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Chinese and Whites Give Evi.
dence as Experts on the
Drug.
JUDGE HEACoCK WAS BORED
The Fiends Consume Quantities of the
Stuff Before Testifying in a
Customs Case.

United States Commissioner Heacocks
courtroom might have been taken for an
opium den in full blast by one unfamiliar
with the dignity of that sanctum yester-
day morning,
Wong Vow was being examined on
charge OF having smuggled opium in his
possession, and the case finally narrowed
down to question as to whether the ITO
tins of the drug seized by Deputy Sur
Veyor Ruddell contained any opium i'm
ported in refined state or whether it was
all domestic opium that had been cooked
up in San Francisco from the crude ar
ticle.
In order to determine this point it was
necessary to have expert testimony, and
the could only be obtained by smoking
this drug. Each side produced three
smokers, four of them being Chinese and
two whites, pipes were procured and the
experts fell to with avidity. some of the
hends lying at full length on the floor
while others utilized chairs and the big
lounge that forms portion of the furni-
ture of the room. Soon the blue wreaths
of smoke that arose from the cooking of
the opium over the little nut-oil lamps
filled the room, and the sweet, sickening
odor Of the drug penetrated every nook
and Granny of the apartment.
Judge Heacock looked disguised as the
fumes assailed his nostrils, but he bore the
ordeal with becoming fortitude and waited
for the opinions of the ecumbent experts.
Conversation among the attorneys tagged,
but still the smokers rolled their little
pills. cooked them and looked wise and
at the same time pleased as the smoke
poured from their nostrils and joined the
clouds that already nearly obscured the
ceiling. The smokers evidently thought
they had good thing and were pushing
it along"
Finally, becoming little bored by the
proceedings, the Commissioner asked
whether the prospective witnesses were
not about ready to testify, but was told
that they were not quite convinced of the
Identity OF the opium, and the smoking
went on. At last one of the white smokers,
by dropping the pipe from his nerveless
hand, gave evidence that his ''habit" was
satisfied and that he ought to be ready to
give his opinion, and seeing that they could
not carry on their favorite occupation any
longer, the remainder of the experts arose
reluctantly from their positions and put
away their paraphernalia.
One thrifty Chinese who had taken
liberal supply from one of the cans to start
with wrapped what he had not been able
to consume in a piece of paper and slowed
it away in his pocket.
Before beginning the hearing of the ex-
pert testimony the Commissioner care
fully opened all the doors and windows,
and breathed a sigh of relief as he said,
Proceed. gentlemen"
The witnesses showed the lack of de-
cision usual in opium fends but they
nearly all agreed that it was impossible to
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determine whether there was any Victoria
or Hongkong opium mixed with the do
mestic article. One man said that he
thought there was a little, but he could
not make the case of the prosecution strong
enough 10 suit Commissioner Heacock, and
the case was ordered dismissed.
1t was brought out in the testimony,
however, that at the time Wong Yon
was taken into custody he offered the
officer who arrested him $50, and later
500, to let him go free, and he may be re-
arrested on charge of attempting to bribe
the inspectOr
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a Methodist Rescue.

The Methodist Mission is becoming very
active in the rescue of Chinese female slaves
The number of girls in the home is rapidly in
creasing. Yesterday Mrs. Hull returned to the
from q disreputable house in the Chinatown Of
Pacific Grove. The girl, whose name is Ma
Choy, had expressed desire to escape from
absence from home. Mrs. Hull met her near
the station and they took the train without
molestation, as Ma Choy's absence was not dis
that she had gone with q teacher from the
mission.
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YERKES OBSERVATORY.
Professor Barnard to Assist in Testing
Its New Objective.

Professor barnard TO ASSIST IN resting
Its New Objective.
Professor Barnard, formerly of the Lick
Observatory, has just been at the Yerkes
Observatory, ON the shore of Lake Geneva,
and writes very enthusiastically of the
new 40-inch refractor it is about to receive.
The Yerkes elective has an area OF 1857
square inches, that of the Licks is 1927
square inches.
Professor George E. Hale is at Cam
bridgeport looking after the great objective,
and Professor Barnard is on his way to
assist him in testing it.
THE observatory (Yerkes) is a grand
affair" writes Professor Barnard. at is
the greatest structure ever built for the
purpose by long odds"
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who, wishing to see Durrant on the scaffoId,
has taken that method of giving him a
final impetus toward conviction.
1.-The defense in this case has always
been the same" he said yesterday. 1.-THE
attorneys for Durrant would not counte-
nance such a state of affairs, and would
not listen to any proposals of that kind
from any one. The case as it was pre-
sented was Just as we made it up The
matter of collecting evidence has been in
my hands exclusively, and it was given to
the Jury Just as it was originally intended
Mr.. Deuprey's promises in his opening
statement did not relate to anything any
man named Reynolds or Smythe could
say; they were based on the evidence that
was afterward submitted.
''There is no truth in the statement that
General Dickinson's questions regarding
Blanche Lamont's visits to the Methodist
church and of her letters from Rockford,
Ill, were for the purpose of LAYING a
foundation for the testimony Smythe said
he was to furnish the defense. The cues
lions. I suppose, were for the purpose of
showing that the girl went with other men
besides Durrant. but l do not know really
what thew were for. As for the strap,
General Dickinson obtained it as he stated,
and he submitted it for what it was worth.
"The defense in the Minnie Williams
case is fully made up. 1t is just as it will
be presented to the jury, and there is
absolutely nothing in it relating to either
Reynolds or Smythe. They have not been
contemplated IN the defense at all. We
have no use for them"
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mt was a young friend in

by Blanche Lamont was young friend in
Mills Seminary.
She felt positive that Hon. James
Lamont of Rockford, ILL.,, an editor of a
temperance publication there, and once
elected to the Illinois Legislature as
Assemblyman on q temperance ticket,
would not be able to throw any light on
Smythe's identity or his assertions relative
to Band of Hope connections.
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VindiCated.

The charge of embezzlement preferred by ].
D. Hart against Charles J. Stolz, tried before
Police Judge Low Tuesday, October 30, was
thrown out OF court, as the charge proved
groundless.
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Mrs. Reads Denial.

Mrs. Read, the widow of the man who
shot himself on Point Bonita, denies in
every particular the charge that her hus-
band was Reynolds or Smythe, or had any
connection with a person or persons so
named. She denies, too, that he took any
particular interest in the case, and the
only comment he ever uttered was that he
hoped the jury would hang Durrant.
"The cause of my husbands death"
Mrs. Read said last night, twas fear of
being convicted of the charge which was
pending against him in the United States
courts"
Read had been indicted by the United
States Grand Jury for using the mails for
illicit purposes.
He had been to several eminent law
yers," Mrs Read continued, land every
one of them had told him that he could
not escape conviction. 1t is not known,
but be left note addressed to me tel1ing
me of that fact. | didn't think the
Coroner orany one else had any
with his letter to me, so l did not
dressed to me and left on my husbands
desk. where my sister found it. In
that letter he told me that he was going to
commit suicide, and he stated what | have
told you as the cause"
Mrs. Read showed several samples of
her husbands handwriting, and they are
widely different from the reproductions of
Reynolds statements which were pub
lished in the newspapers.
A comparison proved at once that the
samples of her husbands writing which
Mrs. Read showed, and the statement pre-
pared by the mysterious Reynolds, were
written by different hands.
Lenahan Contradlcts the Examiner.
Charles T. Lenahan contradicts the Elk
aminer's story that he held his first con-
versation with the detectives in Burke's
saloon.
At the saloon named no trace could be
found yesterday to the identity of E. NJ
Thayer. Abbott Hanks, formerly captain
of the signal corps, denied yesterday that
his ''boys" were in the habit of going into
this saloon.
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Mrs. Noble Never Heard of Him.
Mrs Noble, when asked last night, said
she had never heard of Smythe; that
Blanche Lamont never knew a Symthe in
Oakland; and that the only place visited
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CURTAINS, WASH=GOODS. ETC.

At zoe a Pair.
100 pairs NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, 3
yards long, nicely made, value for 81.
At 1925 Pair.
so pairs NICE CHENILLE PORTIERES, with
double dadoes, new fancy body weave and
deep fringe, value for 80.
At S6C a Pair.
4 lots NICE NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS, white
or ecru, 40 inches wide ana 3 yards long,
value for 81 %.
AT $1.76 a Pair.
200 pairs FINE NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS,
broken lots, stylish goods, value for 50 so.
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At 30 Yard.
cases CREPON WASH GOODS, in pink and
light blue, plain colors only, value for 10
cents.
At S1.OO Each.
lot LADIES FINE BLACK SATEEN SKIRTS,
trimmed with Atwood deep lace, value for
S15O.
At $40 Yard.
100 pieces best grade TENNIS DIANA FLAN.
NELS, in fine assortment value for
1213 cents.
At Csc Yard.
lots HEAVY TABLE DAMASK, bleached and
cream, full width, value tor 40 cents.
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What Detective Morse Saws.

what DETECTIVE Morse Says.
Detective Harry Morse is outspoken in
his opinion of the two statements which
have so suddenly become part of the
famous case. He believes, he says, that
they are the work of some insane meddler,
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OF
Cloak
MAGNIFICENT UNEQUALED WINTER STOCK are
enforced
and THE MOST STAPLE LINES OF HOUSEFURNISHINGs at
<sPRICES THAT MEAN A GREAT SAVING TO BUYE]
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I know Theodore Dur.
rant well, and have been
acquainted with him for
ten or twelve years.
Theo and l used to be
together considerably.
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CHILDREN'S JACKETS.

At So. SO and $500.
HDRENs DoUBLEBREAsTED JACKETS in size from
mixed coakng velvet collar bone buttons
So 81, will be offered at 81 90 So each.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday: +. +. Crockeron, A. Simon, New
York; Charles A. Jones, Santa Catalina
Island; James E. Wilson and wife, Miss
l.. Shannon, Miss Lottie Alter, Byron
Douglas, Sam Meyers (rhe Girl Left
Behind Me Company; J. W. Schnabel.
Portland: c. b. Bradley. Berkeley; M.
Thomas and wife, San Mateo; c. A.
Baldwin. Santa Clara County; M. NJ.
Brown. T. Welker, w. S. Wood and
wife, Mrs. L. A, Wood, Mrs. E. B. Mott,
Miss Eleanor Wood. c. H. Jones, Harry
G. Morrill,, R. s. Moore, S. Prentiss
Smith, San Francisco.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday:
w. E. Clark, Philadelphia; w. A..
Stephens, Maryland; $. D. Blake, Wea-
verville; j. l.. Aldrich, Courtland; Edw.
A. Allen, San Francisco; John E. Rack er
and wife Atwood; A. NJ. Mccoy, Leo.
L. Mccoy, Red Bluff; f. w. Thomas,
San Francisco; III. A. Spear. Spokane; j..
e. McCormack and wife, Sacramento;
George Lings. BIDS. Landing: w. G..
Clark, Red Bluff.
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Wassernan, Davis 6 CO.
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY ROAD.
Preliminary Surveys Completed Fror
Stockton to the Sranislaus River.

Preliminary Surveys Completed From
Stockton to the Sranislaus River.
SAN Francisco, May BY to-mor-
row the preliminary surveys of the val
ley road will have progressed so far be-
yond Stockton as the Stanislaus River,
and these being complete, the location
surveys will be commenced at once. The
preliminary surveys are for the purpose
of choosing the best routes through the
country, and finally selecting the line
which the road is to follow. The loca-
ton surveys are for the purpose OF ex-
actIy locating all the curves and grades,
and for mapping out the line. so that
work may be commenced at once. w hen
the location surveys have been finished
as far as the Stanislaus River, the pre-
liminary surveys will be continued on
down the valley.
The agreement between the people OF
Stockton and the management OF the
road has been definitely reduced to writ
ing. The terms are just such as have
heretofore been agreed to, and which
have to great extent been published.
On the part of the road it is agreed that
the construction of the road-bed will be
commenced within sixty days from the
time the rights-of-way and the clty's
subscriptions are turned over, and that
it will be prosecuted continuously after
ward until the entire road is completed,
and that the road will then be at once
put in operation. unless something un-
foreseen happens to delay the work.
In consideration of this agreement by
the railroad, the city of Stockton agrees
to furnish right of way through the city
and through San joaquin County. the
same to be 100 feet wide; that the people
will subscribe for 100000 worth of stock.
and that in all ways they will assist the
road to obtain whatever additional fran
chises it may wish or be willing to ac-
cept. All this they agree to do within
sixty days.
The road agrees also that it will not di-
vert the property conveyed to it from
any of the uses for which it is incorpor-
ated, and that it will take all proceedings
necessary to condemn the rights of way
conveyed to it, the cost of such litigation
and the values of the land so condemned
to be paid by the city.
p. B. Fraser. Sidney Newell. F. NJ.
West, William Inglis and o. S. Bostwick
are made parties to the agreement, as
representing the city of Stockton.
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A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR.

Rev. Professor Momerie Likely to be
Invited to Visit sacramento.
One of the most conspicuous figures in
the Parliament of Religions at Chicag o
during the Worlds Fair was Rev. Pro-
lessor Alfred William Momere of Eng
land. He is now visiting this coast, and
it is understood may come to Sacramento
soon by invitation.
MIR. Momerie is Professor of Logic and
Metaphysics in Kings College, London,
and is select preacher before Cambridge
University, and is beside a well-known
author and leader of modern religious
thought in the Church OF England. He is
a distinguished scholar and man Of let
ters and an eloquent speaker, his style
being trenchant, clear and sparkling.
Scholarly people in our city who have
read his works and reports Of his SER
mons and lectures and historical essays
are especially interesting themselves to
have him visit Sacramento soon, and it
is probable that arrangements will be
perfected to that end. In San Francisco
he spoke before the Geographical Society,
and was accorded special honors by the
association.
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SANTA CANTALINA BAND.
1t Gives Its Two Farewell Concer
Yesterday

1t Gives Its Two Farewell Concerts
Yesterday.
The Santa Catalina Marine Band gave
its last two concerts yesterday afternoon
and evening, the citizens thronging the
Plaza on each occasion to hear them, and
testifying their appreciation of the fine
Instrumentation in the most unmistak-
able manner. Although the band has
only been practlcing together for little
over three weeks, it works as smoothly
as If 1t had been SO many months, and by
the time it gets ready for the Eastern
trip it has projected for next fall 1t will
be in condition to show the people the
other side Of the, mountains that Cali
fornia is not whit behind in music, any
more than in other things. BY req lest
the programme announced for last night
was changed, and "Cavaliera Rusticana,'
"Der Freischutz," "Fleur D'Alsace,"
''Semiramide" and other pieces of recog-
nized excellence were given. The cornet
solo Of II. G. Bowen. the trombone solo
of f. j. Nutting and the xylophone solo
of e. V. Goodman we're received with
even greater favor than on the preceding
day. and the hope was freely expressed
that we might at some future time hear
the band again.
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P. Nichols; IAN Artists Habitat" w. T.
Linton; "The Menu of Mankind" Calvin
DilI yViIoor
], M. GLASS LECTURE.


Prohibition the Only Hope of Our
Country's Salvation.
J. NJ. Glass, State Chairman of the Pro-
hibition party, delivered lecture last
night at the Sixth-street Methodist
Church on "Our Country-Its Present
and Future" to good-sized audience.
He opened his lecture by asking
"Whence came we; what are we here for.
and whittier are we drifting? ?" The
Fourth of July orator, he said, tells us
this is grand country. He lays hold OF
| the American eagle and scars heaven
| ward till he can go no higher, and then
lets go and comes down, goes to saloon
| aud takes a drink. He paints the eagle
as holding a thunderbOlt or q mountain.
He had better drop the thunderbolt and
come down in shame and 60 into sa-
loon. He cannot fly, because he has only
one wing-a masculine one. lie should
be given anOther-a feminine one-and
then he can fly out of the mud and mire.
The speaker thought it shame that the
| foreigner can vote while the women can
| not.
II history Is interpreted correctly, he
! says, there are are two causes that drag ma
| tions observation-disclosures and drunken
ness, and the concentration of wealth In
| few hands. In Egypt, Babylon and Rome
| the wealth was concentrated i'll the hands
of a small percentage of the people. The
| liquor traffic and the money power are
| running this Government and dragging
| it down. Prominent temperance people
have been for the past twenty years try
| ing to get Congress to pass laws for it's
| relief, but in vain. He claimed that no
| Legislature had adjourned for the past
| twenty years entirely sober, and that no
politician in this city could be elected
without the whisky vote.
Jay Gould, he said, accumulated more
| wealth in twenty years than all the col
| ored men of the South did in thirty years.
| If Adam had lived till now, he would not
| have accumulated as much money as
John d. Rockefeller has in the past
| twenty years. 1t was bad government
| that enabled him to do it. He had given
| 81. 600, 600 to q college. Where did he get
it? Tho mex: day after be gave the
| last million he raised the price OF kerO-
sene and gasoline all over the country
and made 81 900 out OF it. The
speaker called this blood money, as it was
| wrung out of the poor people who use
these articles. This rapid accumulation
of wealth is unprecedented in history.
Washington died the richest man in
America, and was worth $600,000. To-
day there are over 5000 millionaires.
| The same conditions that exist to-day
caused the French revolution.
There is not a shadow Of q statesman.
he said, at Washington, and has not been
| for fifteen years. The fellow who drinks
the most whisky and spends the most
money gets elected. Both the old parties
are in partnership with the liquor traffic,
and the only hope of the country lies in
the Prohibition party.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER
SACRAMENTO LAW CLUB.
w. II. Devlin Delivers q Lecture Be-
fa HauaaS taadS.

w. 81. Devlin Delivers Lecture Be-
fore It on Homesteads.
w. 81. Devlin delivered lecture upon
the subject of "Homesteads" before the
Sacramento Law Club last evening. He
treated this subject by subdividing it
under three heads, con sidering first the
general principles included Hereunder.
and spoke of the peculiar favor with
which courts look upon homesteads.
He next called attention to the statu-
tory regulations upon the subject of
homesteads and referred to the changes
in the statutes as to the property the sub
ject of the person who were entitled to a
homestead and the steps necessary to be
taken to acquire the same.
Mr.. Devlin read number of the lead
ing cases of this State relating to the sub
ject of his lecture and promised to con-
clude his lecture on the 18th inst.
1t was announced that there would be
q meeting of the bar in Judge Catlin's
department Of the Superior Court at p.
NJ. to-day to hear the report OF the COM
mittee OF attorneys appointed for the pur-
pose of framing the constitution and by
laws of the proposed Bar Association OF
Sacramento.
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Nicaragua Canal Company.

NEW York. May 2-The annual meet
ing of the Maritime Company OF
Nicaragua was held here to-day. 1t
was said that the commission would
leave Mobile on May 7th for Mica
rarua. and that they would be- accom-
nanied by Chief Engineer Menocal,
who will aid them in their inspection.
Secretary Treasurer Thomas B, Aitken
denies a report that the meet ing had dis
cussed proposition to ADVANCE to the
Government Of Nicaragua the $4,000 de-
manded by Great Britain as smart money
for the indiguities put upon Consul
Hatch.
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CANADIAN CATTLE.
Report That the Embargo is to b
Raised Denied.

Report That the Embargo is to be
Raised Denied.
NEW YORK, May 2.-There is q very
good prospect that the grip of the meat
trust will be broken within the next few
days by the Cleveland Administration.
Inside advices received here are to the
effect that the authorities at Washington
are about to remove the embargo on
Canadian cattle which has been in opera
ton for several years past.
WASHINGTON, May 2. Secretary Nor
ton denies to-day that the raising OF the
quarantine against Canadian cattle was
contemplated, as indicated in the dis
patch from New York. The impo ftation
of Canadian cattle is virtually prohibited
by the rigid quarantine of nineiy days.
They are also subject to duty OF ~ per
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WHENEVER the Government wants
the mos Trustworthy article and the best
in quality, it prefers tho Royal, as this
brand was found to be superior to all
others in leavening power by the official
chemical tests, made at the instance of
the Government, in the Agricultural De-
parttnent at Washington.
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insane From Starvation.

Officer Ash and Special Balsz last even
ing took froma q freight car on the spur on
the north levee, between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, man suspected of be-
ing insane, and conveyed him to the
Police Station. He has the appearance of
a man nearly starved to death. It is
thought he became insane from the lack
Of food. He spoke incoherently when
taken into custody, and it was impossi-
BILE to get his name.
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TOO MUCH MORPHINE.

A Little Girl Drinks Bottle of Cough
Medicine.
Yesterday afternoon the four-year-o
daughter of Mr.. Hunt, resident of
Oak Park. drank the contents OF two
ounce bottle of cough syrup, and the
morphine which was one of its ingredi-
ents so affected her that she came near
dying.
The assistant physician at the County
Hospital was called to attend her and
when he arrived at the Hunt residence
the girl was in q comatose condition.
After about two hours Of hard work the
doctor succeeded in relieving her from
the effects of the dose.
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BRIEF NOTES.

Governor Budd has appointed Julia
Bodley of San Jose Notary Public.
A seven-and-a-half pound shad was to
be seen at Jones IL Davis fish market
yesterday-the largest one, so far as is
known, that has been caught in this part
Of the river.