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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-16
Water Fills the Forward Hold
to a Level With the
Hatchways.
CAPTAIN CLARK BLAMED FOR
THE DISASTER.
Kept the Vessel Moving at Thirteen
Knots an Hour in the
Fog.

PEsCADERO, CAL, July l5.-The Pa
cific Mail steamship Colon bia is thump-
ing the life out of herself and her master
is walking her trembling deck trying to
explain why he ran his ship thirteen
knots an hour in fog almost as dense as
milk But whatever reason Captain Clark
may give for plunging ahead at high speed
through a vapor-hidden sea, the Colombia
wallows heavily on the rocks a few hun
dred yards to the southwark of Pigeon
Point. The reef is gnawing great holes in
her good steel hulk, and to and fro down
in the forehold the waves rise and fall.
She struck first on the port bow and the
jagged rocks rent her cruelty there; then
the wounded craft, pushed ahead by a
13-knot force, went farther on 10 the sharp
points, and the ground swell, with its lift
ing and sinking. is ompleting her un-
doing. Every time she lets down on the
cluster of rocks the shattered plates in her
bottom bend and break. She groans as
she rolls in her bed and the grinding OF
the reef that is destroying her resounds
weird and uncanny through her compart-
ments.
This was a beautiful. calm, sunny day
and the doomed Colombia appeared to
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the ship and the shore This it could cas-
lily do, as the Colombia rolls in less than
four fathoms of water. The figures on her
bow show twenty-three feet, while her
stern is comparatively high up. AS the
ship lies at present there is no danger to
the lives of those aboard. but if a blow
should come up and the swells run high
the ships boats would be very necessary.
Work aboard the Colombia to-day indi-
Gates her abandonment, as much, if not
more. than it does anything else. She is
being diligently liehtered of her cargo,
and everything aboard is being packed up,
preparatory to removal, from lamp globes
to the ships stores. The steward said it
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-16
NO HOPE FOR The COLOMBIA.

do not believe the Colombia can be saved.
They try to put a cheerful face on the
situation, but it is an effort to do SO.
When asked separately by CALL repre-
sentative whether it would be possible to
save the vessel three of the ships officers
said II do not think So" Another SAID,
laconically, ''Yo ou tell US how"
When asked this morning how he felt
Captain Clark replied, ''WelI Pm still on
deck" and then the captain caught hold
of a rope to steady himself as the ship
lurched toward the land.
Every swell that strikes the Colombia
works her further in shore, inch by inch
and foot by foot. BY this time to-mor-
row, if the present rate of progress keeps
up, it will be possible to pitch hay down
on to her decks from the fields above. To
such ignoble possibility may noble ship
come in her great helplessness.
Up to noon to-day there was water in
only one compartment forward. There is
no water aft, though the rocks are ex-
pected almost with each roll to punch a
hole into her and let in the sea. The fires
under her boilers were out this morning
The reason for this was stated by one of
the engineers to be TO save coal. Most of
the ships coal is in the forward compart-
ment, and the bulkhead next to it is full
of rolling water and floating and pitching
cargo. 1t could be plainly seen through
the open hatch. During a half-hour this
morning the water in this apartment
raised two feet, until 1t was flush with the
deck. and broken boxes and packages of
merchandise were almost thrown over the
sides of the hatch as back and forth she
rocked.
Captain Clark said this afternoon if the
weather was favorable he intended to drop
his anchors ana try to work the Colom-
bias stern around SO that she would float
with only her PROV on the sand and rocks.
The tug Vigilant is lying about half mile
out to sea for this purpose or any other
service she may be able to render the
stranded ship. The tug Reliance lay out
to sea all forenoon, but left at II O. clock for
San Francisco with Mrs. Strand, the stew
ardess of the Colombia, several attaches of
the ship AMI other passengers. Mrs. Strand
waved a sad farewell to her shipmates as
she left for the tug in one of the ships
boats.
Captain Metcalf, an underwriters agent,
took charge of the stranded steamer.
The Colombia's crew, the from captain
down, will remain with her until ordered
10 leave. All the boats are tied alongside,
and during the night big, white lifeboat
from the life-saving station at Fort Point
| came down and dropped anchor between
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-16
HOW JHE COLOMBIA RAN ASHORE.

rest safely on quiet sea. She went ashore
at low water and her forehold. with fifteen
Or eighteen feet of water in it, holds her
bow down on the rocks when the rising
tide elevates her stern. Still the bow lifts
somewhat on the swell-iust enough to let
The forward part of the steamers hull
pound the plates out of her, and the
strokes can be heard ashore through the
quiet air.
When the Colombia struck she was
headed northward, directly for San Fran
cisco. Captain Clark was hurrying. He
had been speeding up the coast from Aca-
pulco, his last port, and was trying to
make record with the new Pacific Mail
steamer that came out to take the lost
Colima's place. He was already two days
ahead of time and was still doing well, so
he was hugging the points of land and no
seagrass was growing under his keel
hence the thirteen knots an hour in a
dense fog.
Within 200 yards of field of hay, cut
and in stacks lies this courser of the seas,
aow helpless on the shore. Spectators
from all the country around dotted the
shore to-day and watched her roll and
grind. Some brought their lunch baskets
N1N AhoNO q pASu1C VI Q1bdSleT. Inc
Colon bia pitches but little, as her bow is
hard on the rocks, but every time swell
strikes her she comes down aft with a
iorce that momentarily threatens not
only to stave her in but to break her in
two. Sometimes she rolls over at an angle
f As degrees, and comes back onto the
rocks with force and suddennes that
threatens to snap her spars. That was a
ianger momentarily threatened this fore
noon. Captain Clark stood on the star
board side of the forward deck this morn
ing when she turned over further than
usual and came back with thud and a
crash.
That's hard one" he said curtly, land
.hey're getting bigger. She won't last
long ii they get much worse"
The Colombia lies in a little bay, with
she Pigeon Point Lighthouse high above
1er on point about quarter of mile to
ihe north. When there is q blow outside
The waves house-hlgh chase each other
INTO this bay. If storm should come up
outside the Colombia would be tossed up
and down on the rocks so that there
Eould not be enough left of her in twelve
hours Tor use as scrapiron. This is what
ihe ships officers are afraid Of Even if
;he weather continues calm, which it is
likely to do at this time of year, the officers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-16
To Be Or
NOT TO Be.
MomentouS Question Ad-
dressed to the Peoples
Party.
ENDORSEMENT OF BRYAN
rs DEATH.
Alliance With the Democracy
Will Make That Party a
Suppliant.
CHAIRMAN TAUBENECKs NEW
SCHEME.
Sergeant.at.Arms McDowell's Impor.
tant Visit to the Arkansas
Convention.
CHAIRMAN TAUBENECKS NEW
SCHEME.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK, July 15.-J. 81.
Mcdowell, sergeant-at-arms of the Popu-
list National Committee, arrived here to-
day from st. Louis and Immediately went
before the State Populist Convention with
proposition which he said was written
by Chairman Taubeneck and would be
submitted to the National Convention at
st. Louis next week. 1t is as follows:
The all-absorb1ng question now agitating
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Stevenson in Line.

BOWLING GREEN, KY, July 15-Vice-
President Stevenson and wife arrived in
the city last evening from Bloomington,
Ill. The Vice-President said: "I will
support the nominees of the Chicago con-
vention, but as to the outlook / am not
well enough posted to give an opinion"
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Continued on Third Page.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23


There have been charges made
that the leaders of the free coinage
issue are directly and personally
interested in silver mining prop.
erty which they desire to increase
the value of. 1t is possible that
there Is a great deal In this, even
IN our own state. There is verv
good evidence that a number Of
the Sioux Falls friends of Senator
Pettisrew, If not the Senator him..
self, holds such interests, which
suggests a well laid plot for the
past year to cause this country TO
adopt free coinage of silver. Tie
announcement was made last
summer that Judge TAFT, Senator
fettigrew's partner, and B. II
Lien, Of Sioux Falls, had purchased
a mine in the Black Hills. Both
OF these gentlemen were in the
Hills in June 1895, at the time
the Sta Press Association made
its tour cfthe Uills-in fact thew
accompanied the newspaper crowd
a part of the time at least. Shortly
afterwards B.acl Hills papers and
Sioux Falls papers mentioned the
nine purchase of these gentlemen
with "other Sioux Falls men," 1t
is now announced that Judge TAFT
and B. II. Lien, fo%ra.er!y repu5li>
ems, are bowling free silvcritcs,
have left the republican party, and
are working with Pettigrew I,
"al vaEce the cause Of silver" Arc
these gentlemen Interested as mine
ownersl Did they aud the Sena
tor fix themselves a year ago to
have some si.v:r when they could
free coir lgc, and double the value?
Was the plot started a year ago
by silver mine owners and the
siIv r senat II? Pettigrcw's effort
to c ntrol South Dakota republl-
cans, and after failure, the bolt Of
himself and friends would seem TO
indicate this. The fact that Pet
tlgrew'S friends purchased these
miuing interests last summer is
we'll establish d, and was published
AL over the state at that time
Miller Press.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

Pc last thing written by Mrs.
fle' beecher Stowe, only a few
before her death, was a Loving
P'wIedgmcnt to the public for
remembrsnces and tokens
expressions of affectionate es-
on her SSH birthday which
feht to The Ladies Home
mai. In the next Issue of this
az'ne 1t will b, published in
flmile. 1t reflects the b auti-
'afuFe of the gifted au,horesa,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

For fifty cents we will send the
CHIEF and the Twice a.Week
Sioux City Journal from now IN.
til after election.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

To all subscribers of the CHEF
who pay a years subscription in
advance, we will give free Il years
subscription to the Toledo Week
ly B.ade.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

|@arvcst i, in progress this week
although TIE acreage in grain
|uch less this year than usual
+ is a good crop.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

. IN Grace was in the Valley
rlay settling up the 1. G
rlctt estate IN County Court.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

|ere is to be an ico cream
p at the church a week from
Bat, July 18th. AL! are in
+ t. at end.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

Drak ), the I'la. kinton den e.
to be in GmnvalIey tn"
l4h and l5ta of August.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

and by her death has become ber
last message to the American pub.
he.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

he assessed valuation of Buff.
county this year is $2S1,2 3.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

borce Nelson was marketing
Wool in Kimball Monday.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

lite a nunb>r from aiou e
have b en- over to the rcser-
"a dis week gathering wl'd
les.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

,doe eleven VS. holding
pty Courtl IS Saturday.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

A. Harrington filed or
hrlcr o Government land in
(Do county lat week.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
Biliousness, Indigestion, Headache.
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

IS. He. Farren and Mrs.W L.
d we're Chamberlain visitors
dav.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

D. Savage, of Kimball, was
le Valley Tuesday.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

pdy Mcmahon left last Thurs
for the Forth to work during
e t.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

L. Prin,up, of Sioux City,
transact.ng business here
'day,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23
Commissioners Proceedings.
[Contlnued from last week,

CONTINUED from last week.l
On motion the Treasurer's re-
port which was as follows was
accepted.
To the Honorable Board OF County Com
m~issioners of Buffalo county, South OAK
ota.
Gentlemen
herewith submit to you a report in
detail Of the receipts and expenditures
of NV office FROM January LIST, 1896 to
July LIST, 1896.
Dated July 9Th, 1896.
e. E. DYE,
County Treasurer.
uATR FUND.
coilerfion--feaa -.- 81 10
Balance July /, 1896 ...:.--- 70 10 OAK
Balance Janu iry /, 1895 --- ,Sa % ~
Collections --..--....--.-....- VV
s s14 70 Q Sl4 u
INSANE FCsp.
PAYMENTS $500
raiH,nctinn fees 343
Balance July l, 1S96.::----. lV 70 ia 90
Balance January /, 1895 ---- tx az
collections -. ..... ....,..--
S 100 60 8 1893 6S
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

lv +. B. Swartout ls visiting
|itchelI this week.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

N@@A
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TICKET,
nal.
EklylEl.
II BAr-.
IN &c..
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-23

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
LEGAL NOTICES.


IN THE CIRCUIT COURT of Jackson
county, Mo. October term, 1896. ChaS.
Beyan, plaintiff, VS.. Alice Bevan, defend
ant-2I1S3. Now, on this 18th day OF No
vember, 1896. comes Charles Bevan, plain
tilt in the above entitled cause, and IL ap-
pearinS TO the satisfaction of the court
resident of this state and cannot be sum-
mcned in this action by the ordinary
process, it is therefore ordered by the court
that publication he made notifying her that
an action has been commenced. by petition.
against her in the circuit court of Jackson
county. state of Missouri. for u divorce
from the bonds of matrimony contracted
between the plaintiff and defendant, on
the alleged grounds therein that the de-
fendant has offered such indignitieS TO the
plaintiff as TO render his condition intoler-
able and that unless she be and appear at
the next term of this court 10 be holden
at the court house in Kansas City, county
of Jackson on the llth day of January,
1897. and on or before the third day there
OF, if the term shall so long continue. and
if not. then before the end of the term,
answer said petition. the same will be taken
as confessed and judgment Will be rendered
against her and the bonds of matrimony
copy thereof be published in the Kansas
City Journal, newspaper published in
said county and said state, and for four
weeks successively, the last insertion to he
at least fifteen days before the commence
ment of said January term OF this court.
a true copy. Attest:
{SeaD H NJ. STONESTREET, Clerk.
BY W. B. WINN, d. c.
Martin L. Lawson, Attorney.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
LEGAL NOTICES

>-SSCSccSoo~~>~- -SoScScN~N~NoNoNcS~~cScNcSr
Jones (unmarrfed), by his deed OF trust
dated the first day of September, 1884, filed
for record January 3rd. 1895, and recorded
in the Office of the recorder of deeds OF
jackson county. Missouri, at Kansas City,
in book 3, number 5i6, at page AZ, con-
veyed to the undersigned trustee the fol-
lowing described real estate, situate In the
county of Jackson. state of Missouri, to-
wit: All of the south twenty-Seven and
seven-tenths (27 7-1W feet of lot numbered
twenty-five (22), in block numbered three
80, in Matthew & Hills addition to the
City of Kansas (now Kansas City, as said
lot and block are marked and designated
on the plat of said addition on file and OF
record in the office of the recorder of deeds
of Jackson county, Missouri, excepting
from said conveyance so much of the above
described lot as has been taken for the
widening of Park avenue; also conveying
thereby piece of ground Immediately ad-
joining said lot on the west and described
as follows, viz: Beginning at the south
west corner of said lot number twenty-five
or. as shown on said plat, and running
thence west ten uO) feet to point thence
north twenty-SeVen and SeVen-tenthS
"a 1-1O) feet TO point; thence east ten 90
feet to the west line of said lot; thence
south along, said west line TO the place OF
beginning, being formerly a part Of Ord
street; in trust 10 secure the payment
OF the principal promlssory note in said
deed of trust described, and of the several
installments of interest on said note. also
in said deed described, and payable
on the respective dates in said deed Speci-
IeQ. also 10 secure lne performance oil GER
tain agreements on the part of said Jones
in said deed set out; and, whereas default
has Ieen made in the payment of the in
st&liment of interest which was due on
said note on the first day of December, 1896,
and said installment of interest remains
past due and unpaid; and. whereas. default
hIS also been made in the performance of
certain of said agreements in regard to the
payment of assessments and taxes consti-
tuting liens on said property; by reason of
which said defaults, and each OF them, the
entire debt secured by said deed. as well
as the interest thereon, is rendered by the
terms of said deed due and payable; now,
therefore, public notice is hereby given
that, at the request of the legal holder of
said promissory note /, the undersigned
trustee, will. on Tuesday, the twelfth day
of January, 1897 between the hours of nine
o'clock a. m. and five o'clock p. m. of said
day, sell the real estate hereinbefore de-
scribed at public vendue, to the highest
bidder, for cash, at the south front door
of the court house building, in the block
bounded by Missouri avenue; Oak, Fifth
and Locust streets, in Kansas City, in the
county of Jackson aforesaid, for the pur-
pose of satisfying said debt and interest
and the costs of this trust.
ROBERT S. RODGERS, Trustee.
Austin & Austin Attorneys.
Dated December 10th, 1896
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

NOTICE is hereby given that letters of
administration on the estate of Rebecca
En:nons deceased, were granted to the un-
dersigned by the probate court of the coun-
ty of Jackson, state of Missouri at Kan
sas City, on the 10th day of November 1896
All PERSONS having claims against said es-
tate are required to exhibit the same to the
undersigned for allowance. within one wear
after the date of said letters. or they NAV
be precIuded from any benefit of said es
tate. and If such claims be not exhibited
within two years from the date of this
publication they will be forever barred.
JAMES G. SMITH, Administrator
Dated this 18th day of December. 1S9s.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

tiers testamentary on the estate of Effie B.
Pierpont. deceased. We're granted to the
undersigned by the probate court OF the
county of Jackson, state of Missouri. AT
Kansas City, on the 2lst day of September,
1896 All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to exhibit the
within one year after the date of said let
ters. or they may be precluded from any
benefit of said estate. and if such claims
he not exhibited within two years from
forever barred.
Dated this 2lst day of September 1896
ANDREW +. EVANS, Executor.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

SHERIFF'S SALE IN PARTITION-In
the circuit court of Jackson county, Mis-
souri, at Kansas City. William R. Kelley,
William Browning, Charles Browning and
rosa Mary Ann Browning, minors; Samuel
Browning Charles cSfpH Bro%ning R5SHiS' and Rosa Rosa
Mary Ann Browning, George n. Gil
bert, a minor; John ]. Hughes,
GgaTgan GeaTgs OF Oscar prumm0nd 1n0ra and and
car Drummond and George w. Drum
mond. defendants. Number 2625S Division
.. BY virtue of the power and authority In
me vested by a decree and order of sale in
partition, made and entered on June 18th,
A. d. 1896, by the circuit court of Jackson
county, at Kansas City, Missouri in divis-
iol number four there, in the above en-
utled cause, and duly renewed generally,
according to law. on November 18th, 1896
by sad court for good cause, and OF duly
certihed copy of said order of sale and the
order of renewal thereof. to me delivered
by by tne clerk of said court, dated the 27th
signed, sheriff of Jackson county, Missouri
VIII; on Wednesday, the 23rd day of De-
cemper, A; d. 1896. between the hours OF
niEc O'Clock in the forenoon and five o clock
in the afternoon of that day, at the court
mouse door in Kansas City, Jackson coun-
y, state OF Missouri, said court house being
the court house situated on the north side
OF missouri avenue, between Oak and Lo-
Gust streets. in said Kansas City, ana being
the court house in which the session of
said circuit court of Jackson county, Mis-
souri,, is held, and said door being the south
front door of said court house. and during
the session and term of said circuit court,
and of said division number three thereof,
pursuant to and as directed by said order
of sale and the order of renewal thereof,
and during the October term thereof, A. D.
1896, sell, at public auction, to the highest
scribed real estate situated in the county
of Jackson, and state of Missouri, to-wit:
The north one-half 90 of lot four "a, in
addition to the City of Kansas, now Kan
sas City, Jackson county. Missouri. for the
purpose of making partition thereof.
JOHN P. O'NEILL,
Sheriff of Jackson County, Missouri.
kansas Cifv Missouri Nnunrnha, 0Sfh 1896
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17
The shortest Line West.

To Denver, Cheyenne. Ogden Salt Lake,
San Francisco. Portland. there Is only one
shortest line. the Old Reliable Union Pa
Cifc. Two trains daily from Kansas City.
lG;4D a. m. and 1870 p. m, fully equipped
with Pullman palace sleepers, Pullman din
ing cars Ccafe PLAN. free chair cars. Trains
lighted brilliantly with Pintsch light; heat
I'd by steam; soIidly vestibuled. No other
line as short or as good. Why not take the
best2 IL costs no more.
Telephone 1l09 City Office, No. 1000 Main
street, corner Tenth. J. B. FRAWLEY,
General Agent
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

NOTICE Is hereby given that letters OF
administration on the estate of Rosannah
derslgned by the probate court of the
cornty of Jackson, state of Missouri af
Kansas city, on the ith day of December
1Sgf All persons having claims arainsi
said estate are required to exhibit the sans
TO the undersigned for allowance, within
one wear after the date of said letters az
fbev NAV be preciuded from any beneGi ~
said estate and if such claims be NOT eS-
hIbited within two years from the data nF
This publication they will be forever barreJ -
THOMAS VI. JAMES. Administroto "
nated this 9Th day of December. Isaf