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IN THE FU BLIC EYE

Governor Barnes Of Oklahoma was tel
egraph operator at Leavenworth when the
war broke out.
Marquis de Quincy, French sportsman,
who has lost one leg and walks about on
crutches, has gone to West Africa to shoot
big game in the Footah Jalu coutry and on
the upper Niger.
Speaker ]. w. Farris of the Missouri
house of representatives has frankly told
his Democratic friends that he is a candi-
date for the nomination for governor OF
the state in 1900. He is a free silverite.
Miss Ethel Rebecca Benjamin, LL. B.,
aged %, of Dunedin, New Zealand, having
passed the bar examination, is the first
woman admitted to practice as barrister
and solicitor in the Australian courts.
Henry Labouchere of London Truth and
member of parliament for Northampton Is
considered by the English investing public
to be the greatest and most clear-slshteo
authority on American stocks and ponos.
Among the students of the summer law
school at Ann Arbor, Mich, is Edward
Marsden. a full-blooded Eskimo from Alas
ka. He was early converted to Cnrlstlanlty
and was graduated in the Sitka inoustria
school.
Ebenezer Foster, who recently DIED IN
Cleveland O., was one of the pioneers OF
that city. He settled in what is now the
south side in 1910. 1t was a dense forest
frequented by wild animals. He helpeo
build the first Methodist church in the re-
gion.
Among the eminent members of the
United States senate who can never be
president because they were born in 6
foreign country are Knute Nelson of Min
nesota, GaIlinger of New Hampshire, Jones
of Nevada, Mcmillan of Michigan, Mantle
Of Montana, Pasco Of Florida and Sewel
of New Jersey.
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The MAYHEM Case

SANTA CRUZ, August, 19.-When th-
Plyler trial was resumed this morning
DR.. Welch of San Jose testified to the
effect that Plyler had asked him to per-
form an operation on Harris, but thai
he had refused Subsequently Plyler
told him the operation had been per-
formed. 1t was also shown by the wit
ness Loryea that Plyler Dragged of hav-
ing MANNED Harris.
E G. Shafter, an employe of Harris
stated that Plyler and his wife called
on Harris at the barber shop and greeted
him cordially. Court then adjourned out
of respect to the memory of the late
Judge Salisbury.
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A Successful and Satisfactory End
ing to at Least One of the
Lottery Cases

A conviction has at last been reached
in Chinese lottery case. All Huck, who
was arrested by Detectives Auble and
Hawley last June for selling lottery
tickets, was tried before Justice Nor
rison by jury. The case has been in
court for three days, and last night
Deputy District Attorney Chambers let
the case go to the jury.
A portion of the evidence given by
some of the Mongolian witnesses was sc
evidently perjury that the detectives are
seriously contemplating the arrest of the
Cinnamon for the offense.
At o'clock the jury went down to the
place where the lottery tickets were
sold and We're shown through the room
by the detectives. Everything was fully
explained to them. In the evening the
trial was continued, and at 11:S0 o'clock
the jury, after being out nearly four
hours, returned verdict of guilty
against All Huck, who will appear today
for sentence.
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Unnatural Father POisons
His Infant Child
HE THEN CUTS HIS THROAT
MAKES ASSURANCE SURE BY
SWALLOWING STRYCHNINE
Expires in the Receiving Hospital.
Terrible Bruises inflicted on the
Helpless Little Child

Henry Smiley, a laborer, last evening
with razor and swallowing half tea
spoonful OF strychnine At the sans
time he brutally beat his 4-months-old
baby, and forced it to take dose of the
deadly poison.
Smiley, who lived at lib Olympia
street, was blacksmith by trade, and
formerly had a shop on Buena Vista
street, but was closed out by the sher-
iff He was half Indian, half Kanaka,
and had married an Indian girl by the
name of Guzman, by whom he became
| the father of one child. His wife left him
at one time, alleging infidelity on his
part, but a reconciliation took place,
and at the time of the tragedy they were
living together
| Yesterday afternoon the wife left
Smiley upstairs in the house in charge
of the baby, she going outside to hang
up some clothes. Her attention was at
tracted by the screams of the child,
and, entering the house with the neigh
bors, she found the infant with an awful
bruise across the upper part of the face.
the baby had fallen from the hammock
Word was sent to the police station,
and DR.. Powers, the health officer, i'm
mediately went to the house, where he
found the child in spasms. He did not
understand how the spasms were
brought on by the fall, as alleged, and
was still puzzling over it, when one of
the neighbors rushed downstairs, an
nouncing that the father had cut his
throat
DR.. Powers found that the wretched
Smiley had slashed huge cash in his
throat, and the man confessed to having
swallowed half teaspoonful of strych
nine. The patrol wagon was hastily
summoned, and Smiley was taken to the
receiving hospital, where DR.. Hagan
worked over him, but his efforts were
of 70 avail He retained consciousness
to the last moment, but died in terrible
agony at $50 o'clock.
Meanwhile Mrs. Ryan, a neighbor,
had taken the suffering infant to the
prison building, and Drs. Powers and
Hagan worked over the unconscious
little body for several hours. The stom-
ach pump was brought into play, and
the strychnine fed by the unnatural
father was removed, but the child died
before midnight.
Smiley was a hard character, and had
several times been in Jail, where he
bore a tough record. His remains were
removed to Kregelo & Bresee's under
taking rooms where the coroner will
hold an inquest this morning.
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WHY THE LADY LIKED ROME
She Was Not Deeply Religious, But a
Devotee of Calves Brains

There is no accounting for TASTE" re-
marked diplomatic, who held one of
the highest foreign positions under the
Cleveland administration and who has
recently returned to this country. Dur
ing the four years I was abroad I met
many thousands of Americans, some of
whom have spent years and years of
time travelling about in all parts of the
world. They give all sorts of reasons
for travelling, while some of them say
they have no particular reasons, but
simply travel because they like to, and
that once they get taste of it, they find
difficulty in settling down in their homes
Others told me that they Travelled be-
cause, taking it all in ALL they found
that they could remain abroad at less ex-
pense than they could stay at home; and
things and times abroad were so much
nicer, you know! 1t is simply a matter
Of taste with many persons. They have
steady income and prefer to spend it
in travel, rather than in any other way
But of all of the reasons Boston lady
gave me the strangest. When l met her
she had then finished up her sixth year
of steady travel; she had made three
distinct tours around the world and seen
about every thing that could be seen.
II ventured to ask her which of all the
cities she had visited she found most
interesting. After considering the ques-
tion awhile, she answered Rome
asked her why she preferred that to any
other city, supposing 1t might be for a
religious reason, but soon found out that
religion was not her stronghold. L like
Rome best she said, because they cook
and serve calves brains so nicely. In no
other place in the world can one get
calves brains in the various ways they
cook them in Rome. washington
Star
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The Detective Makes an
Important Find
THE HISTORY OF C. W. FILKINS
HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE OHIO
STATE PRISON
The Man Wanted Here on Six Charges
Of Burglary Has Hobnobbed
With Eastern Crooks

Detective John Goodman builded bet
Charles w. F'ilkins, wanted here for nc
less than six charges of burglary. OF his
associates little else can be done than to
implicate them in the local cases, but
Filkins possesses a scintillating record
of eastern fame among the criminal
classes.
From 1890 to 1892 the Blinky Morgan
gang was the terror of Ohio. They were
bank robbers and murderers. and num-
bered among their members some of the
most notorious robbers of the country.
Their leader was Blnky Morgan, who
in 1892 was hanged for the murder of a
prominent banker, having killed the
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seventy-Elve 1no4sanu Dollar Piano

'The most expensive piano that we ever
made" said Mr.. Edwin Eshelby, manager
of the London house of Steinway & Sons,
was for Mr.. Marquand of New York. 1t
was made in 1868 and it cost $75, co.," The
price seemed of rather staggering char
acter, even after it was explained that
the piano in question had been painted by
Alma Tadema. Among the $1,000 pianos
constructed by the great American firm
there have been many of high price, but
the $4,000 one stands alone. In 1884 Baron
Ferdinand de Rothschld bought one that
cost nearly $4,000. The piano itself cost
over $4,000, and an old Italian painting cost
over s3500 The painting was on the top
of an ancient spinet. This top was trans
formed into the top of a Steinway grand.
In many cases it is the decoration of a
piano that raises the price to such mag
nificent proportions. The inlaid work upon
some of the pianos is of the most beauti-
full and delicate character. The finest is
done in Paris. The piano upon which
D'Albert played last in London cost $4,000,
principally on account of the decorations
Paderewski uses palmer instrument. The
mikado of Japan recently bought a Stein
way grand for which $4,000 was paid. He
is the only crowned head who glories in the
possession of a Steinway grand with a
decorated case. All the pianos supplied tc
her majesty by the firm have plain cases
Pail Mall Gazette.
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man while robbing the bank. One of the
leaders of this choice collection Of cut
throats was Henry Burton, alias
Schroeninger. With this Burton Fill1ins
was on terms Of intimacy, and among
the latter's letters Goodman found a note
that reads as follows:
Fiklns-Please look in all the drawers
of the desk you wrote on and copy the
addresses wrote in pencil. l want one
of Morgan street, same number. Respy.,
H. BURTON.
Other letters show that Filkins has
spent part Of his time in the Columbus
prison. A note dated from Ceres, ALE
gheny county, N. Y, but posted from
Philadelphia, March IS, 1895, was sent to
Charles w. Filkins, addressed to the
Columbus state prison, and in the lower
left hand corner are the figures 212S1,
Filkins' convict number. The letter ad-
vises him to be good and serve out his
sentence without making any attempt to
escape 1t is signed Cousin Edith
Walsh" Filkins, not knowing that
Goodman possesses these letters, abso-
lutely denies any knowledge of Columbus
or the state prison situated there. Other
letters show from the envelopes that the
captured man conducted patent rights
Office and operated laboratory for the
manufacture of vapor baths.
Goodman followed Filkins, and his ac-
completes, Jasper Briden and Frances
Melendez, the Mexican mistress of Fill
kins, for more than three weeks. AS
fast as he could locate them in any
lodging house they would move, doing
this no less than six times. When they
left for San Diego Goodman lost track
of them, they changing their names and
going out as the Wesley brothers. The
woman, however, retained her own cog
nomen, all three living at the Hotel
Royal. Goodman journeyed down to the
city Of Bay 'nclimate on Saturday, having
first armed himself with warrant for
the Wesleys, the woman's name having
told him the lay of the land. There he
arrested all three, and on Saturday night
spent six hours going over Filkins' trunk
securing enough evidence to assure him
that he had made a most important cap
ture. The local end of their crimes shows
no less than five charges of burglary
against them they having been concerned
in the robbing of William Watts, bicy-
Gle dealer, the saloon at Second and Sar
Pedro streets, Richardson's grocery
Aufrichtig's jewelry store, and the sa.
loon at Third and San Pedro streets
During his career F'ilkins has used nu-
merous names, of which some are Ar.
thur, Adams, Russell and Wesley
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Faure'S Troubles

LONDON, Aug. 20.-The Paris CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail says that the
accident to the French cruiser Bruix,
which had been delegated as one of the
vessels to escort M. Faure to Cronstadt
but was obliged to turn back through the
failure of her machinery, caused a
stormy cabinet council today. Admiral
Besnard, minister of marine, wished to
resign, but he was persuaded to with
hold his resignation until the return of
President Faure. II is probable that
the fiasco will result in a fierce cam
paign of overnauling the French navy.
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An Elevator Fire

DAVENPORT Iowa, August 19.-An
explosion of dust knocked out two walls
of an elevator at the Davenport Syrup
Refinery today. John Rapp and John
Rain were forced to jump sixty feet and
were badly injured. w. A. Wolfe. a
farmer, was fatally crushed, and his IL
year-old daughter was killed. Frank
Stevens was injured. The building took
fire Immediately and was destroyed. The
loss was $4,000, insured.
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averted, but meantime the foreboom,
in swinging around. struck c. A. Nord :
ling, a Swede, and knocked. him over
board. The blow broke his right arm
and almost scalped him. but being a
good swimmer he managed to keep
afloat until picked up by boat from
the schooner, three quarters of an hour
after the accident occurred. 1t required
seventeen stitches to close the wound
on his scalp at the water front receiving
hopital,
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Ventura Journalism

VENTURA, August 19.-Today deal
was closed whereby the Free Press, the
oldest Republican paper in Ventura
county, B. A. Sykes, editor, passes into
the hands of J. H. Mason. editor of the
Venturian. w. E. Willis, connected
with the Spokane (Wash.) Chronicle, is
associated with Mason in the deal. The
nsideration was $780, The Free Press
will absorb the Venturian.
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No Exhibit

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 19.-J. A
Tilden, secretary of the state board OF
trade today announced that it had been
decided not to attempt to make an ex-
hibit of California fresh deciduous fruits
at the Hamburg Internal tional Horticul-
tural exposition. This action was found
necessary on account of the lack of cold
storage accommodations on the fast
steamers of the Hamburg line.
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Catholic Abstainers

SCRANTON, Pa, Aug. 19.-Father
Gleary of Minneapolis, president of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America, in convention here, made a
ringing speech today against Sabbath
desecration. The secretary's report
showed the organization of ninety-five
new societies with 3946 members during
the year
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The Medical Congress

MOSCOW, Aug. 19.-The international
congress of medicine was opened here
today by Grand Duke Sergius, repre-
senting the czar. There are. altogether
1900 delegates, of whom half come from
abroad. Among the honorary presi-
dents, DR.. Taylor and DR.. Billings were
elected for the United States. Count
Delinoff minister of public instruction
delivered the address of welcome, which
was spokeu in Latin
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made about as poor governor as any
state has had to put up with in the
memory of the present generation, but
that is not the cause of the split in his
party Republican politicians in Ken
lucky, as elsewhere, care very little for
good government, as long as they get
the emoluments of office.-St. Louis Re
public
The herald., 1897-08-20
Armenians Raided

LONDON, Aug. ia dispatch to the
Daily News from Tabreez, capital of the
province of Azerbaijan, Persia, says
that yesterday the Kurds raided the dis
trict of Salamos on the Turko- Persian
frontier. They sacked and destroyed
two Armenian villages and masacred 200
Pers:ans, Christians and Mussulmans
indiscriminately. The Persian govern
ment has decided to send more troops to
the scene of the invasion.
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Chilean Silver

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Valparaiso says: The
persistent fall in the price of bar silver
has caused a panic among the producers
in Chile. Many of the principal mines
of the republic will be closed soon and if
the price continues to fall, ruin will be the
only result
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Fighting Over Officers, AS Usual

The Kentucky Republicans are in just
the shape that Republicans everywhere
get in when there are offices to fight for.
In Governor Bradley they have the only
Republican chief executive ever elected
in the Blue Grass state, but they are
angry with him because he did not have
offices enough to go round. Bradley has
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Young Mems Institute

SANTA ROSA, Aug. 19.-The consid-
Grafton of proposed amendments to the
constitution of the order was the prin-
cipal business of today's session of the
Y. M. l. The election of officers will be
taken up tomorrow and lively scramble
for places is looked forward to. George
d. Pyne of Nevada has withdrawn from
the race for grand president A banquet
IN honor 70 the visitors was given to-
night in RidgWaY hall
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A Stubborn Faster

MIDDLESBORO, KY, August 19.-
Lena Collins Worth of Clayborne
county, Tennessee, is dead from the ef-
fects of fifty-eight-day fast She had
been starving herself to death under a
vow. She quarreled with her husband,
separa ted from him and vowed that she
would fast until he returned to her. The
efforts of friends and relatives to get her
to eat have been of no avail.
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Fell Forty Feet

OAKLAND, Aug. 19.-William Wood
cock, an employee of the Freeman hotel
at Golden Gate, walked out of second
story window during fit of somnam-
bulism last night. He fell distance Of
forty feet and broke his collar bone
Woodcock was discovered at daybreak
lying insensible in flower bed.
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Irish Benevolence

SCRANTON, Pa, Aug. 19.-At today's
session of the Irish Catholic Benevolent
union a constitutional amendment was
adopted providing for the establishment
of labor bureaus in connection with the
societies to serve as a medium for OBJ
tanning work for members out of en-
ployment
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Knocked Overheard

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 1s.-Early
this morning while the schooner Chris
tina Steffens. inward bound from the
north with cargo of lumber, was pass
ing Point Bonita in dense fog another
vessel was suddenly sighted bearing
down upon her. The schooner was i'm
meddately put about and the danger
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A New Craft

BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. 19.-The
Argonaut, a submarine craft, was
launched at noon today at the yards of
the Columbian iron works in the pres
ence of large crowd of interested spec
tators. Miss Myriam Lake, daughter of
the inventor, Simon Lake of Baltimore,
christened the strange craft.
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Bishop Nichols Return

NEW YORK. Aug. 19.-Among the
passengers of the steamer Servia, which
arrived here today, was Bishop William
Ford Nichols of California. The bishop,
who was accompanied by his wife, said
that he would spend the next two months
in the east, returning to San Francisco
in November
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Exp1oded Too Soon

BELGRADE. Aug. ia dispatch
from Nisen says that during gunnery
practice there today a shell belonging
to one of the guns of the fortress ex-
ploded. killing six artillerymen and
badly injuring four others.
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A Legal Hanging

MEMPHIS, Tenn, August 19.-Harvey
Deberry, a negro, was hanged in the
Jail yard today for the attempted rape
of a 7-year-old child October Sth last.
This was the first legal hanging for the
offense in Tennessee
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A Poor Hon Crop

EUGENE, Ore, Aug. ia number
of hop yards in Lane county have been
already picked and the yield is disap-
pointing. From returns at hand 1t IL
estimated that the yield this year will
only be about third of crop.
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attempted Trainwreck

WYOMING, w. Va, August 19.-Un-
known parties hidden in the brush about
the Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling
track last night attacked a train, firing
a volley of stones at the trainmen Fire
man Little was struck and seriously in
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Killed His Sister

UKIAH, Aug. 19-By the accidental
discharge of rifle in the hands of Chas.
Iverson his sister Ella, aged years, was
fatally wounded at Point Arena today.
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Held to Answer

YUBA CITY, Aug. 19.-Edward H
Clements was today held to answer on a
charge of assault to murder Fred Beste
at Sutter City.
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Gold Withdrawal

NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-Gold to the
amount of $150,0OO was withdrawn from
the sub-treasury for shipment to Can
ada.
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The wife Of Senator Stewart avows her
intention of chaperoning a party to the
Alaskan gold fields next sprnig.
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At the Hotels

HOLLENBECK.-W. H. E. LETTER, San
Francisco with Baker & Hamilton; L.
Schranz, San Francisco, with Stein. Simon
& Co.; Clay Lambert Chicago; E. D. Allen,
Chicago; Chas. L. Marple, San Francisco;
c. H. Lithgow, San Francisco; c. C. Waite,
Ontario; G. S. Briggs, Needles, with Muir
ply, Briggs & Co.; John Shaver, San ia
cinto; Arthur G. Mum, San Jacinto j. d.
Stephens, Highland Springs, proprietor of
springs; D. w. Belden, Phoenix; E. w.
Nettleton and wife, Los Angeles: j. Ward
Eaton, San Francisco; E. B. Bull, San
Francisco; Dan Bruton, San Francisco
w. E. Survoss, Tucson; Lewis r. Kirby
San Diego; E. c. Cunningham, San Fran
| cisco; John w. Craig, Rialto; C. H. Fan
cher, Albuquerque; f. A. Christmas, San
Francisco with Baumgarten & Co.. wool
ems; E. NJ. Stanton, Riverside; R. Hampton,
San Francisco: Matt Robertson, wife and
child, st. Joseph, Mo-; Mrs. James F..
Drake, Redlands: H. P. Wood, San Diego;
Thomas Ferron, Ontario; l.. L. Long, San
Francisco; Gordon Mclean, Morencai,
| A. L.
NADEAU.-M. F. Sherman, Boston;
Martin Meyers, San Francisco; Homer j.
Stone. st. Louis; D. K. Alder Boston; II.
C. Ganwood, Springfield, ILL.,. j. @. Winnins,
Jefferson, Mo-; George Kislingbury, Salt
Lake; r. d. Bronson, San Francisco; G. w,
Brown, Denver; Samuel E. Macarthur, Vic
| toria, B. c.; r. w. Hill, San Pedro; Mrs.
Albert c. Turner, Kansas City. Mo-: Miss
Pauline Davis, Kansas City, Mo-; H. d.
Dillenburg, Baltimore; NJ H. Morris, San
Francisco; w. j. Cering, Omaha, Neb. j.
| H. Pickands, Salem. Neb.: DR.. T. C. Stock
ton, San Diego; A. H. Hathaway St. Louis;
W. H. King, st. Louis; j. r. Flynn San
Francisco Sig Simon, San Francisco; o.
w. Moeller, Cotton; H. w. Stewart, Tucson,
A. T.; Milt Hefner, Santa Barbara Harry
Trowbridge. Riverside; w. L. Baugus, Col
| ton; H. H. Hampley, Bakersfield.
| VAN NUYS.-W. H. Powers, A. ]. Gid
dings, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Stolp, Tom c.
Grant, San Francisco; S. r. Williams, Miss
Irving, John Drew, Sam Meyers, New
York; w. W. Stewart, San Diego; J. N.
I Barton and wife, Philadelphia, Pa; Mr..
and Mrs. J. R. Gilmore, Ed. Wilding, Lon
don; l.. Hache, E. C. Howe, Chino; C. L.
Loud and wife, Pomona.
RAMONA.-Lewis Baker Mrs. Annie
Adams. Mrs. De Los King, Arthur W. BY.
ron, Harry Harwood Graham Henderson
Frank E. Lamb, New York; Miss Sara Con.
verse, New Haven. Conn; A. w. Stevens
New York; Theo. Harbaugh Kansas City
Mo-; L. ]. Kay, Azusa; A. Edgar and wife
Moneno; Chas. E. Burton, Redondo; C. w
Carpenter, Palm Springs; E. T. 10y, Long
Beach; M. Manasse, San Francisco.
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