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Horses and Mules.

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ANNUAL SESSION GRAND LODGE l.
O. o. f. OF NORTH CAROLINA.

Q. ., 4. UE NUM- II ONhOLLNEA'
Goldsboro, n. c., May 18th, 1896.
For the above occasion the Southern
Railway will sell round trip tickets TO
Goldsboro on May 18th, 18th and 18th,
1896, with final limit May 18th, 1896.
For information as to rates, etc, call
or or address
r. r. POTTS,
Ticket Agent, Raleigh, N. c.
w. A. TURK,
G. p. A., Washington, d. c.
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Rehearsal at the Blind Institution to-
sight st o'clock.
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The condition of Mr.. Julius Lewis,
who is suffering the effects OF semi
stroke of apopieXy, was some better
last night.
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Mr.. L. Banks Holt, who has been
quite i'll with jaundice, wassome better
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One fare for the round trip from
points on the Seaboard Air Line 70
those who wish to hear Wang at tne
Academy of Music on Saturday night
next
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
HARMEN HELD TO ANSWER.
The Prosecution Submits the Case With
out Argument-BaH Fixed
at $4,000.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 19-There
was little of material interest in the Har-
men examination to-day.
Brady was recalled and subjected to Sc
we're cross-examlnation by ex-senator
Sprague in regard to what inducements
had been offered him by agents of Wells,
Fargo & Co. to induce him to make q con-
fession.
Sheriff Johnson took the stand and tes-
titled as to his connection in the arrest of
Harmen and recovery of certain portions
OF the stolen money he had found.
The prosecution submitted the case with
out argument, and defendants counsel
made short address to the effect that his
client was not criminal and that no Jury
would by its verdict so brand him.
If what they say is true, this man simply
went out in the brush and found some
money hidden there, which he did not
give up until it was dem anded.
Concluding, Attorney Sprague said that
Detective Thacker, as shown by the evil
dence, had conspired with Bandit Brady,
the man who was implicated in the muir
der of brave Sheriff Bogard, and that he
had promised the bandit immunity from
prosecution for his crime of train-robbery.
At the conclusion of his argument Judge
Henry held Harmon to answer to the Su-
perior Court, fixing the bail at $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
YOLO AND COLUSA CANAL,
Scheme to Place a Large Area of
Very Rich Land Under
Cultivation.
A Meeting to Be Held at Knights
Landing to Consider the :.
Question.

WOODLAND, CAL, Feb. 19.-An impor-
tanu and highly interesting meeting to
landowners in Reclamation District 103
will be held at Knights Landing in this
county Saturday, February 90.
The purpose OF the meeting is to devise
some system of drainage by which large
body OF the best farming land in Yolo and
Colusa counties can be reclaimed
The land is already protected from the
overflow water of the river, but there are
several creeks that run down from the
hills and empty into the basin from which
there is at present no outlet into the river.
1t is the disposition of this hill water
that furnishes the vexing problem to the
farmers, as there is not a drop of the
river water in all the basin. All schemes
to reclaim the land from the devastation
of the hill water have SO far proved un-
availing.
This body of land comprises about "a 600
acres of very productive soil. The latest
scheme is to construct what will be called
the West Side Canal. 1t is proposed to
begin at a point north of Colusa and run
southeasterly along the border of the basin
and along the north side OF the ridge at
Knights Landing.
1t Is said that such canal can be con-
structed SO that the water can be emptied
into the Sacramento River above high
water mark, and without in the least en-
dangering the town of Knights Landing.
or increasing the danger of flooding the
farming districts below the town.
The cost OF the canal is estimated at
SUo,oOo, and the money is easily obtain.
able.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
fallen from the brake beam OF train last
night while stealing rlde TO TINS CITY,
SANTA cLARA'S STUDENTS.
They Give Brilliant Entertainment m
Honor of Washington
BirthdGY

SANTA CLARA. CAL, Feb. 19.-The IN
troductory address delivered by James F..
Emery that welcomed the large audience
at Exhibition Hall last evening inaugu-
rated the attractive programme of the en-
tertainment given in honor of Washing
tons birthday by the Santa Clara College
students.
The oration was succeeded by the recita-
ton of John A. Selby, and at intervals
during the evening the college brass band
rendered q series of appropriate instru-
mental selections, pleasingly varied by the
performances of the string orchestra,
under the leadership of Professor F. Schu-
bert.
The feature of the occasion was the pre-
sentation of the Shakespearean drama of
Richard III, }" the cast of characters being
entirely composed of the students of the
institution. Those who sustained the
leading characters in the play acqpit-
roles in a manner highly creditabIe
to the young amateurs, while the able
support of others who delineated the less
prominent parts materially assisted in the
success that characterized the production
throughout all its details.
The accessories of scenery and costumes,
historically exact, brought out the stir
ring incidents of the play in excellent
prominence, and the general effect re-
f1ected great credit on those under whose
management the play was so attractively
placed upon the stage.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
SANTA BARBARA NEWS,
Dissatisfaction Over the Effort to
Push the Claim of San Pedro
Harbor.
The City'S Splendid Natural Resources
Ignored to Benefit More Favored
Rivals.

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, Feb. 19.-
Santa Barbarans are feeling sore over the
effort to rush the claim of San Pedro
harbor against that of Santa Barbara at
the very time when it looks as though
this place had fair prospect of receiving
the aid she had long deserved from Con-
gress.
The earliest voyagers to this coast agreed
that the three most important harbors in
the State and the safest refuge in stormy
weather were the bays OF San Francisco,
San Diego and the Santa Barbara harbor.
Before the discovery of gold Santa Bar
bara was very important trading port,
and in those days there existed no ques-
ton but that the State should become set
tied and its resources be developed and
Santa Barbara would rank as port of the
first importance.
In q communication to local paper to-
day DR.. Shaw, one of our oldest and most
intelligent citizens, relates the history of
Santa Barbara's lost appropriation of
$100, 900, voted by Congress in 1866 which
was afterward revoked pending survey
asked by members of the Peralta family
who conceived the absurd idea of estab-
fishing the port in the vicinity of Point
Sal, and thereby benetiting their own
property.
The survey was made, but never ap-
| proved, and the appropriation never re-
pealed by Congress.
Recently a concerted effort has been
| made by public-spirited citizens, headed
by the Board of Trade, to have Santa Bar
bara declared merely port of entry, with
some modest hope that if this recognition
of her advantages were made some small
| appropriation might be secured for the
purpose of improving wharf facilities.
! Senators Perkins and White have both
expressed themselves as favorable to the
project, but the strong effort now made to
| secure further appropriations for San
| Pedro will probably result in setting aside
! for another term of years the superior
claims OF this port, which sixty years ago
was reckoned as superb harbor, and San
Pedro was only sought when the necessi-
ties of commerce demanded that vessels
| should put in there.
| Santa Barbara has a hard experience.
For nearly half a century her splendid
natural advantages have been ignored and
! she has been forced 10 witness less favored
rivals outstripping her in all directions by
sheer force of superior numbers and politi-
cal influence.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
war IN A CITY COUNCIL.
The Mayor OF Port Townsend Has a coun-
Gilman Elected From His
Sent

PORT TOWNSEND, WASH, Feb. ia
com plaint was issued this evening charg-
ing Mayor Rogers and Chief of Police
Stamer with assault and battery on the
person of Councilman Jacobs, who was, at
last nights meeting of the City Council,
forcibly elected from his seat in the Conn
Gil by the Chief of Police on the order of
the Mayor.
There has been trouble between the
Mayor and Council for the past six months
over city appointments. The majority of
the Council has steadily refused to con-
firm the Mayors appointees by vote of
four to three, but last night the Mayor at
tempted to remove Councilman Jacobs,
one of the ma jority against him, who has
recently moved out of the ward from
which he was elected.
On the advice of the City Attorney
Jacobs refused to vacate, and vas removed
as stated. The result will be the arrest OF
the Mayor and Chief of Police as soon as
papers are signed by Jacobs.
The real fight is over the City Treasurer s
office.
The present Treasurer deposits CITY
money in bank of which Collector Saun-
ders is president, and Mayor Rogers, al
though a Democrat, is at the head of the
anti-Saunders Democratic faction, and at
least dozen leading politicians of both
parties are involved in this trouble. AS
result of this fight the Democratic party
of this county is now hopelessly rent
aSunder.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
The President of the Beard of
City Trustees Accused of
Prejudice.
A STORM OF ANGRY PROTESTS.
The Accused Seen to Enter Faro
Games and Drink Whisky While
on Duty.

SACRAMENTO, CALL, Feb. 19.-The
the Board of City Trustees tonight drew
an immense crowd. The charges, which
have heretofore been published in full in
THE CALL, were preferred by Mayor G. H.
Hubbard
Chief M. M. Drew was sworn and stated
the duties Of the captain. Under cross
examination he stated that as far as he
knew no charges had ever been filed with
him against Captain Green and Green had
attended to his duty. He had no method
of ascertaining positively whether Green
attended to his duties or not, as Green s
duties always commenced after his ended.
AT this point Captain Green filed re-
monstrance against the President of the
Board OF Trustees acting as a member of
the jury, on the grounds that he had time
and time again expressed decided preiu-
dice against him, and had repeatedly ap-
preached members of this board and re-
quested them to join him in having him
discharged. He did not consider that the
president was capable.
This aroused storm of angry protest
from several members of the board, who
A'Oe Ohiy AOpkiQldltO lIcSc CudIReS, UuL
claimed that the president of the board
was not on trial.
The chairman of the police committee
then rose and stated that the president
was not concerned in the matter, and Cap
tain Green acknowledged that his informa-
ton on the subject was largely hearsay.
w. l.. Leonard, an agent who had beer
engaged by the police committee of the
board of trustees to investigate into the
method in which the mem bers of the DO
lice force have been performing theil
duties, was the next witness, He stated
that he had followed the accused for the
past three weeks. He had repeatedly seer
him enter various places where faro anC
otner games were conducted.
He had entered these places, but haG
not played at the games to his knowledge
He had seen him enter a saloon and take
drink OF whisky when on duty. He had
seen him enter the residence 1913 Q street
at five minutes after II, and, although he
had watched two hours, he had not come
out.
Mayor Hubbard stated positively that
Captain Green had acknowledged to him
that he was at the residence 1913 @ street
at II O'Clock at night, but that he went
there to pluck the wing-feathers of the
gamecocks. who were flying over the
fence, and then Captain Green established
an apparently clear alibi by numerous
witnesses who positively swore that at the
time he was accused of being in the afore-
said residence he was attending to his
duties.
Every other allegation was disproved by
Green's S witnesses and the matter was ad-
iourned until Saturday night when it is
rumored considerable rebuttal testimony
of a startling nature may be introduced.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
Some of Them Will Probably
Lose Their Homes and
Little Farms.
NO TITLE TO THE PROPERTY
How the Beautiful Los GuillicoS
Valley Was Settled by De.
luded People.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, Feb. 19.-Forty
persons are named as defendants in a suit
to forecIose mortgage given by the Ken
wood Land Company to Giacondo Glanella
in 1891, and some OF the forty are liable TO
lose their homes as the result.
The property involved is in the beauti-
full and fertile Los GuiIlicos Valley. and
was formerly known as the GianelIa ranch.
The tract was purchased by D. NJ. Carman
and one or two associates under the cor
poration name of the "Kenwood Land
Company"
A comparatively small payment was
made at the time of the purchase and
mortgages given for about $65, 600, the bal
ance due on the purchase price.
D. NJ. Carman, who is an energetic pro-
moter and a pleasing and persuasive
talker, was sent by the kenwood Land
Company to Chicago, where it seems he
had no trouble in inducing coIonists to
buy small tracts of the land. A small
payment down was all that was required,
the balance due to be paid on long time
and in easy installments.
Many of the intending settlers bought
without seeing the property and had no
conception of the difficulties to be over
come in getting their vineyards and
orchards into profitable bearing. Some
arrived at the land of the ''Olive and the
Fig, where natures table is ever set, with
out the means of subsistence during the
time that must elapse between the plant
ing and the harvest.
Many returned to their homes in
Illinois and few removed to Santa
Rosa.
Those who were able to keep up their
payments and remain to tend their trees
and vines until they should become profit
able stayed on their little farms and
beautifed their new homes. AS the
company was unable to give title to the
Land a receipt for the money paid and a
bond for deed was all the colonists could
show for their time, trouble and money.
The money received by the company was
used in improving the tract and paying
up the outstanding notes given in Gia-
nella, of which there were three.
AS long as new colonists could be in
duced to purchase and settle upon the
tract things went swimmingly, and the in
terest and first notes becoming due were
promptly paid.
But for the past year or more payment:
of interest and principal were few and fa1
between, and the Gianellas were at length
compelled to take steps to secure them
selves, and the result will likely prove
disastrous to the colonists. This will work
a hardship on some of our foremost
citizens, and will be of great injury to one
of the fairest and most productive valleys
in the State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
WoRkING FOR GOOD ROADS.
Members of the State Commission, to Mee
Fresno's Supervisors.

HehtoeTs OF tNe state COhn1tSSt0T to Meet
FresnO's Supervisors.
FRESNO, CAL, Feb. 19.-R. G. Irvine of
Sacramento and j. l.. Maude of Riverside,
members of the State Board of Good
Roads Commission, were IN Fresno to-day.
They are making preliminary tour of
the State collecting data as to the condition
of pnblic highways, with the view of
making report to Governor Budd.
This report will form the basis of much
needed legislation on the subject of i'm
proved roads in California, so say these
Commissioners. An inspection of the
roads in this and MADEIRA counties will
com plete their tour.
They have found the highways in most
OF the counties in deplorable condition in
comparison with leading Eastern States
1t is the opinion of the Commissioners
that large sums of money are being con-
stantly squandered under the present plan
OF Improvement.
They will therefore recommend some
very radical changes from the present
plans, in behalf of more economical and
beneficial methods of public roads ex-
penditCres.
Next Friday these Commissioners will
meet the Board of Supervisors of this
county and prominent taxpayers at the
courthouse here for conference on the
subject,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
TWO SUICIDES At ST. HELENA.
One Shoots Himself and the Other Take.
CdrbOIic Actd.

One Shoots Himself and the Other Takes
CdrbOItc 4cid.
ST. HELENA, CAL, Feb. 19.-One sui
eide is enough to startle this usually quiet
town, but it had two this afternoon.
About 2 O'Clock an Italian named Gal
natti was brought from Beringer's ranch
with his face all shot to pieces
Fellow-workmen heard two shots ten min.
utes apart. Upon investigation they found
Galnatti lying in pool of blood, but
alive. He said he was tired of life and
wanted to die, so he took a shotgun loaded
with small shot and fired into his face.
Finding that 1t did not kill him he fired
the other BARREL which also failed to kill
him. The doctor says the man may live,
but he will be blind and have little face
left.
The first suicide had hardly been cared
for before a report came that John Nielsen
had killed himself uis little girl, return
ing home from school, went to the wood
shed for wood to get supper and found her
father sitting in chair dead.
He had taken carbolic acid and had
been dead two or three hours when found.
Deceased was a well-known hotel man of
this city and leaves a wife and three chill
dren. Dependency and family troubles
are supposed to have been the cause. He
had been out of business several weeks
and recently had trouble with his wife.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
JUST TO SCARE THE BOZ.
Why a STOCKTON Man Took a Shot at q
Mischierous Urchin.

STOCKTON, CAL, Feb. 19.-Jirnmie
Newbury. a i4-year-old boy, was shot last
evening near the pavilion by a man on a.
streetcar, who resented the boys act in
throwing -four on him as the car passed.
The conductor saw the man fire the shot
but did not think it had any serious end.
ing and did not report the matter to the
police. The boy received severe flesh
wound and is in danger of blood poisoning
To-day Harry Masters, a groceryman
surrendered himself to the police and said
that he fired the shot merely to frighten
the boy. He was charged with assault with
deadly weapon and was placed under
ries.
Masters friends profess great surprise
at his foolhardy act and are doing all they
can to assist him in his trouble, but are
severe in their criticism of his conduct.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
ALTaURLANs 20 DIsBAND.
Short of Money aud Disappointed In
Various Expectations.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, Feb. 1o.-The
members of the Altrurian colony, near
Mark West Springs, in this county, have
decided to disband. In the resolutions
adopted by them they say that they were
disappointed in their financial expecta-
tions and that their resources were not
sufficient to carry out the plans of the
colony.
The location of the colony was i'll chosen
and the land com paratively unproducti
and the final breaking up of the project
has been freely predicted for some time.
1t is claimed that some of the leaders
the society were visionary and impracti-
cable, bringing financial distress to their
followers. The association will be main.
tanned, however, for such other work as it
hnds feasible under its articles of incor-
poration,
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
TRAMPS IN Il HOLD-UP.
Pdgrants Travelling an a Borcdr Forced
to Gire Up Their SduinJS.

Tdgrants Travelin0 an a Boncar Forced
to Gire Up Their SaUingS.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Feb. ia Morris
town (N.J.), special says; Something new
in the line of hold-up took place about a
mile from Dover, on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railway, at an early
hour yesterday morning. A freight train
had come in from Scranton, Pa, and about
fifteen men, some of them tramps, and
others who had been at work and saving
their money and beating" their way home
were in boXcar.
As the train stopped there was rap for
admission, and those inside supposing
some one wanted shelter, opened the door.
Outside were three masked men armed
with revolvers and dark lanterns.
Two Of the men entered the car and COM
manded the occupants to throw up their
hands. They then ordered them to stand
line, and while one of them held the gun
his companion went through the crowd.
The robbers secured about $500 and three
gold watches.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
THE WILLOWS TRAGEDY,
Frank Putnam and John Crothers
on the Witness Stand for
the Prosecution.
The Court Takes a Recess and Puts
the Jury in the Hands of
the Sheriff.

WILLOWS, CAL, Feb. 19.-Frank Put
nam, the witness who left the stand last
night, was recalled this morning and
testified that Mrs. Sehorn, wife of the de-
fendant, came upon the scene and remon-
strated with the defendant, who told her
to let him alone and gave her push away.
The next witness was John Crothers. a
young man who was employed in the store
of the deceased at the time and was pres
ent at the killing of Putnam. He testified
II came from supper, and saw Sehorn
and Putnam talking; saw Mrs. Sehorn
and her little son near by, and one Frank
McNorton also. Putnam was standing in
front of the store, leaning against the avn
ing-pole. Sehorn was shaking his finger
in his face, and called him "a liar twice.
"Hulet came between them and then
Putnam struck defendant in the face with
his fist, staggering him against Hulet, but
not knocking him down. Then Sehorn
shot Putnam four times. Sehorn shot
Putnam when his back was to him. l
went into the back part of the store, and
the next | saw they brought Putnam into
the store and laid him on the floor"
Attorney Albery worried the boy wit
ness until O'Clock, when Attorney Swim
ford ELECTED as follows:
'At the time l was examined before the
Justice it was my first experience as wit
ness and l was excited. l am not excited
now and have thought the matter care
fully over since that time"
]. b. Williams, who was Constable at
the time of the homicide, was the next
witness. He testified
Between 6 and o'clock in front of
Putnam's drugstore on the evening of Oc-
tober my attention was attracted to the
parties in front of the drugstore, but
didn't know them until was six or eight
feet of them.
Il heard some talk and saw three or
four men together and thought something
was going to happen. l hurried there
and had got within six or eight feet when
shot was fired, before l had got closer
than ten or twelve feet of them l saw that
Sehorn was in bent position and was
Strengthening up. l saw Sehorn fire the
shot. do not know how Sehorn got into
the bent position.
Frank Putnam had hold of the deceased
and was trying to get him away, pushing
or pulling him to get him off the sid walk.
Did not see Putnam make an attempt to
strike Sehorn. Putnam kept backing off
and fell in the street,
The court took a recess and put the jury
into the hands of the Sheriff until 8
o'clock tomorrow morning.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-20
FIERCE FOUNTAIN FIRE.
anxiety for the Safety Of Sp anish
american Family.

SANTA BARBARA, CAL, Feb. ia
fierce mountain fire is raging in San Roqui
Canyon, close to the city. There is no
wind, but the flames have covered consid-
erable territory, entirely burning out Gar
cia Canyon, branch of the San. Roqui,
and running far up the mountain side.
Many visitors have taken horse and car
riage and gone out to the elevated ground
overlooking the place to better enjoy the
brilliant spectacle.
Some anxiety is entertained concerning
the safety OF young Spanish American
rancher, Aledoni Garcia, who, with his
wife and two little children, are residing
in a cabin up the canyon. the place being
a veritable firetrap should the flames have
broken out below them without warning.