, 1889-01-31

~ inIerVieW ne threatened to kill
himself, II she did not withdraw the
GnarRe she had preferred against him, but
DID not carry out the threat. On Satur.
day last Batwel was arrested on a charge
OF adultery preferred by his wife. 1t was
at hrst Intended to have his paramour or :
rested also but this was not done. She
mas disappeared, being sent away by Bat.
We'll who insisted that she knows nothing
OF ms having another or real wife, but 1t
Is difficult to express an idea of the case
clearly In q few words. Batwell has a
version OF the matter quite diff
ferent from his wife. He
says she deserted him and he
also said he was married to the woman he
civil law, AS che being q Catholic they
could not be married in any other way
As the real wife has a marriage certificate
Mr.. Batwell is evidently bigamist or
liar-he may be both. He has friends
here who will use every endeavor to shield
him from justice while the woman he
abandoned finds in the frst officer of the
law on whom she called, IA broken reed
just what the outcome of the affair will be
remains to be seen, but developments so
far have greatly annoyed many decent peo.
pie who have been imposed upon, and
whose name have been withheld for ob.
vious reasons.
PORTLAND, Jan. pa, Special. Last De.
cember man named Frank Cunningham
was found dead early one morning at the
foot OF Taylor street in this city. There
were several suspicious circumstances
connected with the case which
pointed to foul play. Cunningham
come to the city having S400 in his
coin. He stopped at the st. Charles hotel
and deposited the money In bank. He
soon after went off on big spree. Late
at night he came back TO the hotel and
the clerk declined to allow, bnt gave him
only 500 and told him to sober MP and
come around next day and ne
could get the balance. Cunningham took
the 800 and went away. The next morn.
ing he was found dead on the streets.
Several men il had been said were follow.
ing him the night before and the sup.
position is he was murdered "a they
thought he had all his money on his per.
son at the time. Recently detectives have
been looking into the matter.
PORTLAND. Or. jar. 30, Special.-The
Seattle board of trustees Of the Seattle &
Southern Railway Company held meet
ing in this city to-day and organized by
electine the following officers: Presi-
dent, Thomas Ewing Of San francisco;
vice president, L. 9. j. Hunt of
Seattle; secretary, NJ. s. Bates, Seattle;
treasurer, j. H. Hoyt, Seattle. A resolu-
tion was passed that force of surveyors
be put in the field Immediately, and that
the. work OF the construction of the road
be begun as soon thereafter as possible.
Thomas Ewing. president Of the road, was
seen by reporter tonight and he
was found to be conservative in
his statements of the plans Of
the company, "Our force Of engineers has
been In Seattle for four days." said Mr.
Ewing, land and will take the field i'm.
mediately. Az soon a. . good portion of
the road out from Seattle is located q con-
tract for construction will be let. Our
money is ready and the road is going 10
It 10 we'll understood here that the road
10 closely allied 10 the Southe Pacific
and that 1t is the intedtion to make Seat
tie the practical northern terminus of that
line, connection being made at Portland.
w. h. Brown, one of the directors of the
Southern Pacific, General Charles Cad dwal-
lader, Geo. W. Prescott, presi.
dent of the Union Iron Works
of San Francisco who is closely allied
to the Southern. All three members of the
board of trustees have been in the city for
meeting. Thomas Ewing. the president,
is q well-known capitalist of San Fran
cisco and Seattle and has
close relations with the Southern
Pacific. The Seattle Il southern
railway was organized in this CITY on
August IL. 1888 with q capital of S7,0OO,-
600: announcement that the road will be
built is official there can be no doubt that
the company means business and win be-
gin Immediately on the construction of
the line.
PORTLAND, Jan. 30. Special. the
police court Agnes Woodward and Morris
johnson, against whom charges of murder
were booked to-day were arraiened.
Through their counsel, julius G. More
land, they entered a plea Of not guilty.
examination, bnt A. F. Sears. Jr repre-
senting the state, was not prepared to 90
on. saying that he had an important wit.
ness living near Mount Hood who was
not present. Judge Moreland pressed an
examination, but the court allowed
continuance. During this proceeding
Agnes Woodward did not seem In the
least perturbed. She is what may be
termed a han dsome woman and she was
fashionably attired., Miss Woodward was
seen by correspondent later. She makes
q most emphatic denial Of every statement
embodied In the so-called confession of
Nina Krall. who was arrested at Marys-
vile, Cal. She says she never. cav Cum
ninRham in her life to know him. Every
statement made 5y Miss Krall tend
ing TO implicate Miss Woodward, Morris
Johpson,. and William Ashton 10 pro-
nounced false by the Woodward woman.
In this she 10 corroborated by both John.
son and Ashton. johnson. however, does
not look like his former self. While Q
resident OF this city he was robust and
Q strong. Appearing man. but In the dock
to-day his face bore sickly pailor. He
seemed somewhat indifferent as to what
was passing about him. The examination
OF the prisoners will be proceeded with
Friday at noon.