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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
She Had Not Seen Him Since He
Went to the Front During
the War.
WAS TOLD HE HAD FALLEN.
Receives a Letter From the Veteran
After a Thirty.three Years
Separation.

PORTLAND, Or, Jan. IA strange
life's romance is that of Mrs. Ida B. Giles
pie of Shasta, Cal, now visiting a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sarah C. Cooper, on Hood street,
this city. Mrs. Gillespie arrived here
about three days ago, en- route to Denver.
Colo, to meet her husband, whom she has
not seen in thirty-three years, and whom
her daughter here never saw, although he
is her father.
in 1851 the woman married Simon S.
Gillespie in Galena III. In 1862, the year
their daughter was born, Gillespie went
into the army. The following year Mrs.
Gillespie was advised from the front that
Gillespie had been killed in action. Soon
thereafter she and her people lett Gelena i,
and her friends there lost track of her.
Ten days ago." said Mrs. Gillespie, 81
received letter from the dead, and it
shocked me so that fell and went from
one swoon into another for thirty-six
hours, and my doctor feared that [ would
die in one of them. The letter was from
my dear husband, whom 1 for so many
years mourned as being among the dead
He wrote me tn at he had no chance of
returning home till the fall of 1864. By
that time no one in Galena could give him
the slightest cIew to my place of abode.
They knew that we had moved to Omaha,
and later to Milwaukee, and for several
months he advertised for me and my fam
lily in the papers in these cities. Then he
travelled, off and on, for two years in search
of US, and at last gave me and his child up
as forever lost.
Nearly month ago Mr.. Gillespie met
in Denver Mr.. Robert Whitehill of Shasta
County, who knows me quite well. As
had never remarked, Mr.. Whitehill spoke
to Mr.. Gillespie of knowing a woman by
his name in California and related my
history to him. Judging from what Mr..
Gillespie wrote me, he must have expert
enced similar sensations to mine when he
learned that [ was yet among the living.
He has been a resident of Colorado for
twenty years, and he, also, never re-
married. can scarcely bide the time
till l see him again. 1 am now 81 years
of age, but the happy event makes me feel
as if were again girl. l merely came
up here so my daughter could accompany
me to her father"
Both ladies leave tonight for a scene
where there will be delightfully."- happy
reunion of loving hearts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
STANFORD NAY ACCEPT.
Il UntrerSdtiSt Chair Likely to Be EsfGb
liSHeG at the University.

Il UntrerSdIiSt Chair Likely to Be EsfGb-
tishe@ at the University.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL. Jan.
IA dispatch appeared this morning in
San Francisco papers stating that the
Boston Universalist Club had appointed a
committee to raise $4,000, with which a
chair in UniversaIist theology was to be
established in this institution. Inquiry at
DR.. Jordan's Office developed that at the
beginning of the university's career DR..
Jordan received offers to establish chairs
here from several theological organiza-
tons. To all these offers DR.. Jordan made
the same reply-that if sufficient funds
were raised and Stanford could select the
occupant of the chair the offer would be
accepted.
When Professor Throop of Pasadena
died he left $4,000 for the establishment
of UEiversaIist chair here. DIR. Jordan
recommended that the fund be used at
Throop University, Pasadena. For some
time nothing more was heard of the mat
ter, and then DR.. Jordan learned that eff
forts were being made to bring the sum
up to the required amount for the estab-
fishing OF such a chair at Stan ford. I'm
doubtedly if the sum is raised and other
conditions agreed to DIR. Jordan will not
object to having the chair placed here.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
Liquor Dealers Charged With
Violating the County
Ordinance.
MANY WITNESSES TESTIFY.
Minors Swear That They Purchased
Drinks Of the Accused
Men.

SAN RAFAEL, CAL, Jan. 14.-Intense
interest has been created by the trial of
Marin County liquor cases before the
Board of Supervisors sitting as court.
This afternoon two cases we're submitted
to the Supervisors for decision and a third
one commenced, but continued until to-
morrow on account of the non-appearance
OF one Of the county's most important wit
nesses.
These cases are the outcome of the re-
port recently rendered by the Grand Jury,
which stated that liquor was being openly
sold to minors, and that the saloons were
being kept open. after. ii o'clock at night,
which is forbidden by the licenses. The
cases were brought in the name of the peo-
pie upon the information of Henry Harri-
son, Tax Collector of Marin County, who
charged the defendants with selling liquor
after IL P. NJ. and also selling to minors.
When the Board of Supervisors went
into session to-day the members consti-
tuted themselves a court to hear the cases.
The first called was the people against
Peter Crane. After District Attorney
Martinelli had read the information Hep
burn Wilkins made an eloquent plea to
the case was not in the jurisdiction of the
Supervisors. Mr.. Wilkins was overruled.
Lewis Smith, a young man attired in a
black sweater, testified that he was a
butcher in San Rafael, had lived there
about eight years and ought to know the
town. He had never seen Crane sell
liquor to minors.
Elisha Dubois stated that he had been
in Cranes saloon after IL o'clock, but the
front doors were always locked. He had
seen games played for money. He had
never been able to get in after II o'clock
at night. Ernest Dubois had been in
after IL o'clock and had been served by
Crane
Walter Roberts, boy of Is years, testi-
fed that he had bought flask of whisky
from Crane and paid for it. A few hours
later he went back to get more and Crane
straight story, and all efforts to break him
down proved unavailing.
Peter Crane, the defendant, then went
upon the stand. He said that the boy had
told him that his mother wanted the
whisky and he gave it to him. In a short
time the lad came back for more, saving a
man at the corner wanted 1t. Crane re-
fused to sell him any more and ordered
him from the saloon. Crane said he never
sold drinks to minors, and always kept an
orderly place.
The case was then submitted without
argument, and the Board of Supervisors
took it under Amusement.
The next case, that against Peter
Klumpf, was not completed, as one of the
witnesses failed to show up. Robert
Curry, lad of Is, testified that he got two
beers at KIumpf's saloon. A bench war
rant was issued for Matt Mcguire. who
failed to appear, and the case will be
finished tomorrow morning.
The case against A. Capperman was SUBJ
mitted, and the Supervisors have promised
to give decision in the morning. The
interest in the trial continued I'M
abated all afternoon, and the people look
forward TO the decision with eagerness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
SYCAMORE CREEK KILLING.
An Indian Surrenders for the Shootino
of q TTi6esTtdn

of a Tri6eSmdn.
FRESNO, CAL, Jan. IA redskin call
ing himself Indian George came down
from the mountains yesterday and
gave himself up for killing Indian
John a few days ago. The shooting oc-
Cured on Sycamore Creek. beyond Bur
rough Valley, about forty-five miles north
east OF this city. George is unable to
speak the English language, but through
a white man who came down from the
mountains with him the particulars were
learned.
1t appears that Indians George and
John, the formers father and several other
red men were having good time by the
aid of firewater which they had in some
unknown manner obtained OF course
the powwow ended in a fight in which ali
participated. Three Indians, among them
John, set upon George and used him
rather roughly. Georges father interfered
and dragged his sons assailants off. The
three men then attacked the old man and
held him down, while John choked him
with handkerchief twisted around his
neck. George in turn interfered in behalf
of his father, but the odds against him
were too great and he secured a rifle. He
fired one shot which pierced Johns heart
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INVENTION or A SEATTLE MAN.
Method by Which Mtrogycerine MAY Be
Used as an Explosive for Cannon
and Small Arms.

SEATTLE, WASH, Jan. 14.-Captain A.
H. Manning, formerly police commits
sioner of this city, says he has discovered
a method whereby nitroglycerine may be
used as an explosive in shells fired from
guns without the least danger to those en-
ploying it and with the greatest effect upon
an object or enemy. He asserts that it
can be used with perfect safety in the dis
charge of the biggest cannon. Such de-
vice, Captain Manning announces. the
Government has long been searching for,
and he has accordingly taken steps to
bring the matter to the attention of the
War Department through the kindly offices
OF Senator Squire.
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SURFACE RIGHTS INVoLVED.
Miners Interested in a Case to Be Tried
at TictOria.

SEATTLE. WASH, Jan. H.-Ross
Thompson, from whom the famous town
of Rossland, B. c., takes its name, John
NJ. Burke, one of Idanos leading men,
and others, passed through Seattle for
Victoria, where tomorrow, before the
Supreme Court of the English province,
will be heard case which, aside from the
great amount at stake is of vast impor-
lance to miners and mine-owners. The
suit involves the ownership of surface in
terest on mineral land, and the court will
be asked TO decide whether such interest
rests with the landowner or the mine
owner and more particularly what rights
go with a miners claim.
D. c. Corbin, by virtue of q grant to
build the Nelson and Fort Shepard Rail-
road, claims surface rights to lands which
contain mineral, and his company seeks
TO establish its right through the mandate
of court. But the Paris Gold-mining
Company, composed principally of Spo-
kane men. contend for surface rights on
account of ownership of mineral claim.
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POISONED SEVEN CHILDREN
Then the Despondent Mother Committed
Suicide BY Hanging Herself
From q Rafer.

ST. JOSEHH, Mo-, Jan. IA terrible
tragedy is reported here tonight which
occurred at MarysviIle. Kans. On farm
six miles south of Marysville resided JOS
eph Hildebrandt, his wife and family of
eight children, the latter ranging from
to IA years of age.
This forenoon his wife, becoming de-
spondent, administered poison to the chill
dren and seven have died. The other is
not expected to live. Then she completed
the work of destruction by hanging herself
to rafter.
Hildebrandt was being treated at All
Saints Hospital, in this city, for cancer
Gus affection of the face, but was dis
charged from there yesterday, and it is
thought he started for his home this
morning
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THE DALLES SAD CASE.
MtsS Annie BrotUn Csazed by BroOdin0
Deer a Lecture on Heredity.

MtsS Annie BrotUn Crazed by Broodin0
Orer a Lecture on Heredity.
THE DALLES, Or, Jan. IA sad
affilctlon has overtaken Miss Annie Brown,
daughter OF A. A. Brown. For some time
the young lady has been in failing health,
and Saturday morning she showed unmis-
taxable signs of insanity. An examina-
ton was conducted by DR.. Doane and
Judge Blakeley and the unfortunate girl
was committed to ali asylum.
The trouble has been long in coming. as
for many weeks she has been breeding
over the suicide of an uncle. A Professor
Rlddell delivered a lecture on "Heredity"
at The Dalles recently. and Miss Brown
attended.
She took deep interest in the lecture,
because OF the fact that three of her uncles
were insane. Since that time her condi-
ton became worse until Saturday morn
ing, when violent outbreak occurred.
She is In fear that she may kill herself.
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BAK ERsFIELD BURG1ARs.
Unsuc cess1ut attempt to Crack a Safe II,
n Neays Store.

BAKERSFIELD, CAL, Jan. 14-Burg-
lars made en- unsuccessful attack upon the
safe in the Mcdonald newsstore at an
early hour this morning. In the same
room is the Western Union Office, and the
operator is on duty until midnight. The
burglars must have watched his departure
aid at once entered the place and began
operations upon the safe.
Four holes were drilled into the door,
three entirely through and one only part
way. This took long time, and about 4
O'Clock the burglars were frightened away
by the coming of a Chinaman to clean ont
a saloon next door. Detective Brighton.
who captured Bandit Evans, happened to
be here, and he IS following up a clew
which will probably lead to the arrest of
the burglars. They stole about $50 worth
OF cigars before decamping,
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skirt the foothills to a point opposite
Exeter, it will require three or four months
to complete the work.
The company has so far used five tons
OF dynamite in blasting rock. 1t found
more hard rock than was expected, and
has been compelled to use only the best
imported Firth steel. The work on the
upper ditch is we'll done. 1t will carry
water enough to make a discharge of 200
cubic feet per second. The lower end will
be l52 feet above the bed OF Kaweah River.
Men are at work yet on the fume across
Horse Creek
The lower ditch will have to be &C.
mented. 1t will be fumed across the
I okohl River, where it debouches onto
the plain. The ditch will be extended to
Lindsay as soon as the demand will JUS
tlfy this extension.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
SAN BERNzRDINo JUSTICE.
Jurors Find FOr0er HadIey GUILTY., bat
Recommend Meycu.

Jurors Find ForgeY. Hadley Gufltu. b,,t
Recommend MeTcy.
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL, Jan. 14-Tbe
jury in the case of Forger w. S. Hadlev.
after being out forty-six hours, came into
court with verdict of guilty, and
recommended the extreme mercy of the
court.
The defendant took the verdict very
easily, and smiled at those near him. The
court set Friday for the time of sentence,
when Hadley's face assumed a serious ex-
preston and turning to his attorney he
said:
Tell the court to make it Thursday or
Saturday, as | DO not want to be SEN
fenced on Friday"
The court accordingly set the time for
Saturday. Hadley's good bearing got him
the Recommendation for mercy.
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and Improvement Company of Santa
Rosa. The purchase price was $4,000. The
plant is practically of little value, as the
entire business is in the hands of new
company, which entered the field about
two years ago, and has now succeeded in
forcing out its rival The old COM
pany procures its water from Gibson
Greek, mountain stream which enters
Ukiah on the west, while the new COM
pany has wells close TO the banks Of Rus
sian River, and from there pumps water
to a reservoir west of town, from which
latter place it is distributed to consumers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
sMUGGLERs OF OPIUM.
Hawaiian authorities TricHed BIZ Z
Puget .SoNnd Ring.

Il HUcL oOtHu 1Atp0-
PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Jan. IA
The seizure of the smuggling schooner
Henrietta by the Hawaiian authorities,
with opium aboard, has been the cause of
all sorts of smuggling stories. One story
that the case recalled was the seizure sew
eral months ago at Hawaii of some 1900
pounds of opium. This was owned by
Port Townsend people, and the same ring
is still carrying on business. The drug IS
struggled across from Victoria with little
difficulty and placed aboard the lumber
schooners that sail from the Sound The
Hawaiian officials are not expecting it
through this channel, and consequently it
is disposed of with little difficulty at the
handsome price of $27 per pound.
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SEARCH FOR An INCENDIARK.
James McCue BeIieres He Has Located
The Man WhO Fired His Born.


SAN RAFAEL, CAL, Jan Thames
McCue, the Larkspur farmer and horse
man, says he is on the trail of the man
who fired his barn some time ago. The
man was formerly employed by McCue as
a farmland, but he loved liquor too devot-
eddy, and once McCue refused to pay him
for the time he was on debauch.
In revenge the fellow set fire to the barn.
Seven valuable horses were destroyed and
in the ruins were found the charred
remains of human being. Since the barn
was burned down McCue has been persist
ent in his search for the incendiary and
now hopes to have his hands upon him in
q few DAYS.
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Vancomver's Alleged Fsre1,.o.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Jan. 14.-Robert
Barker, prominent real estate man, was
sent to Jail to-day. to await trial for burn
ing down q business block for insurance
money. A witness swore Barker tried to
hire one Osmond Mcdonald for $500 to
burn the building. He refused and Barker
burned it himself. Subsequently Barker
pressed Mcdonald for money for rent, and
Mcdonald told the story.
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The Chess Tournament.

ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, Jan. IA
The first sitting of the fifth rouud in the
international chess tournament resulted as
follows: Tschigorin beat Pillsbury after
fortv-eight moves. Lasker beat Steinitz
after forty-four moves. Tschigorin and
Lasker played the whites, selecting the
Ruy Lopez in each case for the opening.
The score: Lasker, won 81, lost AZ; Pills
bury, won 61& lost 614; Steinitz, won 81,
lost 61I Tschigorin, won AZ, lost 81.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
Ell DORADO NINE SALES.
Heacy Lslrestnaent Believed to Haze Beer,
Made BIZ Mnckan and Flood.

'0"VV 1|FUe0t"teHt DeIteUtu 70 HUUc Bee7t
Made by Mdckay and Flood.
PLACERVILLE, CAL, Jan. A.-Several
propositions for undeveloped mining prop
critics and negotiations for two well adj
vanced in development, all in Ell Dorado
County, and involving several hundred
thousand dollars, are approaching compile
ton.
The recent transfer by F. c. Irwin to A.
E. Head of eleven properties in the north
portion of the county is matter of public
record. A rumor, seemingly well founded,
that John w. Mackay and James Flood
are associated in the enterprise is current
on the streets. The fact that Mr.. Mackav
and Mr.. Head m ade a personal inspection
of the premises last autumn adds strength
to the rumor. Development work is in
active progress on Mr.. Heads properties.
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An Absconder arrested.

PHILADELPHIA, PA, Jan. A.-Chief
OF Detectives Miller to-day received dis
patch from Tampa, Fla, announcing the
arrest at that place of Benjamin Johnson,
the stock-broker who absconded from Phil
adeiphla week ago with a shortage of
about $4,000 in his accounts.
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BuraIarn at Petal,.,ra.

PETALUMA, CAL, JAN, II. - The
jewelry-store of G. TrueIson on Main
street was robbed this evening of every
watch it contained. Truelson had locked
the place when he went to supper, and on
his return discovered his loss. Not the
slightest clew to the thieves has been dis
covered
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
TWO RIVERSIDE WRECKS.
Train Employees Injured In Railroad
Disasters.

RIVERSIDE, CAL, Jan. IA wreck
occurred on the Southern California
branch road, between this city and Elsi-
more, yesterday, mixed train leaving
the track. W. B. Dean, the baggageman,
was caught under an overturned coach.
Several of his ribs were broken, and he was
otherwise injured. The cause of the wreck
is not known.
Later in the day another wreck oc-
CURED on the motor line near the city
limits, in which Conductor w. Polk SUI
fereG broken leg. The disaster occurred
while the motor engine was being used to
push work train up slight grade.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
WOULD-BE MEN
And elias Beens" Are the MeIana
choIy Fates of Too Many of Our
Younger Generation.

Ifyou have erred in youth, if your eyes
lack luster, if you have used your system
up, If you have disordered your liver OF
misused your kidneys you should take the
Great Hudyan. You can get it for certain
diseases, but you must first make applica-
ton to the Hudson Medical Institute.
Hudyan cures certain forms of liver and
kidney affections, impaired vitality and
loss OF strength. Hudyan is efticacious
where other remedies have failed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-15
TULAREs BIG DITCH
1he haUeah CompanY's Fdter,cay 4
Nearing Completion.

TITO h"OeuH CoMpdhU'5 Fdteftcdy Is
Nearing Completion.
VISALIA, CAL, Jan. 14.-The Kaweah
Irrigation and Power Company is busily
engaged in prosecuting work that
Will do much to transform the
whole eastern part of the county
contiguous to Visalia. The company
has forty men at work now, and the
upper ditch is completed for distance of
$4,000 feet. The completed part includes
the fumes and all the more difficult Sec
tons except the tunnel, and nearly all of
this has been done in the last two months
Including the lower ditch, which will be a
continuation OF the Pogue ditch and will
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DIED.

CoLEMAN-In this city. January IA, 1895, Har-
IT'S, peioVed husband of Dora Coleman. and father
OF Adolpb, Abe, Louis and Alexander Coleman
ana Mrs. Annie Behrend, a native of Germany,
BH Notice OF funeral hereafter.
EDWARDS-In San Mateo, January Is, 1885,
Inolnas NJ Edwards, native Of Sag Harb0r
Long Island, aged So years.
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OLYMPIA PAUPER MADE RICH.
A $4,000 Judgment AGAINST the Great
Northern.

Northern.
OLYMPIA, WASH, Jan. lathe
Supreme Court in Olympia in affirm
ing judgment in the case of Philip Boyle
VS.. the Great Northern Railroad Company
from Spokane has made wealthy man
out of pauper.
The jury gave verdict for S26, 900, the
largest ever given in that part of the coun-
try, but Judge Arthur cut the amount
down $11, 900.
The amount for which Judgment was
given has been drawing interest at the
rate of $103 per month for several months,
so the sum for which judgment was
given by the Supreme Court amounts to
about Sic, 500.
Boyle is and has been pauper in the
Spangle poorhouse the past two years.
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SEATTLE, WASH, Jan. 1.-THE State
immigration Convention to-day by resolu-
ton memorialized Congress to give the
State an absolute grant to all the arid
lands within the State and TO do away
with many of the provisions in the origi-
nal grant. 1t also asks the National Leg
isIatnre to amend the Federal laws so as
to make it necessary for all applicants for
citizenship TO be able 10 read and write.
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CAPTAIN ALIENS DEFA1o4r1oN.
Deer ItCo Hundred thousand Dollars
appropriated.

BEVERLY FARMS, MASS, Jan. A.
The defaication of Captain john Alien has
created great excitement in Manchester
The amount involved is said to be even
greater than at first thought, and as figured
at present will probably foot up over $780,
0o0 In addition to the amount appro-
priated from the Roberts estate, evidence
is shown of his peculation from two other
estates entrusted to him. Mr.. Allen re-
fuses absolutely to make any statement
No criminal proceedings have yet been
begun.
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Shot His Hotbe,. and Hi,n.eIf

oGDENSBURG, N. Y, Jan. 14.-Wil-
liam Oswell, aged 80 years, to-day shot his
mother, Mrs. Virginia L. Oswell, aged GA,
three times, killing her, and then shot
himself He was undoubtedly insane from
worry over financial matters.