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AMERICAN'S
GREAT GAME
OF WHEAT
Bulls and Bears Battle
in the Pit at
Chicago.
PLAYERS DO THEIR
OWN ROOTING.
Prices of the Cereal Driven
. Up and Down During the
Innings.
CUDAHY ANDCOUNSELMAN
FORM A UNION.
They Intend to Break the Bull Com
bine, and Independent Bulls
Are Discouraged.
CHICAGO. 111., Aug. 27.— The great ]
game of wheat opened this morning with
the bears at the bat, and the bulls putting
up a decidedly weak battery. Promptly
at -9:30 o'clock the umpire climbea to his
• post, the gong sounded and the game
.began. In the first play a bear knocked
.••the ball down into the93J*<-cent field, and
before it was grabbed by the bulls it had
.' rolled to 92 cents. After this the bulls
pulled themselves together and soon had
san • inning. They made a succession of
.single-baggers that sent the score upward.
- The grand stand and bleachers were well
tlfeif,' but the players did all the "root
ling," and the spectators looked on and
. : said nothing. At the beginning of the
: day the "rooters" made the place hideous
With their caterwauling, but as the game
: -progressed the noise sutsded.
When 96 cents was reached the bears
again took the stick and began sending
the ball into tne lower field in spite of tbe
pitching of George French and tbe "root
ing" of the whole bull crowd. By 11:30
o'c*ock the bears were still hanging to the
bat and the hall bad been knocked down
to the 94} 2 '-cent field.
Reports from Eastern games during the
morning were all favorable to the bears.
At Liverpool the bruin team had downed
long-horns by several points, and dis
patches showed that the bears were hav
ing ih3 better of it there. This so elated
the bears in Chicago that it was only the
strong play of the Wall-street crowd that
saved the bulls from being utterly routed.
At noon the cendition of the came was
just as it bad been half an hour earlier,
while in the December game the ball had
been knocked to 90" 4 ' cents and in May, to
9_''., cents. Only aLout half of the usual
number of players were in the field by
this time and tne noise had grown much
milder.
Later in the day 92 cents was again
reached; but for the most part there was
'.very little bard play after the first half
. hour, and most of the players were
gathered at the corn pit, where the bears
•were rushing the bulls backward. In
! 'September the game is practically im
*■' possible lor outsiders to break into, and
I ■•"the bears are afraid to go into December
. for fear a high fly from the September
..pool will knock them cold, while the bulls
.'..'fear that the same batters may spoil
. everything by knocking a foul. The con
"'-'sequence is that the game of wheat seems
, to be suffering from too much profession
. alis.-n.
: A*, the close of the day the bail had been
/■•knocked into the September 93-cent field,
oyer 10 cents away from the high fly of
•■•Thursday morning. la December the
h product price was driven to 90 cents at
: the finish, and May to 91*£ cents.
From a reliable source it was learned to
•' day that John Cuaahy and Charles Coun
• s-lman nave formed a union to break the
•'■ bull combine. The independent bulls are
•discouraged by the prospect, as it is be
:-. lieved that this "clique" has more power
; to undo than the Allen-Grier-French alli
ance has power to do.
, . It is also hinted that the bear combina
■ lion worked last evening through the curb
to break the market to-day, and that the
'•'.decline was due to their manipulation
rather than to the sensationally large
break in Liverpool.
JfECLTXE AT &T. LOUTS.
V hrat Ps ices Slump Owing to a Flood
of Bearish Xests,.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Aug. 27— A flood of
bearish news sent the local wheat market
down to-day. December, the active month,
opened 2% cents off from yesterday at
94 J^ cents.
A further decline of 1 cent was made,
followed by a rally of 1% cents and a de
cline of 2% cents. Finally the market
closed with buyers % of a cent above the
bottom. Compared with yesterday,
prices were off 4 \:, cents tor August, 4%
cents for September. 4% cents for Decem
ber and 4J**» cents for May.
GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.
It Mer'l'f Means That Healers Are Pay
ing fur American Wheal.
NEW 7 YORK, N. V., Aug. 27.— The re
ported importation of $2,190,000 worth of
English gold at San Francisco to pay for
wheat exported from that port to Aus
tralia revived to-day the rumor that this
country would soon be getting back from
England some of the American gold. J.
and W. Seligman, who do an extensive
business in the West, said this morning
that the importation of gold from Aus
tralia to San Francisco did Lot mean that
the people of England would be shipping
the metal to this country. It merely
meant that wheat-dealers of Australia
had been buying American wheat, and
they had to pay for it in gold, as the bal
ance of trade between Australia and the
• Pacific Coast was not in favor of the Aus_
tralians. „_____
FARMERS AtE PROSPEROUS.
They ill Receive a Much Larger
Amount for Wheat 3 hi* Tear.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 27.-As
sistant Secretary Brlgham of the Agri
cultural Departrasnt to-day expressed the
opinion that the American farmers this
year would receive in the aggregate from
$•400,0:0,000 to $500,000,0000 in excess of the
amount received last year for their
wheat.
"This, 1 ? he said, "means much lo the
farmers. They have learned in the season
of hard times thiough which they have
passed to economize where they coulii
and to be careful in buying. They will
use this money received for their crops to
pay off their debts, cancel mortgages and
in making improvements on the farm and
farm buildings. This seems like a vast
sum, but statistics sustain the claim."
Mr. Brigham also predicts that the in
crease in the price of larm products would
benefit the laboring element.
"The price of labor," he said, "did not
decline with the price of farm products,
and for some time the farmer was forced
to pay as much for the services of those
who did the work as ever, while his re
ceipts were cut in two. Inasmuch as
wages did not decline I see no reason why
they should be expected to correspond
with the advanca of farm products, which
are now only bringing fair prices. Still
all the laboring men will be benefited by
this advance in prices. The farmer will
discharge his indebtedness and make im
provements which will require labor. He
will purchase more of the products of
labor, putting a vast amount of money in
circulation, and this will create a demand
for labor in all lines, and men who have
been without employment, or only par
tially employed, will work full time at
fair wages.''
TO REFORM CHICAGO.
Evils of a Great City to Be Smitten
by the Woman's Civic Reform
Society.
CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 27.— Chicago is at
last to be reformed. This big, wicked, in
carnadined city is to be purged and
cleansed and made a dainty, del cite blue.
Evil is to be smitten, misery is to be
buried and depravity is to be drummed
out of camp.
The Woman's Civic Reform Society was
incorporated at Springfield last Thursday,
and to-day Dr. Luella Day Underbill ad
mitted in confidence tnat nothing but
unmitigated virtue could ensue. The re
form business has heretofore been very
trying. There was invariably something
wrong. Now it's going to be very differ
ent. The end of vice in Chicago is in
evitable and that within a very short
time, according to the statements of those
interested in the Woman's Civic Reform
Society. Dr. Luella Day Underhill has
had some previous success here in the
reform business and is now prepared for a
vigorous campaign. A hundred prom
inent citizens are said to have furnished
her with the sinews of war for the com
mencement of the movement.
BANKER SELIGMAN SERIOUSLY ILL.
Physicians Have Performed an Opera
tion for Appendicitis and His Con
dition Is Critical.
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 27.— Banker
David J. Seligman of the wealthy firm of
J. & W. Seligman, 21 Broad street, is lying
seriously ill in the Hollywood Hotet,
Long Branch, and his friends are much
alarmed to-day over his condition. On
Wednesday night Dr. Robert Abbe and
several assisting physicians performed an
operation for appendicitis on Mr. Selig
man. It was sail at the office of his firm
this morning that his condition was con
sidered very serious. Mr. Seligman is the
eldest son of the late Joseph Seligman,
founder of the banking-house of J. & W.
Seligman. Mr. Seligman has been spend
ing tbe summer at Long Branch with his
family. •V" 4 ;*?
FThEO I7i'o> HEGULARS.
Fool Performance of a X'aval Militia
iii nit With a Loaded Hun.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 27.— A member of
the Toledo company of the Naval Reserve
fired upon a special train carrying a bat
talion of the Seventeenth United States
Infantry at Mingo Junction this morning,
Two musicians of the Sixteenth — Fredley
and McDonald — were slightly injured and
tbe side of the car was tilled with shot.
Both the Seventeenth and the Naval-
Reserve had participated in the Steuben
ville centennial ceebration, and were re
turning home. The Naval Reserve was
on a Lake Erie and Western train and the
Seventeenth Regiment was on a Fan
handle train. At Mingo Junction the
tracks of the roads run parallel and very
close together for a short distance. The
Panhandle train was ju«t passing the
Lake Erie and Western at this point when
the shooting occurrea.
A. H. Gould, a member of the Toledo
Naval Reserve, was arrested here when
the train arrived this altermon. He con
fessed that he fired his gun out of the
window while in close proximity to the
Pennsylvania train, but says he thought
he was using a blank cartridge. He had
some blank shells and some loaded ones
with him. He thinks he must have made
a mistake. He is heartbroken over the
affair.
HR. STORES 'JO RESl'i*.
Board of Foreign Missions Will Lose
Its Venerable Pre- ident.
NEW YORK. N. V.. Aug. £7.— It is
stated that the Rev. Dr. Richard S. Storis.
who has been president of the American
Board of Foreign Missions for many
years, will resign the presidency at the
next meeting of the board in October.
Dr. Storrs feels his age and the cares of
his pastorate, which warrant him in re
signing.
There will probably be a great discussion
at the meeting over tbe financial condi
tion of the board. The fiscal year will
show a failin- off of $75,000. which the
officers attribute to hard times. An ap
peal is now going out for money.
Pearl Bed, in Arkansas,
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Auz. -A spe
cial to the Guzat c frcm Mount Adams,
Ark., says: White River, above and below
Mount Adams for several miles, is lined
with pearl-hunters. The people are great
ly excited over the discovery. Wagon
loads of men, women and children are ar
riving from all sections. One party of
campers found a large number of fane
pearls to-day. They were taken to the
store of N. B. Price, and he valued them
at $350. • The Dearis found here are as
larae as buckshot, round and brilliant in
color. WeF%
On the Trail of the Cracker Trust.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 27. —The
New York Biscuit Company, the rivai of
the cracker trust, has opened a Milwau
kee branch. A branch was recently
opened at St. Louis. Manager Hxines
says it is th--*; intention of the New York
company to/stablish branches in all the
cities in the West, in the hope to break
down the trust.
Large Pric- Paid for a Hog.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug. 27.— At a
sale of Poland-China bogs here to-day a
boar named Klevers Model sold for $5100.
This is the largest price ever paid for a
hog. It was purchased by a syndicate
known as the Klevers Model Breeding As
sociation.
Senator Morgan En Route to Hawaii,
NASHVILLE. Tenx., Aug. 27.— Senator
John T. Morgan o. Alabama is here for a
few days. He declines to b*> interviewed,
but has said that he is en route 10 Hawaii,
and that his visit to the islands i* purely
lor private business. ; /W
Editor James 11. Barry speak? of the "Re
formed School Board" in to-day's Star. '- *
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28," 1897.
OGDEN GOELET DIES UPON HIS YACHT MAYFLOWER.
LONDON, Eng., Aug. 27.— Ogden Goelet passed quietly away at noon to-day on board his yacht Mayflower, which is
anchored in Cowes Road, Isle of Wight. There were present at the deathbed his wife, son and daughter, the Hon. Michael
Henry Herbert, brother of the Earl of Pembroke, and Mrs. -rbert, who is Mrs. Goelet's sister.
It was a tragic ending of one of the most sensational social successes ever , made by an American in England. Within
thirty days the. Prince of "Wales had been his guest at Cowes for the third time, and his American host had already made
plans for other important social entertainments. Some of Mr. Goelet's friends think his daughter's determination to marry
the young Duke of Manchester may possibly have hastened the father's end. He felt very strongly about it, but as was
cabled at the time of the suit of the young English nobleman he was supposed to be favored by Mrs. Goelet. In the days im
mediately preceding his demise he said nothing of the unpleasant affair. Mr. Goelet knew that death was coming. Three
months ago he said to his fiiend Jefferson M. Levy: "I Know I shall die before the season ends. I have no doubt lam going
very fast."
Ogden Goelet was one of the several sons-in-law of Richard Wilson, whose daughters are noted in New York society for
the rich marriages they have made. Mrs. Goelet is the oldest daughter, she having married the banker twenty years ago.
Their daughter was presented at court during the recent jubilee festivities, and rumor has persistently engaged her to the
young Duke of Manchester. The Goelets have a magnificent home in New York in the multi-millionaire croup on Fifth
avenue. j -
EVIDENCE IN A
RUSTY SHOVEL
Important Part It Will
Play in the Trial of
Luetgert.
Connecting Link in the Chain
Being Welded by the
Prosecution.
The Sausage-Maker Fiercely Re
sents a Newspaper Caricature
of Himself.
CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 27. -An old rusty
shovel will play an important part in the
Luetgert trial. On this certain stains will
form a subject of much attention and ex
pert testimony will be added to show that
the marks of deep red rust were made by
a strong caustic solution. This shovel
will form an important link in the chain
of circumstantial evidence that the State
claims to have woven about the prisoner.
It will be referred to by Assistant State
Attorney McEwen in his opening state
ment Monday morning. With it the State
will claim that the remnants of the mur
dered woman's body ' were scooped- up
from the bottom of the vat.
It is the theory of the prosecution that
before placing the body in tbe vat Luet
gert disrobed it and placed the bundle of
clothes at the east end of the vat. When
the shovel was brought into use the rem
nants of bones and mass of soapy matter
resulting from the chemical action of the
potash on the fatty substances of the body
were scooped out and carefully deposited
on the clothes. These, together with the
remnants of the body, were then hidden
in one of the smokehouse furnaces and
destroyed later in the day, on Sunday af
ternoon, in the fires under the steam
boiters.
The finding of the shovel was quite
accidental, and is one of the cards the
State has been holding up its sleeve. It
will be u-ed in connection with Frank
Bialk's testimony and help to fit in when
the night watchman tells about Luetgert
ahkuig him anxiously if the police had
lound anything in the smokehouse.
At the sausage-maker's trial to-day Mr.
de Lestre, one of the first four jurors
sworn in, Was discharged by agreement of
couns 1. De Lestre's wife 13 suffering
from nervous prostration, induced princi
pally, it is claimed, by worry over her
husband's presence on the jury, and for
that reason he was allowed to go.
Lu'-tgert is very angry over a newspaper
picture showing his forehead and" eye*
and calling attention to his "evil eye."
i Tne big sausage-maker swore eloquently
as he gazed at the work of the artist.
Luetgert persists in his demand to be
permitted to address the jury during the
trial. His obstinacy in this respect is
troubling his counsel, who fear the pris
oner will create a scene which will be
prejud.cial to his case, luetgert says he
can exp'ain matters to the jury concern
in: his sausage factory better than his
counsel or any other person.
Luetgert has received a letter from D.
J. yon der Ahe, who is searching in Ger
many for Mrs. Luetgert. What the con
tents of the letter are the prisoner refuses
to say, beyond the statement that it con
tains good news. He says the letter will
be introduced in evidence.
BANKER BUYS A GUD BRICK.
The Molson Bank of Calgary, 8.C.,
Victimized to the Tune of $12,000
by Swindlers.
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. -A spe
cial from Montreal says that the manager
of the Calgary branch of the Molson Bank
was taken in by a gold-brck swindler re
cently. A plausible and to all appear
ances a responsible man registered at one
of the hotels in Calgary and announced
himself as a United States Government
assayer from Montana. He made many:
friends and was well received by the best
citizens in the place. About ten days
afterward a miner came to town, and ap
plying at the bank asked to see Mr. Mc-
Gregor, the manager, and when admitted
confided to him that be had made a big
strike and had found an immensely rich,
mine. He then unfolded an old blanket
and brought out a gol I brick which he
said was worth $15,000, and which he
wanted to realize upon so as to obtain suf
ficient money to work the mine.
The manager thought he had a good
chance to make some money and sent for
the '"assayer" from the ! United States.
Some of the brick was taken and assayed
and found by the assuyer to come up to
expectations. McGregor then bought the
brick for a good round sum, said to be
$12,000, and as soon as the money was
paid the miner and his accomplice de
camped. McGregor resigned his position
when he discovered that he bad been
swindled.
NOTED ABOLITIONIST DEAD.
Was Once a California Pioneer and
Crossed the Plains in the
Cays of '49.
CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 27. — William
Crotty, the famous Abolitionist, died last
night at Marysville, Ohio, at the age of 92
years. He was unquestionable the oldest
and the most notable of pioneer conduct
ors of the famous Abolition "underground
railroad." He was also one of the men
who left his Buckeye home during the
gold cxc tement in the days of 1849 and
made the journey overland to Calilornia.
During his connection as one of the con
due.ors of the "underground railroad" he
made a record tbat probably exceeded
that of any other man in the ante-bellum
days. ' Crotty aided 3000 slaves to escape
from their pursuers to a safe haven on Ca
nadian soil, and this in spite of the fact tbat
the slave-owners and slave - hunters
oi the South had marked him as
an object of their special ven
geance. His activity in the noble
work of rescue and liberation of the ne
groes was only interrupted by two years
of absence when ha crossed the plains to
California as a "Forty-niner" and by the
final conflict which resulted ; in the ulti
mate liberation of the black race. '■
In 1849 Crotty went with a party from
Delaware, Ohio, to California in search of
gold, and in the latter part of August,
1850, they reached their destination. He
located a claim, but sold out and returned
to his home in Ohio.
RE A SOX MAS JiETURXED,
John :B. Tallnnt Has Recovered His
Mental Balance.
CHICAGO, 111.. Aug. 27. —John D.
Tallant, the San Francisco banker who
became violently, insane on the overland
train Tuesday and was removed to a sani
tarium at Lake Geneva, recovered his rea
son Thursday. His mind is now as clear
as ever. His revival was instant. At 2
o'clock in the ' afternoon he seemed to
awake with a start from the mental
stupor. Ho had no recdlcction of what
had happened from the moment of , his
collapse. .*.- .
It was gradually explained to him, and
he -aid that ha was feeling in the best of
health, but was a trifle sore from bruises.
- Mr. Tallant will remain at Lake Geneva
for a week to rest, and will then probably
continue his journey to join his family at
Dresden, Germany. . His brother-in-law
will arrive at Lake Geneva from San
Francisco to-morrow. As soon as the
patient was out of the excitement of the
city he became quiet and speedily im
proved. Tbe attack is supposed to have
been brought on by nervous prostration,
which was the result of overwork and
grief for a son who died nine months ago.
KAIL COMPAXT' ULTIMATUM.
Horkinamen Must Accept Proposed
f-cale' or Remove tfJheir loots.
CINCINNATI/OHIO. Aug. 27— A Com
mercial-Tribune spec al from Anderson,
lnd., says: -The American Wire Nail Com
pany, having expended $70,000 in improv
ing their plant with machinery, has an
nounced the scale ior the wire department
which is a slight increase above the aver
age scale of like plants in the country, but
a cut on last year's scale, and is due to
the introduction of the plate system. The
company, will ' treat with the men only as
individuals. .Lust night a notice wa
posted by the company notifying 300 men
that, they would be given until Friday
evening to remove their tools and per
sonal effects from the factory.
THE PAS A • A CAXAI,
An English Syndicate negotiating for
It* Purchase Fruits Trance,
NEW YORK, N. V.. Aug. 27—Word
has been received that an English syndi
cate, possessed of unlimited capital, has
been formed, and Is now negotiating with
ihe French Government for the purchase
of the Panama canal. Should satisfactory
arrangements be made, it is their inten
tion to resume operations immediately
and push the work lorward to completion
as rapidly as .possible, so as to have it
ready for business at as early a date as
money and men can make it. No particu
lars are given. .-. " ]
Will Hot Be Transferred.
CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 27.— Colonel Mer
ritt Barber, adjutant-general of the De
partment of the Missouri, has not re
ceived any notification that he is to be
transferred to New York next month, as
rumored. He is preparing.to leave on his
annual vacation next week. While there
will be some changes in the adjutant-gen
eral's department at Washington, the
transfer of Colonel Barber is a matter. of
pure speculation.. Next February General
Ruggles.will retire from the corps, and if
Colonel Barber is not c tiled up to a higher
place at, that time his transfer to New
York will, come in regular order. : ,
The facsimile y*TJ?-. s/tf* .g — * is on every wrapper
signature of . CJuxy^y^T&^eAe/^S. of CASTOBIA.:,
WARD TALKS
ABOUT ROSS
■ - ■ .
Says the Professor Was
Promoted and Not
Degraded.
The Stanford Instructor Wrote
That He Was Pleased With
the Change.
Ross Liked the Chair of Secretary,
Which Insured Him a
Larger Salary.
CHICAGO, Cal., Aug. 27.— Professor
Lester F. Ward, who is lecturing at the
University of Chicago, was seen by a
Call representative this afternoon and
asked if it was true he had been notified
by Pre feasor Ross of Stanford ' University
that be (Ross) had been deposed from the
chair of economics to that of social sci
ence, because of his pronounced advocacy
of the free coinage of silver.
: "That report seems to me to be without
a bit of foundation. Professor Ross has
been promoted, not degraded," said Pro
fessor Ward.
"I have not had a letter from my Cali
fornia friend for at least six months,
when he wrote me in a somewhat facetious
vein that on account ot his financial views
Dr. Jordan had degraded him from the
chair of economics and finance to that of
sociology.
"He s emed pleased at the change and
evidently wanted me to congratulate him,
and I did so. 1 consider it a promotion,
for the salary is larger, and in that posi
tion he can be more useful at the univer
sity than in the one formerly occupied.
There is not a broader institution in the
land than Leland Stanford University,
and there is no interference with the per
sonal views of its faculty. ( Professor Ross
is an ardent advocate of free silver and
took an active part in the recent cam
paign, but that was as far as he went.
From the manner in which the professor
wrote I feel sure he looks upon the change
as I do as an advancement. He was un
doubtedly the only one at the university
capable of talcing such a chair."
KAXSAS SHIPPERS WIX.
State Railway Commissioners Upheld by j
Jutltie Randolph,
EMPORIA, Kaxs., Aug. 27.— Judge
William Randolph of the Lyon County
District Court to-day issued an injunction,
effective August 29, to restrain the Santa
Fe, Missouri Pacific and the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroads from violat
ing the recently promulgated order of the
Kansas State Board of Railroad Commis
sioners relative to rates on livestock. The
roada named recently resumed the hun
dred-weight basis of charges in cattle
shipments, contrary to the board's order,
which demanded that carload charges be
made. Attorney-General L. C. Boyle
brought action to enjoin the roads from
violating the order, and elaborate argu
ments were had. Attorney Boyle speaking
for the State and A. A. Hurd lor the Ssnta
Fe, T. N. Sed wick for the Missouri. Kan
sas and Texas, and* Bailey W. Wagoner
for the Missouri Pacific.
Judge Randolph temporarily enjoins
the railroads "from further continuing or
further making operative and effective
within the State of Kansas the tariff or
rates for the carriage of livestock by the
hundred pound weight, with a fixed mini
mum of weight per car on business origi
nating or terminating within the State of
Kansas" The decision is a valuable vic
tory to Kansas shipper-.
BIS ILLS ESS A BLESSIXO.
Manager atone .'ares Three oj His
1 1 it st rj liters From Drowning.
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 27.— Harry
C. Stone, the veteran manager of the Pat
erson Opera-house, became ill this morn
ing and' was forced to go to his home,
which is called Ryle Park, on tho banks
of the Passaic River, a short distance be
low the villaee of little Falls.
His indisposition proved the salvation
of his three daughters— Bella and
Maud— for he rescued them from drown
ing by his opportune advent from town.
The girls had gone out for a row on the
river, and they upset -in' twelve feet of
water just .after hi* arrival. Although
Mr. Stone is 63 years old, he /managed to
reach them before they sank by almost
superhuman efforts. Two wore uncon
scious when brought ashore.
DESERTED
HIS WIFE
AT JUNEAU
■ - . *- V -
Gambler Ash of Dawson
Defendant in ; a Di- - __
\ vorce Suit.
WON RICHES ON THE
KLONDIKE.
When He Returned to Seattle
It Was With Another
Woman.
LOST HIS HEART IN THE
LAND OF GOLD.
Assured of His Perfidy, Mrs. Ash
Resorts to the Courts for
Reparation.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 27.— 1t was
stated in th.s city to-day that Harry Ash, I
king of Dawson City gambler*, who re
turned yesterday with a fortune of $10,000
and papers in his pocket to show that he j
is worth ten times that amount, is to be
made the defendant in a sensational di
vorce suit which his wife will soon com
mence against him. She was in consulta
tion to-day with a local law firm and as a
result legal proceedings will be com
menced, in which Ash will not appear as
plaintiff.
' It is said that Ash is responsible for the
trouble and that there is a woman in the
case. Her name no one knows, but it is
said that she comes from the Yukon,
where she made her home for a number of
ye irs and where she met Gambler Ash.
Ash went north three years ago. His
wife accompanied him. They had been
married a long time, thought much of
each other and Ash's friends always said
that Ash was a straight gambler and true
to his wife. They have been compelled to
change their minds.
When Ash and his wife reached Juneau
they found that city not very lively, and
Ash paid he would push on to Circle City
and see if he could not find something to
do in his line. It was agreed that Mrs.
Ash should remain at Juneau until her
husband found himself in a position finan
cially to send for her. They parted with
kisses and Ash went to Circle City. There
he joined Curley Monroe, opened a gam
bling game, dance-hall and beer-garden
and made a little money. Later they
heard about the excitement at Dawson
i City and joined the crowd that rushed
| there. .. ■■'l : ~Z ....-■. *■:;,*•:_
At Dawson City, it i 3 said, Ash met the
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WINTERS. Cal., August 27, 1597.
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woman who caused him to forget that he
had a wife. He did not write to his wife
as often as before, and finally gave her up. .
He told the miners that the woman with
him was his wife; that they were married
by some sort of a ceremony down at Circle
• City. Anyhow she * was known as Mrs.
Harry Ash. She is not a pretty woman.
Mrs.l Ash heard of her husband's
escapade. She did not at first believe it,
but letters from kind friends told her it
was so. They said, however, that tho
other woman was not good looking, and
that they thought Ash would soon discard
her. But Ash did not discard her.
Some months ago Mrs. Ash came to
this city, having heard that her husband
would soon be here, and Ash came on the
schooner Fred E. Sander. The woman
accompanied him. 'I hey registered at a
prominent hotel as Harry Ash and wife.
Mrs. Ash did not do any shooting. She
waited until she had proof of his perfidy
and made no effort to see her husband.
To-day she took steps toward getting a
divorce.
Ash, it is said, is very much in love with
the woman he calls Mrs. Ash and spends
money on her as though he had several
i barrels of gold.
ACCUSES A DEAD MAN.
Alleged Defaulter of Woodland Should
ers His Crime Upon One in
the Grave.
WOODLAND. Cal., Aug. 27.— A sensa
tion was created in this city to-day by the
filing in the Superior Court of the cross
complaint in the case of the West Valley
Lumber Company vs. William Wallace, a
defaulting employe. Several months ago
Wallace was arrested in this city on a
charge of embezzling $2037 17 of the com
pany's money. He was taken to Arbuckle
and held to answer to the Superior Court.
It had been rumored for some time that
the defense would be of a sensational
character.
Wallace's attorneys assert that all the
funds he is alleged to have embezzled,
were turned over to the late S. T. Mowder,
who was manager of the company's busi
ness, and who personally used the money
in gambling. This accusation has | never
been given a serious thought by those who
are acquainted with the upright character
of Mowder, and the charges simply served
to excite indignation at such an attack on
the defenseless dead.
In the cross-complaint the defendant
demands judgment for $1500 for services
rendered. The attorneys for the company
say that the books kept by Mowder and
Wallace refute every statement made in
the answer and cross-complaint — in fact
some of the money sued for was coliec.ed
by Wallace after Mowder's death.
Fast Tract Burned Over.
MILTON, Cal., Aug. 27.— The forest fire
in the vicinity of Salt Spring Valley has
been got under control after a hard
fight. The fire started near the Calaveras
River, at a point 'known as "Greaser
Town," which is a small settlement, and
from there tbe flames spread toward Salt
Spring Valley. A great deal of feed,
fencing and wood was destroyed. By back
firing all the nouses and barns in the path
of the flames were saved. The area
burned over is very large, but the ranchers
are congratulating themselves on the
preservation of their homes and out
buildings.
Bicycles for Stockton Policemen.
STOCKTON, Cal., Aug. 27.— The Board
of Police and Fire Commissioners has been
asked to purchase bicycles for the police
force. There is but fourteen officers in
Stockton on tbe regular force and it is
thought that patrolmen on bikes in the
residence districts will afford the house
holders greater protection than can be
given at present. Chief of Police Gall is
much in favor of the proposed innovation
and it is understood that the police com
mission will outfit the force with wheels.
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