The morning call., 1894-06-16
FRIGHT OF WHITE.
The Cattle King Is Up in
Arms.
HOW HE WAS STOOD UP.
His Graphic Description of the
Thrilling Scene.
WOMEN PREVENTED MURDER
The Estate of the Millionaire to Go
Into the Hands of a Receiver
To-Day.

The trials and tribulations of George E.
White, the cattle king of Mendocino
County, will apparently never come to an
end.
His tall form was seen on California
street yesterday afternoon darting into
various places preparatory to making his
exit for home.
Daniel 7. WOodman, the man who stood
him up on Monday last in creek bottom
near Round Valley and compelled him to
sign checks aggregating $4,000 had been
captured.
AS a consequence White was almost
delirious with excitement
Every friend that he met he told of the
wild and woolly time he had with Wood
man. as he stroked his desp-hued whiskers
and toyed with his colored mustache.
Since the cattle king married frankie
White, his cousin. and endeavoTed to get
rid of her by legal process. his former bed
of roses has been transformed into a nest
of thorns.
1t has been a hard fight since the death
of Wylackie John, and now George E.
White has had his heart-strings tugged at
again.
Friends say that to consent to sign checks
to the amount of $4,000 White must have
been looking down the barrel of noun
tain howitzer Nothing else in the world
would have impelled him TO affix his sigma
ture to such documents.
''Pm going up there tonight" he said to
reporter, as he shook with indignation
and the reaction from a terrible fright,
land Pll send Dan Woodman to the peni-
entiary, you bet"
''Is it all true that you signed the
checks?" was inquired.
us it true? Ii is as true as gospel" he
roared. what would you do with a man
standing over you with a pistol at your
head? Wouldn't you do what he said?"
Then he had a pistol?"
Yes; the biggest l ever saw"
did you owe him the money!"
mo"
"Then what was his excuse?''
"He was witness against ME In the
suit of my wife for divorce and alimony,
and he has been against me ever since. On
my soul had not seen the man until That
time for five years."
did he ever bring suit for a claim
against you before?"
Yes; he brought suit once for S25, 600. /
but squared it for $4,000, and since that
time all has been right between us as | !
thought"
"How did he approach you when he
made his usual demand the other day?"
was asked.
'He came upon me like bowling bull"
said the cattle king, as he gave few gyra-
tions in Illustration. "He pulled his pis-
tol and said, L want you to sign these
notes. expressed surprised, but he grew |
wilder all the time and said: I've killed |
my man. | killed Johnny Cline and now |
L mean to kill you. I've got four men to |
swear that you offered them $500 to |
kill me-
But did not, Dan. l never offered |
money to have any one killed. said to |
him.
But what's the difference as long as |
they will swear to it?' grinned Woodman,
as he swayed his pistol in front of me.
This Is the work of Clarence W bite. l |
know 1 said to him. You propose to
kill me right here?'
You are delaying the signing of those
notes. exclaimed Woodman. and here
come two women up the road in buggy.
l cannot kill you now, but you sign those
papers,"
White had almost lost his breath in de-
failing the above narrative. and had to
draw a long inspiration before he could
say. "Those women were all that saved
my lfe."
do you think that Woodman intend ed
TO kill you" was inquired.
"Of course. Don't you see that nv
property is to be placed in the han DIS of a
receiver tomorrow? If. after l had
signed those cheeks. he could have killed
me and got away with IT, he would have
had that claim on the estate. There
would have been no evidence that they
we're not Legitimate, and. furthermore, no
one would have known who the murderer
was. 1t was his intention to have killed |
me surely"
White then went on to charge that there
was a gang, led by Clarence White. who
were determined to kill him for the sup
posed wrongs that had been done to the
sister OF Clarence, whom he married, and !
who is now seeking redress.
He furthermore stated that he was
saved by information given him weeks ago
by q well-known spiritualistic medium of
this city, who told him that such an at
tempt on his life would be made.
For this reason. White says, he was con-
stantly on his guard, and therefore yirtu- |
ally prepared for all emergencies, although
this emergency almost frightened him out