The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-15
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

"Howard Steadman, the stage-robber
who escaped from your prison at San
Quentin while serving a five year sentence
and has recently been recaptured in Los
Angeles, was well-known TO the authorities
in Kansas City" said A. 3. Whittier of
that city at the Palace yesterday. He
came to our city in 1892 and had not been
there long before he had desperate shoot
ing affray with the police in which he came
out with bullet in his back which mar
rowly missed his spinal column. AS he
fell he threw away handful OF Jewels,
which the officers recovered. He was taken
to the police station and examined by
surgeon who pronounced him mortally
wounded. The city hospital ambulance
was sent for and Steadman placed in it,
while an officer took his seat by the driver
and q start was made for the institution.
After proceeding several blocks the
officer CHANGED TO look back
to see if the wounded man
had died yet, when he received shock
that almost caused him TO fall. off the seat.
The supposedly fatally injured man was
invisible. While the policeman and
driver had been busily talking Steadman
had dropped out of the rear of the ambu-
lance and disappeared and he was never
recaptured by the city officials. He was
heard of afterward in St. Joseph, where it
was feared his sweetheart had nursed him
back to health and he committed several
successful train robberies in that locality
but finally drifted back to Chicago, where,
after creating much excitement by holding
up streetcars and pedestrians, he was
finally arrested and sent to Joliet Prison.
He escaped from that place and the next
we heard of him was his recent recapture
in Los Angeles"
"The bookstores in towns down in
the San Rafael Valley have ordered
new supply of dream books" said
L. A. Evans of Los Angeles,
who was at the Grand Yesterday.
"a short time ago a ranchman in that
locality named Lineman dreamed that he
had discovered a placer mine near his
land from which he succeeded in extract
ing untold wealth. He bought a dream
book and found therein the statement that
to dream of gold meant the sure acquisi-
ton of money, and his mind became
freighted with what he believed to be his
impending good fortune. A few nights
after he again had a similar dream, in
| which the exact spot of ground was clearly
outlined, and the next day he went to the
place and began prospecting. The first
painful of dirt worked out showed good
color, and as his investigations progressed
the property proved to be valuable find.
His neighbors are now following his ex-
ample"
| 1.-THE drought-stricken districts of Ne
| braska which are accessible to railroads
are being well cared for at present" said
! j. P. Casey of Lincoln, that State, at the
Baldwin yesterday, "and there is little
probability of any great suffering in those
| localities. Carloads of freight. are being
sent to different points along the lines OF
railroad reaching the destitute sections
and all of them are sent checked free OF
! freight charges. Many carloads of coal
are being sent into the districts and sold to
| the inhabitants at just what the fuel cost
at the mines, the railroads transporting ii
free. Wherever the people are found in
need of fuel and without the necessary
money to procure it, the railroads accept
their notes in exchange. From all over
the district reports are being received
which tend to show that the real serious
ness of the situation is disappearing"