The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1903, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCIS CO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1903 (8} CURSED BY PRENATAL INFLUENCES BOY OF TENDER YEARS ENDS ALL Hereditary Taint of Melancholia Drives Little James Patton to Hang Himself Until Dead, Thereby Achieving a Goal He Had Twice Sought With Baby Hands ; - e v e T A HS O . SRANA. GeorcE L. Armon — - —_— - + F( - AND BOY WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE BY HANGING WHILE SUFFERING FROM DENCY CAUSED BY THE ESTRANGEMENT OF HIS PARENTS, HIS FATHER AND YOUNGER THE LAD HAD MADE TWO PR ATTEMPTS TO KILL HIMSELF. ; last night rear of door ske in the dimly roc FINDS DANGLING BODY. th a ror, the searcher aroused the Irving, a parent yrery. responded 1 cut down the boy's on and the noos- e declared was un- e of suicide. The Cor- dicated in nt of melancholia upon m him, angely manifested chological phenomenon; the boy James the age ars tried d his baby life by hanging. TRIES TO CURE THE BOY. Both father other, keenly realiz- ing the distressing efforts to check the ditions, made brave dency so plainly evident. The ¢ hung over the boy could ipated. Only a year and a half when James was just touching his teens, the second effort was made St gely, too, he used the same means that were utilized last night Again, in babyvhood, the child's life was =aved by a timely discovery. Pathetic was the story from the lips of the child’s mother, herseif a double sufferer because an unfortunate domestic difficulty had separated her from the | boy’s father and from her children. James | was the older of two boys, the fruit of the marriage in 1857, in Iilinois, of George E. Patton and Alice M. Hoxsey. The mother was but 19 years old when James was born. Defore his birth she suffered from melancholy, and her son was born with that blight upon his life PARENTS DRIFT APART. The Pattons were not compatible. After nine years Mrs. Patton commenced di- vorce proceedings at Healdsburg, but sub. sequently withdrew them. Six years late: her action was pressed to a conclusion | here and last October Judge Grecne granted Mrs. Patton a divorce on the ground of cruelty. She was given the custody of her children, James and Frank, but she allowed the father to have James, and ever since the separation Pat- ton had lived with his boy in Oakland and Mre. Patton went to San Froncisco and engaged in giving physical culture les- sons MOTHER TELLS THE STORY. Around this narrative of domestic dis- At her sidc Th ild's blight f-stricken [father. ents of the unfortun: vorced p were & common row drawn toward ach er as- the mother unfolded the secret of their first born's surrow, a se- been for years buried in ke as follows: ment peculiar B of sffered under that our utm tempera he ic in th e that the troubles be- elf in any way had 2 suicide BABY ATTEMPTS TO END ALL. The deed was that of a boy born under the influences, which was gre- ore Jamie was out of his bby- = betore the child tried to end his attempt was when Jamie was He had been reproved, after to the barn and got & plece bimself on the limb ton found the baby wn and resuscitate him. efforts to teach him for the years rolled vas delightful. The symp- ed to have disappeared, but about a ~d a half ago In Oakland Jamie made second attempt and under similar s 10 that of seven years before. T a slight reproof he went out atal and hanged h With like ‘ortune Mr. Patton discov him in time. We talked long with him then and he promised us to make no further attempts. There must have been some gnawing at his brain to bring about this last and fatal attack of melancholia, from = P hich he had suffered intensely. Though Mr. atton and mysell have been always good we have never been happy companions we have been divorced we are stili ds. When 1 was given the custody iildren J1 realized how much affects, kad for them and I gave Jamlie care, knowing that he would be given tention. And now I desire to deny for and with the knowledge and assent of former husband who bears with me the my charges that have been circulated In connec- tion with this trouble. Mrs. Patton referred to statcments that the Re: the Thirty - fourth - street Methodist Church, had been the cause of difficulty between herself and her former husband three years ago, THE DAY OF THE DEED. foung James had been = scholar at the Durant School. When vacation began he went Into his father's store. Yesterday afternoon he went home about 5 o'clock and laid his coat at the foot of the bed in the room he and his father occupied. He met Mrs. Leveque and spoke to her as he left the house. Not a sign had he given to his father or any one else of the | contemplated deed. But he must Lave gone then to the barn, for the condition | of the body this morning was evidence to Coroner Mehrmann trat death had come about 5:30 last evening. When Patton went home to supper the | boy was missing. He was stili missing at 8:30 o'clock when the father retired. Pat- ton awoke between midnight and ’1 o'clock this morning and then thought his boy might have been arrested, but his inquiry later at the police station gave him no satisfaction. At 4 o'clock this morning Patton went to market for his day’s produce, returned to his store and at breakfast the mystery of the disap- pearance was solved by Mrs. Leveque. George E. Patton, the father, spoke a follows concerning the hanging: What prompted James this time I cannot tell. He had not been reprimanded, and seemed cheerful and happy. It is all a mystery to me. At the Inquest this afternoon Patton kept the secret of his boy’s life, only con- senting to its disclosure after an inter- | view with the mother. This was at the conclusion of the inquest. Mrs, Leveque | told the Coroner about finding the body. | Dr. Carl E. Curdts explained the cordi- tion of the body and the about it. Coroner Mehrmann sald the ex- amination positively showed strangula- tion to have been the cause of decath. Nothing more was given the jury, which found a verdict of accidental death and added that the boy had been strangled | while playing In a swing. The Coroner did not approve the verdict, on the ground that the evidence did not warrant the finding. i @ il @ CHARGES AGAINST HOOPER CONTINUED FOR ONE WEEK Many Witnesses Give Accused Po- liceman Excellent Character, but Other Testimony Is Desired. There was a special meeting of the Po- lice Commission yesterday afternoon. I was devoted mainly to hearing the charges of neglect of duty and making false reports against Policeman W. B. Hooper, preferred by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with which organization the accused policeman had been detalled for more than twenty | years up to within a few months ago. . E. 8. Brown, formerly pastor of | | hed The charges specified that during a pe- riod cxtending over four years the ac- cused policeman had reported to the so- ciety the vehicle license number 11,83 cighty-three times as being attached to wagons, the horses of which he had in- vestigated and caused to be sent to their stables. The inference sought to be drawn from the frequency that the number bec- curred was that Hooper was not attend- ing to his duties, but was turning in these reports without actually doing the work. Many witnesses were examined, includ- ing Vice President Partridge, Secretary Tiolbrook, Treasurer Hutchinson and Spe- cial Officer McCurrie of the society. All of them gave Hooper a splendid record. On his own behalf Policeman Hooper testified that In every case reported he verformed the work specified, and he thought the numbers given on the dif- ferent vehicles were correct. He stated that many wagons were numbered arbi- trarily by the owners to avold arrest by policemen, and that no license was paid on them nor was any record of them to be found in the license department. He admitted that clerical errors might be partly responsible for the frequency with which the number in question occurs in his records. During the investigation it was devel- oped that Hooper occasionally made wag- | ers at the racetracks and that his wife had been in receipt of a gratuity of $25 monthly from the society during the last ten years of service of the accused offi- cer. These facts aroused the interest of Commissioner Hutton, and at his sug- gestion the investigation was continued until next Thursday afternoon, when fur- ther inquiry will be made. el Absconded With Jewelry. Miss Sadie Brown, 1251% Mission street, secured a warrant from Police Judge Conlan yesterday for the arrest of E. B. Hunsaker on a charge of felony embez- zlement. She alleges that on May 29 she gave Hunsaker a solitaire diamond ring, a gold locket and gold watch and chain, of the value of $140, to raise money on, and that he disappeared from the city, taking the jewelry with him, ropes he found | BO35 TABOOS BIALS' FINERY Phone Operators Are Informed How They Shall Dress. Picture Hats and Olinging Gowns Astonish the Superintendent. His Selection to Office > of El Paso and Northeastern System of Rock Island Road Pleases His Friends JUNKIN'S APPOINTMENT MEETS WITH APPROVAL OF ASSOCIATES of Pacific Coast Agent| ——— T | ALAMEDA, July 17.—What shall we | wear to please the boss?” is the question that all of the local ‘“‘hello girls” are ask- | ing each other now when they are not en- | gaged in telling some impatient human that the “line is busy.” | Blue and gray are the colors that de- | light the heart of the “boss,” asithe su- perintendent is referred to among the hello lassies. He has put that much | down in black and white and has posted it in the local office so that every girl who dresses may read. But all of the 8irls do not own, costumes cf blue and ' gray and just how to attire themselves is the puzzle of the hour. | When the superintendent of the Sunset | Telephone Company dropped into the lceal | office unexpectedly a few days ago he gazed around and for a brief time {mag- | ined that he was viewing a fancy dress party of the “400.” Some of the fair op- | erators were gowned {n handsome suits of | clinging material; others were com:ng ! Into or leaving the office wearing elegant | picture hats and all looked lovely. i After feasting his eyes on the scene of | | beauty before him and cggching his breath the superintendent delfered a lec- ture on what might be entitled “The Dis- advantages of Dress to the Girl Who Works.” Then he posted his crder taboo- | ing all finery and fnstructing the fair | ones who are glways saying “hello” to the general public to hereafter report for duty dressed. in somber gray or the brighter blue. The girls have not yet for- gotten what the “boss” said and that is why®they are talking about it e FREEMAN OF PASADENA GOES DOWN TO DEFEAT Alonzo Bell of Los Angeles Proves His Superior in the Ten- nis Finals. SANTA BARBARA, July 17.—After | having won nearly eve ame of tennis | in Which he engaged in California during the last six vears, L. R. Freeman of | Pasadena went down to defeat before Alonzo Bell of Los Angeles th ternoon | on the Potter courts in the men’s finals, The games were the most sensational of the Santa Barbara tournament. The score was 6-1, 6 1 Freeman, as well as Bell, had put up | a strong game throughout the series, but the former defender depended upon his superior vitality to win the game in the end. The result therefore was somewhat in the nature of a surprise. The tennis tournament will be sus- pended to-morrow in order to permit the | players to join in an excursion to Santa Cruz Island, which will cccupy the great- | er vart of the day. | _The golf tournament to-day brought E. Maud and William Frederickson con- splcuously to the front, both men play- | ing a remarkable game which will draw | them into the final set with 3§ holes. Another Interesting result of the game | was a tie Detween Charles Orr of Pasa- dena and William Butler of Los Angeles at 18 holes. Another hole was called, with the result that Butler won. Scores for to-day: Frederickson beat Tufts one up. beat Brown two up and six to play. ler beat Or@ one up, 19 holes. Maud beat ook seven up, five to play. Frederick- son beat Hunt six up, four to play. Maud beat Butler five up, four to play. | The water polo match between the Elks and Santa Barbara teams resulted in fa- vor of the latter, the players of which | made the only seore. —————— | Hop Conditions Are Satisfactory. ! SANTA ROSA. July 17.—Hop condi- tions in Sonoma County in a s factory condition, ana Hunt are whnite there be a slight shortage in yield, it is prob- will able the price will be higher and more than compensate for the shortage. Pick- ing in this vicinity will begin about Au- gust 25, and lasts several weeks. Grow- | ers in the vicinity of Russian River be- { lieve that if a rain does not come short- | 1y they can only count on two-thirds of a crop. Samuel W. Purrington and Rayford W. Pecterson, prominent grow- | ers of this county, are trying the ex- | periment of irrigating their hop crop, and expect more than an average yield. ! ———— e | Hardware Men Meet at Santa Rosa. SANTA ROSA, July 17.—The North | Coast Hardware and Implement Associa- | tion held a mecting at the Occidental H | tel to-day and- considered routine bus ness. The association is the sixth to be counties of Sonoma, Marin, Mendocino | Napa and Solano. Members from these counties were present to-day. The se: sion was executive. Among the wholesale men present were A. C. Rulofson and George P. Thomas, representing Baker & Hamilton; C. C. Curtis of Dunham, Car- rigan & Hayden, and J. W. Lowry of the Pacific Coast Hardware and Steel Com- pany, ——————e Immense Audience Hears Clark. LONG BEACH, July 17.—Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri had an immense audi- ence to hear his lecture on “American Chautauqua Assembly to-day. *“In the year 1782, he said, “nature was unusually | prolific, for she gave to the United States Webster, Calhoun, Benton and Clay, the greatest quartet of statesmen that ever graced the American Senate at the same time. This evening he spoke to the mem- bers of the Iroquois Club in this city. —_————— Urges a Sonoma County Exhibit. SANTA ROSA, July 17.—The . Board of Supervisors of Sonoma County re- ceived a visit to-day from J. A. Filcher, secretary of the State Board of Trade. The object of the visit was to induce the board to make an appropriation for the fitting display of the products of Sonoma County at the St. Louis Expo- sition. Filchér urged the necessity of an individual display of the manifold products of the county. —_——— Prefers Death to Sickness. WATSONVILLE, July 17.—A well dress- ed stranger registered at the Hotel John- son as G. Ardery of Auburn, Cal., at- tempted suicide this morning by shoot- ing himself in the body. A note found on a table announced that he had heart trou- bile and had better end his misery. He directed that his trunks be sent to a brother in Virginia City, Nev. He is not expected to live. ———————————— Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Friday, July 17. Stmr Fulton, Lee, 47 hours from Redondo. DOMESTIC PORT. TACOMA—Sailed July 17—Stmr San Mateo, for San Francisco. FOREIGN PORTS. VICTORIA —Arrived July 17—Stmr Queen, hence July 1. LIVERPOOL—Sailed July 17—Stmr Cymric, for New York; stmr Armenian, for New York. But- | | organized in California and embraces the | Statesmen’ before the eighteenth annual | CHADK. JUNKITID o+ Latest News \ From Bedside of Pope Leo | . | ROME, July 18, 9:40 a~m.—The | doctors attending the Pope have just | His temperature is 36.2 centigrade; ! “The night was passed without :aleep, but from an early hour this 'moming his Holiness rested tran-! | quilly. His respiration is calm and ! not superficial, and the level of ther pleural liquid is slightly lowered. | issued the following bulletin: ! pulse weak, 88; respiration, 28. The general condition of the patient is/ | unchanged. LAPPONI. | “MAZZONL.” PERRERREERRERERREREE MRS S ELGIN CITIZEN ~ NEARLY LYNCHED .Callson Married Woman | During Husband’s Absence. ELGIN, I, July 17.—Because a well | known resident of Elgin called on the | wife of tired farmer during the lat- ter's absence an attempt was made to lynch him. The young men who planned | the affair were folled, and the police kept the matter quiet until to-da Late last night the man e erged from the house of the woman, to whom, it is alleged, he is paying undue attention, and started for his home, about a mile | distant. Across the street were five young | men, friends of the absent husband, who | had adjusted a rope on a neighboring tree. Three of their companions, who hid in the tall grass near a house on the oppo- site side of the street, hurled stones at the offender and chased him into the arms of the other young men. He was lassoed, and put up a strong fight. He cut the rope and charged into the crowd with upraised jackknife. A riot call was sent to police headquar- ters and five bluecoats responded. They found the man semi-conscious and took him to his home. Warrants will be issued for the wou!d-be chers. ———————— IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS IN SESSION AT SEATTLE Meet to Discuss Ways and Means to Keep Out Pauper Ori- ental Labor. ““ATTLE, July 17.—An important con- ference, having for its object the de- | vising of ways and means to keep out | pauper Oriental labor, is now in progress | in this city. The conference is attended | by J. H. Barber, Chinese inspector of the | Portland district; Thomas M. Fisher, in charge of the Puget Sound district; James R. Dunn, former inspector in charge of the San Francisco district; his | son, John Dunn, connected with the Chi- | nese Bureau of Immigration at Sa% Fran- icisco, and W. H. Reed, commissioner of immigration at Victoria, B. C. The chief object of the conference is to talk over plans to restrict immigrants from cross- | ing the Canadian and Mexican lines. | N e RUSSIA NOW ACCEPTS CONDITIONS OF PEACE International Arrangement Made at the Brussels Convention Can Now Be Perfected. BERLIN, July 17.—The Brussels cor- respondent of the Madgeburgische Zei- tung says that Russia, which did not ac- cept the Brussels peace convention, has now decided to abide by its conditions, thus removing the last obstacle to the perfection of the international arrange- ment. ———— Two More Victims of Explosion Die. VICTORIA, B. C., July 17.—All trace of the disaster in No. 6 mine, Cumberland, | has been cleared away and the mine will be ready to recommence work to-morrow or next day. The list of dead now totals fifteen, two more victims having suc- | cumbed to their injuries to-day and an- other cannot recover. The fire must have been very severe while it lasted, for in many instances the flesh of the Chinese was burned clear through to the bone. The accident is now attributed to a foul shot. —————— FELL OFF AN ELECTRIC CAR, —J. Sierck, a baker living at 125 Valancia street, fell off a Mission-street electric car at Twen- ty-first street early yesterday morning and was_ taken to the City and County Hospital {In the patrol wagon. Dr. Bine found that he | pad, stalned a scalp wound and a fractured | when the Southern Pacifjc management . Stocked this year. o POPULAR RAILROAD MAN WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN IM- PORTANT POSITION. e LAMEDA, July 17.—Reliability | and thoroughness in the per-| formance of every duty have been recognized in the appointment which has just been made of Charles K. Junkins of this city to be the Pacific Coast agent of the El Paso and Northeastern system of the Rock Island road, with headquarters at San Fran- cisco. Junkins is experienced and well posted in all of the inner workings of a rallway office, having been engaged in the busi- ness since boyhood. He was born in Val- lejo nearly forty years ago. His first po- sition was with a law firm in San Fran- cisco as clerk. He left the place of codes | and statutes for a desk in the offices of the Southern Pacific Company ‘at Fourth and Townsend streets, where he made a | name for himself by his careful and con- | scientious work. During the big rallway strike in 18%4, experienced difficulty in securing firemen, Junkins laid aside his pen and books and shoveled coal into the firebox of a loco- motive for several weeks. Eight years | ago he accepted the position of contract- ing agent for the Denver and Rio Grand in San Francisco, an office he retaine until his latest advancement in the rail way world. Junkins is popular with his fellow agents and his promotion is a source of gratification to them. For fifteen years Junkins has made his home in this city | at 1603 Paru street, where he resides with | his wife and little daughter and mother. | He is a cousin of Joseph Fernald, a well | known business man of Park street. | @ il ACCUSES DIVORCED WIFE | OF STEALING HIS COIN John August Ytteberg Secures War- rant for the Arrest of Ida ! Thornquist. is trouble between John August | Ytteberg, Surrey street, and his di- vorced wife, Ida. They were married in Sweden and divorced in Denmark. Ytte- berg came to this country and after he| had settled here he sent his divorced wife money to bring her to him and they have been living together ever since. Yesterday morning the woman secured a search warrant from Police Judge Con- lan to recover her personal effects from Ytteberg, as she sald she had left his home. Later Ytteberg got a warrant for | her arrest on a charge of grand larceny. He said he had saved $520, which he kept in a trunk and during the night of July 13 he dreamed that the money had been stolen from the trunk. Next morning he found that his dream was true. He ac- cused the woman of taking it, whereupon she left the house. —_——— KEARSARGE STARTS ON HER LONG OCEAN TRIP, Other Vessels of the Squadron Leave Portsmouth and Head for Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, England, July 17.—The American squadren, under command of Rear Admiral Cotton, which has been vis- | iting British waters, left here this morn- | ing, the Kearsarge en route for French- man’s Bay, Me., and the other vessels | bound for Lisbon. —_—— Abner McKinley Is Better. SOMERSET, Pa., July 17.—The illness of Abnér McKinley is not so serious as re- ported. Last Sunday he came here from New York, where he suffered from heat prostration. On Tuesday he was complete- Iy prostrated and to-day had an attack of vertigo. This gave rise to the alarming reports sent out last night. To-day, how- ever, he had almost entirely recovered. Before breakfast he took a walk through the town and latgr spent several hours driving. There 53 —_—— Lynching Reports Unseat Reason. KALISPELL, Mont., July 17.—Ed Bur- rill, a negro carpenter, has gone insane from reading reports of Iynching of ne- groes in the South. He ran amuck last night, shouting out that a mob was after him to iynch him. He was taken to the State insane asylum to-day. —_———— Stocking Streams in Nevada County. NEVADA CITY, July 17.—Fish Commis- sioner E. A. Morrill of the batchery at Verdi arrived here this morning and left immediately for Camptonville with 25,000 young rainbow trout. The fish will be placed in Oregon Creek. The streams throughout Nevada County are being | ranne and Lucien who were arrested on Wedn | 8t | against life and proy APPARKTUS NOW READY FOR WORK Professor Loeb Moves Into Building With Assistants. Investigator Now Equipped With a Complete Laborato~y. e e Berkeley Office San Franciseo Call, 248 Center Street, july 17 The building that Professor Jacques Loeb will use to carry on his lriu[nz\-x al nvestigations at the University of Cal- ifornia is about completed and fessor has moved in with his All the furniture and instruments that the scientist finds so useful to him are there, too, and there is nothing appar- ently ftanding between him and a few more such discoveries as have already startled the world. The laboratory is one of the most com- plete in the world. It is a frame struc- severely plain architectural ture of a . style, two stories high and bulit on s-m‘} foundations of concrete. It je the t »t Rudolph Spreckles, who subscribed 325,000 for the purpose The apparatus that Profe Lgeb uses while delving into the mysteries of life fill all the rooms of the laboratory. It is a strange collection of machinery and paraphernalia that would not understand hand explanation from the scientls to the univ the rooms there crete, built clear of the designed for delicate There are tubes and-glasses number of tra; The two sma jons and the pund floor are as class laboratories and lect In the basement is a great concrete re ervoir where- Professor Loeb will keep to his the marine creatures ne Jeriments. ;e;xrx:“ sor Loeb his assistants, Mar- tin Fischer and C. G. Rogers, occupy the entire second floor where their priva laboratories are situated. Dr. Fische has already begun a series of experime and | in biology. —_—————————— | COUNSEL DEMANDS LIBERTY FOR ARRESTED CLIENT ; 17.—Counsel for A. J. Mo- Mas, the witnesses of and Mrs. Charles Fair, PARIS, Ju the déath of Mr. a result al charge of perjury mation_given to the judic it of the Department of the Seine that » testimony was open to the suspicion of having been by a party tc and that ‘th suit, has clients be al provisior ided to ap- point experts to examine the reports of the American procedure whereon the rest of the wi ses is based. 3[:\(3'1'1‘: and Mas gave ew York. —_—————————— JUDGE DENIES MOTION TO DISMISS THE CASE BUTTE, Mont 2 nan to-day denied the motions to the J. Shores disbarment ca: claring that enough of the conspira bribe Judge Harney in the Minnie Healy mine case had been dis to warr: Ju an explanation on the part of the fendant. The defense ovened with the testimony of Lawyers John F. F C. F. Kelly and officials of th mated Copper Company’'s cerns, whoe w called to leged discrepancies in the testim the principal prosecuti n minor matters. — —e———— | SECRET SERVICE MEN ARREST COUNTERFEITERS YORK, Juiy 17.—The United inspectors captured seven Italian counterfeiters in Brooklyn to-day aft hard fight in which revolve: The Italians were -memb clety of bad blood,” s: bers are now awaiting trial « of having murdered Benedett body was found in a barrel two mu ago on the East Side. —_———— Reward for Convictdon of Robbers. SALEM, Or., July 17.—Governor Cham- NEW rs berlain, in view of the nt robberies of street cars in the suburbs of Portland, to-guy issued a proclamation offe . rewhrd of $00 for the conviction of any person comm h a erime. He a issued n to the police offi- cers. urging them to use every effort to nt the carrying out of recent threats Tty d made by East- P D ern Oregon cattle a D Purchases a Home in Palo Alto. PALO ALTO, July 17.—Mrs: Emily Karns, the stepmother of Governor George C. Pardee, has purch Mar- guerite Villa and a estate in Palo Alto of A. Sanders, intending to make this her future home. The present value of the place is 3if ut Mrs. Karns proposes to build a new residence and make extensive improvements on the grounds. i e el Start To-Day for the Encampment. MENLO PARK, July 17.—Company T of the League of the Cross Cadets will start to-morrow morning for an encamp- ment of two weeks on the campus of Santa Clara College at Santa Clara. will enjoy the use of the swimming tank and other athletic ties of the college. The company is made up of young men from Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Mayfield. —_————— Aged Woman Is Killed by Train. LOS ANGELES, July 17.—Mrs. Clara Lloyd, an aged woman, was struck by a Southern Pacific train on its way in from Santa Monica late this afternoon and died ten minutes later. It is said Mrs. Lloyd was standing by the track and either failed to hear the warning whistle or was too dazed by the danger to make an effort to —_——————— Chinese Murderer Pleads Guilty. LOS ANGELES. July 17.—Wong Bin, who has been in prison nearly two years pending decision of his case, has pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in the see- ond degree and was given a life sentence in San Quentin. Wong Bin killed an- ther Chinese to avenge the murder of is brother. He confessed to the crime, but escaped sentence unt 1 now on a le- gal technicality —_——————— Governor Odell Is Visiting the Coast. PORTLAND, Or., July IT.—Governor Odell of New York, General F. V. Greene and ex-Senator T. E. Ellsworth of New York arrived in Portland last night. They went up the Columbia River to - The Dalles to-day and will return to Portland to-morrow, léaving to-morrow night for San Francisco by rail Brings Back Klondike Gold. SEATTLE, July 17.—The Blackball liner Dolphin reached port this morning from Skagway with eighty passengers and $259,000 in Klordike gold. A number of the passengers were from the interior. The vessel left Skagway July 1a