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THE SAN FRAN JISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARKCH 1901, MLECKTIONS 0F RERY IRE RENEWED FORCEES Enemiesof Clark Still Strive to Shut | -Him Out. PRRRGS I n of the Senator-El ct' Said 1o Have Joined Fight Against Him S @ it e e RID'S WRECKAGE DR SAUSALIT SHORE 15 LOBTED BY VANDALS Continued From Page One. ip - blowing t he saw -the whistle - ¢ hin-se crew t obeyed ked th Herlihy. 1 time to get up 13 ¥ 1 statel ect order when to port. Russell hip struck e 10 his boat and that his haved with order. = Tne 1 modest manner how he boar and earried three nto it. He had jusi from the Rio’s side | lunged down. Wit-! tinetly heard the | iving orders to ve the passengers. | inking the witness | cer's crew on rderec crew lowere boat imed Mon- | Association at a_meet- resolution highly avery of the Italian fishermen who saved many lives of pah- gers n the wreck of the Rio de ro.and voted the sum of $100 to the being rmen Taised for presentation to the A check for $50 was also re- ¢ d from the San Francisco Bavings 1 for. the fund. Mark Ellingson. the lookout of the Fort Point life-saving station, is still in the city. He was seen last evening and | when questioned as to why he did not give an alarm when he heard the distress | of the Rio de Janeiro gave eva- sive answers. MURDERER OF McNAMARA | GETS LIFE Imzsoxxm1 Gambler Gay Breaks Down and | ‘Weeps in Court at Crescent City. CRESCENT CITY, March 1—Patrick ii. ., wbo on Monday pleaded gufity to the murder of Marcus J. McNamara, Pre jetor of the Ame:ican House bar in city, was to-day sentenced to life im- | prisonment by Buperior Judge F. A..Cut-| ter. Gay broke down compietely in court | - wept. He said the crime was commit- ted while he was ubder the influence of | lquor. | The murder of McNamarz took placa | in front of the American House som- | Gay. who is a gambler was ttance to o card game in tha barroom. He went home,sgot his revolver and returned to the hotel. Arriving at the hostelry Gay began shooting at a dog tha® | happene McNamara left tha 2 to remonstrate and Gay firc1 im, inflicting 2 wound from which aloon man soon expired. fay and McNamara were born and | Crescent .City. Gay has a wo | chiidren. His victim was un- - TWO LIVES LOST IN A ROCHESTER FIRE One Man Perhaps Fatally and Ten Others More or Less Seriously Injured. ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 1.—In a fira this noon which destroyed the Leary Dy. Works, a five-story brick structure on the curner of Platt and Mill streetg, two lives | were lost, one man was probably fatally | injured and ten other persons were more | or less seriousiy hurt. * The dead are two | unidentified persons, a man and a boy; ! both burned beyond. recognition. * Thelr | identity wifl be difficult to establish. Frank Udell. brother-in-law of the vice ident of the Seneca Camera Company, was probably fatally injured in jumping from the fourth story. The financial loss was $53,000. | | } {ism | Fort: HOUSE CONSURS 0 ARMY BILL All Possibility of an Extra Session Is Now Removed. ik Democrats Attempt to Filibuster, but Are Overwhelmed and Resolu- tion Is Carried by a Party Vote. SFLRENIED 1.—The House extra session the Senate March 134. with the exception of setts, Loud .of Cali- oll of New York and Mann who voted with the Demo- . Wisconsin -answered t and was not paired. The bill.now dent. e was brought to red by the Committee 5 hout’ % to the were ov ot especially and. Cuban by’ the Re- oecurred at the n - Huil of lowa, mnected with a in the that He sald it which was ab- vested money e been ejectec was the eXe i Hull's right Hull votea aye.. “the final - report upon the indian appro- 1on-bill ‘Was acopted, and a number ils were put tnrough the final - conferelice report on tne:St. fon_ biil -(which agreed &) was agreed to and at vack to conference. A mo- cur in the Charleston Exposi- 1 amenament Was eated—sd 10 132 reveriue cutter service -bil was side- ed early 1n the day by a Vote of the ivania, from the Com- ted . the on 2 mo dments to the s debate on each ell o Pen . He demanded the previous: ques- . upon- the adoption of the rule. he previous question d—139 on a Of the lowed -twenty minute te upon the adoptior 3 Richardson, th declared -that- the -t 0 wa force a: vote after two hours'‘debaté upon the mest -important issne in. the 'y of the country. The Philippine an; ! amendments _engrafted upon the bill by the Senate weré offensive, < wneonstitutional.. 1 hey: 1 upon- the bill ‘in oppasi= of the House. Yet no altowed to amend it amendm 10,000,0%) ects nate ed guarantee. The regard 10 Cuba ople the free and in- a 1t gover it which the Ameri- svernment solemnly promised -the “ubans-and the world. De Armond’s Opposition. De: Armond of Missouri passionately de- clared that w were now having the first req) Congressional taste of. imperial- Heretofore Congress, he said, had ked its duty . and had allowed the s{dent to rulé with the hand and force Now, without opport sion, hardly for protest fm- to be sanctioned by the of 2 hilippines were 10 be frittered away. in Cuba’ was to. be risked. "I com- to the tyrants hiere. the plunder will get.” he safd. “For myseif [ nd true to my conception of duty and condemn the infamy ' they are perpe- ' (Democratic applause.) v of lowa called the attention of to the excellent precedents d legislation in the acts for of the Louisiana and Of ‘course, hé said, the purchases. ‘ propesed method of government was pure- 1y temporary. In time a permanent form of government would be established Richardson sald that if the act for the government of . the - Louisiana purchase was substituted for the proposed proposi- tion every: Democrat-would vote for it Dalzell insisted that -the method osed for securing a yote upon.the pend- ng proposition was not unusual in the ing hours of a Congress and cited gev- al - cases in Democratic Congresses hen analogous proceedings were had, He asserted that the propdsition relative 10 the Philippines found itz exact parallel in the legislation for the government of the Louisiana purchase. “But_the ~Loulsiana aet” interposed Williams of Mississippl, “was to continue only until Congress should meet again. This act is to remain in force until Con- gress shall otherwise provide. It cannot provide otherwise without the approval of the President.” Defends Administration. “This act,” replied Dalzell, more generous than that enncted for the government of the Louisiana territory.” He, called attention to the fact that the President’s instructions to_the Philippine Confmigeion gave to the Filipinos every constitutional guarantee, ineluding. the right of trial by jury. to the Cuban amendment, 1t ‘simply provides for the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and the proper sanitation of -the island - to protect ourselves and the Cuban people. he rule was adopted, 15 to 127. Hull of Towa, chalrmaif of the Commit- tee on Military Affairs, then moved to concur in the Senate amendments, maining a majority of his committee be- lieved that the wisest course to pursue wag to accept the Senate ‘amendments, Personally he believed the Senate provi- #lons regarding Cuba were eminently wize and that those regarding the Philip- pines were a limitation upon the Presi- dent’s power, Grosvenor of Ohio, supporting the Phil- i;lp(n s and Cuban amendments, related the circumstances in connection with the Ostend manifesto in 155, when the emis. sarfes of a Democratic President offered $100,000.000 for the island of Cuba. That, he said, was one of the Democratic tra- ditions ‘upon this subfect. Another. was the Louisiana purchase and government of that Territory. government of Florida. After consider- {able debate the motion was carried—159 | to 134, DEATH REPORT FROM THE PHILIPPINES General MacArthur Sends List of Mtn Who Have Recently Succumbed. WASHINGTON, March 1 — General MacArthur's latest death Treport, dated Mantia, March 1, follows: Dysentery—February = 2i, Twenty-first Infantry, Bertie. C. Thompson; Twenty- fourth Infantry, Walter L. Smith: Feb- fuary 24, Eighth Infantry, Frederick All other causes—February 19, Forty- third Infantry, Clarence L. Anderson; February 7, Bixteenth Infantry, Sergeant Lock Castiebury, drowned, body recov- ercd: February 17, Sixth Artillery, Ser- geant Jesse C. Copelliger; third Ini lntrg,e man: February 18, Seventeenth Infantry, John E. Kelly: Februarl 20, Acting As- sistant Surgeon James . Hebbett: Six- teenth Infantry, George S. Smeadley; Twenty-first Infantry, Joseph M. Spencer; ;‘chrunr 19, Battalion of Engineers, Harry W. Starbird. The value of the chicle. the basis of chewing gum, that is produced in Mexico, is three times as great as that ol the country’s present rubber product. DENVER WOTEN ARE STRUCK DOWN BY THE DESPERATE THUG ‘Thirteen Assailed by Al Cowan, a Hater of the Feniale‘ | Sex, and Three of His Victims Die. e POPE BLESSES INDIAN MAID Unusual Experience of Miss| Kolinzaten of Mon- SATISFIED WITH CUBAN 1 vote by a{ s de- | the Democrats: | if | Democrats | 4 Congress of the United States He de- clared that by “trade, bargain and con- | ces’" the righits of 18,000.000-people in pro- ! “4s much | Still another was the | | g ORI e SN AT S S0 G Ol WS died during the last week of wounds in- fiicted by the slugger a week ago last Triday night. Miss Emma Johnson, as- sauited at the same time, is still alive, al- though her skull is fractured. * Al Cowan, arrested on Capitol Hill with a blood-stained revolver, has been identi~ fled as the thug by Albert Frederick, wko says he saw Cowan strike down Mra. Short. The dates#of the assaults coin- cide with Cowan's perlodical visits to Denver.” Cowan is apparently demented and constantly expresses his hatred of Women. COMMIT-S SUICIDE DURING LENTEN SERVICE Tragic Death of Sexton W. T. Bond in Episcopal Church at Leadville. 1 LEADVILLE; Colo.,.- March 1—W. T. Bond, who served in the Philippines as a | member of the\First Colorado Voluritee: committed - sulcide this _afternoon drinking an. ounce of carbolic acid in tne Fpiscopal church: during :Lenten service. Bond ‘was sexton of the church. Il heal'h had made him despondent, by n i o Specfal Dispatch. to- The. Call: ENVER, March 1.—On_ Auguit : 24 occured the first of a series of assaults on women which are at tributed ~ to. the Capitol' Hill thug, as: the police call the mysterious criminal. - On that date Mrs. Lilan Bell ‘was. struck -down near . he: I home on- Capitol Hill and her skull was fractured. She died ten davs later of her injuries. On_the same night two other {‘women were assaulted,” but not. beaten, help arriving before the thus could land his deadly blow. Since that a thirteen assaults have occurred. Nine women have beéen actually - struck:- down. ~Qne, Miss Annie McAtee, was. driven. crazy ‘by. the blow.. - The assailant is a puzzle to the police because -apparently. there. is 1o motive for: his crimes. ~He seems like' the thucs of Indfa 16 Kill for the mere love of killing. He neither robs nor criminally assaults his viétims, ‘Hig ‘méthod of at- tack s invariably the same, He slips up nofselessly behind ‘and strikes his victim at the base of the skull ' A blow of th's sort commonly canses” loss of ‘memory. M Mary Short and Mrs. Unternahrer F INJURIES: INFLICTED. AL COWAN, THE DEMENTED DENVER THUG, WHO H. THIRTEEN WOMEN, THREE OF ‘WHOM HAVE DIED FROM THE ASSAILED | + | [ SAMPSON WILL SEEK VINDICATION | Preparing a Volume of His Memoirs on the Schley ! Controversy. i i Special Dispateh to The Call. BOSTON, March 1.—The fact leaked out at. the Charlestown Navy-yard to-day that the commandant of the vard, Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson, is hard at.work |‘upon ‘a volume of his memoirs which is | designed to indicate his officlal career, with especial reference to the Morgan and Schley imbroglios: The recent controversy has determined the Santiago hero in his course. Admiral Sampson ls non-committal in_ the matter. His friends are dlvided. Some ‘deny it. and others at the yard say that it is emi- némtly. fitting that the admiral should se- cure justice for himseif for the future, in- asmuch as the present generation does | not accord it. The Schley-Sampson con- | troversy is what first suggested the plan | 'to the admiral. As an officer in the navy I he feels that his lips are seéaled as to his own official acts -against comment. upon his superiors. ¥ & In his memolrs there will be ample field for the play of his pen, either for peace or for eriticism. His personal reminis- cences will enter into the work, but the work will ‘be founded upon his naval career, and present the officlal correspon- dence ‘which he has had with the Navy Department and men of prominence out- side since he became a factor in the na- tien's life, . It will comprise a history of the Spanish war from the admiral's pofnt of view. i It is hot known how long the ‘admiral will be “at work on. his. papers,” or Whethgr they will be published during his life or not, or whether *he “will present them in autoblographical form .or hand n as memoirs. The tory. SCHLEY TO CGOME HOME. Detached From Command of the South Atlantic Station. WASHINGTON, March 1.—Rear Ad- mira] Bartlett J. Cromwell, now com- mandant of the League Island Navy-yard, has been selected to succeed Rear Ad- miral Winfield 8. Schiey as commander in chief of the South Atlantic naval station. Rear Admiral John J. Read, now unem- ployed, will succeed Rear Admiral Crom- well as commandant of ‘the League Island yard. -Onders detaching Admiral Schley @nd . directing his return to the United States preparatory to retirement wil reach him at Montevideo some time next manth. On being relieved by Admiral Cromwell ;he will come to this country and will probably be on waiting orders until placed on the retired-list in October next. : % MRS JENNIE BARTON _ WILL WED DON ENRICO i Wealthy Southern Widow and Son of Italian Prince to Be Married at Wa gton. WASHINGTON, March 1.—A wedding which-will cause surprise to New. York and Southern soclety, as well as in Italy, | will take fl'“ in this city at noon to- | morrow. Mrs. Jennle Berry Barton, a strikingly handsome and .immensel wealthy widow_of Nashville, Tenn., wiil Dbe married to Don Enrico, son of Prince Rtuu&ou of Rorme, Italy, and scion of one of the The ceremony will be performed by Martinelli, the highest of the: socal rep. xé?etnlulves of the Pope in the United ates. Bookkeeper Arrested. PITTSBURG, March 1.—Bank Examin- er Black had C. H. Siedle, individua! bookkeeper for the Third National Bank of this city, arrested to-day on an al- leged shortage in his accounts of $36.000. Stedle was afterward released on bail pending a more ‘complete examination of the books CHAFFEE 15 SO0K 10 LEAVE PERI American Force Will Be Re- duced to a Small Guard for Lsgation. ALL BURBAU, 1406 G STREET. N. WASHINGTON, March ' 1.—Orders have been cabled to General Chaffee to make largs reductions in the American force in Peking. Only one company of in- fantry and one troop of cavalry will re- main in-the Chinese capital. = Lieutenant Coloriel * Wint, Sixth Cavalry, or Major Robertson, - Ninth = Infantry, command. . General Chaffee will accom- pany - the remaining ~'troops -to Manfla, where about April 1 he will succeed Gen- eral Mac¢Arthur in command of the troops in_the Philippines. 5 The authorities hope that -the reduction in the force of Russla and ‘the United States will be followed by similar action by other governments. - The fact that the German - Government - has - asked. - the Bundesrath to authorize an appropriation of 328560000 for the maintenance of troops in China seems to show, however, = that Emperor William does not intend 'vet to reduce his force in the celestial empire, Great Britain also probably will decline to. withdraw hér troops in any consider- able number. In protesting —against the seizure of rounds In Peking for legation purposes pecial Commissioner Rockhill is acting in accordance with instructions sent sev- eral days ago to Minister Conger. Ital- ians seized property belonging to Sir Rob- ert Hart, and representatives of other governments were examining sites with a view to taking land by Government will ‘buy a site. e SRy POWERS ENTER PROTEST. Object to Direct Negotiation Between Russia and China. PEKING, March 1—Representatives of the forelgn powers have sent a protest to the Chinese Peace Commissioners against the actlon of Yang Yu, Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, in carryis on neg: tiations with Russia in regard to Ma churiaat the Russian capital. They hav requested the Chinese envoxu to_ask Emperor Kwang Su to withdraw Yan, Yu's power to negotiate this treaty au to commit the affair to the concert of Ministers. xe returning to the fa- Missionaries terfor of the province of Shantung. Sir Ernest Satow, the British Minister, gave his consent to this movement, B e CRAW'S ATLAS OF THE o /1900 Census Edition, % Is offered as a premium to all Call readers. Several sample atlases are onexhibition at the business office of this paper and all personsde: ga first- class atlas are invited to call and ins; this splendid book of referent B e e ] ) NONE OF THE SAMOAN e Arguments of American and Bfl&h Governments Have Not Been Submitted to Arbitrator. LONDON, March 1.—Lord Cranbourne, Secretary of the Foreign Office, when questioned in the House of Commons to- day regarding the claims oflslmi% from the disturbance in Bamoa in sald that none had been settled, the argu- ments of the American and British gov- ernmerts relating to the military o tlons in Samoa not having been presented to ‘S‘\z’ ::glmior. ‘The ; rnment com- m Germany in respect to the non-military claims will be in’] orce, This | g | the. Judiciary Committee from- considera- fiendllures in Cuba. It was permitted to SUNDRY CIVL BILL 1S PASSED Number of Amendments Are Offered and Agreed to in the Senate. S WASHINGTON, March 1—During the greater part of a long, ‘tiresome session | of the Senate ‘to-day the sundry civil bili wis under consideration. “At times an ii- teresting -and lively debate was pro- cipitated in the first hours of the ses- sion:on.a-resolution to discharge the Co mittee on Interstate Commerce from con sideration of the bill requiring railroad companfes to make detailed investiga- tlons of all accidents fnvolving loss of lifs on. their lines and to report to the Inter- | state Commerce Commussion. No action | was. taken. :The old Guestion as to-the reclamation “of public lands in the ari¥! and semi-arid sections ¢f the country was brought up, but the effort to attach un amendment’to the measure appropriating money for the work .was defeated. The bills appropriating $500,00 for- the Buffalo ‘Pan-American Exposition, $5.000,- 000 for the Bt. Louls Loulsiana Purchas> Exposition and $260,000 for the Charleston, 8. C., Interstate and West Indlan Expo- sltlon were attached to the bill as riders. Cuban Report Tabled. Platt of Connecticut submitted a ra- port from the Committee on Relations with Cuba. upon-its investigation of ex- | i e on the table with leave to Money of Mississippt to present & minority report if he desires. Jones of Arkansas gave notice that to- the discharge of morrow . he ‘would - as tion of the axtitrust bili. 58 accordance w notic: v a1ven Pritchard of North (’:n.n’%lrlenso“ns}fi ressed the Senate u; the resolution of Butler of North Carolina to refer the cre- dentials of Senator-clect Bimmons $ North Carolina to the Committee on Priv- ileges and Elections with a view to inves. tigating the present conditions which lei up to his election. Consideration of tha sundry civil bill was resumed. An amendment Appr?fll!ln‘ ,000 for and report on the n examination of kY graphy d geolos of the territory adjacent to the forty-ninth parallel west of the one hundred and tenth meridian was adopted. After considerable debate a committes amendment was adopted permitting se tlers to pasture livestock upon fofest res. ervja,tlnns in Colorado, Montana and Wy. oming. .~ Canal Legislation. Morgan offered an amendment authoriz- ing'the President to acquire from Nlcar- :guahnnd Ctutstnumcl\‘ l‘effl;g'rv sufficlent ‘or the construction o e caragua . nal ‘and appropriating $10.000.000 Tor that pu e. Arm;.on made the point of order against the amendment that it was general legia- lation. Mo ntended Lhat 2 t1on WhICh Mad ever bean Stcured o ihs canal had been accomplished in_connec- tion with appropriation bills, He said that $1,300,000 alreadv been spent in connection with the canal. Allison’s point e % e AC mem - orial bridge project, Hn\ltlnwhs cost of the bridge to $5.000,000, $100,000 to be fm. mediately availal a vote on the bill nce of a quorum sergeant at arms was dlrngted to l‘»‘r’l‘:; ‘i‘; AR and :15 a quorum a| dry civil bill was Rr s b S e Senate then went into executive sion and shortly afierward adjourned — —— Wolcott Resigns. WASHINGTON, March 1.—Senator Ed. ward O. Wolcott has resigned as a mem- ber of the Republican National Commit- tee from Colorado and Archie M. Stephen- son has been designatcd as his successor, ——— Conferences Prove Fruitless. WASHINGTON, March 1.—The confer- ences on the naval and postof - ation bills to-day Draved' %”..‘.5.“-“.?"1";., agreement belng reached on either bill. tana. Foly Father Takes Child in His Arms and Aeks God’s Blessings Upon Her For- ever. —e e Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, arch l1—Little Miss Kolinzuten, a nine-year-o!d Ihdian girl from Montana, who has just returned from a Kuropean tour, will have some- thing to tell all the other little Indian ' maidens of the big Catholic school that | will cause them to look upon her with great_wonder. Kolinzuten was blessed by the Pope while she was in Rome. i “Yes, and L-zhall forget it,” sald the child. “The Holy Father saw me in my beaded jacket ar ed wig sald, ‘Where did this e black-e girl come from? A& they m. me tinderstand t his Holiness iog to me 1 told him I was ontana, and that mg mother lived e Rockies. He smiled and took me He placed his k up_into his face. Then he patted me on the head gently and asked for God's blessings upon me forever.” M th his arms and biessed me. hands upon my face and made me I PURCHASE OF LAND NEAR VETERANS HOME Assembly Imor;he Public Build- ings Committee’s Adverse Report. CALL 'HEADQUARTERS, = SACRA- MENTO, March 1.—The Assembly Com- mittee on Public Bulldf 1 Grounds made an attempt to-day to justify some of its expensive junkeung by defeating Senate bill 16, appropriating $5000 for the purchase of a small tract of land adja- cent to the grounds of the Veterans' Home at Yountviile. 8o little regard was accorded the representations of the com- mittee that tha bill was passed by a vote of 45 to 10. Rutherford, «hairman of the Committee on Public Bulldings aud Grounds, -and Feliz, ‘Knight and Foster, the members of the sub-committee which visited the Veterans’ Home, all spoke in oppesition to the bill. The tenor of their remarks was that the water from the spring on the tract to be purchased was not need- ed by the institution, and that the com mandant had told them that the troub! attendant upon. the existence of the sa- loon upon this tract could be controlled th chase of the land.. Anderson, d ‘Cowan de- fended the bill, and asserted. that the management of - the fnstitution heid the purchase of the land to be a matter of importance to it - TWO AMENDMENTS ADOPTED. Assembly Takes Up Bill for Investi- gation of Water Supply. CALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, March 1—Senaie bill 7, appro- priating $207,000 for use in conjunction with a Federal appropriation for (he in- vestigation of the water supply of the State and the question of forest preserva- tion, was glveh a long start toward final guccess -in the. Assembly this afternoon. Two amendmznts were adopted, neither of which affects the essential features of the’ bill, and in that form it was sent to engrossment. and third reading. with the assurance that it will have the support of members who have previously been bitter cpponents of the measure, Johnson offered an. amendment making it mandatory - upen. the commissioners armaintad: nadar - Art A rmaln cnoaw nual sescrt fo the G vernor . It wis 2OOPLOU. sAISCN OIELEa A At b, E ying tha: the second half of the ap- propriation = shall . not beécome available until an aecowiting shall have been made to the Governor of the. expenditure of funds made during the ffty-third fiscal year, during which. the first_half s avail- able. Upon: Ralston giving his assurance that he would support the: bill, if amend- ed in that. manner, the friends of the measure consented to the amendment and it -was adopted. a AR O Not Eager for an Inquiry. CALL ~ HEADQUARTERS, ~SACRA- MENTO, March 1.—Nothing further has been done about the scandal aroused by reports of a corruption fund to beat the nickel-in-the-slot “machine bills. motion in the Judiciary Committee to ask for the appointmeént of an Investigating committés did not meéet with a second. He was advised by the chairman of the com- mittee to take up the matter himself on the floor of the Senate. but he says he has all he can do to get the county gov- ernment bill through, and he has not de- clded how much further he will go. The fact that his motion was fiot even sec- onded, Lukens Felieve investigation is not desired. el Verdict for Mrs. Cook-Barton. SANTA ANA, March 1—The famous Cook-Barton-Rawson case ended to-day, the “jury after: six -hours' deliberation bringing in a verdfet for the plaintiff. This action was brought by Mrs. Katie Cook-Barton against Mrs. Delia B. Raw son -of Los. Angeles to recover title to forty acres of valuablé peat land which the plaintiff claimed had been procured by using undue influence over the plain- tiff during the time she was on trial for murdering her husband. D444 4444440444444 { THE DAY’S DEAD. DE+443 4444444444444 Joseph W. Taylor. DENVER, March 1.—Joseph W. Taylor, oné of the most prominent members of the Colorado bar, died unexpectedly last Skt He g bbe In & nervous condi- on_for two days, and to quiet him Dr. A. B. Wheeler gave him l.n‘lnjeeuo: Hi wa# seized with nausea and strangled to death while unconscious. Born in Jack- sonville, 1IIl, 59 years ago, Mr. Taylor received hi: legal education’ as & student under Adlai E. Stevenson, former Vice President of the United States. He served in the Fifty-first Illinois Infant second lieutenant, and afterward tool course in Ann Arbor Law School. Then he moved to Leavenworth, Kans., where he was active both in law and in politics. While living there he served two terms 5 Copnty Attorney and was also a mem. 1o Cotorado 1n 1. o wure. He moved A.J. Cross.* CHICAGO, ' March 1—A. J. Cross, freight contracting agent of the Burling- ton road, and one of the best known men in_his position in the United States, is dead. at his home in Riverside, a subarb of Chica, He was in his sixty-seventh year and had been with the Burlivgton road twenty-six years. tphecialioind . Alexander Wood. WASHINGTON, March 1.—Alexander Wood Pennsylvania, United States CODI3 at ‘1“2' Tmany, dle t!l:admcto- ay y: e was appéin: ‘on- sul at Kiel in October, 1809. st csd ‘Milton Carpentsr. DIXON, March 1-—Mikon Carpenter died to-day after an illness of two weeks, leaving a wife and two séns. Mr. Carpen. ter has been a resident of Nofthern = So- lano since 1857. [ e Herr Theodore von Hassler. BERLIN, March 1.~Herr Theodore von Hassler, president the Bund der .In- dustfl‘e&enrmanum;naem' League), and one of e foremost 0O erman 1t - ists, Is dead. ’ ;s asmdan - Hon. John Burnett. CORVALLIS, Or., March 1.—Hon. John —————— The Grip Cure That Doss Cure Laxative Bromo-Quinine removes the cavse. Burnett, ex-Juslice of the Supreme Court of Oregon, to-day. SACRA- | Lukens® | suggests that an | SITUATION: President Believes . Proposals Will Be Accepted. McKinley M(mndent of - Speedy Restoration of Peace in Philippines. \ dent McKin the Cuban o tively that pa £ | 1n touch with | does not regare consti nal ¢ ng. the the task of arr United States mutually countries. -Much was a the Cuban cc itution mitted that . say anything Dispatc of an optimistic failed to bear out Ing reports telegr that troub States was he the e Am:ndment. ndmen Philippin - He ing it. diapleased with foundation that will be done amendment will res | réstoration of peace on th ! iny monument of w anc {do in the wa | "In the closin. days of his fir: | tration the President is in re | many congratulations on his ace ments in the and s wishes for the future. He is ral The White Hou from mornir overrun with callers. |is thronged with visitors until late in the day. persons may have an « specting the rooms, and | the President, when offic { Wil permit, orders keeping the building open un an hour later than usual f Members of Cabinet Resigns. President. McKinley's Cabinet was in | session two hours to-day, and the meeting began with all the members | their resignations, which the { accapted. is was a mere formality is fn accordance with the —precedent e tablished by General Grant at t end his first term. All of the membe Cabinet will be renamed by the Presiden and their nominati Senate on Tuesda one change in the Cabinet is contempla —that of ‘Attorney General—will rob th approaching inauguration of President McKinley of the usual gossip that has heen afloat at inaugur: regarding {'the formation of a Attorney | General Griggs has been prevailed upon | to rematn in the Cabinet until some time i in° April. | FAVOR PURCHASE OF GUGGENHEIM PLANTS Result of a Poll of Stockholders of the American Smelting and Refining Company. | ‘SALT LAKE, March 1-—The Tribune will say to-morrow that in view of the action taken by the minority interest in | the American Smeiting and Refining Com- ! pany to prevent the purcnase by the com- [pany of the Guggenheim pla | out the country the officials of the com: bine have been pollingdthe stockholders to obtain an expression of their views re- garding the purchase. This polling has | been conducted by lPlc‘frnpn. In this city | about. $1,000,000. worth o { binatioin is held. divided among | holders, all of Whom unanimously* vot | tn favor of the taking in of the Guggen- helm properties and so wired the officials | to-day. } | | stock in the com- s 0il in New Mexico. CARLSBAD, N. Mex., March 1.—Oil has been struck thirty miles bdlow this place, near the Texas State line, and almost on the line of the railroad. a depth of eighty feet d v from the bottom of the weil like a sprin An examination of the district disclosed 4 | strong indications of ofl over neaily 1,000/ acres of hitherto useless land There is considerable excitement hers over the discovery and many claims will be filed during the next few days. —_——— A horse eats nine times its weight In food in a year: a sheep six times. ADVERTISEMENTS. This Month Danger to health is especially great. You can best prevent illness by tak- | ing Hood's Sarsaparilla to keep your blood pure, sustain your appetite and build ap your strength. If you think you are attacked by the grip or severe cold, the first and best thing to do is to open the bowels with a good dose of Hood's Pills. | These are good suggestions. If f lowed they may save you many ills | doctor’s bills. Hood's Sarsaparil/la And Hood’s Pills make the best com- bination of medicines ever devised. DRMEYERS & . > fol- and Speclalists, Disease and weakness of men. _Established !-Ld ‘Conmluh::: and private free, at office qr by Laflin & Rand Waterproo? Smokeless Powder, in bulk and loaded in sheils, Sen.