The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900. 1 | JAPANESE ARE URGED TOSETTLE IN FORMOSA ki Government Seeks to Check the Tide of Emigration Abroad AR Minister Nabes clieves His C trymen Are Bei ed to a by Stex % Qo st et eiededsosdede® £ R € g America | ¢ B r i to the @ x * V] orted & v rate | EMPLOYMENT OF JAPANESE. Gang of Them Put to Work on the Santa Fe Road. M AFTER THE HEAD OF CHINESE REFORMER Sent Assass From China to Take Leung tso. Business Men Organize. 1—A M, CURES WEAK MEN Send Name and Address To-day--You Can Have It Free an Vigorous for Life. INSURES LOVE AND A HAPPY HOME, L. W. KNAPP, M. D. How any man may quickly cure himself after years of suffering from sexual weakness, lost Viality, night losses, varicocele, etc., and en- ge small, weak organs to full size and vigor. send your name and address to Dr. L. 1378 Hull Bldg.. Detroit, Mich. y send the free receipt with full £0 th&t 8nY man may easily cure at home. This i# certainly a most gen- and the following extracts taken y mail show t men think of a Please accept my sincere thanks yours of recent date. have given your ituent & thorcugh test end the benefit has napp. n | QUEER OLD SAMUEL PAGE’S $100,000 ESTATE THE PRIZE Legal Conflict Between the Venerable Rancher’s Children and the Beautiful- Young Woman Who Married Him Shortly He Became insane and Died. Before Widow, Who Is Mother of a Posthumous Child, Is Cailed Adventuress by Children, Whom She Charges With Hounding Old Man to His Grave, Beoscvieietoiesioioie@ EE people of Kings County are deeply interested in the impend- ing contest over the will of | Samuel Page, an eccentric old man who died near Hanford last year, leaving an estate valued at $100,000. For four years prior to his death the old fellow had been seeking a wife to comfort him in his declining years. He had advertised in matrimonial but failed to find his after a -correspondence with Lillian Leslie Bushnell, a beauti- ful young woman of Los Angeles pos- | WINIFRED Dt e el e e of which reveals in mute eloquence the her posthumous child of every ves- tige of inheritance and cast them penniless upon the world. She ew him well and long says was never a kind nor highly | e 2 in all his life. He was asserts that the machinations of the | §raspl Ly ang Ahewaly OBt | s He had a peculiar noti~n about the Bible, | children drove her husband to hope- n, but ren ‘red its meanings less insanity and his grave. The tes- his understanding.” | % 5 4 chapter of the old man’s fru- timony to be given at the coming ouched for not only from | trial, the young woman declares, will own arations, but Attorney Dixon s & Pl st & Phillips heard a witness who w as sensational as any that has|en 1 it, and one of which it ever been heard in the courts of eclally proud. It ra < : ent from hi California. his father 1d he must come q He set out at once, but in his coffin when he ar- May 11.—The Page ranch, st lunch time, and every it of the presence of the before starting to the id not care to eat, but n the short time alone with his father. It was day of home- | spun clothing. His father w ssed in | uld be made. e deliber- | 1 the lid of the coffin, took FREE. stripped him of the’ good | on an old one that was at returned him to the casket and stored the new suit away in his lling it for $10 when he returned | place where he lived. Courted a Female Barber. Page was lonely after the death of his | wife and pined for and went in quest of | female companionship. He soon found a | reciprocating woman by the name of Catherine M. Adams. a barber- in Han- | ford, app: ntly willing to heed the low | dulcet woolng of an old, repulsive man | d Be Strong and h money. DBut the falr Catherine had | e to business. Samuel Page went | ford one afternoon to wed and | r home to the ranch. She demand- | | e ecds to some lots and a house in town and the home ranch before | | Boing to the altar. Page demurred, but pledged his word to grant the demand at after the nuptials we; ealed. This { cted to and he re ed home. | | days later the woman sued him for | ach of promise, fixing the damage her | heart had sustaf 5,000, | He had talked that there ap- | pear 3 strong prob- abtlity that the woman would have ample | testimony to get a big judgment against him. He became alarmed and arranged with | his children, Dr. Solomon C. Page and Mary Ann Garver, to make over his| property to them and thus put it beyond | the reach of law before the sult of the Adams woman could be tried. But the transaction made with the verbal un- derstanding t the title so conferred was to be rendered back after the danger of the pending suit was passed. e suit of the Adams woman termi- nated with a judgment of $500 against Page, which he satisfied and quickly de- manded the return of the fraudulent ti- tle to his property held by his son and daughter as stated. But he found that a sad change had come over the spirit of the dreams of his custodlan children; they had decided to retain the property, to which they held unconditional titles Such perversity provoked Page to =iy his children for the recovery of his estate. Henry C. and Elias C. Page entered the iegal arena arraved against their brother Solomon C, and Mary Ar desperately resolved to annul the tran: fer of their father's estate to them. The cold comfort he met In his love affair with the Adams woman, and the trouble that that Indiscretion involved him with his children were not sufficient to admonish him to desist from matrimo- | nial adventure. He answered advertise- | ments in matrimonial papers and corre- | sponded with a number of women. But | he ever met demands for advance cash settlements entirely repugnant to him. The Young Woman Appears. Thus he was baffled and tantalized for four years, when he met and married the young woman who is now the central | figure in this life storv—Lilllan Leslie. | Her family came to California when she was a little girl—an unappreciative step- | mother there crossing the threshold of her father's home just before she entered her teens. She was sent to school in Oakland some terms, fell in love at fifteen, and was sent secretly away to complete her education with relatives in Massachusetts, so the beau never knew where she was to be se n, s been extraordinary. It has completely braced me up, ] am just as vigorous as when a boy and you cannot realize how happy I am.” | “Dear Sir: Your method worked beautifully. | found, as she was not allowed to write Results were exactly what I needed. Strength = home and was denied even the price of a snd_vigor have compleicly returned and en- | postage stamp till long atter the man she fargemens 1s entirely satisfactory. oved sold his possessions In California ““Dear Sir: Yours was received and I had no | and sought refuge beyond the sea. After | trouble in making use of recelpt as directed, | gome yearsof school the family that held { and can truthtully say it ls & boon to weak | her as a Ward decided to go West and men. 1 am greatly Improved In size, Strength | gho refused to accompany those who had and viz i B it n o long her practical jailers. She | then at once learned at her own volition | the compositor's trade and became a con- tributor of verse and prose to newspa- fled in piAin. sealed enveiope. - The receint Ta"free for ihe asking and he wants every man to kave it. @rieessetec e etetei | sessed of manyaccomplishments.Only | grasping avarice of the > owner. The a short time before death summoned was never but finished and the venerable rancher he married this b asceivor kodbagm ok young womean — the s2cond upon i ments would not pro- | whom he bestowed the name were never allow- | Page. children, against scant and of the s atly embittered Dedr P < 223 in Pennsylvania pts to secure e 1 Frisd o sion of his property, accuse her came to of being an adventuress. The widow ord about & her kol sed to live on the home- 1 ® + ® + ® |+ ! Poo et 0060000 pers and periodicals. Her literary tal- | rights. The case is now pending on the ents attracted the attention of a wealthy | making up of a bill of exceptions. 1 vice abroad | _The decision of Judge Wallace gave oral lan: amuel Page a life estate in the home to Cali. arned that her earl a foreign land, Charles Button form- pe good disposition as g him ten vears most of the time and thus making a liv- provider for a home. ing for her: r husband, till her f and he d_s! health went to the hospi- tal fo son. After this she % | was unal and was_ finally driven to seek a divoree from the hu that made no effort to relieve her dis- tress. When she rtial strength again_work t her trade spasmod- An surpris e d one day when a let- a suitable wife for some time. He V. an old man. He had been a preacher for fifty years. He was well provided with the goods of this world. He had a home for a wife the remainder of hi deys and would leave her a comfortable independence after his death. He wanted a woman with a good education and re- finement, able to help him arrange his re- ligious literature for the “press,”” as his own education was defective. He had heard of her literary ability through a man who had worked in an office with her in Los Angeles, and was satisfied she was in every respect the woman he had been so long vainly hunting. She replied guardedly, telling him that she would have to meet and know him well before she could even think of con- sidering such a proposition. She told him she was qualifted to perform all he re- quired, but regarded the sacrifice she would have to make out of all question within the latitude of any (‘nmEPnsz\llon, But she finally told him that if he wished he could call on her in Los Angeles. He quickly replied that he could not then go to Los Angeles, but that he was so sure that she would more than realize him his fondest anticipations he would pay her expenses to Hanford and back to Los An- geles were they unable to make up a match. She replied that such an arrange- ment seemed fair enough, but could not be entertained because absurdly improper. She informed him that she was an author- ess and had some books under way and that she knew how 1o prepare matter properly, for the printer. She then sug- ested that she might speculate on any direct business proposition he 'cared to submit that might mutually facilitate their enterprises. And she concluded by telling him_the wifely feature was out of all bounds of reason. The 0ld Man’s Persistency. He replied that the wife was what he most needed. He vowed he would pay for bringing out her books and do much for her besides. He assured her that he was confident that they understood each other sufficiently for her to come to Hanford under his first proposition to pay her way; and added that they would make a fin- ished job of the business by marrying at_once if able to agree. She wrote him that she would accept his proposition to go to Hanford and enter into personal negotiations with him. She arrived at Hanford in due course and was identified by Page. He had promised she should live at a hotel he owned in Han- ford during the time necessary to arrange the preliminary detalls of the strange ne- gotiations, But to the ranch they went to permit her to inspect the place. She found the interior of the house dilapidated and untidy in a degree to rival the ex- terfor appearance and condition of its owner, ‘But he excused both on the ound that the influence of woman had een absent from the ranch so long that everything, Including himself, had gone to ruin’ and waste. He sald he had thought of renovating and cleaning up, but de- cided to leave all to the woman, who would have her way about such matters and do all he might do over again. She saw enough in two minutes to disgust a sensitive woman of refinement; but as she was in for a mission of reform the worse the conditions the more benefit she could render in swoeping and surnishi the neglected, disordered house. He told her she might repalir and furnish to her own liking. Undaunted, She Agrees to Wed. The upshot was that she rematned at the ranch while he secured the license and made other greparauons, she having 2 d to marry him. In two days he was ready to drive with her to the }ustlce of the Peace, as she demanded a legal mar- riage. He brought her in the meanwhile a regularly drawn marriage contract, set- tling on her a house and two lots in Han- ford, $5000 In cash and one-third of his other possessions at that tilme or what g, S, b, e peered, then drove and re T h legally united as husband The excessive labar sha wos ahlicad ta Al perform to put the house in condition to render it habitable made her sick. She told him she required a doctor, which he refused to provide, saying he was not going to pay $3 a trip for a doctor to visit as young a woman as she was when he could cure her as well himself. He delib- erately administered and forced her to take a teaspoonful of unadulterated spir- its of turpentine. After the scalding the dose gave her throat was sufficiently healed for her to eat with comfort she asked for some baked potatoes and but- ter. He told her that butter was too ex- pensive. p But this was not the most nor the worst she had to endure. She found that she had married a man excessively disagree- able and addicted to unclean habits. Baths Were Unknown to Him. He had never taken a bath in all his life, and assured her that when he once | washed his feet he took such an awful cold that it aknost brought him to the | grave. But she gave him baths, to which | he had the choice of submitting or giving | her up. She was Samuel Page's wife and | had assumed the obligation of taking care | of him for the remainder of his life; so | she bit her lips, resolved to endure what- | ever she was powerless to cure and stand | by the hard contract she had entered into. | But her experience was swift and flerce | but not tediously prolonged with the old | man and his miserly traits. Page held a mortgage on a quarter sec- tion of land adjoining the Cook mine in ‘e County that was bonded last year for $30,000. He made, some tifne before the trouble growing out of the complications the suit of the Adams woman created be- tween him and his children, a power of attorney in favor of Solomon C. Page to foreclose said morigage. According to the widow, the son obeyed the wishes of his father’ in every particular except in the | ownership of the new possession, having had the title drawn in his own favor in- stead of Samuel Page's. The day the father learned this he became violently insane and never recovered, but_ died month later broken-hearted and mad dened at the loss of property that prom ised to become worth a million in a short time, as gold had just been discovered on the land. Mrs. before the old man passed away omon C. Page had made an attempt to send his father to an insane asy- lum and dispossess the widow of the home ranch, on the ground that his father was no longer responsible for his acts; that the influence of an adventuress controlled him absolutely and designed to disinherit his children entirely. But the court denied the unsustained petition. hen Samuel Page sued his son and daughter for the recovery of the prop- erty made over to them when the suit of the Adams woman was pending against him he had a receiver of the estate ap- pointed in the person of J. O. Hickman. enry C. and Elias C. Page had joined issue against their brother and sister, Soj- omon C. and Mary Ann, so that the fam- ily was fighting in_ three factions at the time of his death before Lilllan Leslie Page ever became entangled among them. Before he became insane Samuel Page became so exasperated at the conduct of his children that he made a will in favor of his wife as follows: “This my will to my widow all the law allows and the fulfiliment of the marriage contract: all the personal property; $50 to Sol. C. Page; 350 to Mary A. Garver and the rest to my other natural heirs, and my Wwidow to administer without bond. s in case I beat Mary and Sol, and get my money back; otherwise my widow is tc have ‘all but $5 to each of my children," hen it became certain that the end of iz:llrl:\xv(‘eler?nge was r:lear Sol C. and Mary vere summoned to loo < their father in life. D e Sol- not put in an appearance. Property Declared a Trust. Judge W. B. Wallace, before whom the suit against Sol C. tried at Visalia, decided and purpose of the tra erty, the recovery ject of the suit, was fraudulent, it would have to stand; but he granted Samuel Page a life estate in the home ranch and declared the property a trust fer the four children, the only heirs he deigned to rec- ognize. The widow appealed against the s every feature fer of the prop- decision, as it might be construed as ig- noring both her and her child, Winifred, the posthumous heir of her husband, and would undoubted] River- | little season. Her husband was of | ranct and char- | ture was trust indolent and had no tact | declares. the | l | ter came to her addressed to Miss Lillian Leslle Bushnell, postmarked Hanford, | Cal. She opened and read the strange statement that the writer had been seek- | | . which naturally the widow and the t abe at his death, She met | and which they partially enjoyed for a | But the receiver soon for- | bade her to sell or use anything on the y piece of furni- yet, Mrs. Page receiver has Page, permitting him to appropriate the property and charging him the value, or claiming that he so charges what Is thus taken, against his interest in the estate. Mrs. Page further asserts that Elias C. Page came from Kan: and lived on the ranch many months at her ex- hense, making her believe the while that Pis ‘sratituae and . appreciation’ were o great that he should go to any extreme | to aid her in winning the legal fight against Solomon C. Page and Mary Ann | Garver. He was anxious, she says, to.en- ter into an arrangement by which they could manipulate matters so as to possess all of his father's estate.- An indignant refusal resulted In his leaving the ranch, | His departure, declares the widow, was followed by an attempt on the part of the | receiver to deprive her of any means of | support from the ranch and to serve her | with_an ejectment notice, the validity of which is now pending in court. Page obtained from the recelver the per- missfon to appropriate the products of the ranch; and was actually hauling away the last of the firewood and would have removed every stick had she not harness- ed up a team in the night, hitched it to his loaded wagon, drove to the house and unloaded it in the yard by herself before | morning. All the Kings County folk who are friends of the young widow unhesitating- Iy declare that she is paying doubly dear for the reward of her sacrifice§, not an over munificent compensation had it all been realized and enjoved in peace after the life she experienced Page. friends who look unfavorably upon Mrs. Page and are anxious to see her defeated in the coming trial of the contest over the wil The rejected suitor is a victim of miss- applied devotion. ADVERTISEMENT A REASON FOR IT. There Is Only One Pile Cure That Has Reached a National Popularity and Reputation. There are many popular medicines that are known In every household In America. There are blood purifiers, nerve tonics, headache remedies, dyspepsia cures, and cough cures, which are sold in every drug store in the nation and beyond. But all of these must divide their pop- ularity with many rivals, no one remedy has the fleld to Itself, with the single exception of pile cures, for it is a singular fact that there is but one pile cure that can be considered as having a national reputation, without a rival and the re- ferred to is the Pyramid Pile Cure, which for seven vears has steadily worked Into the public favor by reason of its extraor- dinary merit, until it is known from Maine to California and from Manitoba to the Ol true there are many pile remedies having a small loeal reputation for a year or two, but the Pyramid Pile Cure has rapidly supplanted them all and really has the fleld to itself when anything like na- tional popularity is considered. The explanation is simple. It is because piles Is in no sense an imaginary trouble that a bread pill or a simple salve or oint- ment will cure, but an obstinate, painful and often dangerous trguble and a remedy to give satisfaction must possess positive #nd very apparent merit. A person suffer- ing from piles will not experiment for months with a remedy; it must give relief and a cure in short order or it is con- demned. The worst cases of piles are relleved on the first application of the Pyramid and a cure will result in a reasonable time from its regular use. Medicine men use it in preference to sEEEnond hermuve [ele st i ertectiy c ere Yx‘:'&‘e'“:-“in druggists sell the Pyramid Pile Cure at 50c, and as it is used at night it cuml without Interfering with regular ocfinp:‘:fl%%n from any form of "nnu bleeding, itching or protruding, a trial of the Pyramid will cure you and add an- athar to its thonsands of friands = Page declares that a short time | This | But the suit was on | trial at Visalia against them and they aid | and Mary Ann was | ch was the ob- | deprive them of their | became the right | since | She lived with | practically turned the ranch over to Elias | she working at her trade | C. with Samuel | The Page children, too. have many | | { | | { i | PAINE'S GELERY COMPOUND Strengthens Muscle Tissues, Invigorates the Nerves, | Makes Rich Blood. 0. T. Crump, Richmond, Va., writes: “For several weeks before I commenced using Paine’s Cel- ery Compound I had a tired and all-gone feeling, my blood be- | came impure, and I was daily losing flesh. One of my friends ad- | vised me to use Paine’s Celery Compound, and I found relief from the first bottle. I used three more bottles, and it made my nerves strong, my blood pure, and muscles firm.” Paine’s Celery Compound is a re=- source for health, strength, vitality. | | Slias | | | | OPEN SAN FRANCISCO TO CHICAGO Santa Fe Route The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rallway System begs to announce the completion of its railway from San Francisco to Chicago—2550 miles. It is the only railway which owns and controls its track from the Pacific Ocean to Lake Michigan. It proposes to furnish prompt and satisfactory service, and it hopes to receive a generous proportion of the public patronage. May 1st freight will be handled regularly to and from the East and all points in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. Freight Depot: Corner Spear and Harrison Streets. The date for inaugurating passenger train service will be announced later. JOHN J. BYRNE, EDWARD CHAMBERS, General Passenger 2gent, General Freight Agent, Lines west of Albuquerque. W. A. BISSELL, Assistant Traffic Manager, Santa Fe System.