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w JURY'S ACT MAY CLEAR THE MYSTERY Indictment for Forgery Sheds Light on Prob- able Murder. ge Disappearance Two Women Who Owned Oregon Land. —_— Evidence Gathered Indicates That a ! Mother and Her Daughter Were Slain by a Neighbor for Their Property. of Special Dispatch to The Call tormy pose of driving ) him the siightest thing red there is rs who have w for doubt, a eliherately pia possession of t own is thet murde think the wi rke the AADAME FABBRI MUELLER'S SECOND ENTERTAINMENT at Golden ed by a Performance Hall Is Atte DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. IS MPOSSIBLE Decidedly To Disprove Facts—It Is Easy to Verify San Francisco Opinion. g b way of an introduction to the experience and ven below which could 1 heir value. San Francisco peo- 7 s be left to draw their own = based on such convincing s this What is there tizen offers. - doubting ? ell, bofler-maker at the Works, residence 2765 “Any man who fol- quires a good, sound. when for a year that often pains, life be- rden. An advertisement y Pills induced me to first box 6 bad net bted results 1 pever would d a second, and if the se: dically disposed of the at- there has been no sign of the last six months) I duced to publicly IQCODI-‘ ne.” all dealers. Price, 5 cents. | Co.. Buffalo, N. Y., sole ited States. name, Doan’s, and take woc Donn e med Makes morey for all con- cerned—Schilling’s Best—and is safe. At your grocer’s, and money- back. s | was devoted to reports BAPTISTS NAME THEIR OFFICERS Selections Are Made at State Convention in Fresno. Interesting Report Made on the Progress of Mis- sion Work. g FRESNO, Oct. 29.—The second day’s session of the Baptist State Convention for Northern California and Nevada be- | gan this morning at 9 o'clock with song The session this morning of committees and officers. Treasurer R. H. E. Espey presented his report, showing about $4000 raised in the fleld for the exten- sion of mission work in this State. Secretary E. R. Bennett presented ‘a ort of the spiritual condition of the k throughout the BState and the »f the missionary flelds. His re- owed ar ouraging condition of Baptist work in this State. A par- report of the committee on enroll- showed 119 delegates present. ext followed the report of the com- home missions, which was N. L. Freeman and showed for a force of 1310 workers engaged North America, 3 new converts, ptist church member- nding mission Sunday- bolars in schools for ne- i Indians and contributions ng to $621,387 32. came the chief address of the g, on “Home Missions,” b; s Hope of the Healdsburg Church, g thought was the prob- of immigration confronting this na- and prayer. mi read b ttee on rk in cers for the year were elected as ows: President, Rev. T. S. Youns; vi esidents, Revs. A. P. Brown, L. M. Protzman, W. L. Gaston, William Mec- W. L. H. Sturtevant, L. J. Saw- W. Ayers; corresponding secre- E. R. Bennett; recording secre- M. R. Wolfe; treasurer, R. H. W L. Storey, Rev. Willlam Francis Hope, Rev. C. M. J osburg, Mrs. L. A. Thomas Baldwin and Rev. bert, Rev. s, Rev Rev. H nson, Rev W. C. Driver. The last feature of the morning Ppro- was the prayer for increase in »f evangelism. The programme afternoon included: Devotions, Dr. D. H. Parkhurst; address by sneral missionary; report of the ee of seven, Willlam Thomas \an; generzl discussion, “Women's Foreigr addresses s of the Upcraft Society. The mis the foreign ons session fon and was conducted by of Boston and outgoing FROM COLUSA CASHES CHECK FOR STRANGER It Is Worthless and Has the Trickster Arrested at the Ferry. who says he lives at a, arrived in the ¢ morning. a good As he was walking out of the Townsend streets aw Iston he essed stranger, a check for $40 on Third and accosted by 1cked him t cash & d that he go to the bank he t Rals! nex and pocketed the check. He went t a bank, but informed that the s worthless. ning Ralston happened to an covered the well golng over to Ralston called a policeman, the boat and placed the rder arrest. He was taken to headquarters, where he said his name was John R. Talbot and that he came here from New York recently on [ He refused to say anything the check. He was locked up in e tanks” pending an investigation as to his antecedents. As he developed symptoms of delirfum tremens he was sent to the Central Emergency Hospital. e ———— PLEADS GUILTY TO TWO CHARGES OF ROBBERY John Busch, Terror of North Beach, Saves State Expense of Trials. John Busch, an ex-convict, appearcd be- fore Judge Lawlor yesterday for ar- raignment on two charges of robbery. lie pleaded guilty to both charges and also to the prior convictions against him. He was ordered to appear for sentence on November 28. Joe Laporini, who is jointly | rged with Busch with one of the rub- | beries, was arraigned and pleaded not | gullty in the beginning of August a nur.ber of holdups occurred in the district 15 Busch North Beach and on the morning of August was caught In the act of holding up a cigar dealer and his wife. The charges on which he was booked and pleaded gullty yesterday were for holding up Frank O'Donnell of 1101 Broadw: on Green street, worth, on August 14, and Walter Young of 72 Green street In front of his resi- dence on August 11 holdup. —_———— BIG ATTENDANCE AT LAST RENDITION OF “EVERYMAN” Gentlemen’s Sodality May Consider Advisability of Repeating Presen- tation of Morality Play. An immense audience attended the sec- ond and last night of “Everyman” at St. Ignatius College Hall, wheré“the morality play has recelved a perfect presentation by members of the Gentlemen's Sodality. The actors were well cast, the stage ap- propriately arranged and the music dur- ing the progress of the play and the in- tervals was befitting the scholarly work. The philosophy of the play was admirably interpreted by the intelligent actors, and | the serfous and quaint atmosphere was fully realized ance. The enormous success that attended the presentation of “Everyman’’ has suggest- ed to the Gentlemen's Sodality the ad- vieability of repeating the production of the play, possibly some night next week. —————————— Thieves Loot a Fur Store. Harry L. Smith, proprietor <f a fur store at 726 Market street, reported. to the police vesterday morning that his store had been visited during the night by thieves, who stole articles of the value of $263 and forced open the cash drawcr, taking $% in small change from it He thought the thieves had gained ccess to the store by means of a stalrway at 11 Geary street. ectives O’'Dea and Mul- cahy were detalled on the case. throughout the perform- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1903. GRAND JURY PROBES DEEPLY INTO TIMBER LAND FRAUDS More Indictments Are Found in Portland and There Is Abundant Promise That Sensational Disclosures Are to Come Before the Investigation Is Over ORTLAND, Oct. 29.—The Grand Jury to-day returned an addi- * tional indictment against Miss Mary L. Ware, former United States Commissioner at Eugene; Horace G. McKinley and S. A. D. Puter, timber land operators, charg- 120 ! 55,000 | Rev. | Espey; directors—E. P. Vining, H. C. | between Jones and Leaven- | It is alieged that | Laperinl was with Busch in the Young | { Ing them with conspiracy to defraud the | Government of public lands. These three | have already been indicted for forgery in connection with the land frauds. A dragnet clause also appears In the | Indictment against John Doe, whose real name may appear later in the course of the Grand.Jury's investigations. Who | | — John Doe is the officers are at this time not prepared to say, even ir they are in of the information i charge against Mrs. Emma L. Wat- ho also has been indicted, is that of being jointly concerned with Miss Ware, McKinley and Puter in the alleged | plot to defraud. She is indicted as a| conspirator and the evidence considered | by the Grand Jury is to the effect that | it was she who appeared in the role of | the purchaser and bought and paid for | in the sum of $1 each the six homesteads pretended to have been taken up and proved upon by Robert Simpson, James | E. Warwick and four others, whose al- leged fictitious names have rigured in con- nection with the investigation of these | cases. According to the Government theory | Mrs. Watson is the party to the con-| spiracy through whom the ring came into | possession of the six homesteads. Where | against Miss Ware, Commissioner of the Mrs. Watson is at this time the officers | yrpjted States District Court for Oregon, Go not know, but a warrant will beissued | who already 1s under indictment, and for her arrest to-morrow Guy a bartender at Eugene, Is| forgery of dummy home- mes by affixing them to final , which were forwarded to Wash- in A warrant will also be issued | 4o cav apropos of the indlctment shorily for his airest | tary Hitchcock replied: oot PROMINENT OFFICIALS CON- NECTED WITH THE INQUIRY INTO LAND FRAUDS. = - from Portland, Or., announcing the in- dictment of three more persons in con- nection with the -public land frauds in that State. The telegram gave the name: of the persons indicted as Emma L. Wat- son, Guy Huff and Norman Williams. The woman is charged with conspiracy in connection with the proceedings B3 | | | * nection with the Nesbitt case. The charge against Huff is forgery, but his is an in- dependent case. Upon helng asked if he had anything Secre- Williame is charged with forgery in con- | Nothing except that the ball gces rolling on. There have been seven indictments within a | week and there will be many more. Our suc- cess to the present time indicates pretty clearly, I think, that our investigations have been quite thoroughly conducted. | So far most of the prosecutions have been directed acainst those engaged in fraudulent proceedings under the timber and stone act and it now appears that many flagrant irregu larities have beefi discovered in that connec- tion. ~ Innumerable instances of the evasion of pubiic land regulations by people in large companies have been reported to the depart- ment from day to day for the past year and more. In many instances people have gone to the Pacific Coast States from the States farther East to enter lands under the timber and stene law. Arrivals of carioads at a time haye been reported, and many of the members of these parties were ‘'women. In ome or two cases during the vacation period of last summer en- tire carloads of female schoolteachers, hailing from the middle Western States, made tours to the coast and all entered lands. In other instances entire families, of four or five per- sons each, have come in from the outside and have made entry of lands. So far as known no evidence of fraud has been discovered in these specified cases, but | the officials of the department contend that, |in view of the fact that more than $400 is | required to complete the acquisition of titles | entries are at least suspicious. In other cases entries have been made in the of purely fictitious persons. The con- of officials is necessary in proceedings and these cases are easily | names | nivan | of this character, discovered. | 3t also appears that the fraud extends east- ward from the coast States Into Idaho, Mon- | tana and Nevada MORE INDICTMENTS COMING. Secretary Hitchcock Says the Work under the timber and stone law, some of these | | business thoroughfare and was a . result ITIZENG TALK OFALYNCHING Selma Bootblack Shoots . Saloonkeeper by Accident. Bullet Strikes the Wrong Per- son, but Arouses the Populace. —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. SELMA, Oct. 20.—Will Jordan, a saloon- keeper, was shot late this afternoon by a negro, who was out gunning for another man. The negro, a local character called “Shine” because of his avocation as a bootblack, shot at W. H. Evans, a livery- man, but the bullet went wide of the mark and struck Jordan, who was in his saloon. Jordan was wounded in the shoul- der and the bullet narrowly. missed 'his | jugular vein in its course. The physi- | clans who extracted the missile report he | will recover. i The shooting took place on the main of a quarrel between Evans and the ne- gro. On Wednesday night Evans used the negro roughly during an encounter and “Shine” had him arrested this morn- ing. The negro armed himself with a re- volver and when the two enemies met this afternoon the shooting was a natural cul- | mination of the affair. Evans beat a has- ty retreat into the saloon when the negro | drew his weapon. There was much excitement for a while | and talk of lynching the negro, but cooler | counsel prevailed. The negro was taken to Fresno and placed in the county jail for safe keeping. P LA S S S Cleveland Club Gets Hickey. | CINCINNATI Ohlo, Oct. 29.—Prestden: August Hermann of the National Baseball Commission to-day awarded Pitcher Jokn Hickey to the Cleveland American League Club. There was a dispute between Cleveland and Seattle for Hickey's ser- | vices. He was awarded to Cleveland un- | | der the Cincinnati peace compact, 1 but the | case was reopened by request. { —_—————— Sheriff Comes for Brown. | Sheriff Lewis. C. Hoover of Piqua County, Ohio, accompanied by George B. Thomp- | son, clerk of the Supreme Court of that State, reached this city yesterday morn- ing to take back James K. Brown, the self-confessed defaulting cashier of the Union Bank of New Holland, Ohio, who embezzled $103,000, which he lost in stook speculations. They will leave with him this morning. Brown, when he saw them in the City Prison, asked first about his wife and children and being assured that they were well talked freely to the of- ficers. ———————— Cut Up a Woman’s Dresses. George Reynolds, a barber, appeared be- fore Police Judge Fritz yesterday on charges of malicious mischief and bat- tery. The complaining witness is Annie Smith, who lives at 15 Eddy street. She alleges that Reynolds is in love with her and because he was jealous of another man he went to her room on Tuesday and cut up her dresses with a razor. When ske met him on the street the following day and remonstrated with him he struck | her on the face, closing one of her eyes. | The cases were continued till to-morrow. | B Dasha and Dempsey Give Bail. Willlam F. Dasha, Thomas J. Demp- sey and Ui Lim, indicted for conspirac in the Chinese substitution cases, appea ed yesterday before United States Court Commissioner Heacock and gave bail in the sum of $3000 each. Their trial has | been set for November 5. T. T. Burnett is out on $2500 bonds. —_————————— y., Oct. 20.—The losses in last | night's fire will not exceed 4§250,000. Mayor Land was el injured while alding (h-l firemen. i PADUCAH, HOLDS MAIL FOR MONEY IN LETTERS Assistant Postmaster in Klondike in Grave Trouble. Two Thousand Stamped Mes- sages in an Employe's Possession. i itie Sensation Caused Near Dawson by Arrest of Young Man Who Oc- cupied One of the Govern= ment Offices. > el £ Bf Special Dispatch The Call DAWSON, Oct. 20.—John Burpee, as sistant postmaster at Bonanza, has been arrested for stealing letters from the mal Burpee is one of known of the minor officials in‘the Klon: and his arrest has caused a big sensation Over 00 letters have t 1 in his pos- on, and of dred were regi hese more than The discover: of Burpee of St. Luk been com of failure to receive 3 rs and he made a personal i Of the were un- opened a to have been tampered the amount of his theft Is believed to be about $10,000. man of ex- pent much Burpee seemed to be a you emplary character. He money and had for a i ved with Rev. Christopher Reed. He is well con- nec He came from St. Joh | TREE BEARS NAMES OF LEWIS AND CLARK Inscription Said to Have Been Found Near an Old Stone Fort. or., Oct. 20.—Dr. reports the BAKER CITY, Curry of this in the M a tree bea Clark, 1504-1805," stone fort and t a log house. The inscription was cut in the late fall or winter months, when the was down, beca e lctters now appear as raised. It Is knowa that one d trails passed near reported by of the earliest ove: the scene of the dis Dr. Curry. _—————————— DIVORCE IS GRANTED ON A CROSS-COMPLAINT Mrs. Gay of San Diego Fails in Her Suit Against Her Hus- band. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 29.—The suit D. Gay against John H has been be of Lucilla Gay, for divorce re the Superior Court for many weeks, was de- cided by Judge Torrance to his judgment de: e divorce to the plaintiff, vacating order for the pay- ment of money for support during the trial, denying the plaintiff any right to defendant’s and granting a decres of divorce to the defendant’s cross-com- plaint. —_—e———— BUTTE, Mont, Oct. 20, —Humberta Catte- Iina and Martin J. Pishkur, italian miners, fell nnie Healy mine 1000 feet below. this from a cage ADVERTISEMENTS. Has but Commenced. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Secretary i Hitchcock to-day recefved a telegram L e e ROBBERS TAKE - ALL IS GOLD | |Nome Miner Loses His h Alaskan Treasure in Portland. Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Oct. 29.—Charles Eckstein, a Nome miner, arrived in Portiand on Sunday with a pocketful of gold. He was on his way to San Francisco, where his people live, and had besides the gold a | fine watch, a nugget chain which was the wonder of all his friends and bank paper worth several hundred doilars. He vis- ited the bad lands of Portland Sunday night and Monday morning came to his senses, minus all his wealth, with the exception of a Wells-Fargo order for $0, which the robbers could not handie. His loss is over $400. o He declares that he was ‘‘rolled” by a thug and that the operation tocok place while he was drinking. To-day he has been out of ready cash and has no friends in Portland. He has the order for $500, but it is useless to him because no one can identify him at the bank. —————————— | HOTEL PROPRIETOR CASEY MUST STAY IN A JAIL Arizona Otflcen:r;mge to Curb the Gun-Firing Propensities of a overcoat. itself. . The coats are made inches. money’s worth. { Capitalist. TUCSON, Ariz, Oect. 29.—Alexander Casey, mine owner and capitalist, who has been in the county jail since Tuesday night, when he terrorized the guests of the Willard Hotel by discharging a shot- gun and rifle repeatedly in the halls of the hotel, was to-day bound over to the Grand Jury in the sum of $13,000 on charges of assault with intent to cemmit murder on the head waiter of the dining- room and on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon upon the Constable who made the arrest. Later in the day Casey was placed un- der $3500 additional bond to keep the peace against his wife, whom, it is charged, he has repeatedly threatened to kill. Casey is amply able to furnish bonds, but says he would rather stay in jail than put up such excessive bond: Chancellorship. LONDON, Oct. 29.—Lord Strathcona has accepted the nomination to the chancellor- ship of Aberdeen University. 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