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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-28
AS IF HEwN BY A SCULPTOR.
Remarkable Petrefaction of an Old Man
Who Kent a Tavern.

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-lSpeeial THE petrified
body OF Andrew Beck, a once well-known resi-
dent OF Brooklyn, was inferred in Cypress Hill
cemetery few days ago beside the grave of his
wife. Beck's body, which had turned into
stone, was cxhumed from a graveyard at KEN
bic, Pike county, Pa where it was buried In the
summer of 1884. Many persons who knew Mr..
Beck in life and who saw the pesrified
body said a sculptor could not have
hewn the face more liielke than Ii
was found to be when the casket was found.
Beck for more than twenty-five years kept
little tavern near the rear entrance to Cypress
Hill cemetery and the road leading to the Long
Island towns. He retired from business eight
years ago, and with his wife went to the Penn
sylvanfa village, where he died year later His
SONS, who had succeeded their father in bust
ness, had the body inferred in the graveyard in
the village where he died. The widow
moved TO Brooklyn to live with her
children, and last March she died and
was buried in Cypress Hill cemetery.
John Beck, the eldest son. decided to have his
fathers remains disinterred, and brought the
body to Brooklyn for burial beside his wife. The
body was shipped 10 Brooklyn and reached Cy-
press Hill cemetery a few days ago and was
casket was opened, and it was found the body
was petrified.
When the lid of the casket was unscrewed, in
stead of a skeleton the people who had gathered
about were surprised to find instead full
formed man. The color of the skin was brown,
and there was a damp deposit ON the face.
When this was brushed away with cloth, the
features were found to be almost white, and as
hard as flint. The face was strikingly natural
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THE MILITARY TRAIN WRECK.
One Officer and One Private Killed and
n Number Injured.

TOPEKA, Jan. 27.--In the wreck OF the military
train near Marysville last night Sergeant Schort-
bat, OF light battery Z, and Private Neil, of
troop G, Seventh cavalry, were killed. Captain
Godfrey, of troop d, and Sergeant Sharp of
troop 6, were seriously injured, and
several other ron-commssioned officers
and priyates were painfully hurt.
Lizzie Bennett, of Lincoln, Neb., had an arm
broken and her head cut, and man named
kimball, Conductor Flynn and one or two
others were slightly injured. A number of
cavalry horses were killed The conductor of
the military train, whose carelessness is respon-
sible for the wreck, has disappeared. The spec
fal train consisted OF seven passenger cars and
twenty-four freight cars, and had on board 400
soldiers.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 27.-James A. Finlay, of
this city, an Indian trader of the Pine Ridge
agency, returned home this morning for a brief
visit. Finlay reported that when he left the
agency Saturday everything was peaceful and
quiet, and that General Miles said he did not ex-
pect further trouble, but the general opinion
OF military officers was that the Indians will go
on the warpath again in the spring, as not over
100 OF them had been disarIned.
CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-General Miles, with forty
eight Indians, arrived this evening from Pine
Ridge. Thirty OF the bucks were taken TO Fort
sheridan and the eight chiefs will be sent TO
Washington City.
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SECOND STATE EALL.
Arrangements for the brilliant A fair at
Olympia In Honor of LcgisIature.


OLYMPIA, Jan. 27.--[speclal. 1.-The second
state ball will be given in honor of the legisla-
turc OF the state OF Washington on Thursday
evening, February 5, at the Olympia hotel.
Nearly all the arrangements have been COM
pieted, and the affair promises TO outrank by far
that OF last year.
Il is probable that there will be 800 covers laid
The menu cards win be elaborate in design. and
ia order 10 accommodate the large number of
guests. supper will be served at IL p. N. and l
.. ~.
The following committees have been selected:
Committee OF arrangements-Boardo OF Trade,
$ G. Woodruff, A. A. Phillips. W. F. Newell
eity council, George ID. shannon, NJ. A. Root, s..
&. Ward
Reception committec--Mrs. owings, Mrs. A. A.
Phillips, Mrs. Convey, Mrs. McKenny, Mrs. Cham
bers, Miss calkins, Miss Woodruff, Miss Laugh
ton, Miss Allen, q. A. Barnes, J. c. Horr. J. f..
Gowey, i. /. Mckenny, Il. G. O'Brien, George ID.
shannon, j. w. Robinson. 7. II. Cayanaugh, ~
Ostrander, Robert Frost A. d. Whitney
Decoration committee-Mrs. y. " Ford. Miss
sennle Young, Miss Conger, Z. L. Gregg, c. NJ.
Moore. j. G. Pcrciyal.
Floor committee Mcssrs r. G. Hooker, George
T. NILS g. Harris, Charles A. Otis, NJ. +. Reed,
ii. Y. Ogden, i. VI. Convey, q. 5. Armstrong; c..
:. Eaton and George r. Conger.
Invitation eoulmittee-From Olympia, Messrs.
I. Z. Van Epps, y. W. Ostrander, o. K. Smen-
son, Tacoma, Mcssrs. d. X. Stevens and A. NJ
stewart; Seattle. :. L. Crawford and Charles
Nichols; Port Townsend, X. G. Hill; Fairhaven,
+. VI. Wilson
The following invitation win be issued
$40 -----------.
The pleasure of your company is requested at
the bali 70 DC given in honor of the state legis>
hiture on Thursday evening. February 5, in the
Olympia hotel, Olympia. Wash"
lhe BAH VIII open with the grand march, led
by Acting Governor and Mrs. Laughton fol-
lowed by officers OF state The programme has
been arranged as follows: First, overture; 2
quadrilie, State of Washington: 8, waltz, "Ia
Gitanli'; Z, schottisehe, Marching Through
Georgia .. laneers, "ETminie': g, polka, "See
How | Dance the Polka" Nokes; Z, waltz,
'Hypsy Baron 5, comus, "Jolly Brothers,: O.
Centennial laneers: 10, kniekerbocker waltz;
supper, intcrmission; IL, legislative galop; II,
sehottische; Is. quadrilie; II, waltz: Is, York I:
10, lancers; l., Newport; is, polka; 10, Virginia
reel.
Guests arc expected 10 be present from all
parts OF the state, and no expense will be spared
IN making The occasion complete success
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NEXT coNCLAvE OF CARDINALS.
Secret Preparations Now Making for the
Meeting OF the Sacred College.

Meeting OF the Sacred College.
ROME, Jan. 27.-[Associatcd Press, Copy
righted, 1891. The Vatican has been advised
that the Italian government is occupying itself
automatically regarding the successor OF Pope
Leo, in order to prevent the election of a pope
unfayorable to official Italy and favorable to
France. Premier Crispi will endeayor to DEM
onstrate TO the triple alliance that in view OF the
hostile spirit which exists in high quarters it is
to the interest of the allied cabinet to prepare
for the conclave. Every one, however, at the
Vatican appears serene, partly because the pope
still enjoys perfect health, and again because
the sacred college can in case OF necessity, meet
elsewhere than in Rome.
In conversation high church parsonage said
the time had passed when the cardinals would
accept the vote of monarchies. Absolute liberty
will henceforth be the principle on which the
conelave will work. The parsonage in question
said it was difficult to determine the probabili-
ties of the next conclaye. Various candidates
had been mentioned, but none decided
upon. Under the extraordinary condi-
tons OF the eonclave held abroad ard
in the midst of European complications,
1t is to be presumed the cardinals would
choose neutral foreign pope, for example. Man
ming, OF England Gibbons, of America, or
Malinci. Again it was 10 be borne in mind he
said, that the foreign cardinals ere long will
form majority in the sacred college With the
development of Christianity the church seems
to need more cardinals in America,
and this will modify essentially conditions OF
the papaey. Further, the world becoming
Romanized, it is necessary the papacy should
become universal From this it is evident the
pope can no longer be exclusively Italian.
Manning and Gibbons have especially gained in
ecclesiastical opinion during these latter times
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BEARS OF NORTH AMERICA.
Only Two Species, the Black and the
Brown, or Grizzly.
Report of an Address by Phillips Wolley at

Victoria.
But to come home to British Columbia, con
tinued SIR. Wolley, how many kinds of bears are
there in America? Trappers and Indians will
tell you dozen different kinds-grizzlies, silver
tips, range bears, bald faces, cinnamons, a white
bear found on Peace river, black bears, etc.
Some naturalists were inclined to count four
species, Grizzly, black, cinnamon, and bear
of Alaska called, he believed, ursus Richard
sonii.
For himself, the lecturer was inclined to class
all the bears of America under two heads-black
and brown. The grizzly, silver tip, the range
bear, the white bear of the Peace river district,
and the Alaskan bears, he would class as brown
pears or grizzlies (call them what you like, the
black bear and, perhaps, the cinnamon, he
would feel inclined TO put together III the other
class.
About the cinnamon he felt most uncertain
He had had the opportunity this year THANKS to
the kindness of Mr.. Boseowitz) of examining q
very large number of bear skins, but none of the
distinguishing marks upon which men relied
for discriminating between the varieties, ap-
peared to be constant.
II was alleged that the claws of the grizzly
were less arehed and lighter in color that those
of the black bear, and thin was generally so, but
curved and dark. Here Mr.. Woliey exhibited an
Alaskan skin lent by Mr.. Boscowitz.
There were many points OF difference, in
structure or habits, between the different varie-
ties to which the lecturer alluded, but, in the
end, he showed that most of these points were
not reliable, and concluded by saying that al
though stu open TO conviction, and anxious for
information from those old hunters, whom
he always sought out as his teachers, he was
himself inclined 10 believe that there were
but two varieties of bear in America, the
grizzly and the black; although the last
skin he had to exhibit made him almost doubt
whether these two kinds were as distinct as
they might be. Here the lecturer exhibited the
skin of small but ullgrown bear of brownsh
color, inciining to straw color along the spine
trail. The Indians called it grizzly: other
people said il was some kind of black bear;
he himself was inclined TO 'sgive it up" The
meeting seemed unanimously of the opinion
that il was a small grizzly.
The question as to the cinnamon bear was left
open, some of the gentlemen present inclining
t. class him as IA variety OF the black bear, in
favor of which is the assertion that black she
bear has been seen with litter of three cubs,
two black and one brown, and others incliRing
to consider him grizzly, in favor of which
there may be quoted his meat-eating habits and
his alleged fer0city. Mr. Nolley promised TO
devote considerable portion of his spare time
in 1891 to further Investigations il this branch
of natural history
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Increased California Wine Production.

SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.-THE Pacise H'fae cad
Sptrt Rfvier, in tabulated statement Of *.
ports aud imports of wines. branGics and whis-
kics into Hnd from California for the year ISysi
states that i,l5o.556 gallons OF wine WIS exported
by sea 70 New York, Mexico, Central America
and other points. showing a gain Of over 2OO0oo
gallons, as compared with the exports of lisp
Nased wines exported To foreign and domestic
ports aggregated 9.05S eases, showing an in
crease Of over 20 per cent. as compared with
lSS1 Rail shipments q domestic points scyre-
gated !,ail,,,s9 gallons, being within lew gal
hens 90 an increase Of a round million Exports
ot brandy showed bat slight increase, the total
exports icing t.a,0o3 gallons and 3S} eases: 47.sl
cases and @i,l>3 Gallons ~ whiskcy were ey.
parted ~ ~ga haTaortS of whiSkey. spirits and
alfohvs EAa ielesEh rh3mpagnCs, show Il sub
sttpiloi Increase 0lC- ls>l Imports OF wine into
saG tFa"ct-c1 tTo'e tAe interior cellars oi Cali
ietnla were II, el so gallons or something over
mtlGpo IL eNrt>s 81 those 81 lisa
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SHOT BY A BROTHER.
Louisiana Men Quarrel Over
Money and Fight.
TWO PISTOLS AGAINST ONE.
Davis Begins the Row and Falls Dead
With Four Bullets In His Body,
Two From His Friend.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 27.--At Point Coupee par
ISM three well-known men were principals in
tragedy which called for a eoroners jury. J. B.
Davis quarreied with David Leatherman, his
orother-n-law about settlement of account,
there being difference of 81 between them
Davis left them but soon returned with his
brother, sam Davis, and again resumed the dis
cusslon. Beatherman told him he had sought to
avoid difficulty, but would do so no more
Inereupon Davis replied, 1--WE are ready" and
the brothers drew their pistols LeatherTnan
caught j. B. Davis by the arm and diverted his
AIM at the same time drawing his own revolver
winch he fired twice, one bullet lodging in ]. Il.
Davis right breast and the other in his left
breast. Meanwhile Sam opened fire On Leather
man, whom he failed to HIT When j. B. Davis
Iell Leatherman turned his attention to his
brother, who, after receiving shot in the arm,
started 70 retreat As he turned Leathermans
second bullet struck him in the back, infiicting
dangerous wound. When the body OF j. b.
Davis was examined it was found that he had
been instantly Killed. The bullets from Leather
mans pistol would have been fatal, but two
more bullets were found lodged in the dead
man brain, which, the coroner's jury decided.
had been fired by sam Davis, who missed
Leatherman and struck his brother. The Jury
decided Leatherman acted in selfdefense and he
was released from custody.
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The odor of sanctitx.
I'm sc.


used to think that the MoTmons, the i'm
ported Mormons. were the toughest lot that
ever saw. but the odor of sanctity was the same
that you meet now at the barge office.
When the Mormons landed in New York city
they were at once conveyed in bulk 10 the al
ready fortified valleys of the Jordan, and along
the route this rich, nut-brown flavor of the
steerage, unbroken by the harsh intrusion OF the
chloride or the germicide, withered the sage
brush and killed cattle ON the range.
And yet the emigraIt himself does not mind
Ii. He even sits down and eats his rather plain
meal in the midst OF it.
Somehow ii seems TO me that we are getting a
much tougher crowd of emigrants each year
than we got the year before. They are not in
such good state OF preservation as they used
10 De. There Is more contract labor and i'm
ported pauper business than there used TO be.
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MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
Permission Asked 10 select state school

Lands, Surveyed or Unsuryeyed.
oLYMPIs, Jan 1.-THE following memorial
was introduced in the House this morning by
Mckay, and referred 10 the committee on public
lands:
To The Hoaorabk Senate and House Of RepTeseR-
fGttcsx 81 the Tinted Strtss, Congress Assembled.
Your uaen1oFiaissis, the legislature OF the state
OF Washington IN second biennial session as
scnlhled, would most respectfully represent:
WHEREAS. Z nder aud b. virtue OF an act OF
your honorable bodies, approved February =,
lssJ. providing for the admission OF the terri
tory ol Washington into the Union upon an
equal footing with The original states. there was
gFa1ted 70 the ycfiuE state OF asningtOn Inu-
Bificeut heritag. for future generations OF more
than ts5J,o9 seFe5 OF the public domain within
her borders. 10 lie utilized ia the erection OF pub
lie buildings, the rearing and maintenance OF
colleges AID universe les, and the fos eTing OF
eleemosynary institutions under control OF the
state; and,
WHEREAS. Such donations are of such lands
only a. are surveyed under the direction OF the
executive department OF the United States, and
such grant takes eifccI only from and after the
seieetionof said surveyed lands by the duly
appointed commissioners OF the state OF Wash
ington, and,
WHEREAS. There has been such an unex-
alnpled Immigration to the state OF " Washington
that the settlement the public domain
throughout the state preeedcs by many months
the survey OF government Iaud. and.
WHEREAS There is not ct the present time,
nor viii there be. any unappropriated public
the state whesefroEa tine lands so generously
donated above can be selected TO the use OF the
state OF Washington, and thereby tie grant win
become yaiueless and said set viii become In
operative BIZ reason OF there being no lands
from which the state may secure its grant aiore-
said: therefore,
Your petitions, the legislature Of the state of
Washington, request that sBeh remedial legisla-
ton BE- enacted By your honorable bodies that
the state may select for the fulillment OF the
grants from any Of the nor-Innerai lands of the
United states, lying within the borders of the
state OF Washington, both surveyed aud unsur-
veyed, and not otherwise appropriated, and that
from the filing OF such selections in the depart
ment OF the interior, the same may become re-
served TO toe nse OF the state as in your will and
IN said act first above mentioned aforesaid.
Resolred That the secretary OF state Is hereby
directed TO furnished certified copy OF this
memorial to our representatives, ia congress, also
one copy 70 the eli irIHau OF the committee on
public lands, III the senate of the United States,
and one copy 10 the chairman of the committee
On public lands, in the House Of Representa-
tlYes, one copy TO the hcnoTa1le secretary OF the
interior, and one copy to the honorable commits
sioner OF the general land Office
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Wap-pa to's-John's followers Philip McEntee,
an old pioneer, said il would be burning shame
and disgrace to civilization if those Indians
were disturbed and their little truck patches
taken from them. sixteen years ago, the mayor
said, as he was coming down the Columbia river
he hailed an Indian from the other SIDE
who came over with a seow and ferried him
over. He found Nap- patio John where he now
resides-and would you believe il? he was at
that day milking twenty-five cows. He also had
pack train al sixteen ponies, with which he
always the white mans friend, and during the
breaking out Of the Yakima tribe, many a white
may owed their lives to the timely warning of
Indian John. Nc finished his narrative by
speaking plainly that If any Indian deserved his
home, deserved the protection OF the govern
Inenf, that Indian was Wappa-to John of Lake
Chelau
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JAPAN's WOMAN LEADER.
A Fair Agitator Who Is Attacking the
Customs of Centuries.
New York sun.


Kageama Hidde is probably the most remark
able woman in Japan. she is hardly ~ years
old, of medium height. and faultless figure, and
has great soulful eyes that are calculated 10
make all hearts of male Japs palpitate violent
responses TO their glanees. The hearts of male
Japs. however, have little ipterest Tor kageama
Hide She considers love and matrimony 10 be
matters of secondary importance in her busy
life and values men above women only as more
powerful instruments in the accomplishment OF
her one purpose, the demoeratizing OF Japan, for
Kageama Hidde is a radical of the radicals an
agitator of agitaters, kind OF Japanese Louise
Michel without Louise Michel's greatness and
venom. She is the leader of the radical party
that is shaking the aged institutions OF the
MikaCos empire, and from her home in Osaka
superintends the organization of her followers
and the spreading of the propaganda
What 10 kageama Hide and her people wishF
How do they try 10 induce Others to wish the
sarne9 How do they intend TO get what they
wish? KageaEaa Hidde recently answered
these questions with her own pretty, painted
japanese lips.
I'VE desire no central government. but self
government The organization OF the party is
difficult As We may not conduct il openly we
conduct il in secrecy. Most of our people are
so far behind the times that we consider il best
% proceed step By step. The end of il all will
be comm anisIa, OF something OF the kind. OF
the radical movement we know nothing, be-
cause onr papers are Dot allowed TO print any
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The Decay of New England.

The decay OF great numbers of the hill towns
OF New England is undenia6le and most serious
The spectacle presented in scores of towns in
New Hampshire and Vermont and Msssa-
chusetts, once scenes of vigor and sue
eesSIul lie, Is certainly melancholy.
The main reasons for il are not
hard to find. and they are clearly pointed out by
almost every writer who addresses himself TO
the subject. IGGy lie IN the opening up OF the
great Nest,with the easier conditions OF its
fertile lands in the agricultural competition,
and IL the wonderful development OF manu-
fSctureS III New England, with the beCkonings
10 the hills OF the rivers and the cities
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A Britisher Who Knew His Rights.


"We have to look out for poor people who
land her." said an official land not let them
starve. Ii we do not send them back we
must keep an eye on them. The local
authorities will not give them mouthful till
they have been here year, used TO be called
on regularly over at Castle Garden by
a big, red-faced EnghShman for help
evary day he was there. Finally | got tired of
giving him bread tickets. Ii hurt me internally
every time did II, so | said ut last: Get out OF
here. | am done helping you. Be gone! You
are SO healthy it makes me mad, ana you stroll
about The battery and eat the bread OF idleness
preterring IL 10 the Kind that people get By hon
est sweat. Get outi seat!
"'And do you refuse TO give me bread?'
"'Ges, do
very well, sir. I'll report you to the British
consul
And so he would, too" said the official "a
big, twO-fiSted man, who knew the record of
every bull pup ami pugilist in England what he
weighed in condition and out OF condition.
who has parents were away back 10 the Con
quest, ond whose kennel he belonged TO, and
Yet he wouldn't beat carpet or help lift a
piano in the land OF his adoption"
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GUARDED HIS MASTERS BODY.
Henry severn's Faithful Dog - Gray's
Remains Not Found.

VICTORIA, Jan. 27-lspecial. Further par
tieuiars OF the drowning OF sam Gray and Henry
Severn at Chemainus show that the latters dog
remained with his master from the time of the
accident, O'Clock Thursday, till late Sunday
night 1t took the body from the water aud
dragged il 800 feet toward home There it lay
weak from hunger and defended the body W hen
strangers forming the search party approached
Gray body has not yet been found.
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Shipping Intelligence.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.-Arrived-Str San
Pedro, Tacoma; str State of California, Portland
via Astoria; sh Dashing Wave, Tacoma; bk
Harry Morse, Seattle. Departed-Str Columbia,
Astoria; str Willamette Valley, Yaquina bay.
Clsared-Str Lakme, Nanaimo.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. q. - Arrivals - Bktn
Kate Fliekinger, Port Discovery; sh Colum bia,
Nanaimo; sh Two Brothers, Tacoma. De-
partures-Str. Wellington, Seattle: str Emily,
Coos bay; str Alcatraz, Coos bay; str Arcata,
Coos bay; whaler brg, w. II. Meyer, whaling;
str IaEme NauairaO