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Anzeiger of Berlin, Hon. T. B. Cochran
and Major Yofcum of Pennsylvania, and
Dr. Miles D. Goodyear of New York. The
Akron people declare the entire popula
tion wants to come to Canton to help cele
brate McKinley's nomination. O. C. Bar
ber, the match king, and Paul Warren, the
millionaire publisher, are at the head of
the celebration. They hope to land a dele
gation from Akron into Canton in an hour
and forty mm utes after the result is known.
MILHOLLAND HEARD FROM
Loses No Time In Calling Down Mr.
Manley.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 12. -The fol
lowing dispatch, which explains itself,
w is Bent to St. Louis this evening: ■
Joseph H. Manley, Republican National
ittee, St. Louis: One hundred thousand
■'f New York State, having signed a pe
tition to tne Republican National Committee
ukingfor the nomination of William McKiu
ley for President, a committee of 500 has been
appointed to take this petition to St. Louis by
special train, and a sub-committee of fifty to
present the petition to the convention.
As chairman of the MoKinley State League
organization committee I requested you to
furnish these fifty members of the sub-com
mittee with tickets for admission to the con
vention. The dispatch being a personal one I
was surprised to find that you have given it in
a garbled form to the press, and still more sur
prised that you should characterize it as an im
pertinence. I supposed recent events had dis
pelled the notion at one time entertained by
the members of the Presidential trust that
they could not be approached by the average
citizen through the ordinary channels. Please
pardon this impertinence and give yourself no
trouble about the tickets. They have been
furnished. John F. Milholl£nd,
Chairman of Committee on Organization.
HEADED FOR ST. LOUIS.
Departure of Delegates From Three
States in Specials.
NEW YORK, N. V.. June 12.-The
regular 10 o'clock St. Louis express on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was dis
patched from the Jersey City depot to
day in two sections, the first going on
schedule time and the second at 10:30
o'clock. The trains carried the Worth
faction from Brooklyn, the Republican
County Committee of this city and the
Platt delegates and a delegation of Repub
lican Aldermen and tneir friends.
Ex-State S nator J. Sloat Fassett occu
pied a chair in the car reserved for the
New York Aldermen, and appeared to be
the star of the aggregation. He was
hailed on all sides as a possible nominee
for Vice-President, altbou h he person
ally favored giving Governor Morton sec
ond place on the ticket if it turns out that
McKinley is the choice of the oonvention.
From the Grand Central station this af
ternoon the Southwestern limited was run
in two sections in order to accommodate
the rush of Republican politicians bound
for St. Louis. The train which left at 1
o'clock will make the usual stops and take
on delegates and prominent Republicans.
PORTLAND, Me., June 12.— The Maine
delegates to St. Louis left on a special
train this afternoon via the White Moun
tains. The cars were decorated with flags
and Danners. One thousand people, who
had gathered on the platform, cheered as
the train started, and there were shouts of
'Stick to your candidate." The enthusi
a-m manifested for Speaker Reed was
great. There are sixty-eight in the party,
includinc Governor Cleaves, ex-Goverr.or
Burleigh and Hon. L. Powers, candidate
for Governor.
BOSTON, Mass., June 12.— The Massa
chusetts delegation to the St. Louis Con
vention left Boston by special train from
the Union station at 4 p. m. to-day. The
train is due to arrive in St. Louis on Sun
day morning-.
BOIES TO BE NOMINATED.
Evans Says That He Will Be the
Choice or the Democrats.
OTTUMWA, lowa, June 12.— Chairman
S. B. Evans of the lowa Democratic de*le
eation to Chicago was asked this evening
as to his honest opinion regarding the
probable nomination of Horace Boies of
lowa for the Presidency of the United
States. He said: "He will be nominated
without a doubt."
Continuing, he sjud: "So soon as the
nomination of Boies is made there will be
such a movement in his favor headed by
men prominent in great industrial enter
prises that it will startle the machine pol
iticians. It has become imperative in
their opinion to do something to start the
wheels of business and restore industrial
prosperity to the country and to open up
the markets for agricultural products."
NOT AFTER SECOND PLACE.
Speaker Reed Wants the Presi-
dential Nomination or Nothings
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 12.— Aside
from making a call at the White House
to-day to take formal farewell of President
Cleveland upon the close of Congress, and
or at the residence of Representative
Hitt of Illinois, who has been ill for some
time, Speaker Reed remained at the Shore
ham in constant telegraphic communica
tion with friends and managers at St.
Louis. He had no further comments to
make respecting Mr. Manley's celebrated
statement of Wednesday evening.
It was learned tnat Manley's statement
of last night was prepared in response to
Mr. Reed's telegram of inquiry sent yes
terday as to the meaning and cause of his
original statement which caused such a
s< nsation. Friends of the Speaker in St.
Louis wired him that they believed Mr.
Mauley had become panic stricken at the
demonstration made by the partisans of
McKinley at the first meeting of tne Na
tioasl Committee and Mr. Manley's re
gret o*ver this action satisfied them that
"he did not mean it."
The assertion made by Manley and Mur
ray Crane, the latter of Massachusetts, at
.'-t. Louis that the Speaker would notfender
any conditions accept the nomination for
Vice-President was reiterated by his
friends in Washington, so that there need
be no misunderstanding on that point.
The action of the National Committee in
throwing out Reed delegates, especially
from Louisiana, was commented on
with much bitterness by his friends as un
necessary if McKinley had a majority in
the convention, and indefensible in any
view. They were advised that the Texas
anti-McKinley men claiming to be dele
ild probably meet the fate of
1 1» - ir Louisiana colleagues.
aker Reed will not go home until
after the convention adjourns, but he may
go to New York on a business trip, which
has been pressing for some days.
FREE SILVER DEMANDED
Governor Evans Says South Caro
lina Is for Tlllman.
NEW YORK, N. V.. June 12.— "Bixteen
to one or bust," was the answer Governor
John Gary Evans of Soutn Carolina gave
to-day at the Waldorf Hotel to the ques
tion whether his State would continue to
advocate free silver or not. The Governor
is here on business for his State. In the
course ola conversation with a reporter he
said, in sutostatice: •
"South Carolina is for Senator Tillman
for President, and we hope to see him
nominated. He is a strong man, and on
the stump McKinley could not debate with
him at all. The free silver Democrats will
name the ticket in Chicago, and what is
more, it will be elected. All the Southern
and Western States and enough North
western States 'will vote for the free silver
Democratic candidate to elect him. Be
sides the West and South, we shall carry
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illi
nois. I have calculated that we shall win,
and have fifty-four electoral votes to spare.
It is now a question of the East — the gold
section — against all the rest of the United
States. The Democrats in tbe East and
the Republicans really stand together for
gold, and there is no difference between
them. We do not expect to get the Demo
cratic votes in the East.' 1
In regard to the prosperity of his State
he said that it had increased wonderfully
in factories, and the busy hum of cotton
mills is heard everywhere.
COLORED MEN PROTEST.
Demand That Fair Treatment Be
Given Their Delegates.
TA # COMA, Wash., June 12.—Consider
able feeling has been aroused here among
colored citizens over the action of the St.
Louis hotel men in discriminating against
negro delegates. At a mass-meeting; this
evening, attended by 400 prominet colored
men, resolutions were drawn up request
ing the Washington delation to insist
npon adjourning the convention from St.
Louis to some other city if colored dele
gates are not accorded the same treatment
as the Caucasians.
Homer Declines.
BALTIMORE, Mo., June 12.— C. C.
Homer, who was elected one of the dele
gates-at-large to the Democratic National
Convention Wednesday, has telegraphed
to Senator Gorman declining the honor.
Mr. Homer dec'ined to give his reasons
for his action, simply saying that they
were good and sullicient. Mr. Homer is
president of the Second National Bank
and was the author of the Baltimore plan
of currency reform.
Pledged for tree. Silver.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 12.— The free
silver Democrats captured the Demo
cratic convention of the Eleventh District,
held at Athens to-day, nominated a free
siiver man, William E. Finck, for Congress
against C. H. Grosvenor, and elected V. C
Lowery and Jonn H. Blacker as delegates
to the National Convention. Both are
free-silver men. They, as well as Finck,
were obliged to pledge themselves for free
silver before they wer« selected.
Not Sold Yet.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 12.— C. P.
Huntington suid to-day that the state
ment that he had sold his railroad inter
ests in Guatemala to a Dutch syndicate
was incorrect The fact was, he said, tiiat
negotiations were in progress for the sale
to the Government of Guatemala of his
road between Sau Jose and Guatemala
City, representing an investment of $6,
-000,000. He could not say when the trans
action would be completed.
Hepburn Urn animated.
DES MOINES, lowa, June 12.— The
Eighth District Republican Congressional
Convention met at Leon this afternoon
and renominated W. P. Hepburn for Con
gress by acclamation.
Oakland Democrats.
OAKLAND, Cal., 'June 12.— The Demo
cratic Connty Committee met to-nigct
and, on a vote being taken, 22 out of 35
recommended that Foote be elected chair
man of the delegation and that H. W.
Bradley be recommended for secretary.
Resolutions were passed indorsing the
course of Senator Stephen M. White and
Hon. James G. Maguire and indorsing the
administrations of President Cleveland and
Governor Budd.
W. W. Foote was indorsed for National
delegate-at-large, and M. J. Laymance for
National delegate from ttie district.
The committee adjourned to meet at the
headquarters, Golden Eagle Hotel, next
Monday night.
STIMULATE COMMERCE
Efforts of the National Asso
ciation of Manufac
turers.
Will Send a Representative Body of
Members to South America
in July.
CHICAGO, 111., June 12.— The execu
tive committee of the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers met at the Auditor
ium annex to-day. Tnere were present:
Theodore C. Search of Philadelphia Coresi
dent), E. P. Wilson of Cincinnati (secre
tary), Warner Miller of New York, C. C.
Mitcnell of Chattanooga, John B. How
arth of Detroit, Charles E. Lock of New
York. Edward H. Sanborn of Philadel
phia, Franklin Fish of South Bend,
Thomas P. Egan of Cincinnati, John B.
Kirk of Chicago ana Robert Laidlaw
(treasurer).
In catling the meeting to order the
president said: "The work of the last
four months has greatly broadened our
membership, and nearly every manufac
turing industry of importance now has a
representation in this association. Sus
picions of political purposes have, how
ever, done great injury to the association.
Our business motives and business
methods have impressed themselves on
the business men, and it is now pretty
generally understood that the association
is essentially and wholly a business ai
fair."
Mr. Search reported that the commit
tee had sent a committee of manufactur
ers to Mexico and Robert P. Porter, who
had recently returned from a tour of
Japan in the association's interests, would
soon have his repon ready for publication;
The report of the Mexican committee
wcoJd also soon be ready. A representa
tive has been sent to Denmark to study
the commercial conditions there.
The establishment of oorumercial agen
cies in foreign countries was recom
mended. On July 1 thirty prominent
manufacturers in nearly every department
of trade will- leave in a body for South
America. The association has obtained
concessions from several of the republics
there for permanent warehousing and ex
hibition of American manufactures.
The committee discussed the report of
the president, approved his acts and then
adjourned.
TRAMPS CAPTURE A TRAIN.
They Loot the Cars and Only Retire
When r»Uce Arrive.
ERIE, Pa., June 12.— A telephone mes
sage from Northeast to-day called police
assistance to a Lake Shore freight crew,
whose train was in the hands of » gang of
tramps. At Westfield, N. V., a band of
forty vagabonds boarded the train and re
fused to leave it. When near Northeast
they made a teneral attack, breaking
open and robbing cars at will. New suits
of clothing were exchanged for old ones
and valuable property was done up in pack
ages and thrown out of the cars. About
half the train was looted.
Three Miner* Perish.
TAYLORVILLE, 11l. # Jfcne 12.— The
Tiylorville Coal Mining Works were en
tirely destroyed by fire thismorning while
eighty-five men were in the mine. All
escaped but three. Loss $75,000; insured.
THE, SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1896.
AMERICANS IN
CUBAN PRISONS
Thomas Dawley Will
Probably Be Liber
ated Soon.
CEPERO TO BE TRIED.
Pessimistic Review of the
Situation by a Spanish
Newspaper.
CONSUL-GENERAL LEE'S WORK
•
The Consulates at Matanzas, Carde
nas, Sagua and Cienfuegos to
Be Visited.
HAVANA, Cuba, June 12. — Advices
have been received from Cienfuegos to the
effect that the trial of Jose Loreto Cepero,
an American, who was arrested under the
belief that He was a rebel, will take place
soon. His case is understood to be one of
mistaken identity.
Consul-General Lee will next week visit
the consulates at Matanzas, Cardenas,
Sagua .and Cienfuegos. It is also stated
that he will visit Captain-General Weyler
to-morrow in connection with Ihe case of
Thomas Dawley, the corresponpent of
Harper's Weekly, who was arrested some
time ago on the charge of having been in
communication with the rebels.
SPAIN CAN NOT SUCCEED.
Sensation Caused in Havana by That
Statement in a Home Paper.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 12.— A Herald
special from Washington says: State De
partment officials are slow to believe the
report that Captain-General Weyler has
any intention of preventing Consul-Gen
eral Lee from visiting American prisoners
in Cuba. Any action by the captain-gen
eral having this in view would call forth a
strong protest to the Spanish Government.
The right of representatives of this Gov
ernment to visit Americans in prison nas
never been questioned, and the adminis
tration would not permit infringement of
it, especially in Cuba.
The frequent capture of Americans and
their imprisonment there especially re
quire the service of Consul officers and the
necessity of the latter talking with their
countrymen.
The authorities say that if any Amer
icans are in confinement in Morro Castle or
any other place held by the Spanish troopß
Consul-General Lee has the right to visit
them, and Spain will not be permitted to
controvert it.
A sensation has been caused in Havana
by an editorial in the Diario del Com
mercia, the leading paper of Barcelona.
The subject of the editorial is Senor
Sagasta's statement that the war is an
nually costing Spain 500.000,000 pesetas
and 15,000 soldiers, but that the conflict
may end in two years. The paper says
that the war will never terminate except
with the loss of Cuba, and that both Spain
and Cuba will be ruined.
AFTER THE SHIP- OWNERS.
British Merchants Ohjrct to Cast-Iron
Hills of Lotting.
LONDON, Eng., June 12.— The fourth
and final sitting of the third congress of
Chambers of Congress of the empire was
held in Grocers' Hall to-day. The congress
adopted by a unanimous vote resolutions
proposed by the Sydney and Melbourne
Chambers of Commerce requesting the
London chamber to arrage a conference
with ship-owners with a view of eliminat
ting certain clauses from the bills of lading,
which are virtually contracts.
These clauses secure ship-owner? from
all liability. In the event of failure to
obtain sucn conference or failing to
secure the relief sought through the
medium of a conference the resolutions
provide chat the various chambers shall
introduce bills in their respective parlia
ments designed to abolish such clauses
from bills oi lading.
Tne congress also adopted a resolution
proposed by the Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce, "condemning the sound signals
in case of fog, which were proposed by tne
Washington conference, and urging the
Government of Great Britain to endeavor
to secure the consent of the foreign
powers to the withdrawal of the proposed
new sound signals.
Resolutions proposed by the Newcastle
Chamber were adopted, favoring the aboli
tion of the levying of light dues upon
shipping.
Delegate Arnoldi of Toronto raised a
question of privilege and spoke in support
of Mr. Cockshott's amendment to Sir John
Lubbock's resolution submitted yesterday,
favoring arbitration whenever the awards
were enforceable,. and his criticism of the
United States regarding the action in
Bering Sea and Alabama matters and the
contention that arbitration was useless
unless the awards were enforced.
Mr. Arnoldi quoted the statement made
by the First Lord of the Treasury in the
House of Commons on February 17, 1891,
that a large sum of the Alabama claim
award was still undistributed, but that it
was the poiicy of Great Britain not to ask
for the return of any part of it. Mr. Ar
noldi's remarks were received with cheers.
Mr. Dal}', delegate from the Wiunepeg
Chamber of Commerce, moved a resolution
asking that the Government use every
means to encourage immigration to the
colonies. He advocated, however, a selec
tion of emigrants from the better classes.
Sir Donald A. Smith suggested that the
next congress of the Chambers of Com
merce of the Empire be held in Canada.
DR. JAMESON'S DEFENSE.
His Counsel Say* the Cane is Without the
Court* Jurisdiction.
LONDON, Eng., June 12.— The trial of
Dr. Jameson and his fellow officers was re
sumed in the Bow-street Police Court this
morning. The prosecution closed its case.
Sir Edward Clarice, counsel for Jameson,
intimated that he would submit that the
court had no jurisdiction under the for
eign enlistment act, which the defendants
were accused of having violated.
BARATIENS IS NOT GUILTY
The Court- Martial -find* He Hid Not
Violate the Code.
MASSOWAH, Abyssinia, June 12.— The
court-martial trying General Baratieri to
day found him not guilty of the charges
preferred against him. General Baratieri
was commander of ihe Italian forces em
ployed in the campaign aeainst the Abys
sinians and was in personal command of
the army when in March last the Abys
sinians inflicted a crushing defeat on the
invaders. He was tried before a court
martial for crimes comintt under the pro
visions of articles 74 and 88 of the Military
Penal Code; namely, of having on March
1 attacked the Abyssinians from inexcusa
ble motives and under circumstances ren
dering defeat inevitable; also of having
abandoned the chief command of the
troops irom half past 12 on March 1 until
9 o'clock on March 3, thereby failing to
give the orders required for lessening the
consequences of the defeat.
BRITISH NILE EXPEDITION.
Object of the Advance Explained by the
LONDON, Eng., June 12.— 1n the House
of Lordi this afternoon Lord Rosebery
asked if the Premier would explain the
extent and object of the British Egyptian
expedition up the valley of the Nile into
the Soudan.
Lord Salisbury replied that for a long
time the Government had been aware that
sooner or later an expedition into the Sou
dan would be necessary for the purpose of
recovering the territory which Egypt had
lost. Suddenly they were confronted with
the fact tnat the dervishes were menacing
Kassala. The expedition was the decided
upon.
The present objective point of the expedi
tion, he said, is Dongola and its com
mander — General Sir Herbert Kitchener —
has been given a perfectly free hand until
he shall reach and occupy that place. The
occupation of Doncola alone, he added, is
an advantage, and furthermore it is on the
road to Khartoum.
AUSTRIA'S REPRESENTATIVE.
There Will Be an Etnbassador Instead
of a Minister in Washington.
VIENNA, Austria, June 12.— The Aus
trian representative in Washington will
henceforth be Embassador instead of Min
ister. Dr. Hengelmuller yon Hengervar,
Austrian Minister at Washington, is now
here. He had an audience with Emperor
Francis Joseph and also with Count Golu
chowski, Minister of Foreign Affaus, and
urged the desirability of creating six ad
ditional Austrfan consulates in the United
States.
Barrero to lie Punished.
MADRID, SrAiN, June 12.— The Govern
ment has decided to criminally prosecute
General Barrero, who recently wrotw an
insulting letter to Captain-General Mar
tinez Campos, which resulted in the senu
inn of a challenge by the latter, Barrero
having refused to retract the letter.
FATAL FIRE IS PITTSBURG.
The Explosion of a Barrel of Oil Causes
Three Deaths.
PITTSBURG, Pa., June 12.— Early this
morning a barrel of oil in the basemeut of
the bakery owned by Kubuegundo Ga
rische on Spring Garden avenue, near Al
leghany street, exploded. Several people
were sleeping in the building and before
they could escape the structure was in
flames. Mrs. Garische, aged 74 years,
leaped from a window and was killed in
stantly. The firemen found Mr. Garische
unconscious. A grandchild was found
dead in a crib and another child will
probably die. Mrs. Garische Jr. and two
other occupants of the house escaped.
No one seems to he abie to explain the
cause of the explosion. Garische was a
quiet sort of a man and apparently had no
enemies who would be likely to take re
venge on him tn so fiendish a manner.
The fire spread very rapidly. The firemen
were heroic in their efforts to save life.
They could have carried out Mrs. Garische
safely if she had waited just a few minutes
longer. She became panic stricken, bow
ever, and jumped from the window. Mr.
Garische was overcome by the smoKe and
at last accounts it is not believed that he
will recover.
Decline of the Gold Reserve.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 12.— The
gradual decline of the gold reserve of the
treasury, which under the last bond issue
reached its.maximum fisure of $128,000,000
on April 13, has now fallen to $104^38,734.
The day's withdrawals were $2,136,800,
most of it for export.
LOS ANGELES WELCOME
Crowds Applaud Senator White
Upon His Return From
Washington.
He Talks on the Courthouse Plaza,
and Hundreds Shout for "Our
Steve "
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 12.— Despite
the intense heat a great throng of Lo?
Angeles citizens gathered at the Santa Fe
depot this afternoon to welcome Senator
Stephen M. White to his home. A great
banner swung from the sides of ti.e car
containing the reception committee, which
met the incoming train at Claremont, on
which was painted in bright colors, "Wel
come to Our Steve." The line of march
from the depot to the courthouse was
thronged by great crowds, which rent the
air time and time again with zealous yells.
A band headed the procession.
When the marchers arrived at the north
east corner of the courthouse-yard ex-
Mayor Henry T. Hazard stepped forward
and introduced Senator White. He said
that Senator White had made a record
while at Washington of which California
hnd every reason to feel proud. Senator
White made an eloquent speech. He was
frequently interrupted by cheers. He said
lie had clone all he could to represent his
people in the United States Senate. He
hoped that in the future his acts would be
such as to merit such an ovation as he to
day received upon his return. The meet
ing closed with three cheers for "Our
Steve."
ROBBED BY A BIGAMIST.
Rebecca Slack ' Lone* Her Fortune and
Her Husband.
LOS ANGELES, Cal , June 12.— Rebecca
Black, a widow who formerly resided in
San Luis Obispo, is beginning to under
stand what it means to "marry in ba?te
and repent at leisure." After a few short
moons of acquaintanceship she was wooed
and won by an actor named or aliased 8.
B. Black. At the time of her marriage
she possessed considerable property in San
Luis Obispo, left by her first husband.
Black induced her to mortgage this prop
erty and give him the proceeds." This
m oney he has squandered.
The woman learned a few days ago that
BlacK had another wife living in this city.
S he demanded an explanation of him, and
he informed her that it was all a mistake.
She did not take kindly to his explanation
and sought out Mrs. Black No. 1. That
lady informed her that notwithstanding
Black's denial, she was married to him
eight years ago m Chicago, and she pre
sented a little boy about , seven years of
age as proof of their, union.
Another stormy interview with Black
followed. He yesterday proposed -■ that
they take a trip East, leaving the first wife
behind.
They were to have left last night, and
she gave hrm $120 to expend on the trip.
He not only got all her cash, but succeeded
in getting her diamonds.
Preparations- were made for the journey
and her trunks were sent to the Santa Fe
depot last even Claiming that he had
some business to transact downtown. Black
told her that he would meet her at the
depot. She was there on time, but Black
failed to put in an appearance. She pro
ceeded to investigate ana learned that
Black had taken the Southern Pacific over
land for the East. •, .
DUNHAM IS SAFE
ON MEXICAN SOIL
The Campbells Fugitive
Crosses the Southern
Boundary.
BAFFLES HIS PURSUERS.
He Begs for Food at Mammoth
Tank, on the Colorado
Desert.
IDENTIFIED FROM PICTURES.
Positive Statement of a Man Who
Fed and Clothed a Hunted
Stranger.
MAMMOTH TANK, Cal., June 12.—
Murderer Dunham is now across the Mex
ican border, secure from pursuit. He was
seen in this oasis of the desert over a week
ago and has had plenty of time to make
his way to the boundary and across. The
person who saw Dunham is a Southern
Pacific employe, well known to Southern
California railroad men. He is opposed to
what he considers unpleasant notoriety in
connection with the case and would con
sent to give to The Call a complete
account of his encounter with the Camp
bells butcher only on a pledge that his
name should not be used in connection
with the story. However, he is ready to
give the authorities all the information in
his possession.
"Several days ago," said he, "I received
a Call containing a likenes3 of Dunham.
I recogriized it at once as that of a man
who stopped at Mammoth Tank on the
night of June 3. It is a gift I have
that when I once see a face I never forget
it, as I have proved on two occasions since
coming to California — meeting persons I
had known as boys and recognizing them !
at once, although I had not met them fpr
thirty years. They did not remember me
until 1 brought certain things to their j
recolleciion. This iB why lam so positive j
about this man, if this is a true picture of j
him.
"The stranger came to the side of my
house and asked for something to eat. I
could not see him, as it was a dark night,
and I told him to go around to the front
door, which he did, and stepped inside.
He tried to hide his face, and a more piti
able looking object I never saw. His
clothes were all in tatters and his hat,
which was a dark soft hat, was very
shabby. His coat also was black and his
shoes were well worn. He said that if we
had anything left over from supper he
would like to have something to eat, as he
had not eaten anything in two or three
days, and I noticed he was very weak and
scarcely able to walk. I told him to go
around to the side door and gave him a
box to sit on. I started to get him a sup
per of fried bacon, coffee and crackers.
He wanted to eat the bacon raw, but 1 did
not wish him to. I thought he must have
been awfully hungry. I handed him out
some crackers until I had supper ready for
him.
"He ate a hearty supper of bacon and
eges and drank two large bowls of coffee.
1 gave him some crackers in a paper bag
and n can of corned beef to take with him.
I also gave him a shirt and two pairs of
socks and a light spring overcoat— as it
was quite cool — and offered him a black
derby I was not using, but it was too
small for him. I never snw a man mqje
profuse in thanks. He almost broke
down.
"I had a good look at him, and my
wife remarked that the man looked
hunted, as if some one was pursuing him.
She said: "He must have been up the
mountains somewhere, as his clothes are
all in tatters.' He was very polite, and
spoke like a man of some education. My
wife said: 'There is something wrong
with that man. He is no ordinary tramp.'
I said to her: 'I think it looks like Dun
ham, who murdered a whole lamily'; and
I went and got a paper and examined the
likeness; but the picture looked too hard
for the man who had just left, and after
talking it over awhile we dismissed the
supposition. I s .V^V'
"I asked him which way he was travel
ing and he said 'Toward Los Angeles.' I
have reason to believe he was going East
and went to Yuma on a freight train a
few hours later. He went in that direc
tion when he left, although he told me he
was going west.
"When I got The Call of June 4 I was
at once positive that I had entertained
Dunham unawares. The picture of the
murderer that it contained did not at all
resemble those published soon after the
murder, but it was an exact likeness of
the man whom my wife and I had fed and
clothed. I am convinced the man was
Dunham. I had been away from home
for a few days and it was only yesterday
that I saw this picture. I happened to
pick up a Call and saw the picture, and it
was such a good likeness that I made up
my mind to at once inform The Call
that it might send a correspondent to get
this information."
Mammoth Tank is on the Colorado
Desert, about fifty miles from the Yuma
reservation and that distance from the :
Mexican line. How Dunham could have I
got this far from Campbells in less than a
week is a difficult problem to solve. The
story here given, if its author was not
mistaken, bears out the theory that Dun
ham was hastening toward the border
while posses were still chasing up and
down Mount Hamilton.
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PURSUED BY POSSES.
Adventures of a Bicyclist Who Me- i
sembles Dunham.
WOODLAND, Cal., June 12.— The resi- ;
dents of Knig ,ts Landing were thrown !
into a state of excitement yesterday by a
report that a man on a bicycle, answering
the description of Dunham, the Santa ;
Clara murderer, had crossed the railroad
bridge at an early hour and had proceeded
in the direction of Woodland. Several
persons were positive that the man was i
Dunham, claiming he answered the de- |
scriftion in every way. The Woodland j
officials were notified to be on the alert for !
wheelmen.
The stranger arrived in this city about 8
o'clock and stopped at the Hotel Julian,
where he registered as Frank K. Hastings
of Massachusetts.
A Call correspondent called on Mr.
Hastings and ascertatnel that he was a
solicitor for an Eastern house and was
making a tour of the State on a bicycle.
"How about your answering the de
scription of Dunham?" queried the re
porter.
"I must resemble the murderer to some
extent, for since the tragedy I have been
stopped four or live times, ' he replied.
"Just this morning, while crossing the
bridge at Knights Landing, I heard several
parties remark that I was Dunham, and I
suppose the fact has been communicated
to this city.
"My first experience," continued Mr.
Hastings, "was while on my way from San
Jose to Hollister, a couple of days after
the murder. I passed through Gilroy and
a short while afterward a posse was fol
lowing me. I kept in the lead of them to
Hollister, where I put up at a hotttl. After
changing my clothes I appeared in the
office of the hotel and a party of twelve
men ordered me to throw up my hands. I
did so, but was released in a short while,
after proving my identity. Afterward I
went to San Jose and on several occasions
the officers called me to a halt.
"I do hope they will capture Dunham
soon, as it places a man in a very peculiar
position who has the misfortune to resem
ble the murderer, and it is not comfortable
to have several armed men following yon
all the time."
Fruitless Search at San Miguel.
SaN MIGUEL, Cal., June 12.— The
rumor that Dunham was caught after a
hard fight in the Willows this morning is
without foundation. Matthews, Lyndon
and posse, after being out all night, re
turned this morning and went to San Jose.
Constable Dosh is searchine in this
vicinity. Jailer Charles Gardner and
Pres Rives, a Gilroy constable, arrived
to-day. They, • with Constable Ganoung,
went to see Mrs. Journey on the Flint
ranch. Sho is the woman who was
stopped by a stranger, who begged for
food. They still believe they are on the
right track.
Columbia Rirer Rising.
PORTLAND, Ob., June 12.— The Colum
bia River is spreading over its banks and
is beginning to inundate farming districts
on the lowlands. Telegraph wires are
being swept down, and the Western Union
Company is experiencing some difficulty
in maintaining its service to the coast.
The gauge of river at Portland is 21.2 feet.
There is much snow in the mountains, and
very high water is expected as a result of
the warm weather if it continues a few
days longer;
PROBING THE TAGUS PLOT
Strong Network of Evidence
Woven Around Silas
Lovren.
The Prosecution Coses Its Case in the
Trial of the Train-Robber
Suspect.
VISALIA, Cal., June 12.— The trial of
Silas Lovren is drawing to a close. The
last witness for the prosecution testified
this afternoon and the case went over
until to-morrow. It is not known how
the defense will proceed in its attempt to
prove that the proprietor of the notorious
deadfall was not the arch-conspirator in
the plot to rob the Southern Pacific over
land express at Tagus on the night
of March 18; that he did not plan the
raid which cost the life of Dan McCall — a
brave man, thoueh a menace to society.
Tbe prosecution has made a strong case,
and it will take convincing evidence to
break the chain of guilt it has woven
around the saloonist.
Deputy Sheriff Victor Reed, who, with
Earl Daggett, was wounded in defending
tne train which McCall boarded, was the
first witness called to-day, he simply
identifying the rifle carried by McCall,
and which, the prosecution claims, was
owned by Lovren. Deputy Sheriff D. O.
Harrelson told tlie story of the officers' trip
to Tulare and of finding the body of Mc-
Call. He said :
"On the Sunday before the hold-up I
went out to the Tagus country about the
middle of tbe day. At a point north of
the Mill Creek crossing of the railroad,
between Tagus and Goshen, 1 found a
newspaper. I was expecting to find it.
1 nad instructions that morning to follow
Britt and McCall, who left Visalia about 1
o'clock in tne afternoon. This newspaper
was found near two trees, and this spot
was not far (seventy rods) from where
McCall's dead body was afterward picked
up."
The witness pointed ont the place where
the body of McCall was found, using a
map of that part of the railroad track be
tween Tagus and Goshen. He also showed
the place Wi.ere the marked paper had
been droppe.l by Britt the Sunday before
the attempted robbery. Britt, the be
trayer of the outlaw's plot, had deposited
the paper at the soot selected by McCall
for boarding the train.
The balance of the testimony was in the
nature of identification of McCall's mask,
lantern and weapons and establishing the
connection of Lovren witn the telltale
articles.
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FAREWELL HONOR
TO NAPA'S GUESTS.
Native Sons and Daughters
Mingle at a Ball and
Banquet.
GAYETY IN MAPLE HALL.
Miss Reichling, Founder of the
Order, Leads the Grand
March.
GRAND PARLOR'S LABORS END.
Services at tbe Grave of the Lato
Grand Marshal Evelyn
Packard.
NAP A, Cal., June 12.— The Grand Par*
lor of the Native Daughters of the Golden
West completed its labors in this city this
afternoon with the installation of the
grand officers elected Thursday evening.
Before the morning session the Grand.
Parlor went to Tuiocay Cemetery and.
neld a short memorial service at the grave
of Evelyn Packard, the deceased grand
marshal. A choir sang the funeral ode of
the order, and Mrs. Lillian Carlie of La
Estrella Parlor, San Francisco, sang "Flee
as a Bird." The prayer and benediction
were read by Past Grand President C. K.
Wittenmeyer of Ramoan Parlor, Martinez.
A beautiful mantle of flowera was spread
upon the grave, and the parlor then re
turned to town.
The morning session was consumed in
exemplifying the new ritual. The reports
of the various committees were adopted.
The first order in the afternoon was the
installation. Past Grand President Miss
E. A. Spencer of Occident Parlor, Eureka,
installed the officers. Mrs. Lillian Carlie,
in behalf of the Grand Parlor, presented
Miss Bertola with a jeweled pin bearing
the insignia of the order. A resolution
thanking the people of Napa, the local
parlors of Native Sons and Native
Daughters, the asylum physicians and
the press for hospitality and favors ex
tended was adopted. When the Grand
Parlor adjourned it was out of respect to
the memory of Evelyn Packard.
The ball this evening, given by Napa
Parlor of Native Sons in honor of the
Grand Parlor, was the most brilliant social
event ever held in Napa County. The
Maple Hall rink was elaborately decorated
and the adjoining lot was converted into
a miniature forest, lighted by colored elec
tric lamps. Here lemonade and cake were
served between the dances. The grand
march was led dv Frank L. Coombs and
Miss Lillie O. Reichling, the founder of
the order.
MOJATE RAIL ACCIDENT.
A Youth Loses Both Feet Beneath the
Wheels of a Train.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Jtuie 12.— Joe
Burns, a young man 21 years of age, was
run over by train 18 last night at Mojave.
Both of his feet were crushed. ' He was
beating his way from Los Angeles on the
blind baggage, and in an attempt to leap
from the platform when the train pulled
into the yard he fell under the wheels.
He was picked up and brought to Kern,
whence he was taken to the connty hos
pital. There both feet were amputated.
He had lost fo much blood in the long
journey from Mojave that his condi
tion is precarious.
Kntrjht* Landing Fire.
KNIGHTS LANDING, Cal., Jane 12.—
The two-story residence of M. E. Clowe,
just east of the railroad devpot, was totally
destroyed by tire yesterday evening. The
blaze is supposed to have been started by
incendiaries. The loss is about $3000,
partially insured.
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