The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1900, Page 2

(&) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1900. ATTACKED WITH AN AX BY HER = NADENAS FILE JEALOUSEOVER THEIR ANSWER Oregon Schoolgirl the Vie- Second Step in the Contest tim of an Atrocious ! Over Maria Shimmins’ Crime. Estate. LYNCHING OF CDLPRIT FEARED DENIAL OF ALL ALLEGATIONS| e | ———— 1 Young Clyde Vaughn Entices Pretty Accused San Francisco Attorney and | Lulu Jones From Her Class- His Codefendant Do Not Indi- SAWYER AND | i Room and Crushes In H cate What Their Course Will Be. i s Her Skull. Special Dispatch to The Call ALBANY, Ore Lulu Jones, a attacked with this afternoon ng man 19 years small town nine MARTINEZ, Oct. 23.--The second step in a sensational will contest over the es- te of Maria L. Shimmins, the San Pabio was taken to-day when Attorney E Sawyer of San Francisco and Joe Madenas, the legatees undér the will, filed their answer to the complaint of the castern heirs. It is short and consists of a general den of all allegations set up by the contestants, The defendants do not in their answer tiful and very Jefferson pub- " was janitor. came to the Luther jde d what their lne of defense will -2 in attempting to sustain the wiil, furnace- inst the execution of which grave her skull ¢ \ rges have been, made. The date for almost lifeless the trial has not vet been set. It will prove | to be a sensational case, as the attorneys for the Eastern heirs are busily collecting evidence wherewith they hope to prove their charge that Attorney Sawyer and| Madenas executed undue influence over | the decedent in order to get hold of her | property. rson and & strong guard 1 be conveyed to ing is feared. g considerable | B —— ' INTERESTS THE COAST. %A f#d° Postoffice Appointments and Patents iced her the cked her. Belie | and Pensions Issued. ! dead he fled froi | WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Postmaste; appointed: €alifornia—Francis A. My vie ¢ physiclans pronounce the | Grapeland, San Bernardino County d by th as Jacob D. Gebhart, resigned; George W. il | Durbrow. Salton, Riverside County, vice | in_ by the the | W. D. Seaver, resigr ! davghter of Mrs. J. | Pensio California: Addi- | n and has resided | tional—Stephen O. Rice, San Francisco, | life in the community. $10; Edmund Fitzgerald, San Diego, 10. | n and gentle man- | Increase—Charles Rogers, San _Fran- love and esteem of | cisco, $10; Emil Muller, Bethany, $8; Ira | N cs, is a | M. Wilson, Santa Barbara, $8. Mexican i War widows—Mary J. Easting, San Fran- n comes of a good | clsco, $8. some of the best increase—James B. Fenton, About a w $5;- Richard M. Wallace, New- " 5. Washington: Relssue—Jeremiah Rob- ins, Leavenworth, $12, 3 atents issued: California—Charles Los Angeles, flushing tank; Seculdo himself. 1 a » drown him- rejected his b ke ,‘{”‘ i\,lma. fru-l\l mt’khlm{ éorrg». Kiexander Drennan, A. Smith and A LODI GREETS SAM D. WOODS. Graham, Bodie, rémovabie ~ventilating Republicans of Northern San Joaquin | hester. Teancis A~ Haloor” Bao Rates) powder mixing and ! Adam Hoch, Alameda e largest local | Blym, San Francisco), adding machine; | a wit- | George W. Holly (assignor one-half to A. | > of A. Vallette, H. C. Briggs and F. A. Dins- | out more), Palo Alto, window sash; Joseph F. Re- | Twist, San Francisco, apparatus for mak- eamless tooth.crowns, Washington—Benjamin C. ,_fire hose nozzle; s' | Edey, Tacoma, car coupling; uslasm with | Hanford, Oakesdale, boiler; eceived was in- ' Young, Fremont, rock drill. n which he i held Oregon—James W. Green, Portland, saw r the streets were sharpener: Joseph T. Harbin, Condon, 1lift- reople, v coming from re- ing jack; Adolph Wolf, Sliverton, hop | E San Joaguin County. Two | drfer. | res ligh the plaza and the roar e <y e heard for miles around. CHILD HELD IN PAWN The rass band played a mumber of | patrk tic r FOR A BOARD BILL ar | ncorporating mill; | in a Monst (assignor to M. ODI, Oct. 23.—By er Rally. I Charles E. | mote pa big bon where the meéting was e dgors. . BanY | Negro Mother Recovers Her Babe | was presided over by Dr. Through a Writ of Habeas president of the Lodi Re- - Corpus. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22.—Two colored | women were fighting for the possession of | WICKERSHANM WILL CASE a T-year-old boy in Judge Trask's court | CALLED AT SANTA BOSA | { " " 0 e of -them. Mrs. Belle Eilis, | Mrs. Cora L. Wickersham Granted Was the child’s mother. while the other, | S Belle Patten, made no claim to rela- Permission to File Amended onship, but had the youngster in pawn Complaint. s 7 8 2 for an unpaid board bill Several months ago Mrs. Ellis, finding 2—The Wicker- | (hat it was necessary. for her to go (5 an in the Superior | Bakersfield to get work, took the child to ge Burnett per: Mrs, Patten’s house, offering to pay_$2 a e week If she would take care of the littl one for two or three months. Six months passed and four monihs’ boara was un- paid. Mrs. Pajten called on Mrs. Burke, the mother of Mrs. Ellis, and told the old lady that unless her daughter came at once for her boy turn him into the street. v trix of the estate of ank Wickersham, and as ig seeking to ob- estate of the late I Petaluma millionaire the he plaintif was grant- file her amended com- On hearing this Mrs. Ellis returned. | was then continued to calling on. Mrs. Patten for her child. The | A number of promi- latter, however, refused to deliver the | appeared on both sides child unless the unpaid board bill were ms are that o hot legal liquidated. Instead of paying Mrs. Ellls | r has begun WILL TEST LEGALITY OF IDAHO PERMIT SYSTEM James C. Duffy Brings Suit for Dam- ages Against Governor Steun- enberg and Auditor Sinclair. atile applied for a writ of habeas corpus | which to-day resulted In the boy going home with its mother. Mrs. Patten told the Judge she knew that the boy would be taken from her, but intended to hold on to him as long as the law would allow her tq do =0 and perhags Mre. Ellis would pay the bill. CONVICTED OF KILLING BOISE. 14 Oct. Z.—An action has Sl Saion Dattes Bities comtitn] HER NEIGHBOR'S HOGS ties A o ,'\‘””"‘_ Sx' ":"!""" Projector of the “Woman’s Railroad” p with the Comr & Aos in Tuolumne County Gets Into 3 = | Trouble at Redding. ames C. Dufly | pppDING, Oct. 23.—Mrs. Annie Kline r Frank S n- n,,,.hv“lm!s‘;r:- Rikert, projector of the famous “woman’s The rdilroad” of Tuolumne County, who has authorities | been living in retirement on her farm ten miles east of Redding, was to.day in a local Justice’s Court found guilty of the malicious killing of her neighbor's hogs. The evidence tended to prove that Charles formerly for the Fischler, a yvoung boy visitor from San tworth. Mather is ac. Francisco, had shot four hogs under in- wholesale jewelers and = structions from Mrs. Rikert. The animals his city of the theft had trespassed on Mrs. Rikert's vegetable - patch. ! When the verdict of the jury was an- nounced the defendant signified her inten- | tion of carrying the case to a higher court. | Sentence will be pronounced on Wednes- ht by J o 23.—Charles E. Mather, is under arrest in Seat- lesman £ . wWas a Jeweiry f Mather remorandu them under nd according to t the name of J. Beeee00344944444444440 i Jhe Days Dead, i‘i e sssssssssre00sssasy day. | ‘Similar charges against Mrs. Rikert's daughter, Miss Maud Townsend, and young Fischler were dismissed on motion of the District Attorney. - TESTIFY FOR ORTEGA. Weak Evidence Given by Two Friepds of® the Pugilist. SAN JOSE, Oct. 2.—Further evidence was given in the Ortega trial to-day in an attempt to prove an alibf for the pugi- ” Colonel William Roy. NOGAL) 8, Ariz., 021 died suddenly oplexy moved 2.—Colonel Wi in this city on He was born in New | ndiana when a boy | | | | | | g e ”er't <n il “d’ on ll}ri stafl | jist and account for his whereabouts on of Governor Morton of Indiana. He was | ssault upon Grace Gam- ymoted to major and later to lieuten- {.}l‘cF wijiad s 4 colonel of his regiment and at the f the war was brevetted brigadier 1 and held several import posi- ms in_the Government scrvice. He 10 Nogales in 188, since which time as been engaged in business as senior | Harry Cordell and Horace Corder were with Ortega on the nignt of the crime. Shortly after 10 o'clock they met him on Margaret street, between First and Sec- ond. They got into a buggy with Ortega and rode to Ortega's home, where they sartner of the mercantile firm of Roy & ting a watermelon Ortega itcomb. He leaves two daughters Mre. | hog> 0 the Tane ® riaen: then Jofc: Joseph Hogan of El Paso, Texas, and | Corder then-went to his nome in East S8an Mrs, Jennie Plunkett of the City of fco Mex- | Jose, arriving there at 11 o'clock. As the | assault was committed before M o'clock | his testimony has not materially aided | the defense. . Octogenarian Commits Suicide. SAN RAFAEL, Oct. 2.—Patrick Rice, an old resident of S8an Rafael, committed | suicide this afternoon. He was 80 years | old. Domestic trouble was the cause of | ‘his act. His wife quarreled with him and | on her return he was dead, with a four- ounce bottle that had contained laudanum by his side on the bed. Coroner Eden will hold an inquest to-morrow. Puglh<o ovmiahos e i S2R Papeete the Beautiful. Those who are fond of traveling (and who is mot) will kail with delight the news of & direct b Lo Dr. John P. Dudley. SAN JOSE, Oct. 22—Dr. John P. Dud- ley, who has resided near this city for tha past fifty years, died to-day from the ef- fects of injuries received in a runaway last week. Dr. Dudley was born in New York State in 1522 In 154 he practiced his profession in Sacramento. In 1850 he settied at San Jose, where he has since resided. He was one of the best known pioneers of this section of the State. Isaac N. Hayes. SANTA CRUZ, Oct. 23.—Isaac N. Hayes Feiton died to-day in San Francisco. | they as to all they sald and all that was asked | them. brother. | The wind failed and the vessel drifted by | | that shelter and in a dense fog was car ! ried in four days through Bering Straits, Porcupine lthura_l:nd a Gold Nug- Cottage north to-night, brings news that on re- ceipt of a letter from Senato Mason telling them that he would for their rights in the Senate, the miners | bravery to commit sulcide Miss Gertrude b anatd oines muggee hich s eut |48 'ad thot and probably fataily ouN | Sepuike and Noah G. Mason “wers or ably inscribed at a cost of $50 subseribed | o0, Derself last night. She was tal 4 o b; HERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS COSPER DARE NOT ANSWER —————— R. E. T. COSPER, candidate for Superior Judge in Kings County, this is for you Qersonally: You haye chosen to impugn the motives, of . The Call in opposing your eleciion. You deny that the ground is solely that of your unfitness for a position on the bench. You have chosen to make what you term an “answer’’ to the state- ments of The Call concerning ycur conduct while in the Leg- islature. Now, The Call has iwo questions which you are invited to answer—which you are challenged to answer: Did not three reputable men overhear you demand of an employe of the Legisiature at the last reqular session a portion of his salary 2 Did not those three reputable men see you receive the portion you demanded and put 1t in your pocket 2 Th= Call dares you to answer those questions either one way or the other. The Call dares you to reply either “yes” or no.” The questions are up to you. If you shirk them the people in whose courts you desire to presids as Judge wil! doubtless find no difficulty in making up their minds as to the reason for your silencs. ; | | | i i : ; | ; ! % : ; | @it bk R etk sddeideddedeldelete defelifeleds defeepeeleboloieid STOCKTON SOCIETY LADIES TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF MARY FRASER Aroused by the Insanity Commission’s Strahge Procedure in the Investigation of the Madhouse Affair. Special Dispatch to The Call. taining for the girl proper legal aid should , once asked for a stimulant since given | the State Commissioners fail to release | into their care. The taking o1 testimony | her. Stories are afloat to the effect that | was concluded this evening, but it is un- Albert Fraser, the brother, is the strong- | derstood that the Commissioners will re- est in the desire that his sister be placed | serve their <lecision till after they get out where she will not be able to gossip. of the Stockton atmosphere. The north “Oh, 1 would like to talk,” sald Mrs. | side of town, the Nob Hill, is wrought up James this evening, “but 1 was sworn to | to such a degree that it is sald that the | secrecy. I'd like to tell the public all I| Frasers are the recipients of marked so- | Know about this matter, but I cannot.” | clal slights. Mrs, Fraser, the stepmother | Nearly all of the witnesses were promi- | of but a few months, was, up to the ‘pres- nent ladies of this city, who went in the | ent stofm, one of the most popular ladies | hope of aiding Miss Fraser, and. rot being | in the city, but she is now suffering from lawyers, they did not stop to question the | the general criticism. Commissioners’ right to administer the | It is thought that the officials concerned | oath of secrecy. One of, these wit.|in the commitment were to a degree im- | nesses was Mrs. W. D. Buckley, wife of | posed upon. Judge Budd could only take a local capitalist. and her husband | the doctors’ word for it and is free from entertained Miss Fraser one evening and | blame. Sargent, one of the examin- | at 10 o’clock walked home with her. At | ers, practically went back on his action a | «midnight the same night the asylum car- | few days afterward and ~ave out the im riage, with attendants provided with | Prwsslon that he, too, had some misgiv- STOCKTON, Oct. 23.—A father and brother seemingly bending every influence which money and position can exert to keep a girl in a madhouse, and the State Insanity Commissioners apparently striv- ing to keep the public in ignorance of the | facts, is a summary of the stigation | »nducted by the State Insanit Com- | The investigation which was :begun yes rday at the Instance of the girl's cousin, | Mrs. James, has developed into a star- chamber proceeding, astounding in nature and apparently one-sided in. its effects. The friends of the unfortunate girl want- ed the testimony taken down in shorthand in order to use, if necessary, in court pro- 2 D ceedings. This was denied them. When | straps and handeuffs, took the girl from | ings. Dr. Ruggles justifies his conclu- the principal witnesses—those who could | her home to the madhouse. Another friend | sions at the time, but does not make that impart relevant testimony—came from | of Miss Fraser was Mrs. Budd, wife of | judgment cover Miss Fraser's presenl Judge Budd, who signed the commitment, another, Miss Genevieve Peters, a well- known society leader, and her mother, wife of Major Peters, the capitalist. Other ladles equally prominent were on hand to declare their bellef in the girl's responsibility. wev, Mr. Bryan of the Episcopal church, the girl's pastor, also volunteered his opihion as to the young laay’s sanity. It is said the nurses at the asylum re- futed the story that the patient was a drug user, declaring that she had not the star-chamber they announced that condition, not having examined-the young had been solemnly sworn to secrecy : la;‘ly latel]y. . 5 sk | t was intimated this evening tha findings of the Commissioners wt}luflg against the girl. If this be so the fight for her liberty will not end. While her relatives other than lier father are of modest means they will not be embar- | rassed for funds to work with. A host of sympathizers have been raised up and, satisfled of her unllfh they will make a finnd fight for her release from the mad- ouse. The news of this procedure has served | to set public sentiment against P. B. Fraser, the father, and Albert Fraser, the The question naturally is asked, why thls’ If there is nothing to conceal, secrecy ? S0 strong has sentiment been wrought | up that a fund Is being collected among | people in good standing to be used in ob- PICKS UP TWO SHIPWRECKED CREWS ON BLEAK SHORES OF THE ARCTIC Schooner Alice, Driven Through Bering Straits by Gales, Rescues the Men of the Victoria and the Lydia Mayflower. ; Spekial Dispatch to The Call. 23.—The schooner Alice, faded ran into a gale. This lasted until Milner, arrived early | She reached Unimak Pass, on September 9, and there she was becalm a few kours. A heavy southeast wind came up and in five days the vessel experienced six intensely severe gales. 2 On Thursday morning, October 4, the Alice got through the pass and then en- countered a series of gales which iasted until she reached Cape Flattery. She lay outside the cape from Saturday, October |12, to Sunday, October 21, unabie to enter on account of heavy southeast winds, and experienced two terrific storms there. Vhen she finally entered the straits her forestays were carried away, her fore- safls split, the fiying jib in ribbons, the topsails nearly useless and the mainsails torn. The actual sailing time from Nome was thirteen days. While in the Arctic the Alice picked up two shipwrecked crews of the schooners Victoria and Lydla Mayflower, both of which vessels went to_pleces on the rocks off Cape Prince of ales. t was re- SEATTLE, Oct Captain Walter S. this moning, twenty-six days from Nome Captain Milner reports a tempestuous voyage, with much damage to the rigging of his vessel. Just previous to the big | storm at Nome the Alice left the exposed | coast and made a run fdr Port Clarence. At Port Clarence Captain MiMer foun: that five omiaks of Indians, each held. | ing thirty-five or forty persons, had left Kings Island for the mainland.’ One ar- | rived at Teller City while the Alice was | there and another landed farther up. Both | reported that the other three boats, con | taining more than one hundred Indians, | had gone dagn.. ¢ e Francis Alice; purchased b: Bruce. with a carpener and Tour scamen aboard, had not been heard from when the Alice left. The bark Oakland, driven into Bering Sea, had gone to Port Clar- ence and on September 19 was commer; ing to dlschnr;e lumber there. When the | Alice entered Port Clarence on September | 9 the bark Colom# was anchored just in- | side Port Spencef. On leaving on Sep- tember 20 a square rigger was anchored | there, which Captain Milner supposed was her. The Lettie L, the Wing and Wing and the Carrfer and Annie were all sale at Grantly Harbor. The Thomas F. Bayard was at Nome on September 2. On that date the Robert Dollar was reported at St. Michael and was expected at Nome in a few days. STANFORD STUDENTS DISCIPLINED FOR HAVING INCITED CLASS RUSH Faculty Orders the Banishment of Two Young Men, but Later Is Induced to Suspend the Edict. ————e " Special Dispatch to The Call. present at the rush, though each denles having taken an active part in it. The faculty men believed that they had more to do with steering the under classmen together than is permissible, and con- sequently they were bhidden to go. Those who actually took a part in the rush were overlooked because they had less knowl- edge of the rules against rushing. peaking to-night of the reasons why the committee reconsidered its decree of banishment, Chairman Green had the fol- lowing to say: “We were moved to take our present position by the tone of the petitions sub- mitted to us biy the différent classes. From them we felt that more good would come from leniency than from a. strict adherence to our first position. In their past Point Hope and into the Arctic Sea. When the sun came out and there was | a chance to define the ship’s position it | was found that she was beyond Point | Hope, with plenty of snow and ice. Captain Milner brings a story of a series | of terrible gales which it would be diffi- | cult to parallel in the history of the | Alaskan coast. The Alice bears news con- \ cerning some of the saliing craft sup- posed to have been lost in Nome's great storm. ported at the cape that twelve vessels The Alice left Nome on the night of | had been driven up into the Arctic and Beptember 2% and before the light had | that the Alice was the first to come down. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 28.— Because of alleged complicity in the re- cent sophomore-freshmen rush, two mem- bers of the senior class were this morn- ing placed under the ban of the faculty and denied the privileges of the univer- sity. This afternoon the four classes met and succeeded in .dissuading the faculty committee from enforcing its edict. The students who were the cause of the scholastic tribulations are W. M. Erb, captain of Stanford's second eleven, and J. R. Hamilton, well known as a university playwright. The faculty committee on student affairs singled out the two upper classmen to make of them examples for future rule smashers. Both men were resolutions, the four c\uu’- promised co- operation against rushes in the future and we accepted their promise. We real- no sense immoral—merely the result of an exhuberance of spirits; hence the commit- tee feels that it can overlook the individ- ual offense for the sake of future har- gmny. The presence of the students com- lained of will be conducive toward the conditions for'which we are laboring, and therefore, we have exerc: clemency. g(::r" ttl':)e r:nrle:‘ent th‘; matter is settled, the n, under certai; . - di;l‘:n! which we feel will gepfr:l‘l}:lee(;wn e action of the committee will pily received by the wholoe:tuden‘t’.bo:i,;, ?:r"t'l.ie”n?l‘nlg ":t em{:ld}:rtd too severe took in the’ nn,i.r Sl e GIFT FOR “BILLY” MASON. LANGSTON PARTY WAS < PICKED UP AT SEA Message Received From. One of the Young Men Who Was Believed to Be Lo NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Captain Freder- ick Langston of Brooklyn, whose two Skaguay, said that McVickar, gold - missioner for the British in the nevfe?l':- trict, had told him that the acquisition of the Porcupine was planned and ar- ranged when Joseph Martin was Premier of British Columb! . Proved Her Courage. CHICAGO, Oct. 28—With a laugh of foorn at. & frlend, who hea questioned her get to the Senator. VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 23—The steamer ty, which arrived from the r W, E. ht errily to a number of friends when tae | heard of after they started to sail the ved ize that the acts complained of were in | the miners. On one side was engra- Hayes was I y in the hgtel Kt e shot was fired. yacht Aliris. fro: Highla Beach Uisiness in Felton. He Was & DAtive of | steamship route to Tahiti. This charming tana | 10 Senator W. K. Mason™ and on the ¥ g Gravesend last Tuesdey, roceived a eable Michigan, aged 6. s wach WS hees “AMEONS Sl b0 sow District.» In be lotter Mason said that | ‘:}"gl":l-ms Gflldgm message ‘announcing that they were safe. popu- would the us vivend{ AN VE . C., Oct..28.—The Car-.| The from Stops the Cough lar sicamship Austraila Wil cail direct, mak- A e Take things Coneolidated goid mine Of Quesncls | dated Oetiner T Tv road.C - APtOHS: AX:;': ;:;l‘(;“ai“me.c::?a l;‘::h., o g i 1':' I.hm round- glu(lemfln‘ for m:}"go%;y‘ . | has “hl 'e}nhm'fiork a Pml’d-boft&k- aboard Ethelred. Home Monday. Notify n! day. No cure, o 4 been made first trip. Call . mons, Secretary lflum INgo! po\lndl and tha m]l and e message was ®o pay. Price 25 cents, * | &t 643 Market street for salling list, . ners’ Assoclation, In an interview at lue of $154. . 5 . signed by H. Langston, FLOQUENGE OF HORACE PLATT WINWING VOTES San Franciscan Addresses ' Great Gathering at ‘Los Angeles. —_— TELLS OF HIS CHANGE OF FAITH ST Vice Chairmen of the Meeting In- clude Many Men Formerly Prominent in Councils of the Democracy. e Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28:~One of the most interesting and significant features of the local campaign was the largely attended meeting at Elks: Hall to-night, | addressed by Horace G. Platt of San| Francisco. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Business Men's Sound | Money League, which included a large number of Gold Democrats, who were driven out of their party by Bryanism, | and who are now supporters of President | McKinley. | The chairman of the meeting was Judge | E. W. Britt, formerly Supreme Coun‘ Commissioner, and, until the present cam- | paign, a life-long Democrat. i The list of vice chairmeén included many | men who In the past have been high in | the councils of the local Democracy, and | were as follows: Julius Brousseau, W.| Lacey Jr., W. G. Kerckhoff, H. W. Hell- man, J. 'G. Plater, J. H. Braly, Henry | Keller, Henry O'Melveny, J. D. Bicknell, | w. Hunsaker, W. A. Harris, W. F.| Botsford, Judge J. D. Works, Wesley | Clark, Morris Cohen, R. H. Howell, Dr. | West Hughes, W. S. Hook, John R. % W. C. Bluett, M. A. Neéwmark, O. M| Ozman, C. H: Sessions, Percy R. Wilson, | J. R. Toberman, John Wigmore, Alex | Campbell, J. F. Sartori, Morris Hellman, Judge W. A. 'Cheney, A. T. L‘urrier.‘ George J. Denis, George Gephard, J. M. Griffith, Lynn Helm, Harry H. Mayberry, John Kahn, Newell Mathews, Albert Mc- Farland, Niles Pease, Gail Borden Jr., Dr. J. A, Utley, H. Jevne, H. M. Dobbins of Pasaddna, W. D. Woolwine, J. E. Fish- | burn, Walter Durgin, George W. Kimball, | E. 8. Tomblin, Z. O. Parmalee, George Steckel. Mr. Platt was recefved with enthusiasm and his logical and forcible presentation of the reasons that had led him to pub- | licly change his political affiliations was listened to with great interest. pee vy G svnah OUTPQURING OF REPUBLICANS. Candidates Make Their Bow to Pacific Grove Voters. PACIFIC GROVE, Oct. 23.—That this city and its environs will go almost solid- ly Republican in the coming election was manifested beyond a doubt to-night Rarely indeed, has so large and enthusias- | tic a political gathering been seen here- | abouts. The occasion was the presenta tion to the voters of Pacific Grove of the various Republican candidates for county offices—Willlam Sarles of Gonzales, can- didate for Assemblyman; F. A. Abbot of Salinas, candidate for Sheriff, and T. J. Fleld of Monterey, candidate for County Supervisor. The rally was conducted under the auspices of the McKinley and Roosevelt Club of this eity and the evening's exer- cises consisted of music by the Pacific Grove band; patriotic songs by the Me- | Kinley Glee Club of this - city; speeches by each of the candidates and by Hon. B. A. Eardley, president of the evening, and the main address of the evening by Hon. Claude F. Lacey of Salinas. Mr. Lacey talked in his forcible and convincing style of the live issues of the | hour and was frequently interrupted b)" enthusiastic applause. notable event of the evening was a | short address by Rev. Hobart Chetwood. | rector of St. Mary’'s By the Sea, on the question of the exemption of church prop- | erty from taxation that is to be decided | by the people at the coming election. This speech received very hearty applause. A marked feature of the gathering was the | Presence and sympathetic attention of a | large number of ladies. g HEALDSBURG HEARS COOMBS. Logical Bpeech?]ielivered by the Nominee for Congress. HEALDSBURG, Oct. 23.—The Hon. Frank L. Coombs, Republican ncminee for Congress from the First District, ad- dressed a meeting at the opera-house to- night. His speech was logical and con- vincing. The attitude of the administra- tion on the affairs in the Orient was dis- cussed in detail. He showed the advan- tages accruing to the people of the Pa- cufi Coast in entering into competition | ith the nations of the earth for Oriental | rade. Expansion in its tguest and most liberal construction was commended be- cause of its value to the American peo- ple. Mr. Coombs' attitude on Chinese ex- clusion awakened the livellest enthusfasm among his audience. ¥. A. Cromwell, nominee for Assembly, preceded Mr. Coombs. He was well re- cefved. Judge C. H. Pond, president of the local ciub, presided and introduced the speakers. £ Denied by Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 23.—The Minis- ter of Finance, M. de Witte, authorizes a denial of the story that Russia began ne- otiatlons in New York in the middle of Sctober for a $50,000,000 loan. What the Alcohol Was For. “I have spent the summer in a p: tion State,” said the woman who h hibi- Just come down from Vermont, “and I was | amused at the experience I had with the town agent when 1 wanted to get.a little alcohol to use for tollet purposes. 1 really ‘wanted it to put on my hair to keep it in curl. When I stated m{ reason for want- ing it, as is necessary in order to comply with fhe law, the agent. who was a lar New England Yankee, grinned from ear to ear as he said: ** ‘Wall, miss, that's a new one on me. 'n:e{ Tve all sorts of reasons for wanting aleohol, but I never heard tell of using it to curl the hair before. When the clock mender comes through the country they buy gallons of alcohol to clean their clocks with. Every old boozer in the country around has a clock to be cleaned. Then they use it for sprains and for cleaning spots off clothes, but never before for curling the hair.” “I really felt guilty, as though I wanted it myself to use as a beygrage, but my name was entered in the bodk and against it were the words: ‘Half pint alcohol for curling the hair.” "—New ?ork Tribune. Reed’s Toast to Maine, Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed, his speech @it the openitig meeting 1o ths city hall, Portland. Me., of the celebration of (l)ild Htlatmle We:kly, safd: ‘““Here s nof rmitted %oast, but If 1t were T Shonid .:3 Feres to the State of Maine, settled mostiy by the blood of old England, but always pre- ferring liberty to ancestry; a strong old democratic State, yet the first to hel p to give Jiberty to the slave—may her future as nobie as her past. Here is to the State of Maine, the land of the bluest skies, the greenest ea g e Lo rth, the richest air, stu nd, what is lest men, ‘the fafvest ang. i t of all. the truest women .’ "—New York Times, the . what is under the —— S 'l‘ro!gp. Lo:ud by Song. eral Kryanos Inal experiment auring. the rerene Ak trian maneuvers of mn. the singing of SONgs 4s a means % ascertaining the whereabouts of the different com es of a col d’armee. each and to i Tt Whem Aticked: ‘when a E Wwas enabled to discover th'-m battalion way | also in SLEW CATRCE TEEN WARNED 10 KEEP AWAY Witness Describes Events Leading Up to King's Crime. TRAVELER WAS REFUSED WATER Rancher and His Son-in-Law Nadled Up a Well and Then Ordered the Camper Not to Trespass. CEREEL S Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Oct. 2.—The trial of J. E. King for the murder of 8. H. Chureh at Two Rocks on July 23 was resumed n the Superior Court this morning. The work of selecting the remainder of the [ | jury proceeded rapidly and by noon the six needed sworn in. Daniel H. Ryan made the opening state- ment for the prosecution. He told in de- tail what the prosecution would attempt to prove and closed by stating that would supply the jury with enough evi- dence to justify a verdict of murder la the first degree. At the request of the defense the court made an order direc: ing that all witnesses in the case be ex- cluded from the courtroom. jurors were accepted and The first witness examined was Dr. G. E. Ivancovich of Petaluma, who attended Church after the shooting. He described the wound inflicted by the bullet from King’s weapon. When an effort was be- ing made to prove by him that Church bad made a dying statement the doctcr testified that Church said to him: ‘“Here lies a man who never prayed.” Just what followed the doctor was not | allowed_to_deseribe. Silas L. Stice, a son-in-law of Church, and who was with him on the day of the shooting, testified that King tried to water his horses at his trough. He told King to g0 away and King, who was accompanied his wife, led his horses ack to their camp on the county road. Stice thought that they might get water out of a well near the road so he took a hammer and nails and accompanied by Church went down to nall up the weil. After doing this he and Church told King, who was in his tent, not to go upon ths property any more. No violent languags was used until King exclaimed, “I'll shoot hell out 'of you.” The witness then ran and King shot at him, but missed. Stice was here called from the stand and County Surveyor G. Richardson was sworn and asked to explain the map he had made of scenes of the shooting. The case was then continued until to-morrow morning. It is expected that it will be finished before Saturday. COAST BREVITIES SACRAMENTO, Oct. 23.—Jjames D. Prather was to-night found guilty of perjury in tewti- mony given to try to clear his brother from a charge of stealing grain. The jury was out two hours and a half. Another brother was cted for the same offense. SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—The Government char- tered the British steamship Royalist to-day. which it is intended to ate as a United States transport between Seattle and the Phil- ippines. The Royalist is a essel. She is now en route from with a cargo of sugar for San Franci VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 23.—During the season ust closed thirty-four sealing schooners took 16,000 skins in Hering Sea. which is 3000 less | than taken by twenty-five schooners last year. 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