Possession. e s hebeb b . » &< soebe P o = S S ST S [ 4 ! ! : } i March 13.—Sheriff John- last night tele- Sheriff McInnis of Reno description of Mark allas Westlake, who is wanted murder of R. R imitted about the ff McInnis end scou the town last| ceeded in ascertaining working as a section hern Pacific road two This morning J. J. f, arrived from Sac- nied Sheriff McIn- | » was working and | e at first denfed | taken before Man- n of Riverside him for years, he in his allas. West- f town the Manager Welshon | for work, but got | ¥s later he went to i on the railroad ntil this morning, | W “larendon Hotel was officers state dered man, aring a pair <o belonged e sizes too ) stuffed erviewed at the Coun- ared to be quite but very reti- n rega touch- I can the Pop- to_go 14 see him I never saw not know the r, but 1 could A day or two employment as. [ told me he em- : four e to Truckee, - came here, and | s for t | that Special Dispatch to The Call R e e ] [ $2-00 000099809 e e Sk S o o e o in two days went to work on the section The officers suspected that he rode on | a pass stolen frcm Watts, and in reply a question Westiake declared that h paid his fare and had no pa is session of the valise and found in his room at the Claren: which are said to have beén the property of Mr. Watts, ae explained by saying that he had bought them at a store in M V'S - ville, but he could not remember the name of the store. Questioned as to his relations with Mrs. Martha Brauhard, Westlake declared that he never knew her except by sight. She used to come tc the place: where he stopped, but he never had any relations with her. But be stated very posi | he knew that Mrs. Brauhard and her haif-brother, Maxwell, or Bowen, lived together as man and wife. Westlake de- nied that he had ever sold a gold watch in Sacramento or that he had med | v ARREST OF MARK WESTLAKE and an Array of Evi- dence Against Him. | ment to accompany Officer | ramento without the formality of a req oe-0+0@ the name of “W. R. Roberts,” or signed it to any paper. W. R. Hoberts was the name signed to the bill of sale of Watts' sold ‘watch, which it is presumed the murderer stole. Westlake thisafternoon signedan agre inter to Sas sition, and they left for that city by to- night’s train. Westlake claims to have no relatives on the coast exvelyz his wife and children, who live at 18 1 street, Sacra- mento. He came from Henry County, II- nofs WESTLAKE’S ACCOMPLICE IGNORANT OF HIS ARREST Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, March 13. — Sheriff R R e A gnd Johnson has deemed it advisable to keep from Charles Brauhord for the present the fact that Mark Westlake, his sup- posed accomplice, is under arrest. The Bheriff has given the jailers orders not to permit the two men to meet when West- lake is brought down from Reno, Nev., to- morrow. The arrest of Westlake is regarded as of the utmost importance. It is believed that Cooney, the pawnbroker, will be able to-identify him as the man from whom he purchased the watch, chain and nugget pin of R. R. Watts, the murdered miner. The fact that Watts’ boots and valise were found in Westlake's possession is of the most damaging significance taken in connection with the finding of some of Watts' clothing in Westlake's room in Sacramento after his departure. No date has as yet been fixed for the examina- tion of Brauhard, Odell and Mrs. Brau- hard. The body of Watts was found on March 7 by some boys who were playing on the levee along the Sacramento river. Inves- tigation showed that he had been brutal- ly murdered by having his brains dashed out with a jagged rock, which was found near the bodf-, and that the murder had been accomplished some time before the crime was discovered. ‘Watts had been entangled in a mining scheme with Mrs. Brauhard. He had been | induced by the woman to deed to her eighty acres of mining land in Shasta County In return for which she trans- | ferred to him an interest in her property in Amador County. After Watts inspect- | ed the Amador property he told the woman that he would not give her $250 | for all she had in Amador County. The deal was consummated before Watts made an inspection of the property she transferred to him. Mrs. Brauhard conducted an employ- ment agency in Sacramento and Watts had rooms over her place. The woman %flned considerable notoriety recently by eing arrested at the instance of J. M. | Leeper. According to Leeper Mrs. Brau- hard had swindled him in a mining deal. She caught him, as it was alleged she had caught many others, by the following ad- vertisement: A nice-looking, respectable young widow, no children, has large real estate and mining property, owns also a fine country home within a short distance of Sacramento, wishes to be- come acquainted with an honest workingman. All letters answered, Intention, matrimony. Mrs. Brauhard's plan was to first learn if a suitor had money. If such was the case he was permitted to take a share in her mining property and then dig a tun- nel in the hilis looking for gold. The depth of the tunnel g usually was in proportion to the victim’s love. Watts was a witness in Leeper's case against Mrs, Brauhard and the police of Sacramento, acting on the theory that it would be to Mrs. Brauhard's interest to have Watts out of the way, held her on the suspicion that she m'im know much | about the murder. For the same reason the woman’s husband Is still in prison, while her partner in the employment of- fice. George Odell, was also arrested. Buspicion was first directed agains* Westlake for the reason that he was very friendly with both Mrs. Brauhard and her husband and when his room was searched some of Watts’ clothing was found in it. BARD IS CVEN | PLACES O FIVE COMMITTEES Senators Resign to Create| Positions for the Californian. PR AR Ly Turner of Washington Attacks the Constitutionality of the | Porto Rican Tariff Measure. i i rch 13.—In the Sen- | New Jersey resigned on Public Land ska from the Commit- Simon of Oregon from the Potomac River ashington from the age and Wet- m the Committee nt pro tem. Frye | rd of California to tne from which the Sen- order to make corc- | e were made in the by of Nebraska and Butler of North ( a of their position on the financtal ¢ Both announced their belief nd unlimited coinage £16to 1. The siste- | ¥ reports 0 the ciroulation: Supreme Court. nt would resul censtituti He presumed that the minority in Con- gress would be charged with favoring | Sompetition of American working people | Sith the underfed and underpaid labor of b o Rico and the Philippines; but in this connection he said it would have to | bered that the minority had op- | jstently the acquisition of the | tes ought to let the Philippines go in peace. 1t ought to be the mission of this | Country to give them a start on the road %o good government and _then permit them to proceed for themselves, reserving such coaling stations and harbors as we | can people, and he considered it wise to P properly be no diserimination in favor of | | reviewea | able that the American people owe it to | the people of those islands | ands the highest form of government for | which (helrwreolfle are prepared.” | The following nominations were made ven now he believed the United | , = might need. If the commercial interests, this country might make treaties with the | sense of gratitude to the United States might prompt them to give us. Traditions Thrust Aside. Turner thought the bill to levy a tariff | on the commerce between Porto Rico and | other portions of the United States was a | poor return for the ready acceptance of | our institutions on the part of the Porto Ricans, and “no amount of sugar coating could disguise its evil smell or nauseating taste.” It was, to his mind, a desperate assault upon the liberties of the people. The evident purpose was to break down the system which had stood the test of 123 years. The bill was clearly unconsti- tutfonal and it was repugnant to every utterance of the Supreme Court bearing upon the subject: Turner feared, indeed, that the meas- ure was one of those innovations against which the fathers had warned the Ameri- consider whither we were drift- ing. He did not agree with Foraker that “we have passed the law-book stage,” and quoted numerous decisions of the Su- preme Court to sustain his point, which was that the constitution must apply equally to all portions of the territory of | the United States and that there could | stop anc ne section in the matter of taxation or :rhnrwi.-e in the interest of another sec- tion. NOMINEES OF RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICANS | s | William Gregory of North Kingston Named for Governor by Acclamation. CE, R. I, March 13.—The Republican State Convention here to-day PROVIDE:! | | was the largest ever held in this State. | The enthusiasm was marked. George H. | Utter of Weste was the chairman. He the events of the past four vears, claiming that the promises made in the last national campaign had been ful- He sald: “The Philippines belon to us as truly as does this little State, and added: *“The conclusion is unavoid- and of the world as much a8 to thémselves to bring order out »f chaos and to give to the isl- by acclamation: Governor—Willilam Gregory, North Kingston. Lieutenant Govermor—Charles Dean Kimball, Providence. Attorney General—Willard B. Tanner, Provi- ence. aSecTetary of State—Charies P. Bennett, Provi- ence. General Treasurer—Waiter A. Read, Glouces- Delegates and alternates to the National Re- publican Convention were elected. he said, must have thelr pound of flesh, | Filipinos affording us such advantages as their BIPLAINED BY SECRETARY GAGE Intent of the Measure Which Is About to Become a Law. e s All Forms of Money Issued or Coined to Be Kept at a Parity With the Gold Standard of Value, BT WASHINGTON, March 13.—Secretary Gage to-day made a statement in explana- tion of the provision of the financial bill that passed the House, in which he says: The financial bill, which now only awaits the signature of the President to become a law, has for its first object what its title indicates, the fixing of the standard of value and the | maintaining at a parity with that standard of all forms of money issued or colned by the United States.. It reaffirms that the unit of value is the dollar, consisting of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains of gold nine-tenths fine, but from that point it goes on to make it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain all forms of money issued or coined at a parity with this standard. It puts into the hands of the Secretary ample power to do | that. For that purpose the bill provides in the Treasury Bureaus of Issue and Redemption, and transfers from the general fund of the Treasury's cash $150,000,00 in gold coln and bullion to the redemption fund, that gold to be ussd for the redemption of United States notes al Treasury notes. That fund is henceforth absolutely cut out of and. separated: from the cash balance in the Treasury, and ayail- able cash balance will hereafter ‘show & duction of $150,000,000 trom the figures that have heretofore prevatied. This $150,000,000 redemp- tion fund is to be used for no other purpose than the redemption of the United States notes and Treasury notes, and these notes so re- deemed may be exchanged for gold in the gen- eral fund or with the public, so that the re- serve fund i¢ kept full with gold to the $150,- 000,000 limit. Power to Sell Bonds. ‘The BSecretary is given further power. If redemptions go on 80 that the gold in this re- serve fund i ced to below $100,000.000 and he is unable to build up to-the $150,000,000 mark, y Sxchange for gold in the general fund or otherwise, he is given power to sell bonds, and it is made his duty to replenish the gold to the $150.000,000 mark by such means. The friends of the Old Government ‘Whisky are never drunkards. . The “‘endless chain’ is bfokén by & provision which prohibits the use of notes so redeemed to meet deficlencies in the current revenues. The act provides for the ultimate retirement of all the Treasury notes issued in payment for flver bullion under the Sherman act. As fast the bullion is coined into silver dollars Treasury notes are to be retired and replaced with an equal amount of silver certificates. The measure authorizes the lssue of gold cer- tificates in exchange for deposits of gold coin, the same as at present, but suspends that au- thority whenever and so long as the gold in the redemption fund is below $100,000,000, and gives to the Secretary the option to suipend the fssue of such certificates whenever the sil- ver certificates and United States notes in the general fund of the Treasury cxceed $60,000,000. The bill provides for a larger issue of silver certificates, by declaring that hereafter silve certificates shall be issued only in denomin: tions of $10 and under, except as to 10 per cent of the total volume. Room Is made for this larger use of silver certificates in the way of small bills by another provision which makes it necessary, as fast as the present silver cer- tificates of high denominations are broken up into small bills, to cancel a similar volume of United States notes of small denominations, and replace them with notes of denominations of $10 and upward. Further room is made for the circulation of small silver certificates by a clause which permits national banks to have only one-third of their capital in denomination under $§10. Subsidiary Silver Coin. One clause which the public will greatly ap- preciate is the right that it gives to the Secre- tary to coin any of the 1890 bullion into sub- sidiary silver coin up to a limit of $100,000,000. There has for years been a scarcity of sub- sldiary silver during perlods of active retail trade, but this provision will give the treas- ury ample opportunity to supply all the sub- sidiary silver that is needed. Anotheér provision that the public will greatly appreciate is the authority given to the Secretary to recoln worn and uncurrent subsidiary silver now in the treasury or hereafter received. The bill makes a_continuing appropriation for paying the dif- ference between the face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in the new coin. A distinet feature of the bill fs in reference to refunding the 3 per cent Spanish war loan, the 2 per cent bonds maturing in 1907 and the 6 per cent bonds maturing in 904, a total of $939,000,000, into mew 2 per cent bonds. These new % per cent bonds Will not be offered for sale, but will only be issued in exchange for an _equal amount, face value, of old bonds. The holders of old bonds will receive a pre- mium in cash to compensate them in a measure for the sacrifice of interest which they make, The cash premium will be computed on a ba: of the present worth of the old bonds at 2% per cent and will be, on April 1, the date thal the new 2 per cent bonds will bear, $111.6765 for the each $100 of the F's. excha the Government, after deducting the premium $23,000,000, 1f all the holders of the them for the new ones. on the new bonds are to be taxed only one-halt of 1 per cent on the average amount of circu- Jation outstanding, while those who have cir- culation based on'a deposit of old bonds will be taxed, as at present, 1 per cent. Increase of Bank Circulation. There are some other changes in the na- tional banking act. The law permits the na- tional banks with $25,000 capital to be organized in places of 3000 inhabitants or less, whereas, heretofore, the minfmum capital has. been $50,- 600, ts banks to {ssue circulation up to the ds par value of the bonds, instead of 90 per cent of their face value, as heretofore. This ought to make an Immegiate increase in oational bank circulation of something 1 000, as the amount of bonds qure éfreulation s about .* Tt the of the new twos is not forced so high n the market that there is no profit left to now CISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1900. SUBSCRIBERS FOR THE NS Rivals of the Topeka Capital Enjoy a Temporary Boom. et Rev. Mr. Sheldon’s Ideas on What to Print Are Not Satisfactory to Regular Patrons of the Paper. PR SR TOPEKA, March 13.—The first issue of the Sheldon edition of the Topeka Capital went to presd at 2:37 this morning and the press was kept running until noon, printing over 100,000 coples. The rest of the edition will be printed in Chicago and New York, for which matrices will be gent daily. The management of the paper says about 360,000 copies are required daily and that fresh orders are coming by every mail, 15,000 having arrived yesterday. Mr. Sheldon was at his desk again at 8:45 this morning. The paper {s not satisfactory to the reg- ular subscribers and outside papers have been bought freely to-dn{l The leading sto on the first page of the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon’s Christian dally to-morrow morning will be a brief statement by Associate Editor Chase telling of the prompt response that has been made to the appeal printed in this morning’s paper in behalf of famine- stricken India. The Christian Endeayor ‘World of Boston telegraphed Mr. Sheldon urging him to open a fund, but he says he is too busy to attend to the work and suggests that contributions be sent tprough regular channels. Some News Features. Governor Stanley writes a column arti- cle on the most %rnnt ving feature of his administration, which, he says, is the pro- ress prison reform has made in tate. Another feature of the page will be an anti-war cartoon by Beard and in this | connection General Otis’ latest list of casualtles in Luzon will be run, with com- ment by Editor Sheldon. A leading article on the local page will be a statement from the Kansas Millers’ Association protesting against alleged un- just treatment they received at the hands | of the rallroads. On the telegraph page much wlill be made of the war, and Editor Sheldon will comment freely on the news. There will | be a long special from Grinnell, Towa, | telling of the resignation of President Gates of Jowa College and giving reasons | therefor. | The editorial leader will be headed, “What Can We Do to Make This a Better City?"” It advocates non-partisan politics | urges a higher standard of righteous- ness among officials and people. ek anat ol S e e e N national banks in taking out circulation, we | may also look for a material increase in na- tolnal bank circulation based on additional de- | posite of bonds. | National banks are permitted under the law | to issue circulation up to an amount equal to | their capital. The total capital of all national banks is $616,000,000. The total circulation out- | standing is §253,000,000. There is. therefore, a | possibility of an increase in circulation 'of | $363,000,000, although the price of the new 2 per cent bomds, as already foreshadowed by | market quotgtions In advance of thelr issue, promises to be 8o high that (he profit to the banks in taking out circulation will not be enough to make the increase anything Nke such a possible total. | Comptroller Dawes, when asked what his course would be in connection with requests for national bank charters under the new law, sald: The question of the best methods of pre- venting the abuse of the new law, which au- thorizes the establishment of banks of 325,000 capital In towns with not exceeding 3000 peo- ple, has had my careful consideration. In View of the large number of applications for | charters of small banks I shall institute special | inquiry in addition to the usual examination as authorized by section 5189 of the Revised | Statutes of the United States whenever there is the slightest ground to suspect the existénce of improper motives on the part of those apply- ing for charters under the national system. e CURRENCY BILL READY FOR THE SIGNATURE Conference Report as Adopted by the Senate Agreed To by the House. WASHINGTON, March 13.—The last leg- islative step in the enactment of the finan- cial bill was taken by the House of Rep- resentatives to-day, when the conference report on the bill was adopted by a vote | of yeas 166, nays 120, present and not vot- ing 10. The Senate had already adopted the conference report, so that it only re- mains for the President to affix his signa- ture to the measure to make it a law. | Representative Overstreet, the author of | the bill, will take it to the White Heuse | to-morrow, and the signature is likely to be affixed soon thereafter. | Nine Democrats voted with the Repub- licans to agree to the report, viz.: Clay- | ton, Driggs, Underhill, Levy, Scudder, all of New York; Denny of Maryland, Mc-| Aleer of Pennsylvania, Thayer and Fitz- gerald of Massachusetts. In other respects | the vote was on party lines, e MILLIONS FOR THE INDIANS. | Appropriation Bill Completed by | Senate Committee. WASHINGTON, March 13.—The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to-day com- pleted consideration of the Indian appro- priation bill and_Senator Thurston re- ported it to the Senate. The bill as re- orted carries 33,413,641, an Increase of ,148,903. The principal items of the in- creased appropriation are for the sup-| port of Indlan schools. Other increases | are the following: $186,000 for the pay- | ment of the loval Seminoles; X in- crease of the %&propnatlon of the Dawes commission; ,000 for stamping out | smallpox in the Indlan Territory; $67,000 | for a townsite commission for the Terri- tory. All of the House lefilslltlve pro- Vistons were stricken out, the committee taking the position that the bills should carry only appropriation: pone_is- st Bill for a Cable to Cape Nome. WASHINGTON, March 18.—A bill was introduced in the Senate to-day by Sen- ator Foster authorizing the construction | by the Government of a cable from some ort on the coast of the State of Wash- ngton to Cape Nome and other points in Alaska. To Preach in Woodland. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ‘WOODLAND, March 13.—Flive congre- gations In Woodland have secured the services of Jack Cooke, the boy preacher. He will begin a week’s work as soon as he finishes his San Francisco engagement. ¢‘Never Quit Certainty For Hope. You may take Hood’s Sarsaparila for all diseases arising from or promoted by impure blood with perfect confidence that # aill do you good. Newver take any sub- stitute. In Hood's Sarsaparilla you have the best medicine money can buy. I cures, — completely and permanently, — hen others fail to do any good. Scrofulous Humor—*J was in ter #ible condition from the tiching and burning of scrofulous humor. Grew worse under treatment of several doctors. Took Hood’s Sarsaparilla .and Hood's Pills. These cured me thoroughly.” . J. Little, Falton, N. 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FAMILY ROW NEARLY ENDS N MURDER Jerry Wright of Anderson Fires Two Shots at John F. Bedford. —— Decision Rendered by the Superior Court Adverse to One of the Liti- gants in a Suit Causes the Shooting. o A REDDING, March 13.—As a result of a tamily quarrel extending over several years, Jerry Wright, a merchant of An-| Qerson, this afternoon fired two shots at | his brother-in-law, John F. Bedford, a prominent mérchant and politician of that | town. Wright stood in his store and, rest- ing the weapon through a window, fired both barrels of a shotgun at Bedford, who was sitting in front of his own store. Luckily for the man shot at, the gun was loaded with small shot and little damage | resulted. One leaden pellet passed through his cheek and several struck him on the legs, barely penetrating the flesh. His son, C. J. Bedford, was seated by his side and was struck by several shot but not hurt. A Depu Sheriff hurriedly brought Wright to the County Jail here, as it was feared he would be seriously dealt with by_the Bedford faction. The immediate cause of the shoo was a decision rendered in the Super Court this morning adverse to the Wrig eople in a suit that was brought by M Mary Davison, Wright's mother, to cover $#36 Interest and principal from he son-in-law, John Bedford, on a priva note. Judgment was rendered to-day favor of the defendant. The note had ot lawed while Mrs. Davison and & daughter and son-in-law were on go terms previous to the commencement the action. in the differences, and when the de was giyen adverse to her he worked b self Into the murderous state exhibi This is not the first time that Mrs. Da son_has been brought into lic_not! Wright supported his mother si Allhnlelgh over 80 years of age, she was marri to Dr. . Davison of San Francisco in April of last year. A few months later she brought suit to recover $3000 she had loaned him a few days pre- vious © the marriage. His San Fran- cisco drug store was attached and is to be sold soon to satisfy her judgment. COLOMBIA’S REVOLT. Indications That the Revolution Is Not Near a Settlement. KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 13.—The latest news from Colombia is to the ef- fect that the revolution will last the next twelve months, as the Government is ob- structing the Liberals In every conceiv- able way and at the same time addirg much to its treasury. Business is at a standstill in every part of the republic and there is very little foodstuffs on the market. On March 4 an officer and a soldler on duty at Carthegena quarreled and the for- mer ?ruck off the latter's head with his sword. HUDYAN-—all druggists—soc Cal. | | | D e HEADACHES, CONSTIPATION, LOSS OF APPETITE, HUDYAN CURES. 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