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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 1903 RUINED HOUSE. WAREHOUSE SHORTAGE. |WALKIREZ COLLAPSES UNDER - Continued From Page 1, Column 7.| Continued From Page 1, Column 6. ask was as- L were di rights of all the wheat stored dtre ents cted visit Eppinger & Warehouse her his cli- bank- Coast him wh to volur 1t w ¥ such a were rning made the matte wi d ask ointme the to do 0. v TYING UP ASSETS. bank- the v mplica- one of t into uld by the law. mplished to take rving th of an- a all that express w BY THE CRASH. the Wiilows me THREE. HUNDRED NATIVES SLAIN IN FIGUIG FIGHT Leaders of Moorish Tribesmen Make Peace Overtures to the French. the Frenct with the known rted th and solicited der. The terview % were killed of the rega de- of the t completely —_—————— Bremerton a Prohibition Town. SEATTLE. Wash. June 9 —Every sa- loon in t t of Bremertc closed last ght to remain closed for . town is now strictly pro- nance has been passed f nalty for the violation And Given Bul 2 Short Time to Live, as Many Physicians Still Believe Brighl's lienthal | pects ted | grain to other parts of the warehouse it the | can be and is supposed to have been cer- | money orney that | Port | | erty | additional measure of rec | must | ns money on the grain ex- it. But by removing the bank that 1 to find tified to again and perhaps’several times, under other than the original inspection, and each time warehouse receipts are capable of being pledged to banks for the loaned upon them. It is an in- nd easy get-rich-quick method that is in the reach or has been in the reach of any man who dishonestly uses warehouse receipts to raise money. AN AGENCY OF FRAUD. hat this agency of fraud was in reach nger & Co. is made certain by the n that the banker creditors of the ve fallen into in their attempts to genious identify. their grain in warehouse at Port Costa The American ational Bank, Bank of Monterey, isevada National Ban ernational Bank have each trie ready stencil on the grain acks at Port Costa, to make it appear that they have'title to certain grain prop- Replevin suits have been filed as an Replevin answer procedure and returned in five days. a summary be But the a meeting of credi- tor d and made merry with the | claim of the International Bank that | marking its name on certain sacks of j that grain constituted any title to them. The ame sacks now bear other stencil im- rints, each representing a different bank. to those stenciled labels, existing, new ones were applied Several banks, therefore, a these particular If there were sacks could be afor rday that irs. s of grain any in identified way d the warehouse from any place or at any particular there would be no chance for any yntention as the banks are now en- scerning particular owne lk was current on 'Change ye it of to take grain which receipts bankers. grain to fil' up or lack of security for has be out wareic were standin, When there w daily any vz common upon ey loans, it was possible always to make up the required quantity on demand. But there is no g coming in at this time of the year, none earlier than July. Conse- quently, when a banker became suspi- cious in case of Eppi & Co. there Was no Way 10 stave c v longer. The grain was not in warehouse and could not be put ‘thers there is no ea ment of the If the rival banker of Eppinger & ing tors laims graix to Co. in warehouse,”” a banker s: ter- he banks will undoubtedl and ogether and make the legal costs as light as possible, although now that the mat- going into court there is a strong at the value of the grain assets gely consumed in litigation MAKES FIRST MOVE. learned that the San Francisco Union was the first of the San isco banks to press on Eppinger & i for a financi settlement was paid by the firm on ac- L an notified it t the remainder must all be paid at a certain date in the meantime other banks took arm and on Thursday last three banks notified Eppinger that they wanted their money « London, Paris and American Bank em. RS has been supposed to have been the cred- itor to precipitate the suspension, but it is now positively known.that threa or four creditors were at once after their | It then looked so squally that Ep- & Co. saw that they could not go further. When the appeared m warehouse Eppinger & C missing wheat | known | only to , or possibly- the | employes of the several warehouses in which the grain, as assets of the broken house, were stored. mbers of the committee of creditors rday declared it to be thelr purpose investigate all the ctions of the firm. Included in this programme will be inquiry as to whether the missing grain was removed after Ep- pinger & Co. saw the storm drawing very close to their doors and found that there escape for them. r & Co. had any friends in business section of the city a week ago it is clear from the tone of current comment that none remains. ‘Other large grain h that the Eppinger & Co. revelations must lead to stricter methods on th rt of the banks and accommoda- tion will never again be so easily afford- ed. The general commercial community is convinced that frauds of the worst de- scription have been carried on by Eppin- ger & Co. and no voice is raised to allay ndignation that is common. The city anks that are creditors a strong enough to carry their losses easily. So are the country banks. The interior bank that is hardest hit is the Bank of Colusa which is a_creditor to the amount of $110 ho ghly tran, 000. This bank has a capital of $500,000 and of $150,000. The Eppinger & Co. will very largely do away surplus.” -, The amount of wheat and ‘barley a ually in warehouse. to the.credit of Eppin ger & Co. is cnly 650, tons ‘and of - this 100 tons is worthless, being practically screenings. THE DIXON INTEREST. ., June 9.—Notwithstanding the imer of Oscar C. Schulze of the firm of Eppinger & Co. to the effect t the failure of the great grain firm San Francisco can in no way affect integrity of the large general store only in the here, since, he claims, the grain brokers of the city have withdrawn all their in- terests in the local firm, a large number of individuals who have deposits with the | Dixon concern are greatly concerned over Diseasc to Be Incurablc---Went on | Fulton’s Compound in April and Was Well in December. McLaughlin, the Avburn We have a remarkable se to report. Write to this city for the tacts " the Comps., but were as serious as hers.”” We thereupon Mrs. Hoover, who very kindly sent us lowing in reply other Auburn (Cal.), June 2, 1903. Debr Sirs—I consider it a Guty and & pleas- ure to tell the world what the Fulton Com pound did in my case. I was taken sick Jan- uery 1, 1 Brig! The doctors pronounced 1 had the best med burn and Sacramento. Th incurable and sald the give would be tapping, e me & short time to three times and com- fourth time, when about April 1 heard of your medicis I tried it s & last resource, but bad no faith it 1 After taking it about a week 1 began to feel better and then the water began leaving my system. and in a month 1 was able to take a rt drive. she e that 1 abeence three stored to health cine until Decemt self cured. 1 last of June I was =0 much impreyed Francisco, ks 1 went t San wee and after an returned fully re- d with the medi- 1 considered my- recommended the Com- | farmers and laborers of the vicinity { grain contract. pound to several people who are taking it and | are improving Renal Compound I owe my life to Fulion's nd am willing to answer any questions that any one afflicted with Bright's Discase may @esire 10 ask. Heartily thanking you for what your Compound has done for me, I am, yours truly, MRS, W Under the orthodox treatme; “had but a short time to live, & year she was perfectly face of the judgment of her physicians and the precedents of all medical text books. We again ennounce to the world the curability of Chronje Bright's Disease and Diabetes in Iy % per cent of all-cases. But while'we are saving many prejudice is still costing thou- sands of lives. There were over thirty deaths in this city in May from Bright's Disease, and mearly nine-tenths of them ought to be alive t0-day and on the road to recovery. You know of some one with Bright's Disegse or Diabetes—help save Hls life by cutting this E. HOOVER. Mrs. Hoover In less than out and sending it to him. The treatment is | not expensive. Fulton’s Renal Compound for Bright's and_Kjdney disease is but $1.00; for Diabetes, $1 Pamphilet free. Analysis free. John J. Fulton Co., 409 Washington st.. San Francisco, opposite Postoffice, sole compound. ers L and this in the | | the news of the crash which occurred “in 8an Franc For years it has been the custom of the | firm here to carry on a modified_forgiof t-he’ was arrested. banking business, receiving deposits sums the depositors notes have been BURDEN OF HIDEOUS CRIME Wretched Assassin Tells Again the Dread Story of His Cowardly Deed and the Weight of Its Memory Overcomes Him for Nearly an Hour COUNTY JAIL. |1 WALKIREZ, SLAYER OF MRS. LE- | JRED NEAR HOLLISTER AND NOW June 9.—*I am guilty. ixwant to have it over as soon as possible,” was the declaration of Vietor Walkirez to the Oakland police officers when they met him night at Hollister and at noon to- Ready to suffer the penalty of AKLAND, last day death for his crime, the negro strangler | of Mrs.- Elizabeth Leroy was lodged in the Oakland City Prison under guard of | Chief of Police St. Clair Hodgkins and Captain of Police W. J. Petersen. They arrived from ‘Hollister by way’ of San Francisco shortly before the noon hour with their prisoner. Manacled and ironed, Walkirez hobbled between the watchful officers from the railroad depot at Fourteenth and Frank- lin streets, followed by a curious crowd. Worn and uneasy, with the travel stain upon him, the negro was nervous and ill at ease until he had been relieved of the restraining steel and was well away from | the the eyes of the assemblage without prison gates. And with the formal entry on the prison record of the charge of murder against the captured fugitive, the last step in that chapter of the foul crime at Golden Gate was taken. Confession was upon his mind. The negro with siow deliberation repeated this afternoon the narmtive of his wretched deed and de- clared his willingness to go to the gal- +lows with.a full realization of the crime | { with which he perpetrator. All night in the Hollister jafl Walkirez remained under the sleepless eyes of Cap- tain of Police Petersen. Forithe most of the night the murderer slept soundly. After being given a hearty meal he felt relieved, as food had not been regular for him: during “his flight, which® began a week ago last Saturday, when hé left Anna Ross, his white consort, in" San Francisco. €0 3 stood ‘the’ self-confessed When the time of departures came ‘this | morning precautions were taken to-guard against demonstrations. . Crowds gdthered at the Hollister raflroad devot und. like throngs were assembled along the tracks at the stations, the onlookers trving to get a glimpse of the strangler and his guards MURDERER PENNILESS. Not a penny did the fugitive have when ANl of his possessions of were u few odds and ends ‘in his pockets, iging from $0 to $1500 from theia cheap suit of black clothes, black hat To | given ;| showed marks of travel and his feet were @nd cotton undergarments. His shoes bearing the names of Jacob Eppinger, | badly cut and swollen’ from long tramp- Herman Eppinger, Bernard Ettlinger and | ing. Oscar Schulze, the local manager partner in the firm.. These checks have ana | | Walkirez was ready in answer to every auestion of the officers, giviog them always been made payable by the firm of ; With as close detall as possible the record Eppinger & Co. in San Francisco and have found such ready acceptance among | ShUrder. people in the vieinity that the local bank | latter part of the trip to, of his movements from the.time of the ‘He was - talkative during the kland and of Dixon has considered that fts business | continued to be voluble enough while the has been seriously encroached upon. The deposits taken by the firm thaye vsually been in the form of a surplus over and above, the running accéoumt which any Laborers on the ranches, who carried an.account with the general store,. were in the habit of depositing ! lump sums, from which bills against them could be deducted. In every instance a note bearing € per cent interest would be offered as security. Manager Sehwlze declares that his ac- counts are independent’ of those of 'the ruined firm in Ean Francisco, despite the fact that the names of the insolvent wheat men appear on mortgages held by | the local firm. WILLOWS, June 9.—The report that a | large amount of wheat had been sent from the Willows warehouses to Eppinger & Co.’s Port Costa warehouse, receipts for which had been hypothecated, is not true. The Eppingers held no receipts for grain in any warehouse of the Willows Warehouse * Association. P. H. Green, secretary of the assoclation, says that mo receipts for grain stored in any of its nine warehouses are outstanding. - The report ‘published probably concerned | warelouses either at Maxwell, Arbuckle or ‘Woodland. found d near Milpitas to- day. n empty strychnine bottle beside the body indicates sufeide. The man was PITTREURG, Py June oreepr e 7 , June 9.—Dr. thefl of New York was ed prestden rancher might have on his | i H | | usual formalities were observed. 7 Mrs. Hattle Cdchrane got a glimpse of Walkirez as he was taken out to the jail yard to be photographed soon after his arrival, . “That's Vic, all right,” ejaculated the woman, who harbored the murderer and Mrs. Ross after they left the Leroy cot- itage. Mrs. Ross' was not told that her companion had been arrested. " 'His situation séemed to have affected the murderer later in the afternoon, when, for a second time, he was led into the yard to be photographed. In the midst of the -work, while standing with his back against a stone buttress, Wal- kirez suddenly collapsed and would have fallen had not Chief Hodgkins and Cap- tain Petersen caught the miserable wretch. He revived in the course of an hour, and ‘was taken in hand by those officers and Prosecuting Attorney A. P. Leach for a thorough questioning, of which a steno- graphic record was made by Court Sten- ographer Eugene 8 Van Court. Snieiding the Ross woman, Walkirez declared she was innocent, that she had threatened to inform' the police and that he had hoped she would. Indeed, he had been at the point of surrendering himself, pt prison registering #o heavily had his atroclous crime preyed upon him. "N ¥ CRIME HAUNTS HIM. And in his sleep last night at the Hol- lister prison, Walkirez had a strange dream. He said in telling of the vision: 1 had a strange dream last night. 1 dreamed - i | VIcTOR BURCHARD LAUNCELOT ! ROY OF GOLDEN GATE, CAPTCU | IN THE ALAMEDA Mrs, Leroy had my hand. Tt seemed as if 1| praying and she told’ me not tb worry. | | She told me in my dream Jesms would see me | llhl’"ugh all right. She knew I didn’'t do it { meaningly, It seemed like she took me and | introduced’ me to Jesus, and I looked up and | was ufraid ana commenced to cry, Following is what Walkirez told the of- | ficers about the murder: I had been drunk for a_weck or ten days prior to the time 1 killed Mrs. Leroy. I was drunk for g0 long that T had lost track of the | days. 1 temember hitting her with something, | but_whether with hammer or an iron bar I | don’t know. There were three hammers in the house, but T don't know which one I hit her with,"or whether I hit her with a hammer at | all. » | * Annie ‘(meantng Mrs. Ross) says I hit her | with a hammer, and if she says so, why, that's | all right. She knows, because she saw me do it. I hit Mrs. Leroy some place on the head. 1 don’t know just where, but I hit her so hard it must have killed her 'instantly. She fell over on the flocr and she began to bleed from her head, and I got some towels and put under her head to catch the blood. Then I dragged her out into the kitchen. I don’t know whether T choked her and tied the rope around her neck or mot, but T am willing to stand by anything An- | nie'says T did. I remember taking Mrs. Leroy's body down into the basement, but do not remember whether it was done the night T killed her or the next morning. 1 carried her down and put her into & box which was behind a curtain in the basement. Then when 1 buried her I took ;:; out of {hebox and put her fn the hole I had with a shovel. I tamped the v B it D ground with I don't remember just what T did w earth that ‘was Tefc over, bat I have corme fecs 1*sion, of putting a portion of it in & box, and some of it w agalnat thewall. o o L leaned Yy I don’t remember boller, although 1 | putting the earth in » wash wi not say I 'did not, be- cause 1 was drinking heavily all ‘of the 'timo and was o exclted I don't remember every and was 8o ex member everything REMAINED IN HOUSE. Annie and T stayed in the house right alon from that time up to two . the 15th of Ma P o Sheds duwn. Nasory wanted to give myself up, but T couldn't get enough courage to do it. Annie told me she Was golng to give me away because she knew | she would get into trouble about It and she was fnnocent. Of course she didn't have any- thing to do with the matter in any way. 1 wanted her to tell on me. 1'went away several | times from the Leroy house in the hope that when T came back I would find the officers | there to take me. I thought some of commit- | ting suleide, but T could not quite make up my mind to do’ that, Just as goon as Annie had convinced me that T had really killed Mrs. Leroy I broke down and cried. T don't know why T murdered her. She was kindness itself to me in a good many ways, hut she plagued me a good deal aboit having some white hlood and this night sha made me 8o mad that T did it. I had never thought about murdering her. T didn’t want her money and In fact T did not kmow I had done anything until it was ail over. 5 Annje and T lived together until a week ago last Saturday, when we had a quarrel. That day she locked me in the room at 328 Third street, San Francisco, at 11 o'clock in the morning and I stayed there @intil 4 or 5 o'clock in the evening, hoping and expecting every minute that the police would come and take me to_srison. T knew I had done a great wrong and was willing to take what was coming to me for it, 1 was brave enough to face the enemies of my country and T am now brave enough to face death for my ects. The »prisoner said he wandered away aimlessly, drifting from place to place in a dazed condition. He did not know where he was golng when he was taken. The police have fixed the following chro- nology of Walkirez's movements subse- quent to the murder up to the time of the arrest: y May 6—In company with Mre. Ross he called on Hattie Cochrane at 3554 Minna street, San co, and slept there that night 7 10 12—He was at Mrs. Leroy’s house. ¥ 13—Accompanied by Mrs. Ross, he went to the home of Mrs. Samuel Hawkins, on Brush street, between Seventh and Eighth, and remained there that night. May 14—Mrs. Ross slent in Mrs. Leroy’s housé for the last time, of his knowledge, he remaining there that night also. May 15 and 16—Walkirez was at Mrs. Le- Toy's house, and the night of the 18th, with | Mrs. Ross, he remained at the home of the ! fore them in order to hear his test _er's own lips. CREMATES HIMSELF IN SHIP'S HOLD Terrible Tragedy on the Coast Schooner Stimson. Vessel Has Narrow .Escape From Destruction by Fire. Insane Second Mate_snuutés His Clothing With Oil and Then Succeeds in His Frightful Effort at Suicide. AN DAY Special Dispatch to The Call, SEATTLE, June 9.—Details of a har- rowing tragedy at sea, in" which James Johnson was roasted to death by his own act, the safety of the lives of tlie crew of the schooner Stimson of: Seattle im- periled and the ship almost through a miracle saved from total. destruction by flames, were brought to Seattle to-day by Captain Peterson of the Stimson, sailing between Ballard and San Pedro, Cal., which reached port at an early hour this morning. The scene was enacted last Sunday night, but the incidents that led up to it began to make themsélves manifest about a week previously. Johnson, the second mate of the schooner, crazed by religious illusions, saturated his clothing with coal oil, stuffed saturated rags into his pockets, deliberately built a wood fire in the forward hold, over which he poured almost a can of oil, and then applied a match to the wood and his own clothing and lay down on the blazing wood and s slowly charred to a crisp. His agonizing cries attracted the atten- tion of the sailors to the hold, but when they raised the hatch he was beyond hu- man aid. He was carried to his bunk and sweet oil and other remedies applied, but the head and face were burned beyond recognition and the flesh peeled off the bones. The man’s tongue was burned out and it is believed that he stuffed his mouth with a cloth soaked with ofl before set- ting fire to his clothing. He lingered in | intense agony for more than an hour, when death ended his sufferings. On Mon- day morning he was buried at sea. ———————— Joking Bandit Stops Women. REDDING, June 9.—Five young ladies and a man enjoying a ride out of Weaver- ville, Trinity County, last evening at dusk were held up and robbed. Then the high- waythan gave back the hi aluables, took off | mask, said he was only joking and | arted off through the woods. Officers | re after the peculiar fellow. Jeff Boyce, Miss Addie Newman, Miss Kate B. Laney, Miss, Clara Boyce, Miss Stella. Elliston and | Miss Ethel Woodbury - constituted -the { party. Trinity County officers are search- ing for the man. @itttk @ Cochrane woman in San Francisco. May 17—Both at the Cochrane home. May 18 to 22—He boarded at the New York House, San . May 23 to e had room’ in a lodging-house at 328 Third street, San Francisco. \d.\lny 30—Walkirez saw Ross woman for the last time. On that day he went to San Lean- dro and ‘slept that night in Mrs. Peterson's se in that place. D Vas In Oakland and slept that pight in the Ross House on Ninth street. June 1 and 2—Again at San Leandro in same lodging-house as before. June 3—At Haywards. June $—At Niles. June 5—Went from Niles to San Jose. June 6—On road from San Jose to Gilroy. June 7—In Gilroy. June S—Arrested eighteen miles south of Hollister by Sheriff J. J. Croxon of San Benito County. . The receipt of credible information from Gilroy as to the suspect’s where- abouts caused the dispatch of Captain of Police Petersen yesterday afternoon on the trail of the murderer. Soon after his departure news of the arfest was re- ceived and Chief Hodgkins followed, meeting Captain Petersen at Gilroy, both going thence to Hollister. WOMEN IN THE CASE. Formal complaint, charging Walkirez with the murder of Mrs. Leroy, will be sworn to in the Police Court to-morrow by Chief of Police Hodgkins. Before ac- tion is taken in the cases of Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Cochrane Chief Hodgkims will confer further with Prosecuting Attorney Leach. According to the prisoner his full name is Victor Burchard Launcelot Walkirez. He is a native of Mount Joyce, Pa., 26 years old. He enlisted in the army as Vietor Walker and was known to the San Francisco police as Victor or Dick Wilkirez. A brother resides at Michigan City, Ind., and another brother’s home is | at Buffalo, N. Y. His mother lives at Cleveland, Ohio. Chief of Police Hodgkins, Captain Pe- tersen and Sheriff Croxon of San Benito County exchanged compliments upon the capture. The strenuous work of the Ook- land officials in following the trail was of value to the down country peace offi- cer in his successful pursuit of the fugi- tive. The following verdict was rendered to- night by the Coroner’s jury in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Lero; We, the jury, find that Mrs. Elizabeth Leroy came to her death by asphyxiation, which was due to her being strangled by a rope being tied around her nfck by Victor Walker or Walkirez with the intdnt to murder the said Elizabeth Leroy, and we charge the said Victor Walker with the crime of murder. S. HARRIS, Foreman. H. VINCENT. V. H. RENWICK. SAMUEL” BROWN. . H. WOODS. R. H. JONES. A. SCHLEUTER. THOMAS SCHAUB, FRED WATT. Before Coroner Mehrmann and the jury Mrs. Anna Ross repeated in detall her story of the tragedy, and Hattie Coch- rane added to the narrative without de- viation from her statements to the police. The women were taken separately to the Morgue under police guard. The jury wanted Walkirez brought be- ony. It was deemed inadvisable to do thfs, uxi the jury rendered its verdict without hearing the confession from the murder- Established 1823, WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! OIL FIELDS HARRIMAN'S NEW RICHES Southern Pacific Mag- nate Gains Property in Kern. Railroad Company Makes an Immense Contract for Petroleum. —_— Significant Operations Are Carried On Swiftly and Effort Is Made to Conceal the Purpose of the Project. el g e Special Dispatch to The Calk BAKERSFIELD, June 9.—It now. looks as if E. H. Harriman of the Sou!henl‘ Pacific Rallroad Company is going to di- vide with John D. Rockefeller the vast wealth of Kern County oil. . Harriman re- cently acquired possession of more than 5,000,000 shares of Assclated Ol Company stock. As'a further indication of this the Southern Pacific has made a contract with that corporation for 10,000,000 barrels | of' oil, the contract covering a pericd of three years. H While the foregoing is classed amang the rumors, it is believed that it is more | fact than rumor, even the attaches of the | Associated admitting. that a big contract | has been made with the Southern Pacific. | For several days this rumor has been | growing, everybody recognizing that | there was something doing in the inner circles of the Associated Oil: Company, and gradually the story has leaked out. The stock reported to have been pur- chased is the Associated's stock pro rata of the Reed Crude and San Joaquin Oil | companies, the latter having 2,300,000 shares and the former 2,800,000. The figure paid for this stock is said to be 30 cents and as for the price for the 10,000,000 bar- | rels of oil rumor has it that it is 25 cents a barrel or better. The ‘significance of this transaction is | far-reaching, for it Is believed that Har- riman is not going to stop at the posses i 5.000,000 shares of Associated stock, but will control. He now has con- i trol of one-fourth, so’ that he can sell | the Southern Pacific. oil at 10 cents a bar- rel, or ‘he can raise the price and realize enormous profits on his stock. By some it is believed that Rockefeller may have secured control of .this big corporation for the Standard Oil and has given Har- | riman a tip to purchase stock, but rumor | also has it that Harriman and Rockefeller are not-the best of friends since the re- | cent Harriman-Gould imbroglio. The amount that §s reported to have | been paid for this stock, It is said, will not all have to be paid until some time this fall. A recent dividend of 3 cents per share paid by the San Joaquin Oil Company, it is claimg the first money paid by Harriman ti “Foaquinfor | its Associated stoc! also Insures the great trafic of the.Kern.River. ouf field to the Southern Pacjficy dt, least 300 cars per day, and it does not take much to show what thiS means, when cents a barrel is ¢harged for transporfa- tion to San Francisco. The Associated Oil Company controls % per cent of the output of the rich Kern County fields and it is only necessary to revert to the fact | that a few months ago it was currently | reported that Rockefeller had offered $29,- 000,000 for their control and the securing of, transportation —_———— Gas Company Sold at Auction. SPOKANE, Wash., June 9.—The plant of the Spokane Falls Gas Light Company, owning the only system here, was sold at auction to-day to Charles S. Reeves of Tacoma for $460,000. Reeves is sup- | posed to represent Cyrus Plerce & Co, of Philadelphia, already the principal own- | ers of the plant, the eviction sale being made to consolidgje the ownership in their hands. Minority stockholders pro- tested the sale and promised to fight it | out in the courts. | N SR B S TN | | | | e OGDEN, June 9.—Chairman Kiesel of the ex- ecutive committee of the Eleventh Irrigation Cemgress announced to-day that the committee has chosen Senator W. A. Clark as president of the congress. 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