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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-18

Any make you want. Talk
about grand values! Here
they are.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Jumps FROM A
CAR WINDOW
Burglar Filkin Escapes
While En- Route to
San Quentin.
He Eludes Searching Posses
Though Hanpered by an
Oregon Boot.
Believed to Have Been Aided BY
Friends Who Bore Him in
Carriage to Safety.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.-Charles
Filkins is at large with an Oregon
boot on his right foot and a five year
sentence to San Quentin resting over
his head, not to speak Of innumerable
bruises which must be on his body,
for he jumped through a car window
of moving passenger train.
Late on Saturday Superior Judge
Smith sentenced Filkins to serve five
years in San Quentin for burglary.
Yesterday Deputy Sheriff Barnhill de-
parted for the north to turn Filkins
over to the prison authorities. Just
before the train reached Fresno Fill
kins jumped through the car window.
A heavy Oregon boot which was at
tached to his right leg must have i'm
peded his progress, but up to date he
has not been captured. Filkins must
have had friends who aided him in
his escape and who were on hand with
horse and buggy to carry him to a
place of safety as soon as he got out
of the car. The officers have as yet
found no trace of him. Sheriff Bur
rand and his best deputies have gone
north, and a strong endeavor will be
made to recapture the man.
FillSins is. known to have a consider
able sum of money. Before he was
caught in his career as a burglar he
was a shrewd trader, exchanging
ranches and lots in such a way that
at the time of his capture he had about
$4,000 in bank He had also what was
worth more than money to him in his
trouble, and that was a little black
eyed girl of the half-world, who was
infatuated with him, and who since his
arrest has left nothing undone to aid
him. 1t is thought that she was the
woman who sent to the Jail the big
cake which was filled with saws and
muriatic acid, and who also provided
him with the box of red pepper which
was discovered on him in the court
room few days ago while he was on
trial. The girl has visited him con-
stantly and has shown a devotion
which would be heroic if it were direct
ed toward a respectable man.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
DI RUDiW FORMS A
NEW CABINET F0R ITALK.
Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies
Makes Fierce Attack on the
Government

ROME, Dec. 20.-In the Chamber of
Deputies to-day the Marquis di Rudini
announced the formation Of the new
Cabinet, and a debate on the subject
was opened.
The debate occupied five hours, all
the prominent leaders speaking. The
opposition fiercely attacked the Gov
ernment and the small majority OBJ
tained by the Government is regarded
as equivalent to a moral defeat, espe-
cially as several former friends of the
Ministry abstained from voting. The
Ministers had expected a majority of
quite fifty.
It is understood that, though disap-
pointed the Premier, Marquis di Ru-
dini, will not resign, but as all the
friends of the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, the Marquis Visconti Venosta,
voted against the Government, it is ex-
pected that he will tender his resigna-
ton.
After criticism upon the opposition
of the Ministry, Signor Colombo, for
mer Minister of the Treasury, sub
mitted a resolution of want of conf
dence in the new Government, but the
Chamber rejected it by vote of 200
against lS4.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Work Soon to Begin on
the Boulevard to
Folsom.
State Board Of Examiners Will
Allow a Deficiency to
Be Created.
No Truth in the RunnOr That the
Building Of the Road Is to
Be Delayed.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 20.-The rumor
that there is danger of the State high
way to Folsom not being built is with
out foundation. The appropriation of
material by the Legislature was con-
tingent upon the county's agreeing to
do the work. The county has fulfilled
its part of the agreement by almost
unanimously voting for bonds, and the
State is obligated to fulfill its part
The fact that no money appropriation
was made by the State and that the
Board of Examiners would have to
provide for deficiency has been
known since the bill passed the Legis-
lature, and it has also been understood
that the Board of Examiners would al
low such deficiency unanimously.
The question affecting the great Fol-
som boulevard was discussed by the
Board of State Prison Directors at it's
monthly meeting Saturday night, at
Folsom prison. At the meeting were
Directors wilkins, DePue and Devlin
Directors Fitzgerald and Hayes were
absent.
The members of the Commission of
ighways-Marsden Manson, J. r.
Price and w. L. Ash-appeared before
the board to engage its cooperation in
the construction of the boulevard. The
last Legislature made a law providing
that the convictS incarcerated within
the walls of the Folsom penitentiary
supply the Commissioner of Highways
with rock and cut stone for bridges in
the construction of the Folsom boule-
ward free of charge The Prison Di-
rectors found themselves in an exceed
ingly tight place. To furnish this rock
and comply with the law, the directors
figured, would cost $4,000 a month for
powder, tools and maintenance of rock
crushing plant. Various plans We're
suggested to remedy the evil. The en-
tire cost would be something like $25,-
600, and would necessitate the working
of the entire force OF convicts for
twelve months. During this period of
the year the $1,000 a month revenue
which the convicts furnish the prison
through their labors and by the sale of
the rock for roads would be entirely
shut off
However, the rock must be supplied
To accomplish this out of the funds
allowed by the Legislature for the sup
port Of the State prison at Folsom was
absolutely impossible, for the expense
of the highway thrown on the prison
equaled a third of the total sum avail
able for the current fiscal year. The
directors pondered for some time
Finally they decided upon a plan.
They prepared a statement of the
probable expense confronting them
and sent it to the Board of Examiners.
In this statement the directors set
forth that they were ordered to supply
the rock, but had no money with which
to meet the expense incident to the
work, and requested that they be al
lowed to create a deficiency of $25, ,OO0
The State Bank of Sacramento will, if
the Board of Examiners approves and
allows this, take up the debt and the
work OF furnishing the much needed
rock for the great Folsom boulevard
will be commenced.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21

only that we occupy two rooms togeth-
er in the Ryland building and act as in
dividualS taking business and transact
ing it in our individual names.
When it was discovered that the Ju-
lian-street sewer contract was probably
illegal Maybury & Farrell engaged me
to give my opinion on the matter. 1
proceeded to look the matter up, when
l was interrupted by instruction from
Maybury & Farrell to go no further as
they had engaged the services of Attor-
ney c. H. Harrington. Some days later
Mr.. Farrell came to my office and asked
me again to look the same matter up. He
asked me to find legal way out so that
he could go ahead with the contract and
get the entire $4,000 or whatever the en-
With ff S MaySury Farre fG eHF Pgea of
me at the time of the interruption of my
first employment, and frankly so in
formed Mr.. Farrell on this later occa-
sion. l informed him that l did not see
how / could solve the problem for him.
He stated that he refused to pay him
was nothing but a political job anyhow.
l informed him that if he wanted me to
go over the question of the legality of
the contrac again l would ask
fee of $1,000 contingent on my success. l
distinctly gave him to understand that
his firm could not afford to put in any
more money to continue the sewer work
unless the contract was legal and If he
could not be fully assured of the legality
of the contract he had better not go
ahead with the work. He refused to en-
ter into this contract Of employment
with me- This was the Saturday before
Judge Lorigan decided against the con-
tractors Nothing was said about a bill
of $4,000 or any other bill. Mr.. Farrell
was hunting for a way to safely go ahead
with his contract. He at this same time
asked my opinion as to whether or not
a sub-contractor had not broken an
agreement with him about the same
work that the sub-contractor had failed
to do in the sewer. Just as he was
about to leave my office he remembered
that he would take my employment un-
der consideration and call again He
caught up with me on my way to the
courthouse one morning shortly after
Judge Lorigan decided against May
bury and Farrell, and asked me what I
could do for him about that sewer mat
ter, and I informed him that would
have nothing further to do with the mat
ter. as he was in hole that l could not
pull him out of. as the statute law was
a barrier that could not be surmounted.
This is all there is or was about my con-
nection with the matter. l have written
this because | have noticed that repor-
ters sometimes get things wrong in taxi
ing oral statements. Would The Call
give my statement of the affair, / would
be under great obligation, as / was born
and reared in the city of San Jose, and
expect to stay here, and object to being
put before the people of the county and
State as a professional blackguard and
scoundrel. Yours respectfully,
JOHN w. SULLIVAN.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
NO LONGER ANY DOUBT
OF McKEKNA'S CONFIRMATION
Charles Page Bryan Also Thinks He win
Be Sent as Minister to
China

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 90
Among the Presidents callers to-day
were Attorney-General McKenna and
Representative Loud of California.
There is no longer any doubt Of Nc
Kenna's confirmation. The Judiciary
Committee of the Senate expected to
hold meeting to-day to consider the
matter, but it was postponed until
after the holidays.
The nomination Of Charles Page
Bryan as Minister to China will he
sent in as soon as Congress reassem-
bles. Mr.. Bryan says that he has al
ready assurances that at least thirty
five Senators will vote for his confirm
alton, and he has no doubt but that he
can secure the necessary forty-five.
The nomination has not officially
reached the Senate because the Presi-
dent has desired to ascertain the
strength and motives of the opposi-
ton to Mr.. Bryan. His investigation
has not led him to believe that the op-
position is sufficient to withdraw the
nomination.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
EX-C0NGRESSMAE DANIELS
DIES FROM PARALYS
From Shoemaker's Apprentice He Became
Prominent Statesman and
,JUrief

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec 20.-Charles
Daniels was stricken with paralysis in
his office in this city this afternoon
and died tonight,
Charles Daniels was born in New
York City in 1928 and was apprenticed
to shoemaker at an early age. While
working at his shoemakers bench he
studied law and was admitted to the
bar in Buffalo. His legal career was
brilliant. He was first a county Judge
and was elected to the Supreme Court
in 1868. He was appointed by Cover
nor Seymour to hold the office of Chief
Justice of that court until January /.
1864. He was twice reelected and held
office until the last of December, 1891.
a period of twenty-eight years.
After his retirement from the bench
on account Gf the age limit, Judge
Daniels was twice elected to Congress
from the Thirty-third District. serv-
ing with much distinction in both the
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Con-
crosses. Since the close of his Con-
gressional career he has practiced law
in Buffalo.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
LUETGERT'S LAWYER
ACCEPTED FORCED NOTES.
And Now the Son of the Sausage Maker
Cooiiy Admits the Bold
SWindIe.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20-Arnold c. Luet-
gert admitted that he forged name to
notes amounting to S4750, turned them
over to Attorney William A. Vincent
and victimized others to the extent of
over $1,000.
Arnold Luetgert is the son of Adolph
Luetgert, now on trial charged with
numbering his wife, and Attorney Vim
cent was the chief counsel of the sau-
sage maker during his first trial. The
lawyer withdrew from the case when
he realized that he had been deceived,
and when the story that he had been
an easy victim to young Luetgert was
first suggested, endeavored to suppress
the details. He finally admitted that
the young man had told him of haV-
ing forged Endorsements on three notes
and deposited them with him to secure
his fee in the murder case, and Luet-
gert himself, in the presence of wit
nesses, corrOborated the story.
Arnold Luetgert laughed when it
was suggested that trouble might come
Of his free use of signatures not his
own and said that he considered il a
good joke on Attorney Vincent. Tho
signature which the lawyer supposed
was indorsed upon the notes is, when
correctly written, Paul Jaeschke,' the
name of an old acquaintance of A. L.
Luetgert. He is a plumber.
Arnold Luetgert said to-day: "I
don't see nothing so bad about it. 1t
is a matter between Vincent and me.
If he don't holler, it's nobody's busi-
ness. 1 did admit to Vincent that I
signed another name besides my own
to the notes and I am ready to stand
by it. There is somebody else in 1t, too.
but / am willing to take the blame and
stand for the whole thing L amt
afraid and Vincent's holler won't do
him no good /"
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
FIGHT FOR THE
BARRON RICHES
Date Set for the Second Tria1
Of the Famous Will
Contest.
trustees or the Trust Fund BaII<
All Efforts of the Litigants
TO Compromise
Special Dispatch to The Call.

opecial DlSpatch TO The Call.
SAN JOSE, Dec. 2O.-The pronosad
compromise of the contest of the will
Of late Millionaire Edward Barron has
been baked by the opposition of the
trustees to the termination of the fund
created for the benefit of George n
Barron, the contestant The case will
now go TO trial, and a long and bitter
legal fight between George F Rarron
and Eva Rose Barron, the widow and
principal legatee of the will, com
mence.
When Edward Barron died he left
al an estate Valued at S1,S00,00O. His son.
George, was given the income fror3
SlVO,O00 placed in a trust fund. and al
most the entire residue was eiIeY, -
the widow. George Barron was not
pleased with this, and began q con
test, trial resulting in the viii haip o
set aside on the ground of unsonpd9
ness or mind and use of undue infIn-
ellce. a new trial was subsequently,
granted, but before it was called ne
gotiations for a compromise were nro-
posed. George e. Barron was to be
given 100000 outright of the MONEY
heid In trust for him. and $40 6OO 90
crued interest on the fund: the hal
ance of $4,000 to be held in trust and
he to have the income
This had been agreed to by George
barron and Eva Rose Barron, but the
compromise was upset by the trustees
OF the trust fund-Maurice O'Brien
and John r. Auzerais- who Objected
10 termination of the trust created
under the Will. Now the contest will
go to trial for second time. If the
VIII should be broken George Barron 5
snare Will be about $780, 900.
Judge Hyland to-day set February
10 as the date of the second trial.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
STAB8iNG AFFRAY THAT
MAY CAUSE A DEATH
6roners-in-LdW at RGpa Quarrel and One
Gashes the Other With
Kriko

NAPA, Dec. 20-A cutting affrav
which will probably prove fatal oc-
Cured at Calistoga, twenty-seven
miles north of Napa, last night at
about 10 O'Clock. Frank Rumi stabbed
Fellce Pelandini, his brother-in-law.
IN the abdomen with a pocket-knife as
the result of quarrel over bill.
Ihere has been bad feeling between
the TWO Tor some time. Rumi says that
he was drinking and has a faint recoI-
lection of what occurred.
The stabbing occurred on the public
street and from latest reports Pelan-
DIM is dying. Rumi was arrested
without much difficulty. He appeared
very penitent and sorry for his act
He is an Italian and his victim a
SWISS Both have lived in Napa
County for more than ten years.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
NOT A PARTNER or MOL L7lNc.
Attorney Sullivan Writes of Julian Street
Sever Affair.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 2O.-Herewith is a.
letter from Attorney John w. Sullivan
giving his version of his connection
with the Julian-street sewer matter:
San Jose, Dec. 20. 1887.
To the San Francisco Call: I noficed
in i1, The Cali this morning that you state
Noting at the time, and when an.
preached by Maybury & Farrell | asked
a fee of $1,000 to collect bill of S3200.
all this referring to the Juiian-street
sewer matter.
ask that you correct the article
above referred to by giving my state
ment of the matter, which is absolutely
in every respect correct. do not like
to speak of my private law affairs, and
only secure the professional right to
do so by the fact that Mr.. Farrell has
discussed in public the interview he had
with me in my office. Though Mr. Far
rell has denied in private to my friends
that he ever sald anything to news
paper representatives rejecting upon
my reputation, he has never taken oc-
casion to deny the interview with him
that several newspapers have published
about the matter
In the first place, William T. Noting
and l are not partners and never have
been. He and l are associated together
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
SANGER BOX FACTORY
DESTROYED By FIRE.
Volunteers Save adjoining Mills and Lumber
Yards BY Untring and Valiant
EHorfe

FRESNO, Dec. 20.-The Sanger box
factory was burned last evening. en-
talllng loss estimated at from $4,000
10 SZO,OOO The fire started near the en-
gine in the west end of the building.
and was discovered by the night
watchman, w. H. Boyd, He endeav-
ored to unreel hose and turn water
on the blaze, but the hose became
tangled.
The mill and electric light whistles
sounded the alarm of fire, and as it
was only $50 o'clock a large crowd of
volunteer nremen was soon on the
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21

ground. The fire had gained such head
way, however, that the efforts to check
It's spread in the building were futile,
put the adjoining lumber-yards and
the planing-mill and door factory were
saved by the work of the volunteers.
Fortunately, there was but little wind.
The box factory made a great blaze,
and with everything favorable it re-
qulred the efforts of every able-b bodied
man in Sanger to prevent the fire from
spreading to the big mills and lumber
yards. The light made by the fire
could be seen in Fresno.
The building destroyed was 15Ox65
feet and contained $4,000 feet of lumber.
A low estimate of the loss is s15. 600
partially covered by insurance.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
TAKING KASSALA
FROM THE ITALIANS
British Government to Have
Possession Of the Important
Stronghold.
Special Dispatch to The Cali.

LONDON, Dec. 20.-Parsons Pasha
and other officers have arrived at
Kassala to arrange to take over the
place from the Italians. The troops
will not arrive there until Thursday
The town of Kassala, which, under an
arrangement with the Italian and
British Governments, is about to be
taken over by the latter in the inter-
ests of Egypt, is one of the three keys
to the Soudan, the others being Don
COLA and Berber. 1t is an important
strategical center, between the River
Nile and the Red Sea, situated on a
torrent named Elgansen, which during
the rains is 500 yards wide and pro-
tects one face of the defenses. When
the Egyptians first occupied the town
they fortified it and made it a place
of arms against the Abyssinians. On
the outbreak of the Mahdi revolution
force under Osman Digna was sent
to capture kassala, then held by a
small detachment of Egyptians under
Mudir Ahmid Bey Ifal. For twenty
two months Ahmid held out heroic
ally against the Dervishes, frequently
sallying forth in search of food.
On one occasion the starving garri-
son made sortie and succeeded in
capturing ZUUU nedQ OF cattle, against
overwhelming odds. When at length
all the ammunition was gone Ahmid
surrendered, in September, 1885, on
condition that the lives of the in
habitants and soldiers should be
spared.
In spite of a promise to respect the
condition the Dervishes committed
terrible atrocities, and Osman Digna
had several of the officers executed.
In 1891, when Great Britain and Italy
settled their boundary in East Africa,
the latter power was permitted to oc-
cupy Kassala until such time as the
Egyptians should be in a position to
resume possession of the town. In
1894 General Baratieri availed himself
of this permission and captured it by
a brilliant attack. On May s, 1896, the
Italian Government, answering a.
question in the Chamber of Deputies,
announced that Kassala would be re-
tanned. 1t was to Italy's interest to
fulfill claims to Great Britain's friend
ship. which, it is understood called for
troops, but even then it was believed
italy would hold the place only tenn
porarily. Since that time events have
caused the practical abandonment of
Italy's colonization schemes in Africa
and Kassala therefore is to be occu
pied by the British
Selling Rapidly.
= m q CTH
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Panel for a Grand Jury.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 2O.-Superior Judges
Lorigan, Hyland and Kittredge to-day
selected the following panel of thirty
names from which to select a grand
jury On December 81: George B. Pol
hemua, Burnett; Joseph Deacle, East
San Jose; Sam T. Moore, Gilroy; J. H
NJ. Townsend, Orchard; A L. kellogg
Santa Clara; J. F. Westlake, Sarato-
ga; Thomas Fowler, Gilroy; Thomas ].
Sinnott, Milpitas; Isaac Bingham,
Evergreen; Charles H. Woodlands,
Santa Clara; Edwin Wilson, San Ysi-
dro; Charles j. Martin, San Jose; E. n.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Brakeman Killed at Kern.

BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 2o-Jesse
Henderson, we'll known Southern
Pacific brakeman of Kern, lost both
legs in an accident in the railroad
yard this morning and died about four
hours later. He had thrown the
switch to allow his train to pass to
the main line and stepped back on to
another track, when he was struck bv
fiatcar being pushed by the switch
and run over. He leaves q young wild
ow and large circle of friends.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Santa Clara Pioneer Dies.

SAN JOSE, Dee. 2O.-Jacob Meyer, a
pioneer resident of Santa Clara, died
at his home there yesterday morning
He was a native of Ohio, aged Sc years
He settled at Santa Clara in 1859, and
resided there ever since. Meyer served
three terms as Constab and was also
Town Marshal He was a pioneer fire.
man. His funeral will be held to-mor-
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21

Parr, Campbell; E. w. Conant, Willow
Glen; Edwin G.. Hall, Moreland; Ber-
nard Mayer, Mayfield; Isaac Lipsett,
College Park; George T. Dunlap, Gil
roy; a. w. Muncy, Mountain View; Gus
Lion, San Jose; c. w. Proctor, West
Side; Walter A Clark, Mountain
View; r. d. Fox, Orchard; S. w.
Churchill, San Jose: A. Normandin,
San Jose; Harvey A. Marckres, San
Jose; George Taylor, Mountain View;
Carl F. Freitag, San Jose; Charles r.
Williams, Willow Glen; H. S. McClay,
Evergreen
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21
Mob Threatens Murderers.

SPOKANE, Dec. 21-A telegram
from Colfax, received at $780, says all
the electric lights had just gone out.
and it was thought a mob was prepar-
ing to raid the Jail to lynch the mur-
derers of Orville Hayden. The Spokes-
man Review correspondent has gone to
investigate.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-21

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