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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-12
THE WHEEL.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.-Tomor-
row the great one hundred mile relay
race between the representatives of the
leading bicycle clubs of the coast will
be run off. The course is from San
Francisco to San Jose and back to
Oakland, just one hundred miles around
San Francisco bay. Ten clubs have
entered teams and such cracks as
Zeigler, Coulter, Foster, Wells. Vim
cent, UTRECHT, McCrea and Edwards
will ride in the race. Each man rides
a relay of ten miles and there will be
100 men in the race. This is the big
cycling event of the year on the Pacific
coast, and for wSeks the racers have
been in active training for it. Last
year the race was won by the Bay City
wheelmen, but this year all the clubs
are so closely matched that any one
of the ten is liable to finish in front
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Especial to The Herald,.

BUTTE, Mont, April 11-By the ex-
5losion OF 200 pounds Of powder in a
magazine on the east l1O0-foot level of
the st. Laurence mine, at 400 this morn
ing, six men lost their lives. They are:
Con G. Lowney. aged 81, married;
wife and one child in Michigan.
John Quinlan, aged %, single
Ed Shields. 50. single.
James Dwyer, IS, single
John McKeigh, 40. married, wife and
four children in England.
Patrick O'Rourke, 49, single.
The magazine is $50 feet from the
shaft, and the level extends $50 feet
east of the magazine Lowrey and
Quinlan were working in the shaft and
had finished putting down set of
holes, and gone for the magazine for
powder The other four men were
working in the level beyond the mag
azine, and were to come off Shift at
4:SO
Just how the explosion occurred is
not known, as none were left to tell
the tale. Dowrey and Quinlan were I'M
doubtedly killed instantly The others
were probably suffocated by the foul
air and were coming out of the shaft
and passing the magazine or near to it
when the explosion took place. Lag
ging, timbers, earth and rocks were
Piled up in masses the distance of a
hundred feet from the explosion,
completely shutting off all hope of es-
cape of the four men working beyond
the magazine. even had they not been
killed at once. A large force of men
was put TO work at once, but it will
be necessary to tunnel and timber
through the wreckage before the bodies
can be reached. Air pipes were fitted
and lrE into the mine as far as posi-
BILE in the hope that some men might be
alive.
This afternoon men had reached with
in a few yards of the three bodies,
when another cave-in drove them back.
Later one of them recovered all that
was left Of Con Lowney. The left arm
was gone and the body terribly mutt
lated; the legs and neck broken. The
two others cannot be reached tonight
as the ground must be timbered The
fact that these bodies were found al
this point shows the four men in the
level beyond the magazine or some of
them, must have been coming out and
got in the vicinity of the explosion. The
position also indicates the men were
carrying out powder to use it when
it exploded, and that the shock explod-
ed the powder in the magazine.
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NICARAGUAN CANAL,
Lieut.. Menocal Makes a Statement
to the House Committee.

Z.
to the House Committee.
WASHINGTON. April 11-Lieuten-
mt A G. Menocal, u. S. N, chief en-
gineer of the Nicaragua Canal COM
pany, appeared today before the house
committee on commerce and submitted
a statement which was in the nature
of a review Of the report of the com
mission sent to the isthmus last sum-
mer He said:
1.-The company regards and has
treated the project as business en-
terprise, with view TO commercial re-
quirements, technical success and
financial results. The board entirely
ignores two of these conditions and
considers it from the point of unlimit-
ed expenditures without any question
of financial results and provides be-
yond commercial requirements of the
present for demands that can be only
rarely occasional"
He said that the board had made q
hasty trip through the territory,
touching only here and there the route
of the canal when it was convenient
and had an imperfect knowledge of
the physical condition of the problems
presented and the work already done.
The plans of the company were not
for an ideal canal regardless of cost,
but for one ample to satisfy the needs
of commerce and larger than any ship
canal now in operation. None of the
changes proposed by the board was in
the interests Of economy or of a better
canal. Mr.. MenocaPs statement dealt
In detail with the atmospheric condi-
tions, rainfall ard other natural
features of the country as well as the
engineering details of the canal. There
was long examination of Mr. Men
peal by members of the committee.
The company, he said, had paid to
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"PAPER COLLAR JOE. 8"
General AII-Around Smooth Man"
Locked Up in the TOOmhs.

General AII-ArOund ''Smooth Man"
Locked Up in the TOOmhs.
NEW YORK, April 11.-Joseph Orig
anski, 4S years old, was locked Up in
the tombs on the charge of grand lar
ceny This prisoner is one of the most
notorious swindlers on two continents
and is known vauiously as Joe Bond,
Joseph Kahn and F. c. Kray, but to
the police of the United States and Eu
rope he is best known as Paper Collar
joe" bunco steerer and green goods
swindler. He has served terms of i'm
prisonment for his crimes, but his sem
fences have usually been short ones.
AS a rule he has been able to keep out
of serious trouble and has netted thou
sands of dollars by means of his
schemes. By his wiles he has been
able to swindle some of the most prom
inent millionaires of the country. Col
lis P. Huntington, 1T is said, was a
victim to the extent of SAC. 1000, and the
late William H. Vanderbilt $4,000.
Gregansh was arrested today charged
with working a confidence game in
connection with a confederate, upon
John Hanford, of Ithica, n. Y. A
check of $500 and a small amount of
cash were secured from the victim.
Greganski was born in Philadelphia In
1876 during the centennial exposition
he was convicted of swindling and
sentenced to one year in Cherry Hill
prison there. He was subsequently
heard Of in various parts of the coun-
try and in 1885 swindled a Pennsyl-
vania farmer out of 5000 He is the
inventor of the wire tapping swindle,
and realized S35, 600 ten years ago by
announcing at-Krupp Gun had won a
race at. Long Branch over Dwyer Bro
theirs Ripple. In Pennington. Me, he
swindied a farmer out of $1,000 by the
gold brick game. He worked the rail-
roads from ST Louis to New Orleans
few years ago and realized over
1000. For several years he ran a
saloon in st. Paul. The prisoner was
accustomed to go to Paris and buy
cheap paintings which he had fixed up
after the style of the old masters
These he palmed off upon such men as
Huntington and Vanderbilt At one
time he kept an art store in Newport
under the name of F. c. Kray, Lon
don
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AGAINST Tnu MIDLAND.

ST. LOUIS, April Hunted States
Circuit Judge Caldwell, to whom the
matter was referred, today sent let
ter to Receiver Ristine of the Colorado
Midland railway, ordering him to COM
ply with the contract made by the road
with the employees of the telegraph.
1t seems that in 1892 the telegraphers
along the line secured contract with
the road, agreeing upon a schedule of
pay. June l. 1895, the road, along with
the Santa Fe system, went into the
hands of a receiver and George W. Ris-
taine was appointed a special receiver
for the Colorado Midland. The tele-
graphers assert that Ristine refused to
recognize the contract and cut consid-
cradle from their wages.
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An Old Timer.

DETROIT, Mich, April 11.-Charles
Clark, alias James Burdell, alias Jimmy
Courtney, alias Charles HARDWOOD, has
been found guilty of bringing $4,000
worth of counterfeit SIC treasury notes
the spring of 1856 His trial occurred in
the United States district court here
and the prisoner was remanded to jail
to await sentence.
way gang of counterfeiters conI icted in
the federal courts within few weeks. He
was captured in Brooklyn, n. Y, with
considerable counterfeit stuff in his pos
session. But Chief Hazen, of the secret
service decided to have him tried here on
his old offense. Clark conducted his OPP
erations sin the SOS in Canada across
the river from St. Clair Mich. Most of
the witnesses are now middle aged or
elderly people.
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ONE GETS AWAY SAFELY
Other Captured and Is Now Be-
hind the Bars.
BIoodhounds on the TraiI-Baron
Won Schrader Dead, From Inju-
ries Inflicted By Count Won
KoItze in the Recent Duel at Ber-
Iin-Arrest of the Slayer Has Been
Ordered-Other Crimes and Grim
inals of a Day.

CARROLLTON, Mo, April 11.-At
$50 o'clock this evening the notorious
Taylor brothers, the condemned MUIR
derers of the Meeks family, broke from
the county jail George Taylor made
his escape, but Bill was retaken and
is again behind the bars in the jail in
which the two brothers were to have
been hanged together on April 80. The
escape was made by their breaking off
a bar from the west side of their cell
and making their exit. through the gar
ret to the roof and letting themselves
down to the ground by means of pieces
of hose which had been used in clean
ing the cells. Just as Bill Taylor had
reached the ground Deputy Sheriff
Cummings little girl heard a noise and
gave the alarm and before he could
make his escape, Deputy Sheriff Shell
ton covered him with a gun and put
him back into a cell. r. L. Cunning
ham, charged with completely in the
murder of Ole Ecton, few days since,
also attempted to escape, but failed.
Excitement is high and large posse
have gone in all directions in pursuit
of George, but few think he will be
overtaken. Sheriff Standby has been
trying to get his bloodhounds started,
but they won't work for some cause,
They were just received this afternoon
and no one seems to know how to work
them The usual salutation from one
to another is, Il told YOU Nobody
seems to think the Jail has been prop
erly guarded since the supreme court
affirmed the verdict in the Taylor cases.
News from Browning and vicinity,
where the crime was committed, shows
great excitement and a special train
will bring most of the residents of that
vicinity to inin in the chase.
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WIZARDS ANSWER.
Filed in the United States Circuit
Court Yesterday.

Court Yesterday.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE answer
of Henry Willard to the complaint in
the case of the Northern Pacific and
Manitoba Railway company against
him for an accounting was filed in the
United States circuit court here this
afternoon. He denies that he acted as
the agent OF the company in the sale of
its bonds. and by the production of
his correspondence with the complain
ant company seeks tc show that he
purchased $4,000, 900 of it's So, 260, 900 first
mortgage bonds outright, while the re-
mainder were neither sold or bought
by him. AS regards the s650,O00 ter
minal bonds for which an accounting
is also asked, his answer is that he
never received them for sale, but they
were paid to the firm Of Becker, How
ell & Co., IS part considera ton under
a contract between them and the COM
plainant for the completion of it's roads
and terminal improvements He states
that the firm acted for 1ir. because of
his absence in Europe The answer
further sets forth that Mr.. Willard was
the sole holder of all the stock of the
complainant company, except some
qualifying shares and as such abso-
lutely controlled by the corporation,
and in all the transactions with it
really dealt with himself. The an
swer affirms finally that one of the con-
ditions of the sale of the bonds and
stocks of the complainant Northern
Pacific and Manitoba Railway company
to the Northern Pacific, under whose
receivers the suit is really brought.
was that only the railroad terminal
properties and rolling stock should be
delivered to the purchaser and that
all other assets should be disposed of
by the complainant company previous
to the sale, which was done, he al
leges, by dividing these assets among
those who at that time were entitled to
them
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ANOTHER VERSION.

On the Homer ranch, twelve miles
east of Denver, last night Willie Tru-
estdell, aged u, was stabbed to death
by a Japanese named Aioka, known as
Joe Frank, employed as a cook by the
family for two weeks. Aioka assaulted
the boy with a knife, as the latter
would not give him money when he
demanded his wages. The boys aunt.
Mrs. A. c.. Miller, grappled with the
murderer, who stabbed her repeatedly
and escaped The woman's condition
is critical Her 4-year-old daughter
witnessed the tragedy and was alone
with the corpse and bleeding form of
the woman until the boys father
Alexander Truestdell, arrived from
the city several hours later.
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THAT BODY.
1t VIII Probably Cause Further
Complications.

TACOMA, Wash, April 1.-THE dis
covery of the mysterious body in a
trunk at Chicago, identified to be that
of Oliver Pike, formerly of Seattle,
Wash, has revived a scandal that
involved the authorities of the Stella
COON (Wash.) hospital for the insane,
and has encouraged Allen Shade of
Wauseon, O., to renew his efforts to
prove that his son, Joseph A. Shade,
was murdered in that insane asylum.
Under date of April Allen Shade,
the father, has addressed IAN appeal
for Justice to the state of Washing
ton, reciting fully all the facts, cir
cumstances, differences and deductions,
and offering reward of $500 for the
arrest and conviction of the murderers
of his son, and $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the murderers of Mat
thew M Bartlett
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the Nicaraguan government 100000 for
its concessions and $4,000 for its right
of way and nothing to the Costa Rican
government.
through Nicaragua with a government
committee and gave an account of the
journey. Practically no surveys or
bearings were taken, he said. The OBJ
servations were of the most hasty and
superficial sort, and the report of the
commission might have been made as
intelligently without leaving Washing
ton.
Mr. James Alexander of Pittsburg
addressed the committee in opposition
to the Nicaragua canal. He argued
that the scheme was entirely imprac-
ticable and favored the Eads ship rail-
way across Mexico.
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ADAMS REMANnEn.

LONDON, April n.-Matt Adams, of
Denver, Colo. who is in custody pending
extradition proceedings on the charge of
having embezzled S14, 900 at Denver, was
remanded at the Bow street police court
today. pending the arrival of papers in
the case from the United States The
sum of $50 was taken from the money
found upon Adams when he was arrested
at Southampton. on his way to Cape
Town, the money being used to send his
wife and servants home.
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FOUND ALIVE.
Remarkable Rescue of Miner
From the Hope.

Remarkable Rescue of Miner
From the Hope.
BUTTE, Mont. April 11.-AFter being
in the Hope mine at Basin eighteen
hours and given up for dead, August
Bulwer, one of the rescuers overcome
by foul air yesterday was rescued alive
this morning. A second rescuing party
went down at 10 this morning and
hearing groans, the men went to the
spot and found Bulwer. He was taken
TO the surface unconscioU He will
live. The foul air is so fur excluded
now that the work of looking for the
bodies can be prosecuted. That of John
Buckley was found on the hundred
level this morning. 1t is thought the
others will be had before morning, ex-
cept those below the two hundred foot
level, to which point the mine was
flooded to put out the fire.
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YAMAGATA.
He VIII Be Given Great Reception
in New York.

in New York.
NEW YORK, April 11.-Great pre-
parations are being made for the re-
ception next Tuesday of Field Marshal
Marquis Yamataga, inspector-general
of the japanese army. The marquis
and his suite ere now on their way
from San Francisco to this city. The
members of the suite are Mr.. Tsudsudi,
the librarian of the imperial house
hold; Major Oshima, DR.. Hiral, sur
geon of the Japanese army; Mr.. Ka-
wasaki, the secretary of the foreign
department, and the marquis inter
prefer and valet.
During their stay they will be en-
tertained by Governor Morton and
staff Adjutant-General McAlpin and
the governors staff will meet the
party at Niagara Falls on Monday,
when they will leave for New York,
stopping off at Albany, where Cover
nor Morton will give a reception in
their honor l. is expected they will
arrive here on Tuesday afternoon.
Squadron A will escort them from the
station to the hotel at which they will
stop, probably the Waldorf.
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HER TRIAL TRIP.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE secre-
tary of the navy has received the re-
port of the board of inspection upon the
result of the trial trip of the ram Katah-
din this week. The total average speed
for the four hours of the run was 12.75
knots. Under forced draught she made
with the exception of several minor de
fects in construction, which can be
easily remedied, the ship is well built and
strong and the hull fittings. equipment
and boiler apparatus have not exhibited
any weakness, failure or breakage, other
than that due to fair wear and tear.
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STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS.

NEW YORK, April 11.-Arrived-La
Touraine Havre; Etruria, Liverpool.
Sailed--Caledonia, Mediterranean ports;
Hakle for Stettn.
Liverpool rrived-Georgie, New York;
Umbria, New York
Yokohama-Sailed April 4, Chittagong,
Portland, Ore.
-Sailed-Zaandam, New
York
New k-Sailed-Lucania Liverpool;
La Bourgogne, Havre; Spaardam, Rotter-
dam; Dresden, Bremen: Kaiser Wilhelm
II, Naples, etc; Furnessia, Glasgow
g-Arrived-Moravia, New York
ugh-Sailed-Augusta Victoria,
New York
-Sailed-La Gascogne, New York.
thampton-Sailed-Par New York.
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orc suPERFLuors.

BUDA PESTH, Hungary, April Ii
In the lower house today Ignatlus
Dearanyi Hungarian minister of agri-
culture, declared the resolutions sup
porting the bimetallic movement were
superfluous. He said the government
was carefully watching the movement
in favor of bimetallism. In conclusion
he announced that the government
would adhere to it's policy of regulating
the gold currency of Hungary.
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FOUND THE DOODLE.
\ Scheme That Was Not at All Clev-
In

a scheme That Was Not at All CIev-
crIy Planned.
NEW YORK, April 11.-Oficers to-
day recovered from Emma Lyons, the
sweetheart of Walter Price. the $3.50
of which the latter claimed to have
been robbed yesterday as he was carry
ing it from the Aston Place bank to
the manufacturing establishment where
he was employed. Both Price and the
girl have confessed. They had been
living together for some time and it is
said they were married, though Price
is but 10 years old and had but $40
a week salary. The satchel containing
the money was taken from Prices
hand by the girl as they met on the
street by Encouragement and she took
it to their room to await Prices COM
ing
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HAS HAD ENOuGH.

CLEVELAND, o., April 11.-Daniel E.
Leslie. auditor of the Standard Oil COM
pany, has resigned. Recently it was an
nounced that Treasurer ]. L. Severance
had resigned and that Auditor Leslie had
been ordered to the New York offices of
the company. He has decided that he
Will not go to New York and sent in his
resignation. He was auditor of the
company for several years and had been
connected with the company since boy
hood.
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SUNDAY SPECIAL FEATURES.

PAGE 1O-New methods of a sculptor
The death of Abraham Lincoln
PAGE n.-Music. and drama
PAGE 12.-T. C. Platt worries the G. o.
p. Folks of all sorts.
PAGE 1s.-Woman's world
PAGE 1.-THE scenery of the moon
PAGE 15.-Miners cabin. Religious
news and thought
PAGE 1s.-The retiring OF Dcmsie-
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CLEVELAND
AND CARLISLE
Both ROundly Scored by SEN
atOr TiIlman at Lexing-
ton, KY.
ALSO GOES AFTER PRESS,
Subsidized by the Money Power
Of the Country.

The Only Reason Why silver is In
feriOr to Gold as a Standard of
Value is Because it Has Been
Made Inferior BY the Laws of
COnEress-WiId Cheers Greet Him,
and His Speech Infuses New Life
Into the Silver Cause
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to the Capital from wellington, Kan,

says:
Editor Charles Branscomb of the
South Haven New Era was mortally
wounded in a shooting scrape between
A. A. Richards, editor of the Yelling
ton Daily Mail, and Robert Simons,
editor of the Caldwell News, at South
Haven yesterday He died this after
noon. No arrests have been made.
"Simons and Richards had been car
rying on a bitter newspaper war and
they by chance met at the South Ha
ven depot. Words arose over a recent
severe article in the Mail. They both
drew revolvers and began firing. AT
the fifth shot Branscomb, who was
with Richards, fell, pierced by a ball.
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The Minchau Horror

PENTWATER, Mich, April 1.-THE
coroner's jury in the inquest over the re-
mains of the members of the Minchall
conclusion is that the mother and the
three children were shot by the father,
who then shot himself and that he also
inflicted fatal wounds upon w. B. O..
sands. The funerals of the entire Min
chall family will be held tomorrow.
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a Sheriff ON Trial.

LEADVILLE. Colo, April HIN the
case of Michael H. Newman, sheriff of
Lake county, charged with e0torting
money from gamblers, Judge Overs
today granted change of venue to
Park county, where Judge Bailey will
hear the case. Newman is alleged to
have demanded $1,000 per month
T. M. Patterson, editor of the Rocky
Mountain News, will defend him.
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RED DEVILS.

DENVER, April ia dispatch was re-
ceived at army headquarters today from
Captain Bell, who has been following the
trail of the Apaches who murdered Hand
near Wilcox. Ariz., March %, in which
ne says he followed them till they crossed
the Mexican line. The troops had a hard
march through the mountains, being four
DAVIS without forage.
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BRIGHT BITS
FROM BERLIN
Another Positive Cure For
tuberculosis is Positively
Announced.
H0NORs TO A YOUNG MAN.
Principal Ingredients Ozone and
Cod-Livcr Oil.

Our Ambassadors to BE Presented to
the Emperor on the 3Oth-Prince
BismarcI1's Views as to Coast De-
curity-Germany's Exports to
America-New Rules Applying to
Americans Who Intend to Travel
in Germany and Russia.
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states, giving estimates of acreage for
1896. The planting is fully under way
soon in full operation all over the en-
tire section. On the whole, the in
crease is not much larger than can be
accounted for on the ground of ma
tural development, and there is
marked tendency toward diversified
orr