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IN THE WORLD OF SPORT
RACINO IS RESUMED AT THE BAY
DISTRICT TRACK
CMraasn Gideon's Bicycle Bulletin Contains a
Naasber ot Important Rulings; Amateur*'
WIN St* Meld ts tlie Strict Observance el
• tbe Law—Sporting Note*
Associated Press Special Wire.
San Francisco, March 19.*—The feature
of the opening day at Bay District track
was the Gunst selling stakes at a mile and
a sixteenth for all ages, valu.wl at $18r>0.
The race went to Barney Schrieber's cast
off, Service, who won with ridiculous ease
hy nearly a dozen lengths. Wheel of For
tune, the favorite, was third, four lengths
behind Rose Bud.
As is usually the case with the change of
tracks, favorites were bowled over with
great regularity. Lobengula and Sea
Spray were the only favorites to win, three
second choices and two outsider* securing
tbe other events. The weather was rainy
and the track slow.
Five furlongs—Faro won. Middleton sec
ond, ZooMn third. Time I:o4'j.
Four futlonse—Torpedo won, Gordon
second. Early Notice third. Time tol > 4 .
Mile and a sixteenth, Gunst stakes-
Service won. Rosebud second, Wheel of
Fortune third; time, 1:03%.
Seven and a half furlongs—Sea Spray
won, Ike L. second, Favory third; time,
1:40)..
Six furlongs—Strathflower won. Flash
light second, Charles A. third; time,
1:19%.
One mile—Lobengula wen, Collins sec
ond, Flirtilla third: time, 1:44.
Five furlongs— Kobin I. won, Crawford
second, Jack Atkins third: time, 1:04!,.
Bay District Race Entries
The following is the list of entries and
weights of the races to be run at Bay Dis
trict track today, which are posted at tbe
loa Angeles Turf club, 212 South Spring
■Met. Commissions received on these
ace*and full description of the events:
First rsce, aelllng. five-eighths of a mile,
light welter weights—Snowdown 133. Califor
nia Joe. April. Huntsman, Currency, 133; iia
ytdo 129. Duke .Stevens 139, Artemtis 11*1,
Crack-a-.iaek 111-, Manford 13.,, bobrania 13»i,
W. L. Munson 133, sister to Lottery filly lie?,
toraida 115, Landlord 13B; Globe, canvas
back, eagamore, 117; Manhattan 133, Ravine
142.
second race, selling, half mile, 2-year-old —
Link Boy, A.lam Andrew, 1<)8; tireyhtirsa,
108; Bmelia 8., Fanny 8., 102; Inflammator,
105.
Third race, selling, six furlongs—Entries
close 8:30 a.m.
Fourth race, purse, seven furlongs—T.ogan
106. Major Cook 97, Magnet 100, Ravine 103,
Sweat Rose 94, Yankee Doodle lot;.
Fifth race, selling, seven furlongs, Inside
course—Modest. Hy Dy, Rico, 10s; Ashland
Xclypee, 98; Miss Ruth, Bravura, 103; De
cision. 102.
Sixth race, selling, one mile—Sclmcter 94,
Joe Terry 90, Road Runner 10?. Mollis K. 96,
Hidalgo 107, Garcia 10'J,
A Bicycle Bulletin
New Yosk, March 19.—Chairman Gid
eon* weekly bulletin, juat issued, contains
a number of important rulings. E. C. Bald
of Buffalo is suspsnded from all tracks
pending investigation on tbe charges
'that be sold prizes. Chairman Gideon says
active steps will be taken to prevent ama
teur riders from violating the rules in their
class. He insists that Southern and North
ern California must be regarded as two
distinct states by the L. A. W. and the
racing board, and an amateur resident of
either division cannot compete outside the
boundary of hia division at a distance of
over 100 miles from his home. He claims
that tbe greatest abuses of the league's
rules and the board's confidence are com
mitted by these men, who obtain their ex
penses and other concessions, and yet
seek to remain amateurs.
Such men do great injury to those who
are yet amateurs perforce and who are
struggling to develop themselves with their
own resources. Amateurism, be says, is
the nursery of racing, and when one so de
velops as the command the assistance of
tbe trade he belongs to professionalism,
and there he will be transferred by the
board under the general provisions which
authorizes It to act.
Sanction granted: July 4, Prince Wells,
Louisville; professionalized at their own
request: J. M. Campbell, Spokane; Eli
Winzet, J. F. Slaver, Portland; W. W. H.
Patton and Burton S. Parker, Los Angeles,
and Earl S. Robbina, Ventura.
College Athletics
Sax P BAH CIS co, March 10.—The uni
versity of California athletes are now con
fident of an eastern trip like the one made
last year. Negotiations are pending with
Yale and Princeton for a triple meet be
tween the college teams on May lb' next in
New York. Both Yalo and Princeton are
favorable to the plan and it is thought
that it will be carried through. The Cali
fornia team will leave for the east on
May 2.
Olympian tjamee
Princeton. N. J., March in.—Prince
ton's four representatives in the Olympian
games will leave Princeton for New York
tomorrow. Saturday they will sail for
Athens. At the last moment Cole Fell,
who had been entered in the 400 meter
race, received word from his parents pro
hibiting iiis sailing with the team and
Johnson, '07, of Peoria, 111 has been put
In hts place.
New Mexico's Admission
Washington, March 19,—Senator Davis,
chairman of the committee on territories,
today presented the report of that com
mittee on the admission of New Mexico as
a state. The report sets forth the re
sources of the territory, gives the popula
tion, the number of schools, postomces,
etc., and adopts the report made to the
senate on the same subject in the last con
gress. A new paragraph is added, giving
the best estimate possible on the proportion
of residents of the territory of Mexican
birth or derivation. Tlie committee says
that exact information is unobtainable, but
expresses the opinion that about one-half
of the population falls within the class.
They conclude, however, that the Mexi
cans do not cast one-half of the votes in
she territory, because a majority of the
Americans are new arrivals, unaccompa
nied by their families, giving them a larger
proportion of voters than among the Mexi
cans. The bill is amended so as to fix the
election for the adoption of the proposetl
constitution not earlier than the first Tins
day in November.
December and May
Chicago, March 111.—It was learned to
day, through a dispatch from San Diego,
Cal., that Thomas Whitfield, a well known
druggist of tbiscity. bad taken out a license
to marry Katherine La Kue, who was for
merly cashier in Whitfield's drug store.
Whitfield was granted a divorce from Lou
lee B. Whitfield on March sth, the cotn
filaint charging his wife witii drunkenness,
n June. 1887, five months before he mar
ried Louise, he was made defendant in a
suit for divorce biought by his first wife.
Ella, A. Whitlleld, Mrs. Whitfield being
allowed $5000 and the custody of their
child. Mr. Whitfield is 5(1 years old and
served as an officer in the civil war. Miss
La Rue is 23 years old.
Weather by Mall
Washington, March 10.-The scheme
of adding the latest weather farecasts to
the regular postmarks on letters will be
commenced by tbe postofflce department
on July Ist. Application for this aervice
trem over forty Poetofflees have been filed
•nd it will be adopted first in New York
and other large cities.
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THE TRAIN ROBBERY
On* Robber Dea* a** ldentlfled-S*v«ral Ar
rnu Made
Visalia, Cal.. March 19.—Additional
particular* of Ihe attempted robbery of
train No. 19, southbound, last night have
been learned. For several days Sheriff
Merritt had known a train robbery was
contemplated. Yesterday he received in
formation that train No. 20, going north,
would be held up between Tulare and
< ioshen. He sent deputies Vie Heed and
' Karl Daggett to Goshen, and took two
others with him to Tulare. He had wired
<•.•!. Mead, special o'Kcer of the railroad
company, who came south on No. 20 and
' joined the officer* at Tulare.
I Daggett and Reed on the engine of
> train No. 19 and ore arched down in the
coal, watching for aigas of robbers on each
side of the track. About a mile out of
(io hen a man climbed over the rear ten
der and covered the •mgineer and fireman
with a rifle in one hs jrl and a revolver in
the other, ordering all hands up. The offi
cers turned; he saw them and opened tire
with his revolver aud shot both officers.
: They returned the tire, Daggett's shot tak-
I ing effect and killing the robber instantly.
Daggett Inadetl again, but the robber fell
off the engine: the train ran into Tulare.
The wounded men were taken off and
cared for. Officers on board No. 10, and
at the scene of the fight found the body of
the robber and brought it town. The dead
robber was found to be Dan McCall. a
laborer camped near here chopping wood.
The officers this morning arrested Lov
er n, keeper of a notorious deadfall, and
Charles Ardell. a barkeeper, and placed
them in jail. John Haynes, a Salvation
Army man, was arrested at his ranch,
eight miles north of here. Heed's wound
is slight. The ball passed through the
fleshy part of the left arm near the
shoulder. Daggett is seriously hurt. The
ball entered due front, passing through the
seventh rib on the left side. It was taken
out at his back. The lung is injured. The
robber was killed with a shotgun, both bar-
I rels taking effect in the abdomen. Shot
passed through his right pants pocket,
shattering a knife, and entered the bowels
and ranged up through the body. Lovern,
arrested as an accomplice, ia a notorious
character. It was in his place where As
sessor Frank Coffee was killed two years
ago.
The body of the dead robber was found
at tbe scene of the robbery.
M'OALL WELL KNOWN
A Santa Cruz dispatch says that Dan
McCall. the train robber who was killed
near Tulare, was well known there. He
was 42 years old and was born in Santa
Cruz. He leaves two brothers ana a son,
who also live there. McCall went to Tu
lare a year ago and bought a ranch. Yes
terday bis brother received a letter from
him saying he had sold his ranch and
horses and was coming back to Santa
Cruz. While at Santa Cruz McCall bore a
good reputation He was thought to be a
harmless fellow without the courage to fire
a gun. Obie Button, who is under arrest
for complicity in the train robbery, for
merly lived at Capitola, where he was a
fisherman. His father keeps a saloon in
Soquel.
in this city
Detective George K. Gard was on the
train and made the following statement:
There were four of them in the scheme,
but it appears as if one of them had be
trayed them. He informed the Tulare
officers that No. 20 was to be held up, and
jt was by mere accident that Under Sheriff
Earl Dagget and Constable Reed or Reed
ley were on the engine of train No, 19.
They boarded the train at Reedley for Tu
lare, thinking that their services might be
needed. They were sitting on the floor of
the tender and the train was approaching
» water tank when they heard a voice be
hind them calling to the engineer to bring
tr»f> train to a standstill. Tbe robber was
con cealed behind the tool bos at the rear
of r. Ie tender.
HV had a rifle under hia arm and in his
right hand was a six shooter. He was ig
nores, t of the fact that there was any other
persot' on the engine besidss the engineer
and lineman.
At Ft esno a man about six feet in height,
dark complexion, wearing a light slouch
hat, a short canvas coat lined with gray
flannel, and wearing a pair of overalls,
boarded ttie train. He appeared to be un
der the influence of liquor. He took a seat i
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IiOS ANGIXES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1898. '
In the smoker, and gave order* to the
brakemsn to be sure and wake him up
whan the train reached Goshen, at the same
time remarking:
"You are lisble to hear from me in the
morning."
' He alao carried a bottle filled with some
I kind of liquid, euoposed to be wine, which
the news agent < f (the train succeeded in
getting away witu. The newsboy brought
) the bottle to this city, and immediately
turned it over to Detective Gard.
Several of the passengers who were on
the train wero Interviewed at the hotels,
but none bad knowledge of the affair ex
cept such as was learned from the officials
in the morning. Police Justice Morrison
was on board and in common with the rest
was asleep in his berth and knew nothing
of tbe shooting until informed when he got
up. As the train did not stop and all the
firing occurred on the engine it was not
heard on the rear cars at all. All hands
were totally ignorant of any attempt at
robbery at the time.
The Venezuelan Commission
Washington, March 19.—The regular
weekly meeting of the Venezuela boundary
commission was held today instead of
Friday, owing to the fact that a mass of
material had been collected ready for con
sideration at the hands of the entire com
mission. Tho commission now has before
it tho British case as comprised in the blue
book, the Venezuelan case in part, and a
mass of matter collected directly by the
commission. The commission was in
formed by Secretary Olney today that he
is in receipt of communications from the
governments of Spain, Holland and Bel
gium offering the commission access to the
archives of those countries for data touch
ing the disputed boundary. The commis
sion adjourned until nest Friday, conclud
ing not to hold daily sessions for the pres
ent.
London, March 19.—A letter addressed
by Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court, the president of the Vene
zuelan commission, to the peace associa
tion, in which he expresses a hope for peace
ful settlement of the Venezuelan dispute,
is published here. Tlie Daily News says,
in an editorial on Justice Brewer's letter:
"The letter is peculiarly welcome as au
evidence of the spirit in which the commis
sion will conduct its labors. It ought to
have suitable recognition. It could not be
more suitably recognized than by leaving
the work wholly in tbe hands of those en
gaged on both sides in effecting a settle
ment."
Bound for Russia
San Francisco, March 19.—Marquis
Yamagata. the Japanese general who so
successfully conducted the war against
China, is a passenger on the steamer Cop
tic, due here March 28th. He is on his
way to Moscow, where he will represent
the ruler of Japan at the coronation of the
czar. The Japanese here are making elab
orate peparationa for the reception of their
distinguished countryman.
In Ablect Poverty
Dknvfr, March 19.—1t has been learned
that the wife of James Addison Keavis,
now in jail in Santa Fe, N. M., awaiting
trial for forgery aud other charges in con
nection with the celebrated Peralta-Ksavis
land grant case in Arizona, is living in
Denver with her three little sons. They
are in abject destitution and have been
supported for some time by the charity or
ganizations,
A Republican Riot
Gcthrie, O. T„ March 19.—The Repub
lican city convention ended in a riot here,
after nominating a ticket half made up of
negroes. A taxpayers' ticket, made up of
white men, will be put out in opposition to
it.
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