VOLUME LXXVIII.-NO. 58.
TROOPS ARE MOVING,
Long March of Regulars
to Jacksons Hole
Begun.
QUIET AT THE FRONT.
Indians in War Paint Concen
trating: in the Mountain
Passes.
MINOR BRUSHES REPORTED.
Asrent Tetters Bitterly Denounces
the Settiers for Having Caused
the Trouble.
MARKET LAKE, Idaho, July 27.— At
last the Urited States troopa have started
on their march across the mountains to
relieve the settlers of Jacksons Hole, if not
of personal danger, at least of the most
harrowing fear and anxiety that can pos
sibly be imagined— trie fear of death at the
hands of the Indians, or what is far worse,
to I* the victims of their torture. A daily
courier service is to be maintained between
the troops and this point, the nearest tele
graph station. At best the soldiers can
hardly hope to reach the Hole country
before Wednesday morning, traveling, as
they are, with a heavily loaded pack train.
The two special trains, bringing four
tnops of the Ninth Cavalry from Fort
Robinson, Nebr., arrived at Market Lake
this morning at 9:30 o'clock. The horses
and packmules were immediately unloaded
for a rest after their long ride and given
the first water most of them had had for
lifty hours. It was decided that the march
Bhould not be begun until evening. Gen
eral Coppinger called his staff to head
quarters, and the question of the routes
and the plan of operations were decided
upon.
Promptly at 5 o'clock "boots and sad
dies'' was sounded for the first time, and
camp was broken. Only a short march of
about ten miles was made, and the troops
then went into camp again for the night.
To-morrow morning the start for a hard
day's march will be made ut 6 o'clock.
By the shortest route Marysvale, at the
south end cf Jackson Hole, is 120 miles
away. Incumbered as the troops are.
they do not expect to make much better
time than thirty miles a day, so that it
will undoubtedly be Wednesday before
Jacksons Hole is reached. The trail over
the Teton Mountains is very rough, and
can only be followed by guides of long ex
perience. Tf it sLould be found necessary
as the troops approach the besieged coun
try to make quicker time part of the troop
ers will be lightly equipped and hurried
through. Aside from all the dangers of
the trip it will be a most disagreeable one.
It is very hot here in the middle of the
day, and the trails are very dusty.
At 1 o'clock to-day General Coppinger
decided to call out additional military
forces, and sent a dispatch to Fort Russell,
at Cheyenne, Wyo., ordering five compa
nies of the Eighth Infantry to leave for
this point at once. Speaking of the order
Lieutenant Hutcheson, the general's aid,
said:
The Ninth Cavalry makes as fine an ap
pearance and has as splendid a lot of offi
cers as can be found anywhere among
Uncle Sam's soldiers. There are present
and in charge of this expedition, General
Coppinger,, commander of this depart
ment; Major Chaffee, in command of this
battalion; Colonel Randall of the Eighth
Infantry at Fort Russell; Major Hum
phreys, chief quartermaster; Lieutenant
Hutchinson, General Coppinger's aid;
Colonel Frank Foote of the Wyoming Na
tional Guards; Adjutant-General Stitzer
of Wyoming; and from Fort Robinson,
Captains Stedman, Lord, Dimmick and
Guiifoyle and Lieutenants Gardner, Ste
vens, Parker, Preston, Hamilton and
Hickock. Lieutenant Perm of Fort Omaha
has been left here in charge of a general
supply depot. Dr. Lynch of Fort Robin
son accompanies the troops as surgeon;
the 200 troopers are a splendid -looking lot
of young negroes, excellent riders and the
best of soldiers. The cavalrymen take no
extra horses, bnt they have with them
eixty-sLx pack mules, each loaded with 250
pounds. This train is in charge of nine
expert packers. Five escort wagons and
an ambulance completed the caravan that
pulled oat here this evening, past the en
tire population of the town — thirty-six.
The soldiers were smiling and joking,
while many of the women were in tears at
the tnought of the fate the bluecoats might
meet.
"It is a precautionary move, believed to
be necessary because of the apparently un
settled condition of affairs in the Jacksons
Hole country. All sorts of rumors are
afloat, but it is thought that there is little
truth in any of them so far as the im
mediate danger of the settlers is concerned.
Other troops have been ordered to hold
themselves in readiness to respond at any
time to call."
The other companies notified to be ready
for a sudden call are at Fort Niobrara,
Fort Omaha and Fort Robinson, Nebr.,
Fort Meade. S. D., and Fort Russell, Wyo.
Colonel F. M. Foote of the Wyoming
National Guard, who accompanies the
troops at the special request of General
Coppinger, and as the representative oi the
Wyoming executive, has received a letter
from Governor Richards in which he says:
"Urge the settlers to do nothing to
further aggravate the Indians, but to aid
the military in removal in every way.
Now that we have started upon this busi
ness we will stick to it until the Indians
learn that they must respect the laws. W r e
have nothing to do with the treaty at the
present. Our business is to see that the
laws of Wyoming are enforced. When
they are declared unconstitutional by a
court we can quit them."
All the latest reports from Jacksons
Hole are to the effect that it is quiet there,
and although the settlers are greatly
alarmed, they have not been attacked by
the Indian!?. There have been some minor
brushes between the red men and the
whites, but no reliable report has been re
ceived that any one has been killed since
tbe original trouble.
Reliable reports continue to come in,
however, teliiijg of more Indian warriora
The San Francisco Call.
A GKOUP OF BANNOCK INDIANS AS THEY APPEARED AT MoDONALD'3 EXHIBITION IN PARIS.
[Rcjrroduced from a painting.]
headed for Jacksons Hole. At China
Point, forty-five miles north of here, fifty
Lemhi bucks, gaudy with war paint,
crossed the railroad on the Jacksons
Hole trail. There were no squaws with
them, but they had many extra ponies.
Before the troops left this evening ar
rangements were completed for courier
service between this point and the moving
troops, and finally Jacksons Hole. A daily
report will be received from the troops
during their absence. The 120 miles be
tween Marysvale and Market Lake will be
covered by swift relay riders in fifteen !
hours. Four horses will be used on each
trip to make this time. and the most exper
ienced and trustworthy men in this part of
the country have been secured to do the
work. Adjutant Stitzer dispatched Deputy
Sheriff Hawley to the Jacksons Hole local
ity last Thursday and unless some ill for
tune has befallen him he will be back here
before morning.
TROOPS FROM CHEYEXNE.
Five Companies of the Eighth Start for
Jacksons Hole.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 27.— Prospects
of further trouble in Jacksons Hole are
growing more alarming. General Coppinger
to-day wired Colonel Van Horn, in com
mand of the troops at Fort Russell, three
miies from here, to have five companies of
the Eighth Infantry prepared to move to
the scene of action to-night. They left here
at 8 o'clock to-night on a special train
under command of Major W. H. Bisbee
of the Seventeenth Infantry. Each soldier
carries 300 rounds of ammunition. The
command left here in light marching
order, and rationed until August 31.
A letter received here to-day from Jack
sons Hole stated that the settlers and their
families were remaining at Marysvale,
where they were well fortified and prepared
for any sudden attack the Indians may
make upon them.
No dispatches have been received here
corroborating the reports that sixteen fam
ilies had been massacred in Jacksons Hole.
The reports originated from some Eastern
hunters, who came into Market Lake and
stated that ever}' man, woman and child
in Jacksons Hole had been murdered. The
report of Genera* Stitzer, who is on the
ground, is undoubtedly in the hands of
Governor Richards, who went west with
General Coppinger, and has not yet been
received here.
A courier came into Market Lake late
last night, also reporting the massacre.
The quartermaster at Fort Russell
received a dispatch this evening from
headquarters at Omaha stating that two
companies of infantry now at Fort
Niobrara, Nebr., would arrive here to
morrow evening and be consolidated with
the three compauies now at Fort Russell
to make a battalion, which will be ordered
to the front on Monday morning.
TOURISTS HRIVEX OUT.
Many Hastening Hack From the Jaeksons
Hole Country.
SALT LAKE, Utah, July 27. — Hoyt
Sherman Jr. of the Denver and Gulf road,
and a member of the Utah Commission,
returned to-day from Idaho. His family
was staying at the country house of M. C.
•Fox, thirty miles north of Soda Springs,
which is not far from the scene of the In
dian trouble. Mr. Sherman states that
great excitement prevails all along the
Short Line, but, owing to this fact, the re
ports are apt to be exaggerated. He and
Mr. Fox have removed their families to
Soda Springs.
Tourists in the Yellowstone are return
ing in haste and others have deferred their
trip until the trouble is over. A party of
thirty came into Salt Lake to-day from the
East expecting to go up to-morrow, but
the trip was postponed.
D. C. Dunbar, clerk of the United States
court here, returned to-day from Idaho.
In conversation with The Call corre
spondent he stated that on Wednesday he
met a great number of Indians at the head
of the Blackfoot. They were returning in
large bands to the reservation, were well
armed, but seemed perfectly peaceable.
One of them, speaking to him, said that
only one white man had been killed at the
Hole, and that he was a bad man, always
worrying the Indians.
Mr. Punbar says that four trains, forty
four cars of cavalry and equiDmeut jjassed
SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES.
up the road this morning for the seat of
war.
ROAST FOR THE SETTLERS.
Agent Tetters Says the White* Caused All
the Trouble.
MARKET LAKE, Idaho, July 27.—In
dian Agent Tetters, in his official report to
the Indian Commissioner of his investiga
tions of the Jacksons Hole trouble, says:
From reliable Information I have no hesita
tion in saying that for every elk killed unlaw
fully by Indians two are killed unlawfully by
settlers (in this connection I will state that I
was fed upon fresh-killed elk meat during my
entire stay in the Jaiik*o4s Hole country), and
were the Indians citizens and voters in Wyom
ing their killing game unlawfully would never
be questioned.
While there are a few good citizens ranch
ing in the Jacksons Hole country the majority
are men "who have left their country for their
country's good." The Jacksons Hole country
is recognized as the place of refuge for outlaws
of every description from Wyoming, Idaho and
adjacent States.
The Indians killed by these settlers were
practically massacred. The reds, to the num
ber of sixteen, having been arrested and dis
armed, were taken before a Justice of the
Peace, naturally in sympathy with the settlers.
and fined $75 each. Being unable to pay the
fine they were herded like sheep and treated
in a manner calculated to arouse their resent
?ent, and which would not be tolerated by
hite men similarly situated. One batch, dis
armed, was being driven by a body of armed
settlers, and in passing over a trail where the
Indians had been accustomed to ride in free
dom, made a break for liberty, whereupon the
guard opened fire at once and killed six In
dians, going upon the principle "A dead In
dip.n is a Rood Indian."
The men who committed this crime should
be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and
receive the severest penalty the law can give,
not only as an example to other lawless set
tlers, but as a preventive to future distnrb
ances between settlers and Indians, for if jus
tice Is not done the Indians in this case the
Indians will seek revenge, and a continuous
border warfare will be the result.
A certain element among the settlers In Jack
sons Hole country seems determined to drive
the Indians from that section at whatever cost,
not recognizing any law' themselves but that
which serves their interests.
Adjutant-General Stitzer, who is here
for the Governor of Wyoming, is naturally
inclined to the way of thinking of the
settlers, acknowledging a difference of
opinion of a radical sort between himself
and Tetters. There is no friction between
them.
As to the whites killing game all the
year round General Stitzer denies that this
is permitted, but asserts that the whites
are confined to an open season, and his
contention is that the Indians are no better
than the whites and should be likewise
held in check. To which the major re
joins that although that is the law it is
passed smoothly over. But the major is
alone in his advocacy of the Indian so far
as this town is concerned. There is an op
position to the red man which is taking a
form of sincere hopes on all sides that the
military will kill every Indian, Shoshone,
Bannock, Lemhi and all, and finally free
the country of their presence.
The Jackson Hole sentiment exists all
over Idaho and Wyoming. The generally
expressed view of the future is that the
Indians will have sought the seclusion of
their reservation by the time the troops
reach the scene and there will be no enemy
to subdue when General Coppinger and his
men get over into the picturesque Yellow
stone country.
DISTILLERIES TO BE CLOSED.
An Effort to Force the Price of Whisky
Upward.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 27. — The
wholesale liquor-dealers of Louisville met
this afternoon and indorsed the action of
Uhe Kentucky Distillery Association to
•have all the distilleries make no whisky
during the season of 1895-96. The dealers
also recommended a conservative produc
tion of whisky for the subsequent years.
This, it is hoped, will make 1 prices go up,
and wholesale liquor-dealers all over the
country are asked to take action in the
matter. _
Formed a Miners' Union.
MARQUETTE, Mica., July 27.— The or
ganization of the miners' union was per
fected to-day. The organizers will give no
particulars, except that over 4000 members
were enrolled. The local management of
the mines shut down by the strike to-day
say that by Friday or Saturday of this
week they will have a reply from the min
ing company to the demand of the strikers.
SWEPT BY THE CYCLONES,
Houses and Crops Destroyed
in Three Eastern
States.
In Illinois One Storm Left Desola
tion In Its Pathway for Fifteen
Miles.
KEWANLE, 111., Juiy 37. -A tornado
of the worst kind visited this town and
vicinity la«t night, demolishing houses,
uprooting trees and blowing sheds and
small buildings far away from their
proper places. The works of the Boss
Manufacturing Company, which were on
the outskirts of the city, completely col
lapsed and there is great injury to the ma
chinery. Church steeples all came down
and the fair grounds are a wreck. The
crops in the track of the tornado are ail
cut down.
MADISON, Wis.. July 27.— A very se
vere hailstorm swept across the southern
and western section of this county last
night, totally destroying the corn crop.
No estimate of the damage can yet be
made.
CLINTON, lowa, July 27.— Reports of a
damaging storm come from all over the
State. Three houses in this county were
struck by lightning and six people out
sailing were thrown into the river. Three
miles of the Northwestern Railroad tracks
were washed out and a freight train
ditched. Three inches of rain fell in an
hour. A stretch of territory a mile wide
across Jackson and Clinton counties was
devastated by hail, corn being literally
stripped.
PRINCETON, 111., July 27.— A cyclone
leaving a desolate path one-fourth of a
mile wide in its wake made its appearance
last night west of Buda, and traveling in
a northeasterly direction, passed between
the villages of Wyana and Pond Creek to a
point near Tiskilwa, where it disappeared.
The track of the cyclone was about
fifteen miles in length, and throughout
this distance the corps, fences, trees ana
barns were completely destroyed and two
houses partially wrecked. The total
damage in the path of the storm is esti
mated at $80,000.
ALL THE PATIENTS ESCAPED.
The Fire at the Madison Poorhouse Caused
by Lightning.
MADISON, Wis., July 27.-News came
here last night that the County Poorhouse
Insane Asylum, located eight miles south
west of this place, had been struck by
lightning. The morning papers report the
loss at $1,000,000. The Sheriff, who has just
returned from there, reports that the fire
began between the old and new buildings,
the windmill being struck.
From there the nre spread to two build
ings and the new brick one constructed last
year was consumed. The Madison fire de
partment saved the old building.
The building cost only $8000, and was not
insured. The 160 inmates were all gotten
our safely with their clothing and are being
cared for in the old building. The only
casualty was an accident to the superin
tendent, who fell twenty feet from the roof
and broke his arm.
Democrats of lowa.
DES MOINES, lowa, July 27.—Includ
ing the county conventions held to-day
more than half the delegates to the
Democratic State convention are now
chosen. Nearly all the counties have
adopted resolutions reaffirming the plat
form of 1892 or demanding that State
issues be made the only ones of the cam
paign. To-day Adams, Van Buren,
Hardin, Cedar, Chickasaw, Dcs Moines
and Keoknk counties held ' conventions
and declined to take up silver's cause.
Winneshiek is reported to have adopted
silver resolutions, out this is denied from
other sources.
Silver Men Beaten.
' DEB I MOINES, lowa, July 27. — The
Leader's returns ' from the County Demo
cratic conventions held in .' lowa yesterday
indicate that the silver men have been de
-Ifeated in pi ace's* where they , most expected
victory. I) ; Counties * that ■ had '- been relied
upon ; by the silver men adopted resolutions
against free coinage. : '■-. Dickinson, Marion,
Pottawatomie v and '4 Jones v went anti-sil
ver t. etrouciy. Only x. Montgomery in*
structed for free coinage. The results are
taken as very important, and predict a
victory for the administration Democrats
in the convention. They have been con
sidered all but beaten, but have worked
hard.
TRAPPED BY DECOYS.
Arrest of a Railway Mail Clerk With
Plunder in His Pockttt.
OMAHA, Nebb., July 27.— There have
been systematic thefts of money packets
passing through the mails on the Elkhorn
road west of Blair. Felix Murray, a postal
clerk who has run on that road for thir
teen years, was caught opening btters
containing money. He was arrested and
brought to Omaha for hearing on Monday
before a United States Commissioner.
Money sent to drought sufferers in the
northern part of the State has frequently
miscarried and complaints have been
made. C. C. Pond of Ewing also com
plained of losing several hundred dollars
in the mail. To-day Special Agents Sin
clair and Beebe dropped letters in Mur
phy's car addressed to parties in Ewing.
They did not reach Ewing. Murray was
arrested and the broken letters were found
in his pockets. His peculations will reach
$5000.
THREATENED THE PRIESTS
Armed With Revolver and
Knife a Crank Invaded
a Cathedral.
When Arrested He Said He Had
Been Forced to the Act
by Spirits.
PITTSBURG, Pa., July 27.— Dan Ma
loney, a dangerous religious crank, last
evening stalked up the main aisJe of St.
Paul's Roman Catholic cathedral, armed
with a revolver and a knife, the blade of
which was a foot long, and declared that
he would kill everybody in the church.
He said that when he had finished his
bloody work there, he would go to the
Episcopal residence and kill Bishop Phelan
and all the priests.
There were but few people in the church
when Maloney made his appearance, and
they precipitately fled outside. Maloney
then started for the Episcopal residence,
uttering threats as he proceeded. Special
Officer Seigard hastened to the spot and
placed Maloney under arrest. He was
given a hearing this morning. The ex
amination revealed that Maloney is a crank
on religion, and that had he not been taken
into custody when he was he would proba
bly have carried out his threats. He said
that since he left the Catholic church the
Bishop and priests have followed him with
all sorts of punishment.
He worships a different spirit from that
of the priests and his spirit told him the
only way he could rid himself of their an
noyance was to kill them. It was for the
purpose of carrying out the command of
the spirit he worships that he armed him
self and went to the cathedral last night.
He says the strong arm of the law may re
move him for a time, but the spirit will
preserve him until he can nave revenge.
Magistrate Doherty sent him to the work
house for thirty days. In the meantime
his mental condition will be looked into.
DEMOCRATS OF MISSOURI.
They Are Sot in Harmony on the Silver
Question. ;
NEVADA, Mo., July 27.— At the Demo
cratic Silver. Convention held prior to the
regular call for a J State convention, fifteen'
delegates were selected to represent the
county at any State convention that might
be held, iAt a subsequent meeting of the
county , v committee ; ; Chairman Gray and
Setretary Buchanan were directed to call a
new ; delegate convention to elect •a ? new
delegation. To-day Chairman Murray said
that he had concluded not to call any new
convention, but i to allow; the old delegates
to act, there not being any probability of
their regularity being challenged at the
convention. -
?■ KANSAS ; CITY, Mo., July 27.— The
Democratic committee of Jackson County
wrangled three hours ; this afternoon over
the question of primaries to name dele
gates to the f silver convention, and finally,
broke up in a row, with two factions claim
. ing : victory. The anti-Brown" men pro
sented a petition, which its twelve men
voted for, deposing Brown as chairman
and electing George M. Shelley in his
place.
ONE STEAMER DRIVES ASHORE.
Additional Details of the Storm on the
Japan Coast.
LONDON, Ekg., July 27.— A dispatch to
the Lloyds from Nagasaki, dated July 26,
says that during the storm which swept
the coast of Japan early yesterday the
German steamer Helen Rickmere parted
her cable and drifted ashore at Kabusa,
near Kuchinotsu.
The steamer is partly loaded, and is in
a dangerous position, as the heavy sea is
moving her further up on the beach.
All of the other vessels which were
driven ashore have been floated, with the
exception of the ship Marechal Suchat
from Philadelphia.
Later dispatches to Lloyds state that the
British ship Marechal Suchat, Captain
Reade, was at Hiogo when the 6torm oc
curred. She was just getting under way
on a voyage for San Francisco when the
hurricane struck her with great sudden
ness and carried her ashore.
SLAUGHTER OF THE SPANISH.
Crushing Defeat of General Campos'
Forces in Cuba.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 27.— The
great sensational news of to-day is the de
feat of Martinez Campos. On the 13th
inst. he left Manzanillo for Bayamo on
horseback accompanied by a column of
2000 men.
When they were between Vequitas and
Bayamo, nine miles from the latter city,
Antonio Maceo, Rabi and other rebel lead
ers, who were awaiting them with 8000
men, attacked the Spaniards.
The Spaniards bad General Santocildes,
his aid-de-camp and all his staff killed,
except a lieutenant-colonel and a captain.
The Cubans had Generals Rabi, Goulet
and Machado killed, Colonel Gongera
wounded, and many men killed and
wounded. They do not give the exact loss
to the rebels.
To Foreclose on the Erie.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 27. — The
Farmers' Loan and Trust Company of
New York filed a petition in the Northern
Ohio United States Circuit Court yester
day afternoon asking that a mortgage cov
ering all of the property of the New York,
Lake Erie and "Western Railroad Company
be foreclosed and the property sold. Sim
ilar petitions were filed in every United
States court district through which the
road passes. The Erie road has been in
the hands of receivers since 1893.
YOUTHS FOUGHT A DUEL
Terrible Battle With Knives
Between Rival Lovers in
Indiana.
One Was Killed on the Field of
Honor and the Other Cannot
Live.
LOUISVILLE, Xy m July 27.— A duel
was fought to-day across the river in
Indiana, near Marietta, in Crawford
County, between two youths, culminating
in the death of one and the fatal wounding
of the other.
For some months there has existed be
tween Charles Duffin and Charles Enlow,
both sons of well-known farmers, a feud,
which had originated in the rivalry for the
affection of a young lady.
For some time they had met but seldom,
but these rare and chance meetings served
to warm the feelings into fever heat. This
morning the young men met on the public
road and decided to settle the feud. Each
got in position, bared his breast and drew
his knife, and the fight began.
Enlow made a stab at Duffin and badly
wounded his right arm near the hand.
This infuriated Duffin, and he changed his
weapon to his sound hand and then cut a
deep gash in his antagonist's neck, the cut
extending down to the top of the left lung.
Although Enlow fell to the ground in an
unconscious state from his wounds Duffin
went at him like a tiger, and inflicted no
less than five other wounds in his body be
fore he dropped almost lifeless from the
loss of blood from his injured arm.
Enlow was dead before help reached him
and Duffin has lost so much blood that he
will die. Duffin was carried to his home
and a surgeon summoned. Afterward he
was arrested, but was released upon $3000
bail. The preliminary trial of Duffin was
held by his bedside, and the evidence
offered showed that he had acted on the
defensive. He will doubtless die.
MURDER OF A CHILD.
The liody Discovered While Doga Were
Devouring the flesh.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., July 27.—
Never before in the history of this city
were the inhabitants so thoroughly aroused
as they were to-night. Shortly before 6
o'clock the mutilated body of a three
year-old child was found a short distance
from town. The child had been murdered,
and when two farmers found the body
savage dogs were tearing it fo pieces. It
was with the greatest difficulty that the
men drove off the dogs. A physician who
was summoned discovered two fractures
in its skull, which caused death. He said
the child had been dead several days.
There is no clew to the perpetrators of
the deed. While the excitement was at its
height the three-year-old child of Mrs.
Nettie White was found starving to death
in her apartments where she had left it.
When the little one was taken out and
cared for the citizens were unable to restrain
themselves and gathered about the house
and tore it to pieces, wrecking the furni
ture and destroying everything it con
tained. Mrs. White cannot be found, and
her whereabouts is unknown.
Jiatnage Done by Wind.
MARION, 111., July 26.— Thousands of
dollars' worth of property has been de
stroyed by a heavy wind and rain storm
which passed over this part of the country
between 5 and 6 o'clock this morning.
Heavily loaded peach and apple trees by
the thousands were stripped of their
almost-ripe fruit, while many fields of
corn are as flat as if a heavy field roller
had passed over them. The corn was just
far enough advanced for the brittle stalks
to snap well, and no amount of rain or
sunshine will save it.
Escaped a Furious Mob.
- MEXICO, Mo., July 27.— After a rapid
ride of v four hours across the country
Sheriff Windsor landed Emmet Divers, the
negro ', who ■ assaulted ; and • murdered ' Mrs.
Cain, near Fulton yesterday, in the County
Jail at this place. ; After his capture Divers
was placed in jail at Fulton, but the Sheriff
learned that a mob was organizing to lynch
him. At 9 o'clock last night he placed the
negro in a light wagon to drive here. As
they were ! leaving Tulton ta \ mob fired a
volley of shots after the wagon, but no one
Was bit. :» : :, - ' . ''■ - ' ■" - ""
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LYNCHED AT O'NEALS,
Murderer Adams Hangred
by Madera County
Vigilantes.
SWIFT JUSTICE METED.
No Mercy Shown the Cowardly
Assassin of Judge
Baker.
CAPTTHRED IN THE MOUNTAINS.
He Was Taken Back to the Scene of
His Crime and There Quickly
Executed.
MADERA, Cal, July 27.— Citizens of
Madera County have decided that justice,
as meted out in the courts, is too slow for
such murderers as Victor Adams so when
he was captured yesterday morning they
took the law into their own hands and sus
pended him by means of a rope to the
limb of a liveoak tree.
Five days ago Adams shot and killed his
father-in-law, Judge Baker, in the doorway
of the victim's house, and since that time
two posses have been looking for him. One
was composed of officers and the other of
citizens. The posse under the leadership
of Sheriff Westfall had seen no trace of
Adams, and Westfall, and becoming dis
couraged, returned last night from the
hills with no news from the scene of the
tragedy.
But a posse of citizens, headed by Tom
Baker, a brother of the murdered man,
had rightly conjectured that Adams'
course would lead toward the summit of
the mountains. They worked in that di
rection, but the murderer eluded them un
til yesterday morning, when he ran almost
into the arms of his pursuers.
Tom Baker and a companion were sleep
ing together in a barn in the vicinity of
North Fork and in the morning, about the
break of day, when they were making
preparations to leave the barn and resume
the hunt, they espied Adams sneaking
cautiously into the barn. The murderer
was not alert enough to save himself, for
Baker immediately had his gun leveled at
him and commanded him to throw up his
hands. Adams dropped his shotgun and
complied.
Baker's companion then disarmed
Adams, taking from him his shotgun
and a bowie-knife.
Adams' hands were bound behind him
with leather cords; then he was placed
upon one of the saddle-horses and the two
proceeded with him to within about three
miles of O'Neals, and almost in sight of
the house where Adams bad committed
the crime that he was now about to expi
ate.
The news of his capture had spread and
a large number of determined men were
soon on the spot. All formalities were dis
pensed with. A noose was carefully ad
justed about Adams' neck. His eyes were
not blindfolded, but gazed beseechingly
upon his executioners as a score of willing
hands pulled him into eternity.
The body was left hanging there, await
ing the official action of the Coroner.
The news of the lynching spread rapidly
and a great number of people are con
stantly visiting the place to see the body
of the murderer.
Coroner Payne started immediately for
the scene, but as the distance is about thirty
miles from here the inquest will not be
held till to-morrow afternoon.
Victor Adams' crime was a peculiarly
cold-blooded and brutal one. he had
married a stepdaughter of Judge Baker
against the latter's wishes, and bad blood
had always existed between the two. Last
Tuesday they met near the Judge's house
and quarreled. Adams attempted to shoot
Judge Baker, but was stopped by a by
stander.
Baker started for home with his stepson
in-law following a short distance behind
him. As the old man crossed the threshold
of his house he turned to glance toward
the road, and saw Adarus taking aim at
him. He shouted, "Don't shoot," and the
words were his last. There was a report,
and Baker fell into the arms of his wife,
who had come from an inner room to greet
him. Then with fiendish brutality Adams
ran up and fired the remaining charge in
his shotgun into the dying man's body.
Defying pursuit he turned and dashed into
the brush.
Other crimes charged against Adams
proved him to have been a thorough villain.
A few months ago he turned his little girl
out of his house because she could not find
some sheep that had strayed away. The
child spent the night in the mountains,
and was found late the following afternoon
faint from hunger and exposure"
Adams later attempted to kill hia step
daughter. The girl was bound hand and
foot, gagged, and thrown into a creek. The
stream was Bhallow enough to enable her
to keep her nose above water, and after en
during three hours of torture she was dis
covered and rescued. For weeks afterward
the girl hovered between life and death.
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