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The San Francisco call., 1898-05-15

arrest. Nothing could be learned from Wheeler.
 The pursuing party tracked the band to cabin in the mountains near Usal. There they found Carr, weary and footsore, ready to surrender. He told all he knew. For the first time the pursuerS learned whom they were fol- lowing.
 Had Wheeler not then been in the Jail at Ukiah he never would have been taken.
 Carr confessed that the original plans of the outlaws had been made while they were prisoners in San Quentin. Wheeler was to be the captain; to en- gineer the scheme and keep them post ed. Wheeler, he said, used to visit the camp late at night every night. Their plan was to rob the Sheriff on his way down the coast with his tax money and then go to Ukiah, rob the Treasurers s office, take in all the stages, and rob and plunder every safe and every per- son that had money-in fact, do a gen. eral robbing and murdering business.
 Long days of tracking the other out laws followed. It was scant food, clothes torn to tatters. hunting des- perate men and fearing we might at any time be ambushed.
 Nothing was seen or heard of them except as I have detailed, until. de- scending a deep canyon in Humboldt County, through which runs Rattle snake Creek, shooting was heard Creeping cautiously through the brush we heard voice saying:
 Boys, some one should be on guard"
 Brown answered: We are as safe here as if we were 100 miles in the middle of the earth"
 By that time we saw them. Gaunce was stripped for swim, Brown was building fire and Billings was fool ing with his pistol. As Gaunce struck the water zip" went seven bullets at them.
 The two others returned the fire for a time, but, finding themselves out numbered, they broke across the creek and all got away.
 We got part of their camp and some of their clothing. As they were scram- bling up the opposite bank we heard Gaunce say
 Hell, Brown, if this is like 100 miles inside the earth. I don't want to be there.''
 The pursuit finally led to the Sacra- mento Valley, but some way they eluded all the watchers at the ridges and crossed safely.
 At Cherokee Flat Brown was cap-
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ance of their plans, he went to Men docino City and took with him a pleas ing woman as his wife. Their conduct was circumspect and they gained the good will and esteem of everybody ln Mendocino City.
 Occasional rumors of swift, solitary midnight rider among the redwoods were circulated, but none connected Dr. Wheeler with this. l saw Wheeler in the full tide of his social and business career at Mendocino City. l saw him captured on Cow Mountain in Redwood Valley, after he had been surrounded and stormed out. After his capture l saw him die on the jail floor at Ukiah by means of self elf-administered poison. I tried to talk with him in jail many times and to this day 1 know nothing of his private life or who he was prev ious to the Blue Mountain robberies.
 Billings l knew little of, as the only times I met him he had a gun in his hand and he was not in chatting mood. In the mountains in Humboldt County I came upon three of the band unexpectedly Billings was amusing himself by throwing up two buckeye balls and shattering them both with his pistol before they could strike the ground. He also held up piece of a looking glass in front of him and, buck eye balls being thrown up fifteen paces behind him. he took aim by the aid of the looking glass ana broke several balls.
 I had been hunting them, but when saw this performance I was afraid they would find me.
 Billings was always full of fight and died fighting. He was the first to fire on the attacking party and the last to quit. He never retreated until oVer- whelmed by numbers. I have now on me a scar from one of his bullets.
 He had a sweetheart somewhere and was trying to raise money to get mar ried. He was splendidly proportioned and a better looking man one seldom sees.
 Carr was not like the others. He was a saloon man of San Francisco and had been convicted of murder or robbery in his saloon. He was not a fight CT. He had no grit and could not stand hardship although he was the largest man in the gang. He quit the first few days of the chase and ignominiously surrendered near Usal in Nlendocino County.
 He had trained Heenan, the Benicia boy, in some of his fights, and, if remember correctly, was his trainer at the time he fought Sayres. He had been in the hospital service at San Quentin and there he made the ac-
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quaintance of Wheeler, Billings and Brown, much to their subsequent sor- row and chagrin.
 Gaunce. the last of the quintet, had no previous criminal record. He was raised in San Rafael. How he made the acquaintance of the other four al- ways remained a mystery. He was a young and boyish looking, not more than 20 years old. He. like Billings, was very handsome. He didn't know one captured. His sweetheart stayed with him to the last. He was of good family, but some powerful influence or some inborn deviltry made him desir- ous of being a noted criminal and he was the most foolhardy of the lot.
 The sentences of all these dare-devils expired in San Quentin about the same time and they began their new career of robbery and plunder according to the programme they had so carefully mapped out while under the prison keepers eyes in San Quentin. Wheeler went to Mendocino City in the guise of a physician and assumed what was to all appearances a most respectable course of life. This was only blind, however He was to keep the others posted on what was going on, give them warnings of any approaching danger or suspicion and they were to commit the crimes.
 
 of the whole gang, but so desperate and bold were they that several lives were lost before they were finally run down: even then most of them had to be killed because they would not surrender. Wheeler, the leader, died by self-ad- ministered poison rather than take his chances of a trial
 In 1879 and for many years previous 1t had been the custom of the Sheriff, who was also tax collector of Mendo- cino County, to give public notice of the time when he would be at certain places to collect the taxes due. There were no railroads then and the Sheriff carried the money with him from place to place in large sums. as then all the taxes were collected at one time.
 One of the plans of the gang was to rob the Sheriff when he was returning with his load of tax money. After Dr. Wheeler had gained the confidence of the citizens of Mendocino City the other prison birds drifted into the neighbor- hood and met at rendezvous. So cleverly did they manage this that no one knew of their presence. A simple mistake betrayed them and led to the undoing of the gang.
 It was their intention to kill beef belonging to the Mendocino Lumber
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Company and to jerk the beef so they could have food in their subsequent raids. In selecting the beef for slaugh- ter they made a mistake and killed a two-year-old heifer belonging to Por- tuguese. It was the only one the man owned. When the Portuguese missed his heifer he started on persistent search for her. If it had been the heifer of the company the chances are she would not have been missed so soon and when missed the search would not have been so persistent. At last the Portuguese found traces of her hide buried and also discovered the camp of Brown, Billings, Gaunce and Carr, who had killed her. He returned to Mendo cino City al once and Swore out a war rant for the arrest of four unknown persons.
 The constable went to their camp to make the arrest and found them too strong. They were able and to him seemed willing to make a fight
 The next morning the Sheriff re- turned with a posse. It was a damp, foggy morning. The outlaws had moved camp and while searching for them the posse was fired upon by unseen parties from a goose nest in redwood tree.
 The unerring guns of Billings and Brown found ballard and Wright, two estimable young men of Mendocino City. They fell mortally wounded.
 Thereupon the posse disappeared and the desperadoes started on a trip through painless mountains to escape
 For sixty-two days they fled and for sixty-two days. under the guidance and directions of J. M. Stanley of Mendo- cino, their trail was followed over mountains, through canyons and across streams.
 Sometimes the trail would De lost. Then hours and sometimes days were devoted to finding 1t. The pursuit hung doggedly on. Every hour of the time was filled with exciting events
 All this time no one suspected the good rr. Wheeler with being mixed up with these cattle thieves. This is the odd way in which his complicity was discovered:
 In searching their camp a tag, show ing a cost mark. was found. After many days search a tinsmith recog- nized the mark and he remembered having marked half a dozen drinking cups with the tags, which he said he had sold to pr. Wheeler.
 There was the first clew to the iden- tity of the men.
 Many proclaimed Wheeler's innocence and it devolved on c. c. Hamilton, now an attorney in Oakland, to make the
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Apple head-A rounded head, instead of fiat on top.
 Blaze-A white mark up the face. Brisket-The part of the body in front of the chest.
 Brush-The tail usually applied to sheep dogs.
 Butterfly nose-A spotted nose.
 Button ear-Where the tip falls over and covers the orifice.
 Cat Foot-A short, round foot; knuckies high and well developed
 Cheehy-When the cheek bones are Chest-Underneath dog from brisket chops-The pendulous lips of the bull- dogs.
 Cobby-Well ribbed up, short and com pact in portion. der blades and tops of hip joints
 Cow Hocks-Hocks that turn in. Dew Claw-Extra claw, found occasion ally on all breeds.
 Dewlap-Pendulous skin under the throat.
 Dish Faced-When the nose is higher than muzzle at the stop.
 Dudley Nose-A yellow or flesh colored nose.
 Elbow-The joint at the top of the fore arm.
 Feather-The hair at the back of the legs and under the tail
 Flag-A term for the tall.
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STRANGE PRACTICES
 IN CHINESE SURGERY.

TYR. J. J. MATIGNoN, after three
 1years' sojourn in Picking, says
 that study of Chinese medi- D cine convinces one that China is the paradise of routine. Even savages must learn something of disease by ex- perience, but in China the practice of medicine is so hedged about by cere- monial that it becomes imperative.
 A royal officer being wounded by an arrow, sent for surgeon to remove
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e N tn 70's the country was startled
 by the boldness and frequency of
 stage robberies in the Blue Noun
 tain section of Oregon. The rob-
 berries were not only bold, but re- munerative, and 1t seemed impossible to catch the guilty parties. For long time their operations were confined to Wells, Fargo & Co.'S express, and so long they escaped detection. At last, in & bitterly contested stage robbery, they added murder, individual robbery and the rifling of Uncle SaIn's mail.
 Then, by a combination of all the forces in clever detective work, the robbers were run down. Wheeler, Brown and Billings were convicted and sent to the State prison at San Quen- tin They were assigned to different duties in the hospital department
 It was while these men were serving their time behind the prison walls that they organized themselves to rob and plunder the people of the northern counties of the State. Individually and collectively, they were the shrewd- est. boldest and most desperate lot of men that ever gathered inside San Quentin cells for like purpose.
 Wheeler was finely educated, a good chemist and, as events subsequently showed, the master mind directing the movements of the band afterward known as the Mendocino outlaws.
 Brown had been a minister of the gospel was a pleasant taIker, appar- ently as mild a hammered man as any minister of the gospel. He had kindly blue eyes, an open, frank countenance, Ia ~.f rI -f,, CTS ever heard. He was sociable and fond of singing. But, oh, what change could come over the man. I have met him three times in action. Once he was the attacking party and twice the attacked. When in his fight ing temper his oaths were the wicked est l ever heard. His eyes seemed to turn green, as with unerring certain ty, they drew bead. He had tried his hardest to kill me. l knew he had killed my friends After he was secure in the iron cell upstairs at the Ukiah jail and stripped of his shooting irons, l used to hear his almost plaintive voice singing the songs with which he used to lead his flock in church. When no one else was in hearing he would acknowledge his part in all the crimes in which I knew he was a participant.
 One day he told me why he had left the ministry He said he was ready to die after he had killed two persons. I think he could have been blindfolded and placed any where west of the Rocky Mountains. and that, on remov- ing the blind, he could tell you where he was. His ideas of locality were most remarkable.
 Wheeler was the head and chief brains of the gang. He was a quiet man, and besides being a chemist he was a good dentist. His tawny complexion, dark hair and piercing black eyes sug- geSted Cherokee blood but his mast life was a sealed book. In directing the affairs of the band no one ever saw him conversing with them.
 After leaving San Quentin, in pursu-
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1t. Tn doing so he broke the arrow off inside the mans body, whereon he de- parted, leaving the patient to the care of his physician, because the custom of his country forbade him to meddle with anything below the surface of the skin.
 The Chinese literature Is rich in the number and size of medical volumes, but they are entirely commentaries and recompilations of the old masters who practiced their art at the time Hector bade farewell to Andromache on the wall of Try and of the land where Cleopatra was a child.
 The chief object of the author Of Chinese medical works is to make their theories as obscure and mysterious as possible. They bury their ideas under volumes of shadowy discourses even deeper than our medical man buries his under-words unpronounceable, un- known and unknowable to the ordi- nary layman.
 The Chinese make no dissections, and study anatomy from fantastically elab- orated charts where nerves, tendonS and blood vessels are confounded.
 Their lay figure for studying Is a bronze manikin bearing 3. large num- Der of punctures corresl onding to the lance cuts that may safely practtced on living subject.
 To pass an examination for a diplo- ma, the manikin is covered with paper and the surgeon locates these pune lures.
 The Chinese horror of surgery arises from religious notions rather than from fear of pain. According to their ideas, any attempt to improve upon ones body would be a direct insult to ones ancestors. Accordingly, surgical operations are little practiced.
 According to their teaching, the head is a solid bone, the brain being un- known to them. The heart rules the body; the seat of ideas of pleasure is the pit of the stomach the liver Is re- sponsible for sentiments of nobility and generosity, while the gall bladder dominates the courage of its owner.
 They believe that the body is com- posed of five elements-f1re, water, metal, wood and earth-and disease IS the disturbance of their equilibrium, and is caused by evil spirits.
 They are Heather Scientists, as 1t were, and either exercise these evil spirits by charms and incantations, circles and sprinkling, or else f yoke the aid of more powerful good spirits These good spirits must be called and propitiated by food and burning punkS.
 If a Chinese loses a member or sub mits to an operation, the amputated part is carefully preserved to be buried with him.
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Bowling alleys are being fitted with electric fixtures to indicate the moving of the pins, an electric circuit being made through a plate in the bottom of each pin, with wires running to dials or bells near the players end of the alley.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
SOMEONE WAS UNTRUTHFUL.
But Justice Austin Believed Miss
Pierce and Fined Joe Humphrey.

Some one has been lying" said Justice
Austin yesterday afternoon. after he heard
the case of Joseph Humphrey. cplored
man, who was accused by Esther Pierce
OF assault and battery. ''The corrohorat-
ing incidents. however. favor the woman's
story" Those corrohorating incidents
made il bad for Humphrey and led TO a
fine of 500 and costs. He gave notice of
an appeal.
Miss Pierce is a very energetic woman
fully capable OF taking care of herself She
works at the Peoples theater. She was on
her way home late at night with her cous-
in, Kitty Darling, a pretty girl with coal
black hair and flashing black eyes. Miss
Darling stepped into a restaurant and Miss
Pierce walked slowly up jefferson street
from Yesler way. Just below the Villa
house, according to her story, she met
Humphrey, who said he was 'tpow'fu!ly
fond of red-headed women" and grabbed
her arm. She yelled. jerked away and
picking up an ash box, threw il at Hum
phrey. Policeman Hamilton and Miss Oar
ling rushed 10 Miss Pierce's rescue and
Humphrey was arrested.
Humphrey said that Miss Pierce said
Hello. Babe as she walked toward him
but that as soon as she saw he was COL
ored she commenced calling him names,
saying she was a lady. Humphrey said
that he told her she did not act like a lady,
and that then she threw box at him and
struck him on the head with stick
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
]. ]. HILL AND THE B. ( 0.
GENERALLY CONCEDED THAT HE
NOW CONTROLS THAT SYSTEM.
John ". Keadrick, General MANA
ger Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
way. Said to Have Been offered
\ Similar Position with b. 4 o.

II has been no secret for weeks that
President James J. Hin, OF the Great
Northern. has been seeking terminal on
the Atlantic sea5oard- There Is now but
little doubt that Mr.. Hill has secured suf-
ficien, control Of the Baltimore & Ohio sys-
tenn to be in position TO dictate something
Of its policy. OF course. the control OF the
Baltimore & Ohio does not complete his
chain OF lines from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific; there is q gap between Chicago
and St. Paul 10 be filed. bur TO a man OF
Mr. Hiips fertile brain obstacles only serve
to sharpen his wit, and bis admirers do
not doubt that he will secure the line when
the proper time comes.
at is not true that the president Of the
Great Northern railroad became Interested
in the Baltimore & Ohio through ]. P.
Morgan and his friends said a man who
is familiar with Baltimore & Ohio affairs,
although not identified with the company.
The Morgan people are simply holders of
bonds and have no say in the re-organiza-
ton Of the company; that is being done by
the stockholders, through Speyer & co. and
Kuhn, Loeb IL Co These firms earned the
gratitude Of MIR. Hill few years ago by
procuring $l5.gn0o for him al time when
he was obliged 10 have the money. They
asked Mr. Hill 10 help them carry out their
plan OF reorganization Of the Baltimore q
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

fIuvioinS against the division Of bonded
uistficss: Upon this clause the schoni
s noaM q, OF Columbia felt safe in disccn;inu-
ctner end OF the district. The history az
s sas case = long one and the question nov
ssens 20 ninse. NOT on the equity. but law
ss a us os me case The school district
asIsaoh q the county commissioner the
~. o. the communication state tina,
~. .a eaefcise ot tucscious insight viii sue-
ma1os.,y should always rule One-third OF
t - enssnren attending tie school in Column
- reside N the southern part OF the dis
ea. on, tns law provides tia, When q bord-
~ olst.icf = divided II does not release
any portfon from the bonded indebtedness.
zen she attorney general was asked for
4 decision en the matter, he was asked by
paI1es not interested 10 the division OF The
ulsuiet, az certain facts were set forth
~, ~ mac no relative bearing on the chief
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
HEART DISEASE.
SOME FACTS REGARDING THE
RAPID INCREASE OF
HEART TROUBLES.
Do Not he Alarmed, hut Look for
the Cause.

Heart troubles. at least among Amer!-
cans ara certainly increasing and while
this may be largely due 10 the excitement
and worry of American business life il is
more often the result of weak stonachs. OF
poor digestion.
Real organic heart disease is lncurahle;
but not one ease IN a hundred of heart
trouble Is organic.
The close relation between heart trouble
and noor digestion IS becat;ae both organs
are controlled by branches Of the same
great nerves, the sympathetic and Pneu-
mogastric
In another way. also the heart Is affacte?
tv that form Of poor digestion, which
causes gas and fermentation from half d.
sested food; there Is feeling of opprcs-
sion and heavineSs In the caest caused by
pressure of the d-stendei stomach on the
heart and lungs. interfering with nett
action. hence arises palptatioa and short
breath.
Poor digestion also polsons the hood.
makes & thin and watery, which irrltateg
ard weakeGs the heart.
The most sensible treatment for heart
trouble l. TO improve tire digestion and 70
insure the promp: assimilation - food
This can best he done by the regular us~
after meas. Of SoH2e SAFE. pleasant and e.
fective digestive preparation. like Stuar1's
pvspepela Tablets. which mag lie found
\. most drug stores and which contain
valuable. harmless digestive elements N
a pleasant, cous easent form.
l. ia safe to say that the regular persist
ent esa Of Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets 1T
meal time Viii cure any form % stoma n
trouble except cancer 81 the stomach
Full sized packages -. me tablets sold ~
druggists AZ - cents.
Little book on stomach troubles mailed
free Address Stuart Co. Marshall. Micn.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18

1T was the big shell and shrspnei."
said A soldier from Cuba, that made us
hug the ground. but IL vas the little
NsuSer bullets that killed cur 'nen." II
Is the same IN every d8y NE, People
shiVar with panic az the mention OF small
~ nr yellow fever hut Il "a the little
disorders 81 the stomach that really do
the most killing The best medicine for
,ae stomach ia Hostetter's stomach Bit
ters IL cures indigestion and dyspepsia
/; IS IuSt as good Tor women as fer men.
Fer n rundown. Getiiitated condition
nothing - So good or SO sure 10 cure,
Jfasf-,t.r's stomach BitterS is an old
ts.,,s rsr,eEx. ], has stood the test for
wears. and It's popularity Increases Gay
Ia daS.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-18
BALLARD lRGLARY CASE
Riley Says He Has Not Received
Fair Treatment.

James Riley. the alleged Ballard burglar
believes that he IS not Receiving fair treat
ment Al the hands OF Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney Hart ana Justice Austin
IF anyone had been sent TO Palmer"
said Riley. 40 investigate my story, he
would have found out that | told the truth
When the case was continued Monday
understood that some one was to look into
the matter Today was brought into court
and bound over in $500 bonds for trial.
Before Riley was taken 10 the county Jail
he appealed 10 Justice Austin 10 have his
story investigated. The justice said that
ne would have an opportunity - vindicate
himself In the superior court. Tie just -
told Riley that he had learned that his
testimony at the Murphy murder trial in
Eastern Washington was inpeached. and.
such being the case. he did no; feel war
ranted in putting The county to the expense
Of sending an officer 10 Palmer.
The trial in question was conducted be-
fore Judge Mcdonald who is row presiding
for Judge Jacobs. Mr. Har; refuses TO say
whether the information about Riley came
from him or not. Riley empaaticaily de-
MES that he was impeachei