anaheim-gazette 1897-09-02

Anaheim VOLUME XXVII. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM CAL. jy15tf A.W. Bickford, M.D. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON (Successor to Dr. Champion.) Will occupy the office and residence of Dr. Champion. ANAHEIM CAL. je24tf GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, Irrigation DITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks, Etc. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Los Angeles street, Anaheim, Cal. ALL KINDS OF PLOW WORK A. Pfahler & Son. DEALERS IN..... FARMING IMPLEMENTS. Newton Beet Wagons A SPECIALTY. COME IN AND SEE THEM. Shop on Los Angeles St., opp. Backs' Block, Anaheim. Mrs. G. Davis Groceries and Seeds! Informs her customers and the general public that she is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. She buys 'for cash and therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving her customers the benefit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or answering questions. Come one, Come all! All Kinds of Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange E. L. BENTZ & CO. Wholesale and Retail Butchers New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Los Angeles street, Anaheim, Cal. ALL KINDS OF PLOWWORK Executed in Workmanlike Manner, and at Lowest Living Rates. Give Me a Call. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A IRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. PALACE MEAT MARKET F.W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also geeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free o harge Shop on East Center Street. Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. DR. CHARLES E. LEE (Successor to Dr. Bullard.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence—Corner Hermine and heartress Streets, Anaheim. Office Hours—7 to 9 a.m.; 1 to 3 p.m.; 7 to 8. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. CITIZENS' BANK OF ANAHEIM. Hippolyte Cahen - President W. T. Brown, Vice President L. Goldwater, Cashier DIRECTORS: Kaspare Cohn, W. T. Brown Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater Hippolyte Cahen. STOCKHOLDERS Herman W. Hellman, T.J. F. Boege, W.T. Brown P. Nicolus, Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater, Kaspare Cohn H. Cahen, J. A. Goldwater, J. Schlesinger. CORRESPONDENTS: Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles, London, Paris and American Bank, San Francisco; Importers and Traders' National Bank. New York City, N.Y.; First National Bank, Santa Ana. Exchanges for sale on all the principal cities of the United States and foreign countries. Hotel Reception -FULLERTON, CAI.- C. B. Huggans, - Proprietor. First-Class in Every Respect. Meals Served UNCLE SAM'S OCEAN EMPIRE. Sixty Islands in the Mid-Pacific and Several Others are Ours. Distributed over the mid-Pacific, in the neighborhood of the equator, are quite a lot of small islands that belong to the United States. Most of them are from 1,000 to 2,000 miles to the south and southwest of Hawaii. Some of them are near the Gilbert archipelago, and there is a considerable cluster just about the lesser distance mentioned and directly south of the Hawaiian group, including America, Christmas, Palmyros, and other islands of large size. Christmas Island is about thirty-five miles long. It got its name originally from the fact that the famous Capt. Cook stopped there on a Christmas Day for the purpose of observing an eclipse. It is an atoll, or ring, of coral formation, inclosing a lagoon of water that has become so salty through evaporation as to be a veritable brine. Fishes thrown over the reef by storms are pickeled in it, and remain perfectly preserved and good to eat for months. These isles of the Pacific belonging to Uncle Sam number sixty in all. They have all been annexed to the United States under an act of Congress which became a law Aug. 18, 1856. This law, which remains in force to-day, declares that whenever any citizen of the United States shall discover a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government, he shall be at liberty to take peacable possession thereof, and such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States. The discoverer is required to give due notice to the Department of State with affidavits, describing the island and showing that possession of the same has been taken in the name of this country. He is obliged at the same time to give a bond, which is filed in the Treasury. The discoverer at the pleasure of DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Streets E. B. Merritt & Co. FURNITURE Dealers. CENTER STREET. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. H. A. McWilliams. Contractor And Builder. Office, first door east of City Hall. A. FREISE, ...KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. Beer on draught Metz Block, Center St., opposite Postoffice. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. estimates given, Contracts made and do a generjobing Business. Hotel Reception —FULLERTON, CAI.— C. B. Huggans, — Proprietor. First-Class in Every Respect. Meals Served At all hours. The finest the market affords always on hand. Game and Oysters served in any style. Courteous and attentive waiters. Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Beer and Ale, Etc. Found Hanging AT 5 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AROUND Hahn's Stables TO GET HIS TEAM FED. ANAHEIM — CAL. Anaheim Bakery PETER SYRE, PROP. FRESH BREAD, Pies and Cake. Free Delivery Wagon to all parts of the city. A share of the public patronage respectfully solicited. BAKERY, on Los Angeles Street, corner of Cypress. This Is Your Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, a generous sample will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure (Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demonstrate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St., New York City. Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont, recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize his statement, "It is a positive cure for catarrh if used as directed."—Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. clares that whenever any citizen of the United States shall discover a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government, he shall be at liberty to take peacable possession thereof, and such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States. The discoverer is required to give due notice to the Department of State with affidavits, describing the island and showing that possession of the same has been taken in the name of this country. He is obliged at the same time to give a bond, which is filed in the Treasury. The discoverer, at the pleasure of Congress, enjoys the exclusive right to occupy his island for the purpose of obtaining guano, and for this product he is allowed to charge only a certain fixed price, namely, $8 a ton for guano delivered at the ship's side, or $4 a ton for the privilege of digging it where it lies. Furthermore, he gives guarantee by his bond to deliver the guano only to citizens of the United States, and to be used in the United States. The law also provides, curiously enough, that all offenses and crimes on such islands by persons who may land thereon, or in waters adjacent, shall be deemed as committed on the high seas, on board a merchant ship of the United States, and shall be punished accordingly. The President is authorized to use the land and naval forces of the United States to protect the rights of the discoverer or his heirs. But Uncle Sam's ocean empire includes a great many islands of far greater importance than the guano referred to. In Behring Sea there are several very large islands, besides the little Pribylov group to which the seals resort. This country owns the entire chain of Aleutian islands, which separate Behring Sea from the North Pacific. The inhabitants of these islands, called Aleuts, are particularly intelligent, much more civilized than the Eskimo, and bear a close resemblance physically to the Japanese. Off the coast of Southern Alaska is a group of islands of great size, on some of which live the Thlinket Indians. These Indians are the most artistic savages in the world, being skilful wood carvers. Off the coast of Southern California is the Santa Barbara group, comprising a number of large islands, and Catalina. A Cure for Bilous Colic. RESOURCE, Screven Co., Ga.—I have been subject to attacks of bilous colic for several years. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the only sure relief. It acts like a charm. One dose of it gives relief when all other remedies fail. G. D. SHARP. For sale by P. A. Derge. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1897. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months... 1 00 Three months... 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and is sent to subscribers by the early mails. It is delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. CLIMBED ST. ELIAS. Young Duke of Savoy Scales the Height, and Establishes Two Important Facts. VICTORIA (B. C.), Aug. 27.—The expedition of Prince Luigi of Savoy to the summit of Mount St. Elias has determined two facts of prime importance to the scientific world. It has fixed once for all the altitude of Mount St. Elias at 18,120 feet. The figures are subject only to such slight correction as may change the total thirty or forty feet either way. The expedition has answered definitely, and in the negative, the question so long asked by scientists as to whether or not St. Elias was at one time a great volcano. There is not the slightest indication of volcanic action anywhere. A new glacier was discovered by the explorers from the eminence of Mount St. Elias between the Augusta Mountains and Great Logan. It takes its course apparently to the sea, and was named by the Prince "Colombo." The route was absolutely unknown. Advancing up these glaciers and morning SHOTS AT THE NEWS The potato crop in North Cork and Limerick, Ireland, has been partially destroyed by blight and in those districts it will be the worst crop in the last half century for potatoes. The Territorial Convention of Negroes, which has been in session at Perry, Okla., passed resolutions demanding that Congress grant pensions to ex-slaves, their wives and children. They declared that they had been in slavery 240 years, and they demand pay for it. They denounce lynch law and expressed sympathy for the Cubans. They also ask for immediate Statehood for Oklahoma. There are 4,000 Spanish soldiers in the hospitals of Havana and other Cuban points. About 2000 are sent back monthly to Spain incapacitated. Sickness is increasing. The health of the city is not good. The official report shows that for the week ending August 12, the death rate was 90 per 1000. Business is at a complete standstill. The army is not being paid, and a feeling of hopelessness prevails among the Spaniards. Judge Carroll Cook of San Francisco on Friday morning rendered his decision in the case against W. Russell Ward of Santa Monica ordering that defendant be discharged, upon the ground that the information did not state facts sufficient to justify his holding to answer to the charge of adultery. It was not shown to the court that he and Mrs. Bradbury lived together in a state of open and notorious adultery. Among the business transacted in the executive session of the G. A. R. encampment at Buffalo last week, a resolution was adopted urging the government to enforce the law relative to the employment in government work of soldiers wounded during the war, and recommending that all citizens, who have occasion to give employment, to discriminate in favor of such veterans. A communication from the Lincoln association in California recommending that monuments to Lincoln found to be correct. During the six months ending July 1, 1897, the total receipts have been $108,268.63. This sum with a balance of $80,480.48 amount to $188,749.11 to the credit of the county; $58,875.61 have been collected by the Tax Collector; $0067.43 by the Assessor; $2112.05 by the Recorder; $822.05 by the Clerk, and $137.04 by the Sheriff. Other than these receipts have been from State funds and appropriations for special purposes. The bursements from the County Treasury during the six months amounted to $115,325.49. The largest payments are for school purposes and one of $10,295.24 for expenses on the County Jail. There is an item of $1021.76 for feeding prisoners, and $237.16 for clothing for the same. The balance remaining in the county Treasury is $73,423.62. Some months ago the Santa Fe Company offered prizes of from $250 down to the agents on its system showing the largest increase of business during the first six months of 1896-7. This proposition was open to every city and station on the entire system of the Santa Fe, east and west. A dispatch just received brings the news that Riverside was awarded the third prize and Fullerton the fifth. Streator, Ill., won the first prize. United States Circuit Judge Clark of Tennessee rendered a decision which will cause consternation among the tax collectors and lawyers. In the case of A. M. Blakely vs. the Tennessee River Transportation company, on a question of a tax foreclosure, the Judge decided that a mortgage claim involved in the case, must have satisfaction before a tax claim so involved, and established the principle that mortgage claims should have precedence over tax claims. If the decision is upheld by the Supreme Court it will mean the loss of thousands of dollars to cities, counties and States in taxes. Thomas Huzzy, an aged New York miser, who recently became helpless and exhausted on the streets of that city with $33,000 in cash and securities in his possession, has passed in his checks. Mrs. Harriett Mitchell, a over the mid-Pacific, in good of the equator, are small islands that belong to the southwest of Hawaii. Some near the Gilbert archipelago is a considerable about the lesser distance and directly south of the group, including America, Palmyros, and other islands. is about thirty-five feet got its name originally that the famous Capt. there on a Christmas purpose of observing an atoll, or ring, of coral closing a lagoon of water so salty through evaporation be a veritable brine over the reef by storms it, and remain perfectly good to eat for months. of the Pacific belonging in number sixty in all shall been annexed to the under an act of Congress law Aug. 18, 1856. This remains in force to-day, demeanes any citizen of the shall discover a deposit on my island, rock, or key noteworthy jurisdiction of any moment, he shall be at take peacable possession such island, rock, or key secretion of the President, as appertaining to the merger is required to give the Department of State, describing the island that possession of the man taken in the name of He is obliged at the drive a bond, which is filed here. A contractor was expected to overhaul the house, make some alterations and put it in good condition for occupancy as may change the total thirty or forty feet either way. The expedition has answered definitely, and in the negative, the question so long asked by scientists as to whether or not St. Elias was at one time a great volcano. There is not the slightest indication of volcanic action anywhere. A new glacier was discovered by the explorers from the eminence of Mount St. Elias between the Augusta Mountains and Great Logan. It takes its course apparently to the sea, and was named by the Prince "Colombo." The route was absolutely unknown. Advancing up these glaciers and moraines took thirty-nine days, or until July 4th, on which the prince declared for the entire party a general holiday. At Pinnacle Pass was found the first evidence of Russell's expedition of 1891 in the shape of a tent bottom and a single rusty fork. Finally the foot of the divide connecting Mount St. Elias and Newton was reached with a supply of provisions to last twelve days. The elevation was 8000 feet. The Americans in the party raised the Stars and Stripes over the camp in great hills, and Prince Luigi and his party cheered again and again in honor of the flag. At 1 o'clock on the morning of July 31, they commenced the ascent of the great mountain. For eleven hours the upward climb was made and exactly five minutes before 12 o'clock the summit of St. Elias was beneath the feet of the explorers. When they reached the topmost peak there was neither wind nor fog, and the thermometer was only 20 deg. below freezing. The Prince planted the Italian flag on the topmost peak and photographed it. He then cached the Italian and American flags. The Prince does not consider the ascent difficult except for the last few hundred feet, which is a solid mass of ice. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 27.—Prince Luigi, Duke of Savoy, and his party of five Italian mountain climbers, arrived in this city to day on the steamer City of Topeka, after having completed successfully the hitherto impossible task of reaching the summit of Mount St. Elias. Maj. Ingraham and the ten porters who went with them from this city returned, as well as the four Alpine guides, whom the Prince brought along. They are much pleased that they accomplished a feat which many have tried and failed. They took exhaustive photographs which will be developed upon the Prince's return to Italy. All the Italians say that the scenery is far grander than the Alps. The Prince made cash gifts among his crew amounting to $2000, and the total trip is said to have cost him $25,000. BEES SEIZE A HOUSE AND RESIST EVICTION. Contractor and Health Officer Try to Obtain Possession and Are Put to Flight. ELIZABETH (N. J.)Aug. 29.—Bees by the thousands have during the last few months made honey and flourished in a palatial residence in North Broad street, at Elizabeth, N. J., abandoned by its owner for the summer, and the municipal officials are very much worried, because the bees must be banished from the house, and every one shirks the dangerous task. A contractor was expected to overhaul the house, make some alterations and put it in good condition for occupancy as may change the total thirty or forty feet either way. The expedition has answered definitely, and in the negative, the question so long asked by scientists as to whether or not St. Elias was at one time a great volcano. There is not the slightest indication of volcanic action anywhere. A new glacier was discovered by the explorers from the eminence of Mount St. Elias between the Augusta Mountains and Great Logan. It takes its course apparently to the sea, and was named by the Prince "Colombo." The route was absolutely unknown. Advancing up these glaciers and moraines took thirty-nine days, or until July 4th, on which the prince declared for the entire party a general holiday. At Pinnacle Pass was found the first evidence of Russell's expedition of 1891 in the shape of a tent bottom and a single rusty fork. Finally the foot of the divide connecting Mount St. Elias and Newton was reached with a supply of provisions to last twelve days. The elevation was 8000 feet. The Americans in the party raised the Stars and Stripes over the camp in great hills, and Prince Luigi and his party cheered again and again in honor of the flag. At 1 o'clock on the morning of July 31, they commenced the ascent of the great mountain. For eleven hours the upward climb was made and exactly five minutes before 12 o'clock the summit of St. Elias was beneath the feet of the explorers. When they reached the topmost peak there was neither wind nor fog, and the thermometer was only 20 deg. below freezing. The Prince planted the Italian flag on the topmost peak and photographed it. He then cached the Italian and American flags. The Prince does not consider the ascent difficult except for the last few hundred feet, which is a solid mass of ice. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 27.—Prince Luigi, Duke of Savoy, and his party of five Italian mountain climbers, arrived in this city to day on the steamer City of Topeka, after having completed successfully the hitherto impossible task of reaching the summit of Mount St. Elias. Maj. Ingraham and the ten porters who went with them from this city returned, as well as the four Alpine guides, whom the Prince brought along. They are much pleased that they accomplished a feat which many have tried and failed. They took exhaustive photographs which will be developed upon the Prince's return to Italy. All the Italians say that the scenery is far grander than the Alps. The Prince made cash gifts among his crew amounting to $2000, and the total trip is said to have cost him $25,000. BEES SEIZE A HOUSE AND RESIST EVICTION. Contractor and Health Officer Try to Obtain Possession and Are Put to Flight. ELIZABETH (N. J.)Aug. 29.—Bees by the thousands have during the last few months made honey and flourished in a palatial residence in North Broad street, at Elizabeth, N. J., abandoned by its owner for the summer, and the municipal officials are very much worried because the bees must be banished from the house, and every one shirks the dangerous task. A contractor was expected to overhaul the house, make some alterations and put it in good condition for occupancy as may change the total thirty or forty feet either way. The expedition has answered definitely, and in the negative, the question so long asked by scientists as to whether or not St. Elias was at one time a great volcano. There is not the slightest indication of volcanic action anywhere. A new glacier was discovered by the explorers from the eminence of Mount St. Elias between the Augusta Mountains and Great Logan. It takes its course apparently tothe sea,and was named bythe Prince "Colombo." The route was absolutely unknown. Advancing up these glaciers and moraines took thirty-nine days, or until July 4th, on which the prince declared forthe entire party a general holiday.At Pinnacle Pass was foundthe first evidence of Russell's expeditionof 1891intheshapeofa tentbottomandasinglerustyfork.FinallythefootofthedivideconnectingMountSt.EliasandNewtonwasreachedwithasupplyofprovisionstocasttwelvedays.Theelevationwas8000feet.TheAmericansintherpartisshearedtheascentofthegreatmountain.Foreelevenhourstheupwardclimbwassmadeandexactlyfiveminutesbefore12o'clockthesummitofSt.Eliasbeneaththefeetoftheexplorers. Whentheyreachedthetopmostpeaktherewasnewwindnorfog,andthethermometerwasonly20deg.beforefreezing.ThePrinceplantedtheItalianflagonthetopmostpeakandphotographedit.HewthencachedtheItalianandAmericanflags.ThePrincedoesnotconsidertheascentdifficultexceptforthelastfewhundredfeetwhichisa solidmassofice. SEATTLEWash.,Aug.27.-PrinceLuigi,DukeofSavoy,andhispartyoffiveItalianmountinclimbers，arrivedinthiscitytodayonthesteamerCityofTopeka,afterhavingcompletedsuccessfullythehithertoimpossibletaskofreachingthesummitofMountSt.Elias. Maj.Ingrahamandthetenporterswhowentwiththefromthiscityreturned.aswellasthefourAlpineguideswhomthePrincebroughtalong.ThetheyaremuchpleasedthattheyaccomplishedafeaftwhichmanyhavetriedandfailedThey tookexhaustivephotographswhichwillbedevelopedupontheprince'sreturntoItaly.AlltheItalianssaythatthesceneryisfargranderthantheAlps.ThePrincemadecashgiftsamihomeamountingto$2000,andthetotaltripsaidtohavethecosthim$25,000. BEES SEIZE A HOUSE AND RESIST EVICTION. Contractor和HealthOfficerTrytoObtainPossession和ArePuttoFlight. ELIZABETH(N.J.)Aug.29.-BeesbythethousandshaveduringlastfewmonthsmadehoneyandflourishedinapalatalresidenceinNorthBroadstreet.atElizabeth,N.J.,abandonedbyitsownerforthesummer,andthemunicipalofficialsareverymuchworriedbecausebeesmustbemanibannedfromthehouse,andeveryoneshirksthedangeroustask. Acontractorwasexpectedtooverhaulthehouse,makesomealterationsandputitingoodconditionforoccuurpily A contractorwasexpectedtooverhaulthehouse,makesomealterationsandputitingoodconditionforoccuurpily AmongthebusinesstransactedintheexecutivesessionofGThe.A.R encampmentatBuffalolastweek,aresolutionwasadoptedurgingthegovernmenttoenforce-thelawrelativetotheemploymentin governmentworkof Soldierswoundedduringthewar,andrecommendingthatallcitizens,thewhoseoccasiontogiveemployment,tocombinateinfavorofsuchveterans.AcommunicationfromtheLincolnassociationinCaliforniarecommendingthatmonumentstoLineolindirectedineverycitywasendorsed,andtheNationalMonumentAssociationwasaskedtothefavorableaction. WithinthebriefperiodoftendaysthestockoftheOceanicSteamshipCompanyofSanFranciscohasrisenedfrom$20to$36pershare,andadvance80percent.it.isgenerallyagree thatthepresentattitudeofthePacificMailSteamshipCompanyinitsnotasyet successfulfightforHawaiiancharactersforsomeofitsbigships,inthereasonforbilligadvanceinthequotationsOfOceanicstock,butthechiefcauseisthe10per centdiscriminationclauseinthen newly adoptedtariffbillwhich，ifenforced，willgivetheOceanicSteamshipCompanya practical monopolyofthetradebetweenHonoluluandSanFrancisco.The10per centdutycdontallimportsbroughttothiscountryinshipsofforeigncountry-havingno favorednationtreatwiththeUnitedStates.InIfThePacificMailSteamshipCompanyfailstosecureaHawaiianregisterforitsChina steamships,theSpreckelslinewillhaveapracticalmonopolyoftheHawaiiantrade,evenwithouttheannotationoftheHawaiian Islands. ThesteamerPortlandwhicharrivedatPortTownsendfromSt.MichaelsonSaturdayhadonboarda Murdererwhowaschasedbydetectiveshalfwayaround.theworld.HisisinironsandunderconstantwatchoftwoPinkertondetectives.Theprisoner，WilliamSmith，waspursuedoverthecontinenttoJuneau，toDyeaandacrosstheChilcotpass.Overthelakesdownanddrownriversto-thegoldfieldsofKlondikewherehewas takeninto custody.Smithwas takeninto custodySmithwas takeninto custodySmith'srelativesclaimedthathewasburnedtodeathinthefire.Anlifewasinsuredfor$35000,andademandwouldmadefortheMoney.AnInvestigationledtothebeliefthatbodywasnotthatofSmithbutthatofawatchman.The theorywasatonceadvancedthatSmithhad committedmurderandburnedhisstoreinthenhope thatbodywouldbe roasted beyondrecognitionandhis relativesobtaintheinsurance moneyafterhehad disappeared.Pinkertondemonstrateduponacl complaintsworntobyPostailInspectorErwinofthatcity.uponinformation 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ELIZABETH (N. J.), Aug. 29.—Bees by the thousands have during the last few months made honey and flourished in a palatial residence in North Broad street, at Elizabeth, N. J., abandoned by its owner for the summer, and the municipal officials are very much worried, because the bees must be banished from the house, and every one shirks the dangerous task. A contractor was expected to overhaul the house, make some alterations and put it in good condition for occupancy. With several men he began operations. The shutters of the house had been closed and it was dark inside. The men groped about until one found a gas jet and struck a match. A humming noise, like a sawmill on full time, was heard, and the astonished men saw a cloud of angry bees descending upon them. The men pulled off coats and hats to fight the savage insects away. The bees stung unmercifully, and when the men finally reached outer air they were in agony. The contractor was anxious to get to work, as it was a hurry order, but the men refused to go back while the bees were there. The contractor thought that by using sulphur in a charcoal stove he could kill the bees and proceed with the alterations. He took the stove up to the house and was in the act of starting the fire when Colonel W. M. Morton came along. The Colonel convinced the contractor that he would be liable for cruelty if he killed the bees, and insisted that the Board of Health could be forced to get rid of the insects. The contractor notified the Inspector of the existence of the nuisance and asked to have it abated. As a result a special messenger was sent with the notice to the president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to have the bees removed. The members of the society were called together and they found it necessary to appeal for legal advice. The Board of Health then took the case up and decided that the Health Inspector was just the man to do the business. A member of the board shouldered a formidable apparatus and went to the house. The bees were waiting for him, and he rapidly retreated, leaving the bee-killer in the hands of the insect enemy. The contractor notified the city attorney that the regular authorities had failed to abate a nuisance and he was going to charge the city for the time wasted waiting for the bees to be removed. It is supposed there are hundreds of pounds of honey in the besieged house. Dry stove wood delivered at $6 per cord, novtf C. Otto Rust. Sigmund Morris, who is wanted in Brooklyn, N.Y., for having violated the postal laws in connection with an alleged directory swindle, is under arrest at San Francisco. He was taken before Commissioner Heacock and arraigned upon a complaint sworn to by Postal Inspector Erwin of that city, upon information furnished by the authorities in Brooklyn, the specific charge being that of having used the mails for fraudulent purposes. A date was set for his examination, bail being required meanwhile in the sum of $2500. But it is believed that Morris will waive examination and ask that he be sent east for trial immediately. Morris was for many years a printer in Los Angeles, at which place his brother Hugo was recently arrested upon a similar charge and taken east for trial. Carl Van Gulpen, many years ago a resident of Anaheim, and a pioneer who was well known in the early days of California, died on Saturday morning at his home in Alameda, No. 1522 Willow street. He was seventy-nine years old, a native of Aix-la-Chapelle, and before he came to California in 1850 he had been a Lieutenant in the Prussian army. Upon his arrival on this coast he went into mining. One of his first ventures was in a general merchandise store at Sonora. Two fortunes were made and lost by him. While a resident of San Francisco in the early fifties, he was an active member of the Vigilance Committee. He was a close and confidential friend of General John A. Sutter, builder of the fort at Sacramento. In 1866 he married Mrs. Alphonse W. Sutter, the young widow of the General's youngest son. This was his second marriage, and there are three sons of his first wife, and several grandchildren are living. Van Gulpen was one of the most accomplished of local pianists during his earlier residence in San Francisco. He removed to Los Angeles, where he followed the profession of music. Mrs. Van Gulpen was a singer. Van Gulpen came to Anaheim with the Pioneers and is well and favorably remembered by many. He was a highly educated man, versed in all modern literature, and was well acquainted with the English, French, Spanish and Italian languages as with his native German. A sister, surviving in Germany, is Mrs. Elvira Imhaus of Boppard-on-the-Rhine. The report of James Harrison, who was employed to expert the books of the county, has been submitted to the Board of Supervisors. The books and vouchers of the county officials are the scene of upwards of thirty murders, by the deathbed confession of Captain Carroll at Wichita, Kan. The fate of the Benders has heretofore been veiled in mystery. Carroll confessed that a band of citizens, sworn to eternal secrecy, followed the Benders after their flight from the scene of their crimes and killed Kate and the old man but let Mrs. Bender go with a warning never to return, on pain of death. Kate and her mother stood by and stoically watched the men riddle the body of William Bender with bullets, and then when Kate's turn came, she stepped out like a tragedy queen and said: "Blaze away." She was shot down, but when it came to shooting the mother, the hearts of the posse failed them and they allowed her to go. The bodies were carefully buried and the graves concealed. About four years ago there came to Madera county from Rock Ferry, England, a Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Tubbs. With them came a little girl, the daughter of one of their English neighbors, named Emma Davis. The Tubbs purchased one of the finest vineyards in the country. Since they took possession of this property little Emma Davis has been practically enslaved. She has scarcely been allowed to go off the premises, and has been compelled to work in the vineyard by the side of men hired from off public highways and has received no education. The British Consul has interested himself in the matter at the request of the Marquis of Salisbury, and the Sheriff of the county being appealed to, he went to the Tubbs place for the girl, but found she had been spirited away. She is supposed to be in Fresno, and the Sheriff will try to find her and send her back to England. Emma Davis, the English girl whose treatment has caused the British Consul in San Francisco to interest himself in her case, was discovered by a reporter of the Morning Republican at the home of E.D.Merriam on a vineyard east of Fresno, where she had been placed as a domestic. A terrible tragedy was enacted at Palouse, Wash., when Frank Maupin Jr., shot down Miss Flora James as she was returning from church and then turned the gun on himself. In both cases death was almost instantaneous. Miss James was a prepossessing girl of 17, and was employed at the St. Elmo hotel. For months Maupin has been attentive to her and was insanely jealous of her. Tuesday evening of last week Miss Hattie Bush, a friend of Miss James, called at the hotel and asked her to go to church with her. She consented, and she two went to a tent where services were being held. They left the tent in company with Earl Peffer, who walked up the street between them. When about two blocks away Maupin, who was walking behind them, called to Miss James and talked Gazette. BER 2, 1897. NUMBER 45 be correct. During the six funding July 1, 1897, the total have been $108,268.63. This a balance of $80,480.48 amount 0.11 to the credit of the county; have been collected by the sector; $9067.43 by the Asses0.05 by the Recorder; $822.05 ork, and $137.04 by the Sherth than these the receipts have in State funds and appropriaspecial purposes. The dissims from the County Treasury the six months amounted to 0. The largest payments are purposes and one of $10,295.24 cases on the County Jail. There of $1021.76 for feeding pris- $237.16 for clothing for the balance remaining in the receipt is $73,423 62. months ago the Santa Fe Commended prizes of from $250 down on its system showing the increase of business during the months of 1896-7. This proposipen to every city and station fire system of the Santa Fe, rest. A dispatch just received the news that Riverside was the third prize and Fullerton Streator, Ill., won the first States Circuit Judge Clark of rendered a decision which consternation among the tax and lawyers. In the case of likely vs. the Tennessee River station company, on a question closure, the Judge decided mage claim involved in the have satisfaction before a so involved, and established ple that mortgage claims have precedence over tax the decision is upheld by the Court it will mean the thousands of dollars to cities, and States in taxes. Huzzy, an aged New York to recently became helpless listed on the streets of that 33,000 in cash and securities session, has passed in his Mrs. Harriett Mitchell, a with her a moment. As she turned to go he drew a revolver and sent a bullet crashing into the base of her brain, just back of the left ear. Quick as a flash the gun was placed just over his own left eye and a second later a bullet sped through his head. During the national fete at Montevideo Wednesday of last week President J. J. Borda of Uruguay was shot and killed by an assassin as the procession was moving through the streets. The excitement is intense. The President died almost instantly. The deed is believed to have been done by an anarchist inflamed to the act by the killing of Canovas. A new pension ruling has been issued at Washington. It provides in all new disability cases where the pensioner wants an increase of pension the matter must be referred to special examiners for corroboration. It is expected that the veterans will bitterly criticize the ruling as casting reproach upon their characters as witnesses. It will delay ten thousand pensions. The northern counties of California, where wheat is grown extensively, are experiencing a remarkable revival of prosperity since wheat commenced to climb. An evidence of this is a sale consummated at Willows, whereby Mrs. William Killebrew transferred her farm for 990 acres to G.W. Snoden for $36,630. For a number of years the property has been incumbered with a mortgage of $24,000, and last year Mrs. Killebrew implored the bank holding the mortgage to take the land for the indebtedness. The bank refused, and the mortgagor is now $12,000 better off than before wheat's advance, the land thus having increased 50 per cent in value. John D. Tallant, the San Francisco banker who became violently insane on an overland train in Chicago Tuesday of last week and was removed to a sanitarium at Lake Geneva. Ill., recovered his reason Thursday. His revival was instant. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon he seemed to awake with a start from the mental stupor. He had no recollection of what had happened from the known to be a den of four lions on Casper Mountain. No hopes are entertained of finding the babe alive. The execution of Benjamin Hill, who killed his wife in Oakland, which was set for Friday last, was postponed by an appeal to the United States supreme court. Thursday afternoon application was made to District Judge De Haven for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that new and important evidence had been secured. The judge refused to issue the writ, and immediately following his refusal the attorneys for the petitioner filed a motion of appeal from the decision to the supreme court of the United States and the judge gave the order allowing the appeal, ordering that the petitioner give a bond in the sum of $500 for costs and damages. T.T.Dargie and H.H.Lynch qualified and entered upon the bond and the papers were duly filed before the clerk and the order granted. Dewitt Hill, brother of the condemned man, and Mr. Chapman took a gasoline launch and carried the deputy United States marshal to San Quentin, where the papers were served upon Warden Hale at about 11 o'clock Thursday night. This appeal will act as a stay of execution, if the precedent set by the Durrant case is followed, as it doubtless will be. Attorney Delmas is still pursued by his Nemesis, the so-called Baroness von Turkheim, nee Young. The woman created a sensation on City Hall avenue in San Francisco late Wednesday afternoon by slapping the distinguished attorney's face, just after the adjournment of the Angus-Craven trial, in which he is chief counsel for the defense. During the day the baroness visited the courtroom for the first time since her return from abroad, accompanied by her little boy, who vainly tried to attract the attention of Delmas by loudly addressing him as "papa." They remained in the room half an hour and then quietly departed. When court adjourned Delmas lingered in the hall a few minutes and then took a McAllister street car. As fate would have it, the woman was In the case of Huzzay vs. the Tennessee River station company, on a question disclosure, the Judge decided mortgage claim involved in the have satisfaction before a case involved, and established that mortgage claims have precedence over tax by the decision is upheld by some Court it will mean the thousands of dollars to cities, and States in taxes. John D. Tallant, the San Francisco banker who became violently insane on an overland train in Chicago Tuesday of last week and was removed to a sanitarium at Lake Geneva. Ill., recovered his reason Thursday. His revival was instant. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon he seemed to awake with a start from the mental stupor. He had no recollection of what had happened from the moment of his mental collapse. It was gradually explained to him. He said that he was feeling in the best of health, but was a trifle sore from bruises. Talant 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 has arrived at Lake Geneva from San Francisco. As soon as the patient was out of the excitement of the city he became quiet and steadily improved. The 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. Brakeman Stewart of the overland train leaving Sacramento for San Francisco Friday evening shot a ramp in the left leg in Washington. Yolo county. A large gang of toughs boarded the train at Sacramento for San Francisco just as it left the depot, and when it crossed the river the conductor called a halt. The trainmen set to work to put the hobos off the car, and the latter showed fight. Finally the trainmen drew their pistols to intimidate the hobos, when one of them threw a stone at Stewart. The brakeman chased him and hit him with his pistol, and just then another of the hobos let fly a cobblestone at Stewart and then ran. Stewart took a shot at him, but the fellow did not stop. It was afterward learned, however, that the bullet struck him in the leg, inflicting a flesh wound. Having beaten back the gang, the trainmen returned to duty and the train went on its way. W. B. Lockwood of Philadelphia has called at the Postoffice Department at Washington to protest against the awarding of the contract for the printing of the postal cards. He bases his protest on the ground that the use of postal cards was all that stood in the way of the reduction of letter postage to one cent per half ounce. He says that the postal cards cost about five times as much as stamps, that they were fully as hard to handle as a letter, and that they weighed almost as much. He thinks that if the postal cards were done away with the increase in business and the money saved by the government would enable it to reduce the rate of postage, thus conferring great benefit on all. He was informed that under law the Department was compelled to give out the contract and could exercise no discretion in the matter. He was advised to present the matter to Congress, which he said he would do at the next session. Miss Jessie L. Butler, the handsome step-daughter of M. L. Wicks of Los Angeles, appeared as the complaining witness in Judge Van Dyke's court one day last week in a curious suit to quiet title. The action she maintained was against the executor of her mother's estate and also against the husband of the deceased, her step-father (Wicks.) Miss Butler's mother, some time before her death, executed a deed to her daughter of a lot valued at $5000, stating that her return from abroad, accompanied by her little boy, who vainly tried to attract the attention of Delmas by loudly addressing him as "papa." They remained in the room half an hour and then quietly departed. When court adjourned Delmas lingered in the hall a few minutes and then took a McAllister street car. As fate would have it, the woman was on the same car. The baroness clutched at his coat tails and pulled him back, at the same time giving him a ringing slap on the cheek. By this time she had reached McAllister street, and a private detective who was with the attorney arrested the woman. She was taken to the central police station, but Delmas refused to prefer a charge against her. The baroness afterward called on Chief Lees and took her departure as quietly as though nothing had occurred. The Agricultural Department is preparing to make an experiment with a new forage plant which is thought to be adapted to the semi-arid regions of the West. It is the Bromus inermis, a grass indigenous to the Russian steppes. Orders for one or two tons of the seed for planting have been wired to Moscow in response to a telegram from Professor Hanson, the department's agent, that he could secure this quantity by taking it immediately. The grass is to thrive in lands which are too dry for the ordinary forage plants. It is a tall, nutritious plant, and it is hoped will prove to be adapted to the plains along the base of the Rocky mountains. Professor Hanson, through whom this order has been placed, is resident of South Dakota. He is making a special investigation of grasses and other forage vegetation of Siberia for the department, with a view of securing plants adapted to the soil and climate of the plains region, and this order is the first fruit of his labor. The dispatching of Professor Hanson on this mission has had the effect, apparently, of creating the impression that the department is making especial inquiry into the agricultural possibilities of the country which will be traversed by the new Siberian railroad, with the view of determining beforehand the probable increase and character of competition the American farmer will have to encounter from that quarter. A drama in real life was ended last week by the execution of James Wood at Nelson, B.C., for murder. Three principal actors are now in their graves and a strange story, full of blood curdling interest, has ended in murder and the gallows. Paddy Wood kept a blacksmith shop where he shod horses and did the rough iron-work required in the little mining town of Nelson. One night, a few months ago, he heard a noise in his shop from his bedroom above, and going downstairs was confronted by a man who without speaking, shot the old blacksmith through the breast. The murderer was recognized as James Wood. Paddy Wood lingered for some time before he died, but he would not speak, save to say that James Wood shot him down without a word. Neither would the murderer speak on the gallows of the dead man or his identity. He simply said with a smile: "Don't draw the rope too tight." No one knew what occurred beyond the shooting in the little blacksmith shop, but those who claim of upwards of thirty murders, withbed confession of Captain Wichita, Kan. The fate of wars has heretofore been veilery. Carroll confessed that the citizens, sworn to eternal followed the Benders after night from the scene of their killed Kate and the old man Bender go with a warning return, on pain of death. Kate mother stood by and stoically the men riddle the body of Bender with bullets, and then Bender's turn came, she stepped a tragedy queen and said: "away." She was shot down, and it came to shooting the hearts of the posse failed they allowed her to go. The are carefully buried and the encaled. Four years ago there came to county from Rock Ferry, England, and Mrs. Edward A. Tubbs. She came a little girl, the daughter of their English neighbors, Emma Davis. The Tubbs purpose of the finest vineyards in York. Since they took possession property little Emma Davis was practically enslaved. She only been allowed to go off the road and has been compelled to the vineyard by the side of her from off the public highway has received no education. Both Consul has interested him matter at the request of the of Salisbury, and the Sheriff County being appealed to, he the Tubbs place for the girl, she had been spirited away. Apposed to be in Fresno, and will will try to find her and back to England. Davis, the English girl whose has caused the British Conflict in Francisco to interest him, case, was discovered by a of the Morning Republican at of E. D. Merriam on a vinedow of Fresno, where she had had as a domestic. Tale tragedy was enacted at Wash., when Frank Maupin, own Miss Flora James as she meeting from church and then the gun on himself. In both both was almost instantaneous. This was a prepossessing girl of was employed at the St. Elmo for months Maupin has been to her and was insanely jealous. Tuesday evening of last Hattie Bush, a friend of mes, called at the hotel and go to church with her. Pointed, and the two went to more services were being held. The tent in company with Earl who walked up the street bemom. When about two blocks Maupin, who was walking behind to Miss James and talked A mountain lion carried away a twoyear-old child at Caspar Mountain, Wyo., on Thursday. A fruitless search was made by herders of flocks and miners all day, and forty men searched all night in vain to find the baby. The number of those in search grew hourly, and the search was kept up without rest or sleep. The little one is an orphan, whose mother died last year and whose father had put it into the care and keeping of a family named Henderson, the head of which is herding sheep ten miles from Jasper, at the head of Cy Canyon. At daylight Thursday morning Henderson arose and followed his flock, leaving his wife and the orphan charge sleeping in camp. When he returned at 8 o'clock for breakfast the woman was still fast asleep and the baby was gone. It had awakened and toddled of its night dress. A search was at once made for the little one, and its bare feet tracks were found leading to a spring nearly a mile away. Near the spring and near the babe's track was found also a fresh track of a huge mountain lion, and the fate of the little one was then known. No other trace of the babe has been found. There is great benefit on all. He was informed that under law the Department was compelled to give out the contract and could exercise no discretion in the matter. He was advised to present the matter to Congress, which he said he would do at the next session. Miss Jessie L. Butler, the handsome step-daughter of M. L Wicks of Los Angeles, appeared as the complaining witness in Judge Van Dyke's court one day last week in a curious suit to quiet title. The action she maintained was against the executor of her mother's estate and also against the husband of the deceased, her step-father (Wicks.) Miss Butler's mother, some time before her death, executed a deed to her daughter of a lot valued at $5000, stating that she intended thereby to make her a gift of the land. She acknowledged the execution of the deed before a notary public and thereafter the deed remained in the daughter's possession, until after the death of the mother. One day, during a conversation with Wicks Miss Butler asked him if he wished the deed destroyed; he answered that he would prefer that it would not go on record, whereupon she tore it up. Wicks then claimed that the deed was merely a deed of trust in view of some business that his deceased wife had had with a railway company that was likely to affect the land conveyed. The fair grantee could not see it so; hence the action. Judge Van Dyke smiled at Wicks' argument, and said that the daughter might have even returned the deed to its maker without thus reconveying the title, and without further ado, he ordered a decree for plaintiff. Whereupon Miss Butler offered her hand to Wicks, who smilingly took it, and the two went away together. A mountain lion carried away a two-year-old child at Caspar Mountain, Wyo., on Thursday. A fruitless search was made by herders of flocks and miners all day, and forty men searched all night in vain to find the baby. The number of those in search grew hourly, and the search was kept up without rest or sleep. The little one is an orphan, whose mother died last year and whose father had put it into the care and keeping of a family named Henderson, the head of which is herding sheep ten miles from Jasper, at the head of Cy Canyon. At daylight Thursday morning Henderson arose and followed his flock, leaving his wife and the orphan charge sleeping in camp. When he returned at 8 o'clock for breakfast the woman was still fast asleep and the baby was gone. It had awakened and toddled of its night dress. A search was at once made for the little one, and its bare feet tracks were found leading to a spring nearly a mile away. Near the spring and near the babe's track was found also a fresh track of a huge mountain lion, and the fate of the little one was then known. No other trace of the babe has been found. There is great benefit on all. He was informed that under law the Department was compelled to give out the contract and could exercise no discretion in the matter to Congress, which he said he would do at the next session. Miss Jessie L. Butler, the handsome step-daughter of M. L Wicks of Los Angeles, appeared as the complaining witness in Judge Van Dyke's court one day last week in a curious suit to quiet title. The action she maintained was against the executor of her mother's estate and also against the husband of the deceased, her step-father (Wicks.) Miss Butler's mother, some time before her death, executed a deed to her daughter of a lot valued at $5000, stating that she intended thereby to make her a gift of the land. She acknowledged the execution of the deed before a notary public and thereafter the deed remained in the daughter's possession, until after the death of the mother. One day, during a conversation with Wicks Miss Butler asked him if he wished the deed destroyed; he answered that he would prefer that it would not go on record, whereupon she tore it up. Wicks then claimed that the deed was merely a deed of trust in view of some business that his deceased wife had had with a railway company that was likely to affect the land conveyed. The fair grantee could not see it so; hence the action. Judge Van Dyke smiled at Wicks' argument, and said that the daughter might have even returned the deed to its maker without thus reconveying the title, and without further ado, he ordered a decree for plaintiff. Whereupon Miss Butler offered her hand to Wicks, who smilingly took it, and the two went away together. A mountain lion carried away a two-year-old child at Caspar Mountain, Wyo., on Thursday. A fruitless search was made by herders of flocks and miners all day, and forty men searched all night in vain to find the baby. The number of those in search grew hourly, and the search was kept up without rest or sleep. The little one is an orphan, whose mother died last year and whose father had put it into the care and keeping of a family named Henderson, the head of which is herding sheep ten miles from Jasper, at the head of Cy Canyon. At daylight Thursday morning Henderson arose and followed his flock, leaving his wife and the orphan charge sleeping in camp. When he returned at 8 o'clock for breakfast the woman was still fast asleep and the baby was gone. It had awakened and toddled of its night dress. A search was at once made for the little one, and its bare feet tracks were found leading to a spring nearly a mile away. Near the spring and near the babe's track was found also a fresh track of a huge mountain lion, and the fate of the little one was then known. No other trace of the babe has been found. There is great benefit on all. He was informed that under law the Department was compelled to give out the contract and could exercise no discretion in the matter to Congress, which he said he would do at the next session. Miss Jessie L. Butler, the handsome step-daughter of M. L Wicks of Los Angeles, appeared as the complaining witness in Judge Van Dyke's court one day last week in a curious suit to quiet title. The action she maintained was against the executor of her mother's estate and also against the husband of the deceased, her step-father (Wicks.) Miss Butler's mother, some time before her death, executed a deed to her daughter of a lot valued at $5000, stating that she intended thereby to make her a gift of the land. She acknowledged the execution of the deed before a notary public and thereafter the deed remained in the daughter's possession, until after the death of the mother. One day, during a conversation with Wicks Miss Butler asked him if he wished the deed destroyed; he answered that he would prefer that it would not go on record, whereupon she tore it up. Wicks then claimed that the deed was merely a deed of trust in view of some business that his deceased wife had had with a railway company that was likely to affect the land conveyed. The fair grantee could not see it so; hence the action. Judge Van Dyke smiled at Wicks' argument, and said that the daughter might have even returned the deed to its maker without thus reconveying the title, and without further ado, he ordered a decree for plaintiff. Whereupon Miss Butler offered her hand to Wicks, who smilingly took it, and the two went away together. A mountain lion carried away a two-year-old child at Caspar Mountain, Wyo., on Thursday. A fruitless search was made by herders of flocks and miners all day, and forty men searched all night in vain to find the baby. The number of those in search grew hourly, and the search was kept up without rest or sleep. The little one is an orphan, whose mother died last year and whose father had put it into the care and keeping of a family named Henderson, the head of which is herding sheep ten miles from Jasper, at the head of Cy Canyon. At daylight Thursday morning Henderson arose and followed his flock, leaving his wife and the orphan charge sleeping in camp. When he returned at 8 o'clock for breakfast the woman was still fast asleep and the baby was gone. It had awakened and toddled of its night dress. A search was at once made for the little one, and its bare feet tracks were found leading to a spring nearly a mile away. Near the spring and near the babe's track was found also a fresh track of a huge mountain lion, and the fate of the little one was then known. No other trace of the babe has been found. There is great benefit on all. He was informed that under law the Department was compelled to give out the contract and could exercise no discretion in the matter to Congress, which he said he would do at this session. Miss Jessie L. Butler, the handsome step-daughter of M. L Wicks of Los Angeles, appeared as the complaining witness in Judge Van Dyke's court one day last week in a curious suit to quiet title. 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