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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

hunters, and landed at ST. Augustine,
Fla, where he established a church and
mission Segui settled in a wilderness
when he arrived in Florida, but in a
short time he became a great friend
of the Seminoles, as some of the docu
ments prove. Said Segui:
THE Spanish government gave a
grant of land which embraced fully
5000 acres. This land, on the old rec
ord books, is designated as the 'Segui
grant, and is now in the possession of
persons who assert that they are heirs
to the original grant of the Spanish
crown.
Father Segui mysteriausly disap-
peared from st. Augustine, but was To-
Gated in Havana in the latter part of
1900 He again disappeared, and after
that time there is no record to show
whittier he went.
HE blessed a cross of pearls, which
he gave TO one of his brothers who ac-
companied him from the Balearic Is
lands to Florida, and who returned to
Spain upon the disappearance of the
priest This brother married and had
a son, who was my father. He died %
years ago, and my mother was buried
in the Flatbush cemetery eight years
ago. With the cross of pearls in her
right hand before she died she told me
there were riches in store for me, but
did not know what she meant then,
as l had known little of the family his
tory until 1 examined some papers af-
ter her death.
my attention to the Segui property
in Florida was attracted by a notice I
saw in a newspaper forwarded to me
from Barcelona, asking for information
for the heirs of the deceased Father
Segui. On consulting the papers and
records kept by my father. 1 became
convinced that was the legal heir to
the property, and called on the Span
ish consul, to whom l stated my case.
The latter promised to aid me, and I
am informed that he is now trying to
establish my ownership of the land.
The Spanish consul wrote me a few
days ago that he had every reason to
believe nv claim was valid"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
JONES IS EX0NERATED
Special Master Lewis Finds the
Charges UnfOunded.
FINDINGS FILED III THE o. S.
DIsrRICF COURT.
Tie Accused Attorney Cleared From
Each and All of the Eight Ac-
cusations In the Disbarment Pro-
ceedings.

Some time ago D. P. Tarpey filed in
the United States district court sensa-
tional charges against Attorney B. H.
Jones of Brigham City. together with
a petition for Jones disbarment. Judge
Marshall appointed Attorney s. H
Lewis as special master to hear the
charges ana report to the court. Mr..
Lewis yesterday fled his findings with
Clerk Leicher exonerating The accused
attorney on every charge.
The findings are as follows:
First find that B. II. Jones did not
at any time commit perjury or perju-
rieS in case No. 81, in the First judi
cial district court of tie state of Utah
held at Brigham City, IN which r. H.
Jones is plaintiff and b. H Jones is
defendant, nor Gid said alleged perJu-
RES appear Of record in said cause or
were shown by the files or Transcripts
Of testimony therein.
Second-I find that 3. II. Jones did
not at any time in the case of H M.
Browning vs. Lille Bland, pending in
the First Judicial district court of Utah
insert in the complaint filed therein a
slip of paper which was not included in
the original complaint in said cause at
the time the original complaint was
fled
Third find that the assignment set
out in the complaint in case No. 81
in the First judicial district court of
she state of Utah entitled E. A. Box
vs.. d. p. Tarpey ct al. was signed and
executed by r. K Wilson and that said
Wilson appeared before said B. H.
Jenes, a notary pubic, and acknowl-
edged to him that he, Wilson, executed
the said assignment.
FOURTH find that B. II. Jones. IN
his practice before the department of
the interior in the United States land
Office, die not at any time, issue stereo-
typed af1idavits setting out causes Of
continuances in cases or in any case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
RICHES IN STORE FOR SEGU|,
AN OLD SPANISH GRANT WORTH
THREE MILLIONS.
What a Poor Man In Long Island
Discovered Among the Family
Records of a Century.

New York, Jan. Sin the Maspeth
section of Newton, L. l., lives Antonio
Segui, who has wife and three chill
dren, who believe that he is the sole
heir to an estate in Florida, the value
of which is estimated at s9,OO0,O0O. Sc
gui asserts that he is a descendant of
the Rev. Father Segui, a Catholic
priest. Father Segui settled in Florida
in the early part of the present CEN
fury, having emigrated from Spain with
20 other natives of the Balearic Isles.
Records which he showed yesterday
testify to the fact that one Antonio Sc
gui was born at Mahon, in Minorca, in
ITO, and that he was ordained as
Catholic priest in 1871.
Nine years after the records show
that young Segui embarked on a yes
sci with a party of 20 venturesome gold
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
DEMURRER ovERRULED
To the Information Recently Filed
Against Daniel Gullivan.

In the matter of Daniel Gullivan, charg-
ed with having criminal relations with
Alice Simpson. a girl under the age of
consent, arguments on demurrer TO the
information were made by Assistant
County Attorney Putnam for the state,
and by Attorney Fred McGurrin for the
defendant.
The demurrer was based on the alleged
unconsututionality of the law the de-
PENDANTS counsel claiming that the law
against forhication was amended to make
the present law regarding age of consent.
by It's title, and that the constitution pro-
vides that no act shall be revised or
amended by its title. Judge Norrell, how
ever, overruled the demurrer.
Another contention of Mr. McGurrin will
der the code for a crime committed before
jar 1. 1888, the date the code went into
effect.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

New York Press: Oscillation was the
thief os mine.
A man generally feels about as things
taste.
A mans clothes are a part of him;
woman is a part of her clothes.
Probably every old bachelor gets at
least three things from women every
Christmas that he has never seen, and
has TO ask somebody what they use
them for.
If it really gets to be the fashion in
this country for women to be photo
graphed in their night-dresses, their
husbands ought to shame them out of
it by getting their pictures taken in
their night-shirts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
TRUANcY CASE.
Young Albert Malquist Given An
other Opportunity.

Albert F. Malquist boy of Is. was
brought before Judge Norrell on charge
of truancy and general incorrigibility He
was arrested some time ago and after a
preliminary hearing before Justice Stew
art, was sent to the district court with a
view of his commitment to the reform
school.
AT the hearing yesteray Truant Officer
Miller, Prof. Webster, DR.. Millspaugh and
the boys father and mother were ex-
amined, proving that the lad would not
go to school, that he was addicted to the
use of tobacco and kept company with
bad companions. He seemed penitent,
however. and on his promising to do bet
ter sentence was suspended during good
behavior and the lad discharged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

ao2ear in two years after the appoint
ment of an administrator. the estate will
be escheated to the state school fund.
On this state of facts Judge Hiles made
an order that the amount of Crowleys
estate. s3,564.16 be turned into the state
treasury, for the benefit of the school
OTHER PROBATE MATTERS.
Estate of Martin Correll. deceased: or
der made approving annual account of
administrator.
Estate. of S. H. Parker, deceased; order
made for family allowance of $50 a month
from Nov. Il, 1897.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

District Court Orders.
Frank Stanley VS.. A L. Fothering-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
Arrested For Threatening to Kill.

A warrant for the arrest of John Raw
was yesterday issued from Justice Mar
gets court. Rays wife swore to the
complaint, which charges her husband
with threatening to kill her and ex-
presses the fear that he will cary his
side at 142 Dunbar avenue and the de-
PENDANT will have hearing probably on
Monday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
PROSPECTORS LOST.
Party of Twelve Probably Drowned
in an Alaskan River.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-A letter re-
ceived by the Alaska Commercial Company
dated Unalaska, July Is, says: Information
received here is to the effect that an entire
party of twelve prospectors, calling them
selves the Columbia Exploring Company
together with the Rev. r. Weber, a Mora
Wan missionary, his wife and two native
pilots bound for the Kuskovin river, have
been lost Not long ago, the Rev. Weber
was asked by some of.the prospecting party
who. were on board the steamer Lakme, to
go with them pilot and interpreter, with
two Indian pilots, up the Kuskovin river. He
agreed to do so, taking his wife and child
along. On June "A. Weber met the party
who had a fifty-foot steamer and two
barges. They were at Good News bay, but
were short one boat, which was needed to
carry their stores. On July "a the natives
say, the small steamer, with two barges in
tow, left Good News bay to proceed up the
river. Soon after their departure a terrific
storm arose. A few days later the natives
reported stranded barge ashore on the
north side of the river. 1t was laden with
supplies, all of which were appropriated by
the finders Later on a raft was found
adrift. Nothing has been heard of any of
the seventeen persons who started up the
river and all are thought to have persisted
The names of the prospectors have not been
aScartained
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the appeal signed by the officers there. The
Issuance of the statement was the result
and 1t speaks for itself.
This evening General Shafter supplement-
ed his first dispatch with a second on the
same subject as follows:
In connection with my telegram OF the
Sd inst. and the letter Of the general officers
to me of same date, / have the honor to
say that since then / have talked with the
division commanders, and they join me in
saying that the first report was made so
strong because of the weakened and ex-
than Is per cent. of which have been ill
with very weakening malarial fever, last
ing from four to six days, and which leaves
every man too much broken down TO be of
any service and in no condition TO with
stand an epidemic of yellow fever. For
now and a little later. with plenty of tent
age to cover them and not subject to any
nardShlps. and with plenty of nouriShing
tood. the danger, in my opinion and that Of
the division commanders. would be reduced
to minimum
1t having been stated that much of the
hardships suffered by the troops of General
Skaters army at Santiago was due to the
large number of officers in that army who
were appointed from civil and political life,
Adjutant General Corbin pointed tonight
that the statement could not be correct.
Skaters corps had been appointed from
civil life. He referred to the record which
shows that there were 101 general and
general staff officers engaged in the San
tiago campaign, and that only fourteen of
this number were appointed from civil life.
With but one exceptionI,MaJor General
Wheeler, In command of the cavalry divi-
son-all of the officers in Skaters corps
who were appointed from civil life are in
subordinate positions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
sHAFTER NOT TO BLAME.
He Is Not Responsible for Lack of
Proper Hospital Facilities.


WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-General Shafter,
phatically denies that he is responsible for
the Inadequate provision made for the sick
and wounded brought from Santiago to the
United States on the Seneca and Concho.
Everything possible. he says, was sent with
the sick and wounded The matter of short
age of water, he says, is inexcusable. He
concludes his report as follows:
There is no excuse for lack of food as
there has at all times been plenty of that.
have no doubt that many more were put
on the ship than should have been, owing
TO the great desire to get home, as they
had the, fear of yellow fever, and were al
most wholly without hospital accommoda-
ton. The sick and wounded had only the
clothing on that they wore into battle, and,
OF course, that was ragged and worn out by
the time they reached home. There was
none to issue to them at the time they left
and their own extra clothing they could not
get at. There has never been case of suf-
fering here that could be remedied by the
means at hand that was not attended TO.
The surgeons have worked as well as any
men that ever lived. and their complaint
has been universal of lack of means and
one could have foreseen all that would be
required, but / will not quietly submit to
having the onus laid on me for the lack of
these hospital facilities"
General Shafter speaks in high terms of
DR.. La Garde. and says that he has worked
under the most disadvantageous circum-
stances. From the day the, forces left
Tampa until the present time he says that
there have never been sufficient medical
attendants or medicines for the daily wants
of the command. Three times since reach
ing Cuba has the command" he saws. 'bern
almost entirely without medicines" This
statement he says. is made to him by the
medical directors, and on one occasion they
suggested taking medicines away from the
Spanish hospital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
What to Do with Hawaii.
Philadelphia Record.

Now that we have the Hawaiian islands
on our hands, what to do with them is the
immediate puzzle. 1t has been suggested
that the group should be constituted new
county for the State of California. This
would be an easy solution if California
should be willing; but California especially
breads any further additions of Asiatic ma
tivity to her population. Hawaii is as unfit
for separate statehood as for incorporate
with one of the Pacific States. The islands
will probably have to be created an outlying
territory until the people shall have rpened
and fitted themselves to become self-gov-
erning community. The fact that mere
fraction of the inhabitants of Hawaii have
been able to overthrow the native govern
ment and to maintain their usurped authori-
ty even to the transfer of the islands to
the sovereignty Of the United States does
not speak well for the bulk of the islanders
They are not fit to become citizens of this
country, and it is doubtful if they ever will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
CITY PARTLY IN ASHES
BEST PORTION OF BISMARCK, N. D.,
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Brief Time-AbOut Half Insured.

BISMARCK, n. D., Aug. Sire de-
stroyed the best portion of the city of Bis
marck this evening, licking up hundreds of
thousands of collars worth of property.
The flames originated in the agents office
of the Northern Pacific depot. Almost be-
fore they were discovered the entire build
ing and the immense warehouse of the COM
pany were in flames. Oils nd powder con-
tributed fuel and before the flames could
be checked they had spread to the block of
brick buildings across the alley, destroying
the Tribune office, Hares hardware store
and an entire row of buildings. The flames
then leaped the street to The magnificent
First National Bank buildings, which
melted away in few minutes. The Cen
trail block followed and the flames spread
to the postoffice, sweeping over the entire
block and carrying down the postoffice,
Merchants Bank block Griffin block and
all the intermediate frame and brick struc-
lures. The fire then spread across the street
and burned Kupitzs store and The greater
part of the block. The flames also spread
north into residence block and destroyed
1t. The firemen were powerless to check the
inroads of the fire, which spread IC scores
Of buildings, licking them up as so much
waste paper.
The origin of the fire is unknown, as no
one was in the freight Office when it started.
1t is impossible to estimate the loss tonight.
All wires are burned, the Western Union
office being one of the first to go. The rail-
road office also was destroyed. A tenn
porary cut-in was made to handle impera-
tive business.
The following buildings were destroyed
completely: Penwarden's confectionery
store, Morris's shoe store, Hare's hardware
store, the Tribune Publishing Company,
Bra1thwaite's shoe store, First National
gerry, j. c. Countz's cigar factory, Gorsuch' s
bakery, 'Wen's cigar factory Small S
restaurant, Wilcox's dry goods store,
Phelpss stationery store, Sweets grocery,
tery's grocery, Masses paint shop, the Re-
view othce, Kupttz's grocery, Merics pool
room Booths restaurant, MorhauSS sta
tionery store, De CRAFTS clothing store
metz's harness. shop, Justice Tibbal's
office, Dohls clothing store, the United
States land office, the surveyor generals Of
nee, Best,s dry goods store, the Northern
Paeiilc offices, baggage and express office
and freight warehouse, Wills's seed store,
Melton,s Bank building, lawyers offices of
r. II. Register. Boucher & Philbrick, State S
Attorney Allen, County Judge f. Orttfort,
G. d. Edick, Alexander Hughes A. T. Pat
terson and several others. Every drug store
in the city is burned and all the grocery
stores but two or three, also two newspaper
offices and the great bulk of the business
portion of the city, with several blocks of
residences. Many people are homeless The
Sheridan House had a narrow escape, but
was saved. The line of fire extended from
the Northern Pacific tracks to Thayer street
on the north and Fourth to Third streets on
east, and west. Insurance may cover half
the loss.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. TUESDAY AUGUST g. 1898

short time counted more than 10000 mem
bers. 1t called itself by the name of Kali
punan," which signifies society of cooper
alton and of protection for rural socialists
1t was then that the government of the
philippines. confounding the members of
The 'katipunan' with the Philippine League
and the Freemasons undertook against
the natives the policy of repression. cruel
and merciless. which has been so fatal. An
order was given to arrest Aguinaldo, who
was suspected of being one of the most
active chiefs of the Freemasons. The
Spanish officer charged with this mission
presented himself before the dwelling with
d dozen native soldiers armed with bayo-
nets. Aguinaldo without an instant's hest
tation knocked out the brains of the unhap-
py officer: then. haranguing the escort. he
shamed them at being in the service of
power which for so many centuries had OPP
pressed their country. His appeal to re-
bellion was without doubt eloquent, for the
little troupe acclaimed him, and, putting
him at its head, went out of linus gaining
the wooded heights which surround the viii
lage.
This was the nucleus of the insurgent
army, which now consists of not less than
$4,000 combatants. having for its unques-
toned chief the black-balled student of the
University of ST. Tomas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
Condescending Approval.


New YORK Post.
The financial plank of the platform of
the Indiana Republicans is not quite so clear
as that adopted in Iowa, but it is much bet
ter than that cf Illinois. It has often been
Il is explicit enough on the free coinage of
silver at Is to 1, regarding it as absolutely
certain to debase our money and destroy our
private and public credit and cause gen.
eral business disa ster." But it is rather in
definite on the question of currency reform.
1t recognizes the necessity fer "comrrehen-
sive and enlightened monetary legislation"
and favors giving the declaration of the st.
Louis platform about the gold standard "the
vitality of law" but prOrounces for no spe
cific measures. Perhaps we ought to regard
it as satisfactory step in advance To have
political conventions recognize the necessity
of monetary legislation at all. If the Re-
puhlicars are committed on this point, the
conditions are favorable for getting Il meas
ure that will relieve the country from an
eVer-recurring reTil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
NO SERIOUS DANGER NOW.
Shafter Informs the President of Con-
ditiOns at Santiago.

ultlDns AT santiago.
WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-General Shafter
has telegraphed the President regarding the
publication of the ''round-robin'' signed by
the general officers of his command. as fol-
lows:
I can very readily see what intense ex-
citement the publication must have occas-
ioned-a great deal more than the situa-
ton warranted. The situation is greatly ag-
gravated from the fact that before any of
the men were taken i'll they were thor
oughly exhausted. At least 70 per cent of
the command had been down with maIarial
fever from which they recover very slowly
and are in no condition to stand an attack
of yellow fever or dysentery Placed here
now in the condition in which they were
when they came here do not believe they
would be in any particular danger. The regi-
ment OF immunes that recently arrived is
not suffering at all and l don't believe they
VIII They can keep out of the sun. are
we'll clothed and we'll fed What put my
command in its present condition was the
twenty days of the campaign when they had
nothing but meat bread and coffee with
out change of clothes. without any shelter
whatever and during period twice as
stormy as IL has been since the surrender
Fresh troops reaching here in the middle
OF August, with good camps, good water.
abundance of tentage, which they will find
nerS-need not dpprehend serious danger.
i thank you for the high regard in which
you hold my command and the value of the
services they have rendered. 1t pays for an
the suffering we have endured. l have read
this to Generals Wheeler, Lawton Bates
and Kent, who concur with me in the view
expressed above"
The issuance of the statement from Gen.
Shafter was the sequence of a conference
held at the White House this afternoon be-
tween the President Secretary Alger and
Secretary Long 1t was felt that the state
EeNtS a no
troops at Santiago might create a grave inn
preston abroad. While the statement as
Issued, was brief. it occupied almost an
hour Ia its consideration, II being felt that
the utmost precaution was essential al the
present stage OF negotiations between this
country and Spain. which il had been first
felt might be al least impeded by knoWi-
edge Of the serious conditions revealed In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-09
TRIBUTE TO BISMARCK.
Address of Coincidence from the Fed
eral Council to Prince Herbert.

BERLIN, Aug. S.-The Federal Council
has sent Prince Herbert Bismarck an adj
dress of coincidence 1t refers to the de-
ceased as 1.-The great, heroic first chancellor
of the united fatherland,' and continues:
1.-The two decades during which he worked
at our head have become imperishable land
marks of Germany's greatness and welfare,
and his spirit was so powerful that it will
continue to make itself felt for centuries to
come. His name will. always be honored as
the supreme essence of true patriotism and
Misunderstanding statecraft. To him is as
sured the everlasting gratitude of the Fed
eral Council and of the whole German ma
ton"
Count and Countess William Won Bis
marck have gone to their estate at Koenigs-
berg, east Prussia, and Prince Herbert Won
Bismarck is expected to follow on Wednes-
day. The construction of the Bismarck
mausoleum will be begun Immediately. The
work has been instructed to Professor Won
Scharnbeck, the Hanover architect