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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
Spokane Variety Star
Prevents the Murder
of Her Husband.
Ida Clayton Steps Before a
Pistol and Is Wounded
in the Shoulder.
The Would-Be Assassin Then Rid
died with Lead by His In
tended Victim.
Special Dispatch to The CALL

SPOKANE, Oct. 30-Plucky little Mrs.
Fl. S. Barnett, be ter known by her stage
name of Ida Clayton, saved her husband,
| Manager "Fisky" H. S. Barnett of the
Cnur d. Alene Vaudeville Theater. from
instant death at an early hour this morn
ing.
An old-time gambler and desperate
character known as Johnnie Bull leveled
a revolver at Barnett. Before he could
pull the trigger Mrs. Barnett flung her
self in front of the gun and the bullet
crashed through her shoulder.
Barnett threw her TO one side and faced
his drunken assailant. who fired again,
shooting off the third finger on BarnetI's
left hand. Barnett then unlim bered his
revolver ana sped six chunks of lead into
Bulls system.
Bull retired in the custody Of a police
man, but was overcome by his wounds. 1t
was found that one of the bullets from
Barnetts revolver had struck him in the
chin. ploughed a furrow through the
flesh, and, after narrowly missin &
the windpipe, lodged near vital spot in
tbs back of the neck. A second bullet b q
struck the right forearm and lodged near
the bone. A third bullet had entered the
groin. without coming out. Bull is e5
years old and will pro bsb bly, die.
Mrs. Barnett did not know she was shot
until she saw blood trickling down her
arm, whcreupon she promptly tainted.
Barnettis ont on $1,000 bail.
Barnett tells the following story, his
| statements being corroborated by all the
| eyewiinesse+:
Previous 10 the departure of Mrs. Bar
| nett Tor chicago 10 bring back the
May Shaw burlesque company. she
was requested by Bull 10 visit his
wife, who was Mt the time resid-
| ing in Chicago. Upon Mss Clavton's
return yesterday she informed me that
| she had seen Bulls wife. Bull came to
the .beater aslns hi. and upon seeing him
! said: Bull, my wife saw your wife
| and if you 90 back 10 the stage Ida herself
| wi | tell you all about H.. Without any
cause or provocaiion on my part Bull got
abusive aud using a very foul epithet
| said, DO you suppose am going back 10
| the stage by myseliT
II was surprised Tor the moment, and
upon Bull approaching me L defended
| myself with small piece OF cane, which
at the time l had in my hand.
"Bystsnders separated US ard Bull left
the house While on the outside he male
the remark 10 Tom Buddison that he was
| going 10 kill me OH sight. He did not re-
| turn TO the theater.
| AT 4 o'clock this morning we left the
ollie of the theater, and Just as we
reached the doorway, Bull rushed up and
began shooting"
y hers say that Bull tried to borrowI q
| revolver from a nun ber OF friends.
Ten years ago Bull had trouble with
Peel. desperate in Helena, laid in wait
ior him In dry-goods box on the street
and killed him. Bull sail, in speaking of
! to-day's shooting: II mad him and would
have killed him if 1t had not been for The
| woman"
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given A TASTE
OF COLLIS' RULE
Outrage Inflicted Upon
Southern Pacific
Passengers.
Five CoachloadS of Tourists
Sidetracked for Hours
at Ogden.
How the Octopus Carries on Petty
War With Rival Railway
Company.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

OGDEN, Oct. 30.-If Coils P. Hunting
ton. Julius Kruttschnitt, the corpulent
Fillmore, or any of the other officials OF
the Southern Pacific Company of Ken
tucky were here There would be a hot
time in Ogden tonight
There are 132 weary. bedraggled passen-
gers occupying two frst-class Pullman
sleepers and three tourist cars sidetracked
on the Southern Pacific tracks here.
Their protestatious are loud and deep,
and the delegation re presenting them.
which called upon The CALL correspond
ent this evening, was, TO say the least, in
very bad humor.
A great many of these passengers have
been snowbound in Eastern Colorado
and have been compelled 20 miss connec-
lion at Denver and other points, but they
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CatiTornta Pensions.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 80. = Pensions
have been granted as follows: California
OrIginal-twenty year ,ervice-Carlo Con-
trsio, San Francisco. Restoration and
increase, special October - George NJ.
Hurlbut, San Francisco. Increase-Isaac
Crowther, San Francisco Mexican War
survivor. Reissued and increased-Jacob b
w. Harlan, Oakland.
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AMP RlSONME FOR LIFE.

Train Robber HiTtams Convicted and
AenfrnceG at Stcckton.
STOCKTON, Oct. 80 0-George Williams
was this forenoon found guilty of attempt
ing to wreck the New Orleans express at
Morano station, and sentenced by Judge
Jones to life i'm prisonment mt Folsom.
The young man took the sentence
smlllngly, and declares he will be released
at the beginning of the twentieth century.
ADvANcEs made on furniture and pianos, with
or without removal. J. Noonan lol7-lO23 Mission
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Arizona-Nogales A. J. GriswoId.
Po.,n,a, at ri 7oro.

WASHINGTON, Oct. SD. Gockley
was to-day appointed postmas er at El
Toro, Orange County, Cal, vice f. L
Squire. resigned.
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Pre.'denfiaf 4ppoi,.tmemt..

WASHINGTON, Oct. So The President
has appointed John H. Hall United States
Attorney for the District OF OREGON, and
has also named the following Pos mas
teFs:
Arizona-Nogales, A. J. GriswoId.
CaItfornla-Anahem, Sheldon Little
field; Hollister, Robert Shaw Watson
vile, Benjamin A. Osborn; Yreka, Robert
j. Nixon.
Montana-HamiIton, Winnie Robinson.
Wyoming-Rawlins, Perry l.. Smith.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
Black Silk GrOs Grain.
S1.OO, Worth $l.75.

This silk is "a inches wide, is the per
feet on OF silk weaving, and is the gru nd
est value ever SHOWN over Frisco
counter.
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DRESS GOODS, vELvETS AND SILKS
'IEdE1 nj Z 2. = -


The
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
Black Silk Bargains.

at 81. J. Bonnet ct
Cie's Biacx sIlK Pop.i ins, 2I inches wide,
guaranteed the genuine French Six,
worth $l.75, in two different weayes.
AT 8SCs@C. J. Bonnet ct CieS
BLACK six Iravers, Il inches d >. very
soft beautiful quality, a grand $50 bar
grain.
at $l.OO..A stjlI heavier
and better quality worth S1.75.
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Black Silk Veivets.

at 39C--A quality that can't
Dc duplicated Ia town under 75c.
at S9c.sThe usual ~ grade.
At T3C--What you pay daily
$1.2) tor.
At 36C.-As good as any we
ever sold for Sl 90, aud we sold many
thous and pieces.
at Sl.lO--The kind that
sells for Sl.75.
AT 81 .2S--what every store
rPiai for - 90
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These are some elegant silk plums. You
all KNOW Silks have gone va up, out
THESE prices are way down. Its tine same
old tale of ones misfortune and the
otner's fortune.
The record-union., 1897-09-28

Bet a dollar'n half the women
brought home a lot of quartz rocks
covered with sulphurets to fool their
friends. Maybe Oakland doesn't know
gold when it's sulphurets.
JUST AND PROPER.
Los Angeles Times: The opinion Of
Attorney General McKenna on the 10
per cent discriminating duty clause in
the Dingley tariff bill will not prove
pleasing to the American railway lines,
nor will it to the people in general. This
provision of the law seems plainly IN
line with the spirit Of protection, which
is the vital force of the new tariff bill,
and Judge McKenna's opinion there
fore brings to the country distinct
disappointment. No doubt the matter
will come ND in the next Congress, to
be fought out in the open, and, we
trust, to the best interests OF American
commerce.. Senator Elkins acknowl-
edges the paternity of the measure,
and saws he is proud of it, which he
has reason to be. When ne says: /
think it was American, and for that
reason I pushed it," his explanation is
a good one to go before the Congress
and the country with. We are in the
midst of times with an American Ad-
rninistra ton sailing the ship OF State,
and all movements looking to the con-
servation of American interests are
sure to gain the warm, patriotic and
enthusiastic support of the people OF
this country. In the opinion of the
sTines" the 10 per cent. discriminat-
ing duty is a just and proper measure
and it is to be regretted that lts ap-
plication should be even temporarily
The record-union., 1897-09-28
ABOUT KEY WEST.
Only Southern City Never Under
the Confederate Flag.

A man who recently returned from
Key West, Fla, says the first impress
sion stranger gets of that place at
the present time is that the city mas
gone on perpetual holiday spree. Bunt-
ing flies from almost every housetop
and the colors are about evenly divided
between 'Old Glory and the emblem
of the Cuban republic People of all
classes and ages wear pins or other
symbols bearing the motto, Cuba LII
bre," says the Buffalo Courier
This far Southern city, lying almost
within the tropics, is the only town Of
Importance below Mason and Dixon's
line that was never under the stars and
bars of the Confederacy. The popula-
tion is about evenly divided between
white Cubans, colored Cubans and
white Bahamians. There are not more
than a score of real American families
resident on the island, but notwith-
standing the fact the great mass of
the people are loyal to the Union first
and to Cuba next. 1t is curious, though
true, that of all the houses, dwellings,
stores, hotels and other buildings that
dot the island from one shore to the
other not one of them has a chimney
or anything that will answer the pur-
pose of chimney
Handsome residences and lowly how
els are alike in this respect, and from
an eminence gazing out over acres of
roofs on all sides one is struck with the
want of something to complete the
symmetry of the picture. Wood and
coal or fuel of any kind is an unknown
quantity, as the tropical atmosphere
furnishes all the heat required, and for
cooking purposes sticks of carbon are
used, which are sold by peddlers, who
hawk their wares about the streets.
There are few stores, as we under
stand such thing, and no markets. Sign
boards in Spanish will tell you where
the barher shop is located or where to
buy coral ornaments. There are no
more than half a dozen stores SSonklct-
ed on the American plan on the island.
Instead of a market there is a daily
auction near the Government dock,
where everything in the Wa of proySs-
ions, furniture and fruit is knocked
down to the highest bidder Bananas,
alligator pears and pineapples are the
commonest articles of purchase, and
here ships from Jamaica, Cuba and
Nassau, in the Bahamas. unload their
cargOes and dispose of them at ruinous
rates rather than risk a voyage at this
time of the year to more northern ports.
The record-union., 1897-09-28
THE FOLSOM MODEL ROAD AGAIN

The Attorney General has decided
that a county can assume an indebted
ness for any lawful purpose, and pro
vide for its bonding if the requisite
number of votes are cast in favor of
it, and that in such voting all the peo-
pie Of the county are to be included re-
gardless of town and municipal organ
izations.
This is specially provided for in the
Constitution which limits the bond pc
riod to forty years. 1t follows there
fore that the County Supervisors may
submit to the people a proposition for
a main highway under Indebtedness
secured by bonds. and payable in forty
installments; and that the people in
cities vote upon the proposition and
share the burdens if the result is affirm
ative.
This has been the contention Of the
Record Union" from the time the
good roads agitation began some six
years ago. 1t was not then nor has
it since been seriously disputed. In
the first State Road convention At
tOrney- General Hart gave precisely the
same construction to the law Of the
Constitution that is now given by At
torney. General Fitzgerald. In fact
two counties in the State have voted
such road Improvements under that
tel ,F 4 10
gality of the bonds has never been
questioned nor did doubt about it de-
ter capital from buying the bonds.
Tt follows that if the Supervisors wish
to do so, they may submit to the peo-
pie Of all the county the question
whether they wish the Folsom model
highway constructed on the lines pro-
posed by the Act of the late Legisla-
ture, and under which the State fur
nishes the material which is forty per
cent. of the total cost.
IF this is now done, it should be af-
ter revision of the late estima tes of
cost. For instance, the cost of the stone
bridge over Alder Greek was put down
at $4,000 for construction, though the
State is to furnish all the stone ready
cut Yet here are the official records
Of Napa County showing that two mas
sive stone bridges Of three instead OF
two ffty-foot spans were built for S12,-
600 and $4,000 at a good profit to the
contractor, having to quarry the stone
dress it and haul it four miles.
II the Folsom road project is to be
voted upon it should not be weighted
down by extravagant estimates. It
should be submitted upon fair esti-
mate of actual cost. exclusive of stone
material, with fair addition for a mar
gin OF error and the unforeseen. On such
a basis the people, we believe, would
order the work done
The record-union., 1897-09-28

The Tulare Register asks What
surpasses the love of woman?" And
how little sense women have in such
matters" it adds. Yes, yes; thank God
for it. If they had more sense and
less love. we men would have a much
harder row to hoe and fewer ears of
corn to the rCw. The Register tells
the story of the desperate shot 10
death by officers at stockton the other
day. He was a fiend, that fellow, a
miserable. desperate wretch. lost to all
sense of shame. all feeling of honor.
But he had a wife over in san Jose
whom he had dishonored and shamed
by his courses. Hearing of his igno-
minious death, the little woman sold all
she had to get money to so over In
the Slough City and shed scaIding tears
over the carcass of the wretch who had
made her life one of continuous misery.
Now asks the Register" why did she
not jump up and clap her heels togeth-
er and thank God for good riddance?
Peculiar isn't it?'' No. nc< peculiar
but natural, common and right, and
heaven be praised that woman is built
that way. Truth is, we never know the
worth Of a true woman until the hour
of trial comes. The test of her affection
is in the heat and fire of hard trial. and
The record-union., 1897-09-28
They Could Do the Rest.

Little Girl-Mrs. Brown, ma wants to
know if she could borrow a dozen eggs.
She wants to put 'em under a hen
NeighbOr-So you've got a hen set
ting, have you? I didn't know you
kept hens.
Little Girl-No ma'am, we don't;
but Mrs. Smiths goin' to lend US a hen
that's goin' to set an ma thought if
you'd lend us some eggs we'd find
nest ourselves - London Household
Words
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Phillip Oppenheim came up from San
Francisco last evening.
DR. E. E. Deuel. has returned to the
city from a visit to Lake County.
Mr.. and Mrs s. Sherman of Chicago
are registered at the Golden Eagle.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Diemar have re-
turned from Dutch Flat, where they
were visiting relatives
The record-union., 1897-09-28
TRUSTEES SALE.

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS
of certain deed of trust executed by
D. w Hutson and Philippine Hutson,
his wife, both of the county of San Joa-
Beckman and ]. L. Huntoon Of the
County of Sacramento, State Of Califor-
nia, as trustees, dated E. September 4,
1892, in the office Of the County Re-
corder OF the county of San Joa-
quin, State Of California, in Book
San Joaquin County Records, and on
application of the holder and owner of
the pronlissory note secured to be pasa
by said deed Of trust, and because de-
fault has been made in the payment of
the Indebtedness secured to be paid by
said deed Of trust, the undersigned
highest and best bidder for cash in Unit
ed States gold coin, at the front of the
Courthouse Of the county of Sacramento
in the city of Sacramento State of Cal
ifornia. on SATURDAY the 9Th day Of
October, 1891 between the hours of 10
o'clock q. m. and IL n. OF that day, said
sale commencing. at The said hour of 10
o'clock q. m. Of said day the fol-
lowing described real estate with the i'm
provements thereon, suitate in the coun-
ties of San Joaquin and Sacramento,
State Of California, as follows to wit:
The northeast quarter "a Of section
fifteen G5), township five % north,
range eight 81 east, Mount Dfablo Base
and Meridian; also that portion Of the
southeast quarter "a Of said section fir
teen d5) lying north and east Of
straight line drawn from the northwest
said quarter "a section; also q tract OF
land con ntaining one hundred and eighty
QS0) acres adjoining said section in Sac
'-''l ''''S WI. BEcKMAN,
Trustees.
Sacramento, September Is, 1897.
Budd and Thompson, Attorneys.
Sel6-24I
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District Attorney Ryan says he is
puzzled over the decision of the Attor-
ney-General concerning the bonding Of
a county for road purposes, and wants
to know what authorities the General
bases his opinion upon. He based his
Suprame Court, that municipalities can
not be taxed for county road purposes.
That position by the District Attorney
is not disputed But it is a very diff
ferent thing when a Board of Super
visOcs proposes to levy a tax, and
when a county as a political unit of
the State, itself votes to borrow money
for any legitimate purpose. We appre-
hend that the Attorney-General bases
his opinion upon something higher than
courts, and before which statutes do
not stand. namely the Constitution of
the State. Article XI., Section IS, reads
negatively that it may be read also
affirmatively. It says: No county,
city or town." etc, etc, which is to be
read as it means, ANY county, city
or town" etc, etc. The section pro-
vides then, that any county may incur
Indebtedness or liability for any pur-
pose exceeding in any year the income
provided, etc. if the assent of two
thirds OF the qualified electors is given
at an election held for the purpose.
But provision must be made for pay
ment of such Indebtedness, one fortieth
in each year. and for payment of the
interest also.
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The Chi1dren's Society.

The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children will meet at half
past seven this evening sharp, instead
of eight and the Directors of the So
ciety will meet at seven sharp. This
is to enable members who desire to at
tend the lecture at the Clunie.
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q Good Guess.

When Della meets ne with a kiss
Her tender greeting soothes me not;
For well 1 know the truth is this:
She wants some money-wants a lot.
Chicago Record.
The record-union., 1897-09-28

The Boston Herald" commenting
upon Mr.. Bryan's essay published in
an Eastern paper, where the late can
didate declared that wheat had risen
because of the short foreign crops and
then added that the law of supply and
demand is universal, says this does not
harmonic with the campaign declara-
tions of the same gentleman when he
contended that wheat had gone down
because of scarcity of silver money.
That is true. When the supply and
demand argument was advanced in
the campaign Mr.. Bryan's reply was
positive that bounteous harvests or
foreign shortage of crops had nothing
to do with profitable agriculture. Then,
his sympathies were all for the farmer
who could not get good price for
wheat; now they are all for the con-
sumner who has to pay the larger price.
Such logic confuses us. How there
can be a high price for anything with
out the consumer paying it, We can
not understand. If it is a good thing
that there should be high prices for
plentiful staple products, then it must
be a good thing for those who pay the
prices; certainly not hardship, if the
prosperity in agriculture is for the gen
eral good, and that it is conceded.
The record-union., 1897-09-28

The latest story concerning our re-
lations with Spain is that our Min
ister at Madrid has been directed to
intimate intention on the part of the
United States to break off diplomatic
relations with Spain if the Cuban ques-
ton is not speedily settled. Probably
there is no real foundation for the
dispatch. The course suggested would
avail Us nothing and do the Cuban no
good. II the United States proposes any
coercive measures toward Spain, there
is no reason for indirection in doing so.
When Professor Jordan said the other
evening in a lecture in Oakland that
we can set all the good government.
we Want, if we really want it," he
uttered a truth. to deny which is to
confess fneapacity for self government
After all the complaining about cor
ruption and ineficiency, it comes back
to this. that cleanly. decent people de-
string economy and good government
can have it whenever they unite in an
effort to gain that end
The record-union., 1897-09-28
CROSSMANS SPECIFIC MIXTURE

WITH THIS REMEDY PERSONS CAN
cure themselves without the least ex-
posure, change of diet or change in apDli-
cation of business. The medicine contains
nothing that is of the least injury TO the
constitution. Ask your druggist for it,
Price, 81 bottle TuF
The record-union., 1897-09-28

Outoschkine is the mellifiuous name
Of the Russian rider who at present is
breaking all records in the Cars do
mains
The record-union., 1897-09-28
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Showers early
Tuesday morning; cloudy Tuesday; war
mer in the Sacramento Valley; fresh west
erly winds.
The record-union., 1897-09-28

1t is quite amusing to witness the
plunSing of the San Francisco Exam
iner" in the matter of the foreclosure
proceedings against the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. Having urged fore
closure and insisted that it was the
right proceeding, though warned that
it would result in heavy loss on the
Governments claim against the road.
the Examiner" now that the Govern
ment has been driven to intervene in
a foreclosure proceeding in order TO
secure something of its claim. If 1t can,
stands to lose some $25,000,000. the
same paper is roaring Justify and de-
noune5ag the very policy it so recent
ly advocated.
The record-union., 1897-09-28

Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
as second-class matter.
The record-union., 1897-09-28

At the recent session of the Amer
lean Bar Association one of the lead
ing topics of discussion was reform in
bribery laws. Mr.. Moses read q paper
on the subject urging uniformity Of
bribery laws. How that would help
matters We cannot understand, nor did
Mr.. Moses make it clear The thing
is to bring the public conscience to cuch
realization of the awfulness of bribery
Of officials; so quicken public thought
upon the danger and enormity of the
offense, that States will legislate eff
fectively upon the subject 1t makes
no difference whether such legislation
results in uniformity, the thing to ac-
complish is to make the offense 50 alb
horrent that society will refuse to elect
men whom it is possible to bribe.
The record-union., 1897-09-28

God knows women have that in plen-
'ty, and red hot too. Heaven be thanked
that nine out of ten of them come out
the furnace unscathed. honored and
purified. II itsis lack of sense that
makes woman so devoted then the
saints be praised for the lack, and more
power TO il All the time
The record-union., 1897-09-28
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