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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02
SEQUEL RANcHO LITIGATION.
The F. A. Him Company Opposes the
Appointment of Mrs. Peck as i
administrator

SANTA CRUZ, CAL, June Another
move was made to-day in the celebrated
Sequel Augmentation Rancho suits, iti-
CATION which affects several hundred
farmers and the towns of Capitola and
Sequel in this county. The f. A. Him
Company, owners of a large share of these
10 ,000 acres of land, and who sold much of
it to the present holders, filed to-day in
the Superior Court a contest against the
issuance of full letters of administration
upon the estate of Martina Castro Depeaux
to Mrs. Eliza beth Peck, who is the origi-:
nator of the suit for the recovery of tbs
lands.
The contestant claims that Mrs. Depeaux
was known in li1e as Martina Castro, thus
intimating that she was not the wife of
Don Castro, who held the lands now in
litigation under a conveyance from the
Mexican Government. 1t is alleged, also,
that she disposed of all her interest in the
lands, amounting to over 80, 900 acres, and
that the grantees and present owners have
improved the tract and paid the taxes.
The allegation made by Mrs. Peck that
Mrs. Depeaux was insane and incompet-
ent to make deeds is controverted by the
F. A. Him Company in a deposition of
C. H. Snyder, who swears that he knew
Martina Castro Depeau1 and that she
managed her business affairs, like any
other sane person.
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NOTABLE SOCIAL ALL lance
Marriage Of Miss Milmo and
Prince RadZiwill at
New York.
Ancestry of the Bride in Mexico Dates
Back to the Days of Max.
milan.

NEW YORK, N. Y, June lone of
the most noted social alliances that has
taken place in this country occurred here
to-day, when Prince Albert Radziwill, of
the ancient house of Radziwill, was mar
ried to Miss Prudencia Milmo, who comes
from an old Mexican family, which was
high in the councils of that country
during the regime of the monarchy.
st. Francis Xayier's Church was the
scene of the wedding, which was cele-
brated by his Grace Archbishop Corrigan.
The ceremony was followed by the nuptial
mass. the Rev. Thomas E. Murphy, pastor
of st. Xavier's Church, being the cele-
brant. The bride is a decided brunette
and a noted Mexican beauty. She is &c
years of age. She can rightfully claim a
good share CT distinguished ancestry. Her
mother, who died about three years ago,
was the daughter of General de Vidauri,
who was Prime Minister in the court of the
Inflated Macmillan and also a comma nd er
in-chief of the imperial Mexican army
and Governor. General of the northern
province of Mexico. General de Vidauri
was executed in the public square of the
City of Mexico at the same time MaximiI-
ian was put to death.
Miss Milmo's father is of Irish extrec-
ton. His estates in Mexico are vast. The
Prince, who is 30 years old, is the oldest
son of Prince Matias RadziwilI of Warsaw.
The young people will leave for Europe
on Wed nesday
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Their Pretty White Wives Flee
Soon After the Marriage
Ceremony.
CARRY AWAY GIFTS OF GOLD.
Slant.Eyed Suitors in a Dozen Cities
Deplore Their Worship at
Hymen's Shrine.

PORTLAND, Or, June 1.-One of the
most prominent Chinese merchants on
Second street called on Chief of Police
Mimic to-day, complaining that about ten
days ago two very pretty white women,
25 or 26 years age, and giving their names
as Inez Wilson and Jennie Nelson, mar
ried two Of his friends. the ceremony hav-
ing taken place in Vancouver, Wash. The
honeymoon in each instance was very
brief one, for as soon as the women sue
ceeded in wheedling few hundred dollars
out of their elated husbands, which they
did within a-week after the marriage, they
left for other and at present unknown
fields of operation.
The police have long been on the look
out for these women, who change their
names as often as they do their places of
habitation. First they were heard as hav-
ing worked" the marriage fraud on two
wealthy Chinese in Ogden, Utah. They
feeced the Mongols out of $2500 in money
and diamonds Next came similar re-
ports from Helena, Butte and Missoula,
Mont; Boise City and Moscow, Idaho.
By this time these two pretty but very
INSCRIPTIONS adventuresses must have
gathered in between $4,000 and S12, 900 by
their unique and felonious schemes. They
not only are guilty of larceny and obtain
ing money under false pretenses, but they
also committed bigamy in almost every
town they visited since leaving Ogden.
Detective Sam Simmons says that these
women are the smooth est and most origi-
nal female "tiim Hammers" in the country.
In the first place they have none of their
photographs scattered about so that the
authorities might trace them by the pic
lures. But they carry pictures of other
girls, which may in some way resem BILE
them, which they pass off as their own
when a Chinese lamb, about to be led to
the altar" presses them for likeness. !"
They are said to have matrimonial
agent IN the person of halfbreed China
man, born in Australia, speaking English
/ like native, and who would never be sus-
pected of having Chinese blood in his
veins when clothed in European garb
This fellow visits q city, in which the
women wish to operate, attires himself in
genteel Chinese costume and circulates
among the better class of Cinnamon.
When he finds one or more susceptible
and eligible gudgeons, introduces them to
the girls. and, in most instances, the vic
tins fall into the matrimonial trap set for
them. 1t is an established, but not gen
orally known fact, that most of the better
class of Cinnamon on this coast, having
accumulated a competency nave pen
chant for white wives.
Detective Simmons believes that the
Wilson and Nelson women are now in San
Francisco. where, presumably, they will
work their hitherto successful scheme.
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SENATOR TELLER
MAY Be NAMED.
Democrats Likely to Enter
a Republican in the
Race.
ANOMALOUS CONDITION.
The Colorado Senator Recognized
as the Leader of the
Silver Men.
VERY SOLID IN THE SOUTH.
So if He Will Only Bolt at st Louis
Convention the Democrats Will
Be Happy.
VERY SOLID IN THE SOUTH.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 1.-Senator
TelIer's nomination for President by the
Democratic Convention is being seriously
discussed. 1t is an anomalous condition
of politics that delegate at large to Re-
publican National Convention should be
regarded as even a possible candidate of
the Democratic party, and it may be stated
as a fact that Senator Teller's nomination
by the Chicago Convention is at least a
possibility.
The best-informed Democrats in Con-
gress of both the gold and silver factions
now consider it practically certain that the
Democratic Convention will unquali6edIy
declare for the free coinage of silver. If
the st. Louis Convention does not declare
for unrestricted free coinage Senator Tel
Ter and his friends will, if they live up to
their promises, renounce the Republican
party.
Teller is the recognized leader of the
free-coinage movement, and with the sill
yer men in control at Chicago they would
naturally turn to him in the hope that he
could swing enough Republican votes to
give the Democracy a fighting chance to
win. A prominent Republican Senator
said to THE CALL correspondent tonight:
1.-The Teller movement is a good deal
stronger than many persons imagine. [
know Democratic Senators on the floor (in-
dicating the Senate ohamber1 who not only
believe it to be wise for the Democracy to
nominate Teller, but who are actively
working in his behalf He has always
been strong among Southern Democrats
because he denounced the so-called force
bill and really prevented its passage.
while he is protectionist, that fact
would not be held against him by many
Democrats, who have come to think during
the last three years that protection is not
so pad a'thing as they have been led to
believe it. Teller has shown by his course
this winter that he is a silver advocate
first, and that he would sacrifice anything
else for the white metal Silver men,
irrespective of party affiliations, know that
they can depend upon him. Then, too, the
silver party is for Teller, and the
silver Democrats believe that if they do
not nominate him he will be nominated
by a third party, and thus draw votes that
they might get by placing him at the head
of their ticket. OF course, the Democrats
as usual are playing for position. They
are working TO win-with a Democrat if
they can, with a Republican or anything
else If they must"
So far as can be learned Senator Teller
has not yet given countenance to his Demo
cratic boom. His free silver and Demo-
cratic friends are urging his nomination,
but it may be said that he is not placing
anv lors in their WaV
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State hands down and that the coveted
vacant seat in the United States Senate
Will slip from their grasp. And they are
now conducting their war OF extermina-
tion against the single-taxers.
That their action is Ill advised is con-
ceded by the Democratic organs OF the
State, which are now clamoring for recog-
milton for the single-taxers. Those in
charge of this campaign of determination
remain unmoved by the appeals of the
press for harmony, and have announced
their determination to drive the single
takers from Delaware by arresting and
imprisoning every man who attempts to
speak upon 1t.
The HEADQUARTERS of the committee in
charge of the campaign is in this little
town and is located in the back part of
the law office of Ezekiel Cooper, one of the
leaders OF the Democratic party Of Kent
County. Among Cooper's colleagues are
some of the most prominent Democrats of
the State, including ex-Chancellor James
L. Wolcott, who aspires to the United
States Senate. The situation is very in
teresting and the slngle-taxers Will have
to be exceedingly alert to cope with 1t.
Alderman. Cooper and his colleagues
have controlled the destinies of the DEM
ocratic party in Delaware for twenty
years, and the courts, which are Dem
ocratic, are in their power. Thus it will
be seen that once Single.taxer Is caught
in their clutches it would be difficult
thing to get out. Koran and Stephens.
who are now behind the walls of the
county Jail here, will not be out for thirty
DAYS. II ey have declined assistance from
their friends, but the latter have taken
steps to secure habeas corpus writs for
their release These writs have been
issued but argument will not be heard for
ten days.
A correspondent of THE CALL inter
viewed the men in their cells to-day.
They were bright and cheerful, and though
unaccustomed to their environment they
were contented with the situation. In an
swer to query, Mr.: Stephens, who Is well
known on the Pacific Coast, said:
'Tell my friends out there that am in
jail because 1 took a breath of Gods air
and because 1 spoke his language and
thought his principles. Tel them Koran
and / propose to show the world and
the Democratic Bourbons OF Delaware
that we believe what we teach and like
Paul will suffer physical and mental pun
ishment in the defense of our principles.
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Los ANGELES ROMANCE,
Midnight Wedding the Result of
a Tally.Ho Ride Into the
Country.
A Deputy Clerk Is Reused From His
Slumbers and Supplies a Mar.
riage License.

LOS ANGELES, CAL, June IA tally
ho drive to Millard's Canyon in which a
party OF young gentlemen and ladies. par
ticipated Saturday night resulted in a
hasty and romantic marriage at Twenty
eighth-street residence i'll the wee hours of
the Sabbath morn.
And a tally-ho courtship caused Deputy
County Clerk Kurtz of Boyle Heights to
lose much valuable sleep, for he was
aroused near midnight by youth who
had won Eyes" from fair maiden dur
ing the ride and wanted a marriage license
without delay. The good -natured clerk
saw the urgency of the case and went to
the Courthouse, where the valuable paper
was filled out.
The license contained the names of
Charles Edward O'Brien, who was born in
Canada and is 26 years old, and Miss Lee
nora Allen, who first saw the light of day
in Arizona and is % years of age. She is
daughter of Colonel Allen, formerly In
dian agent in Arizona.
During the tally-ho ride the young man
got his sweetheart's consent to marriage.
The party learned of the conquest and
entered with zeal into the plan for hur-
ried wedding. After the return in the
evening the chase began Tor the license
and it was II o'clock before O'Brien drove
over to Boyle Heights and routed ont Mr..
Kutz. His companion wanted him to
give 1T up, but that did not suit the young
lover, ana his face beamed when he
marched out of the clerks office of the
courthouse with the precious document.
After thanking Mr.. KurtZ, they rushed
off to the Twenty eighth street home of
the bride, where little party of frienus
and relatives were waiting for the minis
ter, ana shortly after midnight Mrs.
Charles Edward O'Brien was congratu-
lated on being bride, and her husband
was smiling as if he were the happiest
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BUDGET OF ALASKA NEWS
Fatal Explosion in the Mexi.
can Mine as the Result of
CareleSSness.
Passengers of the Steamer Lakme
Put Ashore Far From Their
Destination.

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, June l.
The steamer City of Topeka arrived
yesterday from Alaska and brought news
OF an explosion on May 81 in the main
shaft of the Mexican mine, in which
Henry Bell was fatally and George Belcher
seriously injured. Bell was single man,
aged % years, recently from San Fran
cisco, and his parents live in Illinois.
Be.cher was from Tacoma, unmarried and
aged 80.
The blame for the disaster rests with the
members OF the day shift, who left an IN
exploded charge of giant powder in a
newly drilled hole and neglected to notify
Bell and Belcher when they came on in
the evening. They found the hole and
began drilling it deeper. Both men were
thrown for a distance of fifteen feet.
There was considerable excitement in
the residence portion of Juneau last Mon
day evening, when William Whitmore,
with revolver in hand, chased Jack
Noblets down the street and out OF the
city, warning him never to return. Whit
more suspected an intimacy between his
vile and Noblets, and on Monday evening
his suspicious were confirmed.
The citizens of Juneau will forward to
Washington City remonstrance against
the final awarding of the Yukon mail con-
tract to the Chicago corporation that put
in the lowest bid, on the ground that the
work cannot be done Tor the amount
named in the bid-$500 per trip. The
Juneau business men point TO the fact that
the Alaska mining companies pay the In
dian mail carrier, Jimmy" Jackson,
$500 for making the same trip, and that
Jackson refuses to continue work unless
he is paid $4,000 trip.
A private letter per the steamer Topeka
from Circle City, dated May 10, contains
the following:
Everybody is growing wild over town
lots, and crowds are now heading toward
Sunrise City and its western addition. A
petition was signed by about 300 and sent
down on the steamer Albion asking for
the establishment of q postoffice at Sun
rise City. Mr.. Kruzner of Juneau has
opened saloon and brewery iu Sunrise.
The town also has Deputy Collector OF
Customs. Whisky is hard to get at $40 a
gallon.
THE boats which are now waiting at
Coal Harbor, about 100 miles below here,
number ten Three others which sailed
from Seattle nearly two months ago, one
of hich is the Lincoln with nine pas
sengers, are reported lost.
Among those at Coal Harbor waiting
for the flow of ice in the Arm to cease is
the steamer Lakme, which brought up
200 passengers. 1 learn that the boat
now refuses 10 bring passengers up to
Six Mile and Resurrection creeks, accord
ing to contract with one Haywood, who is
making living off an innocent public
by misrepresentation. The passengers as
sert that the Lakme put them on two
meals day the second day out from Sc
attic, and after the first week they were
told that they must be contented with
one meal day (; and now they are thrown
off on Sand Spit, over 100 miles from
their destination, and are compelled to
contribute $40 each to smaller craft to
bring them through.
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CHECKED BY THE POLICE.
Rival Populists Indulge I'm q Riot at a
Chicago Meeting.

Chicago Meeting.
CHICAGO, ILL, June IA nesting OF
the County Central Committee called for
the purpose of appoint ng delegates to the
convention of the Peoples party in ST.
Louis July % ended in riot tonight and
two wagon-loads of police were sent out to
auell the disturbance.
1t is alleged that DR.. Taylor chairman
of the committee. has been running the
affairs of the party to suit his own ends
and that in sending out calls for meetings
he has omitted to notify members whom
he does not consider his friends. DR.. Tay-
Tor, his opponents claim, called meeting
tonight of the Central Committee for the
purpose of appointing delegates to the Ma
tional Convention N St. Louis and accord
ing to custom notified only his friends of
the meeting The other members of the
committee heard of the affair, and being
REINFORCED by other members of the Peo-
pies party arrived at the meeting place of
the Central Committee and were organic
ing for business when DR.. Taylor and his
crowd arrived.
William Hogan was in the chair and
several motions were put upon. which the
Taylor crowd voted. This the Hogan side
claimed legalized their meeting, as the
Taylor element had recog nized the meet
ing by voting. general row followed
and riot call was sent in. Fighting was
just commencing in earnest when the
police arrived. The entire crowd was
elected from the hall.
Two separate meetings will now be held
and both will elect delegates to St. Louis.
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.R0BD|NG V|CTOR|A'S DEAD
Fiendish Work of Ghouls After
the Point Ellice Bridge
Disaster.
Bodies Mangled in Their Haste to
Pluck Jewels From Ears and
Fingers.

VICTORIA, B. c., June Another
horror has been added to the Point Ellice
bridge catastrophe. 1t is the roboing of
the dead. Relatives who, unable to gain
footing on the doomed car, waved a pleas
ant adieu to loved ones considered more
fortunate in having secured seats, arrived
on the bank of Victoria arm after a mad
dened drive to find mothers, sisters or
wives not only dead. but despoiled by
ghouls.
One of the victims of these fendish
thieves was a former Portland girl, Mrs.
DR.. Provost of Seattle, daughter of P. E.
Barely of 327 Salmon street, Portland.
Miss Evelyn. younger daughter, was the
guest of her sister at Seattle. and together
with DR.. Provost and gentleman friend
the four attended the Queens birthday
festivities in this city. In the great crush
at the Point Ellice bridge the party be-
came separated. Mrs. DIR. Provost and the
escort of Miss Evelyn remaining on the car.
When the news of the horrible disaster
came back over the bridge the first carr
rage obtainable was procured by the fear
stricken husband and sister and the horses
were sent flying around the circuit of the
arm to the spot on the farther bank where
the work of recovering the bodies of the
victims had been commenced. The dis
lance, at the great speed it was run, was
covered within half hour.
Arriving on the scene, almost the first
corpse encountered was that of Mrs. DR..
Provost. When she entered the car she
had worn a pair of diamond earrings, a
diamond ring and a plain gold wedding
ring, a gold watch and chatelaine and
carried purse containing small amount
of money, possibly SIS. All OF these were
gone. On the finger wearing the wedding
ring was wound. as though the ring had
been violently drawn from the hand.
Likewise, in the lobes of the ears where
had been the diamonds were marks Of
rude violence, one ear being badly torn,
Every article of value about the dead
woman's person had been taken.
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40 re Oraanfsed From Wan Street.

CHICAGO, ILL, June 1.-As result of
Judge WheeIer's decision affirming the
legality of the Joint Traffic Association
agreement, it is said similar organizations
on the joint plan are to be brought into
being at once until the railroad territory
of the country is under such control; the
new governing power being the capitalists,
bankers and security holders of roads not
financially independent. The roads which
can operate on their own financial re-
sources are few. The Transcontinental,
Western, Southwestern and Southern lines
are to be so organized from Wall street in
that order, according to the reported plan
of the magnates.
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MONEY Is FORTHCOMING.
Democrats arranging for the Conuen
ton at Chicago.

non uC tHfCuyos
CHICAGO, ILL, June 1.-The sub-com-
mittee of the Democratic National Com
mittee, which has charge of convention
matters of preparatory character, met at
the Auditorium Annex to-day and another
session is to be held tomorrow The
principal business to come before the
members is relating to the decoration OF
the Coliseum, the music arrangements
and the appointment of assistant SER
geants-at-arms. incidentally the COM
mittee will put out its hand when Chair
man Donnersberger of the local committee
delivers check for the remaining $11, 600
of convention subscriptions, which he says
he has the money for, and so make good
the full promise of the Chicago guaran-
tors.
The committeeman know that the men
who signed the guarantee will pay if the
subscribers are delinquent, and there is no
uneasiness on the financial score any
more. especially as the rest of the fund is
not needed at present. Chairman Har-
rity. Secretary Sherin and Messrs. Wall of
Wisconsin, Prather of st. Louis, Canda of
New York and Sherley of Louisville at
tended the meeting, besides Sergeant-at-
arms Martin.
After the meeting the committee dined
at the Chicago Athletic Club house as the
guests of Judge Adam A. Goodrich, and
i'll the evening attended the opening of
the Coliseum with Buffalo Bills show, in
order to test the acoustic properties OF the
hall.
E. G. Wall, the Wisconsin mem Der, saiu
tonight: 81 will speak for Wisconsin on
the money question. You can put it in
the gold column. The convention June
% will declare solidly for sound money.
The silver men will not be heard FROM"
Secretary Sherin said for Indiana: I'VE
have given up my State go far as sound
money is concerned. Tre wave is likely
to sweep over the entire State"
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TACTICS or THE DEMOCRATS.
Trying to Eoternsinate the Single TaDers
of DetGtC1re.

WILMINGTON, DEL, June 1.-The
Democratic politicians of Delaware are in
a profound quandary. They are scared,
and not without cause. With the State
convention only two weeks off, they are
now taking fash-light views of the politi-
cal situation in the three counties, and to
their terrible surprise, they find the party
in ''big hole" For the past year they
have tolled and worked assiduousIy to
widen the breach in the Republican ranks
and totally ignored the Single tax party
Single tax, they claimed, would not re-
ceive 100 votes, and these votes, they con-
ceded, would come from TIE Republicans.
A cursory glance at the situation at this
time, however, has convinced that they
are in error, for the Single tax party of
Delaware can claim to-day more than 5000
members, nlne-tenths of them being
former Democrats. With these votes
against them the Democratic ringsters
know that victory next fall is impossibls,
that the Republicans will capture the