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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-18
THE CLANS ASSEMBLING.
many Prominent Delegates Have Already
Arrivcd--A Forecast OF the work
Before Them Meetings Tonight.

The Democratic state Convention which
meets ~ noon tomorrow in Armory Hall
will he the largest in the history o. the State
The representation Of delegates numbers
near, seventeen hundred. and each delegate
81 entitled to AN alternate. Besides the dele
eates and alternatos there Will be number
OF prominent state politicians and party
leaders who always take a deep interest in
convention and invariably attend. The unu-
saal interest manifested in the approval Of
tae presidential contest indicate. tho attend
aucc o. "a large percentage of tho delegates
appointed. ond 10 les estimated that fifteen
hundred persons WI. be- present
AEMoRs HALL.
The First Regiment Armory drill-room. III
wticb She convention Will be held is the iarg-
est single floor space in the city and would
sent probably three thousand people The
IasI State Convention was held there and the
.uiaolatlons were ample.
I.e laa is SD by Jos feet and the stage
v .a las been erected at tne eastern or rear
.. ls lft'1 feet. ON this VIII be acCommO-
..t.l two hundred persons. including Off
..r. distinguished visitors. newspaper men.
urE o.. tAe necessary stands tables etc.
Irrre VIII De- about I 500 chairs on the man
tu.r. all Gee locations of the district dele
cations Fi. ne Clearly acnlcd hN plAcar0eU
sfa.as having passaee-way entirely around
f...
Ilras broad a.sles Will lead the length Of the
I wta narrower intersectug passage
wa- broad steps Will lead 10 the
Stage directly FROM tho front. The plat
..ru is about four feet high and will be COW
r-.l wth bunting iu the national co.ors.
.r acoustic properties o. the nall huvo been
.terei gy laug.Dgs of the same material
r.m lAe truss rods above. and the whole is
Ieug oeauuled with appropriate decora-
SONS ay M.tteiaorfor
Tie floor will be covered with thin layer
"a. sawdust. and everything possible done TO
add 90 the comfort and ease o. the delegates.
IHE ATTENDANTS.
A tul corps Of assistants 20 The sergeautat-
arls. ushers and pages have been appointed.
alt wlll oe DOB attendance upon tho couven-
l0n SD that The proceedings may be con-
Quoted on parliamentary principles and with
l.e least disorder
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-18
INFANTS AND CHILDRENS WHITE
NULL DRESSES.

We have the popular styles and az prices
which will induce YOU 90 purchase them ready
made III preference g. having them made mp
The Above arc all msde here under orr personal
SUPERVISION and The workman,nip ana III caA-
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-18

fclmond Theatre has boon secured by
.'e.4nd Club for tho uso of the dele
t- whose INST choice Tor President Is
f Cleveland. Jley wall meet there for
-tieaes ald exchange of views. Tho
'.ea.ie "l le open to-day and tomorrow as
.l --,.eis i.r the Cleveland mon and dele
favorable o. their candidate are invited
- thrre on arrival an the city.
ile lii.l meu have secured sanger Hall for
tier Lealouarters.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-18

Nothing as yet has been done in the interest
OF the summer encampment for this year. but
many requests and inquiries about this gather
ing have been made. Early in April your
State secretary received letter from Mr..
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-25
STORY OF BETSY JONES.
A Remarkable Woman Whose Name
Lives in Whatcom Court Records.
Nhafrnf, Reveilla


The celebrated Betsy Jones case is a suit
affecting property TO the value of several
hundred thousand dollars The action is
brought by the Beliingham Bay Land
Company 1.-THE successors OF EIdridge &
Bartlett) against Carmi Dibble to quiet
title to half the Jones donation claim.
which lies in the city just back of. the
Sehome schoolhouse. Some interesting
facts are developed
Betsy's pedigree is somewhat peculiar.
She was born Betsy Backhouse at Han
ley, England, Cardinal Mannings birth
place, and in her younger days was little
wild and lived with toll gate keeper
that town. Tom Jones mot the Tom
Jones, of Fieldingl. was miner, and as
loose as the original Tom Jones, and lived
with woman-name unknown. In 1853
q man named Robinson started a colony
from Hanley to Nanaimo, and only mar
RED women were permitted TO embark. So
love smote Tom and Betsy on that glad
spring morning and they sailed the seas.
enjoying loves young dream, sea biscuit
and salt junk together. Betsy's old
man, the toll gate keeper, suicided the
day after Betsy left for NanMmo. There
were only twenty-four in the party. They
arrived in British Columbia in 1851 The
Joneses came to Whatcom and
Betsy took up the land in dispute. Betsy
and Tom were neither one of them ex-
trayagantly true to one another. Finally
they kept store. became involved, had
trouble, separated, Betsy running off to
Fort Y ork with a man named Murphy,
where she lived till Murphy died. She
then found new lover in whose arms she
died in 1867
Captain Eldridge in the meantime t1s62)
bought the donation claim of Betsy for
$500, and the deed was signed by Tom
Jones, as attorney in fact for Betsy. The
case turns upon the existence of a power of
attorney from Betsy to Thomas, which is
not of record, but which the land company
claims can be proven to have existed.
John Templin, of Victoria, claims TO have
buried Betsy whether dead or alive, we
know mott. Attorney Black went TO Eng
land in 1891. and procured deeds
of those who purported TO be Betsy's
heirs, one sister, who had
three husbands. This lady mistook
Attorney Black for Thomas Jones, who
ran away with her sister years before, and
desired to carve him up with butcher
knife. She thought Betsy had been killed
by Indians. Betsy, it seems. had had six
brothers and three sisters, which, with
their heirs, were like prairie chickens in
river bottom hay meadow-hard to get at,
but which were finally flushed. The case
is an important one. and will undoubt
edlv be taken to the supreme court by the
party losing in the court below.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-25
GOSSIP OF BASEBALL.

shortstop Cooney, of Chicago, il working In o
barber shop at Providence.
The Portland club is reported to have signed
Peter McNabp for the coming season.
San Francisco had baseball steadily for ten
months, with nearly 900 championship games
Pitcher Inks, of last seasons Brooklyn team,
Is a student at Notre Dame university, Indiana.
There are sixty five applicants for positions on
the Yale ball team. They have already started
training.
"Jiggs" PARROT and Jack Tanning are playing
with San Jose in q series OF games with Los
Angeles.
The Quincy, Ill. club will be backed the COM
ing season by Tom Baldwin, the well-known
aeronaut.
Tommy Hernon is quoted as saying ne wants
his release from Seattle and would like to play
nearer home.
''strike- 'em-out" Fitzgerald is wiutering in
Leadville, Col He will be with Louisville again
the coming season.
The Southern League will probably be reor-
ganized this season, and meeting is soon to be
hello at Atlanta for that purpose.
new league talked of il the Merrimac val
ley, to have clubs in Lowell, Lawrence Man
chester, Dover Haverhiil and Newburyport
Ryan, OF the Chicagos, and Ed Andrews, of
the Cincinnati Association team, are playing
this winter with the st. Augustine, Fla, club
The twelve-club league has about decided to
adopt the double championship plan of starting
the race over again after half of the season 10
gone.
Jim Corbett, the pugilist, used to be a good
amateur ball player, and many people in San
Francisco remember his clever work with clubs
there.
Ohio is to have q state league with q circuit
made up of East Liverpool, Youngstown, Can
ton, Akron, Wooster, Salem, Alliance and Mas
sillon.
Jim Mcdonald played second base for San
Francisco in the games with Portland. He 10
tired OF umpiring. and expects to get back into
harness next season.
The niinois-Iowa League will continue this
year, with clubs in Cedar Rapids, Quincy, Joliet,
Rockford and Ottumwa, and probably Peoria,
Springfield and Burlington.
Cartwright the big first baseman, of the San
Franciscos, is an expert maehinist, and Is fora
man OF a department at the Union Iron Works
in the California metropolis.
President Rock we'll, who stopped in Portland
on the way home from California to take part in
the council of baseball magnates now being
held, will probably be in Seattle this week.
President Bushnell, of the .Tacomss, is i'm
proved in health and has about decided to spend
the rest OF the winter in California instead of
going to the Hawaiian islands, as he intended
Patsy Flaherty is stranded in Sacramento and
is trying to get job in the East next season
The Coast has not been kind to Patsy, and in
his two seasons out here he did not keep up the
good record he made in Texas.
Tim Keefe succeeds John Clarkson as a coach
for the Harvard team. Pitcher Horner is coach
ing Yale; First Baseman Taylor, of Louisville,
Cornell; Phil Viau, Dartmouth, and Shennick,
of Louisville, Exeter Academy. Princeton has
not picked out man yet.
During the season of 1891 Oakland had four
teen pitchers, Sacramento thirteen, San Fran
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-25
CHARGES REDUCED.
An Opportunity that Should Not BE
Lost by the Afflicted.

Owing to the hard times" the Drs.
Darrin will give electric treatments until
futher notice at the rate of S. week, or in
that proportion as the cases may require.
The worthy poor will be treated free from
10 TO IL a. m. daily. Those able TO pay
from III a. m. to p. m.; evenings. 10 ):
Sundays, 10 TO II. Consultation free.
They make speciality of all diseases of
the Eye. Ear, Nose, Throat, Catarrh and
Deafness, and ali nervous, chronic and
private diseases. such as Loss of Manhood,
Blood Taints, Syphilis. elect, GonorrhRa,
Structure, SpermatorrhCea, Seminal Weak
ness or Loss of Desire of Sexual Power IN
man or woman All peculiar Female
Troubles, Irregular Menstruation, Leucor-
rh1a, Disbursements, etc. are confidenti-
ally and successfully treated. Most cases
can receive home treatment after a visit TO
the doctors office Inquiries answered.
Circulars and question blanks sent free.
Drs. Darrin have their Offices IN THE
Normandy" corner Third and James
streets. Seattle, Wash, where they are
permanently located.
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cup, which has been the chief onnonen.
Oh consolidation on the matter of div;s;o,
OF receipts and other financial reasonS
VIII, OF course, be in attendance on the
council OF magnates President Rock-
wen Is In Portland, with instructions If
not power to act, for Seattle and Tacoma.
'onh ,. Barnes, of Spokane. is present. al
Is sanderbeck, the organizer of the los
angeles club. Henry Harris will he there
70 represent San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Notwithstanding the recent gloomy re-
ports sent out of the prospects of effectins
the union, the week may develop some
surprises to the croakers. One of the
cnief grounds of the Portland clubs dis
ahection was the vigorous fight made by
seattle to collect the $1,000 which the
champions incurred by going over the
salary limits. The men prosecuting the
case have some strong evidence in their
iaVor, and the officials of the Portland
ciun nave at least limited that thew would no
longer oppose cons olidation if the claim Is
Withdrawn. The men who are pushing
the charge may consider that the general
good demands that they drop the matter.
Ii they do the founding of the consoIi-
dated league is not at all improbable.
Inc matter of joining hands with the
California clubs was left at the recent meet.
ing OF the Pacific Northwest League with
COMMITTEES consisting of President w.
r. Rockwell. John s. Barnes and NJ. ].
Roche. Rockwell is an ardent advocate of
the scheme. NJ J. Roche is a man
OF considerable experience in baseball af-
fairs as secretary of the Western Associa-
ton and in other capacities. and will
likely vote for the move, should it appear
for the good of all concerned. Contrary TO
what might be expected, Barnes is not apt
to oppose the plan. He recognizes the
tact, as do all the Spokane officials. that
tor geographical reasons their city is not
desirable. Barnes himself is laying plans
for work elsewhere--either in the new
league projected east of the mountains or
still further East. That the committee
will recommend consolidation is not at all
improbable. If they do, it is sure to come,
as the Californians are heartily in favor of
1t and have already made liberal conces-
sions in order to bring it about
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-25
MINOR LEAGUE PROTECTION.


A New National Agreement Will Take
the Place of the One Laid Aside.
The famous Indianapolis meeting, which
brought peace between the National
League and the American Association and
effected the organization of the twelve
club league. left the minor leagues Of the
country entirely without protection. 1t
set aside the national agreement, by which
every professional league in the land, ex-
cept the seeding Association, was gov
erned. The condition of affairs now
is just as it was when the two
fighting giants consummated the
deal that placed all of the major
league ball of the country in one body. In
the meantime many of the minor LEAGUE
leaders have been holding back until there
should come some guarantee of honorable
dealing among the various associations on
the subject of contracts and in other i'm
portant respects. The defect promises,
however, to be shortly remedied. A
committee appointed by the League.
with Colonel John /. Rogers. the legal rep
resentative of the Philadelphia club, at its
head, is at work on new agreement
which shall afford protection to all profess
sional baseball organizations in the land.
The intention is to create board of arbi-
tration of five members, three of them
from the League and one each from the
Western League and the Eastern Associa-
ton, which two bodies will rank next to
the big league. Other minor leagues may
be given representation without vote.
While il might seem that between the
time of the death of the old agreement at
indianapolis and the adoption of the new
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-25
THE AMATEUR GAME.
Baseball by Young Men Who
Play for Pleasure.
MINOR LEAGUES UNPROTECTED.
ne National League Agreement No
Longer In Force-Gatherfng Of Base
ball Magnates at Portland.

The Puget sound country is to have
more and better amateur baseball this
.esson than it has ever had, and the great
benefit this will be to the game in general
cannot be overestimated. Not only does
Il afford splendid opportunity for exercise
and amusement for young men. but it edu-
Gates them in q knowledge of the game.
creates more general interest and brings
about better understanding and stronger
support of the work in the professional
d feld. Philadelphia, which is the only
eify in America that has successfully sun
uorted two major league clubs, and which
FINISHES more men TO the professionalism
suy other city, has also greater number
ii organized amateur clubs than any other
town. 1t is a sure rule that wherever
amateur baseball is on firm footing the
professional game viii flourish CORE
spondingly.
The Puget Sound Amateur League is to
tske the field again with the same clubs
that it had in 1891, viz: Seattle, Tacoma.
Olympia and Puyallup. To these may be
added Snohomish and Centralia Oliver
C. Thornton, q responsible business man
Of Enohoinish, has taken the matter in
hsnd in that place and is organizing a
Estock company to put in team. A. A.
MILLER, of Centralia, is at the head of base
ball affairs there. and is already at work to
secure team and grounds.
Manager Cory, of Tacoma, has signed
! near all of last years champion team,
the Dodges, and they are to have the
use of the League grounds. Manager
Nsskrey, of Olympia, and Manager
Stewart, of Puyallup, have their teams
already nearly completed. The Maroons.
Of Seattle, will start the season with the
following team: Catchers. Warner and
Smith. pitchers. Hope and Coffman; first
base, Mantor; second base, Fowles; third
base, King: snortstop, Williams; left field,
Parks; center held, Vaughan; right field,
---. Vaughan will have the manage
ment and Mantor will captain the team.
meeting is to be held in Tacoma on
January 81 to take up the work of organi-
sation. and delegates will be present from
I'll the cities.
The proposed amateur league which
was TO comprise teams from the MuItno-
nah Athletic Club, of Portland; the Ia
coma Athletic Club. and one gotten up by
ex-college players of Seattle, has probably
fallen through. In its place there is talk
Of . circuit made up of Seattle, Tacoma
and Victoria.
Another contribution to the advance
ment of amateur baseball will be made by
the physical training department of the
\. ii. G. A. of Seattle. A league of four
cubs may be organized within the associa-
ton, and there will certainly. be one strong
representative club
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and trophies will be offered for the best
records. Spectators win be accommo-
dated at the grand stand at the grounds of
the club. The following committees have
been appointed to prepare the details:
Invitation-Ellis and Durham.
Finance and tournament-Barlow and
Bingham.
Programme and advertising-Bell and
McNaughton.
Grounds and traps-McNaughton and
Eharfv
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one, now being constructed. there would
be no restraints on clubs who wished to
lay hold of players under reserve else
where, this will certainly not be allowed
by the powers that be- The new law will
be, to certain extent, retroactive and be
made TO cover the interregnum which ex-
listed between the rule of the old and of the
new code.
The first minor association to organize is
the Western League. which has a circuit
of the best cities of the second-class in the
country. The plans which the organizers
have laid down for its government are
most excellent and worthy of adoption by
other bodies The salary limit of each
club for the season is to be $4,000. In
view OF the numerous disputes which would
certainly arise in the present disturbed
state OF affairs over players claimed by
two or more clubs, novel plan is to be
followed out in the distribution of the
men. 1t is nothing more or less than the
famous millennium plan" advanced some
years ago by the editor of the Sporting
Life. 1t is to take all of the players be-
longing to the league and divide them up
into eight teams, which shall be as nearly
equal as possible in playing strength.
nSh ~ VIII DC dcClucu Dy lot 10 WHICH
city each team shall go, and no one will
know where any team is to be located
until the drawing.
The makeup of the league is a strong
one comprising several cities that have
supported major league ball in previous
seasons. The eight cities are Kansas City,
Milwaukee, Columbus. Indianapolis, To
ledo, Minneapolis. ST. Paul and Omaha.
Kansas City has seen service in both the
National League and the American Associ-
alton and lately in theWestern Association.
Milwaukee was formerly in the old North
western League and last year was a menu
Der, first of the Western Association and
then of the American Association. Column
bus has been in the American Asso-
citation for several years, but was
dropped out by the formation of the
twelve-club league. Indianapolis has not
been in baseball since 1889, when it had a
club in the National League. Toledo has
been on the baseball shelf since 1890, when
it was in the American Association. The
year before it was in the International
League. Omaha, Minneapolis and st.
Paul were last year all members of the ILL
starred Western Association.
There will soon be formed in more East
ern territory new organization which
will occupy place in the second rank
with the Western League. 1t will have a
circuit selected from Buffalo, Rochester,
Syracuse, Troy. Albany, Providence,
Toronto, Detroit, Wilkesbarre and New
Haven
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TACOMA SPORTING NEWS.
Gun Clubs Tournament Opposition
Football Team Talk.

TACOMA, Jan. A.-TSpecial. There is
some talk among football men who were not
favorably impressed with the style of play
of the Tacoma Athletic club in the New
Years game with Portland, of organizing
an opposition team with a view of playing
the Athletics. The Athletic clubs foot
ball men are not enthusiastic for any more
play this season.
The Tacoma Rife, Rod and Gun Clubs
two days tournament will be held proba-
bly, the first week IN February. The ladies
will be invited to witness the contest, and
it is expected that Seattle and Portland
gunners will participate, as valuable prizes
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The Bicycle Tournament,

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-"Winner by three
feet" was the manner in which Charles
w. Ashinger, American. was announced
to be champion of the six-day interna-
tional bicycle race at Battery d tonight.
Ashinger's record is 727 miles, and Wallace
Stage, Scotchman, was but three feet be-
hind him at the finish Lamb, an En-
glishman, made 726 miles 10 laps, seven
laps behind his opponents.
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La grippe as well many other complaints
can be cured by a course of baths at the Harri-
son hot springs. Electric thermal vapor and
douche baths given under directions of a COM
petent physician, open at all seasons. Only
eight hours by rail from Seattle to Agassiz sta
ton c. 2. railway which is five miles from
the springs, where stages meet all trains. Re-
duced rates at all railroad offices.
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Baseball Hippodrome Down South.

Los ANGELES, Cal, Jan. A.-fSpecial. +
The San Jose and Los Angeles clubs began
series of games here today. witnessed
by $500 people. In the ninth inning
with one man out "Jiggs" Parrot won
the game for the visitors by long sacri-
fee to center field, letting in two men.
Score: San Jose 3, Los Angeles q Fan
ming allowed the local boys four hits, and
the visitors made three off Knell.
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AN IMPORTANT MEETING.
The Question OF ConsoIid alton VIII Be
Decided This Week at Portland.

The much mooted question of con-
validating the Pacific Northwest and Cali
foinia leagues will be definitely settled
this week. There is a gathering of the
smagnates at Portland, whittier the scene
~ operations has shifted from San Fran
CISCO, and matters are bound 10 come to a
Rttlement The officers of the Portland
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