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VERY LONELY
AND IN SORROW.
Pitiable Picture Drawn of
the Infirmities of Queen
Victoria.
MUCH SYMPATHY SHOWN
Kind Words Spoken for Prince
Henry. Who Was Ridi
culed in Life.
OTHER WORRIES OF THE REALM.
Statesmen Make Weak Denials of the
- Alliance Between Russia and
Turkey.
[Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times.]
LONDON, Esq., .lan. 25.— Queen Vic
toria will in May be entering he/ seventy
eijrhth year, infirm in health, unutterably
sad in mind, bereft almost wholly of old
friends and servants and living in gloomy
reveries of the past, among memorials of
her dead. This thought of the aged
sovereign, so pitiful Li her increasing iso
lation, conies uppermost now in English
men's minds whenever royalty is men
tioned and it rose swiftly, over poweringly
everywhere when the news of the death of
Prince Henry of Battenberg was spread
Wednesday.
This amiable gentleman who had been ;
living here for ien years in a somewhat
anomalous position had been made a sort
of national butt for jokes not always
good natured, directed at the whole insti
tution of German pauper princes eating
the Enelish taxes. The poor fellow must
have winced terribly sometimes under the
ceaseless battery of banter and cheap
music-hall chaff which tie bore vicariously
for his kinsmen and caste. He was very
happy when he could get away from Eng
land fora time, but even here his comfort ■
was limited because there was a uniform j
boycott arranged among the continental !
courts by Emperor 'William against recog- i
nition of the royal status which England
had conferred on him.
:-o he spent his vacations mostly on his
:. secure alike from British guying
and continental snubs. At last, when the
A Shan tee expedition offered a chance, he
j leaded for ami obtained permission to go
with it, in a despairing effort to disarm the
British oopular levity and persuade the
English to think of him as a soldier and a
brave man. insiead of as an alien and a
tame house pet. If he had come home
alive with the rest I doubt that he would
have achieved this end. Very possibly
the almost farcical character of the per
formance in Coomassie would have in
volved him in more ridicule than ever, but
he was afraid of the coast fever from the
start, talked about it aii the while on the
way out, had not the right kind of phy
f-ique to meet it when it came and so died
instantly.
A complete metamorphosis was wrought !
in England's notions of him. People of
ail grades and conditions recalled in a
flash how it would affect the Queen, and
this reflection colored intuitively all their
thoughts and words. In truth the event
involved a deeper personal affliction for
the Queen than perhaps any other death
in her actual family since she was widowed.
Not even her son Leopold, who died
eleven years ago, was so near to her or so
iiiucii a part of her daily domestic life as
was Prince Henry. He had a remarkable
aptitude for the role that he was called on
to p!ay, and he waited on her, watched
over her and smoothed the routine of ex
istence for her with untiring zeal. It was
bf no means a lLht tabk, but he per
formed it with profound German j
patience. This is remembered now
to his infinite credit, and he is being sin
cerely mourned ten times as much as was
tne Duke of Clarence, who stood on the
steps of the throne itself. It seems that
the shock has not directly affected the
.s health, at least thus far, but it is
uneasily felt that it will inevitably
multiply the weight of the melancholy
that she is already bowed under.
Hence the public have been raining in
messages of condolence upon her in far
more promiscuous fashion than ever be
fore, and no one is too poor or too
obviously interested to fail of thanks from
her secretaries.
It is being whispered about that the
German Emperor's message is not of a
character which would have pleased Eng
land if it had been published. This may
have no better basis than the fact that no
oiliciai mention of the dispatch from him
las been made either here or in Berlin,
though something has been said of his
making inquiries as to the health of nis
grandmother and Aunt Beatrice. Unless
something definite is published soon, this
rumor is certain to spread and assume a
large importance in the public mind. All
sorts of ceremonial functions appointed
for this week and the next have been
hastily abandoned or postponed. There
was to have been a royal review of the
new flying squadron in the Jjolent, which
England's aroused martial spirit would
have invested w ith national importance,
but the bereavement stopped all that.
We have instead the picture of the vener
able monarch going out alone yesterday
in the early morning in a pony carriage,
swathed in black shawls, against the win
try channel mists, and halting for a long
time on the headland, entirely alone,
watching the silent warships riding at
anchor in Spithead, and perhaps it is
more inspiring to the imagination than
the grandest pageant would have been.
Where that squadron is going remains
as mnch a mystery as it was a week ago.
The belief of the politician?, however, has
veered quite around to the theory fore
shadowed in these dispatches then that it
has something to do with the Armenian
question. The Pal: Mall Gazette's story
:usso-Turkish treaty gets plenty of
official denials, but it is precisely one of
those statements which, if not literally
true, describes all the same an actual situ
ation. That Russia has the Sultan in the
hollow of its hand and that he does what
ever Xeiidoff tells him to do has been
common knowledge for six weeks or more.
W nether this relation has been formalized
by a treaty is wholly a consideration of
expediency. It i s beginning to be com
prehended now that Germany and Russia
are acting in entire accord and that Eng
land is giving up the notion of trying to
establish relations with Russia. All the
interest bere ia concentrated on the ques
tion of what France will do when she,
too, sees that the Russian policy is being
dictated from Berlin.
Englishmen all approve the large con
cessions that Lord Salisbury has made to
the French in various directions, and
would be willing to see still others mado,
if only they could make sure that France
would show gratitude by cutting loose
from Russia and helping England to form
a new "Western Europe combination
against despots of ail descriptions. There
are vague notions cherished that if the
French would do this Italy and probably
Austro- Hungary could be gathered in
from the worn-out and crumbling Triple
Alliance, but all this is still in the air.
There is absolutely nothing to say about
the Venezuelan matter. The English
papers continue to discuss it, but they
only do so because their American cor
respondents continue to telegraph long
accounts of what this, what that and the
other person or paper, very often of tenth
rate importance, says on the subject. The
| London Daily News, for instance, has im
posed on.it extended anti-Cleveland re
marks by that old star-route remainder,
Bob Ingersoll, and this was actually
treated as an American opinion.
There is, perhaps, a grain of importance
i in the report which ascribes to Chamber
lain a much more vigorous Venezuelan at
titude than Salisbury and Balfour were
disposed for.
Perhaps this seems more reasonable to
me because I always suspected and said
that Chamberlain was at the bottom of the
whole business, but his extraordinary
speech the other night, in which he
calmly strutted about in the domain of
foreign affairs as if Lord Salisbury was
non-existent, and told what England
i would or would not do, certainly warrants
I the notion that he is acting as the jingo
j force in the Cabinet. Other signs indi
cate that Salisbury, Balfour and their fol
lowers are by no means delighted by tub
apotheosis of Brummagem, and no one
will be surprised if evidence of genuine
dissensions in the Cabinet be forthcoming
within the next month or two.
The meeting of Parliament is now barely
a fortnight away and the politicians are
already flocking 10 town excited by the pros
pect of a session crowded with big events.
The chances are obvionsly not less than
even that a great foreign war is at hand,
but there is also the 3emi-doniestic prob
lem of the chartered company, which is
superior in interest ana dramatic possi
bilities to anything that Westminster has
dealt with for a generation.
The question of the Indian cotton du
ties, though less popular in its appeals for
attention, is a matter of very grave im
portance. How seriously it is regarded
may be gathered from the fact that the
Times to-day has nearly three columns of
dispatches from Calcutta and Bombay,
largely small type extracts from Sir James
Wlieatland's speech delivered last Thurs
day in the Legislative Council, which must
have cost at least JoOOO.
The Tory Government, in order to make
a show of keeping the campaign promises
to Lancashire by which it won nearly
twenty seats, has hit on a compromise
which only indifferently placated Man
chester, but infuriates the Indian mill
; owners and merchants and will inevitably
' be the occasion for prolonged lighting in
! the House of Commons.
General Weylers going to Cuba is re
garded here, and in Madrid, too, I am
told, as the inaugural step in a policy
which, very possibly, will destroj' all that
is left of the Spanish empire. This policy
has been forced on the timid Ministry by
the loud, ignorant howling of the Madrid
press, which is by far the lowest and most
vicious product of Latin journalism and
frankly caters for and represents only the
mobs of the large towns.
General Weyler's speeches and news
. paper encomiums show that his expedition
! is regarded strictly from the matador's
point of view. He promises to hang or
i shoot all rebels falling into his hands, and
the rabble roars as exultingly as if the
blood of bulls and horses was being talked
about. But soberer minds can already
foresee that this sort of thing is bound to
excite deep feeling in the United States
; and only less so in England, and it seems
to be hardly within the bounds of possi
bility that Spanish butcheries will be al
lowed to go on without intervention.
Rontgen's photographic discovery in
creasingly monopolizes scientific atten
tion. Already numerous successful ap
plications of it to surgical difficulties arc
reported from various countries, but per
haps even more striking are the proofs
that ir will revolutionize methods in many
departments of metallurgical industry.
Carbon can be readily distinguished
from iron, and imperfect fusions in bronze
and other compounds can be detected at
once; so that an ideally simple system of
testing great blocks or bars of metal, as in
cannon, railroad wheels, rails, bridge sec
tions, armor-plates, etc., seems at hand.
Experiments already made warrant the
expectation that the new method of test
ing will be of some value in practically
every branch of metallurgy.
Poor old Tracy Turnerelli gets amicably
compassionate obituary attention from all
shades of newspapers to-day. Of late
yaars he had grown to be a chronic bore
whose letters clogged the waste-baskets of
every editor in the land. He had even
sent round to the press some years ago
photographs of the tomb that he de
signed foi himself and erected, inscription
and all. But there has not been any re
production of it now, when certainly it
would be opportune, which forces the sus
picion that these also went into the dust
bin as a dignified offset to Alired Austin's
extraordinary doggerel sung at the Al
hambra, and two other music-hall jingo
songs, which are still cheered to hoarse
ness nightly.
Swinburne's magnificent "Ode to the
Navy of the Jubilee Year" is republished
now for a penny. It is significant to note
that the original line, "Dark Muscovy
girded with guile," now reads "Germany"
instead of Muscovy.
William Watson's "Purple East" is sell
ing everywhere to-day in remarkable fash
ion, and it really looks as if it were destined
to exert an enormous influence on the
public mind. There is a report, not verified,
that urgent representations have been
made from the Turkish Embassy to Lord
Salisbury asking, in the Sultan's name,
that its sale be prohibited.
Original manuscripts of 370 of the
famous Paston letters are to be sold
by auction here next month, and 311
of them are being offered in one
lot, in the hope that they will find a pur
chaser who will not separate what is cer
tainly the most remarkable and valuable
collection relating to medieval documents
in the language.
Jon Stefansson, the learned Scandina
vian archeologist, whose recent essay sug
gesting that Shakespeare almost certainly
visited Denmark as a young man with a
company of players, and gave perfor
mances inside of Elsinore Castle, attracted
some attention, announces to-day that he
has discovered further corroborative evi
dence, which leaves little doubt of the fact
and which he will publish shortly.
The failure of "Michael and his Lost
Angel" at the Lyceum is almost pathetic
in its abruptness. It goea off to-night
after only ten performances, and, appa
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, .JANUARY 26, 1896.
rently, it drags Forbes Robertson's mana
gerial fortune down with it at least for a
time, since it is announced that Oscar Bar
rett's beautiful pantomime, which hereto
fore has been limited to a matinee each
day in the Lyceum, henceforth will sup
ply the evening bill as well. The collapse
recalis the fact that since "The Bauble
Shop," Jones has done nothing which has
made money, while some of his recent
work has well nigh ruined the managers
who invested in it.
Yet so curiously obtuse are the general
run of managers that this fact remains
quite meaningless to them, and having
once imbibed the belief that Jones is a
fashionable playwright they go on indefin
itely ordering plays from him and throw
ing good money after bad.
The second number of Cosmopolis, due a
week hence, will contain an elaborate arti
cle on "International Arbitration," by
Gennadius, a diplomat of high standing
here and in Washington; a letter on the
same subject in French from Jules Simon,
and "A Study of the JUonroe Doctrine,"
in German, by Professor Yon Barr of Got
tingen. A really unexpected success,
especially on the Continent, was achieved
by the tirst number. Harold Frederic.
HAS THE PORTE S PROMISE.
Minister Terrell Assured That Ismae! Bey
Will Be Retained as Governor
of Hadjin,
LONDON, Eng., Jan. Telegraphing
under date of January 24 tne correspond
ent of the United Press at Constantinople
says :
The Porte has given its promise to
United States Minister Terrell that Israael
Bey shall be retained in his position as
Governor of Hadjin.
Ismael is the successor of the late Gov
ernor Hadjin, who threatened to destroy I
that town and sow barley uuon the site of
it. He nas been conspicuously active in
protecting the lives and property of the
ladies of the American mission at Hadjin,
and in many other ways has shown him
self to bo an able and humane administra
tor. His removal from his post was threat- j
ened because of a difference with the mili
tary commander at Hadjin.
The movement against Israaelian, the
Armenian patriarch, is not an Armenian |
movement, although the Government is <
using Armenian tools to accomplish its i
object. There exists a sort of a commis- i
sion, composed of ten members, the ]
avowed purpose of which is to force the
Armenian patriarch to resign. Five mem
bers of this commission are in the employ
of the Government and include the
Bishop of Broussa, who is reported to be
the Sultan's spy, and the Bishop of Aden, I
who was an aspirant to the patriarchate
when the office was last vacant.
The Porte has agreed to permit the en
trance of individual Americans into Asia
Miner for the purpose of distribution of
relief to the suffering Armenians, but has
declined to concede the admission of the j
American Red Cross Society or any other
organization.
■ ♦
A FI.OVItISB.iyG INSTITUTION.
Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce in Paris.
PARIS, France, Jan. 25.— The second
annual meeting of the American Chamber
of Commerce in Paris was held this even
ing in tLe Cafe Riche and was a very suc
cessful affair. Mr. Morss, the American
Consul-Genera!, made a speech, in which
he sketched the history of the chamber.
President Stephen Tyng described its
foundation. Speeches were also made by
William iSeligman and Vice-President j
Peartree. The latter enlarged upon the j
future of the chamber.
An Accident on the France.
PARIS, France, Jan. 25.— Dispatches
from St. Nazaire state that a very serious
accident occurred there to-day in the
course of the trial ot the machinery of the
new trans-Atlantic steamship France, just
constructed. The report says that a num
ber of persons were killed and injured.
CONFINED AS A VAGRANT.
Very Remarkable Career of an
Aged Inmate of a Work
house.
Was the First American Engineer to
Pull the Throttle on a Moving
Locomotive.
NEW YOIIK, N. V., Jan. 25.— At the re
quest of Warden Lawrence Dunphy of the
Workhouse Magistrate Kudlich, in the
Essex Market Police Court, yesterday re
committed to that institution Wood Ben
son, 89 years of age, as a vagrant.
Benson is one of the most remarkable
persons ever committed to an institution
of that character, for, according to his
own story, he has never used tobacco or
malt or spirituous liquor in any form.
This statement is borne out by his appear
ance. He is in perfect health, stands erect,
writes a legible hand and has never in his
life, he says, used glasses.
Benson has already served one term of
three months in the workhouse, where he
is librarian. At the end of a similar period
he expects to be cared for by the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. It is in
connection with this that Benson makes
the claim not only of being the oldest liv
ing locomotive engineer, but the lirst in
America ever to pull the throttle on a
moving steam engine.
According to the statements made by
him in the Police Court he was born on a
farm in this city in 1807, the location being
Amity street, now known as West Third
street. He worked, when a young man,
on machinery, and when the first locomo
tive was constructed he assisted in the
work, and, although the inventor was the
nominal engineer on the first trip over the
Hudson River Railroad, Benson claims to
have been the mar. actually in charge.
During the fire of the Herkimer bridge
Benson says ho was the engineer who ran
over, not knowine it to be in flames. This
fact he discovered too late to retreat, so,
opening the throttle, he ran his engine
over the blazing structure. On the train
were a party of National Republican dele
gates, bound for Saratoga, and upon learn
ing of their escape from death a purse of
$1000 was given to the engineer.
TO BEAK FIT THE DUKE.
The Duchess of Marlborough Will Carry
Heavy Life Insurance.
NEW YORK, N. V., Jan. - 25.-The re
port that the young Duchess of Marl
borough (nee Vanderbilt) was to have her
life insured for the benefit of the Duke is
confirmed in a private letter. The amount
applied for is £000,000. An application has
been made and a medical report submitted,
but so far as is known the insurance com
panies have not passed on it. The proba
bilities are they will accept the risk, for
they will receive a big premium and get
other benefits, j Besides, the British com
panies like to mortgage the lives of the
aristocracy. ; This will be one of the largest
if not the largest of risks' ever taken. It
will undoubtedly be underwritten :by r a
syndicate.
SANTA CLARA
RAIL DISASTER.
Two Trains Crash Together
at a Crossing in the
Town.
MISTAKE THE SIGNALS.
Engineer Stanley of the Narrow
Gauge Receives Fatal
Injuries.
PASSENGERS SLIGHTLY BRUISED
One Locomotive and Several Coaches
Demolished and Derailed by
the Contact.
SAX JOSE, Cal., Jan. 25.— A disas
trous collision occurred between passenger
trains on the broad and narrow gauge
railroads at the crossing in Santa Clara
this afternoon about 4 o'clock, by which
one man was fatally injured, several per
sons badly hurt ana two cars and an engine
wrecked.
The narrow-gauge passenger train going
north and the Del Monte limited broad
gauge coming south are due at this cross
ing about the «ame time, but a watchman
stands at the crossing and signals all
trains. On this occasion, according to the
signals, the broad-gauge train had the
right of way and was coming toward San
Jose at a good rate of speed, when the
narrow-gauge train crashed into it, land
ing a bagcage and passenger coach upon
their sides at a point about twenty-five
feet from where the collision occurred and
completely overturning and demolishing
the narrow-gauge engine.
One of the coaches was the smoker of the
Pel Monte limited from San Francisco and
was filled with passengers. By miraculous
chance only two persons were seriously
hurt. James Stanley, the engineer of the
engine of the narrow-gauge road, was
caught beneath the timbers of his cab and
the reverse lever of his engine as the loco
motive turned over. His left leg was
crushed and broken and his right leg badly
bruised. His injuries, it is thought, will
prove fatal. Cory Ingalls, who resides
near Gilroy, was in the smoking-car, which
was overturned, but he crawled out of a
window and started to leave the wreck
when he fell in a faint, and it was found
that he had been seriously injured inter
nally. Ed Morris, the "peanut butcher,"
was badly cut about the face, but his
wounds are not serious. Fred Wetzel, the
fireman on the overturned engine, escaped
unhurt by jumping when he saw that a
collision was unavoidable.
The narrow-gauge engine, which was
moving slowly, first struck tbe front of the
baggage-car, but only scraped along the
Bide of this car, lifting it slightly until the
opening between the smoker and the bag
gage-car was reached; then the full force
of the rapidly moving broad-gauge train
| was brought against the end of its smoker,
I which was sufficient to overturn the col
liding engine. The passengers in the nar
row-gauge coaches barely felt the force of
the colliding shock, but the passengers of
the broad-gauge train received an unpleas
ant shaking up, and many of them nar
rowly escaped being crushed to death by
actual contact with the engine. Fortu
nately the couplings joining the over
turned cars with the other coaches
snapped, which prevented the occupants
of the rear coaches and the engine of the
broad gauge from receiving very serious
damage.
Stanley's injuries were dressed in Santa
Clam and he was taken to his home in Oak
land this afternoon. The passengers on the
colliding trains were transferred to trains
made up in this ciiy and carried to their
destinations. By means of transfers, those
going north were enabled to ride to the
scene of the blockading wreck, and by
walking a short distance to take another
train and continue their journey. In this
way passenger traffic was not seriously in
terfered with by the smash up.
Among those injured are: Henry Lux,
left arm badly bruised ; Jacob Vice of Gil
roy, right leg bruised; Davis, leg in
jured. Many of those in the smoking-car
were almost, turned upside down, and sev
eral saved themselves from injury by grab
bing the arms to the seats and holding
firm, while the coach, filled with men,
turned over.
Stanley, the injured engineer, is 60 years
of age, and is the oldest employe on the nar
row-gauge line, having been running one
of its engines for over twenty years — ever
since the road was built. This was his
first accident and ''Stanley's luck" has
heretofore been proverbial among railroad
men. Stanley gave a remarkable show of
nerve while pinned beneath hi 3 engine,
coolly giving auvice to the men at work as
to how best to release him. After nearly
an hour's work he was finally dragged out,
and then for the first time he uttered a
piercing scream, but nerved himself im
mediately.
When asked about the accident Stanley
said the flagman give him the signal to go
ahead. When he saw the other train ap
proaching he shut off steam and reversed
the engine.
Ernest Kohlhall, thn flagman, is a one
armed railroader who has been employed
at the crossing for several years. He was
very reticent concerning the cause of the
accident aud would say only that he had
signaled the train, as was his usual cus
tom. This means that he signaled for the
broad-gauge train to go ahead, and Stan
ley mistook the signal. The set signal
speaks for itsnelf, as after the accident it
was across the narrow-gauge track, signi
fying that all trains on that line should
stop until it was removed. The narrow
gauge train could not have been moving at
any great rate of speed, as the passengers
aboard state they received only a slight
jar.
From the amount of damage done, bow
ever, it would appear that the broad-gauge
train was going at a rapid rate of speed at
the time of Uie collision. Stanley's engine
was a sad wreck. Its smokestack and
front were torn away, the cab was broken
off and the whole machine was no more
than a battered boiler.
The baggage-car on the other line had
one of its sides badly splintered. One cor
ner of the smoker was torn out. Both
cars were lifted from their trucks. One of
them struck a telegraph pole and broke it
off short and the car lodged against a tree.
The signal box was knocked over and lay
across the narrow-gauge track.
Only the tender of the narrow-gauge
train left the track with the engine.
Shortly after the accident a gang of men
was put to work clearing the track, and
everything will be out of the way by morn
ing.
Amputation In Seceamary.
OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 25.— Engineer
John A. Stanley was brought from San
Jose to-night and taken to the Fabiola
Hospital. He is badly injured and one
leg will have to be amputated, but it is
hoped the other will be saved. There is a
chance for his recovery. Stanley lives at
Seventh and Oak streets with his family.
CHiyjasm cA.nir'B murder.
George Morris' Slayers Seem J>c*tined to
iio Unpunished.
SONORA, Cal., Jan. 25.— The excite
ment over the murder of George Morris,
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s agent at Chinese
Camp, has about died out. District Attor
ney Otis felt confident that he could not
convict Wesley Mcßeynolds on the sole
evidence of the witness Brown, who said
McUeynolds told him he had killed Mor
ris. The District Attorney had letters
from Brown's late residence which con
vinced him that Brown was not a reliable
witness. Not wishing to put the county
to unnecessary expense. District Attorney
Otis had the information against Wesley
Mcßeynolds dismissed yesterday as an
nounced in The Call.
William Smith, the detective who figured
so conspicuously in the Sontag and Evans
raid, has been working on this case for
some time, but has not as yet developed
anything new. The confession of Ada
Mcßeynolds is not generally believed, and
her subsequent denials have robbed her
first story of its weight.
MISSIXG FJtO3l A.RCATA.
William McGrade Went Upon a Hunt and
lias Kot Jieturned.
EUREKA, Cal., Jan. 25.— A party com
posed of men and women is searching the
woods in the neighborhood of Liscom Hill,
near Arcata, for the 18-year old son of
William McGrade. Young McGradn, who
was camping with a party of timber
searcliers', left his comrades Wednesday to
go hunting. He did not return to the
camp and they supposed he had left for
home, but on coming back to Arcata noth
ing could be learned of him.
The searchers have little hope of finding
McGrade alive, as the weather has been
most severe. It is probable that young
McGrade either accidentally shot himself
or fell from some steep grade.
SANTA BARBARA TRANSFER
Capitalist Den's Bride Comes
Into Possession of All of
His Property.
This Move Is Seemingly Connected
With the Queer Suit Brought
by Pedro Ruiz.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Jan. 25.—
Augustus H. Den has transferred to his
bride, a daughter of Judge Devine of Sac
ramento, all of his valuable property in
this county, together with the California
Petroleum and Asphalt Company's lease
on the Den property at La Patera, and has
given her an unlimited power of attorney
so that she can, if she likes, dispose of all
his holdings at a moment's notice.
Mr. Den is the defendant in a sensa
tional suit lately filed by Pedro Ruiz, who
claims $24,000 for twenty-four years' care
and support of the young capitalist, whom
he declares he has reared from a child.
Whether the transfer is for tpe sake of
protecting Mr. Den from the claims of this
(suit is, of course, not stated in the records.
It is claimed in his behalf that he has for
many years supported the family of Ruiz.
ACTS UP TO ITS AAJUE.
The Stinger Joins the Rank* of Santa
Jiarbnra Xevctpapers.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Jan. 25.—
Santa Barbara received a lively shaking
up to-night through the appearance of a
new weekly paper called the Stinger, and
which acts fuily up to its name. The little
sheet handles matters local without gloves,
and strikes out from the shoulder at
prominent citizens and residents, while
promising more and livelier sensations
next ween.
While the editor of the new sheet is
nominally one J. A. Fowler of Summer
land, formerly connected with the Santa
Barbara Fire Department, and it is evi
dently printed at a safe distance from this
city at the office of a Sammerland paper,
there is a mystery regarding the people
hacking it with brains and capital, but it
is generally accredited to one or two bright
members of the City Council.
Mist Cooper* Debut.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Jan. 25.— A
cotillion was given at the Arlington last
night by J. W. Cooper, one of Santa Bar
bara's pioneer residents and most re
spected citizens, to celebrate the debut of
his daughter, Miss Bessie, who has for
several years past been a pupil of Miss
Head's school in Berkeley. Rear-Admiral
and Mrs. Beardslee and Captain Cotton of
the Philadelphia received with the parents
of the debutante and there was a big at
tendance of officers from the cruiser.
MERCED'S DEFVXCT HA.JSK.
Directors I! r moved from Office by lied*
a ion of Judge luixc.
MERCED, Cal., Jan. 25.— The contest
for the ousting of the old directors of the
defunct Merced Bank was concluded yes
terday in the Superior Court, and to-day
Judge Law rendered a decision removing
them from office. The new directors will
be announced by Judge Law next Monday,
from a list agreed upon by the depositors.
The trial was begun last Thursday by the
Bank Commissioners. District-Attorney
Ostrander represented the Attorney Gen
eral for the plaintiffs, and J. F. Peck ap
peared for the directors.
The depositors feel much elated over the
decision, as they claim that the settlement
of the affairs of the defunct bank will now
proceed more rapidly and on a better busi
ness basis.
MERCED AJLA.RMED.
Valley Road Engineer* Are Surveying
Away from the City.
MERCED, Cal., Jan. 25.— Surveyor Gra
ham |of the Valley, road is running a sur
vey from the ! Merced River northeast of
this city to join the line already staked to
the southward. Merced citizens have be
come somewhat nervous over this new
move, and it has served to spur them to a
more united action in regard to conces
sions to the company. A committee of
the : Valley Railroad directors will meet
the City Trustees and all others who wish
to be present next Thursday evening, at
which time the location of the road, as far
as Merced is concerned, will be settled per
manently. . .
Santa Rosa's Improvement Club.
SANTA ROSA, Cal., ; Jan. 25.— The
Santa Rosa Improvement Club met for or
ganization last night. D. E. McKinlay
was elected president; J. P. Overton, vice
president ' W. '„ J. Eardley. treasurer, and
H. Striening, secretary. ; ; The club has
about fifty members to start with, and: all
are full of enthusiasm for the work of im
proving the town.
WHITTIER SCHOOL
EXTRAVAGANCE.
Budd and the Examiners
Inveigh Against the
Management.
BILL FOR DENTAL WORK
The State Asked to Pay for
Repairs on the Teeth of
Inmates.
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INSANE ASYLUM SCANDALS.
Wealthy Men Whose Wives Are Incar
cerated Accused of Commit
ting Bigamy.
SACRAMENTO, Cat-., Jan. 25.— "What's
this? An $80 dental bill for the Whittier
Reform School!" exclaimed Governor
Budd this afternoon during the session of
the State Board of Examiners. "An $80
dental bill, with a resident physician draw
ing a salary of over $700 per year from the
State! Well, now, this thing doesn't go
any longer. Why doesn't the regular doc
tor pull any teeth the inmates may have
no further use for?"
"Perhaps the board lias a pet dentist,"
quietly suggested Secretary of State
Brown.
"Well, if they have I want it understood
that from this time henceforth his occupa
tion as far as the Whittier School inmates
are concerned is gone. The physician must
pull all teeth in the future, and if hecan't
do it let them get some one who will.
This Whittier School is the most expen
sive institution in the State. The salary
list is enormous and must be cut down, and
it will be as soon as we get time to attend
to it."
"The directors of that institution are ex
tremely tony," interrupted Secretary
Markley. "Whenever they visit that in
stitution they always charge the State $1
for a carriage to the depot from their resi
dence and repeat the dose when they re
turn."
"Well, this institution and everybody
connected with it will get a thorough over
hauling when wo get down in the southern
portion of the State," remarked the ex
ecutive. "In the meantime just notify
those people that no more dental bills will
be allowed by this board."
"Here's a matter that ought to be in
vestigated immediately," declared Secre
tary of State Brown. "I have informa
tion that wealthy individuals from various
portions of the State have their wives re
tained in State asylums at the cost of the
State. In many cases tnese men are
worth $75,000, and that is not the worst
feature of the matter. These men have
remarried, and in doing so have com
mitted bigamy, as the law does not
acknowledge divorce proceedings between
sane and insane parties. iNow, they must
rspay the State for maintaining their true
wives, and should be prosecuted for
bigamy."
"I fully agree with yon," said Governor
Budd, "and we will attend to their cases
as soon as we start on our tour of investi
gation."
"Ah, this is something like,' 7 suddenly
exclaimed his Excellency, with a jimile of
satisfactiDn. "Here's a carload of brick
manufactured by the inmates at Napa and
shipped to the Asylum for the Feeble
minded at Glen Ellen. Now, that saves
the State at least $.3 a thousand, as we do
not have to pay for labor. I suppose the
outside manufacturer will object, but we
can't help that."
Then he read an opinion received from
Attorney-General Fitzgerald, which also
resulted in a benefit to the State's finances,
and the board adjourned in a very sunny
humor. The opinion was to the effect that
the claim of the University of California
for $2392 as semi-annual interest of di
verted funds should not be allowed, as it
was for interest at 6 per cent on $79,750
heretofore appropriated to the endowment
fund, but through mistake withheld and
used for other State purposes. As the
appropriation was not included in the title
of the act appropriating it the university
was not entitled to interest.
FINANCES OF STANFORD.
Associated Students Have Paid
Nearly All of the Old
Indebtedness.
One Result of Placing Affairs Upon a
Substantial Business
Basis.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cat... Jan.
25.— The treasurer of the Stanford Asso
ciated Students (Lester Hinsdill '95) has
just published a complete statement of all
moneys handled by him during the first
semester of tho college year. The report
shows that the students' finances are in
better shape than for a number of seasons
pa?t and speaks well for the painstaking
treasurer.
The last college year ended with the
funds all gone nnd $2000 in debts outstand
ing. All but $700 of this indebtedness has
now been removed. At that time steps
were taken to put the entire student
finances on a substantial business basis,
with a plan for keeping strict account of
all expenditures and receipts. It was de
cided to pay the treasurer and football
manager fixed saiaries. The former was
put under heavy bonds, and in addition to
his salary and in order to increase liii
vigilance over all expenses it was decided
to allow him the opportunity to make $250
in case his net profits amounted to a speci
fied sum. The management proved en
tirely successful. Between $30,000 and
140,000 has been handled by the treasurer.
Stanford's share from the receipts of the
Thanksgiving game amounted (net) to
f4301 30. The miscellaneous expenses for
the season footed up to $3710 65. Camp's
expenses amounted to $1140.
For the past few days Stanford's heavy
weights have been at work throwing the
hammer and putting the shot. There are
three men here now who can toss the 16
--pound hammer 115 feet or over, and tne
prospects are for greater improvement.
The heavy rains have seriously interfered
with the work of trackmen and base
ballers. As aoon as the weather clears up.
athletes generally will go to work with a
will.
Just cow tlie oiftia is: "Wb»t
is the baseball management going to do to
raise funds for the season?" The answer
to this question will, in a large measure,
decide what sort of showing the men will
make in intercollegiate baseball matches
this season.
VISALIA RECEIVERSHIP.
H. Levinson Placed in Charge of the Affairs
of the City Water
Works.
VISALIA, Cat-., Jan. 25.— An important
suit was terminated to-day by Judge Cross
of the Superior Court ordering the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Visalia City
Water Works. The suit was brought by
the National Trust Company of Los An
geles against the water company and P. J.
Cooper, its secretary, and was bitterly
contested. The trust company claimed
that the funds of the water company had
not been applied as agreed, and that the
water company had defaulted in the in
terest on the bonds outstanding.
The court ordered that H. Levinson be
appointed receiver, and he was directed to
receive all revenue of the company and
pay the necessary operating expenses, but
no salaries to the officers of the company,
and from the surplus to pay all matured
and unpaid interest coupons of the bonds
mentioned in the complaint. He is then
directed to redeem the mortgaged prem
ises from the tax sale to be made on the
7th day of January, 1896, and also to pay
all maturing taxes upon the property.
The residue of the funds is directed to be
paid into the clerk ot the court, to await
further action on the part of the court.
The receiver is required to give a bond ia
the sum of $'2500 for the faithful perform
ance of his duties.
The water works is a paying property.
The receipts are about $1000 per month
and ttie expenses about $450. For this rea
son the bondholders brought suit to <li»»
cover why the interest on the bonds wai
not promptly paid.
til OKI. It TO JtJEATH.
Sudden Passing of Orrin Barr, a
l'hnn-rr of liaalia.
VISATJA, Cal., Jan. 25.— Orrin Barr, an
old resident of Visalia, died very suddenly
this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, choking to
death upon a piece of orange he was eat
ing before a physician could be sum
moned.
Barr came to Visalia in 1859 and has
been engaged in business here since. He was
a charter member of the Visalia Lod^e,
A. O. U. W., and on Tuesday evening of
this week was installed as one of the
officers of that order.
SUICIDE AT SAN DIEGO.
Officers Find the Body of a Man
Who Had Been Missing
Since Monday.
Henry Melvin Had Retired to a Couch
and Fired a Bullet Into His
Mouth.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 25.— The body
of Henry Melvin, an abstract writer, was
found this afternoon in bed in his room at
1133 India street. The house is an old
frame building, occupied by single men
who look after their own rooms. Melvin
had been acting strangely for some days
prior to Monday, and on that day he dis
appeared. Yesterday another roomer in
the bouse suggested to Chief Bienning
that Melvin's door be opened, as he feared
that something had befallen the man.
Chief Brenning forced open a window
and discovered Melvin lying in the bed,
his face covered with blood and a pistol
tightly gripped in his right hand, which,
was crossed over the otner on his breast.
He had been dead, evidently, for four or
five days. An examination of the body
and the effects in the room showed that
Melvin had taken plenty of time to make
away with himself. He wrote a note ana
left it where it would be found, and then,
going to bed, pulled the covers up to his
chin, placed the pistol inside his mouth
and fired. The bullet tore through the
upper part of his head, and death was in
stantaneous. The note read:
God is my judge. 1 had not wronged tno
girl Minnie. Let some one compel her to tell
the truth and tind the right party, for God
knows 1 am mnocent of that crime. *
H. Melvin.
Melvin had served a term in the County
Jail for battery upon a negro woman.
After ais release he lived at the place
where he was found. No one could be
found yesterday who knew of any girl
named Minnie with whom Melvin had
had any dealings. It was supposed that
he might have been out of his head when
writing the letter, as he had given plenty
of evidence of insanity before committing:
suicide. He attempted to shoot himsell
last Monday.
Melvin came to San Diego from Texas
nine years ago, and is understood to have
relatives in that State. He was of more
than ordinary intellieence, bat lost several
fine positions and was in poverty toward
the end. He was about 45 years of age.
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