The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1901, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1901. |\ C CUBYS COURSE B WAY T NDEPENDENCE Fiery Islanders Will Be Brought to Terms, Delay Withdrawal of Troops by Rejecting Platt Amendment. — Special Dispatch to The Call, CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April 7.—The Call's news of the rejection by the Cuban con- stitutional convention of the relations in- he United States was re- vy as the most important Cuban situation since Con- he Platt amendment to the rcles the special siste eagerly read and The discussion led to cement of this dictum by one 's closest advisers of of the President Cuba must to the ation terms sa n agreed to. r the President to al added, “but to the present military government has authorized the draw from Cuba and e Government over to the inhab- e island upon the acceptance n conditions. The thdraw the military these conditions have Cifba or until Congress directions. There is no xcitement, either here or | count of the faflure of the the terms which scribed. 1 have no doubt that be satisfactorily adjusted to wit accept of the Cuban convention is er unreasonable. It perhaps better if the relations tates and the new e been adjusted however, rath- he probability of an extra | cipated any negotiations by ce the conditions un- ident should turn over he island to its peo- in our blunt Anglo- sensitive, excitable are dealing could rstand. This has nature of the been no reason, however, to believe be any difficulty in reaching an probable that the Cubans ission to come lo‘ ss with the repre- | | | nment the future two countries. The con- | | wn by the Platt amendment sion, wise on the whole. by the Cubans, I believe, have been to their advantage, as| to the aze of the United v that they might at without de- | It would be possible | form =0 as to make to the Cubans and | anc everything in iSRRI STARVATION DRIVING NATIVES INTO EXILE JUAN, Porto Rico, March 3L— nor Allen has within the last month p Bever: trips into the interior rn end of the‘island. each occasion he has s optimistic state. e condition of crops v: but his opti- to-day, because v employed them | Il capital necessary to The poverty- have plant and cultivate crops. stricken condition of the laboring classes is shown in their willingnes to emigrate. There are at present on the island immi- t . e different associa- one in Cuba and | of these find it dif- | borers. veek 1 was in Guanica in- under which emi- 1 counted near- hildren about to u no household _be- children were mostly s to Hawail are, beyond ted at this end of their who went to Cuba are | for. But 200 who have Scuador are being urged ¥ their contracts, and English ts who went from Jamaica are be- e emigrar well to vet agriculturists armed and are calling for terference. The island press is ing extended emigratio The work e Porto Rican Commis- sion gent to W 1£ton to protest against the Hollander fruit v is already bearing a s being enforced as ntly as possible. Property-owners are asked to make their own valuations. there has been a pretense of ap- pointing assessors, yet instructions seem to have been recelved from Washington not to allow any political animosity to in- fluence assessments. Kidney Cripples —_— . Are you one of those Kidney Crip- ples with a weak back? Can’tstand up erect without those sharp pains in small of the back. Waken up in the night with distress in the kidneys, which makes you restless and unable p well. You are in danger of ’s Disease and should correct the trouble at once with INGOLN JEA The herbs of this wonderful remedy act directly | on the kidneys and correct any disorders of mosed vital organs quicker than any other remedy. with every as-cent package. ALL DRUGG]STS. MYSTERY VEILS CHILD'S DEATH An Idaho Girl Declared to Have Been Murdered at Baker City. . | While Visiting Friends Delia Hull Dies Suddenly and an Investi- gation May Involve Some Prominent Names. PRl Special Dispatch to The Call. BOISE, Idaho, Avril 7.—One of the most | diabolical crimes {n the history of thi State has come to light at Payette. It has developed that the nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hull, who live there, was assaulted and then murdered to conceal the fromer crime or died from the effects of the attack made | vpon her. The crime was committed at Baker City, Or., last July. Although the police authoritiés have been at work on the case the facts have not been published before. The people of Payette are aroused | over the matter. The girl, Delia Fay Hull, went to visit at Baker City, accompanying some friends who had been visiting at her home. She stopped at a boarding-house at the Virtue | mine, near Baker City. At the end of two weeks the girl's mother wrote from | Payette, asking her to come home. Mrs. Jacks, who conducted the boarding-house; | answered the letter, saying that the giri | was having a good time and would be home soon. Other letters to the girl were | also answered by Mrs. Jacks, all stating | that the girl would be sent home soon. Then like a_thunderclap came 2 telegram, signed R. H. Butler, saying: “Come im mediately; your daughter, Fay, is dyin 1t has since been learned that the girl was dead when the telegram was sent. Mrs. Hull went 1o Baker City at once, and was told on her arrival that her daughter was dead. It was stated she | had died from diphtheria, although the | mother had never been advised of any ill- ness. The mother was not allowed to handle the body, which had been em- balmed. A physician’s certificate declared that the girl had dicd from diphtheria. | Butler, who told Mrz. Hull he was fore- | man at the Virtue :nine, and Mrs. Jacks accompanied the body and Mrs. Hull home. Butler never left the unopened casket until it was lowered Into the grave. He | returned to Baker City, after paying all | the expenses of preparing the body for burial and its transportation to Payvette. His actions aroused the suspicions of Dr. A. T. Kimmell, who, with Dr. Ira R. Woodward, local doctors, exhumed the body. They found absolutely no evidence that the girl had died from diphtheria, but they did find unmistakable proof that she had been assaulted. The result of the autopsy was laid before District Attorney White at Baker City, who has not as yet called it to the attentlon of the Grand Jury. The matter was effectually hushed up until investigated ot the instance of the Bojse Statesman. The name of a prominent mining man and others will be called to the attention | of the authorities. steps are being | taken in this Stafe to force a thorough cfficial investigation in Oregon. The the- ory of the Idaho officers is that Butler had nothing to do with the crime, but | has full knowledge of the facts, and wa merely employed (o shield the real cul- prit. The girl, though only in her tenth year, was a handsome child and large for her ge. ENGLISH VETERINARIAN WILL TEST CATTLE FOR CANADA | Animals Coming Via Dominion to America Must Be Examined by Experts. WASHINGTON, April 7.—As a result of negotiations between Secretary of ‘Agri- culture Wilson and the Canadian Minister of Agriculture an agreement reached between the two admini by which Canada is to have a first-class veterinarian stationed in England to test for tuberculosis all British cattle shipped to this country via Canada. The Cana- dian administration wanted cattle to be admitted from Canada without tests at | the border by American experts. The de- partment at Washington would not agree to_this. Secretary Wilson said, however, that if Canada would send to England an agent who should have sufficient expert knowl- edge of the subject the United States would admit cattle upon his certificate that the cattle had been tested and found free of tuberculosis. This was agreed to by the Canadian Minister. It is officially explained that about 10 per cent of the live tock in the United States and about 40 per cent in Great Britain have tubercula- The cattle on the continent of Europe are so diseased that this Government will not permit the admission of any animals from there. 5 FOREIGN LIVESTOCK BARRED. British Cattle Only Ones Admitted Since the Outbreak of Epidemic. WASHINGTON, April 7.—The officials of the Agricultural Department are watch- ing closely all reports from abroad regard- ing the extent of the foot and mouth dis- ease, a fatal malady that is raging among the live stock in almost every country throughout Europe. For the last three years the outbreak has been general on the European continent and the recent re- ports from various foreign ports do not indicate any dimunition in its extent. This Government, as it has done since the ep- idemic reached such alarming dimensions, is refusing to admit any cattle, sheep or swine except from the British isle. This is done not only to protect the vast live stock interests of this country, but also to protect our $30,000,000 or $40,000,000 annual export trade in cat COURT AWARDS DELAYED COMMISSION ON MINE SALE Plaintiff Sold Property on Promise of Bonus, but Had to Sue for Tt. DENVER, April 7.—In the suit for a commission on a mining sale that was never made the District Court jury to-day brought in a verdict awarding the plain- tiffs $200,000. The suit was brought by Benjamin F. Seymour against E. A. Colburn. The lat- ter owns a controlling interest in the stock of the Gold King Mining Company of Crip- ple Creek. A contract was made last June, the complainant alleging, by which Mr. Colburn agreed to pay Mr. Seymour $200,000 if he found a purchaser who would pay $2,000,000 for the mine. H. H. Fram- bach, formerly of Chicago, was interestgd in !h‘el deal, but Mr. Colburn then refused to sell. TWO LARGE TOWNS UNDER QUARANTINE FOR SMALLPOX ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 7.—City Physl- cian Tygart to-night made the statement that there are thirty caces of smalipox in South Park, which nave never been re- ported to the Health Department, and that the disease is spreading rapidly. He placed the whole section of the city under quarantine. . TOLEDO, Ohio, April 7.—Nineteen cases of smallpox exist at Oak Harbor and the entire town is quarantined. | | Apostle Cannon Improving. MONTEREY, April 6.—Apostle Cannon of the Mormon church at Salt Lake, who has been criticially ill in this city for some time past, is slowly improving and is now able to sleep much more than for- merly. He has been taken for short drives into the country for the past few da; and seems to have been benefited thereby. Apostle Cannon is suffering with acute nervous prostration and an aggravated form of insomnia is an attendant symp- tom. —— Sheriff Shoots Horsethief. DICKINSON, N. L., April 7.—Sheriff Goodall learned to-day that a man nameq McPeak, aliag Jim McCarthney, a desper- zJo, wanted both in this State and in Montana, for a long time, was near here. He secured a posse, went cfter McPeak and arrested him on a charge of horse stealing. Later McPeak attempted to es- cape and was shot dead. BLANCHE WALSH ONCE MORE - TO CHARM SAN FRANCISCANS Clever Newcomers Appear at the Orpheum=--“Idol's Eye” Seems to Be in for Long Run at Tivoli. —— will be the welcome attraction. She is to appear in an elaborate production of “More Than Queen,” the play from the French of Emile Ber- gerat founded on the romance of Napo- leon and Josephine. Miss Walsh comes well supported, and it is sald that the T the Columbi4d Theater for the A coming two weeks Blanche Walsh stage settings of the piece are some of the . most magnificent ever seen on a local arloads of scenery, cos- drapertes and other par- | aphernalia have been brought here for the | presentation. The performance will begin arp owing to_the length of h includes five acts and a h: hic] the play, prologue. CRT i “The Tdol's Eye,” which began on Sat- urday night last at the Tivoli, seems to be in for another long run like that of last season. The Tivoll has outdone itself in the production. The new barytone, Ar- thur Cunningham, cast as Don Pablo de Tabasco, is in the way of becoming a first favorite. Hartman as Abel Conn is funny as ever; Wheelan as ‘“Hoot Mon” is the same weirdly, comic genius of last year; Maud Williams is a melodious Maraquita, Annie Meyers a naughty Nautch girl and Bernice Holmes an imposing high priest- e The opera already goes with much smoothness, and orchestra and _chorus l“'nsk shows the firm hand of the new cader. .« .. The Central Theater this week offers “Ingomar,” with Robert Downing in the name role. The part of the noble barba- rian is one of Downing's best efforts, and much care has Leen expended throughout on the play. Lorena Atwood will essay the Parthenia, and the rest of the Central people are all well cast. »t - ennessee’s Pardner” will run another week at the Alcazar Theater, beginning to-night. Its success has been evinced in very satisfactory fashion at the box office, and some of the members have made in- dividual successes in the play. Frank Ba- con as the classic_“slouch,” Gewhilliker Hay, does as good work as any in the company. e The California_Theater, which is now in the hands of the decorators, will reopen for its regular season on Sunday night next, with Neiil Burgess in_“The County “air” as the attraction. Sale of seats will open next Thursday morning. RS ‘“Cinderella” at the Grand Opera-house is the week’s offering, and with the new stock company seems to have mace good. ‘Walter Morqsco’s Shetland ponies in Cin- derella’s fairy coach are a pretty feature of the spectacle, and a bright transforma- tion scene and a “bell ballet” are other notable attractions. . « Tschernoft’s dogs are still the headliner of the Orpheum bill. “A Girl of Quality” also holds her own. Among the newcom- ers are Prevost and Prevost, Hal Ste- phens and company, Josephine Gassman with_her pickaninnies and George H. Wood. They are all good. R Laura Lopez, Murphy and Hart, the Kelcey sisters and Mabel Mack are among the attractions at Fischer's Concert-house this week. P Roscoe and_Sims, Rousell and Howard and Clinton Montgomery are at the Olym- pia. « s A’ lecture on Siberic. for .the benefit of the Children’s Hospital will be given to- night_at Sherman. & Cldy Hall by Wil- | liam Mitchell Bunker. The lecture will be illustrated by graphic stereopticon views, and a _good musical programme will fol- low. Tickets $1, at Sherman & Clay’s mu- sic store. Pt T The new bill that opens at the Chutes to-day includes Barnes’ dog and pony sho Scott and Wilson, acrobatic come- e 2 S o THEOSOPHISTS TO GIVE HIGH-STANDARD DRAMA Will ‘Present “The Conquest of Death” to San Diego Play- Goers. SAN DIEGO, April 7.—A higher stand- ard of entertainment for the youth of the land is the aim of the Universal Broth hood Theosophical Society, which has international headquarters ' on Polnt Loma. With this aim in mind it will present at Fisher's Opera House next Monday and Tuesday evening a sacred drama under the title “The Conquest of Death.” Katherine Tingley, the head of the Brotherhood, holds that of late the stage has been degraded to such a level that numbers of religiously minded people feel it is Impossible to att?nd the ordinary theatrical performances, but with the vival of the sacred dramas, which, while elevating and purifying, are at the same time deeply interesting and most beauti- ful, from & spectacular point of view, the objections of these earnest people must disappear. e Geena of the forthcoming play 1& laid in _the mysterious “under world,” where the shades of the great philosoph- ers of Greece are gathered around Apol- lo's sacred shrine. They long to return to earth to help the suffering withouat having to drink of the waters of forget- fulness, which is the common lot of man and the priestess of Apollo promises that as their aspirations are so unselfish and they are truly pure in heart, the memory of the past will not be taken from them, but will return with the added power of service such a gift will provide. While all are meditating upon this great rewara of right living the priestess perceives that Plato is approaching the Elysian fields from the earth and the whole com- pany welcome him with joy to well earned re,i"very interesting discussion then en- sues, in which Plato, Socrates, Pythe- Sors, Aeschylus, Diotema, angd others take bart, and after many other incidents, in- cluding the singing of the celebrated an- tique hymn to Apallo, discovered in 1834 in Greece, the priestess declares an oracle pronouncing that although the mysteries shall perish outwardly and disappear from the sight of men, yet their memory will not be entirely lost: in & distant age And far off land they will be revived with added glory for the healing of the na- tions MASONS AT SERVICE IN PETALUMA CHURCH Members of Three Commanderies Hold Annual Mesting and Are Lavishly Entertained. PETALUMA, April 7.—Mount Olivet, Santa, Rosa and Ukiah Masonic com- manderies celebrated Easter in this city to-day. As is their annual custom, they attended religious services, and the visit- ors were entertained by the local fra- ternity. Two hundred and fifty excursionists came with the Knights on a special train from Ukiah. At the depot they were re- ceived by Mount Olivet Commandery, and were egcorted to Masonic Temple, thence to the Methodist 'Episcopal Church, where the Masonic_ Baster service was held. Sir Knight Rev. T. A. Atkin- son delivered a_sermon appropriate to the occasion. and was assisted in the ser- vices by a choir of thirty voices = under the direction of Sir Knight C. O. Per- b Becomes Insane or a Train. SACRAMENTO, April 7.—Miss Phoebe McSweeney, while en route from her home in Towa to visit frends in Oakland., went insane on the train before reaching Og- den and was taken in charge by the rail- road officers. She arrived in Sacramento to-night and will be taken to Oakland in the morning and an attempt made to find her friends. — e Mexican carved leather goods and Call- fornia souvenirs of every kind at Sanborn & Vail's, 741 Market street. . o= L4 R EES — % CEER D = DEATH CLAMS ARCTIC MINERS Pneumonia Takes Lives in Dawson and a Consul EX H DESMOND IN THE dians; Coakley and Huested, artist: Mirian Ainsworth, change artist; Al and Mamie Anderson, RAGING TORRENT ROARS THROUGH CANADA TOWN Business Portion of Richmond Flooded and Costly Steel Bridge Swept Away. MONTREAL, April 7.—Telephonic ad- vices recelved from Richmond, Quebec, this evening, announca that the business portion of that town rests in the midst of a raging torrent. At 1) o’clock the gran- ite plers of the steel bridge, erected a few years ago at a cost of $46,000, were carried away, totally wrecking the struc- ture. The tracks of the Grand Trunk, Portland, Me., line are under water for a considerable distance. The people were compelled to take refuge in houses on the hills back of the town. The property loss will be heavy. i HAVERHILL, Mass., April 7.—From the Pemigewasset Valley in the north to the confluence of the Merrimac River with the sea the freshet reports received here to- night indicate that the Merrimac River is likely to burst its banks at many places with a volume of water that will exceed that for many years. The police sounded the flood alarm to-night and business men on the river front began snergetic efforts to protect their property. At a late hour the levee water was within two and a half feet of the street, and as high tide comes to-morrow it is expected that strcets on a level with the lévee will be flooded. All day communication was Kept up with cities on the Merrimac and its tribu- taries, Plymouth and Laconia feporting a rainfall during the night of 172 inches. At Manchester to-night the water was six feet seven inches from the top of the dam and rising six inches hourly. The volume of water which to-night was over- flowing the lowlands at Concord and Man- chester will not reach here until to-mor- row noon, so the greater Fs.rt of the dam- age will not be done until that time. There were also all sorts of reports dur- ing the day of bodics being seen in-the river, but none could pe intercepted. A woman’s body is known to have floated down from Lawrence, and it was under- stood that a man's body and one of an infant had been seen below Lowell. PITTSBURG, April 7.—The danger line ‘was passed by the rivers here this after- noon. At 7 o'clock to-night the fiood reahed its crest, and the decline is ex- pected to-morrow morning. Though flood- ing cellars in the lower part of the city no damage was done. The weather bu- reau sent out a flood warning this morn- ing and as a result hundreds of families spent Easter morning making a periodical move to upper stories of their homes. Reports received to-night from stations at the headwaters show that the rivers are elther falling or stationary. —_———— CLEW TO BLACKMAILERS BAFFLES THE OFFICERS Authorities at Grass Valley and Nevada City Vainly Search for Tilly Letter’s Author. GRASS VALLEY, April 7.—Excitement at both Grass Valley and Nevada City is still at fever heat over the attempt to extort $50¢ from Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Tilly of the latter place by the threaten- ing letter found in their yard the other day. No clew to the would-be black- mailers has been found, but it is still the firm belief of the officers and Mr. Tilley that the perpetrators live at Nevada t ity. Tiley is very susceptible to threats of murder because of the fact that his only ! daughter was murdered by her husband a few years ago. The daughter was the wife onynhn arter, the turnkey at Sai Quentin, who shot his wife to death and then killed himself, the murder and suf- cide having occurred just outside the prison yard. Previous to that time Car- ter had been jailer at the county fan at This vivid recoliection preved upon the mind of the retired mine-owner, and caused him to place the threatening letter in the hands of the pelice -after having held it secretly for several days MIS8 CORA HARRIS, ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF COMIC OPERA, WHO GIVES A SPRIGHTLY REPRESENTATION OF LIEUTENANT “IDOL’S EYE.” the late Queen Victoria. MOOERS WILL CONTEST Mine-Owner Reach an Agreement. relatives of the late Frederic M. have adjusted their differences an well known. against her brother-in-law, Charles be dismissed was signed yesterday. objected to the disposition of the erty according to the will and ercised by Charles H. Mooers. She the mind of her husband against her. Mooers gave to his wife 10,000 shares with others to defraud Frederic Mooers of his property. days ago to watch her interests. fendants. will and Charles H. Mooers withdraws charges. TRIES TO END HIS LIFE His Attempt t. Commit Suicide. at noon yesterday. e L e sketch colored comedians, and new moving pict- character ures, including scenes of the funeral of WILL NOT BE TRIED Widow and Other Heirs of the Dead LOS ANGELES, April 7.—After nearly a year of legal strife the widow and other ooers dis- missed the will contest, which attracted attention, not only in California, but also in New York State, where Mooers was The stipulation that the contest of the widow, Frances L. Mooers, Mooers, and other members of the family | Under the will Frederic M. Mooers, who | died on May 24, 1900, the discoverer of the famous Yellow Aster mine, left 7000 shares of the mining stock to his three brothers, 5000 shares to his son, Edwin D. Mooers, | and 2650 shares to his widow. Mrs. Mooers TOD- filed p& contest in which she alleged mental un- soundness, undue influence and fraud ex- Jeged that her brother-in-law prejudiced In their answer the defendants claimed that ‘several years before his death Mr. his mining stock and that she combined The trial of the case was to have begun before Judge Shaw next Monday and the widow came out from the East aevsleral ince her arrival there have been several meet- ings between the contestants and the de- | They have concluded that their differences were caused largely through | misunderstanding and decided to dismiss | the case. By the terms of the compromise the widow abandors her contest of the The estate is valued at $1,000,000. WITH A RIFLE BULLET Saloon-Keeper of Blacks May Survive ‘WOODLAND, April 7.—W. C. Burger, a saloon-keeper, attempted suicide at Blacks He left a note at the | EMay Be Dead. AL R Strike of Rich Gold Gravel Above El Dorado Causes a Renewal of the 0ld-Time Excite- ment. e ity Spectal Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C.. April 7.—The steamer City of Seattle arrived late to- night from Skaguay. ,Her seven Dawson passengers report the trail still fair, but the ice was broken in several places and early opening of navigation is expected. Several deaths have occurred recently in Dawson from pneumonia. Frank Belcher, owner of No. 38 above Bonanza, died ten days ago. He became sick Monday and dled Thursday. United States Consul J. C. McCook had been sick of pneumonma for several days and was not expected to live, according to R. Nixon of Seattle, who is on his way to inform the relatives of Michael Quette of Seattle of his death, also from pneumonia. Quette had arrived in from the outside only four days before his_death. The last passenger stages were t5 leave ‘White Horse and Dawson simultaneously on Saturday, so that until navigation opens travel will be light. Dawson gambling houses were closed from Saturday night until Monday morn- ing, but are now running wide open. The ofticial statement is that they will be al- lowed to run until June 1. A renewal of the old-time mining excite- ment has been caused by a strike made on No. 3 above El Dorado, owned by Hal- stead and Mills. The bedrock there was rotten and a_ new bedrock was found twelve feet deeper. This held a gold to_the pan. ‘White Pass line, which knocked the snowplow off the track, but did no fur- ther damage. The line was clear on Wednesday. Twenty-seven sacks of ma’l from _the Interior from as far as Teller and Port Clarence, arrived at Skaguay Tuesday. The carrier left Teller City January 9, and Nome on the 15th. FROST'S HEAVY DAMAGE IN SHASTA ORCHARDS Fruit Crop in the Valley Districts Be- lieved to Be Almost a Total Loss. REDDING, April 7.—The fruit erop of the Anderson, Happy Valley and Churn Creek bottom regions, the three most im- portant fruit districts of the county, will be an almost total failure this year owing to the heavy frost of Friday night. It is said the almond and apricot crops will be a total loss. There will be but one-fifth of a crop of peaches and prunes. Pears, | the great staple .of the districts, suffered the least from the severe weather. It is computed there will he a loss of but one- third of the crop of that fruit. | 'The cold snap which created such havoc was an especially severe one. In the An- derdon lowlands ice lay on the ground un- til nearly noon. The districts affected are almost the sole fruit producers of Shasta County. The industry represented in them has become quite an important factor in the county’s wealth-producing agencies, and its almost total absence this season will be severely felt. PACIFIC GROVE, April 6.—This entire section is undergoing an extraordinarily severe cold spell, and fear is entertained that if the present sharp wind continues fruit hereabouts will suffer greatly. Frost the past three nights is reported from Carmel Valley and other fruit-growing distriets. EVADA COUNTY MINES PRAISED BY PROFESSOR Andrew Lawson of the University of California Gives the Result of Observations. GRASS VALLEY, April 7.—Professor Andrew C. Lawson of the chair of geology and mineralogy in the University of Cal- ifornia, who has been here for several days in charge of the senior class in the school of mining of that institution, mak- ing a study of the mines, has given out an interview contrasting the mines of Nevada County with those of the mother lode. “The mother lode is remarkably linear in _its extent,” said Professor Lawson, “while in Nevada County there is more of a network of Vel&m The former are larger, but not so rieh. The problem of reducing the cost of milling ore to the very lowest amount does not enter into the problem in the handling of the ores of this rich locality. In this region I do not know of any mines that are of such ¥ | low grade as to, require such great econ- - | omy in milling.” Professor Lawson and the class left for the coast this morning. I el RIGS THE GUILLOTINE THAT ENDS HIS LIFE SAN JOSE, April 7.—The body of John Connelly, a woodchopper was found in his cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains near | Wrights with the head severed from the body. The neighbors who found the body believed that he had been murdered, but after an investigation and inquest by the Coroner to-day it was decided that it was a case of suicide. Connelly had rigged up a guillotine and cut off his own head. e swung a broad ax by a rope in such a position that when he cut a cord the ax would fall across his neck, which was stretched on a block of wood conveniently located. The plan worked effectively, as death was prob- ably instantaneous. The Coroner’s jury fixed the date of the suicide_about March 27, as the body was much decomposed, and it was about that time that Connelly was last seen alive. He was 57 years old and unmarried so far as known. Little is known of his history. Fresno Bicycle Races. FRESNO, April 7.—The bicycle races of * | the National Racing Club were held here to-day. About 1200 people -were ‘in a i tendance. John Lake of New York won both heats in the scratch mile profes- sional race; best time 2:15 2-5. Blanchard and Turville won_ the motor cycle five- mile race in 7:48 2-5, three motors contest- ing. There were several accidents in the |?‘mattenr races, but no one was seriously urt. al- of M. his gravel that is turning out as high as $15 | On Tuesday a slide occurred on the | FLOWERS WILL WREATHE BELLES {Sacramento Making Great | Preparations for Their ! Big Carnival. | Maids of Homor Will Be Selected | From All the Towns Partici- pating in the May Cele- bration. | Special Dispatch to The Call. | SACRAMENTO. April 7.—The Sacra- | mento Street Fair and Trades Carnival will open May 6 and continue to May 11 | Contracts have been let for the erection of triumphal arches and a throne for the May queen, and for pillars, to be placed twenty feet apart, on the streets sur- rounding Capitol Park to support many | thousands of colored electric lights strung in festoons across the thoroughfares. The Midway, which will run directly through Capitol Park on Thirteenth street, will afford scores of attractions, not a few of which will come here directly from the East. Altogether the street fair this year will be conducted on a scale of magnifi- cence not approached by the Initial ven- ture last year, although the latter won for the capital city the praise of the en- | tire Pactfic Coast. A unique incident of the street fair is fl"le inauguration in the varfous towns of Northern California of local contests for the selection of maids of honor. The choice of the May queen will be entirely local to Sacramento, and the voting is go- ing on with a fervor promising a rich re- ward in nickels. But instead of the selec- tion of her suite being left to the May | queen, the street fair committee has de- cided to show ‘ts appreciation of the su port rendered it by surrounding commu- nities by allowing them representation on | the great white throne. Therefore Nevada City, Grass Valley, Aubugn. Woodland. | Redding. Stockton, 'Placerville and sev- eral other citles and towns will each send one of its prettiest girls to vie with the beauties of Sacramento and to show to | the thousands of visitors who are expect- | ed during carnival week that Northern | California can produce rare types of wom- anly lgveliness as well as choice fruits and flowers. That the street fair committee is not in- spired by a selfish motive is proved by the circumstance that each town has been told to use every cent realized from the maid of honor contest in the purchase of a suitable wardrobe for the fortunate winner. The street fair committee will house and entertain the maids of henor. and they will take a leading part in the great floral pageant of May 8, in the court | ball and in all the brillant functions of the week. | , In response to the unanimous request of the street fair committee and of the com- | mittees from the three local pariors of the | Native Daughters of the Golden West having the event in charge, Secretary of State Charles F. Curry has agreed to act | as grand marshal of the floral parade. | Several hundreds of dollars will be offered | as prizes for turnouts in this pageant, | and it promises to present a display of | floral wealth such as has never been seen in_the past, either in Sacramento or else- where. | EMPEROR WILL BE TOLD | OF EDWARD’'S ACCESSION English Embassy Due in Berlin to Announce the Fact to German Monarch. BERLIN, April 7.—The special embassy appointed to announce to the German Em- peror the accession of King Edward VII will arrive in Berlin to-morrow night. It consists_of the Duke of Abercorn, the Earl of Kintoye, Major General Sir Archi- bald Hunter and Mr. George R. Clerk of the British Foreign Office. Emperor Willlam will receive the mem- bers of the embassy in audience at noon Tuesday and will entertain them at dinner that evening at the Schioss. On the fol- lowing evening they will probably dine at the barracks of the Dragoon Guards. On Thursday they will dine at the British Embassy and on Friday they will leave for Dresden, from which city they will re- turn to England. Of Interest to the Coast. WASHINGTON, April 7.—Postoffice De- partment orders are as follows: Postoffice discontinued: Oregon, Tiptop, Lane County, mail to Hazel Dell Postmaster commissioned, California, George W. Humphreys, Dunsmuir; ap- pointed, California—C. P. Smith, Bitter Water, San Benito, vice N. E. McCoy. re- moved; L. H. McMillan, Lamesa, San Diego_County, vice E. W. Strachan, re- signed; Willlam Henson, Riverdale, Fres- no County, vice Lucy Harlan, removed. Pensions were issued yesterday as fol- lows: California; Original—Winfleld S. Martin, San _Francisco, $6; Obadiah Morse, Santa Clara, $6. Increase—Joseph San Francisco, $8; Jesus Flores, , $8; Monroe Perkins, Los Angeles, inal widows—Mary J. Thompson, & minor of William Fogs, Stock- K War with Spain—Original, John P. Williams, Los Angeles, $24. Original—Russell B. Stillwell, Orego: Fossil, $8. ‘Washingto! Original—Hiram R. Gale, Olympia, $; Edward Peterman, Tipso, $6. Increase—Andrew M. Seright, Lacon- ner, $8;: Amanda P. Hartshorn. Golden- dale, $i2; Ezra J. Alger, Tacoma, 2. Original widows—Susan W. O. strorg, Stanwood, $8. Captain John S. Battle, Eleventh In- fantry, now in this city, is ordered to join his regiment. Jointist Goes Free. SALINA, Kan., April 7.—The first trial of a jointist under the new Hurrell law, passed by the last Legislature. which makes It 2 misdemeanor to be found in possession of spirituous liquor, resulted in no verdlet here late last night, and the jury was discharged. It was the case of Henry Stevens and wife, whose place was raided by the Sheriff recently. The pas- sage of the law was a result of the tem- perance crusade started by Mrs. Carrie Nation. Restricting Coeur d’Alene Output. SPOKANE, Wash., April 7.—It was an- nounced that the output of lead and silver of the Coeur d'Alene district of Northern Idaho is to be restricted to_sustain the market. The smelters have 5,000 tons of reserve, twice as large a surplus as is ne- cessary. The reduction will amount to 25 per cent. Governor Hunt has returned from a trip through the district where the Hots two years ago made a martial law necessary. He says the district is pacified and martial law declared off. rm- house of a neighbor, the purport of which was that his body would be found cold in death in one of the rooms of his residence. W. H. Black went at once to investigate and found one of the rooms with the door and windows locked and the curtains drawn. The door was forced and Burger was found lying on the floor. Beside him was a riffe. Burger had put the muzzle of the rifle under his chin. In touching off the trig- ger the rifle was shifted a little to the left. and the ball entered near the point of the jawbone, knocked out several teeth and passed out close to the cheekbone. He was very weak from loss of blood, and his fate is in the balance. His act was due rto domestic troubles, his wife having re- cently left him. Freight Train Derailed. SANTA BARBARA, April 7.—An early freight train, while running at.a high rate of speed near the Fajoguas ranch yester- day morning.jumped the rails and several cars were scattered along the bank. The engine remaired on the rails and was sent to Gaviota for assistance. When a short distance from the wreck the tender of the engine left the track and the firemay was slightly injured. Throush trains wefe de- layed four hours. - Large Schaoner Launched. EVERETT, Wash., April 7—The four- masted schooner Otella Pederson, built for San Francisco parties, was launched this evening at the White Company's shipyard. {- ach. 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