VOLUME LXXVHI.-NO. 29.
WITHIN PARTY LINES
How Silver Men of the
West Will Conduct
the Fight.
COLONEL TRUMBO'S IDEA.
Eastern Stubbornness Refuses
to Perceive Important
Facts.
THE WHITE- METAL STANDARD.
' Its Consideration Far More Impor
tant Than All Questions of
Tariff.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 28.— Colonel
Isaac Trumbo, who led the fignt for silver
in the late convention of the Republican
League at Cleveland, was in the city to
day. He is one of the youngest Repub
lican leaders in the West, but there are
none more active and who have accom
plished more at his time of life. He is not
yet 40, but he has made a fortune, and it
is generally agreed that he will be elected
United States Senator from Utah this
winter.
Although a vigorous advocate of unlim
ited silver coinage, tne colonel has in
variru .y refused to go outside party lines
in making the tight. Threats of bolting
in the event of a gold platform being
adopted by the coming National Republi
can convention he considers most unwise.
"The Republican party is our party," he
said at Cleveland, "and we shall not leave
it." It is this unswerving loyalty that
enables him to wield so much more influ
ence than some of his brethren, who are
constantly trying to form a distinctively
cilver party, and gives him a hearing in all
Republican assemblies.
"The East," he remarked to-day, "re
fuses blankly to see two very serious
things. First, it refuses to acknowledge,
despite all the evidence to prove it, that as
the demonetization of silver brought on
the hard times, so will it require the re
monetization of silver to bring back good
times. Second, it refuses to understand
how deep-seated and universal is the feel
ing in the West in favor of silver. There
are practically no gold monometallists,
while beyond the Mississippi River all the
people especially are determined that lhe
contest in 1896 shall be fought squarely
on the recall of silver as a standard
money. With us it is superior to the tar
iff, and we have no /ear of the Republican
>*ai:oual CoiiTeiition next year making a
eood platform. We are Berene in the gen
eral faith that a vast majority of the
American people are in favor of the resto
ration of silver as a standard money, and
we are also firm in the party faith that the
.Republican party will have both the wis
dom and the patriotism to settle correctly
this great question. The papers that rep
resent us as being willing to bolt the party
and rule or ruin do not know us.
"The Republican party is our party, and
we shall not leave it, but will settle all
contests within its lines. Besides that, we
have the confident faith that comes to
people who are in an actual majority and
know it. For we know we are in a ma
jority in the Republican party, and, there
fore, know that whatever shall be done as
to silver in the future will be a gain for
us. We know that the high-water mark
for gold was reached at Minneapolis in
1892. The next platform, if it changes
from that, will change toward silver and
Hot toward sold.
"The gold monometallists everywhere
may as well understand that now. The
East has many people, bankers and
money-dealers, who are really for a gold
currency. There are many other Eastern
people, manufacturers, merchants, etc.,
who think now they are for it too. But
when it cornea to electing a President for
protection tney cannot do it without tne
aid of the millions of Republicans who are
for silver, and they cannot change the
Wilson bill to a better system of protection
without the aid of the eighteen or more
Vnited States Senators who will be for sil
The San Francisco Call.
ver. The two questions of silver and pro
tection are intertwined with each other,
and will go up or down to
gether. The greedy and covetous
idea prevailing in some quarters in the
East that this country is to be dwarfed to
a gold basis and that the next Republican
Congress will revise and increase the tariff
for the manufacturers' articles and. not for
ihe products of the West will be short
lived. For the prosperity of this country
is not going to be withered down to a gold
basis, and the new tariff will take fully as
good care of the Western miner and the
Western farmer as of the Eastern manu
facturer.
"We Western people are broad and good
natured and long suffering, but the next
time the interests of the West, as well
as these of the East, must be taken
care of in all legislation both on silver and
protection. We are with you for a .Republi
can President and a Republican Congress,
but we want both to be of the sort of Re
publicanism that will guard as fully our
interests as yours. We are going to make
tne whole tight under the Republican flag,
and we are sure we will win both in the
National convention and at the polls. You
will need our help to revise and increase
the tariff, and we will get your help to re
store silver."
The colonel went to Washington and will
next go to the Pacific Coast.
SILVER KXIGMXS OF AMERICA.
Democrats Secretly Organize to Secure the
Double Standard.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 28.— A Wash
ington special to the New York Press says:
Although much discouraged by recent de
feats in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and other
States, the free-silver Democrats have de
termined to make their last rally at Wash
ington in August. To avoid the danger of
future division in the party only an ex
change of views will be permitted. The
adoption of a resolution in favor of the
free-silver clause is regarded as a foregone
conclusion. The chief agency through
which the convention is to be manipulated
is by means of an order secret in all its
work and oath-bound.
This organization is called the Silver
Knights of America. It has a ritual and
passwords. The latter are changed every
six months, and men and women alike are
admitted to membership.
It is said by those who put great trust in
the secret operations of people held to
gether under the solemnity of vows, that an
army is being silently recruited which will
make itself felt at the polls. In Ohio, In
diana, Kansas and many of tne Southern
States the Silver Knights of America are
said to be firmly established. Confidential
circulars are used by members to enlist
volunteers in the cause. These circulars
declare that unless the double standard is
adopted labor will be enslaved, thrift be
poverished and the liberty of the people
destroyed.
"The crime of 1873" is given prominence
and it is alleged that capital has organized
in London and New York to subsidize the
press, bribe and debauch public servants
and propagate the gold standard theory.
The necessity for organization among the
people to fight for silver, therefore, immi
nent. The circular argnes that the forma
tion of capitalistic societies must be met
by combinations of like character, only
for a aifferent purpose. The order of the
Silver Knights of America is to be the
machine whereby the "cohorts of avarice
and oppression" are to be prevented from
destroying happiness and liberty.
From this glimpse into the innermost
recess of the new secret silver society, it
will be seen that the conference at Wash
ington in August will be of the usual
wild-eyed character. It is causing a great
deal of worry to the members of the ad
ministration, who see in it a tremendous
engine for the destruction of ex
isting Democratic organization. It is
impossible for any number of free
silver Democrats to meet in conven
tion without wrangling. The de
feat of Senator Blackburn in Kentucky,
the postponement of the date of holding
the State convention in Ohio, the tempor
ary side-tracking of the silver movement
in Indiana and Missouri will be causes for
bitter denunciation. The only semblance
of a victory which the free-silver men have
to congratulate themselves upon is that in
Illinois, but even there Governor Altgeld
is so identified with the propaganda that
there is no comfort in the situation. The
I Urpose of the free-silver Democrats in
assembling at Washington is much the
same as was Coxey's. They want notoriety
and advertisement,
Drpeuf I* A»l to Wed.
NEW YORK, June 23.— 1n an interview
Chauncey M. Depew said there was noth
ing in the rumor that lie was soon to wed.
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1895.
AN ORPHAN'S MANIA
Causes Her Arrest for
Writing Obscene
Letters.
ONE PECULIAR VAGARY.
No Motive for the Offenses
Committed by a Very
Pretty Girl.
HER WEAK MIND INFLUENCED.
Rich Grandparents Who Brought
Her Up Are Now In
Despair.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 28.— Sadie
Dwyer, a girl 18 years old, was arraigned
before United States Commissioner Shields
yesterday, charged with sending an ob
scene letter through the mails. Back of
this simple announcement lies a story of
infinite pathos, telling a tragedy in the
lives of two old loving people.
Sadie Dwyer is an orphan. Her father
died a month before she was born, and
her mother died in giving Sadie life. This
mother had been a favored child in the
eyes of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dwyer's
parents. They took the little grandchild,
gave it their name, and lavished upon it a
wealth of affection.
For long months it was thought that the
little one must die, but patient nursing
and careful watching fed the tiny spark of
life until the baby thrived. The old couple
saw in the infant the form and features of
their dead daughter. A kindlier, gentler
soul than Mrs. Dwyer none could wish to
know, aud the pride she took in the little
foster child was simple and beautiful.
When Sadie was grown into a girl a
shadow fell across her life. It was noticed
that sometimes the little mind would go
wandering away, and she would prattle of
things that no one saw or could see. She
would answer the questioning of her grand
parents absently ana astray of the sub
ject. The child's brain was straying into
unknown fields.
But this sorrow only served to intensify
the love her grandparents wrapped around
her. She was brought up as their child
und dwelt in that belief. Through the
long summer days she played about the
beautiful yard of her home and gazed upon
the quiet, peaceful waters of Rockland
Lake that stretched away to the east, and,
save occasional lapses, she was as other
children. She grew to be possessed of a
strange beauty, that was made somber by
rhe restless, shifting light in the blue e3'es.
She was kind and gentle. In the winter
months they taught her to read and write,
and she learned rapidly. The grandpar
ents grew old, their lives tinged with re
gret, but glad, utterly glad, that their
child's child stiil lived and was happy. So
passed many peaceful years.
The blow that shattered this serenity
came without a warning. A man came to
the house and asked for Sadie. The man
was Postottice Inspector Anthony Com
stock. He had a warrant for Sadie's ar
rest, charging her with sending through
the mails lewd, scurrilous letters. Mr.
and Mrs. Dwyer were astounded by the in
telligence. Sadie was too frightened to
immediately tell her story. She admitted
the authorship of the vile epistle, but re
membered only vaguely and indistinctly
the time of its sending or its contents. An
investigation revealed a strange state of
affairs. Durintr the month of May she had
indited many similar messages. Some
were written to herself. Others were sent
to her friends near by and to her dearest
associates. Those knowing the malady of
their playmate kept the matter secret.
In what the deluded girl did there was
no motive of spite or fear or jealousy. It
was merely a curious vagary of a mind dis
eased. One of the letters was sent to a
Miss Bell of Nyack. Sadie had seen her
only once and then at a distance. Miss
Bell knew nothing of the 9ender, and gave
the queer missive into the hands of the
postal authorities, and Sadie's arrest fol
lowed. It was alleged that the young girl
FOURTH AND BRANNAN STREETS AS THEY APPEAR AFTER THE Bid FIRE.
[Sketched for ,7w "Gall" fry Campbell.)
had been influenced by a coarse, ignorant
woman, a servant in the Dwyer family. It
was said that she abetted the writing and
sending of the letters. What motive insti
gated this servant, if that part of the story
is true, other than a depraved instinct,
cannot be guessed, i 'At the first suspicion
of trouble she fled, and so her whereabouts
is not known to Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer.
Inspector Comstock has a warrant for her
arrest, and he believes that she can be
located.
There was nothing for Comstock to
do but to take Miss Dwyer before United
States Commissioner Shields. Examina
tion was waived, and Sadie was held in
$1000 bail to await the action of the Grand
Jury. A bond for that amount was fur
nished by Dwyer. When Sadie was
arraigned before the Commissioner a sor
rowful scene was enacted. The girl re
alized the shame her actions had brought
upon her and sobbed pitifully while In
spector Com stock briefly told the story,
not going into details. Mr. Dwyer, the
grandfather, seemed heartbroken at the
position of his granddaughter, who had
been so dear to him, and his old eyes tilled
with tears as he signed the bond releasing
her from custody. Dwyer is a wealthy
man and respected citizen of Rockland
Lake, and the disgrace weighs heavily upon
him.
Wnat action the Grand Jury will take it
is impossible to say. The case may be
tried next October, or passed forever, but
the clond that rests upon the lives of two
old people will be lifted only when life is
done.
TWO CHILDREN MISSING
An Attempt Being Madeto Fas
ten Their Murder Upon
One Holmes.
It Is Believed He Killed tha Little
Ones and Carried the Bodies
In a Trunk.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 28.—Detect
ive Grier of Philadelphia is in the city.
Sometime ago a man named Petizel died
in that city leaving $10,000 insurance and
three children. A man named Holmes
got possession of the insurance and went
to Texas, where by speculation he made a
large sum of money. He returned to
Philadelphia. In the meantime one of
the children died and Holmes took the
other two and left Philadelphia. In about
two weeks he returned without the chil
dren.
There was considerable excitement over
the affair, as the supposition was that the
children were murdered. Holmes is known
to have been in this city and he stopped
for several days at the Bristol Hoube, go
ing subsequently to the Atlantic Hotel.
While here he registered under the name
of Cook. He had a big trunk with holes
bored in it and he kept a close watch on
it. The supposition is that the children
were kapt in tl ; trunk. He went to
Detroit from ib»* ck>.
The theory of the officers Is that he mur
dered the children here and then took the
bodies to Detroit and got rid of them. He
is under arrest at Philadelphia on a charge
of conspiracy, and an attempt is being
made to fix tne murder of the children on
him.
ONE PARTNER ARRESTED.
An Unexpected Incident in the 'failure
of Jlrokera.
CHICAGO, 111., June 23.— The failure of
Crawford <fc Valentine, stockbrokers, took
an unexpected turn this afternoon when
Richard O. Crawford, one of the partners,
was taken into custody on a warrant charg
ing him with failing to account for $10,000,
deposited by Victor Falkenau to cover mar
gins in a wheat deal.
Bonds in the sum of $5000 were given.
Crawford & Valentine failed about live
weeks ago, and at that time Mr. Falkenau
had the amount alleged in the complaint
in the hands of the firm.
Made a Forcible Collection.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 28. — Joseph
Davidson, a broker, who recently dealt
heavily in wheat, was charged this even
ing with highway robbery. Mr. Davidson
had a balance with William Hamlin, an
other broker, and went to collect it, using
a pistoi for argument. Mrs. Hamiin sep
arated the \vro fighters and gave Davidson
$50. upon which he departed.
Storms at Buzzards Bay.
BUZZARDS BAY, Mass., June 28— Tbe
stormy weather kept the President indoors
to-day. It rained very hard the greater
part of the day. Secretary of State Olney
will probably join his family at Falmouth
next week.
YALE'S CLEAN SWEEP
Completed by the Defeat
of Harvard in the
Boatrace.
GREAT TIME IS MADE.
Beginning With a Superior
Start the Lead Gradually
Increased.
TWO-MILE RECORD LOWERED.
Men of the Crimson Color Make a
Gallant Struggle, but Are
Badly Beaten.
NEW LONDON, Conn., June 28.— Yale
won the race to-day. Clean and steady
oarsmanship shot the Yale shell down the
four-mile course from Gales Ferry to the
drawbridge, beeinning with a superior
start, continuing with a steadily increas
ing lead over the entire course and culmin
ating with an aggravatingly easy finish at
the four-mile stake.
The race completed a clean sweep for
Yale in the past college year, the football,
baseball, track athletics and rowing cham
pionships for 1895 now standing to her
credit. Harvard's exhibition was not
meritorious. The stroke was slow
when it should have been sharp,
speedy when it was needless, but
sagged continually. The coxswain's er
rors, too, were atrocious. They caused
Harvard to lose the benefit of the current,
and when "trade winds" might have
counted he ran the Harvard shell into the
heavy swash of one steamer and jammed
its bow into a rowboat alongside at the
finish.
Whatever merits or faults the Yale crew
miy have possessed no great opportunity
to display them was afforded them in to
day's procession. Yale was judicious and
ran no risk. A single record wa3 broken
to-day — the two-mile distance in a four
mile competition. The champion '88 crew
of Captain Stevenson covered the distance
in 10:35. To-day Captain Armstrong's men
made it in 10:21.
The day was attended with all the
u&ual picturesque incidents. The crowd,
which remained small throughout the
morning owing to a brisk shower, fattened
to imposing proportions between noon and
3 o'clock and there is no room to doubt the
claim of New Londoners that 30,000 people
witnessed the race. Half that number were
visitors.
To dispose of the race before the favor
able midday conditions of wind and tide
were lost, the officials of both crews set
the hour to start st 4:45 o'clock, fifteen
minutes earlier than had been announced.
All the excursion steamers, the observa
tion trains and the press boat Manhansett
cleared the dock at 4 o'clock. They were
in place at 4:30, the exact minute
when both crews appeared. Harvard rowed
across the river to the starting stake,
exactly oposite. The stroke was pretty,
and every member of the boat was in per
fect form. Yale paddled down the river
slowly, as if economical of muscle. The
shells drifted slowly into place, and at 4:44
o'clock, without sign of a false start or
delay, Referee Kives' voice gave the de
cisive word and the needle-like shells got
out from under the lee bank into the open
channel. A prettier start was never seen
here. The Yale shell spun steadily to first
place and pulled one of the fastest half
miles ever rowed by a 'varsity crew in a
four-mile race here.
Harvard was rowing in as pretty form
as could be desired, and, strange to say,
was pulling a slower stroke than Yale.
Stroke Langford brought the Yale stroke
up to 34 for the opening spurt, but Captain
Billiard, evidently acting under directions
from Coach Watson, rowed as slowly as 32.
While the crimson shell was moving along
gracefully Yale was pounding on a lead of
over two lengths for Harvard's discourage
ment at the half-mile stake. Harvard
seemingly made no attempt to close up,
and the Yale boat was driven ahead to a
safe lead at the very beginning.
When the crews got away the water was
pacific. The tide was running strongly
and a slight breeze favored the crews,
These conditions accelerated the speed for
two miles, and were perceptible especially
during the first mile. From the time the
first half-mile flag was passed till the mile
was reached, Yale's stroke was character
istic by its evenness. It fell to thirty-three,
but the boat went through the water at a
terrific rate. At the mile Yale's lead of
nine seconds had gone up to sixteen, and
the most enthusiastic Harvard supporters
conceded the race to Yale, barring acci
dents. The smooth water tempted Cap
tain Armstrong to try for fast time, and
he pushed the shell along at a thirty-four
stroke, completing the mile and a half at
7:40, with Harvard twenty seconds behind,
a loss of four seconds past the last half
mile.
Yale made another half mile in quick
time, but Harvard exceeded it. Yale
ended up the two miles in 10:21 and Har
vard in 10:39, only eighteen seconds be
hind. Harvard had gained two seconds
on Yale, and in a fa3t-rnile competition.
For a mile Yale's course, the west side, lay
where a strong current was avalable. The
Yale boat was kept in this wherever pos
sible. With the conclusion of the first half
of the race ail conditions changed. The
wind shifted to the southeast and came up
the river strong, a sharp head-wind
shattering all hopes of breaking a record.
When the crew swept past the navy-yard
near the two-mile flag they said good-by
to peaceful water and plowed their way
into a choppy, rough sea. Harvard seemed
staggered by the waves, and Yale gained
five seconds more from the two miles to
the two and a half, Yale making the dis
tance in 12:55. Harvard had now dropped
23 seconds to the rear, but was pulling an
even stroke. Yale began to splash a trifle,
Cross ana Longacre being the prime mov
ers in this, but the boat, nevertheless, kept
on gaining.
Harvard was due for another spurt, and
another gain on Yale was made during the
half mile. The three miles were finished
by Yale in 15:59, by Harvard in 16:21.
All down the half mile of the course the
Yale crew rowed a triumphant procession.
For this distance the craft in the river
formed an alley, with the channel as the
center. First came the steamers, freighted
with cheering, enthusiastic passengers.
Below them were some of the finest yachts
in America. The pennants of these craft
waved and smoke from a hundred salutes
filled the air. Bass whistles of steamers
lent their deafening noise to the general
din and the lusty cheers of thousands of
jubilant Yalenians were drowned out.
Harvard held her own, too, for the first
half mile of the last of the four miles.
Yale was tossing about on the top of the
billows, and Harvard was not losing
ground. There were just 22 seconds dif
ference in the crews when the last half
mile was begun. Shepard, of the Harvard
crew, succumbed to an attack of splashing,
and the shell was wafted up to the lee of
the steamer Isabel. The rough water had
subsided a trifle, and the last half mile
was made in excellent time, Yale ending
the four miles in 21:30, and Harvard
22:05 3-5.
The accident tc the Harvard shell by en
countering the steamer's wave made the
total distance between the boats about
eleven instead of seventeen lengths and
the time 35s seconds instead of 25. Not a
man stopped in either boat after reaching
the finish line. Tne Yale men, fearing a
collision from the boats which were closing
in about them, rowed rapidly on for an
other half mile to reach the old Cornell
boathouse to disembark without danger to
their boat. The Harvard men struck a row
boat, but pulled away and were soon taken
aboard their launch,
To-day marks the conclusion of the five
years Yale-Harvard agreement, and much
doubt exists regarding a renewal of the
contract in view of the cordiality of tne
athletic relations at present existing be
tween Harvard and Cornell.
The official time is as follows: Yale,
21:30; Harvard, 22:05. The time taken by
miles- is as follows: One mile, Yale 5:04,
Harvard 5 :20 ; two miles, Yale 1C :21, Har
vard 10:39; three miles, Yale 15:59, Har
vard 16:21; four miles, Yale 21:30, Har
vard 22:05.
Bob Cook, the Yale coach, was seen after
the race. He said: "The Yale crew rowed
a wonderful race. In fact in proved irre
sistible."
Cook was asked if Yale would row Cor
nell. He answered: "If they win at Hen
ley and come back and want to meet us I
think we shall. 1 think we can get this
crew together and train the men in a week
so that we can pive Cornell a very pretty
encounter." •
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GROSS FRAUDS FOUND
Sensational Report of
Sacramento's Grand
Jury.
GIFT TO THE RAILROAD.
County Supervisors Accused
of Misappropriation of
Funds.
THE CHARGES AGAINST DUNN.
It Is Claimed the Evidence Was Not
Enough to Hold Him — Bart
Cavanaugh Indicted.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 28. - The
long-expected report of the Grand Jury
was handed to Judge Johnson of the
Superior Court this evening, and it has
equaled the expectations of all who have
been predicting that it would prove sensa
tional.
Thirty-two accusations have been found,
and the most of them are against the
Board of County Supervisors, which body
is accused of gross frauds and the misap
propriation of funds.
The principal point made against the
county board is that, unwarranted by law,
it caused to be paid to the railroad com
pany the sum of $15,000 as the county's
share for the building of a bridge across the
Sacramento River. It is claimed that the
evidence brought before the Grand Jury in
relation to this deal was to the effect that
board paid over this money without any
assurance as to what kind of a bridge was
to be built. It is said that there were no
plans and specifications, and that the rail
road company could have erected any kind
of a flimsy structure and complied with
what contract there was.
Eugene Gregory, at one time Mayor of
Sacramento, and one of the most promi
net citizens, is said to have had a hand in
engineering through this gift to the rail
road company. Several months ago Mr.
Gregory went East, but to what part of
the East it is said none but his most inti
mate f rends seem to know. It is presumed
that he had an inkling of the action that
the Grand Jury was to take, and, although
the firm of which he was the head has,
since his departure, made an assignment,
Mr. Gregory has not been heard from.
Another sensational charge is in the im
plication that the Board of Supervisors has
stood in with county officers toallow depu
ties extra money out of the county treas
ury, when the law provides that heads of
departments shall pay them out of their
salaries.
Bart Cavanaueh, the Republican "boss."
has been indicted on five different counts,
each of which comes under the purity of
election laws. It is alleged that the evi
dence showed he was guilty of having used
money at the polls in the interest of rail
road candidates.
Ona of the matters that the Grand Jury
claims to have investigated is the Bigjry.
Dunn matter. In its report the jury says
it has looked into the charges and has
failed to find sufficient evidence to indict.
Just how far it looked into this affair can
not be learned.
It is said that a number of those who
have been attacked by the Grand Jury have
sought counsel in the matter, and that the
courts will be called upon to determine as
to whether or not it is a legal body. The
proposition is that H. M. La Rue, who was
foreman of the Grand Jury and who is also
a Railroad Commissioner, cannot legally
act in both capacities.
The report goes on to atate that the
Board of Supervisors has in many instances
in the discharge of its official duties, under
the pretense of policy and expediency,
willfully and knowingly violated the plain
provisions of the law in appropriating
large sums of money.
It says: '-Upon examination of their
records we find that on the sth of Decem
ber, 1893, the board passed a resolution
appropriating $30,000 to the Central Pacific
Railroad to aid the construction of a
new steel bridge across th* Sacramento