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Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1896-01-22

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Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1896-01-22
Sole Qebren.

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berur6ettet tpouOen iiab. 9as buraus en-
5telte Sabrifat pirb na9 alien Staaten Der
Union berfanbt.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1896-01-22
Observation-Disclosures 8rieffaiten.

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M~nfragen, benen ni3t Der Same uno bi:
genaue N6reffe bes SrageiteQers beigefiat
Iinb, iperben ni9t beantiportet.
STE Gebaftipr.
Illinois Staats-zeitung., 1896-01-22

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
SUNDAY MORNING FIGHT.
City attorney BroUn Roughly HANDLED
by Gang of Jewellers.

City attorney BrO,on Roughly Handled
by Gang of Revelers.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 26.-There
was general fight at an early hour Sun
doy morning at the corner of Fourth and
K streets, and City Attorney J. Frank
Brown, who was going home from his
Office, attempted to interfere and preserve
the peace.
While separating two of the com atants
he was seized from behind by others of the
crowd. He wrenched himself away and
drew his revolver and the crowd scattered
and ran.
A few seconds later the fight recon-
menced and the City Attorney again in
terfered and commanded peace. Dur
ing his efforts to separate the men, Cook
stole his revolver from his pocket and one
of the bystanders Informed Mr.. Brown of
the fact.
At this moment Policeman Maley ar
rived and captured Cook. While endeavor-
ing to take the pistol from his possession
Cook threatened to shoot MaIey and the
officer drew his own pistol and knocked
him down.
Cook and a companion who had been
captured by the attorney were conveyed
to the police station and charged with dis
turbing the peace
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
Seats Itself Upon the Edge of the
Prisoners Bunks and
Watches.
STARTLED BY AN APPARITIoN.
Lee Doom, a Condemned Murderer
Claimed He Saw the Ghost Almost
Every Night.

SAN RAFAEL, CAL, Jan. 26.-There is
ghost which haunts the courthouse and
particularly the county jail, which is stu
ated in the basement of Marin County S
temple of justice. The apparition made
its appearance this week and terrified
Emilio Morales who occupies on of the
cells in the Jail.
\ Morales is one of the half-breeds who
robbed Megetti 81 Chetas store at Mar
shalls and is being held to answer before
the Superior Court for burglary.
Friday morning when Sheriff Henry
Harrison unlocked the cell in which
Morales was confined he found the half
breed in terrified state, with beads of
PRESENTATION standing upon his forehead
and speechless with fright.
Morales said that he had seen the ghost
and he threatened to commit suicide if the
Sheriff put him in the same cell again.
The strange part of the circumstance lies
in the fact that Morales has never been in
the jail before and has never heard of the
stories about the courthouse ghost.
1t seems that some years ago a man
named William Argo, discouraged and
disheartened at the idea of going to San
Quentin, hanged himself in the cell that
Morales occupied, and ever since that
time the spirit OF William Argo returns to
terrify the poor hobo who may be locked
up in the haunted Jail.
AT one time the ghost appeared nightly,
but gradually his visits grew less fire.
quent, and for about year he did not turn
up, until he paid Morales visit.
James II. Wilkins, Marin County's mem
Der OF the Assembly, says: II remember
well the effect the specter had on Lee
Doom, the convicted murderer of w. n.
Shenton. When he was first sentenced to
be hanged he disliked the idea of it ex-
tremely, as most every one does, and it
seemed almost impossible to brace him up.
Sheriff Harrison dropped in four or five
times day to give him the glad hand and
assure him that it would be over in min
ute, without cheering him in the slightest.
Pinot of the Partisan House brought him
the choicest efforts of the French cuisine,
but he pushed aside the untasted dishes
and said he wasn't hungry.
Under Sheriff Fallon dropped in and
asked him to write his name in his auto
graph album of eminent personages, but
the ungracious Mongol merely told him
to go to the devil. Then Coroner Eden
called and measured him for the finest
coffin that money could buy, and even
that didn't comfort him. He was the
hardest nan to encourage that the officers
ever had anything to do with.
"AIl of sudden, however, Argos ghost
began making calls on the condemned
man and then he straightway took a
different view of mortality. He even
asked the Sheriff if he couldn't hurry
things up little.
''He told that official that the apparition
seated itself on his bunk every night and
worried and tormented him so with its
SPECIFICS vigil, that he nearly went crazy
by day break. When the fatal time arrived
Lee Doom was perfectly ready to CO."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
SONOMACOUNTY'S OUTPUT
Canneries and Wineries of Wind.
scr and Healdsburg Are
Nearly Empty.
Heaviest Shipments of the Season
Made From Those Towns
Last Saturday.

HEALDSBURG, CAL, Jan. 26.-The
heaviest canned goods shipment of the
season was made from the Russian River
cannery in this place yesterday, when
eleven carloads were started East
This last shipment makes a total for the
year OF tifty-two carloads, and moves ali
the pack of 1895. 1t has been many wears
since the canneries of this town have been
SO empty. Not over 500 cases out of a total
of $4,000 packed last season remain IN
sold.
Last spring when the canneries opened
for business much of the pack of 1894 re-
NAMED unsold, and as result operations
were lighter than usual.
This spring both canneries Will be en-
larged, so that busy year is looked for
The greater portion of the fruit produced
in this district in 1895 was dried, and
much yet remains unsold.
]. ID. Bosch, manager of the California
Wine Associations plant at Wind.
sor, in this county, informed q CALI
representative to day that heavy shin,
ments of sweet wine would be made from
now on, and that by the next wine-mak-
ing season every gallon of wine in the
mammoth cellars will be moved.
From one to four carloads of wine are
shipped from Northern Sonoma every day
much of which Is going to Eastern cities,
and all sold at advanced prices.
The result of the improvement in the
wine business is noticeable on ali sides
New vineyards are being planted and old
ones grated to resistants. The demand
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
BALLS FERRY HOMICIDE.
Rancher Lansdale of Shasta
County Shot From Ambush
and Killed.
Slain Without Warning While Riding
Along the Road With a Com.
panion.

REDDING, CAL, Jan. ga message
was received by the Coroner, Joseph H.
Earnest, yesterday evening, stating that q
man was drowned at Balls Ferry a small
village on the Sacramento River in the
southern part of this county and about
eight miles from Anderson and twenty
miles from this place.
On reaching there the Coroner found
that Pope Landslide, who lives near Balls
Ferry, had been shot by George M. Wright,
who lives in Tehama County. just across
the line of this county and about two
miles south OF Balls Ferry. On learning
the facts he sent a messenger to this city
for the officers.
The facts of the killing as related by the
messenger are: Landslide and a young
man named George Riggans were riding
along the highway leading out of Balls
Ferry to the south. While about mile
from town and while passing q barn near
the road Wright, who was secluded in the
barn, shot at Landslide several times with
Henry rifle, literally Kidding his body.
He then told Riggans that he had a no.
ton to shoot him for being with Lands
dale, but Riggans rode away and was not
attacked.
Landslide was we'll known throughout
this county, being man of considerable
means, but of hard character. He leaves
a widow and large family of grown-up chill
dren. He owned considerable stock and
property, and was noted for being engaged
in many lawsuits. Though not lawyer
he often pleaded his own cases. It is said
that he once killed man in Tehama
County.
Wright is a resident of Tehama County,
and little is known of him here. 1t is said
that ne goes by the name of "Three-fn-
gered George" Constable M. Edridge
left for Balls Ferry this evening to take
charge of the murderer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
Kohlhoff, the Flagman, Gave the
Proper Signal, but Was
Not Needed.
THE DISTANCE MIsCALCULATED
Stanley Thought He Could Cross, but
Discovered His Mistake When
Too Late.

SAN JOSE. GAIL, Jan. 26.-The crossing
OF the broad and narrow-gnage railroad
tracks at Santa Clara, where part of Sat-
urday's wreck was still in evidence, was
visited by throngs of the curious to-day.
BY daylight the tracks were ali clear for
traffic, the wreckage having been rem owed
from the track by use of powerful der
ricks. The overturned signal box was still
where it had been thrown by the force of
the collision, but for some reason the
semaphore, whose iron arm pointed across
the narrow-gauge track at the time of the
accident, had been removed.
Ernest Kohlhoff, the f1agman, was at his
usual place at the crossing, and went qui-
city about mis- duties. When asked to
make a statement he replied:
you've had it already. L signaled the
narrow gauge train to stop, but instead of
stopping it came right on. Where the
engineer made his mistake l don't know.
The statement made by Kohlhoff con-
tradicts the allegation that the fiagman
made contradictory signals. Kohlhoff
insists that he made but one signal to En-
gineer Stanley of the narrow-gauge train
and that was for him to stop. Henry
Wetzel, fireman for Stanley on the narrow
gauge engine, made statement to a per-
sonal friend in Santa Clara that the flag
man gave the proper signal.
Stanley thought he could make the
crossing" said WetzeI, land kept on going
ahead He soon saw that he couldn't
make it and tried to pull up, but it was
too late. AS soon as l saw that the trains
were going to mix up l jumped off. The
engineer had plenty of opportunity to
jump, and l don't know why he didn't,
unless he thought that he could stop the
engine before it struck the other train"
c. c. ingalls,. the Gilroy orchardist, who
was injured internally by being thrown
against seat, was visited yesterday by
DIR. J. E. Trueman, one of the regularly
employed surgeons of the Southern Pa
cifc Company. DR.. Trueman stated that
ingalls, principal injury consists of the
laceration of the inner tissues of the abdo-
minal wall. Serious complications NAV
result, but even under the most favorable
circumstances ingalls, will be confined to
his home for several weeks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
FRUIT ACTIVE.
CaU Issued for a Mass Meeting to Dts
cMss Needs of the Indnat1.u

SAN JOSE, CAL, Jan. GA mass
meeting OF the fruit-growers of Santa Clara
coonty has been called to meet at Turn
Verein Hall on Saturday, February s, for
the purpose of discussing ways and means
for extending the market and creating a
demand for Santa Clara County fruit pro-
ducts.
The call, which is signed by large num-
Der of prominent fruit-growers, says:
The necessity of earnest, deliberate
efforts in the line of market extension is
conceded by all intelligent fruit-growers.
In 1895, with a crop below an average
for the bearing acreage, with no for
eign competition, with an export de-
mand of some magnitude, and fruit
OF the best quality ever produced by us.
the supply appears to be amply suffi-
cient to meet the wants of trade and con-
sumption. 1t is believed by many, and it
IS approximately true, that but one half
OF the planted acreage is in bearing. 1t
must be remembered that the prune crop
of 1894 was more than three times as large
as that of 1890, and that of 1897 or 1898
Will be three times that of 1894, or upward
OF 100000 pounds.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
THE SACRAMENTO RAGING,
Breaks in the LeveeS That Nav
Divert the River From
It's Channel.
The Yolo Basin Bank Full and a
Swift Current Is Still
Rushing In.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 26.-E. E.
Leake, Commissioner of Public Works,
and Engineer Pearson, with party of other
gentlemen, made a trip up the Sacra-
mento River to-day as far as the mouth of
the Feather River in naphtha launch for
the purpose of examining the breaks in
the levees. 1t was found that near Yer
non, where the worst break exists, an
enormous volume of water is leaving the
river and is flowing through the Yolo
basin.
At this point not only are the levees
gone entirely, but the water has cut
through to the bedrock and is wearing a
channel into the tules which, if not
checked, will eventually result in the Sac
ramento River being almost entirely di-
verted from its channel and put stop to
navigation, as in the Yolo basin the water
spreads over such a width of territory that
it would be simply impossible TO get depth
enough for traffic steamers to ply.
Out in the Y olo basin the water is higher
than it has been in years and is flowing in
current fully a rapid as the body of
water in the river proper. To certain
extent the breaks in the levee have as yet
acted beneiclally, inasmuch as they have
served as conduit for the extra water in
the river, and in this way have ayerted all
danger from levee overflow in this local
ity or food TO the city.
Nor has the damage to the reclaimed
lands up and down the river as yet been
great, but owing to the fact that the Yolo
basin has as much water as it can con-
veniently retain if the present storm con-
tinues there can be no possible doubt but
that the frail back levees which protect
the reclaimed districts must give way and
that will mean untold damage and dis
aster.
1t is stated that warm rain is falling
high up in the snow belt and that the
snow is melting rapidly. This will in
crease the volume of water in the Feathe 7
River which has been receding the past
few days and again tend to obstruct rail
road traffic. and viii also insure great
damage to the reclaimed districts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
CRIME At SACRAMENTO.
Fatal Termination of a Mas.
querade at the William
Tell House.
One Man Killed, Another Shot in the
Leg and a Third in Jail
Charged With Murder.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Jan. 26.-There
was sad ending to a nights reyelry in
this city this morning and the result is
that Hugo Klaas occupies a marble slab
in the morgue, Joseph Hedeger is suffer
ing from a bullet wound in the left leg,
and John Hurley, one of the most popular
young men around town, is locked up in
the city prison, slated for murder.
Last night the proprietors of the William
Tell House, a German hotel on J street,
rendered a masquerade ball to their
friends and patrons and the dance
continued until morning. About 6
O'Clock a party of well-known young
men, emong whom were George
Hilbert, Ed Hilbert, Bert Ripley, Frank
Slower and John Hurley. were invited to
enter the hotel barroom by August Goblet,
whose father owns the property, Coolet
making the remark, it is stated, that he
was expected to spend some money.
There were drinks ordered, over which,
it is claimed, dispute started, ending in
free fight. The young men were elected
from the barroom, and being followed and
hard pressed by some of the excited revel-
ers, Hurley drew his revolver and began
shooting.
He fired three times, the first bullet
lodging in Hedeger's leg, the second
passed through the door of the saloon
without hitting any one, while the third
passed through the door and struck Hugo
Klaas, a boarder in the hotel who was
coming downstairs to breakfast, directly
in the center of the abdomen, seYering the
intestines in ten places.
By this time Policemen Logue and
Hagans arrived and placed the party of
young men under arrest. Klaas was con-
veyed to private hospital, where he died
few hours later
The unfortunate man was born in Ger
many and was 50 years of age.
He came to America several years ago
and was located in San Francisco, where
he married. Klaas was a gawgrinder by
occupation, and had separated from his
wife. He shortly afterward went to Kan
sas City, where he met young woman
| named Fay Underwood, and on his return
10 Sacramento a rrespondence ensued
between them.
When Klaas received a paper stating
that his wife had procured a divorce, be
wrote and proposed to Miss Underwood
who accepted him. Yesterday Klaas re-
ceived the following telegram:
Left Denver to-day. Meet me in Sacramento
Wednesday at the depot. FAY UNDERWOOD
Hurley is without doubt one of the most
popular young men in Sacramento, and
the Jail has been crowded all day with a
multitude of friends who have called tc
tender him their aid in his trouble.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
MINING Room At PLAoERr111E.
Gold Washed OWt EreryIUEtere by the Tor
rents-Ercited Citizens.

rents-Ercited Citizens.
PLACERVILLE, CAL, Jan. 26.-The
rainfall of the season reaches twenty-five
inches. Tonight it is pouring in torrents
The temperature is sixty degrees.
The rain has been boon not only to
ranchers and miners, but to individuals
by scores, who during cessation of the
rains are scraping gravel from the wagon
tracks in the sloping streets OF the town
and gathering fine and coarse gold.
On the road north to Kelsey men pan
ming from the ruts of highways realize
from four to twelve bits per day.
On the road south through Diamond
Springs and Ell Dorado and on the road
from Diamond, by and beyond the Larkin
mine, following quartz seams and stringers,
men are panning from the road tracks and
road bitches as much as So per day.
The proposition is again renewed ask
ing leave to work the main street of Placer
vile, offering TO macadamizc it in lieu of
the ground to be carted away and washed
for the gold it contains.
All outgoing roads in every direction
are lined with whites. Chinese and negroes,
searching and finding gold in the wagon
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
SHOWERs AT SAN JOSE.
Orchardists and Grain Raisers Satisfied
for the Present.

Orchardists and Grain Raisers Satisfied
for the Present.
SAN JOSE, CAL. Jan. 25.-It began
raining about o'clock this morning and
continued showering until about IL
o'clock, .33 of an inch having fallen.
This makes total of 100 inches for the
season, against 17.13 inches to the same
date last season.
Orchardists and grain farmers from all
portions of the county report a sufficient
rainfall for all present purposes. Nearly
all the seeding had been done prior to the
late storm, and the rain will bring it for
ward in great shape.
The streams are full of water, and irri-
CATION bitches can be operated to their
full capacity. Many people who had in
tended to plant new orchards had become
quite discouraged, but they feel all right
now and have commenced planting. Ev-
erybody in the country districts are per-
fectly satisfied with the condition OF
things at the present date.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
Husbands of Women Whom He
Victimized Cause His
Arrest.
HE HAD POSED AS A DEITY.
Fled With Three Female Converts,
but Was Captured and
Brought Back.

SALT LAKE, UTAH, Jan. 26.-About six
months ago a man named Israel F. Dennis
appeared in Salt Lake from nobody knows
where. He claimed TO be an incarnation
of the Deity and to be the possessor of all
the attributes of the Almighty.
He was looked upon as a harmless crank
and nobody paid much attention to him
at first. He erected a large tent in the
outskirts of the city and commenced
preaching and after time drew consid-
cradle audiences, chiefly of the more ig-
norant class.
Dennis taught that he had come as the
savior of mankind and a peculiar tenet of
his doctrine was that thousands of women
should set themselves apart or be spirit
ually sealed to him.
He did not succeed in getting women in
the numbers that he wished, but it now
appears that he duped quite few, and
several married women without the knowl-
edge Of their husbands became converts to
his faith.
Investigation by the officers of the law
shows that Dennis had established little
colony patterned after that OF the notori-
Gus Sehweinfurth of Rockford, Ill. He
had dozen or more women who either
lived with him or visited very frequently
at his place, and the affair has grown to
the proportions of a public scandal.
On Saturday warrant for Dennis ar
rest was issued on a serious charge upon
information laid by w. T. Robinson, who
AYERS that Dennis has robbed him of his
wife. He was accused OF other offenses, in
connection with which married women
were mentioned.
Dennis fed with Mrs. Robinson, a Mrs.
Vivian and his own wife. They were cap
tured at Manti, about thirty miles from
this city, tonight, brought back and placed
in isil. Dennis denies the charges, says
his kingdom is spiritual one and that he
is establishing a celestial heaven on earth.