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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
THAT sPREckELs FAMILY ROW
The Head of the House Eas Confesse
Judgment and Gone Abroad.

The Head of the House Fas Confessed
Judgment and Gone Abroad.
San Francisco, May 20. - Claus
Spreckels, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, left today for Europe. They
will be gone three months, the greater
part of which time will be passed in
Germany.
Claus Spreckels, through his sons,
John D. and A. B. Spreckels, has con-
fessed Judgment in the suit for SANDER
brought against him by his son, G. A.
Spreckels, and the young man will re-
ceive the $780, 900 damages he asked
for. The reason for this acton is given
that Spreckels, Sr., received informa-
tion that his son would seek to prevent
his departure for Europe. According
ly the loyal sons, John D. and A. B.
Spreckels, in order to save their father.
further annoyance. instructed the attor-
neys in the case to confess judgment
and end the matter for the present But
Claus Spreckels will not admit that he
confessed Judgment in a moral sense,
so he has instructed his attorneys to be-
gin suit for an accounting against G.
A. Spreckels, to compel him to account
for all the money he has handled for
his father. The attorneys have also
been ordered to bring suit against Ru
dolph Spreckels, who sided with his
brother in the quarrel with their father,
to recover $500, 900 worth of stock of
the Paluhau Plantation Company,
which Rudolph claims his father gave
him in 1898, and from which he draws
S., 900 a month dividends, which it is
alleged, ,~ hassis>s nsiaezsteo supply the,
sinews of war against his parent.
The trouble in the Spreckels family
commenced over a year ago, when G.
A. Spreckels sued his father to recover
stock in the Hawaiian Commercial
Company. This suit was compro-
missed, and then Rudolph followed with
suit to prevent the transfer of $780,
900 worth of stock held by Claus
Spreckels as security to the Nevada
bank. Following this came the suit
against the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany, instituted by G. A. Spreckels,
who alleged that he was being frozen
out. Finally G. A. Spreckels sued his
father for SANDER, on account of the
newspaper interview in which the
father said his son had wasted his
money and would soon be bankrupt.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
Will Remove the Temptation.

st. Louis, May 21.-President Will
lam Thompson, of the Bank of Com
merce, has issued peremptory order
forbidding any and every employe of
the bank from attending horse races
under penalty of dismissal. The tend
ency and opportunity at the races to
lose money and eventually to become
defaulters is SO great that the president
thinks it dangerous for young men to
attend. He has decided that his clerks
shall not submit themselves to such
temptation.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
Port Angeles to San Francisco.

San Francisco, May 21.-E. A. Lass
ley, the matress-maker, who travelled
all the way from Port Angeles, Wash.
to San Francisco in a house-wagon,
looking for work, which he failed to
find, is camped on the sand lot at Sew
enth and Mission streets, awaiting the
recovery of his wife, who gave birth to
son in the house on wheels Saturday
morning. The entire family has occu-
pied the rolling home since August
last, and have experienced rather hard
times. There are three children be-
sides the newcomer, and the only means
of support they have had was derived
from the sale of a pamphlet describing
the trip from the north.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
AN OLD MANS CRIME
A Brutal Murder Committed
Near Grants Pass.
WAS oCcAsIoNED BY A QUARREL
Held His Wife in Three Feet of Water
Until She Drowned in the Pres
ence OF Their Children.

ence of Their Children.
Grants Pass, Or, May 21.-One of
the most cruel murders of the year was
committed near this city about 2 P. M.
today. Charles Fiester, man Of 68
years Of age, drowned his wife, aged
about 55 years, in hole of water near
the railroad track. The crime was
committed in the presence Of their
three young children, the eldest of
whom was Oyears. After the murder
was committed Fiester sent the child
rem to Merlin, four miles further on,
to tell the older boys what had hap
pened. The difficulty grew out Of fam
lily troubles of long standing. Fiester
came to this city later in the evening
and gave himself up to the sheriff and
is now in the county Jail.
The pair had been separated for a
long time, and when Fiester came to
town he prevailed upon his wife to go
to Merlin, where he was logging and
keep house for them. The woman con-
sented to go for a week, and they
started to Merlin, nine miles distant,
with the three small children. After
going about five miles on the way
quarrel came up about her receiving
letters from some man, and after hot
quarrel Mrs. Fiester started back for
Grants Pass, but was soon caught by
Fiester and dragged to hole of water,
about three feet deep, near the track,
and held her under the water until
dead. After the woman was dead the
man claims to have tried to drown
himself, but failed, and setting down
on the track, sent the children to Mer-
lin to tell the folks what he had done.
He remained until the crowd came up
from Merlin, and then came to Grants
Pass and gave himself up to Sheriff
Hiatt.
Coroner Kremer at once went to the
scene, and the corpse was taken to
Merlin. The inquest will be held here
tomorrow.
Fiester talked freely about the mat
ter to everyone, and says he is ready to
die. He has resided in Merlin for a
number of years, and always seemed to
be good citizen. A great many rela
tives reside in the neighborhood of
Grants Pass and Kerby. About year
ago his daughter, Jet Black, was mixed
up in killing scrape in this city, in
which Jess Rice, of Lebanon, was killed
by the woman's husband, Sam Black.
The latter is now in the penitentiary.
People who are well acquainted with
Fiester do not think that it was insan-
ity at all, but simply that he was an
gered, wanted to kill his wife and did
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
THE CENTRAL WASHINGTON.
Temporary Receivers Appointed for til
Branch Road at Spokane.

Temporary Receivers Appointed for the
Branch Road at Spokane.
Spokane, May 20.-Judge Hanford
in the United States court today ap-
pointed Leverett S. Miller, of st. Paul,
and G. P. Chamberlain, of Spokane, re-
ceivers Of the Central Washington
branch of the Northern Pacific. The
appointment is made upon the petition
of majority Of the bondholders, who
have become dissatisfied with the
Northern Pacific control Monday last
they filed bill for foreclosure. The
appointment of receivers is temporary.
The motion to make it permanent is
made returnable September 9. A short
time ago the bondholders sent an agent
out to investigate. He reported that
the road runs through good country
and ought to be made to pay. The
first step taken by the bondholders to
throw off the Northern Pacific inf1u-
ence was the removal of the Farmers
Loan & Trust Company as trustee, and
the appointment in it's place of the
Knickerbocker Trust Company of New
York. The road is now being operated
by the receivers of the Northern Pacific
under lease from the former trustee.
It is made discretionary with the
trustees whether the present lease shall
be continued or not Three alterna-
tives lie before the bondholders: Lease
to the Northern Pacific, lease to the
Great Northern, or operation as an in
dependent line. The road is 1O9 miles
long, and runs west from Spokane to
Coulee City.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
The French Defeat the Hovas.

Paris, May 21.-A dispatch from
Majanga, Madagascar, says the first
battalion of the Colonial regiment had
a sharp fight with a large body of
Hovas near Marovoay. The Hovas fed
at the point of the bayonet, leaving
sixty dead and wounded. There were
thirteen of the French wounded. The
French then occupied the Hova camp.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
Trouble in the California Militia.

San Francisco, May .20.-The ever
ing Post says that there is to be gen.
eral upheaval in the Third infantry reg
iment, National Guard of California,
and that Colonel Thomas F. Barry and
the captains of three companies will re-
tire, not being willing to serve under
the newly-appointed brigadier-general.
r. H. Warfeld
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
To Visit Lady Wilde.

New York, May 21.-Mrs. Frank
Leslie is to sail for England Saturday
to visit her mother-in-law, Lady Wilde,
and to do what she can TO comfort that
lady in her trouble in the disgraceful
scandal in which her eldest SON. Oscar
Wilde, has cut SO prominent figure
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
Killed the Baby Instead.

San Francisco, May 21.-Nicholas
Genotti, cobbler, while crazed with
drink, struck at his wife with piece
of iron pipe. The woman avoided the
blow, but it fell with crushing force on
the head of her young son, who was in
her arms The skull was fractured,
and he will probably die. Genotti was
arrested.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
Actual Work to Begin.

San Francisco, May 20.- The direc-
tors Of the San Francisco & San Joa-
quin Valley railroad have called in a
second 10 per cent installment on stock
subscriptions, to be expended for ma
terial and in starting the actual work
Of building the road
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
smurp,er Fos. Sentenced

San Francisco, May II Henry L.
Foss, the smuggler and Chinese certifi-
cate forger, was today sentenced to four
years in San Quentin, and fined $50
In the United States district court.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-05-23
(GtiCura
@ the great
NyN SKIN CURE
Ra W Instantly Relieves
MH TORTURING
Oh Skin Diseases

And the most distressing forms
of itching, burning, bleeding,
and scaly skin, scalp, and blood
humors, and will in a majority
of cases permit rest and sleep
and point to a speedy, perma-
nent, and economical cure when
physicians, hospitals, and all
other methods fail. CUTICURA
WORKS WONDERS, and its
cures of torturing, disfiguring,
humiliating humors are the
most wonderful ever recorded.
Sold throughout the world. Price, CUr1cURA,
&c.,; Soar, &C.; REsoLvENT, 81. POTTER DRUG
AND CHEM. CORP, Sole Props, Boston, s'An
about the Skin and Blood" 81 pages, mailed free.
- Facial Blemishes, pimply, oily, mothy
skin, falling hair, and simple baby rashes pre-
vented and cured by Cuticura Soap.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
Farmers Will Be Paid.

FARGO, N. D., Oct. 21.-Judge
Thomas has decided the case of Farmers
VS.. The North Dakota Milling Associa-
ton in favor of the former. When the
milling association went into the hands
of a receiver it owed farmers $56,0O0, of
which $40, 600 was owed to North Da-
kota farmers. By this decision the
farmers win get their pay, if there is
enough wheat in the elevators on which
they hold tickets, if not. they will be
paid pro rata. The farmers will, how
ever, be compelled to pay storage on
their wheat.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
THE LOSS IMMENSE.
Manitoba Prairie Fires Widespread and
Destructive.

Manitoba Prairie Fires widespread and
Destructive.
WINNIPEG, Oct. 2f-Never within
the history of settlement in Manitoba
has the country suffered such terrible
visitation of prairie fires as have oc-
CURED during the past week. The brief
telegraphic dispatches sent out from
day to day have conveyed a very made
quate idea Of the great destruction to
property caused by these devastating
fires. Houses, stables, live stock, grain
stacks and hay have been consumed in
all directions, and half a dozen people
have lost their lives and score or
more have beon seriously burned and
permanently MANNED. Several reports
have reached the city of the cremation
Of horses attached to vehicles that had
to be abandoned by the drivers on the
trails, and dozens Of cattle grazing on
the plains were either burned to death
or 80 so seriously burned that they had
to be killed. 1t is estimated that q
quarter of million bushels. of grain
and nearly million tons of hay have
been destroyed. In some districts not
enough hay is left to feed stock over
winter
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
Admits Being Implicated In a
Plot to Defraud Mrs.
Cameron.
Aided Her Husband to Elope
and Cashed the Forged
Certificate.
Duluth Mystery Cleared Up
While a Jury Was Out
on the Case.

DULUTH, Oct. 21.-Mrs. Samuel ID.
Smith, who was arrested at Detroit,
Mich, last spring and recently tried
here for larceny Of $1,000 from Mrs.
Cameron, a widow, also of Detroit, the
jury disagreeing, has confessed. The
scheme as carried out was planned by
Smith and executed with her assistance,
even to her husbands elopement with
the Cameron woman. Smith and Mrs.
the Cameron woman. The confession
was made to the county officials while
the jury was out celebrating on the
case. The parties all lived in Detroit,
and last spring Smith and Mrs. Cam
eron, former flame of Smith, eloped
and came to Duluth. Then by appoint
ment Mrs. Smith came to Duluth and
located few blocks from where her
husband and Mrs Cameron were
living. Smith had in the mean
tine secured from Mrs. Cameron a
Certificate of DEPOSIT
for So 800 to which he forged indorse-
ments and gave to his wife who secured
the cash, and then, with her husband,
started back to Detroit, Smith leaving
his wife in Chicago en- route, since
which time she claims not to have seen
him. She was arrested and returned
here for trial. Mrs. Smith says that
the scheme to rob Mrs. Cameron was
planned by her husband, but she was q
willing operator with him in carrying it
out, and agreed to the elopement, al
though she insists that she did not con-
template her husband living with Mrs.
Cameron as her husband.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
SALE OF ANACONDA STOCK.
The Syndicate Secured a Fourth Interest
in the Famous Mine

The Syndicate Secured a Fourth Interest
in the Famous Mine
NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-The details of
the sale of quarter interest ~ the
great Anaconda copper mine to dessrs.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., representing syn
dicate, have become known in Wall
street.
The negotiations were begun early in
September by Messrs. Lounsbury & Co.,
representing the officers of the Ana
conda mine. That firm gave the pros
pective purchasers an option on O,OOO
shares of the stock of the Anaconda
Mining company at $50 share for 30
days, within which time the syndicate
was to have the mine examined by its
experts. The time was subsequently
extended to Oct. %, but as the examina-
ton of the property, which has been
made under the personal direction OF
Mr.. Hamilton Smith, has proved salts
factory, the syndicate concluded to take
the stock.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
VENEZUELA FIRM.
W answer to Great Britain q Refusal
Of the Demands.

4 AhsWcr TO Oreat Britain a Refusal
Of the Demands.
MASHisGTcN, Oct. 21.-The answer
II venezuela to the British ultimatum
geas 70 be clearly foreshadowed in
uucla statement from the Venezue-
II ~ minister of foreign relations. This
= Oeen received at Washington. 1t
s!s with positiveness the attitude and
H.! Oi venezuela upon the exact sub
~ ~ covered In the ultimatum, and in
-.as'er Chamberlain's letter to the
raaor Of British Guiana.
ansse Official statements disclose the
- - ulnmatum in a repetition of a
|s-s .suu made by Great Britain in No.
|s sn0sf Last. As Great Britain had no
a'sr IN Venezuela, relations being
$50 go on the German minister con-
.'sa 70 act in presenting the British
n. sna anu Venezuela promptly rejected
-. suand and refused to give the
80 uances Great Britain asked. The
|o,ss Man, !. was q, accompanied by restate-
-'u' VI all Venezuela claimed
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
THE w. G.. T. v.
Reports Of Officers Regarding the Work
of the ear.

reports Of Officers Regarding the Work
of the ear.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 21.-The days pro-
ceedings of the w. G. T. U. convention
were opened by Mrs. Mary J. Weaver,
national evangelist from New York,
who led the devotional exercises
which precede every session. Mrs.
G. M. Woodward, superintendent of
the railway department, said she had
been spending most of her time during
the past year in searching for good
women to aid her in her work among
railroad men. She paid glowing trib-
ute to the various state organizations
under her.
At the conclusion of Mrs. Woodward's g
report, Miss Willard said she was sure
the hearts of all those present had been
touched by the statements contained
in it.
"The woman" she said, "who can go
out and find other women whose hearts
are earnestly in this work, is just the
woman who they want at the head of
this department. Thirty thousand rail
road men are killed or MANNED every
year. About three 60 under the wheels
every hour. can't help lifting up a
prayer to the divine God for the epgin-
eers, conductors and brakemen, every
time enter railroad train"
Mrs. Minnie F. English of Illinois,
superintendent of the department Of
mines, followed with report in which
che told of the w G. IT IT work among
the miners, Incidentally, she spoke of
Pennsylvania coal operator who said
recently that nothing save the power Of
Christ could work any changes for good
in community such as that of miners.
1t is understood that she referred to j.
G. Martin, who controls 5000 acres of
coal lands at Martinsdale, and whose
wife is one of the most prominent of the
w. Q. Z. U. workers.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
stole the LouisburR Cross.

sr,a raaAAiDeE, Mass, Oct. 21. There is
-, siaDie = excitement at Harvard
H. le discovery of an act of vandal.
u, ~ue .. one having stolen the Louis
ibrs,S SYss nom over the entrance Of the
Igs,y u Cove hall. The cross was a
lIssss., n.y. valued relic. 1t was captured by
louj.h soldiers at the siege of
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
[I|g OBJECTS TO It.
=. Allow Secretary Olney
!, investigate Matters
In Cuba.
/ o.nalIlon a Small Affair
.,d outside Aid Not
Necessary.
l.,,,sb Newspapers Talking
| Of Teaching Yankees
a Lesson.

Icrr.eo, Oct. 2l.-The Times Her.
! !. washington correspondent sends
/. allowing: Naughty Spain declines
,s,mit the United States to conduct
mvestigation into the condition OF
f. in Cuba. The project of sending
|nmmission of inquiry to Cuba has
fore been abandoned. Secretary
[,sv did not make formal proposal
4 ri, nature, but instructed the
F,itd States minister at Madrid, MIR.
|.rlr, to sound the Spanish foreign
Az a. 10 its views. To this end in
Ejr was orally made and an oral re-
n vas given thereto by the Spanish
Ernier.
|spur Canoyas informed Mr.. Taylor
N Spain could not entertain such a
EDOssl; that the rebellion in Cuba
h small affair, with which Spain
|r sbundantly able to deal without as
ksnce from any other power. That
ksin could not for one moment con-
|ir any proposal on the part of a for
|r power to conduct an investigation
rto The domestic affairs of his majesty's
Ewrnment Minister Taylor commu-
hated this reply to Secretary Olney
\ telegraph, the dispatch was before
hs@binet at its meeting on Friday and
b president and his advisers agreed to
hde by Spain's decision.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
Denied by tho Westminster Gazette.

LONDON, Oct. 21.-The Westminster
Gazette, commenting upon dispatch
to The Times from New York, declaring
that a joint refusal of the European
powers to accept the Monroe doctrine is
believed to be in the Marquis of Sails
bury's mind, says: "There is no such
thing. The Monroe doctrine is matter
entirely between the old country and
the United States, and if the time ever
comes for Great Britain to take sides on
the subject we shall stand with the
Americans and not against them"
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
The Ranger q Receiving Ship.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.-z-The United
States Steamship Ranger has arrived in
port from Acapulco. The vessel has
been away from San Francisco nearly q
year, during which time she has been
cruising along the Central and South
American coasts. The vessel has been
detailed to act as receiving ship and
to occupy the same position here as the
Independence does at Mare Island.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
Town Marshal Killed.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Oct. 21.-
Town Marshal Dan Benton of Gold
field was instantly killed and Frank
Smith, Andy Coyle and Frank Stevens
seriously wounded in a spirited battle
in the little town of Goldfield at the
foot of Bull Hill, in which revolvers,
shotguns and rifles were called into
r,lay.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
No News From Erzeroum.

LONDON, Oct. 2l.-The Constantine
pie correspondent to The Daily News
says: Anxiety is felt about Erzeroum,
from which place no news has been re-
ceived for four days. Travellers from
Tredizond state that two days before
the massacre the Armenians were in
duced to give up their arms on the gov
ernor promising to be answerable for
their safety.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
HorssIess Carriage Race.

CHICAGO, Oct. 21-The motorcycle,
or horseless carriage race, from Chicago
to Waukegan and return, a distance OF
about 100 miles, will be contested Satur-
day, Nov. 2. From present indications
there will be not less than 40 starters In
the great race. 1t is expected that sew
eral of the motorcycles will make the
distance in less than six hours.
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
Published Too Early.

CoLJMBUs, o., Oct. 21.-Ex- Governor
Foraker, being asked what he knew or
thought of Senator Sherman's new book
replied: II have not seen the book. l
do not know anything about its con-
tents, but if. as stated in the news
papers, it criticises prominent Repubi-
cans, am sorry the proof sheets could
not have been withheld until after the
election"
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
Minnesota Endeavors Adjourn.

DULUTH, Oct. 2l.--The business ses-
sions of the convention of the Minnesota
Christian Endeavorers ended during the
evening, when Minneapolis was selected
as the next meeting place and the fol-
lowing officers were selected: Presi-
dent, @. II. Hunt, Minneapolis; secre-
tary, Cazrie A, Holbrpok. st, Paul
Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1895-10-23
large steamers Grounded.

DETROIT, Oct. 21.-Lake st. Clair
was nearly two feet lower than usual
during the day on account of heavy
southwesterly winds which had pre-
vailed for two days. In consequence Of
this several of the larger steamers
grounded on the Crosse Pointe shoals,
which caused q long blockade Of the
entire dowubound dsek "