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The record-union., 1897-09-06

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-The an
nual convention of the National Letter
Carriers Association will convene in
this city tomorrow. About $1,000 has
been raised for expenses and the Com
mittee of Arrangements has left moth
ing undone to insure a week of pleas
ure to the delegates. A special train
conveying the Philadelphia and New
Orleans delegations with a number of
carriers from other places, came by
way of Ell Paso and Los Angeles, arriv
ing here tonight 1t was met by a
local committee and the visitors warm
~ welcomed. All of the delegates Will
arrive tomorrow
Frank E. Smith, Conrad Trieber and
c. A. WisewelI went to Sacramento to-
night to meet the special train of 300
delegates which will arrive at 6 a. M
On this train are National President ].
V. Parsons, Chairman S. F. Stevens Of
the Executive Committee, and other
National officials.
AT IL o'clock in the morning the car
riers will be the guests of the State
Board of Trade. During the afternoon
there will be a parade, followed by an
evening reception at Odd Fellows Hall
and at II p. M, trip through China
town. The New York Letter Carriers
Band will be feature of the parade.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Committee Sc
cured elegant headquarters and will
provide for the entertainment of the
wives, daughters and friends of the
visiting carriers.
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endure in the hopeless struggle against
odds Of the past weeks, the miners
have become suspicious of each other,
and quarrels are of hourly occurrence.
Every mans hands is raised against
every other one The lawless charac-
tiers are much in evidence, and dissen-
sions and discords have broken out
among the miners until such a thing
as cooperation is not possible.
Governor Brady is quoted as saying
that the situation is laden with trouble
and that he intends notifying the De-
partment at Washington of the condi-
ion OF affairs
In spite Of the attempts of the min
ers' committee to close the trail so that
1t can be repaired, one party of twelve,
with drawn revolvers and loaded rifles,
announced their intention of going
through TO the summit. They passed
the guards and set out for the sum-
NIT. The committee was called to-
gether, and a number of armed men
sent after them to head them off If
trouble is averted it will be by the
greatest good luck. Men have lost all
sense of reason, and a spirit of desper-
alton and reckless obliviousness to
consequences prevails in the camp.
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IS 1T, OR IS 1T NOT?
The Board of Health in Doubt as
To Yellow Fever.

OCEAN SPRINGS (diss.), Sept. o.
This has been a day of anxious expec-
fancy as to whether or not yellow fever
exists here, and the question has not
been determined
The members of the Louisiana State
Board of Health have been hard at
work all day long, working in conjunc-
ton with the representatives of the
Alabama Board and the Mississippi or
ganization in a determined effort to set
tie the vexed question as to the identity
of the Dernicious fever. Their investi-
cations were extensive. Professor Metz
appears of the opinion that prevailing
complaint is due in a measure to the
pollution of the water in the bay front
ing the town. 1t is feared that the oys
tiers absorb poisonous germs, and COM
municate them to the consumers.
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Why Man Is Weary.

A good many hundreds and even
thousands of suffering husbands
can bear sorrowful testimony to the
fact that this is the sort of catechism
the wives of their bosoms subject them
to every time they put on their hats
to go out in the evening:
Where are you going?"
ooh. I'm going out for a few min
utes."
"Where?"
"Oh, nowhere in particular"
What for?'
"Oh, nothing"
why do you go, then?"
Because"
Because what?"
well, simply because"
Going to be gone long?"
No"
How long?"
Il don't know"
Anybody going with your"
No"
We'll, it's strange that you can't be
content to stay at home a few minutes.
Don't be long, will your
No"
See that you DON'T
This is one reason why so many mar
riages are a dead fiat fizzle and fail
ure-Philadeiphia Times.
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INGLEsIDE CoURsING.
Tam O'Shanter Beat Mohawk, but
Was Beaten Himself.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-Four
thousand persons witnessed the cours-
ing at Ingleside to-day. The dogs
We're the best in the State. The fleet
Mohawk went down before Tam
O'Shanter of Sacramento at odds of D
to |. The ties were run off as follows:
First -Moondyne beat Flashlight;
Laurel Wood beat Sky Rocket; Eclipse
beat Royal Buck; Wayfarer beat Tam
O'Shanter: Mialmo beat Blackette;
Skyball beat Mercy May; Flying Buck
beat Nelly Conroy.
Second ties-Moondyne beat Laurel
Wood, Wayfarer beat Eclipse; Skyball
beat Mialmo; Flying Buck beat Mag
net
Third ties-Moondyne beat Wayfar-
err; Skyball beat Flying Buck.
Final-Moondyne beat Skyball and
won the stake and 500; Skyball sec
ond, $50 Wayfarer and Flying Buck
third, and fourth, $50 each; Laurel
Wood, Eclipse, Mialmo and Magnet SD
each.
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Turner's at Stockton.

STOCKTON, Sept. 5.-On invitation
of the Stockton Turnverein the Turner's
of Northern California gathered in
Stockton to-day in large numbers, COM
ing from Marysville Sacramento, Santa
Rosa, San Jose and the Bay cities. The
visitors We're welcomed at the trains
and steamers. The parade this morning
was one of the best seen in Stockton for
some time, and was led by the drum
corps of the San Francisco Society, six
teen strong. A large crowd gathered
at Eintracht Park, where the games
and contests of strength were held.
Steamers for San Francisco will leave
late this evening to take the visitors
home.
The winners of the various events
We're as follows: Putting the shot, high
jump, and hop-step- and-jump, was won
by William Offenbach of Sacramento,
with Al Kuenzie of San Francisco sec
ond. High jump, w. Offenbach, Sacra-
mento. Pole vault L. Scheppler, San
Francisco. Broad jump, F. Hoffman,
San Francisco, 81 feet 2 inches. Weight
lifting, P. Pikert, Stockton, 100 weight
raised forty times; F. Haberle, San
Francisco, second, twenty nine times.
Corral Hollow mines.
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An Emp1oye on a Tulare Fruit
Ranch Gets His Fathers Estate.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. "a spe-
cial from Stockton says: Jacob Will
son, aged 80 years, recently an en-
ploye in q fruit shed on the ranch of
w. B. Nichols in Tulare County, has
just received notice of a decision in
his favor in the United States Supreme
Court in a suit brought by him in the
courts of New York in 1886 for his
right and title to a portion of a vast
estate said to have been left by his
father. Wilson represents that his
father, Jacob Wilson, ST., was a banker
and broker of Wall street, and that he
was worth in the neighborhood of $15,-
100000.
Wilson appeared in Tulare County in
March Of this year as a common tramp
with a diminutive bundle of blankets
on bis shoulder. He asked for work to
pay for his supper and breakfast. EN-
ployrnert was secured for him and he
worked steadily until notified of the
termination of his suit. He claims to
have been educated at Princeton and
at the Columbia Law School, Pending
the end 4 of the suit, he has been
penniless Ind a wanderer. He is now
here arranging with his local attorneys
to receive his inheritance.
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AUTHORITIES AWAKENED.
Steps Being Taken to Clear Out
the Disorderly Element.

SEATTLE. Sept. 5.-The authorities
of Alaska have awakened to the Sc
rious nature of the situation of the
white Pass. They see in the contin-
nance of the camp at Skaguay as now
constituted. possibilities for crime and
various other evils of great magni-
tude. Steps have been taken to break
UP the camp by dispensing the lawless
element that has gathered there from
every State in the Union.
Colonel f. 5. Chadbourne, state Har-
Dor Commissioner Of California, VINO
has arrived here, brought down advices
to the above effect Colonel Chad
bourne says that Collector Ives and a
force of Deputy United States Marshals
had determined to raid the town OF
Skaguay and clean out the whisky
smugglers and saloon men and rid the
camp of the disorderly element. Here
tofore the authorities have been utter
" unable TO cope with the disorderly
people, and the camp became one of the
hottest on record. It was the refuge
of the worst class of criminals, conf
dence men and thugs on the coast
These with the whisky men had COM
bined TO block the trail so as to keep
the tenderfeet there all winter and
fleece them as long as there was dol
lar left in the camp.
Serious as is the situation al Skaguay
and White Pass. as portrayed by let
ters and by the men returning from the
camp disconsolate. and appalling as
is the condition of the trail over the
mountain barriers between the 5000
gold hunters and the paradise on the
other side, the accounts published from
time to time seem to have but family
portrayed the actual state of affairs.
Made desperate by their failure TO
get over the trail and by the terrible
hardships they have been compelled TO
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MODERN HEATHENISM.
Rev. VIM. RAIDER Roasts the Rush
at Berkeley.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-Rev.
VIM. RAIDER of the Third Congregational
church preached vigorous sermon to-
night on Modern Heathenism."
Among other things, he said:
There is every indication that we
nave evolved from earlier and lower
forms of life. The university at Berke-
ley never gave a better demonstration
or evolution than was afforded in the
dlsgraceful class rush the other night
when broken jaws and legs were the
only trophies.
Let us by all means have scientific
brutality, and commend, in the interest
of decency, pugilism of the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons type. rather than this ex-
hibition of brute force in the name of
education"
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TO OPPOSE DEBS.
The American Railway League
Formed for That Purpose.

CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-The teachings
and principals of Eugene V. Debs are
TO be opposed by a national political
organization Of the same class of men
Whom he claims to represent.
Inc preliminary arrangements for the
IiIlnols branch of the American Rail-
way League. the new organization,
We're made to-day at a meeting held in
one Of the lodge rooms of the Masonic
temple. The league has an open
membership list
Every employe of railroad from q
PRESIDENT down to a trackman is ell
glble and those foremost in the move
ment say that the organizatio is to be
non-partisan affair which will not
only heap benefits upon the working
railroad men, but will also work for
the DEMENT'S of the railroad corporations
ana more than all, as it was put in the
meeting, TO correct a rapidly growing
impression that the ordinary railroad
man is against the Government and his
employers on every question"
Grand President r. s TAYLOR If
ONO presided at the meeting and there
were at least 200 employees of railroads
entering Chicago in attendance.
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YELLOW FEVER.
1t Exists AT Ocean View, Miss, and
the Place is Guaranteed.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 5.-The Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana Boards
of Health have been at Ocean Springs
since yesterday afternoon. An exami-
nation Of the prevailing diseases was
made p week ago. There have been
several hundred cases there, but very
few deaths. and board of ex9erts de-
clared the disease dengue fever
Since then mortalities became more
frequent, and the symptoms looked
more like yellow fever. and the alarm
became so great that the health author
titles again gathered. This time they
We're accompanied by Professor A. l..
Metz, a chemist of the Louisiana Board,
who analyzed the evidence in several
cases. The verdict then was yellow fe-
Yer. and various points on both sides of
the town are rapidly declaring quar-
antine.
MOBILE (Ala.), Sept. yellow fe-
yer prevails to some extent at Ocean
Springs, Miss, on the Bay of Biloxi.
according to a reDort just made By a
board of physicians who have been
making an examination of the patients,
and the place has been rigidly quaran-
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STEWART RIVER NUGGETS.
Prospectors Will Soon BE Moving
in That Direction.

SEATTLE, Sept 5.-Gus Keno, in a
letter to the Observation-Disclosures, from
Skaguay, dated August 18th, after con-
firming the worst accounts of the mud
died condition of affairs at the pass,
states that two men. whose names he
does not give, have just arrived over
land direct from Stewart River bringing
1000 each in dust and nuggets
The news will cause an additional
move toward Stewart River, which has
been gradually coming into notice since
it became a settled fact that all claims
Oh Bonanza and Ell Dorado Creeks were
taken I'D.
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ties going in. The shores of Lake Wawa
were dotted with tents. and within
three days after they were there a lively
mining camp had sprung up. The dis
lance from the south of Michipocoton
River to Lake Wawa is not to exceed
seven miles, and the party experienced
no difficulty in getting in and out. With
their camp equippage the trip was made
in about three hours. The road is well
defined The resorts the Mary Bell
party brought has set the two Soos wild
with excitement, and exodus to klon-
dixie. Jr., will begin tomorrow.
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Train Robbers Captured.

TRINIDAD (CoL), Sept. 5.-The posse
Of men that started from this city on
the trail of the robbers who held up the
Gulf passenger train on Twin Mountain
early Saturday morning have taken into
custody five men supposed TO be the per-
petrators of the hold-up. They We're
captured to-day near Springer, N NJ.
Among the prisoners are the notorious
Penland brothers, three in number
Considerable stolen goods was found
in their possession The posse is now
on its way to this city.
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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
City of Sacramento do ordain as follows

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
City of Sacramento do ordain as follows:
Section l. No person afflicted with any
OF the following infections or contagious
diseases, to wit: Scarlet fever, diphtheria
cholera, smallpox, measles, mumps or
whooping cough shall be admitted into any
public or private school in the City OF
Sacramento
Section 2. No parent, guardian, tutor, or
person having charge or control of any
any such child or children to go from any
building infected with scarlet fever dipI-
iberia, smallpox cholera, or measles TO
attend any public or private school,
in any public vehicle in the City of Sacra-
mento.
Section 3. No person excepting the at
tending physician, or physicians. shall be
permitted or allowed to go from any house
or building infected with scarlet fever,
diphtheria cholera, smallpox, or measles
church, place of amusement or to travel
in any public vehicle in the City of Sac
ramento.
Section 4. Any person violating any OF
the provisions of this ordinance shall be
ton thereof shall be punished by fine of
not less than ten dollars, nor more than
fifty dollars, for the first offense and not
less than fifty dollars, nor more than ono
hundred dollars for each subsequent Of
Tense, or by imprisonment in the city
prison to the extent OF one day for each
two dollars of fine so imposed.
Section s. This ordinance shall take eff
feet from and after its passage.
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MRS. JOHN DREw's FUNERAL
She Was Inferred Beside Her Hus-
band Yesterday.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-Funeral
services over the body of Mrs John
Drew were held to-day in ST. Stephens
Episcopal Church and the aged and
we'll beloved actress was inferred in the
family lot in Glenwood Cemetery
alongside the grave of her husband.
The service at the church was con-
Quoted by Rev. James Miller. Assist
ant Rector, and consisted solely of the
burial service. There were no pail
bearers and at the grave the reading of
the commfttal service was the only GER
emory. At both services there were
large crowds in attendance Floral of
feringS We're lavish and came from
most of the leading theatrical organiza-
tons in the country.
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THE UMATILLA ARRIVES.
What a Sacramentan Says of At
fairs at Skaguay and Juneau.

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 5.-The
steamer Umatilla arrived from Puget
Sound to-day with PAS passengers. H.
w Nelson of Sacramento came down
on her from the north, having been up
to Skaguay. He went up last June
from Central America and started over
the White Pass and travelled as far as
Lake Bennett but returned to the coast,
as he found that it was impossible to
get over the trail
He reports that Skaguay and Juenau
are filled with men who have nothing
to do. When he left Juneau, a saloon
man named Mckay had been arrested
for selling a vile compound to Indians
in the place of whiskey. 1t was COM
posed Of fusfl, oil. tobacco and coal
oil, and five of the Indians died from
drinking it.
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RECEIVED NO DEMAND.
Chief Lees Thinks Cooper Will BE
Convicted Here.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 5.-"Sir''
Harry Westwood Cooper still languishes
in a cell in the city prison. Chief Lees
pleads ignorance of a dispatch from
Chicago, which stated that Cooper had
secured 81. 400 from Mrs. Mary Ellen
Murphy, boarding housekeeper on
Dearborn avenue on forged checks and
that Detective Sergeant Welbasky had
started for this city with an application
for requisition papers for Cooper's re-
turn to Chicago. The Chief has receiv-
ed no formal demand for Cooper. He
says: IF we fail to secure a conviction
which is not probable, we will then turn
him over to the Chicago authorities"
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CITY OFFICIAL ADVERTISING.

posal, or by a bond for the said amount
and SO payable, all as prescribed as law:
and the Clerk Of this board is also di-
rected to publish such notice for two DAYS
as required by law, each in the Record
Union, daily newspaper published and
circulated in this city.
In Board of Trustees: Sacramento, Au-
gust 80, 1897.
:. Adopted by the following vote: AYES
trustees Wachhorst, Kent Davis, Mckay,
1oZer, DeXine, Pennish, Leonard
AbSent-Trustee Bentley
CHARLES E. LEONARD
President of the Board Of Trustees.
M. J. Desmond, Clerk of the Board of
The record-union., 1897-09-06
spirituaIists, Convention.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-There
was a large attendance at the third
days session of the State Convention
of Spiritualists in Scottish Hall.
There was a free platform" in the
morning, the session being devoted to
general discussion. In the afternoon,
a musical programme was rendered, fol-
lowed by short lecture by Mrs. Ad-
die L. Ballou, and tests by Mrs Cowell,
Mrs. Place, Mrs. Jennie Robinson and
Mrs. Shriner
In the evening Mrs. Florence Monta-
que of Oakland delivered an address
and tests were given by many me-
diums.
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Sultan and Gar Agree.

LONDON, Sept. 6.-The Constantine
pie correspondent of the STANDARD"
says he is credibly Informed that the
Sultan has been in direct communica-
ton with the Gar and that the cor
respondence has resulted in the MAX
ing of mutual arrangements by which
the Sultan agrees never TO use his in
huence against Russia in Central Asia
and the Car pledges himself to uphold
the Turkish rights IN Europe
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Caused Cummings Death.

OAKLAND, Sept 5.-An autopsy was
held to-day upon the body Of John
Cummings who fell dead yesterday af-
ter being struck in the face by Frank
Phillips. The investigation of the au
topsy physician convinced him that the
blow was the direct cause of death. He
states, however, that a man in good
health would not have been seriously
hurt by the blow. 1t is probable that
Phillips will be tried for manslaughter
The record-union., 1897-09-06
Anniversary of Germantown.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 5-The anniver-
sary of the first settlement of Germans
in America at Germantown, Pa, was
celebrated here to-day with the larg-
est demonstration of the kind ever
known in this city. Over 100 German
societies participated. There were
parades in the morning and over 49,
900 people assembled in the Geological
Gardens in the afternoon. Carl Schurz
was the orator Of the day.
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Collides With a EicycIe.

CARSON. Sept. 5.-Last evening Mrs.
Evan David crossed the race course
while several wheelmen We're training
for a fifty mile relay with a Reno team
and was run into by DR.. Pieper. Her
collar bone and nose We're broken and
her face cut open to the bone. Her
lungs were bruised by a fracture of the
collar bone, and she is in very preca-
rious condition. Pieper is suffering
from many severe conclusions and his
head is cut open.
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WILL USE THE TUNNEL.
Oakland and Contra Costa County
To BE Connected.

OAKLAND, Sept. 5.-The Citizens
Committee of the Merchants Exchange,
the Board of Trade of Oakland, and of
Contra Costa County at large, which
have been working out a plan for the
completion of the tunnel road between
Oakland and Contra Costa County,
have come TO the conclusion that no
better route presents itself than the
old Kennedy tunnel.
They were anxious to make the route
little shorter, but found that they
could not do so without increasing the
grade. The committees have had the
hills surveyed by County Surveyor
Nusbaumer, and the result is that the
old tunnel will probably be adopted.
Its estimated length is 1900 feet.
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RESOLUTION ORDERING WORK. NO
364.

RESOLVED, THAT THE BOARD OF
Trustees of the City of Sacramento deems
it TO be required by the public interest or
convenience and hereby orders the fol-
lowing street work to be done according
to the specifications therefor hereby
adopted, and now one file, TO wit:
That the alley between I and streets,
in said city, from the east line of Sixth
street to the west hne Oh seventh street,
basalt blocks, constructing granite curbs
and a brick catch basin, TO be connected
to the sewer therein.
The Clerk of this board is hereby di-
rected to post conspicuously for a period
chamber door of the office of this board,
notice hereof, with specifications, invit-
ing sealed proposals for said work, and
requiring Herewith a certified check pay
able TO the Mayor of the City of Sacra-
mento, for an amount not less than 10
per cent. of the aggregate of the pro-
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James AGED John.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-John
Gibney, an old longshoreman, was
treated at the Harbor Receiving Hos
pital this afternoon for four serious
scalp wounds which he claims were in
hicted with an axe in the hands of Jas.
Desmond The two men lived in
shanty at the foot of Telegraph Hill,
and became involved in a quarrel. Both
men were arrested
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Haight is Champion.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5.-Clarence
Haight to-day won the title of cham
pion pigeon shot of the California Wing
Club for the season of 1897 Haight
killed twelve birds straight, giving him
a score for the season of eighty-one out
of eighty-four. This score was made
in seven matches of twelve birds each,
and is the best record ever made by a
member Of the California Wing Club
since it's organization in 1872.
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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
City of Sacramento ordain as follows:
Section 1. 1t is hereby ordained and
resolved by the Board OF Trustees of the
city of Sacramento that SATURDAY,
the 18th day of September, 1897, be, and
the same is hereby prescribed and desig-
mated as the day for holding Primary
Elections in the City of Sacramento for
the selection of delegates to City Conven-
tions of said city for the purpose of NOM
mating candidates for city officers of said
city, to be voted for at the election of
said city, to be held on the I'd day Of
November, 1897.
Section 2. This ordinance and resolution
shall be published for five successive
days in the Reconciliation" a newspaper
of general circulation, published in the
City of Sacramento, and shall take effect
Immediately.
Passed September g. 1891
CHARLES Z. LEONARD,
President of Board of Trustees.
Approved September 8, 1891
s4-5t c. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
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Charged With Murder.

SALT LAKE, Sept. ga special to
the Tribune" from Evanston, Wyo.
says:
DR.. c. H. Blackburn and Charles
Martin, the latter as accessory, were
arrested and placed in Jail to-day,
charged with having caused the death
by unlawful means Of Miss Hattie
Staniforth, beautiful young girl. Miss
Staniforth died last night in the Daw-
son building under peculiar circum-
stances.