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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
STRIKERS RETURN TO YORK.
Bat a Small Proportion Take Their Old
Positions at OlneyctHe.

Bat Small Proportion Take Their Old
Positions at OtneyrtUe.
PROVIDENCE, RI, June 3.-The mills
at Olneyville opened this morning at the
regular hour for the admission of any OF
the employees who wished to return to
work, but the number who went in
was but a small percentage of the
force regularly employed there. The man
ufacturers intend to leave places for the
strikers for stated time, and if their for
mer employees do not return they will en-
gage any operatives they can get
At the Riverside mills 1900 out of 100
hands went back to their old positions this
morning. There was sufficient number
to insure the running of the plant.
Some 600 of the 1900 hands returned to
work at the Atlantic mills.
At the Saxon mills. where it was gener.
ally expected a large number would return
to work, but small number returned, and
the machinery was not started.
PAWTUCKET, r. l., June 3.-The Far.
well Wooden mills at Farwell Falls were
thrown open this morning to such workers
as desired to return. Before shutting down
of the mill, 126 weavers were employed.
Out of total force of 300 operatives to-
day, fifteen weavers went to work, with a
few operatives in other departments.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
GAMBLED WITH OTHERS, FUNDS.
A Defdutting Bank President Tries to
End His Life.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, June &c. R.
Cassatt, ex-State Senator and president of
the First National Bank at Pella, made a
sensational attempt to commit suicide YES
terday. Following the attempt the bank
was closed to-day by order of Comptroller
Eckels. 1t is in bad shape, and much in.
dignation exists over the matter.
Cassatt was largely interested. For some
time he has been specializing on the Chi
cago Board of Trade, and had lost heavily
of late, one deal last week costing him
about SD, 600. For some time past he has
also been drinking heavily.
About 1880 Sunday morning the assist.
ant cashier saw him in room at the rear
of the bank lying on a cot with blood
oozing from ugly gashes in his throat.
He was alive, but weak and
unconscious, and probably still
under the influence of LIQUOR. 1t appears
Cassatt poured poison into the wounds to
aid death, but the whisky counteracted
this. His family is prominent. His
friends claim deposltors in the bank will
be paid in full. -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
CLAIMS TO VAST TRACTS,
The PeraIta-ReaViS Land Case
Now on Trial in a Santa
Fe Court.
Alleged Heirs Of a Spanish Baron
Seek to Secure an Immense
Estate.

DENVER, Colo, June ga special to
the Republican from Santa Fe, N. Mex,
says:
In the United States Court of Private
Land Claims to-day the famous Peralta-
Reavis land grant case was called for trial.
but neither Reavis nor his attorneys put
in an appearance.
Judge Mckinney of Phoenix appeared as
the representative of the alleged Peralta
heirs in Arizona, whose case was filed in
Arizona and subsequently consolidated
with the Peralta-Reavis claim, in spite of
the fact that it was adverse to the latter
claim. Judge Mckinney disclaimed any
connection with the Peralta-Reavis claim,
but explained that his client should be re-
lying On the Peralta-Reavis people to show
the existence of grant as alleged.
IF Reavis has failed to do this" he
added, "our case fails also" He may ask
the court to annul the order consolidating
the two cases.
As Reavis had recently been seen in Los
Angeles and might arrive with his attor-
neys the hearing was postponed until to-
morrow.
The Peralta claim covers an area of
IL, 100000 acres in Arizona, taking in part
of two counties in southwestern New Next
CO. Fertile valleys like those of the Salt and
ella rivers, the White Mountain, San
Carlos. Pima and Maricopa Indian reser-
vations, and such cities and towns as
Phoenix, Florence, Maricopa, Globe, Solo,
knoxville and Clifton, and numerous set
Elements in Western New Mexico are in
cluded within its boundaries. The South
ern Pacific railway taps it at Clifton, Sol
omonville, Maricopa and Phoenix. Its
value is about $35, OO0,0 900.
United States Attorney Reynolds de-
clares the claim gigantic fraud, and says
he is prepared to prove it so. James Adj
olson Reavis, a former printer of st. Louis,
is the chief claimant, through his wife,
whom he alleges is the great-granddaugh-
ter and only living heir of Baron Miguel
de Peralta, who easily traced her ancestry
back 700 years among the real grandees of
Spain.
The Government attorneys claim that
no such Spaniard as Miguel de Peralta
ever existed; that such grant was never
decreed by the King of Spain or located in
Arizona by the Viceroy of New Spain.
that the Baron and Baroness of Arizona
sole heirs of the imaginary Baron Miguel
de Peralta and wife of James Addison
Peralta Reavis, is really the daughter of
one John Treadway by Digger Indian
squaw known as Kate and that she was
born in Sherwood Valley, Mendocino
County, Cal, and is nowise related to any
Spanish family.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
JIM HILL BACK OF IT.
His Western Trip Said to Have
Been Made to Look Into
the Matter.
SECOND CONSULTATION HELD
The Details of the Project VIII Be
Made Public at the Proper
Time.

PORTLAND, Or, June 8. The i'm.
preston prevails in railroad circles that
Mr.. James ]. Hill, president of the
Great Northern, who is now in this
city, intends to establish line OF
steamers to the Orient at no distant
date and that his present Western trip is
to look into the feasibility of the undertake
ing and determine the point at which to
put on the line.
Mr.. Hill was in consultation to-day with
several prominent business men and inan-
ciers of this city. Several Chinese mer-
chants were among the number. Judge o.
n. Denny, ex-American Consul to Shang-
hal, was among Mr.. Hills visitors. After
leaving Mr.. Hill Judge Denny said
that the subject of their conversation had
been Chinese trade. He declined to say
anything further. Mr.. Hill would say
nothing definite regarding the steamship
line, simply stating that the matter would
be made public at the proper time.
When asked regarding the earning capa-
city of the Great Northern west of Mon
tana. and the rumors that the western end
was eating up the profits of the eastern
end, Mr.. Hill said:
Il am very well satisfied with the bust
ness of the western line. Our earnings are
not as great as we would like, but the road
is managed economically and is doing
well. 1t is not losing money.
There is one division in the
western line that makes US
as much in clear profit as any ohter divi-
sion in the entire system, with one single
exception. The Great Northern has never
been in such good condition financially as
now"
DO you think the general business con-
dition of the country is improving?"
Eyes; know it is. There is most per-
ceptible change for the better
HAS the free coinage of silver agitation
hurt the country"
Decidedly; it has impaired credit; our
credits are no: very good now, and if there
is ever danger of free-coinage bill being
passed by Congress there will be a financial
panic"
Mr.. Hill will leave tomorrow for the
sound.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
VICTIMS OF THE HEAT.
Ten People Drop Dead in a
Single Day on New York
Streets.
The Hot Weather Record OF the
Metropolis Broken Five Days In
Succession.

NEW YORK, n. Y, June "a cool
easterly breeze sprang up shortly after s
o'clock this evening, and, it is hoped, put
an end to the hot-weather record-breaking
days, for season at least. For five days
the thermometer has ranged from 20 to 95
degrees above zero. Ambulance bells have
rung and surgeons have been kept busy at
tending persons who have been over.
heated.
Not only have the records been broken
for the 30th and 31st of May and the first
three days of June, but this is grand
total of five record-breaking days in sue
cession. Never before in the his
tory of the local weather depart
ment has anything of this nature
occurred before. 1t is safe to say that at
least twenty-five people have died during
the past five days, as u result of the heat,
and that over 100 have been Frustrated and
taken to the different hospitals of the CITY.
The nearest to to-day's heat was June 8,
1884, when the thermometer registered Sc
degrees. The death list for to-day is one
of the largest on record. Thus far ten peo-
pie have been carried off the streets dead,
and eleven more in precarious condition.
The following is a list of the deaths thus
far reported for the day: John Smith,
laborer; Loretta Johnson, months old;
William Kelly, Iaborer; Robert Montgom-
cry, laborer; George Frederick, months
old; Freda Kroshinsky, 2 months old
Louise Ravelle, IL months DID, - Saro-
bolt, IA months old; Anthony Copeldin. 8
gears old; Katherine Caring, laundress,
and Thomas LANCE, laborer.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 3.-This was the
fifth day of intense heat, the mercury
being SO deg. in the shade during the
afternoon. A lake breeze during the after
noon made matters more endurable for a
time, but the breeze soon died away. The
number of prostrations was larger than on
any previous day. Many people were over
come, three of them dying.
The dead are: M. Fallen, found on
drainage canal at Sag bridge, died soon
afterward; James Griffin, dropped dead /;
John Johnson, dropped dead.
Those In serious condition are: Max
Lampe, overcome. in First National Bank
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
WILL FAVOR FREE SILVER,
Illinois Democrats to Meet in
the State Capitol To-
Morrow.
Nine-TenthS of the Delegates viii
Oppose the Gold Standard
Policy.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, June 3.-From
present indications the Democratic State
convention to be held here on June to
take action on the silver question will be
one of the largest political meetings ever
held in the State capital. All hotels have
advance orders for rooms to fill them to
overlooking, and by Wednesday morning
even cot-room in the corridors will be
scarce.
Secretary of State Hinrichsen, chairman
of the Democratic Central Commute has
had force of workmen arranging Repre-
sentative Hall for the convention. An i'm
mense platform is being erected along the
entire south side of the hall for speakers
and distinguished statesmen.
The programme for the convention has
been completed. The delegates of each
Congressional district will meet in caucus
at their respective headquarters at 10 A. NJ,
June 5, for the purpose of selecting two
delegates each to a national money con-
vention, the date of which has not yet
been fixed. The caucuses will at the same
time name one member each to the com
mittee on credentials, rules, resolutions
and permanent organization.
The convention will be called to order
at noon, June 5. Mr.. Hinrichsen will do
this and make an address of welcome,
stating the object of the convention. Tenn
parary officers will then be selected, and
following them permanent officers. 1t is
thought by some that the convention will
last two days.
According to Chairman Hinrichsen of
the Democratic State Central Committee,
more than nine-tenths of the delegates to
the convention will be for free silver at a
basis of 16 to l. He bases his opinion on
reports he has received from County Com
mitteemen all over the State
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
LONGEST WALK ON RECORD
Pedestrian Benz Concludes a
Tramp From BuenoS Ayres
to Chicago.
Perilous Journey Over Southern
Mountains and Through the
ISthmuS.

CHICAGO, ILL, June 3.-Anton Benz
and Louis Budinich reached Chicago last
evening, after making the longest tramp
on record. Their last place of residence,
or that of Anton Benz, was Buenos Ayres,
Argentine Republic. and he has been walk
ing away from it ever since August l, 1892.
In the two years and ten months Benz
walked II, 900 miles. His partner, Louis
Budinich, joined him at Lima, Peru. From
the day of the start Chicago has been the
objective point of these two champion
walkers of the world.
The travellers were met by 500 fellow
countrymen living in Chicago. Headed
by band and with banners flying, the
pedestrians were marched to the City Hail.
There the tramp, with the southern cross
ever at their backs and the polar star as
their guide, was ended. Their luggage con-
sisted of bundle of papers and certificates
numbering 1000, attesting to the genuine
ness of the tramp they claimed to have
made.
Anton Benz started away from Buenos
Ayres South America, on August 1, 1892
with the very laudable object of visiting
Chicago, North America. Though he had
money enough to get here by water, he
was seized with an odd notion of going by
land and trusting to his own feet for trans
portation. AS he briefly tells his story, he
lett Buenos Ayres accompanied by two
Germans. They abandoned the journey
after walking forty long Spanish leagues
over the pampas of Argentine up the River
Plata. Benz entered Asuncion alone
Unaccompanied, he left that city, crossed
ha NJ 1al ,n+n J.
Lima he met Budinich and SO interested
him in the project of journeying on foot
to Chicago that Budinich joined him.
The comrades footed it to Quito,
Ecuador, scaling mountain peaks and
marching through forests. From Quito,
through mountain passes and over noun
talns, they continued their journey to
Granada, United States of Colombia From
there they walked to Panama and then
began their journey through Central
America. They skirted the western coast,
stopping at Managua, Corinto, and other
recently celebrated Nicaraguan points, and
finally got into Mexico. From the City of
Mexico they tramped to San Luis Potosi
and entered the United States via Laredo
I'VE felt then, March 1, 1885, said Benz,
las II our Journey was at an end, but we
have since walked through Texas Arkan-
sas, Missouri and Illinois to Chicago"
Benz is gymnasium graduate, and is
Typographical engineer or mapmaker, as
he terms it. Budinich is well educated.
They are going to write book descriptive
OF their long tramp, and will remain in the
city until it is published. They have a
full itinerary of the journey, during which
they swan twenty-seven rivers. They also
have certificates of the Presidents of every
country through which they passed, and
OF the Alcalde or Mayor of every city they
visited, to attest the truth of their having
walked from Buenos Ayres to Chicago.
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Frank Cannon, Lee Bradburn, Daniel Cal
lahan, II years DID, Mrs. W. A. Parl.
Twelve others were overcome and taken
to hospitals.
James N Mckenzie, the famous Yale
University, was overcome this afternoon
while playing bali. He will recover
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 3.-Seven
deaths occurred to-day from hot weather.
There were fifty prostrations, about third
of which mum Der was made up of firemen,
Who held their annual parade to-day,
marching under the broiling sun for sew
eral hours. The fatalities were principally
infants and old persons. The maximum
was Sc deg. at P. NJ. About P NJ. a
thunderstorm came up, and tonight the
mercury is at rs.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, June 3-To-day
at o'clock and at 4 o'clock the Weather
Bureau thermometer registered 100 deg.
For twenty-five years observations have
been taken in this city by a Government
official. yet the reports show that only
once in that time has it been hotter. One
day in July several years ago the Their
mometer registered 100 deg.
This section has not had rain for several
weeks and unless it comes soon the crops
will be utterly blighted. Very few heat
prostrations were reported, none of them
fatal. Tonight it is raining in the south
ern part of the State, and it is hoped it will
reach this section by tomorrow.
CINCINNATI, ONO, June 3.-This was
the hottest day on record for the first week
in June. The mercury was 81 deg. at 8
P. NJ. and So deg. at 6P. NJ. Not case of
prostration was reported.
CLEVELAND, ONO, June 8. - The
weather, while Slightly cooler than yester-
day, caused much suffering. Several pros
trations were reported, and among the
number was David E. Christian, an at
torney. He was unconscious for several
hours, but recovered. At o'clock this
afternoon the mercury indicated SO.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
WILL BE REoRGANIzE ED.
Northern Pacific Committees Aalthorizt
Ada1ns to Continue the Rark

Northern Pacific Committees AaIthorise
adams to Continue the Work.
NEW YORK, N. Y, June 3.-Chairman
Edward d. Adams of the Northern Pacific
reorganization committee, who returned
from Europe Saturday, said to-day to an
Associated Press reporter:
II was called abroad Unexpectedly by
cable, and had conference in Lonio
with ]. Pierrepont Morgan, representative
of the Deutsche Bank, and the Great
Northern Railroad interests. After that
went to Berlin and conferred with four
separate Northern Pacific committees. All
l care to say now is have returned with
full authority to continue my work in the
preparation of plan for the reorganiza-
ton OF the Northern Pacific"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
SILVER MUST BE RECOGNIZED.
Pteacs of a Noted Frenchndn on the
Financial SifintSOM.

Pse,cs of Noted Frenchnadn on the
Financial Situation.
NEW YORK, n. Y, June ST. R.
Coudert, the legal representative i'll this
country OF the Government of France,
Keeps sharp eye on financial matters,
poth In this country and in Europe. He
read the interview with Senator Hill with
great deal of interest, and also the inter-
view IN which William G. Whitney ex-
pressed his views on the silver question.
He said:
III the nations of the world should
agree upon uniform standard there is no
doubt In my mind that it would be the
greatest boon the world of finance has ever
received. 1t strikes me that ratio of 1871
to l, l6 to l, or 20 to / would be immaterial.
so long as the ratio was uniform. 1t may
come to this, however, that the United
States will start out alone in the declara-
ton for bimetallism.
Il am not political economist, but
have watched the course of events with
much interest, and have read and talked
with european writers on finance. l find
that they are becoming impressed with the
TACT that unless the European nations
soon reach an agreement on this question
of adopting uniform double standard
they will have to face the certainty that the
United States will do business on silver
basis. The Populistic spirit which is
abroad throughout the West and South is
such that it cannot De ignored, and if the
fact becomes evident that the nations of
Europe intend to refuse any relief the
storm will break
1.-The result would undoubtedly be
financial revolution and loss to the United
States, but it would be ruin to Europe.
They are beginning to realize the fact that
they cannot get along without US, while
we can get along without them. If the
worst comes to the worst we could build
Chinese wall of silver around our country
and the world would be knocking at our
doors. tell you they are afraid to tempt
Providence too long. They are just wax
ing up to the fact, and the prudence of the
financiers of England and the Continent
will force the conclusion that silver must
be recognized as currency or they will be
forced to recognize it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
IMMENSE DAMAGE DONE.
Havoc Wrought in Medicine
Valley by the Curtis Lake
Overflow.
THE PLATTE RIVER RISING.
Suburbs of Denver Are Threat
ened With a Disastrous
Inundation.

OMAHA, NEBR., June ga special to
the Bee from MCCook, Nebr., says:
About O'Clock last night, while search
ing for washouts between Edison and Ok
ford, an engine and repair-train plunged
into a washout about two miles from Edi-
son, and of five men on the engine four
were killed. The names of the dead are:
B. V. Haley, roadmaster; Frank Jeffries.
engineer; Samuel Mundy, conductor; C..
@. M. Rowell, fireman.
The first intin:ation the Curtis citizens
had that their locality was threatened
with disaster was when the banks of the
lake, with a roar that could be heard sew
eral miles and wall of water ten feet high
rushed down the valley, carrying every
thing in its path. Houses, stock and
mountain debris were caught up and
dashed about like feathers.
The fine roller mills, which occupied the
east side of the great ravine, received the
first shock of the torrent, and the building
was almost ruined. The damage in this
direction alone is estimated at $40, 700.
A few hundred yards below the mills the
Medicine River passes into a narrow de-
file, and here it's progress was impeded,
but only for an instant, then the heavy
water rushed through, cutting a path 100
yards wide. A number of freightcars,
standing on the track close to the point
undermined, were precipitated into the
river, being carried down the stream like
straws.
The railroad company's loss is about
$4,000. AS the we'll of water passed be-
yond the city it rapidly spread out over an
immense territory and its powers of de-
struction were correspondingly decreased.
The damage, however, was merely shifted,
as extensive alfalfa meadows for MANY
| miles to the south were flooded by several
| feet of water, and fears are entertained
that the crop may be permanently de-
| stroyed.
| The rainfall prevailed everywhere, and
one of the Gulf officials remarked that the
rain ceased just at the right time, for the
| country was being flooded, and had it con-
| tinued much longer damage would have
| followed to the railways.
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DANGER OF Il FLOOD.
Jerome Park, suburb of Denver.
Threatened Ftth Inundatfon.

Jerome Park, suburb of Denuer,
Threatened With Inundation.
DENVER, Colo, June 3.-Jerome Park.
suburb of Denver, is in danger of food
more disastrous to property and life than
the one that took place year ago. The
river Platte is steadily rising and at noon
began to overflow its banks just above Rio
Grande avenue. Railway men are watch
ing, fearing repetition of the destructive
washouts occurring one year ago. Work
trains were all in readiness to go out at a
moments notice, and in some instances
they were in demand. The Rio Grande
was the only road having train in on
time to-day.
All details from the South where the
torrent passed indicate very extensive dam
age. Farm products of every description
were engulfed, and in many instances
where the homes of farmers were in the
immediate vicinity of the valley the disas-
ter was almost ruinous. Small buildings
were swept away or undermined in such
manner as to be rendered worthless, and
In some sections the water rose so rapidly
as to seriously menace the lives of fami-
lies. No loss of life thus far has been re-
ported. Twenty miles to the south, where
M edicine Valley is confined to a small
space, it is believed the damage will be
heaviest