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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-06

Miss Elsie a. c. Van Dervoort. the
popular soprano of Elm Park church.
will sing at each session in the Acade-
my of Music tomorrow and Thursday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-06

distributed 10y squads of the entertain
lnent committee. and then the dele
gates will be guided to quarters as
signed them by members of the junior
societies. Individual headquarters VIII
h,. nc follows.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-06

They reached here yesterday after
noon and during the day We're in con-
ference with Revs. Thomas Bell and
W. q. Watkins, the local evangelistlc
chairmen. Noon meetings and squads
10 conduct them have all been ar
ranged for at the Scranton stove
works. car wheel shops. lace factory,
Home for the Friendless, Moses Taylor
hospital. Lackawanna hospital. Kel-
ler's carriage shop. Delaware and Hud-
son repair shop. Finch Manufacturing
company, West Ridge Coal company
shops Scranton axle works, Inc Brook
repair shops. county Jail. Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western car shops.
Scranton Iron Fence company. Mt.
Pleasant breaker. Evening meetings
will be held I'm Providence square, at
the Sherman Avenue mission In Key
ser Valley, Dickson City and Throop.
This is the song. the Scranton dele
gates sang at the Erie convention last
year when the fight was made to bring
the SO gathering To this city.
SCRANTON, PA). So
CTane-"What a wonderful SAVIOR
BY Charles IA. Chandler
Our invitation We renew
For we are from Scranton.
TO Pennsylvania e.. E's true
To attend our convention.
REFRAIN.
What a wonderful gathering.
We want IL To b-.
What Il blessing We look for.
How happy we'll be.
To Scranton, next October come:
For It's our intention.
To do the most to make this one,
our best state convention.
REFRAIN.
3-ilurrah for Scranton Ninety-siX,"
And Christian Endeavor:
And in each heart this motto fix
Christ and the Church forever"
REFRAtSS
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
BRYAN'S SLAYER,
Scott Jackson Is Practically
Convicted by His Own
Confession.
His Intimacy With the Unfortunate
Girl Admitted in a Jail
Interview. -

CINCINNATI, OHIO, Feb. 26.-Scott
Jackson, in an exciting interview with
reporter at the Jail this morning,
confessed to having had improper rela-
tions with Pearl Bryan. This is the most
important confession of the prisoner since
his Imprisonment.
Ever since his arrest, Jackson has held
out against overwhelming facts, that his
relations with Pearl Bryan were abso-
lutely honorable, and that his sole pur-
pose in having her come to Cincinnati and
undergo an operation was to protect his
friend, William Wood. In the interview
Wood is almost vindicated. Had he not
written the series of disgusting letters to
Jackson he would have been free man
to-day.
Both Jackson and Wood admitted that
DR.. Gillespie had strongly urged Jackson to
marry Pearl Bryan. Wood, when seen
after the Jackson interview, talked about
the Gillespie interview with little reserve.
He was not informed OF what Jackson had
confessed. He unconsciously corroboreted
Jackson's story, except the matter OF his
(Wood's) confessing to having been too
intimate with his second cousin.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
FLOCK TO The HEALER,
Hundreds Of People Visit Shrae-
der, the Nebraska Rival
of Schlatter.
He Treats All Who Come, and Will
Accept No Remuneration for
His Services.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, Feb. 26.-Schrae-
der, the 'divine healer" who came here
from Lincoln and began business last Sat-
urday morning, has been unable to take
care of the immense crowds that have be-
sieged him from day to day. The railways
have had noticeable increase Of business
since his arrival. 1t is estimated that at
least 1900 persons have been treated by him
every day.
At o'clock yesterday afternoon he be-
came exhausted, and had to close the doors
of his parlor with a multitude still in the
doorway. A couple too poor to pay their
fare walked distance of forty miles to re-
ceive the blessing OF the healer. The
woman was suffering from something like
erysipelas, while her husband had been
severely burned. After visiting the healer
they disappeared, and it is not known
whether they were benefited or not.
A couple from Portland, Or, arrived with
their crippled son, and after the healer
treated him they took the first train out of
town without disclosing their names.
Schraeder will accept no money for his
service. He wears a black robe, with a
huge red sash over his shoulders.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

that after putting his engine up he drew
his wages-$95-and paid bill of SIS. He
came to this City on the last boat that
night and next day she got note from
him that he would be home on Saturday
night. He did not keep his promise and
on Monday she got a dispatch from him
that he would be home on Tuesday morn
ing. She waited for two or three days in
the expectation that he would return home
and then she came here and notified the
police.
Everything has been done since then by
the police to get trace of him, but with
out success, and yesterday Mrs. Buchanan,
accompanied by her mother, called again
at police headquarters and asked the help
OF the press to find her missing husband.
Both ladies were deeply affected.
81 cannot understand my husbands ab-
sence," said Mrs. Buchanan, land / am
afraid he has met with foul play. He was
never away from home before, and he was
so considerate that if his train was an
hour or so late he would wire me to keep
dinner waiting for him. He was not a
drinking man, but when he met some
friends occasionally he was always Jolly
and free with his money"
Buchanan is % years OF age, 5 feet 61s
inches tall, of light complexion, heavy
light-colored mustache, and was dressed in
dark blue sack coat and vest and light
colored blue trousers.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
JOAQUIN MILLER
At PALO ALTO.
The Poet Of the Sierras
Lectures on Hints
From Nature"
AMERICAN Discomfort.
Hard Raps at Wealthy Citizens
Who Spend Their Money
Abroad.
NATURE NEGLECTED FOR ART.
Witty Illustrations and Quaint Stories
That Delight a Large
Assemblage.
NATURE NEGLECTED FOR ART.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL, Feb.
26.-One of the largest audiences that ever
assembled to hear lecture here congre-
gated last evening to hear Joaquin Miller,
the "Poet of the Sierras.' His witty illus
trations and quaint stories were heartily
applauded. The subject of his lecture was
"Hints From Nature
In substance he said: A good many
years ago, nearly dozen, l came home
after some years in other lands and went
up into the mountains to mediate on and
uigest what had seen and studied abroad
1t struck me that the Americans are more
unhappy than Europeans. In their money
getting greedy AmerIcans-that is, the
masses-are not content. The reason is
that the American is not at peace with
himself; he is not near himself.
The trouble is that he fails to feel and
fails to strive to understand nature. This
is not SO in England. The English gentle
man goes abroad and makes money, but
spends it at home on his country estate !;
the American makes it at home and
spends it not on nature, but on art abroad
We Americans are not humorous; we
are grimly sad people. Let us have
light, and let that light come from nature.
Consider the very first words in the one
great book of all poetry if you want that
light. Ii you care for color you have it all
about you.
And the perfume. What do we know of
this? The perfume of the great robust
jocund mountain, when the whole world
| hangs heavy with sweet odors; and the
snow-"Hast thou seen the treasures OF
bo 0,t foh for hool hot
know not the date. There has never been
anything of mans handiwork that matches
the single fake of snow.
Have you seen the highboru rain that
falls on ell alike? I love the rain, and
the little door of my hut on the noun
tain side is always open, rain or shine.
And the wind that walks arm in arm with
the rain, and the thunder and lightning
flashes.
You cannot lie to nature as you can to
| mortal man. When you have learned all
th at books can teach remember you have
but begun.
1t takes time to understand and appre-
ciate nature. You must understand her
alphabet if you would understand her
moods and temperament. Learn to see
the poppy on the birds breast and to hear
its song, whose music Patti may never
equal.
One thing that robs nature of her rights
is superhuity of words; yet Burns wrote in
less than 1000, and the Bible such poetry
as has not been since written IN 1000.
Closing, the poet said: ''The man who
can despise luxury and toll with his hands
is an exceedingly rich man. Remember
that we begin the next life precisely where
we leave off this. Be not blinded to this
beautiful world, but live and love it. Be-
gin to-day. There are millions of to-mor.
| rows; there is only one to-day.
"Come, listen, o love, to the voice OF the dove,
And hearken, hear him say.
There are many to morrows, my love, my love:
There is only one to-day"
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
Betrayed by a Man Whom He
Had Camped With and
Fed for Years.
INFAMY PROPERLY PUNISHED
The First Tragedy Reported Since
the Opening of the Colville
Reservation.

SPOKANE, WASH, Feb. 26.-Word has
been received from Northport that O. C.
Cox, the old prospector who tried to COM
NIT suicide yesterday, is dead. and thereby
hangs tale.
Five years ago Cox, with Dan Crown,
was on the reservation opposite to the
town OF Northport. While climbing to
the top of a hill to locate themselves-for
the whole country was unsettled at that
time-they found very rich ledge,
samples of which assayed between $500
and $500 and which in character is ident-
icaI to the famous Silver King, near Nell
son, B. G.. There was little prospects of
the reservation being opened for years,
but they covered the exposed part of the
ledge and it is now fully covered over by
grass and dirt.
Shortly after this Cox met Ed Cowan,
one of the best newspaper men in the
State, and to him he told of the find, and
together the three were to wait patiently
until the hour arrived and then locate the
mine that was to make them both rich
and happy.
Cox, during all these years, prospected
around in this State and British Colum bia
but only to live, for he was waiting for the
great-to-be mine. At last the hour came,
and to, Crown was left the work of doing
the skirmishing to get there first, for he
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
was strong and healthy, while Cox was
getting old and weak

was strong and healthy, while Cox was
getting old and weak.
Cowan for the past several months has
been at Rossland. and there made known
his knowledge of the ledge.
Several men got around him and in
duced him to leave Cox and Crown and
locate them, and this he finally agreed to
do. Then it was suggested that if the loca-
ton notice showed his name his former
partners might suspect him, and so when
he made the rush and located his own
name was left out.
The men whose names were attached,
however, stopped him, and giving him
the laugh refused to deed him any interest
in the mine, and when Cox went to get
his interest from Cowan he learned not
only that he had lost the mine he had
waited years to get, but that the man he
had treated as friend and brother, the
man he had camped with and fed for
years, had deliberately sold out this
friendship for a mess of pottage and had
not received the pottage.
Cox was getting old and the thought of
all this was too much for him, and walk
ing down to the Columbia River, near
Northport, he jumped in, but fortunately
several men suspected his intent and fol-
lowed him. They pulled him out and
persuaded him to come back uptown.
When they got uptown he started off
ahead of his guardians and they followed
short distance behind. Presently he
pulled a hunting knife from his pocket
and placed the point of it against his
breast under his vest and Immediately
over the heart.
Holding the knife in his left hand, with
his right fist he struck the end of the
handle several times to drive the blade in.
1t penetrated deeply, grazing the heart
and inflicting CHASTITY wound, and he
fell to the ground. He was picked up and
carried into saloon near by and physi-
clan was called.
The mine is said to be very valua Bile
one. Marcus Daily has already offered to
bono it for $1,000, 900. This is the first
tragedy on the opening of the new
reservation
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
FRESNO,S RAISIN CROP,
Packers aud Shippers Hold an Impor-
tdnt Con ference.

Packers aud Shippers Hold an I,npor-
tdrtt Conference.
FRESNO, CAL, Feb. 26.-The second
meeting of the raisin packers and shippers
of the San Joaquin Valley for the purpose
of conference looking to plan for hand
ling the crop of 1896 was held at the
Hughes Hotel here this afternoon and
evening, at which nearly all the commits
sion packers were present, representing
many thousands of dollars. The former
conference meeting was held in San Fran
cisco.
AT the meeting this evening consider
able progress was made IN the direction oi
unity of action, which promises results OF
the greatest i'm pcrtance to all concerned
in the production and marketing OF
raisins. Committees of the One Hundred
Thousand Club of this county have had
the matter under consideration for some
time and at least one member of its execu.
tive committee was present at the confer
ence this evening.
The club at its meeting tonight in
structed its secretary to invite these gen
tlemen to attend future meeting of the
club and address it on this important SUBJ
ject. The producers are to be invited to
express themselves at some future meet.
ing also, and that by means of these con.
ferences practical plan will be evolved to
consummate the purposes desired.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

and the arrest OF John Hays Hammond
and other American citizens.
In order, however, to secure for the
position a standing that would make it
acceptable TO a man of prominence, Mr..
olney requested the Senate Com mittee on
Appropriations to insert in the diplomatic
ana consular appropriation bill, which had
neen passed by the House. paragraph
increasing the salary of the Cape Town
once from $1,000 to $4,000 year. This
provision was adopted, and Mr.. Mulligan's s
nomination followed.
Mr. Mulligan is borne on the rolls of the
state department as Consul-General at
Apla, Samoa, but he rendered his resig-
naaon OF that Office, having recently re-
turned to the United States for that
purpose.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27

trustees of the Mercantile Library was held
last evening. Thirteen of the fourteen
trustees attended. Thomas Magee pre-
sided at the session.
Affairs of the library were fully dis
cussed, and opportunity was afforded for
every one of the trustees present to express
an opinion. The proposition to move the
library downtown was considered in all Its
bearing, and at the close of the discussion
it was decided by unanim Gus vote not to
change the location of the library THIS
year.
The exchange of views and the examina-
ton of the affairs of the institution in
duced the trustees TO predict year OF
prosperity.
Much interest is manifested in the mock
trial to take place tomorrow evening.
Many OF tue brightest takers of the town
will participate in the proceedings.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
San Francisco Colleges Depopu
lating Cemeteries Of the
Washington Town.
NO LAW TO STOP THE BUSINESS.
Inclosed in Rough Wooden Boxes,
the Corpses Are Labeled
Merchandise"

SEATTLE, WASH, Feb. 26.-A local off,
cial of the Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany some DAYS ago made the statement
that bodies of human beings were being
Systematically snatched from the ceme-
teries of this city and sent as surgery sub
jects and for scientific purposes to medical
colleges in San Francisco. AT least two
corpses, he asserted, were shipped to the
Pacific Coast metropolis via the steamer
Walla Walla on her last trip down. They
were inclosed in rough wooden boxes and
labeled merchandise. The official in ques-
ton declined to enter into details, but he
intimated that this grave-robberY enter
prise had been carried on for many months.
A local paper publishes a story to this
effect this afternoon and the authorities
are investigating the matter, though il
appears that the laws of this State do not
prohibit such nefarious business, for HIP s
Annotated Statutes and Codes of Wash
ington say:
"Any Sheriff Coroner, keeper of coun-
ty poorhouse, public hosdital, County Jail
or State Prison must surrender the dead
bodies of such persons as are required to
be buried at public expense, to any physi-
clan or surgeon, to be by him used for the
advancement of anatomical science, pref
erence being always given to medical
schools for their use in the instruction of
medical students"
There are seven or eight cemeteres in
this city, all being practically ur ruarded
at night. Some are situated close to the
heart of the city, while others are on the
extreme outskirts, though all are easy of
access either by streetcars or railway. The
County Hospital cemetery, where the pau
per dead are buried, is located on the Du-
vanish River, which empties into the
sound.
1t would be IN easy matter to bring
bodies by steamer at night to this port
and put them aboard ocean-going vessels.
However, the probabilities are that the
majority of the bodies are being taken
from public burying-grounds, as there is
only an occasional interment on the
County Farm.
Lyman W. Bonney, the veteran under
taker of Seattle, while disposed to dis
credit the body-snatching story, said it
would be an easy thing to carry on such
an undertaking, as many cemeteries of
the city we're practically unguarded,
especially during the night.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
ARREST OF DOLE.
Captain Lees Receives an Order to APP
prehend n Man Charged With
Forgery.

Captain Lees received dispatch on
Tuesday from Chief of Police Glass OF Los
Angeles to arrest E. J. Dole, an attorney
of that city, who was wanted there for
forgery.
Yesterday the Captain received another
dispatch that Dole had written 10 a friend
from the Occidental Hotel on Monday.
Detectives Whitaker and Seymour and
Policeman Hall were detailed on the case
and arrested Dole in the Occidental last
evening and locked him up in the City
Prison. The Captain imm ediately wired
Chief Glass of the arrest and to send man
on to ia ke Dole back. The Captain thought
the case an important one from the
urgency of the dispatches.
Dole said he was at loss to know for
what he was arrested. He had gone to Los
Angeles in 1886 for his health, and took up
ranching for a year or two. Then he
commenced to practice law.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
THE FIGHT WITH RA|NEY,
George Maxwell "Roasts" Gavin
McNab and Others in a
Tale of Woe.
A New Election Is Ordered in the
Forty.Fourth and More Trouble
BrewS.

Amid the strong possibility that Sam
Rainey, working with Ed Lanigan and the
Daggett forces, has assumed control OF the
Junta's organization, there is an immense
amount of bustling in the line of district
politics.
In the Junta organization there are sore
spots in many districts since the primary
Monday night, and there is much ACTIVITY
among district bosslets. The Bucklevites
are taking keen interest in Junta politics.
and they have several men in the new
general committee elected Monday nis hit.
The Buckleyites watched the Junta
primary the other evening like hawks. In
every district selected committee of four
or five Buckley men watched the election
In every district with as much keenness as
though they were election officers. There
was meeting at the Occidental Club
night before last at which verbal reports
OF the doings in every district were made.
Written reports signed by the special COM
mlttees were ordered sent in and num-
Der were turned in last night.
The number of ballots actually cast ia
stated IN many cases at about fifty, and
lar less than the number reported cast.
The reports from some of the districts tell
or a. good many individuals who are al
legged to have voted several times, and
some OF the reports include names of dele
gates to the new general committee who
are said to be Republicans, non-residents
OF the districts and so on. 1t is the 1nten
ton to prepare lot of affidavits in ac-
cordance with these reports for possible
use In making war on the Junta in the
future.
But the Buckleyites are not WORRYING
anybody now. The fight with Sam RaineY
IN the organization gives interest enough.
Boss McNab, Chairman Sullivan and
Samuel Braundart scout the idea of
Kalney having secured the works. Max
Pepper and others hardly believe he has
and are waiting until the new COMMITTEES
meets to see. A great many active men
IN the Junta organization believe and saw
that Rainey will be found in control.
lhe test will come when the new com.
mittee meets for organization-proba
next week. That meeting promises to be
warm ana tumultuous one. The main
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
ACTIVE REPUBLICANS.
Meeting of the Thirty-Fourth Assem-
bly, District Club.

Republicans of the Thirty-fourth Assem-
bly, District held a meeting last night at
Native Sons Hall, on Seventeenth street.
The hall was densely packed with voters
and enthusiasm was developed to the
highest degree. Spirited speeches were
made by NJ. Cooney, w. w. Atherton, ].
A. Becsie and George ". Elder. More
than fifty new members of the club were
enrolled, making the total enrolment $50.
The .Thirty- fourth is one of the largest
districts in the City and when the full vote
is called out the number OF ballots cast is
1900. In the Republican ranks of the dis
trlct there are no factions and the present
signs indicate continuance of harmony
The officers of the club are F. J. Hurst,
president; Z. w. Eustice, secretary; ex-
ecutive committee-Charles Mayer, G. w.
Elder, S. NJ. Williams, s. L. Lent, o. E.
Fairfield, ]. E. Ellington, H. G. Kraskey,
C. HiIderbrand, j.. A. Becbie, William
Cushman, c. Wetjen, W. W. Whan, James
Smiley.
The following gentlemen were added to
the executive committee last evening: E.
B. Smith, John H. Harvey, George Die
terle, G. c. Butt.
The secretary read letter from G. F.
Curry, County Clerk, expressing regret
that he could not attend the meeting last
evening.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-27
HER HUSBAND IS MISSING
Strange Disappearance of Robert
Buchanan, a Railroad
Engineer.
He Came to This City From Sausalito
Two Weeks Ago and Has Not
Returned Home.

The police have been for several days
vainly trying to eiucidate the mystery OF
the disappearance of Robert Buchanan,
engineer-on the North Pacific Coast Rail
road.
Buchanan lived with his wife and two
little girls in San Rafael. He left his home
as usual on the morning OF Wednesday
February u. His wife expected him to
return in the evening to dinner, after put.
ting his engine up in the yards at Sausa-
Tito, but she was disappointed.
She made inquiry next day and learned