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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
EVENTS AT SAN JOSE
Lucy E. Park Answered the
Complaint Filed by Her
Husband.
George E. Barron's Gift to Caroline
Hawxhurst-End of the Degelman
Libel Case.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Dec. 16.-Lucy e.
Park to-day filed an answer to the suit
brought by her husband, Monroe G. Park,
for divorce on the ground of cruelty, in
which she denies that she ever called the
plaintiff a liar or brute and that she
yer imputed to him that he was stingy
ID had disregarded the solemnity of his
arriage VOWS She says her conduct was
1t cruel and of such nature as to cause
nIm great mental suffering. Mrs. Park
charges that while she was sick and under
medical care in the spring OF this year
the plaintiff struck and beat her and i'm
pugned her veracity, emphasizing his dec
laratlons by some terrible adjectives.
The Parks were married in Kansas
in 1865 and have four children,
three OF whom are of age. They own a
house and lot worth $500 in this city,
which is mortgaged for $500, and Mrs:
Park wants her share of this property and
the custody of the minor child.
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Each Had Forged Certificates
of Residence in His
Possession.
FOLLOWED THE BLAINE TRAIL.
The MongolS Held to Await an hives.
tigation by a Grand
Jury.

SEATTLE, WASH, Dec. 16-For some
time past strong suspicious have prevailed
that Chinese were again illegally securing
entrance into the United States by cross
ing the boundary line via old Blaine and
Sumas trails. Customs officers have been
on the alert to capture these invaders, who
usually have forged certificates in their
possession.
Their efforts were successful on Satur-
day, squad of five Celestials being cap
tured near Nooksack City. They were
brought to Seattle this morning by Deputy
Marshals George w. Curtis and Emery
McGinnis.
The Cinnamon were captured by Deputy
Collector Flanagan of Sumas and Immi-
grafton Inspector Gourley of Whatcom.
They were led by an old offender named
Wong Chong, who fell into the laws
In the party were All Sam, All Chang, All
Hung, All Kung and the redoubtable
Wong Chong.
The officers escorted their prisoners to
Sumas and arraigned them before United
States Commissioner r. s.. Lambert, who,
after hearing the evidence, bound them
over for the action of the Federal Grand
Jury, and then locked them up. Word
was sent to tine United States Marshal S
office and two deputies went up and
brought the squad in.
They are now in jail awaiting an investi-
CATION of their case by the Grand Jury,
which is now sitting. The Cinnamon are
all understood to be provided with forged
certificates of residence at Seattle. Most
OF them talk good English.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
STANFORD EXAMINATIONS,
Students Now Interested in the
Finals of the Fall
Semester.
Christmas Will Come and Go Without
Football Game on the
Campus.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL,
Dec. 16.-On the coming Friday Stanford
closes its doors for the holiday vacation.
Just at present the students are most in
terested in the last examinations of the
semester. There has been more of an
effort each year to diminish the number of
the finals, and the faculty has so arranged
the last examinations, as a rule, that the
last week is not crowded with them, as has
been the case in previous years.
Manager Eaton, who has been endeavor-
ing to arrange a football game with some
Eastern team, has at last given up the
idea. The Michigan eleven required too
large guarantee, and there seemed to be
an aversion for trip among the players
themselves. Another proposition was
considered: that of CONT ining the best
players of Berkeley and of Stanford in one
aggregation to meet some big Eastern
team, but that plan, too, fell through.
So, with Christmas but ten days away,
there is no likelihood of game.
A large nun Der of students who live too
far distant from the university to reach
their homes for visit during vacation
will remain here for the holidays. About
so per cent of the students, however, will
be absent during the recess.
Professor Richardson, at the head of the
chemical department, estimates the loss
from the recent fire at $3.50, which is a
much heavier loss than was at first calcu-
lated.
President Jordan expects to leave for
Southern California on Wednesday next.
He will be absent until January 1.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
CAVE MADEIRA ITS NAME,
Death of Ex-Sheriff Thurman,
One Of the States Forty
Miners.
Noted for His Bravery in Dealing
With Lawless Men in the
Early Days.

MADEIRA, CAL, Dec. 16.-W. H. Thur
man, a Mexican war veteran, and one of
the pioneers of this State and county, died
this morning at San Diego, whittier he
went few months ago in search of health.
Mr.. Thurman was Tennesseean by
birth. He crossed the plains in '49 and
settled in San jose Subsequently he went
to Nevada, where he served several years
as Sheriff of Washoe County, displaying a
bravery necessary to such offices in the
early days. Hewas one of the first settlers
of this county. He named the town of
MADEIRA, and built the first house in it, and
was one of the projectors of the lumber
fiume, which terminates here. Upon the
organization of this county, Mr.. Thurman
was elected Sheriff, filling that position
until last January.
The body will arrive here tomorrow,
and the funeral will take place on Wednes-
day. The services will be conducted by
the Knights OF Pythias and the Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
TEST CASE At FRESNO.
Valley Road Directors and City
Councilmen in Friendly
Litigation.
Validity of the Law Affecting the
Granting of Franchises to Be
Determined.

FRESNO, CAL, Dec. 16.-Application
for franchise to run its line through this
city has been made by the San Joaquin
Valley Railroad Company. E. F. Preston,
attorney for the company, spent the day
in Fresno, and at a conference with the
City Trustees it was agreed that friendly
suit should be carried to the Supreme
Court to test the validity of the law which
says that franchises must be advertised for
a certain length of time and then sold to
the highest bidder.
The railroad company was opposed to
applying for franchise under that law
insisting that it was not necessary to do
so, and that a franchise granted direct,
without any advertising or sale, was just
as good and would be satisfactory to the
company. The application was made, and
the City Trustees refused to grant the fran
chise except in the usual way. A writ of
mandate will be applied for and within a
few weeks, it is expected, the Supreme
Court will settle the question.
The suit is friendly, and the City Trus-
tees will aid in securing an early hearing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
LOS ANGELES COMPETITION.
One Reason for the Continued Lotc Price
for Oil.

One Reason for the Continued Loto Price
for Oil.
LOS ANGELES, CAL, Dec. 16.-The oil
situation in this city is peculiar. A field
that produces /, OO0, 900 barrels of oil week
ought to bring prosperity to any COM
munity. and the fact that the price of oil
does not advance and that no one is getting
unusually rich in the business IS due to
the lack of tankage as much as anything
else, in the opinion OF Secretary Cochran
of the Oil Exchange.
One hundred men are selling oil where
three are sufficient, and each is endeavor-
ing to undersell the others. Only bali the
supply is bought, and there is but 10000
barr els of tankage; consequently the sur
Plus must be disposed Of at any price. In
the East $4,000, 900 barrels have been above
ground and the price did not drop.
The solution is TO erect sufficiently large
tanks, and the oil. with ocean transpor-
tation. can be controlled with good prices.
Otherwise, the distress that has been
hanging over the fields, it is thought, will
develop into a crisis, and the Standard
Oil Company whose grip is tightening,
will solve the problem in its old way.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
Two Monster Guns and Their
Owners Taken by Deputy
Patrolman Helms.
FEFDING-GROUNDs BoMBARDED.
Artillery Brought Into Use to Exter.
inmate Game for the City
Markets.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Dec. 16.-Deputy
Fish and Game Patrolman Helms to-day
returned from Suffer County, whittier he
was sent by Commissioner Morrison to
look after market-hun tiers, who were re-
ported to have been using four gauge guns
in killing ducks. He had made two trips
before, but the men evaded him.
This time Helms camped over night on
their shooting-ground, and early the fol-
lowing morning detected Ben May and a
hired man named Carroll in the act of
Staying ducks with twenty-six-pound
howitzers. They tried TO escape, but he
arrested them and had them bound over
by local Justice for trial.
Helms brought the howitzers here as
evidence, and they are attracting no little
curiosity. They are double barreled and
five inches wide at the breech.
State Commissioner Morrison will attend
the trial and see that the prosecution
made vigorous. There are more pot
hunters in that locality, and they slaugh-
ter thousands of ducks every week.
Commissioner Morrison stated tonight
that May was understood to be the boss of
one of these pothunting outfits, and hired
MS men at 9I i Jay 10 SHOOG lot MIN. AT
the time Helms made the arrests only May
and a man named Carroll were there. An
other man, who lately served term on
the changing in this city, is also hunting
in the lower end of Suffer County with
these pieces os artillery.
These pothunters usually have an iron
box under the bed of their wagon, and
wnen q stranger comes into sight they lock
up their artillery and take out ten-gauge
guns, so it is hard to catch them at their
unlawful work. Helms built himself
willow blind near where May was hunting,
and slept there over night, and the duck
slaughterers were bombardiEg the game in
the morning before they discovered him.
C. L. Paige deputy State game officer in
Shasta, writes to local paper that he has
arrested C. II. Behrens in the town of
Shasta for keeping live quail in cage.
Behrens is a hotel keeper and also con-
stable. He had been warned about keep
ing the quail IN violation of the law, but
paid no heed to it. Paige has turned the
case over to the district attorney, and no.
titled the State game commissioners of the
arrest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
OREGON RAILWAY SCHEMES.
The Burlington No,c Seeking a Zine to
the Coast.

The Burlington No,c Seeking Zine to
the Coast
PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 16.-The Bur
lington Railroad Company has long
wanted to get road through to the
Pacific Coast, with a terminal either on
Puget Sound or at Portland.
Last summer Burlington officials visited
the West to look over the ground and see
what chances there might be for getting an
independent line westward from Billings,
Mont, their farthest westward terminus.
The fact that Receiver McNeill of the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
is now in the East on the reorganization
business OF his road, leads to considerable
speculation as to the probabilities of one
OF the three systems-the Southern and
the Union Pacific and the Burlington
getting control of the road in the event
that it is not maintained as an indepen-
dent line.
President Perkins OF the Burlington
system and Chairman Forbes of the exec
utive board are said to be the largest two
individual stockholders of the o. R. and N,
and as it is known that they have in the
past offered any assistance desired to the
0. r. and n. people, it is not wholly I'M
probable that they will exert some weighty
influence in the reorganization of the road
which means they are in the fight for con-
troll.
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OF INTEREST TO THE COAST.
More Places for Senators on the Com
3nitfeeS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 16.-The
Republican members of the Senate Pacific
Railroads Committee will be Gear CHAIR
MANI, Frye, Stewart, Walcott and one
other yet to be named.
Senator Perkins will be a member of the
the Appropriations Comm tee and also
chairman of the Committee on Fisheries.
Morrill, of Vermont will be chairman of the
Finance Committee, Stewart chairman of
Mines and Mining. Culiom Of the Inter-
state Commerce, Warren of Irrigation,
Frye OF Commerce, Wilson (of Washing
tom of Indian Depredatons, Cameron OF
Naval Affairs. Dubois of Public Lands,
Sherman of Foreign Relations, Lodge of
immigration.
Congressman Hilborn to-day presented a
memorial of the fruitgrowers of California
in favor of the Nicaragua canal, and ask
ing that it be made, owned and controlled
by the Government of the United States in
the interest of commerce. also bill grant
ing, an American registry for the steamer
Kahulu.
Judge Thomas H. Bond of Lakeport is at
the Ebbitt House. He will argue the
Wright irrigation case before the United
States Supreme Court.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
VALLEJO SAFE OPENED.
Experts Forced an Entrance to
the Stronghold in the
Postoffce.
1t Was Found That Deputy Mem.
erny Had Taken Away None
Of the Cash.

VALLEJO, CAL, Dec. IGN. G. and E.
W. West, the experts, succeeded at 10
o'clock this morning in opening the safe
in the Postoffice and found it contained
all the money. stamps and bonds of
the office. Nothing had been taken
oy the missing Deputy Postmaster, Nc
Enerny. The experts did their work
neatly, opening the door of the safe with
out injuring the lock. The safe contained
$500 in cash and several thousand dollars
worth of postage stamps.
The discovery that none of this money
and stamps were taken by McEnerny makes
his case enigmatical to the postal in
spectors.
II do not know what to think" said In
spector Erwin to-day, "now that all this
money has been found. One would natur-
ally suppose if McEnerny wanted to skip
out he would have taken this along. Me.
Enemy was not criminal. When a boy
he had the ST. Nitus dance very badly, and
he was very much affected by nervousness
when l saw him last Thursday.
Recently the department notified Us
that there was something irregular about
the Vallejo office s returns. Once McEnerny
had issued a money-order for $25 and
charged only 50 50 against the office but
then again he issued an order for only
81 90 and charged himself with SOS, so that
evened it up. Why, he issued an order
for only 80 cents and charged himself
with $50. [ really don't know what to
make of him.
The peculiar manner in which McEnerny
left the office and the subsequent circum-
stances cause Mr.. Erwin to believe that the
young man might have done away with.
himself.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
ALBANY MURDER TRIAL.
Lloyd Montgomery Says He Should Be
Hanged for the Murder of
His Parents

ALBANY, Or, Dec. 16.-To-morrow is
the date set for the trial of Lloyd Mont
gomery on the charge of numbering his
parents and Daniel McKercher, near
Brownsville.
Last Friday morning for the first time
he talked with Sheriff McFerron about the
trial. When the Sheriff took his broadcast
to him and asked him how he felt, he
said:
II feel first-rate, slept well last night,
and am glad to have had one good nights
sleep before | die"
"Do you expect to die?" the Sheriff
asked.
Eyes, expect to be hanged, and l guess
deserve it. l would rather be hanged
and have it ended than go to the peniten-
tlary."
He said he realized the enormity of the
crime he had committed and that he de-
served to die for it. None of Montgom-
ery's family have written to him, nor do
they visit him in Jail.
Montgomery attorney, Judge Whitney.
talked with him for an hour or more on
Friday. The prisoner appears to be per-
fectly sane and there seems to be no defense
that can save him from expiating his crime
on the gallows.
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RAILS ARE EN- ROUTE.
Ttcenty-Seren Carloads Shipped for til
Corral HolI0,U Line.

Ttcenty-Seren Carloads Shipped for the
Corral HolG0tc Line.
STOCKTON, CAL, Dec. 16.-E. II. Bar
Der, the local agent of the Alameda and
San Joaquin Railway, to-day received bills
OF lading for twenty-seven carloads of
rails that were shipped from Chicago on
the 10th inst. Twenty-three of the cars
carrying the rails are those made in Chi
cago for the Cow Hollow road. They are
are expected to reach here by the last of
this week.
The work of constructing trestle across
Paradise cut will be completed tonight or
tomorrow, when there will remain only
the Tom Paine Slough and swale on the
Fink ranch to be bridged over. After this
is done the construction trains can run
through toward Corral Hollow as fast as
the track layers can put down ties and
rails.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
Enforcing Alaska Liquor Lays.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Dec 49,
The steamer City of Topeka from Alaska
to-day brings news that the Government
officials there are apparently making a
serious effort 10 enforce the liquor laws of
the Territory.
Although there is strict prohibition
law IN Alaska the Government has always
issued a limited number of permits for
iquor-sellers, and Grand Jury recently
liquors. Those having permits looked
upon the matter lightly, but the news
comes to-day that even they are being
arrested and will be brought to trial.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
Arcnta,s Sad Accfdenf.

EUREKA, CAL, Dec. 16.-William Nc
George, a young druggist of this city, who
had an arm amputated above the elbow,
because of an accidental gunshot wound
last Monday, died at Arcata last evening.
Milton Bohall, whose unwilling act caused
the death of his friend, has been on the
verge OF insanity several times since the
accident. One sad feature is that both
McGeorge and Bohall had widowed
mothers, in measure, dependent on them
for support. The body of McGeorge was
brought to this city this afternoon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
GEORGE Il. BARRONS GIFT.
Caroline Hntcrhurst to Recsire Half of the
EEpected acquisitions.

Caroline Hntcahurst to Recsire HdT OF the
Expected acquisitions.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Dec. 16.-An instru-
ment was filed in the Superior Court to-
day whereby George E. Barron, the con-
testant of the will of his father, Edward
Barron, has transferred to Caroline Hawk
hurst all interest that has accrued up to
$25, 900 on the 100000 bequest of his
father as security for two notes aggre-
eating $4,000. The notes, one of which is
for $4,000 and the other for $4,000, were
executed August 81, 1885, and made pay
able two years from date, with interest at
per cent per month. 1t is also agreed
that in contemplation of his fathers will
being ultimately broken, he gives to Caro-
line Hawxhurst one-haf of whatever mis-
interest may be-.
James E. Walsh and James A. Thomp-
son, trustees of the 100000 bequest in
which George E. Barron has life inter
est agree to carry out the terms OF the
contract.
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Rainfall and Sno,c.

MERGED, CAL, Dec. 16.-Rain has been
falling all evening, and since the showers
began yesterday half-inch in all has
fallen. 1t has made blowing good in this
vicinity and given strength to stock food.
The snow is falling on the lower foothills
with four inches of the beautiful in
Mariposa.
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH. Dec. 49,
The falling barometer of the past few days
resulted in a snowfall early this morning
and the indications are that the weather
will moderate during the next twenty-four
hours, although shipping will remain at a
standstill for the present.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
cENTERWLLE'S MURDER.
Yokum Did Not Shoot RaL'ew and
Mason in Self Defense

CHICO, CAL, Dec. 16.-A Coroners jury
has returned verdict of murder against
III. F. Yokum, who shot and instantly
killed Frank Ballew and MORALLY wounded
Albert Mason at Centerville Saturday
afternoon. Yokums statement that lie
fired in self-defense was not borne out by
the evidence, neither Ballew nor Mason,
who dieG the following morning, having
weapons upon their persons.
Yokum was arraigned before Justice of
the Peace Bay to-day and pleaded not
guilty. He is II years old and has a family
of grown sons and daughters. Baliew had
a wife and child. He was robust you ng
man and always ready for trouble.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
MAJOR ORES SHORTAGE.

Bondsmen Have Not Decided to Reim-
burse the asylum.
STOCKTON, CAL, Dec. 16.-So far as is
known the bondsmen of Major Orr, the
former treasurer Of the State Insane Asy-
lum here, have not announced to the asy-
lum officials whether they would make
test the matter in the Courts. H. H. Hew-
lett, one of the bondsmen, said:
1.-The several bondsmen have consulted
Attorney Nicol and he has not yet advised
us whether to pay the deficit or not. We
shall be guided much by his advice"
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On Trial for Harder.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, Dec. 16.-The
trial of Patrick Stewart McAnery, accused
of the murder of William Hunter on Sep
TENDER IA, was begun this morning before
Judge Smith. McAnery and Hunter en-
gagged In saloon row. There was strug-
gle and Hunter was stabbed. McAnery
claims that he acted in self.defense.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
~ LEAVES POET INCHES.
Inc Flagship Philadelphia Coming to
San Francisco.

PORT ANGELES, WASH, Dec. 16.-The
flagship Philadelphia will leave to- morrow
morning, the weather permitting, for San
Francisco. During its cruise on the sound
the Philadelphia spent one month in test
ing its guns at target practice in this port
and the balance of the time has teen con-
sumed in visiting the cities of the sound.
Admiral Beardslee expected to visit
Puget Sound again next spring with the
battleshin Oregon, but it now appears that
1t Is not likely TO be put into commission
for some time TO come. as it will be impos-
sibie to obtain a full complement of, men.
The Philadelphia will remain at San Fran
cisco during the holidays, and win then
probably proceed to San Diego.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17
SAFE AT Port WNSEND.
ArriUaI of the KiImOry After Toyag,
Ernnnhf HILL Snferinn

dfrttdt OF NE hitWOTy HJFer q TOydge
Fraught Uith Suffering.
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Dec. 13.-
The British ship Kilmory, which arrived
to-day forty days from Acapulco, brings
story of terrible suffering on board
Shortly after leaving the Mexican port
every man on board was seized by malarial
fever, and Captain Ferguson himself,
though suffering with fever. was often
forced to go aloft for duty.
The ship was off Cape Flattery nine days
before able to enter the straits, on account
of storms.
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Sentenced at PortIand.

PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 16 - Paddy
Lynch, the notorious sailor boarding
house keeper and all-around crook, whose
career is well known to the police OF San
Francisco as well as of Portland, was sent
to the .penitentiary to day by Judge
Stevens for four years for larceny. Lynch
IS in the county jail for giving liquor to
little girl, and at the conclusion of this
sentence VIII reioin his old-time COM
panion in trouble, "Bunko" Kelly, who is
IN Tor life for numbering George ". Sayres.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-17

Margaret Davis, W. C. Daggett, Apple Ell
som, E. Extrom, Mary Fairbanks, James
GIllis, Hannah Grey, NJ. T; Henderson,
Orrin Henderson, Charles Haas. Mary
Mckee, Mrs. H. A. Kiersik, Basolioi La
goir, William Mckee, ]. D. McDougald.
Mary Mckee, j. D. McDougald, Mary
Mckee, ]. ]. Nunan, ]. D. Peters, l. Rolf.
|. Rothenbush, E. Slaughter, Mary
Shrieke, Herbert Williamson and David
Winders, and Misses Rothenbush, Shrieke,
Davis. Kiersski and L. NJ. Westby.