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A WANT AD
IN THE HERALD
WILL FILL THE WANT
VOL. XLIII. NO. 164
NOW IT IS PHOEBE COUSINS
Latest Development in Regard
to Millionaire Fair
WERE ENGAGED TO MARRY
The Famous Woman's Rights Advocate
Tells Her Story Freely
Flrat flet the Bonanza King; When He Waa a
Senator—The Couple Corresponded
Regularly—net In Chicago
BAN FRANCISCO, March 23,-The Cal l
will publish tomorrow a long story telling
of the affection that existed between tho
late James (J. Fair and Miss Phoebe
Cousins, the well-known lecturer and wo
man's rights advocate. According to tho
Call they wore engaged to be married und
only the death of the millionaire pre
vented their marriage. Miss Cousins is
at present in San Jose talcing care of hor
brother, who is ill. To a Call represen
tative she told of her affection for Kair.
Mho told her story froely, candidly and
without hesitancy. Before bpeaking
about herself she said:
"I will begin by stating that, there were
many Conferences between Mr. Fair and
myself whicli I cannot touch upon at all.
"He told me all about his life- -his suc
cesses, his failures, his joys and his sor
rows, from these cuiilidcnccs I con
cluded that he had been more sinned
against than sinning. I refer particularly
, to his married life and the urn leasant
ending of it. Cruel enemies and miser
able meddlers had done their villainous
work.
"I lirst met Mr. Fair In the Riggs
House, Washington, D. C, in 1883, while
he was a United States Senator from
Nevada. I took a liking to him at once.
He seemed to mo to be the vory ideal of a
strong, vigorous and energetic man, who
was created to succeed in life—to he a
prince und a leader among men. The
evident defects in his education and
manners were completely overwhelmed
, by the natural greatness of the man, as f
saw him. I soon admired him very
tUUOh, and I could see that he also liked
to be in ray company and seemed to take
interest in my work and my views of
social and political conditions.
"But this, our first friendship, did not
grow at once to anything more or
warmer than mutual admiration In the
course of a few months we parted, as true
friends part and went on our separate
ways. lie returned to Nevada and Cali
foria and 1 resumed my work .in
different parts of the world. Thus time
went on. Several years passed and we
did not meet until some time after my
mother's death."
Miss Cousins then related her troublo
with the World's Fair Board of Lady Man
agers and her efforts to have a bill"passed
by Congress to secure payment for her
services as secretary. She applied to
Fair for political assistance, and although
lie said he had no such influence, he
wrote very kindly and asked her to corre
spond with him. She responded.
"And this," Miss Cousins resumed,
after a pensive pause," opened the cor
respondence between us which eventually
led to our betrothal.
"For some time after that letters
passed between us at regular intervals,
and the spirit of the correspondence grew
warmer and more confidential with each
letter. Shortly after returning to Chicago
I received a letter from Mr. Fair, in
which he stated that he would soon see
tne; that he wanted our friendship to
culminated In a relationship closer and
dearer than mere friendship, and that
he was ooming with serious intentions to
ask my hand and heart in marriage.
■ "Mr. Fair, accompanied by his secreta
ries, Breesee and Angus, and I think Mr.
Crothera, arrived in Chicago, May 7th,
1893, and took apartments at the Grand
Pacific, Mr. Fair immediately sent me
his card. I met him in one of the parlors
and he expressed great happiness at sce
i ing me again He told mo then und there
that he had come all the way from Cali
fornia for the purpose of asking me to be
come hia wife. I told him I would give
him a definite answer in a few days and
delicately intimated that he need have no
■ fear of my final decision. He seemed very
much pleased at this and we spent iho
evening very pleasantly talking of the
present, the future and old times."
Then Miss Cousins told how Mr. Fair
was taken ill a lew days after this and
aent for her to nurse him; how she min
istered to his wants in spite of the ob
jections of his secretaries, who endeav
ored to keep her from him.
"When Mr. Fair had recovered suffi
ciently to enable him to be up and walk
around, he called me aside one day. He
aaid that he had decided to shake him
self free from certain influences that con
ettantly interfered with his wishes and his
peace of mind. He spoke of the many
notes and cards which he had sent to my
room after he became convalescent anil
which never reached their destination.
They had been intercepted by some one
who had an interest in keeping us apart.
"I wanvto end up my aftairs." he said,
"in such a manner as that I shall do
justice to all my family connections. I
love my family and I want to make fair
provision for them. I love you and I
want to provide for you at all hazards so
that financial trouble can never come
to you. I want you to be my wife. Will
you marry me?' r
"I answered yes. He then said 'thank
you dearest. God bless you. We must
ne married soon, very soon. I shall ar
range my business and property affairs at
once.'
"But he was still more or less ill and
this prevented our early marriage. One
evening when he was feeling much better
we sat together and talked about the
World's Fair and he said we must see all
of it together, and that as his own dear
and gifted little wife I should explain all
the items of interest with whicb he was
not acquainted, from a historical point
of view.
"And that was the last evening that we
were together," said Miss Cousins, with
a deep drawn sigh. "On the following
day Mr. Fair was whisked out of Chicago
as if he had been a prisoner or a fugitive
from justice. I was permitted to see him
only a few minutes before he went away.
Angus, Breesee and Crothers were con
stantly near him.
"While I was speaking to him just be
fore his departure, a man who I think was
a hireling, Mr. Breesee, came and inter
rupted our conversation. Mr. Fair man
aged to tell him that he was called uwny
by very important business matters, but
that he would speedily return and make
me his wife. And so he left. I never saw
bim again. I received one letter from
liim after he arrived in San Francisco, in
that he stated that he was well, and
begged me to write to him often. I did
write, but I never got un answer after
that. I am positively certain that he
wrote to me also, bin, the letters were un
questionably intercepted. His secretaries
were constantly on the watch. When I
used to call on Mr. Fair in his sick room
at the Grand Pacific his valet or one of
the other attaches used to secrete them
THE HERALD
LOS ANGELES, SUNDAY MORNING* MARCH 24, 1895. —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
selves in the closet in order to listen to
our conversation. I oalled Mr. Fair's at
tention to these things, but he only smiled
and said it did not matter, as he was ac
customed to it."
Miss Cousins says that she asks for
nothing now except to be left in peace
with her sorrow.
SLID DOWN FORTY FEET
Escape ot a 12-Year-old Boy From the Youths'
Directory
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—Peter
Kell, a boy of 12 years, climbed out of
a window in the top story of the Youths'
Directory and slid down a column in
the wall forty foet to the ground. He,was
tired of being locked up and wanted to see
his father. The father and mother of the
boy do not agree very well as to the care
of the boy, who refuses to go to school
and the mother, against the wishes of
tho father, got an officer to take him to
the directory. Kelly, when he heard of
it, went after the youth, but the officials
refused to givo him up. The boy, how
ever, solved the problem. While the au
thorities were not looking he scaled the
high wall and ran home.
Ho was recaptured und taken back
while tho father was away. Yesterday
afternoon Kelly again went after the
youth, but he was refused admittance.
While he besought the officials he heard
a voice calling: "Pupa, take me along
with you." He looked up and there waa
the hoy looking down the dizzy height
from a window in the fourth story. It
was at least forty feet, high, so Kelly de
clared, and he motioned him in fear,
thinking he might full, us he was leaning
far out. Getting 110 satisfaction, Kelly at
length went away. About un hour after
wards the breathless, bareheaded youth.
In his stocking fret, with mud up to the
knees, arrived at the Kelly home. He
had scaled the wall of the lofty building,
reached the ground and got away again.
The father stiys he will keep the boy at
home.
Perished In the Flames
CHAPLEAU. Ont., March 33.— The
house occupied by P. Dollard was burned
by the upsetting of a lamp. Five children
were in the upper purt of the house, and
Mr. Dollard made a rush through the
flames to save them. He seized the baby,
a year old, kicked out a window and
shouted to the other four - children to
jump out. Three children were burned
-Bertie Dollard, aged 13; Michael, 5, and
Alexander, 3. Johnny, aged 11, jumped
from a window, but is so badly burned
his recovery is doubtul.
SEARCHING FOR A GOLD BAR
Vessels Arriving in San Francisco Are
Being Carefully Searched
A Robbery at Ensenada Amounting to
$36,000 la Being Investigated by
Detectives
SAN FRANCISCO, March 33.—A war
rant was issued here today to permit the
gasoline schooner Anita to be searched
upon her arrival here from Mexican ports.
Robbers who visited the little Mexican
town of Ensenada last Friday night got
awuy with nearly $3(3.000 worth of plun
der. A gold bar valued at $12,500 belong
ing to the Ynarra Cold Mining Company,
and several smaller bars of bullion were
taken from the safe of Riveroll & Co.'s
commission house. From the safe of the
Godbe bank $12,000 in Mexican silver was
also taken. The robbers opened both
safes by working the combinations. The
gold bullion was taken into Ensenada on
the gasoline schooner Anita. The Anita
sailed from the port on the afternoon of
the day following the robbery. The Mex
ican authoritie- were searching every
where for the robbers anil the plunder,
but to search the Anita did not occur tc
them until after she had sailed.
SAN DIEGO. March 23.—The investi
gation of the robbery of the big gold bar
and gold coin at Ensenada took a sensa
tional turn today when Allen Pratt and
James E. Garratt were arrested there
charged with the crime. They are being
held on suspicion, hut the arrest of Gar
ratt, who was not known to have been
suspected, indicates that the authorities
have a clue which may result in the con
viction of the guilty parties.
Allen Pratt has for six years served
Manuel Riveroll as cashier and confiden
tial clerk,and was in full possession of the
secrets of the linn, knowing also the com
bination to the safe. He is a young Eng
lishman and has a wife and child. During
his residence in Ensenada he acquird a
little property, and his reputation has
been the very best.
James E.Garratt has had an interesting
history during the past five years.
He is a youiig Canadian and for some
time was clerk for the International Com
pany at Ensenada. Both men are natural
ized Mexicans ami cannot therefore ask
protection from England.
The Trouble In Madagascar
PORT LOUIS ISLAND. Mauritius.
March 28. John L. Waller, formerly
United States consul at Tamatave, island
of Madagascar, has been foil'id guilty of
corresponding with Hovas, after a trial by
the French courtmartial. ami sentenced
to twenty years' imprisonment.
HIGGINS WILIIiOLD FAST
Markham's Appointee Does Not Propose
to Give Up
The F.x-Qovernor's Confidential Man Heans
to Hold on Until Ordered Out
by the Court
SAN FRANCISCO, March 33.-Senator
Henry C. Gesford of Napa, appointed by
Governor Budd to succeed J. N. E. Wil
son as insurance commissioner, and inci
dentally to oust M. B. Higgins from the
same place, which he holds as successor
to Wilson, by virtue of Markham's ap
pointment, has made a formal demand
for the office. Higgins refused to yield
the place und a contest will follow. Ges
ford was appointed on the last day of the
session of the Legislature and the appoint
ment was confirmed by a Republican Sen
ate by an almost unanimous vote.
"I called on Mr. Higgins," said Mr.
Gesford, "and made a formal demand for
the office. It was refused. Quo warranto
proceedings will be begun in the Superior
Court of this city to test the case."
misplaced Confidence
SAN FRANCISCO. March 23. -Mrs.
Alice Taylor is a victim of misplaced con
fidence. A few days ago Mrs. May Me-
Gath called on her for assistance. Sue said
she was destitute and was willing to work
for her board. Mrs. Taylor pited her and
gave her a home. At the lirst opportu
nity Mrs. McGrath gathered in all the
valuables sne could rind and left. She
was arrested today and part of tbe stolen
property recovered.
BIG HOTEL FIRE IN DENVER
The Famous St. James Totally
Destroyed by Fire
FOUR LIVES WERE LOST
Bodies of Three Firemen Taken From
the Ruins
A Blaze In the Baggage Storeroom Started a
Pierce Fire—The Walls Collapsed
and Burled the Pipemen
DENVER, March 24.-The St. James
Hotel, at Cuttisand Sixteenth streets, one
of the finest in the city, is burning. The
fire broke ont in the basement shortly
before midnight, and soon after the floor
of the rotunda collapsed, letting the
flames back into the office and corridors.
The firemen seem to have the fire under
control, although it is burning stubbornly.
The loss has already reached $40,000, and
unless soon extinguished will greatly ex
ceed thut amount.
The lire started in a room used to store
old baggage, directly under the central
rotunda of the house. While the fire was
at its height the floor sank without warn
ing, throwing .several men into the pit of
dense smoke nelow—at least two of whom
are dead. After the flames hud been ex
tinguished there, the body of Captain
Harold W. Hartwell of Hose Company
No. 8, was found frightfully burned. One
other body too badly burned to he identi
fied, was "also found. Three men were
dragged out unconscious and are at the
hospital, where they may die.
It is suspected that there are still other
bodies in the debris.
At 1:45 three bodies had been taken out.
Names of the dead: Harold W. Hartwell,
captain of Hose Company No. Bj Richard
Danbridge, pipeman; Stephen Marshall,
pipeman.
There is one body in the ruins, proba
bly another fireman.
THAT MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Several Thousand People Attend the Opening
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.-The
memorial museum that haa been built in
Golden Gate Park from the aurplus funds
remaining from the Midwinter Fair was
dedicated to the public tbis afternoon.
Several thousand people attended the
ceremony. The museum building, which
came t~< be known during the Fair as tho
Fine Arts building, and a magnificent
collection of curios, bought at an expense
of $147,000. were presented by the Board
ot Directors of the Fair Association to the
Board of Park Commissioners as the rep
resentatives of the people. A golden key
was presented with the greater gift.
Catalogue pamphlets giving a list of all
the museum articles, numbering over
fiOOO, were distributed. It was stated
that the total receipts of the MidwiiUer
Fair were $1,200,112. and the totuT"'(Tls
bursements $1,133,121.
Director-General De Young, in making
his. presentation speech, reviewed the
history of the Midwinter Fair and alluded
to the fact that at the close of the Fuir
the Executive Committee offered various
buildings to the Park Commission oi.t
the latter declined to accept any but the
Art building. The committee had a sur
plus at its disposal and it determined
to utilize v part of this in creating a
nucleus of what some day would be v
great museum. Mr. De Young spoke of
the generous treatment the committee
had received in the matter of contribu
tions and he announced that a balance of
the surplus still remained, which the
committee proposed to expend in securing
various collections from time to time to
add to those which were presented today.
In closing he expressed the hope that the
buildings presented today would cover
ten acres of ground and that the number
of exhibits would increase from five or six
thousand as at present to half a million.
CHASING AN OUTLAW
Officers Pursue a Wife and Child Murderer Near
Reedley
FRESNO, March 33.—Near the town of
Reedley, about twenty-live miles ease of
this city, officers attempted to capture
Jim Lawaon, the Madera county outlaw,
who killed his Child, attempted to mur
der his wife and afterwards broke jail.
Constable Street and four deputies went
to a larm house where Lawaon had been
working two weeks and approached the
burn where the outlaw was unloading
hay. He discovered them and ran into
an'orchard hotly pursued. They fired
several shots at him, hut without effect.
He reached the hank of Kings river and
Bwarn across to tiie south side and when
last seen he was near the Tulare county
line and apparently beading for the
mountains. A posse was made dp in
Reedley and sent in pursuit. They tracked
his hare feet ill the sand till dark and
then with lanterns went again on the
trail. Lawson was unarmed and if over
taken can be made a prisoner.
The officers were once within hailing
distance of him and he called to them to
let him alone as he was no longer in
Madera county. But when they continued
to advance he again took to his heels.
A RUNAWAY BOY
Peculiar Story Told By a Boy Who Ran Away
From Home
ALAMEDA. March 23.-Walter Latham,
the 17-yeur-old boy who ran away last
week, tells a peculiar story that he was
enticed away by tramps. He says he met
three tramps on the creek boat and they
got him to go away by telling about the
pleasures of tramp life.. They told him
that he would have lots of fruit and plen
ty to eat, and that the watermelon season
in the San Joaquin valley was near at
hand, while in Southern California they
would have all the oranges they could eat.
Walter went with them, and before they
reached Stockton they tried to steal his
shoes. The shoes would not fit any of
them so they tried to pawn them. The
boy concluded that it was time to come
home, so he left the tramp] and went to
the police station at Stockton where he
gave himself up.
JUSTICE AND SHERIFF
Row Among Officials in San Francisco About
an Actor
SAN FRANCISCO, Mnrch 23.—Sheriff
Whalen lias fallen foul of tt.e Justice's
Court, ami on Monday next will have to
explain to Justice of the Peace Groezinget
why he tailed by deputy to arrest Leonard
Grover, the actor and theatrical manager,
when instructed to do so by order of the
court. Grover failed to appear in the jus
tice court to testify in a suit brought
against himself ami J. Rial by J. Sachem
to recover $21, money loaned, aud was
sentenced to twenty-four hours in the
county jail, and to "pay $50 into the city
treasury" for contempt. A deputy sheriff
was instructed with the order and found
Grover at Stockwell's Theater, wehre he
ia manager. The genial actor convinced
the representative of the law that the jus
tice was mistaken, and that he had al
ready settled the matter and been purged
of contempt. The deputy thereupon took
it upon himself to allow Grover to remain
at liberty, and returned the order to the
sheriff. The attorney for Sachem, how
ever, was not to be so easily satisfied, and
so stirred up the justice to such a sense
of his injured dignity that he issued an
order requiring the sheriff to show cause
why she should not be punished for con
tempt.
DONOHUE RESIGNS
The British Consul at San Francieco Relin
quishes His Office
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—Dennis
Donohue, who for seven years past has
been British Consul ut this port, an
nounced today that he had tendered his
resignation to his home government. He
intends, however, to spend his remaining
years in California.
Consul Donohue will attain his eight
ieth year within a few months. Under
the British custom he would be entitled
to a pension after his eightieth year had
he chosen to remain in the service until
his next birthday.
During itis thirty-seven years of consu
lar serivce, Mr. Donohue has represented
the British government at Purto Cabello,
Venezuela; Huffalo, N. V.; New Orleans,
Baltimore and San Francisco.
THE FARMER'S SACK
Bunco Men Work an Ancient Oame on a
Lodl Rancher
STOCKTON, March 28.—Two bunco men
last week played the old game on a Lodi
farmer anil worked him out of $1500. The
farmer is said to have drawn the money
from the Lodi Bank to play with the
gentlemen who wanted to buy his ranch,
but on discovering his loss he succeeded
in quieting the matter. His desire to
prevent v disclosure of his greenness is
said to have led hint to make no com
plaint to the officers, and his name is not
known .to them. 'I he bunco men started
front this city and returned with the
team they hired. One of the horses of
the livery team died the next day from
the result of hard driving,the owners say.
SAN FRANCISCO'S CENSUS
The Half Million Club Is Working Very,
Very Hard
A Trip to Southern California Arranged for
the Purpose of Swelling the Bay
City Population
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—At a
meeting here today of the Half Million
and other improvement clubs and asso
ciations a discussion was had in relation
to the proposed Southern California trip
to be taken by a delegation from the club
with the purpose ot arranging for an ex
cursion from Los Angeles to this city and
intermediate and neighboring points.
Mr. Ourmaii and others who had been
looking into the matter announced that
the Southern Pacific had arranged for a
southern excursion which would enable
those making it to spend three days at
Santa Barbara during the (lower festival
there, and then go on to f.os Angeles in
time for the great Fiesta in that city and
to remain there for six days if they so de
sired. The excursionists may return to
this city on such date as they may decide
on among themselves or if they do not
care to wait, they Will he free to come
back on any northbound passenger train.
Tho round trip fare will be $22 for each
individual and the excursion train was to
start south on the 26th of April.
The principal object in sending Half
Million Club delegates on the excursion,
as has been planned, is to afford them an
Opportunity to work up another from Los
Angeles northward to this city, taking in
also the towns of BakersfJeld, Tulare, Fres
no, Merced, Stockton, Sacramento, Au
burn, Penryn. Napa, Santa Rosa, Peta
luma, Oakland, San .lose, Monterey and
Santa Cruz. The excursion party" is to
break up in this city und it was reported
that the fare for the trip as outlined
would he about $17.
In Mid Air
OAKLAND, March 23.—George W.
Deitz, a lineman in the employ of the
Oakland and Alameda Electric Railway
Company, nearly killed himself while at
work o ! the top of a pole this morning.
He was swinging an axe toward himself,
trimming off the top of the pole, seventy
feet in the air. when the sharp blade
glanced from the wood and struck him on
the right side of the face. An artery was
cut. and the axe struck close to the "jugu
lar vein. Dietz climbed down the pole
with the blood pouring from his neck in
a stream. He was taken to a hospital,
where it was found he had missed the
jugular vein by just a quarter of an inch.
He will recover.
WILL SOON BE IN THE TOILS
C. P. Huntington Indicted by a Federal
Grand Jury
The United States Marshal at San Francisco
Will Await the magnate's Arrival
in the Bay City
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—The
United States Grand Jury has indicted
President Collis P. Huntington of the
Southern Pacific Company for issuing an
interstate railroad pass,in violation of the
act of Congress passed in 188(1.
Mr. Huntington is expected here on
April Ist to attend a meeting of the Cen
tral Pacific directors, and as soon as he
arrives the warrant will he served on him.
Run Down at Sea
SAN FRANCISOO, March 23.—The
schooner Laura May came into port today
in a crippled condition. She sailed for
Cray's Harbor March 6th, and ten days
later, when off St. George's reef, was run
down at night by an unknown vessel,
which scudded away in the darkness. The
Laura Muy had her mizzen mast taken
out, her,galley smashed and was gener
ally broken up. She ran for San Fran
cisco for repairs, instead of proceeding
on her voyage.
Man Hunt Nearly Ended
SEATTLE, Wn., March 23.—The man
Hunt is drawing to a close and with the
capture of R. H. Ford, alias Manning,
every one of the notorious members of the
gang that walked out of the county jail
last Sunday night save the bunco man,
Frank J. Hurt, has been captured. Ford
was captured in this cily this afternoon
by Chief of Police Rodgers aud Detective
Cudihee.
PERISHED DURING A GALE
The Tug Velos Driven Ashore
and Wrecked
FIVE LIVES WERE LOST
Bad Disaster on the Coast of Van
Couver (Bland
During a .storm the Little Vessel Became Un
„, manageable and Was Dashed on
the Rocks
VICTORA, B. C, March 23.—The tug
Velos, bound for the stone quarries at
Nelson and Hadington islands, was driven
ashore on Trial island during a gale last
night and is a total wreck. Five men
were drowned.
They are: Frederick Adams, a well
known contractor, who is building the
capitol here, aged 58 and married; Ar
thur Bowers, chief engineer, aged 80.
single; Robert Smith, cook, aged 50.
single; frank Duncan, deck hand, aged
80, single; William Law, lireman, aged 30,
married.
The lirst four were drowned and the
last named died from exposure in the rig
ging. Captain Anderson swam to a reef
at midnight and was rescued this morn
ing. The Velos was towing a barge on
which were twenty-five laborers, and the
barge was fortunately driven ashore on a
sandy beuch. The men on the barge tried
to launch it, but it was smashed. They
could hear calls for help for hours.
The Velos was unmanageable or she
would not have gone ashore. She had
passed Trial island, and in the southwest
gale her heavy tow becoming unmanagea
le Captain Anderson decided to put back
to Victoria. Shortly after he came about
tbe rudder chains parted and she could not
he handled at all. She drove ahead a
mile before the gale to the reef where she
struck. First Mate Andrew Christiansen
aud Captain Anderson are the only ones
of the crew who escaped. The former
managed to jump aboard the barge when
the latter ran against the tug. Bowers
and Smith attempted to swim ashore, but
were lashed to death on the rocks. No one
saw Adams and Duncan drown, but it is
believed they were washed from tbe
decks. The wreck occurred within a
stone's throw of Oak Bay, a suburb of
Victoria, but it was some time before it
was known hero that the wreck had oc
curred, when the twenty-seven survivors
on the barge were rescued.
The tug was valued at $10,000 and was
insured.
THE CITY OF WHEELS
Oakland Coming to the Front Irrespective of
Location
OAKLAND, March 23.—Oakland is
known as a city of wheels. Because of its
level and well paved streets it has proba
bly more bicycles in it than any other
city of ita sise in the country. It has
been stated that at least $250,000 are in
vested ia the silent steed in Oakland, and
now, in order to keep the streets in re
pair, it is said the council proposes put
ting a tax on wheels.
This tax would cover buggies, carts,
hacks, wagons and all sorts of wheeled
vehicles and bicycles, but because of the
number of the latter the bulk of the tax
would come from that source. It is
thought that by levying a tax of $1 to $2
a year at least ¥10,000 could he raised, and
this amount would go far toward settling
the question of good roads. In Chicago
bicycles are taxed $2 per year, and Paris,
it is said, raised an annual revenue from
this source. Bicycle owners are much ag
itated over the matter, and, it is thought,
they will enter a vigorous protest if any
attempt is made to impose such a tax.
ROW IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE
The McCarthys Regain Possession of the
San Dlego Vldette
SAN DIEGO, March 23.—D. O. and J.
H. McCarthy today resumed poisossion of
the Vidette office on account of the non
performance of the terms of the lease,
going in early in the morning when only
the pressman was about and no violence
necessary to effect their purpose. The
paper has been in financial straits and
recently Harry Wagner, the lessee, went
to San Francisco leaving the boys in the
office to run things.
The Republican nominees for city offi
ces, headed by Judge W. A. Sloane, can
didate for mayor, hud offered to back the
paper, but no money was forthcoming.
After losing possession the Sloane ele
ment besieged the doors, but was stood
off with drawn revolvers. During the
melee two men got in the back way and
succeeded in breaking cog-wheels in tiie
press and otherwise injuring the ma
chinery, desisting when compelled with
revolvers at iheir heads. Eight arrests
were made and a riot narrowly averted.
The McCarthys are now in full control.
DEATH THE MOTORMAN
An Electric Car Severely Injures Lwo Ladies
In Alameda
ALAMEDA, March 23.—While riding on
Santa Clara avenue this morning, Mrs. J.
P. Norman and Mrs. J. N. Barstow were
struck by an electric car and both severely
injured.
Mrs. Norman's hip was fractured and
her nose was broken. Mrs. Barstow had
her arm broken near the elbow. The
ladies turned into the middle of the road
way to pass a wagon and did not observe
an electric car coming immediately be
hind them. When they learned of tho
close proximity of the car they became
frightened, and losing control of their
bicycles, came together with a crash.
A PETRIFIED WOMAN
The Arrest of Two Alleged Swindlers
at Fresno
FRESNO, March 23.-G. H. Wood and
H. P. Lemon were held to answer today
at Selma on a charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses. The defendants
had sold a stone woman, manufactured
in Selma, to N. P. Daggett, a farmer,
under the claim that it wai a human
petrifaction, taken from the earth in the
("oast Range Mountains in this county,
where a number of other alleged petri
factions had been secured and put on the
market. The work was done by a party
named Bozeman, who used • his own
daughter to make a cast for the stone
fraud sold to Daggett.
AN INSANE WOMAN
A Telegraph Operator Has i Lively
Experience
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23.—Charles
Bell,a telegraph operator employed by the
Western Union Telegraph Company in its
branch office on Golden Gate avenue, was
compelled to stand off an insane woman
armed with a hatchet early this morning.
HERCHANTS
OF EXPERIENCE
PATRONIZE THE HERALD
PRICE FIVE CE NTS
5 Bell, who i-i a jr< ungster, wa«i alone n
the office when the door opened, lie
turned around in bia ohair unit saw .1 aro
man standing before him clad only in a
night robe. She uttered several peculiar
cries and at the same time wildly Hour*
idied a small hatchet which she carried in
her hand. Instead of replying to his
queries she continued her strange mv'«
terings for a moment and then ma le a
lunge at Bell with ihe hatchet.
The first blow missed its mark and the
woman was preparing to deliver a second
when a messenger buy hurried into the
office.
Grsaping the woman's uplifted arm he
made an effort to wrench the hatchet from
her. A struggle ensued and there was
every probability that the woman would
prove the victor, when Bell, recovering
from his fright, went to the aid of the
messenger. The two finally succeeded in
disarming the woman, but nut before they
received several had bruises. The woman
wis then made prisoner and held until a
policeman could be called.
A NERVY CASHIER
He Does Terrible Ba lie With end Baffles Two
Poatpeda
BALTIMORE, March 23.—Walter B.
Swindell, of the firm of Swindell Broth
ers, who was on his way to the factory
with $24h0 to pay the men, was halted on
Russell street this afternoon by two high
waymen who commanded him to hold up
his hands.
Instead of obeying them he threw ont
his right arm and knocked their pistols
up. A terrific struggle ensued, in which
several shots were lired by the robbers,
one bullet knocking Swindell's hat off.
Swindell got out of his carriage and
hurled rocks at his assailants. They
finally jumped into a buggy and diove off.
THOSE DIAMOND CUTTERS
One of the Alleged Contract Laborers Says He
Is Worth $100,000
NEW YORK, March 23.—Frank Van
Reeth. one of the excluded diamond cut
ters who came over on the Wester land,
succeeded in getting a rehearing today at
Ellis Island. It then developed that he
was the most expert diamond cutter in
the world. He claimed to be wortb $100,
--OHO, and declared that he came over to
visit Mr. Cistrman, one of a
firm who are supposed to have contracted
fjr the men. His examination will be
continued Monday.
THAT SMALL ROiy IN PERU
The Provisional Government Recognized
by Pedro Azola
A Manifesto Issued by the New Government.
Troops of Caceres Still Under
Arms
NEW YORK, Marcn 23.—A special dis
patch to a morning paper from Lima,
Peru, says:
The Provisional Government has been
recognized by Pedro Azola, who was the
legal First Vice-President under President
Bertuudcz.
The troops of Caceres are still under
arms and are marching to the positions
assigned them underthe agreement for an
armistice. The Caceres adherents in
Callao have not yet submitted, but there
disturbance there. The wife and
daughter of Caceres took refuge in tl ie
British legation. They will probably be
escorted to Callao by a British guard and
will then he placed on hoard a British
man-of-war.
The provisional government has issued
this manifesto:
"Called upon when patriotism forbids
hesitation, we have accepted our mission,
convinced that we have only to respect
the rights of all with frankness and self
denial.
"We assume that the o je~t of the pro
visional government is peace, conciliation
and principally to re-establish the publio
confidence in the authorities and maintain
peace and order in the meantime.
"The constitution and laws,in force are
such as should govern a republic, but to
realize the purpose of the provisional gov
ernment we require the assistance of all.
We implore all natives and foreigners to
assist us.
"The terrible events which have oc
curred in Lima, und the solemnity of the
moment, merit our best efforts to insure
peace and order and justify us in the be
lief tnat every citizen will uphold and
help us in the work of reparation.
"We commence our task trusting to
merit support in realizing reforms which
shortly wil| be offered the nation.
(Signed) "Manuel Candamo,
"Ricardo Espencza,
"Luis Felipe Villaran,
"Enrique Bustamente y Salar-,
"Elias Malpartida."
The signers of the manifesto are the
provisional government and the junta
representing both factions in Peru.
A New Fire Commissioner
SACRAMENTO. March 23.—Governor
Budd today appointed Collin M. Boyd
fire commissioner of San Francisco, vice
H. A. Martin, "term expired."
LOOKOUT FOR THE QUARTER
A Splendid Counterfeit Has Been Put In
Circulation
Only the Most Adroit Experts Can Distinguish
This Bogus Coin —Work ot a
Syndicate
BALTIMORE, March 23. -The finest
counterfeit quarter dollar ever made was
discovered today. It is of the series of
1893 and is composed laigely of silver.
Only the most adroit expert can detect it
from the genuine coin, and it is believed
to have been circulated in large quanti
ties. This is one of the rare instances in
which nearly all silver has been used in
counterfeiting. The metal is now so clie.ip
that counterfeits of legal weight cm he
made at a handsome prolit.
FIRE IN A CELL
Two Prisoners in a Country Prison Have a
Narrow Escape
SAN RAFAEL, March 23.—As Jailor
O'Brien was making his usual rounds to
night he discovered a cell occupied by
Frank and Valentine Valencia to be on
fire. An alarm was at once sounded and
the two prisoners were rescued, but not
before they were almost suffocated by fi'(,
The Valcneias were arrested during v c
afternoon by Constable Hughes, who
placed them in this cell. When arrested
one of them Had a package of mea,, and
it is thought tbey intended to cook this
in tho cell. They had set tiro to all the
blankets that were near. After recovering
from the effects of the smoke they wero
pluced in the county jail, and a more
serious charge will he placed against
them.