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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19

,---s- 1896. by Ryman Interview
SyndiCate9
- o..y general holiday Of April
,,. APRIL Fools Day, which is no
ratal.-occurs on the festival Of
-~ Dsv This little anniversary,
-.-s .sa smallest one in the calendar,
MIR. sens tnan one, is impressive,
sa. and destined 10 have q great
h-a
AMOR Day began about nine years
m It's said 20 have been a sUggeS-
~ Of. certain DR.. NOrthrOp, Of New
r.a-1. and like the little seed of pO-
q. ams. l- grew and it grew, until it
IS --u q legal holiday in most States
Etvll soon become legal holiday in
4 New York does not yet observe {
.,s .-sa, holiday of recreation, but Col
-o Kansas. Minnesota, North Da-
l-1 Wisconsin, Wyoming, Texas Ne
trsS2. Montana, Utah, Idaho and
as Island count it among the DAYS
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19
THE PRIDE OF LIMERICK.

IT will have no more shenanigan,"
Said Mr.. Darby Flanagan,
Who gaily
His shillaley
Waved on high.
With his brief valedictory,
He sailed right in for victory,
A-thumping
And a-bumping
Nose and eye.
II was curious how furious
He landed with vim
On the man who passed a spurious
Two-dollar bill on him.
Oh. he punched him and he munched him
Till he made him pretty sick,
And the crowd all shouted Darby,
He's the pride of Limerick
Darby Flanigans Banquet.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19
EN DANCES FOR
SUMNER HOTELS.
The Summer Girl Will Dress in Cos
tune and Dance the "JOsephstts"
to Slow Music.

Read This and Dance From Notes" "
Dancing Teachers Coach Pretty
Girls in the Art Of Inventing New
Dances - Naming Louise" and
"Leda" for Themselves-Cotilions
VIII be Danced in Fancy Dress
and Named After the Newest
Round Dances-"Lovanna" Dan
ced to Sweet By and Bye"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19
THE DIALECT FREAK.

A plodding professor OF Mozambiou
In seven different tongues could spique-
Roosan. Proosian,
Andaloosian.
Chinese, Choctaw, Dutch and Cirque.
magazine editor. maudin and mique.
When he heard of him, cabled the polyglot
frique.
Whom he hired on the spot.
To write dialect rot
At seventy thousand plunks a wique.
New York Preaa
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19
HOW TO BECOME BEAUTIFUL

Eat fruit for breakfast.
Eat fruit for luncheon.
Avoid pastry.
Shun mullins and crumpets,
And buttered toast.
Eat whole-meal bread.
Refuse rice buildings.
Decline potatoes if they are served
more than once a day.
Do not drink too much tea or coffee.
Walk four miles every day.
Take a bath every day.
Wash the face every night in warm
water.
Sleep eight hours night.-Answers.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19

THE LITTLE BROWN HOUSE AT THE
END OF THE STREET.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19
INV SECRETARY MORTON
CELEBRATES ARB0R DAY.
griT Of the Holiday Passes II Peacefully Setting Out Palms
and Plants in His Fireplace.
Of, BIRTHDAY HONORED BY NEBRASKAS ARBOR DAY
NJ, Of Making 1t National Holiday to Be Celebrated Like
Engand's Old Midsummer Day.

l7FS FREE TO ALL WHO WANT TO GO IN THE COUNTRY.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-04-19

m ny Country IT'S CT Thee Has Written Joy for the Sturd
Tree"
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
THE NEWS OF SAN JOSE,
J. 2. Anderson, Forced Into In.
solvency, Files a Schedule of
His Liabilities.
They Amount to $I2s,773 67-The
Principal Creditors and the
Assets.

SAN JOSE. CAL, Feb. 13.-J. L. Ander-
son of the Anderson Fruit Company, who
was forced into insolvency by his creditors,
to-day fled a schedule showing his IiaDili-
ties to be S125, ,773 81. The principal cred
itors are: E. G. Singletary. S14 900; First
National Bank of San Jose, S15, 600; B. N.
Sheldon. Solano, CAL, $4,000; California
Fruit Transportation Company of Chicago,
$4S, 900, secured by mortgage on plant of
Anderson Fruit Company in this city !;
E. T. Crane, San Lorenzo. $970 So; West
ern Basket Company, San Francisco,
S1501 20; Pioneer Box Company, Sacra-
mento, 1885 go; W. L. Allen & Co.,
New York, $1,000; All Suey, Court
land, CAL, $1,000; D. D. Cannon,
Courtland, Cal. $500; c. B. Polhemus,
San Jose, 1868 43; E. E. Staples, San
Francisco, $4,000; G. w. Cozzens. San Jose,
$4,000.
Among the liabilities is also a contract
by which G. B. Polhemus agrees to sell J.
L. Anderson and g. H. Anderson 1I6 rs
acres of land near Coyote station. By the
contract the Andersons were to pay Polhe-
mus 1868 43 every six months as rent and
$50, Ia 80 before January 1, 1901, or on
failure to do so the land was to revert to
Polhemus.
The value of the assets is not given, but
will probably exceed the liabilities They
consist of the factory and grounds in this
city and land scattered throughout the
county.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
SCRAMBLE AT WOODLAND
A Crowd of Eager Democrats,
Each One Anxious to Be
Postmaster.
But They Miscalculate the Time
When the Incumbent'S Term
Will Expire.

WOODLAND, CAL, Feb. 13.-Lively in
terest just now is being manifested by a
score of Democratic applicants and their
friends for the postmastership of this
city. Among those prominently men,
toned are Professor G. E. Dingle, E. T.
Huston, H. Deaner and Attorney Byron
Ball.
Two of the number have already sent
voluminously signed petitions on to
Washington in the fullest and firmest
confidence that action will be taken and a
successor to F. NJ. Rahnl, the incum bent,
appointed next month. But in this the
petitioners are doomed to disappointment.
In their eagerness to secure an annual
salary of $4,000 they have incorrectly
figured on the expiration of the incum-
bent's term of Office.
By reason of a disagreement by the rem
resentatives in Congress in 1892 to decide
on ex-Postmaster J. T. McConnelI's sue.
cessor, Rahm did not secure his appoint
ment till March 6. 1893, and, as he was
commissioned for four years, his term OF
office will not expire till March 6, 1897.
The would-be postmasters are still chas-
ing hallucinations and are wondering who
of their number will next month be
awarded the coveted prize. But there will
he a dawning when THE CALL reaches
Woodland tomorrow.
Postmaster Rahm is hanpy in the
thought that Republican President will
be master of the situation before his oust.
ing time rolls around, and it is Just posi-
Bile that he may continue to tarry.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14

ious that the truth should be known in
this instance.
The witnesses before the Grand Jury so
far have been Miss Babcock, a sister of
Mrs. Clark; Pearl Harris, the sister of
the dead girl; Kanai Nagasawa, the vice
primate, and Miss Clark.
An indictment is not seriously appre-
hended, for no witnesses have been heard
or seem to be obtainable besides the in
terested persons
Pearl Harris is only IA years old and has
the innocence and ignorance of girl eight
years. She said her sister was always kind
and gentle to her, but she knew from what
others said that Mary must have been OBJ
stlnate and willful. In truth, Mary seems
to have been highstrung, sensitive girl,
who suffered much from i'll health, brought
on by confinement and an unsanitary way
OF living.
1t seems to have been a case for the So
clety for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Children to handle, but 1t is too late now.
ct Pearl Harris is still prisoner there.
she lived in the house with her sister and
yet was not permitted to see her. Even
when Mary lay at the point of death and
Pearl begged to be allowed to go to her,
she was restrained.
That last word seems to have been the
KEYNOTE of the treatment accorded the
girls. They were restrained in everything.
t,iSy .ifSo al separate parlS OI Tue Dig
boarding. house, habited by the Clarks,
and dared not even walk across to the
handsome and luxurious residence of the
vlce-primate and the Partings, nor go out
In the fields and enjoy the sunshine and
the green things and flowers. They were
always restrained"
The Grand Jury, it is expected, will re-
turn report tomorrow evening criticiz-
ing the management of the Fountain
Grove concern for the unnatural existence
ana conditions it imposed upon the two
orphan girls, and holding it morally re-
sponsible for the death of the elder sister.
Inere are great many rumors about to
the effect that Mary Harris took her life
as an alternative to indignities that were
sought to be put upon her, but nothing
that has leaked. out of the Grand Jury
room seems to bear out this view. DR..
thompson is authority for the statement
that the dead girl led pure life.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14

of the attachment was at once telephoned
to the Sheriff of Sonoma County. He was
answered, however, that another attach
ment had been issued, this time valid
one, and so the horse is still tied MP.
To say that the attorneys for Van Ness,
the presumptiye owner of the animal, are
madis to put it mildly. They swear they
will prosecute Beckett for PERJURY in swear
ing to an illegal attachment and they ac-
cuse Abram Ruef and ]. j. West of unpro-
fessional conduct.
The attachment upon which the horse is
now being held is one for $500 for medical
services foHMrs. Van Ness. Julius Blum
enthal is the plaintiff. Ruef says he will
buy S1,000.0O0 worth of attachments
before he will lose sight of his horse.
Porter Ashe wanted to sue the suretes
on the bond for attachment, and he
started to find the bond, but it had disap-
peared. He says the Beckett attachment
was all scheme to hold the horse until
valid attachment could be levied.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14

ten days before she summoned courage or
desperation enough to take the deadly
draught that released her from her un-
happy life.
She was formerly kept under strict
watch in the Clark house. but was removed
by force to the house occupied by the two
Japanese, Nagasawa and Ari, and by Mrs
Parting, her sister and two dughters.
This house gained its mystical designa-
tion because it was the residence of
Thomas Lake Harris, the founder of the
colony. before he went to New York, a
couple of years ago.
Nagasawa and Clark carried Mary Har-
ris by force to her prison-room in the
House of Mystery" and her meals were
brought to her there until the end
All this was elected by the cross-exam-
ination of Mrs. Clark, who was asked why
Mary was removed to the Japanese resi-
dence. She said it was to guard her the
better until word could be had from
Thomas Lake Harris making final dis
position of the girl. Harris had been
written to on the subject, and they were
waiting his orders.
When the Deputy Sheriff went to sub
pena Pearl Harris for the Grand jury
Clarke refused to let the girl leave the
community until he was threatened with
arrest.
1t seems there were but two living wit
nesses to the death of Mary-Nagasawa and
Miss Parting. The former has testified
before the Grand Jury, but the latter is
said to be too i'll with nervous prostration
to leave the House of Mystery at present.
Mary Harris was a Catholic, the faith of
her mother, and resisted to the last the
doctrines of Fountain Grove.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
A PECULIAR INpEsTIGATIoN.
There Vas No E1pert Testimony at the
Cor0aer's IRqHrst.

There Vas No E1pert Testimony at the
CorOners Inqnest.
SANTA ROSA, CAL, Feb. 13.-What
was, to say the least, very peculiar cir
cnmstance in connection with the myste-
rious death of Mary Harris at the Fountain
Grove Farm, is the fact that there was no
expert testimony adduced at the coroner s
investigation, and yet the cause of death,
IRON strychnine poisoning by her own
hand with suicidal intent, while under
despondency," is stated in the jury's YER
dict with certainty and in terms that
could only be knowingly asserted either
by the medical attendant who was present
at the deathbed or by post morten ex-
animation.
Recourse was had by the jury to neither
OF these scientific sources of information,
though both were available.
1t is true that there was no autopsy
held, but one might easily have been held,
tor the jury was impaneled and rendered
It's verdict on the day following the even
ing OF her death. However, there was a
medical attendant, DIR. Charles l.. Thom p
son of this city.
he arrived at the scene a few minutes
after the girl expired. For the last
eighteen years he has been the physician
IN attendance at the colony, and it is only
1alr to state that his opinion as to the
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
EXPELLED FROM COLLEGE.

Fred R. Sherman, Popular Student,
Suspended for Insubordin alton.
SAN JOSE, CAL, Feb. 13.-The faculty
of the University of the Pacific this morn
ing expelled Fred r. Sherman, one of the
most popular students in the college, on a
charge of insubordination.
The suspension grows out OF the cele
bration of Chinese New Year by the stu
dents of east hall.
The firing of firecrackers during recita-
ton disturbed Professor Cross, and in his
search for the culprits he ran across Sher-
man. The professor addressed Sherman
in a heated manner and received a sharp
reply, and it was for this that Sherman
was expelled.
Sherman had been member of the uni
versity for two years and half and was a
great favorite. He was leader of all stu
dent enterprises and prominent member
of the football team.
The students are agitated over the sus-
pension, and will make an effort to have
him reinstated.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14

amid such beautiful and healthfui natural
surroundings life is very sweet. put TINS
maiden courted death. Some OF the rea.
sons have come out during the Grano
. ury investigations, and these seem 10 De
almost sufficient to account tor the rasil s'
act. She was kept close prisoner on Ine
second story of the big boarding house In
q whole year she was permitted TO speah
to her younger sister, Pearl, but three
times.
Both she and her sister were kept sucn
ciose prisoners that scarcely any one IN
santa Rosa knew until the tragedy oc-
CURED that the two girls were at the com
munity. And yet almost daily the com
munlty is visited by tradesmen ana tour-
ISIS, who are privileged to drive all apout
the grounds, and some OF whom are enter
talned very handsomely by Nagasawa.
Another fact that has leaked out is that
mary Harris was detained at the ranen
against her will. For year she mao
been trying to escape. When she jumped
out OF window twenty feet hlgh, as
already admitted by Nagasawa, she was
IN desperate rebellion against what must
nave been to her a most cruel ana un'
natural existence.
Mrs. Clark complained to the Grand
Jury that Mary was self-willed girl who
ala not know how to mind, SO she had to
De shut up and kept away from all sym
pathy and love- These were not Mrs.
Clark' exact words, but the inference that
the jurors drew from them.
The dav after the tragedy. Nagasawa
appeared at the Office of the Republican.
In Santa Rosa. and announced to its editor
and proprietor, Mr.. Lennon, that lone
OF those alleged granddaughters or Har-
ris' had committed suicide, and accom-
panied the statement by the request that
Mr.. Lennon should have the matter
treated in his paper as briefly as possible.
Indeed, the tragedy was kept rather
quiet Tor time, and bad it not been for
the en- ergy of Assistant District Attorney
Butts no further investigation would have
been held.
The people of this city and county are
not greatly excited over the occurrence,
for sensations and rumors of sensations in
connection with the Harris community
are old stories here. But they are anx-
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
Cannot Understand That He Has
No Possible Chance for
His Life.
NO DOUBT AS TO HIS SANITY
Warden Aull Will Take Every Pre-
caution to Prevent Self
Destruction.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 13.-Mon-
day next the death watch viii be set over
Ivan Kovalev, and from the time that he
is transferred from his solitary cell, which
he now occupies, to the larger one, where
he viii spend the last few hours of life
which the stern mandates of the law al
lows him, he will not be allowed single
moment of solitude.
At the present time he still cherishes
hopes that there may be possible chance
that the law which has condemned him to
die an ignominious death on the scaffold
will relent and allow him to try to prove
that he is innocent of the ghastly crime OF
which he has been convicted and for
which he will pay the full penalty one
short week hence.
There has as yet been no attempt made
upon the part of the prison authorities to
disabuse his mind of the hope that there
is some chance left that he will be enabled to
gain new trial, for the absolute cowardice
of the man is so apparent that the autheri-
ties lear that should he know of a
surety that there is absolutely not one
atom of hope for him the man would cheat
justice of her prey by dying outright OF
sheer fear.
For some time past Kovalev has devel-
oped spirit of sulkiness, and his only de-
sire seems to be that he be left entirely
alone.
He does not care to mingle with his
fellow comrades in misfortune, nor
does he seem to care to hold converse
with any of the guards or officials
of the prison, but like the symbol
OF the wild beast he i'll reality
is he only desires to keep apart from his
fellows till the hand of the executioner of
the laws mandates falls upon his shoul-
ders and he is led out upon the scaffold to
swing off into eternity,
Every other day Kovalev is led out into
the open air and for some hours he is
allowed to enjoy the bright sunshine which
he is soon to bid farewell to forever. He
seems to enjoy these brief respites from the
confinement and gloom of his cell and in
variably eats heartily after one of these
brief strolls, but the majority of the time
he is a very slight eater, and at times ht
VIII absolutely refuse.to touch any of the
eatables that are conveyed to him for day.
at time.
Warden Charles Aull when interviewed
by CAfF. representative to-day said:
physically and mentally KovaIev is al
rfghE He possesses not one trace of in
sanity, and in fact openly acknowledge:
that he is not insane.
He has not the slightest idea that there
is no hope for him, on the contrary, he i:
living in the hope that circumstances viii
mitigate in his favor. I shall place 6
death-watch on this man next Mon
day, but should I discover that he
has obtained any inkling of the truth and
he might do himself personal injury,
will give him in charge to the watcher.
Immediately"
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
VANCoUTER SILVER Room.
Rich Strikes Near the City Cause Grea
Excitement.

Rich Strikes Near the City Cause Great
Excitement.
VANCOUVER, B. c., Feb 13.-There is
great silver excitement here Just on
the other side of the city limit line SAM
pies of silver ore running $50 to the ton
have been secured, and parties are pros
pecting and boring in the vicinity with
good prospects. Mayor Collins yesterday
stopped following the lead with a bore in
Stanley Park. This mine is mile from
the city reserve, being property belonging
to the Dominion Government. Mean
while two companies, on the strength of
numerous finds recently. are organizing to
erect smelters in the city. Away from
home, in the great West Kootenay dis
trict, gangs of workmen have been doubled
and are working day and night. About
100000 worth of ore has been shipped
since January.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
BEFORE TIE GRAND JURr.
Possible Indictment of Persons Connected
Hith the Tragedy.

foSStOte 1ndfctmeat or PERSONS Connected
With the Tragedy.
SANTA ROSA, CAL, Feb. 13.-It is ex-
pected that the Grand Jury OF Sonoma
County will adjourn sine die by tomorrow
evening, and that then there will come a
report upon or possibly the indictment of
some one connected with the recent trag-
edy at the Fountain Grove community.
Since Tuesday last this body has been
investigating the cause of the death of
young Mary Harris, and Assistant Dis
trlct Attorney Butts has been most per-
sistent in his efforts to throw some light
upon the mysterious affair. And this has
been no easy task.
In the first place the Coroner,s investi-
cations were of the most perfhnctory Kind.
On the day after the tragedy Coroner
Young came from his home at Healdsburg
to the community.
He I'M paneled jury of six men, all Of
whom were either members or trusted
employees of the community. He did not
summon the attending physician, DR..
thompson, OF this city, nor any other
medical expert. He heard the testimony
OF but three witnesses, all high mem bers
OF the community, and then his Jury of
Fountain Groveites brought in verdict of
suicide while despondent.
Now, as a matter of fact, although there
Is only the word OF the Japanese manager
(Nagasawa), corroborated by two women
who reside in the Harris mansion with
him and unsupported by all the other fifty
men and women on the premises, for the
theory OF suicide, the general impression
here is that the poor girl really did take
her own life. but why?
10 most maidens of sixteen who live
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
For Dirersiou OF Mater.

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, Feb. 10
Mrs. Mary Theresa Moore has brought
suit against the Pacific improvement Com.
pany to recover $4,000 damages alleged to
have been sustained by her property, Las
Positas and La Calera Rancho, by the
diversion from their channel of the waters
of the Arroyo Buro Greek. The complaint
also prays for the restoration of the waters
to their natural channel.
The property in question is a beautiful
tract of farming land and mesa. lying close
to Santa Barbara on the west and extend
ing to the ocean beach. 1t com prises some
thousands of acres, and is one-third of
what is known as the Old Hope Ranch.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-14
A CHAPTER OF
M|SFORTUNES,
The Tragic End of a Once
Wealthy Vancouver
Pioneer.
DESERTED BY HIS FAMILY
Wife and Daughter Both Elope,
fho Eorr,,o or. With Mon
Wife and Daughter Both Elope
the Former With a Man
Of Sixty.Five.
LIVING IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Driven to Desperation the Unfortu.
nate Man Fires a Bullet Into
His Breast.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Feb. 13.-John
Tapley Jr. shot himself this morning and
died tonight. His life was chapter OF
misfortunes with violent finale. He
was one of VancouTer's pioneers. en-
barked in business and succeeded. Besides
large confectionery-stor he has a block
Of rooms rented to dodgers.
Some months ago his eldest daughter, a
beautiful girl of 20, ran away with an i'm
pecunious lodger. Then the tongue oi
scandal became busy with his family.
The next calamity was the desertion oi
Tapley by his wife. She fed to San Fran
cisco with a gray-headed man of 65, and
the guilty pair are now said to be residing
there with Mr.. Tapiev's two remaining
daughters.
Tapley. broken down in health, became
despondent and hopeless, and through
some dishonest act was placed in jail.
This drove him 10 desperation and he de-
liberately planned to take his life. Calling
his aged mother to his bedside and speak
ing of his unfaithful wife he cried, 'Flos-
sic is the cause of all my trouble. and 1
love her yet"
He then gave his mother long message
for his wife and on his mother attempting
to console him he continued:
ut is too late now; prepare yourself for
something that is going to happen. Tell
Flossie all about it,
He then placed the revolver to his breast
and fired. His mothers screams brought
passers- by TO her side.
They took the dying man to the hospital
Though conscious all day he refused tc
make any further statement, and it is said
that he died in possession of certain secret:
in connection with an alleged arson case
that the authorities were anxious to get,