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The herald., 1897-09-08
STRIKING MINERS
Resist by Force an Attempt at
Eviction

PITTSBURG, Sept. 7.-District meet
ings were held in all West Virginia and
local regions where the strike exists to-
day for the purpose of electing delegates
to the National Conventional Columbus
tomorrow, when the proposition will be
considered as to the advisa bility of re-
turning to work at the 65-cent per ton
rate.
Fairmont delegates were instructed
to secure continuance of the strike un-
til West Virginia is in. position to demand
recognition.
Efforts to evict the striking miners of
the Pittsburg and Chicago Coal Com
pany at Orangeville resulted in riot
and utter failure of the company to ac-
complish the object. Twenty deputies
armed with Winchesters and revolvers
were met by large crowd of strikers at
Finleyville, headed by hundred Polish
women, who closed with them and rough
ly handled them. After remaining in
the company's office all sailed forth, but
were met by over thousand men,
women and children, and finally COM
PEELED to take refuge in vacant house
where the mob threatened to burn them.
Finally they were ordered to leave town,
which they did promptly, amid the
curses of the women and groans Of the
men. Every member of the posse was
injured more or less seriously.
The herald., 1897-09-08
THE LETTER CARRIERS
ORGANIZE THE CONVENTION
FOR WORK
The First Question to Be Considered
Is the Important One of
Back Pay

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. THE open
ing session of the convention of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers was
not called to order until some three hours
after the appointed hour today. The de-
lay was occasioned by the non n-arrival OF
credentials of delegates, which had been
expressed from the East by National
ure of the Eastern delegation to make its
appearance until after II o'clock
President Parsons called the conven-
tion to order at Ills o'clock and at once
appointed a Committee on Credentials
consisting of B. F. Newell of San Fran
cisco, j. c. Keller of Cleveland, O., w.
H. Keys of Baltimore, A. j. Berson of
Kalamazoo. and J. E. Havens of Brook
lyn. Another committee, consisting OF
Thomas Smith of Chicago, B. B. Curtin
of Lynn, Mass, and Thomas Farren OF
Boston was appointed to draft rules and
regulations to govern the conduct of the
convention. While these committees
were preparing their reports George
King, attorney Of the association, ad-
dressed the delegates upon the subject
of back pay.
At the afternoon session President
Parsons presented his report, reviewing 6
the work of the association for the past
year. Efforts had been made to secure
the friendly cooperation of the posta
officials in Washington. The committee
on credentials reported that 361 dele
gates were present, representing 141
branches of delegates and III branches
by proxy, a total of 667 votes in the con-
vention. The committee ON constitution
reported that their efforts to secure bill
for fixing the salaries at a minimum OF
$1,000 a year had not been introduced
owing to the opposition of the speaker ol
the house. 1t is to come up again at the
next session of congress.
The herald., 1897-09-08
THE CRAVEN CASE
Reaches the Stage of Argument to the
Jury

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-THE fol-
lowing scenes in the case of Angus VS..
Craven, which has occupied the undi-
vided attention of Judge Slack and a
jury for five months, commenced today
wher Garrett McEnerney, the repre-
sentative of the executors of the Fair
estate, opened the argument for the
plaintiff. The issues to be submitted to
the jury are:
First-Were the deeds in controversy
signed by James G. Fair?
Second-Were they duly acknowledged
by him?
Third-Was there a conspiracy exist
ing between Mrs. Nettie Craven, Martin
Welly and Mrs. Atkins, which had for
its object the looting of the Fair estate? :?
Mr.. McEnerney began his argument
by showing the improbability of the
signing of the pencil will by the late
Senator Fair. and then reviewed the
testimony relative to the Craven deeds,
which he denounced as most palpable
frauds and forgeres.
d. NJ. Delmas will take up the cudgels
on behalf of Mrs. Craven at the close Of
Mr.. McEnerney's address, and Ex-Judge
Curtis, the will smasher," will prob
ably occupy part of the allotted time for
the defense, while Messrs. Mitchell and
Wheeler will divide the time allowed for
the closing argument on behalf Of the
plaintiff.
The herald., 1897-09-08
THE VALLEY ROAD
Visalia Citizens Are Preparing for a
Celebration

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IA party
Of officials and others interested in the
Stockton and San Joaquin Valley rail-
road will leave here to attend the cele-
bration at Visalia on Thursday of the
completion of the line to that place. The
line extends ninety-nine miles south of
Fresno. 1t still has 124 miles to construct
before reaching Bakersfield. This will
be completed some time in next January.
The company is perfecting plans for the
proposed line from Stockton next to
Point Richmond, on the bay in. Contra
Costa county, which is seven miles
from the foot of Market street. Final
surveys have been made and accepted.
The line from Stockton to Point Rich
mond will be about eighty-three miles
long. There will be tunnel one mile
long and a trestle bridge 5000 feet long
and seventy feet high across the Alham-
bra valley in Contra Costa county. Near
ly all the rights of way have been Sc
cured and it is the intention Of the COM
pany to begin the construction Of this
line as soon as the road to Bakersfield
is completed.
The herald., 1897-09-08
THE COUNTY WINS
The Careless Railroad Will Pay for
the Bridge

SACRAMENTO. Sept. I'm 1898 the
supervisors of Sacramento county en-
tered into an agreement with the railroad
company whereby the company agreed
to pay $4,000 toward constructing an
overhead wagon road bridge across the
Sacramento river above the company
tracks. E. J. Crowley, a citizen of Sac
ramento, brought suit to prevent the su-
pervisors from paying the money. The
case was tried before Judge Hunt OF
San Francisco, sitting in this county
The judge filed his opinion in favor OF
the county.
Judge Hunt finds that here was no ad-
vertisement or demand for bids. no plans
or specifications, no working details, etc
furnished the board, no order letting the
contract upon plans adopted by the
board, no contract and no bond executed
for the faithful performance Of the work
The judge disposes adversely of the
claim that the bridge was matter OF
necessity. occasioning imperative action
by the board.
The herald., 1897-09-08
is A MYSTERY
About Emperor Williams
Black Eye
LIEUT.. Won HAHNKE'S DEATH
THE SEQUEL TO THE INJURED
OPTIC
LIEUT.. Won HAHNKE'S DEATH
The London Truth Makes MANY Mvs-
terious Hints and Hopes to Sc
cure the Facts

Associated Press Special Wire.
| LONDON, Sept. Henry Labou-
chere in Truth today renews the mys-
| terious hints which have been in circula-
ton since the death of Lieut.. Won
Hahnke Of the German navy, son of
Williams military cabinet, who met his
death by drowning in July last, while
accompanying his majesty on his trip
to the northland aboard the imperial
yacht Hohenzollern. In so doing, Mr..
Labouchere once more publishes the
intimation that, the lieutenant's death
was a sequel to the black eye which
Emperor William received about that
time.
According to one story the black eye
was caused by a blow from a rope,
which was being whirled about by the
wind. Another story has it that the
emperor so coarsely abused Lieut. Won
Hahnke that the latter committed sui
eide. Finally, still another story is
that the lieutenant was stung by the
emperor's sharp words and resented
them to the extent of backing his
majesty's eye and then took his own
life. i .ila1 s4i. |
Truth, in today's comment on the
affair, says the official version of the
affair in brief seems to be that Lieut.
Won Hahnke, who was accompanied by
a brother officer accidentally ran into
the River Grondalsy on his bicycle while
trying to avoid a collision with a pony
The river, it is further explained, is a
raging torrent from which escape is
impossible.
Mr.. Labouchere adds: 1--WE received
letter saying that on the day following
Won Hahnke's death dummy figure
of the same size and weight was tossed
into the torrent in order to test its
effect. When the dummy was down in
it it was found to be torn to pieces, and
everybody agreed that Won Hahnkes $
body must have met similar fate. Yet
since the appearance of Truths remarks
it is announced from Berlin that the
body has been recovered after being six
weeks in the raging torrent and that it
will be brought home for burial
In conclusion, Mr.. Labouchere re-
marks: Perhaps in time the full facts
in this very remarkable affair may be
made known"
The herald., 1897-09-08
PERUVIAN FINANCE
Free Silver Coinage at the Commercial
Rates

NEW YORK, Sept IA dispatch to
the Herald from Lima, Peru, says: 1t is
likely that the Peruvian government will
adopt a financial system similar to that
of Holland-that is, the silver coinage
will be legal tender with unlimited cir
culation, but its value will be fixed upon
gold standard basis.
From the single silver standard system
Holland, in 1916, adopted the double
standard, upon ratio of 1888 to 1; again
returned to silver in 1S47, and again to
the double standard in 1875. The unit
is the florin or the guilder, of 100 cents, the
full legal tender pieces being the 10 and 5
horins of gold and the half-florin rixdoler
of silver. The weight Of florin in gold
will be .672 Of a gramme, or 1887 grains
900 fine. The silver florin is .945 fine and
weighs ten grammes. Accordingly, the
gold fiorin equals 40.2 cents and the sill
YER florin 1913 cents.
The coinage of silver is on government
account only since December, 1887. Pa
per money is furnished by the govern
ment to the extent of $15000,O 900, said to
be entirely covered, but apparently not
by coin.
The herald., 1897-09-08
Laundry Law

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. I'm the
United States district court today Judge
De Haven rendered decision of consid-
cradle interest to municipal authorities
throughout the state. Hong Wah, a
Chinese laundryman of San Mateo, ap-
piled for a writ of habeas corpus on the
ground that he was illegally detained by
the sheriff of that county upon a COM
mitment ordering that he be confined
in the county Jail for three months in de-
fault of the payment of fine of 5000 for
having conducted a laundry within The
district prescribed by law. Judge De
Haven, after hearing the matter, held
that the ordinance under which the petit
toner was convicted and sentenced was
unconstitutional, ard therefore ordered
that Hong Wah be discharged from Gus
tody
The herald., 1897-09-08
mapped the forest reserves of Wyoming,
Idaho, Washington and Ore
DIsGUsTED
The Democrats of Colorado Nomi-
mated a Goldbug

DENVER, Col, Sept.s 7.-There was
CONSERVATION among the Democrats
last night over the discovery that the
State convention, which met here yes
terday, had nominated Cleveland
Democrat as a candidate for Justice of
the Supreme Court. When the crisis in
the convention was reached and it was
apparent that the nomination was likely
to go to Judge Gabbert, the nominee of
the Populist State convention, a stam-
pede was made to John Gordon of Trim
idad. Many of the delegates who op-
posed Judge Gabbert did not seem to
know who Gordon was. and in their
anxiety to get away from Gabbert, did
not stop to inquire until after the voting
was over, when they learned that their
nominee was none other than John A.
Gordon of Trinidad, who took such an
active part in the Pueblo convention in
1892 and led the boilers from the conven-
ton that turned down Grover Cleve-
land on account of his position on the
money question. Many of the dele
gates have no hesitancy in expressing
their disgust at the hole their hasty ac-
ton has landed them in.
The herald., 1897-09-08
TILLMAN TALKS
Government by Injunction Threatens
Our Liberties

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Sept. 7.-Senator
Tillman was the orator of the Labor day
celebration of the Rochester trades
unions. His subject was Labor and Cap
ital in Their Relations to Politics.
The Senator advised the Democrats
of the State to refuse to accept candi-
date for the Court of Appeals who had
not voted for Bryan and who did not
stand on the Chicago platform.
Referring to the injunction granted
against the striking miners, the Senator
severely criticised the Judges who
granted the order and asserted that un-
til an end was put to government by
injunction" there could be no liberty in
this country.
The speaker ridiculed the Bimetallic
Commission and deplored the spectacle
of the United States going to European
countries and begging for bimetallism.
1t would be just as sensible to ask for an
international agreement in passing tar
iff laws, he said, as to ask for an inter-
national monetary agreement.
The herald., 1897-09-08
PEACE TERMS
Will Be Ready for Signatures on
Thursday

CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1.-The
Ambassadors have decided to defer dis
cussion of the Turkish governments s
note announcing the appointment of All
Ottoman Governor of Crete and its in
tention to retain the Turkish troops
there until the treaty of peace is signed.
Turkish gendarmes have been placed
under the command of officers Of the
European gendarmerie, the powers
bearing the expense and receiving half
the customs revenue as compensation.
The only remaining question is the
dates for the payment Of the indemnity.
The powers desire to insert these dates
in the treaty OF peace, but the British
ambassador Sir Philip Currie, suggests
that they leave the dates to be deter
mined upon by the International COM
mission.
The ambassadors expect that all the
details of the treaty of peace will be
settled on Thursday next.
The herald., 1897-09-08
A DUKE AND A DUCHESS
JAILED FOR BEATING BILLS FOR
BOARD
Brazilian Titles Are Not DESTROYED
Though the Owners Fortunes
May Be Lost

LONDON, Sept. THE Duke and
Duchess of Rio Grande were arraigned
in Marlborough Police Court this morn
ing, charged with defrauding hotels and
boarding houses
The Duke is said to be a Brazilian
nobleman, and the Duchess asserted
that she is the niece of ex-United States
Senator o. D. Conger of Michigan.
The prisoners were brought up in the
midst Of motley assemblage of ragged
criminals. They slept in cells at Hollo-
way and showed the effects of the un-
comfortable night they had passed.
Nevertheless. the Duke rested his chin
jauntily on his gloved hand. He is a
short, dapper man, with pompadour
hair, beard and a waxed mustache.
The Duchess is a handsome woman Of
about 30, with refined features. Her
face was swollen with weeping. The
Duchess said her father lived in viii
lage in Northern New York and was an
artist, and had been a member of the
Artists Board of Awards at the Chicago
exposition.
A hotel-keeper and the landladies Of
two boarding houses confronted the cou-
pie in court today Mrs. Elizabeth
STANDBY, one landlady, said the female
prisoner with an infant and nurse went
to her house June goth at night and en-
gagged room, saying that her husband
was dining at the club. The husband
arrived late and explained that he had
been yachting and that his baggage was
attached. They stayed at Mrs. Stand
ley's until August 25th, making many
excuses when asked for money, or why
their baggage was not Forthcoming. Mrs.
Standley was compelled to have the
Duke and Duchess expelled. The land
lady said that she felt sorry for the lady
as her husband neglected her shame
fully. While residing with Mrs. Stand
ley the Duke and Duchess gave the
names of Monsieur and Madam Edgar
Serge de Mel. After testimony from
other landladies whom they had failed
to pay, the defense claimed the prison.
ers offered security in bills but the mag
iStrate said it was a clear case of de-
frauding hotels and boarding houses
and remanded the prisoners for a week.
offering to release the female prisoner on
fifty pounds bail, half the amount of the
entire charge against the prisoners.
They were eventually returned to Hal
lOWay Jail in the black maria
The herald., 1897-09-08
Fights Fixed

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-THE fight
between George Lavigne and Joe Wal
colt has practically been arranged. The
Occidental Club made a bid of 70 per
cent of the gate receipts, which was
quickly accepted by both sides. The
men will weigh in at 1876 pounds some
time during the afternoon Of the day set
for the fight. The Gate has not been
named, but will be about November 1st
Solly Smith and George Dixon have
again signed articles, having settled
their dispute about a referee and the
division of the gate receipts. They will
meet on October 14th, at 120 pounds
The herald., 1897-09-08
The Native Sons

SANTA ROSA, Sept. THE Native
Sons are already coming from differen,
parts of the state to attend the great
Admission day celebration here this
week. Each visiting delegation has
sent a delegation in advance to secure
headquarters and the work of decorat-
ing them is ALREADY we'll advanced. The
work on the public arches will soon be
completed and they Will surpass any
thing ever seen here. The decorating
being done by the merchants is beauti
full and nothing like it has ever beer
seen here before
The herald., 1897-09-08
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT
Railroad and Canaigre Companies File
Incorporation Papers

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 7.-United
States Attorney Ellinwood today filed in
the office Of the territorial secretary
notice of intention to construct a rail-
road from Phoenix through Tempe and
Mesa to Globe, distance of 100 miles.
with branch line from Queenwash. a
distance of fifteen miles, to Florence.
The notice Is filed in the interest of the
Santa Fe road. The preliminary survey
has already been made.
Articles of Incorporation of the Ari-
zona Canaigre and Anglo-American Ca
naigre companies have been filed. In
the former the capital stock is placed at
81, 500, 900; the incorporators are Andrew
Mclean, w. r. Brown and John H. Car
ruthers Of New York. In the latter the
capital stock IL fixed at $4,000, 900. and
The herald., 1897-09-08
A Double Killing

SALT LAKE. Utah, Sept. IA spe-
cial to the Herald from Rawlins, Wyo..
says word has just reached Lander of a
double killing which occurred in the
Big Horn country, $50 miles north OF
here. HeNy Morse, cowboy in the en-
ploy of th&Pitchfork Cattle Co., went to
Round Up camp and ordered Bob Jack
son, the cook, to get supper. Jackson did
not move fast enough and Morse shot
him through the body, killing him in
stantly. He then fired two shots at a
cowboy named West, and before he could
fire again West shot him through the
heart.
The herald., 1897-09-08

top of the second division. Attendance
1000. Score: Washington Z. hits 10, err
ors, 0; Louisville 1, hits Z, errors1.
NEW YORK-Tebeau and the Indians
came today to play off two postponed
games They were played as a doubls-
header and the Giants took both. At
tendance 5000. Score: First game. New
York g. hits Z. errors 3; Cleveland 1. hits
s, errors2. Second game, New York 4.
hits =, errors -; Cleveland 1, hits 8, err
ors /.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-The Brooklyn
Pittsburg game, postponed at Pittsburs
on July 21st, was played off at Eastern
park this afternoon and was won by the
Pittsburgs. Attendance 1859. Score:
Brooklyn 4, hits 6, errors 6; Pittsburg Z,
hits 10, errors s.
The herald., 1897-09-08
FOREST RESERVES
Maps to Be Made Of the California
Lands

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. &c. D.
Walcott, head of the IApited State Geo.
logical Survey, is in the city, and will
leave for Yosemite Valley today, accom-
panied by Assistant F. B. Weeks. He
proposes to make Typographical maps
on a two-mile scale of all the forest
reserves in California, which, including
recent additions, include no less than
6647 900 acres.
On these maps the distribution of for.
ests will be plated out showing the
commercial and the non-commercial
timber, the agricultural lands included
in the forest reserves, the portions
burnt over, and all settlements, roads
houses and other improvements upor
the national forest domain.
Since leaving Washington ON July
26th, MI. Walcott has inspected end
The herald., 1897-09-08
A MEAT CORNER
Lamb and Veal Expected to Become
Dearer

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-THE Call
says that meat particularly lamb and
veal is going to be higher in California
during the next six months than it has
been in several years past, as the result
of the operations of the big Four
Messrs. Morris, Swift, Armour and Cud-
ahy of Chicago.
Realizing some time ago that feed
would be abundant this season, these
men began purchasing lambs, calves
and cattle in large numbers and quietly
shipping them East to fatten. They
drew largely and quietly on the herds
of Nevada, Arizona and Oregon, and
before the local wholesalers knew it..
had snapped up nearly everything in
sight. An advance in prices has already
been made, and now Miller & LUX and
the Western Meat Company. the two
largest Coast dealers, are working hard
to secure a sufficient supply for their
trade.
The herald., 1897-09-08
A Sea Mystery

SEATTLE, Wash, Sept IA special
from Anacortes gives an account of the
discovery Of the body of a man in the
fishing schooner Annie of Everett Sat
urday last by w. G. Blount. The schoon-
er was found adrift near Deception Pass
by Blount. He boarded her and found
the body OF man, with pistol shot
through his head. lying face downward
in the cabin. Evidently the schooner
had been ftted out for fishing cruise.
The herald., 1897-09-08
Certainly Murdered

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Sept. T.
The boesy Of an unknown man was found
in one-room shack in this city last
night. surrounded by indications of
cold-blooded murder, followed by care
full concealment of the crime. The corpse
was entirely nude and was lying on the
floor of the shanty, a short distance
from a cot.
The house had been occupied by a
man named Schmitt, who traded in old
clothes. The only clew to the identity OF
the man is that he is too large-fra med
to be Schmitt.
The herald., 1897-09-08
The Lux Estate

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. THE
United States circuit court has made
an order restraining parties in the Mil
Ter and Luz proceedings. The order
was issued at the request of the heirs of
Charles Lux, who asked for distribu-
ton to them of $2,400,000 in cash and
that the Miller & Lux corporation be
required to wind up it's affairs, that the
interest Of Charles Lux and Henry Mil
ler be divided and the Lux interests of
the estate be distributed to the Lux
heirs
The herald., 1897-09-08
A Fresno Murder

FRESNO, Cal, Sept. IA jury was
impaneled in Judge Webb's court today
to try Leon Hill for the MURDER of Lloyd
Duke at Wartham Canyon on June 27 of
the present year. There is quite a
formidable array of counsel in the case
There had been trouble between the two
young men for some time before the
killing. The weapon was a Winchester
rifle and Duke was killed by the first
shot. The defense is provocation.
The herald., 1897-09-08
An Indians Defense

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.-Dick
Beel, half breed Indian, accused of the
murder Of George Steele on the Round
Valley reservation about a year ago, is
on trial before United States District
Judge Haven, sitting as circuit Judge in
place of Judge Morrow. Several wit
nesses examined for the prosecution
made out strong case against the ac-
cused. The defense will enter plea
of justifiabe homicide.
The herald., 1897-09-08
Army and Navy

WASHINGTON, Sept. THE follow
ing appointments have been announced
from the White House: Commander
Royal B. Bradford Chief of the Bureau
of Equipment in the Department of the
Navy with relative rank OF Commodore;
Naval Constructor Phillip Hichborn,
Chief Constructor and Chief of the Bu-
reau of Construction and Repair De-
partment of the Navy, with relative rank
of Commodore; Albert Martensen to be
Vice and Deputy Consul at Bordeaux,
France.
The herald., 1897-09-08
POTT RESIGNS
His High Spirit Could Not Brook a
Slight

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. THE
trouble between Major-General James
and Col. f. S. Pott, paymaster of the
division staff of the National Guard,
has eliminated in the voluntary retire
ment of Pott. At meeting of the Owls
ion staff Gen. James recommended Capt.
Thomas M. Cluff as the successor of
Pott. 1t is believed the recommendation
will be favorably acted upon by Cover
nor Budd.
The resignation of Pott Is due to the
fact that he believes Gen. James
sighted him at the recent encampment
al Ukiah.