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The herald., 1896-10-15
RIVERA.
Lots Of Walnuts on the Trees and
Thieves are After Them.


RIVERA, Oct. A.-Eight carloads of
walnuts were shipped by the associa-
tion yesterday, which makes a total of
twenty-five to date.
Considerable thieving has been going
on this season, and several ranchers
have lost from one to six barley sacks
of nuts, generally taken from the or
chards at night. Mr.. Montgomery also
lost about fifty empty sacks with the as
ISOLATION brand. This suggests col
lusion on the part of the thieves, one
gang stealing nuts. the other furnish
ing sacks already branded. Most of the
ranchers have employed watchmen and
the next depredators will be greeted
with q load of bird shot
\ w. D.Spence is in San Jose, represent
ing Court Rivera at the session of the
high court.
i L. Luckel and &. c. wriaht will
speak on silver in the town hall Satur-
day evening. st
The Good Templars are arranging for
a joint debate Thursday evening, the
22d inst. Rev. George e. Dye will speak
for silver Prof Hough of the Woodbury.
college (probably) for gold, and L. b.
Scranton of Los Angeles for Prohibition.
This will be the event of the campaign,
as all three gentlemen are accomplished
speakers. s'i
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when found was living in company with
another man whom Quinn claims came
here from New York with him. Quinn
also asserts that the other man knew
all about the forgery. Quinn was land
ed In the ounty jail here and will be
taken to Los Angeles tomorrow. He
owns up his guilt to these officers.
since it became known in this city
that 1t was the intention of Governor
budd 10 commute the sentences of John
and Caesar CUMMINGS. the nurderers
OF L. C. Narramore, to life Imprisonment,
the Indignation of citizens of this city
and county has been growing, and today
II FOUND vent in public call for an in
digantfon meeting to condemn the inter-
ference OF the governor. The meeting
will be held tomorrow.
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SANTA MONICA FORESTRY.

The Santa Monica chamber of COM
merce held largely attended meeting
last evening. The matter of the forestry
station at that place was taken up and
discussed at some length. 1t was the
general sentiment of those present that
this station should be managed by
Southern California men, as they knew
best what was wanted. and that this fact
should be emphasized in all communal
cations on the subject.
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RIVERSIDE
A Confessed Forger Arrested-An In.
dignation Meeting Called

RIVERSIDE, Oct. 14--John Quinn was
arrested today at Lakeview, small
settlement in this county by Detective
Goodwin of Los Angeles and Sheriff
Johnson of this county, Quinn is want
ed In New York for forgery, his crime
being forging and collecting $500. Quinn
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Try our port and sherry wines ak n
cents per gallon. T. vache & Co, Com.
mercial and Alameda streets. Telo.
phone 800. Z.
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To Cure q Coli ia One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c.
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payments are IA de11np &. s. I<
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All prices of wallpaper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom. a2f South Spring street.
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READ THIS LETTER

70 ~. Los 7eS;! ;A!NqELEs, January !; ;3;se ~
tor about ten years With iSns. vsr and
kidney troubles. Tongue could never ex-
press the misery ! endured during those
q mere skeleton. My sight and hearing
we're badly impaired: was constantly
aa savss wsn anq
was burden and death would have been
welcomei ,,toyt was treated by yarious spec.
give DR. Wong Him, OF No. 6SS Upper Main
street, trial. OF course. like many Others,
herbs to knock ali the skepticism out ol
In now s
that was never healthier and never felt
better in my life: Ny sight and hearing
cough. constipation ana piles are entirely
cured, and am rapidly gaining in flesh,
I earnestly recommend ali sufferer and
skeptics to give the doctor a trial and be
convinced Of his superior skill us phys
~ JOHN NJ. STEVENSON.
$40 Bellevue avenue, Los Angeles. Cal.
To the Public: I take pleasure in tes-
tifying to my maryelous recovery under
Upper Main ST.. Los Angeles. from n mum. m.
Der of stubborn ailments, among which
were chronic sick headaches. dyspepsia
and kindred stomach troubles, heart affec-
ton and kidney disease But what con-
slider this physician excelled in: so far as
my case is concerned, was IN the reSt0T8>
tion OF my eye service. Astigmatism,
coupled with other disorders. was my af-
Fiction in this respect. and. although q
number of well known skilled oculists IN
some of the larger cities of this country
advised me / should always have to de-
pend upon glasses. and receive but poor
service even then. DIR. Wong Him's rem-
edies have enabled me to abandon totally
the use of any artificial help to sight, and
my eyes continue to give such service.
both for near work and distant, as is truly
the physician named can alone be attrfb-
uted q revolution in my physical condition
throughout that puzzles those who knew
of the "incurable'' character of my af-
hctions. Respectfully.
Pico Heights p O.. Cal. Sept. S, 1885.
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headed toward them. There was great
excitement among the men, and in the
rush to prepare to greet the rescuer the
tent was in some manner set on fire and
totally destroyed. With it went most OF
the provisions.
The steamer proved to be the tug Tyee
of the Puget Sound Tugboat Company's s
feet. By 10 o'clock all of the thirteen sea-
men from the Cowan were on board.
After the thirteen from the tent were
safely on board the Tyee an effort was
made to get the others on board. They
were by this time on the beach signaling
with flags for rescue and a lifeboat was
sent out for them, but the sea was running
too strong to make landing, and with re-
grets it was decided to come into this port
without them. They will be brought here
probably tomorrow on one of the COM
panys tugs. 1t would have been necessary
for the Tyee to have remained till 10
o'clock at night to take the others on
board; hence it was decided to come here
with those on board and leave the others
to be brought another day.
Names of the members of the crew
brought here to-day are: Mate Legal and
seamen Hunt, colored; Moran, Irish;
Smyth, German; Olsen, Swede; Kerr,
Scotch; Cox, native of Cape Town;
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and a half, every moment expecting dis
covery. She fed at last through secret
passage to the old palace, and thence, after
changing her dress, made her escape out
side the walls of the city, where she reached
place of safety.
When the japanese and Koreans exam
ined the charred bodies of the women who
had been burned, the King and some 9TH
ers shrewdly feigned that they had discov-
cred the identity of the Queen in one of
the victims, lest a search should reveal her
whereabouts and lead to her murder. The
japanese accepted the account OF the
Queens death as true.
Three Koreans were strangled last week
as the Queens murderers, while the trial
OF Viscount Mura and other Japanese
officials is proceeding at Hiroshima for
the murder of a woman who still lives.
Ii Han Spin, the leader of the last abortive
plot, is in hiding here.
An American friend who cane here on
the Russian cruiser Otvajny says that Rus
sia is using the supposed murder of the
Queen as weapon against the Japanese,
although well knowing its falsity.
The Queen has been killed by rumor
twice before.
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kOREA'S QUEEN is ALIVE.
She Had Escaped Death When
the Attack Upon Her Castle
Was Made.
A Romance of the Seoul Court Which
Has Just Been Brought to
Publicity.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. ia special
cable dispatch to the Herald from Shang-
hal says: A romance equaling anything
which Rider Haggard ever wrote comes
from Seoul, the capital of Korea. relating
to the conspiracy which broke out there
last November. The facts are known to a
few persons only, one being the King, and
all have the strongest motives for conceal
ment.
1t will be remem bered that on Noyem-
Der % an unsuccessful plot eliminated IN
en- attack on the palace by number of
Koreans belonging to the Queens party.
The King and the Japanese, being warned
beforehand, posted extra guards and
foiled the conspirators, the object being to
seize the Ministers, expel the Japanese,
free the King from the latter's influence
and restore the Queen, who was reputed
to be dead, but who was in reality alive.
The Russian secretary of legation was
the leading spirit in the conspiracy and
was deputed to convey the Queen from her
place of hiding to the palace. The failure
of the attempt necessitated the keeping of
the secret of the Queen being in existence,
which is now for the first time divulged,
When in October the Koreans and ia
panese broke into the palace. the Queen.
scerting danger, had hastily, without
speaking to her women, retired in an OBJ
scure clubhouse. She saw the bodies of her
ladies in waiting dragged to the pyre pre-
pared for them outside and watched the
completion of the tragedy from her hiding
place.
The Queen was concealed for an hour
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Captain Thompson and Three of
His Crew Lose Their
Lives.
BATTLE WITH WIND AND WAVE
Awful Sufferings of the Half.Clad Sur.
vivorS Before Picked Up by
Tug.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Jan. 12.-
To the long list of narrowing and terrible
accidents which have in the past served to
give the Vancouver shore the name of
being the most dangerous section of the
coast has been added another, the details
OF which are appalling in the extreme.
For the past twelve days on that terrible
coast, almost in sight of several thriving
cities, party of shipwrecked mariners
have been barely existing, battling with
hunger and cold. Lying there now, frozen
and deserted, are the bodies of four of the
unfortunates, exposed to the terrible cold
which caused their death. These are the
bodies OF Captain Thompson and three
sailors of the British bark Janet Cowan,
which, after a voyage half around the
world, was wrecked almost in sight of its
destination.
The vessel sailed from Cape Town on
September Il, bound for Vancouver to
load a South African cargo of lum ber
She passed the cape on December so, but
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SARAH BERKHARD7S RETURN
The French Actress Comes Back to America
in the Best of Health and
Snirifc

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 12.-Sarah
Bernhardt arrived in this city this morn
ing on the French steamer La Champagne.
She went Immediately to the Hoffman
House, where apartments had been pre-
pared for her on the second floor. She be-
gins her engagement at Abbey's Theater
on the Goth lnst.-next Monday night.
The great French actress looks in deci-
dedly better health than she did the last
time she came to this country. She also
looks few years younger. Her rejuve-
mated appearance she attributes to the
good health that she has been enjoying of
late.
Her face is as fresh, apparently, as it
was years ago. and nothing about her in
dicates the approach of age.
She will open here IN her new play,
"Yzyel, a Hindoo Story at Abbey's
Theater January 20, and will remain four
weeks. Then she will visit other cities of
the United States
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THOMPSON HAD BEEN DRINKING.
Survivors Attribute the Loss of the Janet
CoWan to Her Masters Stub
bornness

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Jan. 12.-
The story has leaked out tonight that
there was serious disagreement during
the voyage of the British bark Janet
Cowan between Captain Thompson and
Mate Legalle, and if the words of the sur
vivors now here are to be accepted it is al
together probable the accident to the ves-
sci should not have happened. Consider
able resentment toward Captain Thompson
was expressed more or less openly among
the crew when they first landed from the
vessel, but after his death it was agreed
that this feeling should be buried with
him. However, the story was given out
tonight by James Cox, young man who
is the son of well-to-do parents at South
ampton and who came over on the Cowan
as passenger. His statement that Can
tain Thompson was drinking hard on the
voyage is corroborated by three members
of the crew.
Cox says, in addition, that the captain
was vindictive and obstinate and repeat
edly did, as nearly as possible, the opposite
of what the mate advised. This, he de-
clares was the cause of the loss of the shin.
for, VIXEN they were attempting to enter
the straits with a southwest wind behind
them, Thompson was advised by the mate
to stand in as close as possible to the
American shore, but, instead, he bluntly
told the mate he was master of the vessel
and knew what he was about Cox saws
this impressed him the more, because he
knew that Mate Legalle had brought the
vessel here before, whereas it was Captain
Thompson's first trip to these waters.
Just as they were trying to beat in two
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W4RNED BY CLEVELAND.

VenezuetGns Must Make No Hostile
Demonstration ADainst England.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 12-Presi-
dent Cleveland was visited yesterday by
a committee consisting of ex-President
Berasa of Venezuela, General Uslar, repre-
senting the Venezuelan colonists of New
York, and DR.. a. M. Solteldo OF Washing
ton, who presented the President with a
bound copy of the resolutions of thanks
adopted by the Venezuelan mass-meeting
held in New York on the 4th inst.
The visit to the President was of an in
formal character. Mr.. Cleveland expressed
his thanks for the tokens of approval pre-
sented to him, and advised his callers that
nothing short of National indignity should
lead Venezuela into any hostile demon
stration toward England. The President
also warned them against the evils of in
ternal dissension.
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emptlng to enforce the command fell
though hatch and broke his leg. Then
the others rushed in and completed the
pillage, paying no heed to the cries from
the injured man.
Provisions sufficient TO sustain the party
three months were taken ashore, AMI
after twelve days of suffering in the ter
rlble cold and drifting SHOWS the tug Tyee
came into sight and brought some OF the
survivors to this port, arriving here this
morning. The first mate and ten men, one
of whom had both feet frozen, are now in
charge of British Vice-Consul Oscar
Klocker. Five men were on the bluff at
the time the rescue was made, the rising
storm forcing the vessel to leave them to
their fate.
OF the thirteen survivors now here, two
are in the Marine Hospital. Every one of
the other eleven shows the results of the
| terrible exposure he suffered after being
obliged to desert the stranded vessel dur
ing the twelve days the survivors waited
for some one to rescue them.
The Cowan came from Cape Town,
South Africa, for Royal Roads, B. c., and
was los days out when she reached Cape
Flattery, on December %. There was a
terrible storm off the cape, and the Cowan
stood off two days before trying to come
in. Then she was driven quickly to the
northward by a strong southwest wind,
and sought shelter in the treacherous
waters of Barcklay Sound to avoid being
driven ashore on some more exposed
point. But the sound afforded little shell
ter with the prevailing wind and binding
snowstorm then raging, and she was
driven almost directly on to the rocks at
high tide. This was at 2 O'clock in the
morning OF December 81, and it was raw,
cold night, with a nowstorm on.
The bark seemed to be breaking, and it
was decided to leave her at once. How to
get to the shore, eighty yards distant, was
a conundrum, but there was hero equal
to this occasion, as there is in nearly every
such an emergency, and he stepped to the
front. This was seaman Cham berlain, a
brawny London boy, who volunteered to
swim to the shore and carry a line. His
words were greeted with cheers as he
quickly stripped naked, tied the lead line
around his neck and went over the side of
the vessel.
1t was one of the most bitterly cold
nights any of the sailors had ever expert
enced, and none believed the brave man
would ever survive the trip through the
water, but he lost no time in jumping in
and striking for the shore, dimly out
lined through the snow and darkness
ahead of him. With almost superhuman
efforts he toiled on, and was all but sue
cessful, when the line became fast under a
rock behind him. and he was forced to
loosen it from his neck. He reached the
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Significant Answer to the Letter
Sent From the Berlin
Court.
CAN RELY ON HIS SUPPORT
Kaiser William Assured of the Assist
ance of States Friendly to
Russia.

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, Jan. 12.-
The autograph letter of Emperor William
to the Gar was brought to this city by
Prince Won Radolin, the German Embas-
sador to Russia. The letter reviews the
general situation, especially the Transvaal
and Egyptian questions.
The Car told Prince Won Radolin that
he entirely concurred in the views ana
aims of Emperor William, who was taking
the lead against England's arrogance, and
added that The German Emperor could
firmly rely on his support and the support
OF the States friendly to Russia, namely,
France and the United States
Prince Lobanoff Rostovski, Russian Min
lister Of Foreign Affairs, who was present
at the interview between the Gear and
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The Decision of a European
Power Would Satisfy
All Interests.
DECLINES CREsPOs TERMS.
Findings of President Cleveland's Com
mission Will Be Submitted to
Impartial Judgment.

LONDON, ENG, Jan. 12.-The Daily
News viii to-morror' say that Lord Sails
bury has refused to agree to arbitration OF
the Guiana boundary dispute on the terms
proposed by Venezuela, and has also de-
clined to recognize the request of the
United States to trace a boundary; but if
the American commission define what, in
their opinion, the terms should be, and if
a European power will then act as arbi-
traitor, all interests would be satisfied.
In an editorial tomorrow the Standard
will say that the communications it pub
fishes relative to the attitude to Germany
and the Transvaal and the publication of
the papers on the Venezuelan difficulty
are all authoritative. 1t adds:
Urged by friendly public opinion in the
United States to place before the world as
soon as may be the British case as regards
the case with Venezuela, the Cabinet on
Saturday decided to respond to this ami
cable invitation by publishing the material
documents in its possession bearing
thereon. Of far more interest to the Eng
lish people than the problems to be faced in
South Africa or the relations of this coun-
try with any other power are its relations
with the United States, and we gladly take
the opportunity of bearing testimony to
the magnanimous attitude of the Ameri-
cans toward US at a moment when a COM
munity less generous thought apparently
that a favora Bile opportunity had arisen
Il o,-1 r
not of menace.
"lnstead of taking advantage of the aug
mentation of our anxieties and the tenn
porary MULTIPLICATION of our events, the
American people, with a spirit that does
them honor and which is appreciated by
us, have not only abstained from endeay-
oring to add to our perplexities, but where
they did not actually offer US their SYM
pathy, they have maintained an honor
able, courteous reserve. This is conduct
worthy of them, and it has not unnatur.
ally inspired the English Government
with a desire to meet our kinsfolk across
the Atlantic in friendly spirit.
Lord Salisbury, as we announced be-
fore, has decided not to wait for the meet
ing of Parliament, but will publish as
soon as they can be got ready all the oocu-
ments in his possession bearing upon the
disputed boundary between British Guiana
and Venezuela.
''As we have said, the attitude of the
people of the United States during the
past week has materially Influenced the
Prime Minister'S decision, just as it has
quickened the feeling of friendship enter
tained by Engllshmen for those who speak
their tongue and share their literature on
the other side of the ocean. The mainten-
aDce of friendly relations with the United
States must always be consideration of
the first importance for Great Britain.
We say this to the American people. with
the absolute candor of deep-seated cor
diality."
The foregoing article is loaded through
out, and is evidently inspired by the Gov
ernment.
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shore safely, and there was then nothing
to do but follow him with lifeboat. This
was done by a small crew, which thus sue
cessfully carried the line ashore, by which
the others were sarely taken over, all being
on shore before 6 o'clock.
During the day they found the vessel
still standing on her keel and they boarded
her, carrying off all the provisions and
stores possible, then having enough pro-
visions to last fully two months. While
boarding the vessel when after these pro-
visions the first mate, Charles Legal, fell
and wrenched his leg badly, leaving him
helpless, and he was gotten ashore in the
evening OF the same day. Second Officer
Howell and two apprentice boys, Steele
and Logan, were drowned while attempt
ing to return to the ship for some valu-
ables left behind. All three were natives
of Scotland.
The next morning G, under the direction
OF Captain Thompson, the crew divided
into squads and began to tramp along the
beach and coast in different directions in
search of assistance or of an opportunity
TO hail some passing vessel. Two days
spent at this accomplished nothing, ex-
cept that it left Captain Thompson and a
colored sailor named Hunt in bad con-
dltion from exposure to the storm and
cold, when they had returned to the spot
where Legal had been left Captain
thompson died forty-eight hours after
coming ashore, and the men say he was
given Christian burial. He was a resi-
dent OF Liverpool, So years OF age, and had
been on the Cowan three years as master.
Meantime the men had set to work and
constructed a shelter from sails saved from
the ship and prepared TO ration out food.
II necessary, TO make it last until rescue
came, the chief concern being for injured
men and those suffering most from the ex-
posure. Some of the able bodied members
of the crew had by this time discovered
two huts from ranches a couple of miles
further back from the coast, and il was
desired to accept the invitation of the in
habitants and make that their headouar
ters, but they found it Impossible to move
Legal and Hunt. Then the crew divided
! eleven going and eleven remaining with
the two injured men, the former party
sending for some provisions nearly eyery
morning.
Yesterday morning it was very cold. and
the others did not come down to the tent
on the beach for supplies as usual About
O'Clock in the morning, after being on
shore twelve days, one of the sailors
topped out OF the tent and saw steamer
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Governmet, a clause providing for the
arbitration of all pending questions, and
even of all future ones? Besides Venezuela
and Canada, there are the Alaska bound
ary, the Eastern fisheries and other ques-
tions causing discord. If he does this,
am able to state that the administration
will accept with pleasure the treaty SO
altered.
"This is method of accom- plishing
everything with perfect honor and dignity
to both parties.
Lord Salisbury would be wise to ter
inmate the matter before Brazil demands
arbitration OF her end of the Schomburg
line, thus adding new and difficult COM
plicationn