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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
ABOUT FIFTY HOUSES oEuupCn
fian OF Elimination of the Dexxex
Home Committee

The Dewey home committee has reca;vad
about fifty propositions for the sale of houses
for the admiral. The prices range from SO ON
TO $4,000 the one being too high and the
other too low for the desired place. Prom
ositions will continue to be received for
several days.
On Saturday or the first of next week the
members OF this committee will take car
riaees and visit the houses which have been
offered They will merely take an outside
view of the houses and their locations.
They VIII then eliminate such as thew feel
Will not suit Admiral Dewey and later will
visit those left for close inspection When
this inspection has been made and a half
dozen or so houses selected, the admiral
Will be called in and will visit the houses.
giving his own opinion of which one he
wants.
The fund for the purchase of the home
has not grown to any large extent since
the FIRST Of the week and not much more
money II expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
Protection Against Ticket ForRerfes
From the Philadelphia Press

Inc railroads running to Chicago have
been obliged to take extraordinary meas
ures to overcome the forgeries and other
crimes committed by ticket scalpers Here
tofore the stamps and signatures required
on return tickets sold at reduced rates to
large gatherings have been freely counter
1elted by the "scalpers," or ticket brokers'
and the work was so skillfully done as to
readily deceive conductors. The companies
nave now devised a special seal with an
embossed design similar to the lathe work
used on paper money, and this has been
copyrighted If this seal is counterfeited
the culprits will be prosecuted in the
United States courts. Heretofore prosecu-
tlons OF this kind have been in state courts.
where the money and influence of the rich
brokers' had more or less effect They will
not so readily risk prosecution in the fed
eral courts. But what comment on our
AVS IS round IN the necessity of the roads
which have to adopt such measures to nro-
tect themselves from wholesale fraud.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
Baltimore Markets,

BALTIMORE, October 12.-Flour Quiet and easy
western super, S2.35aS2.45; western extra, S25Oa
$500; western family, s3.35as3. 20; winter wheat
patent, So sOa$4O5; spring wheat patent SIOOa
$425; spring wheat straight, So Goa So 7O-receipts
1915 barrels: exports, 6621 barrels. Wheat dull
754s; steamer No. red. 6ssla69-reeeipts, Fl 90
bushels; exports. 5000 bushes-southern by sam
pie 66a74; southern on grade, 70aa73La. Corn firm
mixed spot and the month. 39a39t4; November
and December. 1888, a39; November or December.
new old 37Aa37le; January, 37a374; steamer
mixed, 3712a37A- receipts. ~, 1851 bushels; ex-
ports, 9S14 bushels-southern white corn 41a4IIa;
white, 2sisa3O; No. mixed, 2sa2sh Rye firm
No. nearby, 6Oa6o1s; No. 2 western, 6iIa. Hay
continue firm, but not so active-steam to Liver
pool per bushel. 4hd. a43.d October; Cork for or
ders per quarter IS 101ad. October; Ss. 1Olad No
vember. Sugar strong, unchanged. Butter Arm, un-
changed. Eggs firm. unchanged Cheese firm, un-
changed.
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sCHWAN AGAIN ADVANCES.
Gen. Otis Telegraphs That Opposition
is Expected.

zen. OTIS IeleBraDhs Ihat Opposition
is Expected.
Active military operations are in prog
ress in Luzon today, Is shown by the
following cablegram from General Otis:
MANILA. October u, $780,
"Adjutant General, Washington:
General Schwan's column is moving on
Sapano and Das Marinas today, where OPP
position is expected His artillery and
wagon transportation are returning to
Bacoor by way of Rosario. A column of
800 men is marching from linus to sup
port Schwan If necessary. General Young
at north has occupied Arayat, his supplies
being moved up Rio Grande by cascoes to
that point. General Lawton will command
the column when full concentration is eff
fected. General Young's loss today was
one enlisted man. wounded yesterday. The
insurgents attacked the Angeles line but
were quickly repulsed. six enlisted men be-
ing slightly wounded. OTIS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
Hines. of Senator Scott.

Information has been received here that
United States Senator N. b. Scott of West
Virginia is confined to his bed by Illness
at Morgantown. in the state named, and
that he. Is likely to be detained there for
a week or more. The senator went to Nor
gentown Tuesday to be a participant in
the exercises attending the presentation
of sword to Capt. F1ench q. Chadwick
Of the navy. He became i'll while there
and had to remain under the care of ply
sicianA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
REINFORCEMENT FOR OTIS.
The Columbia Reaches Manila With
the 9th Infantry.

The adjutant general received a telegram
this morning from Gen. Otis saying that
the transport Columbia arrived at Manila
last evening, having had no casualties on
the trip. He says also that the transport
Warren will leave Manila on the 10Th in
slant, and that the Columbia will start
back for San Francisco as soon as possible.
The Columbia left San Francisco Septem-
Der s. with headquarters and five companies
of the 5ith Volunteer Infantry, Col. L. D.
w. Kennon, commanding, a total of thr-
teen officers and $50 enlisted men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
GRAVE ILLNESS,
Mr.. Robert o. HOltzman a SufYere
From Brjght's Disease.

From Brjght's Disease.
Mr.. Robert o. Hoffman, the well-known
dealer in real estate, is dangerously i'll of
Bright's disease at his residence, 9OS 10th
street northwest. Mr.. Holtzman has not
been a well man since July 8, but UP to
Saturday last has attended to his business
and to social duties with his characteristic
energy. Sunday evening he complained of
excessive weakness and retired at 0 O'Clock.
since which time he has been confined to
his bed. Yesterday his condition was crit
ical In the extreme, but this morning he
rallied somewhat and his physicians were
much encouraged by the change 1t Ia
feared, however. by the members OF Mr..
Holtzman's household that he will not sur
viVe the attack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12

Two Companies Doing ExcelIen
Work as Scouts.

Work as Scouts.
Two companies of Macabebe warriors
have enlisted In the service Of the United
States as scouts under the command of
Lieutenant Matthew A Batson of the 4th
Cavalry, an officer who distinguished him
self in the Santiago campaign. In a cable
message to the War Department on this
subject General Otis says:
General Lawton permitted to organize
two companies of Macabebe scouts under
Lieutenant Batson, 4th Cavalry, assisted
by competent officers of the army. They
are performing excellent work in rivers
and swamps on north and east shore of La
guna de Bal, arresting robbers and secur-
ing rifles. Their boats the only transport
tation required. Compensation half that
of soldiers, paid from civil funds"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
Telephone Company Defendant

Proceedings in equity for injunction were
instituted today against the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company by VIII
liam B. King. engaged in business at 91s
F street. and by John Kennedy, who is To-
Gated at 18th and H streets northeast. It
is sought to enjoin the threatened removal
of telephones. owing to the refusal Of the
compliments to pay a rental higher than
the rate fixed by the act Of June 80 1895
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
TEMPLE ESTATE EXECUTORS.
They File Suit Against Presbyterian
Board of Home Missions

George Wilcox. Francis E. Dana and
Joseph J. Darlington, as executors and
trustees. late this afternoon filed suit in
equity against the board Of home missions
of the Presbyterian Church of the United
OF America, and ten others, asking the
court for instructions as executors and
trustees under the Gil of the late Mary ].
Gunton Temple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
Miss Lindblom Married.

CHICAGO. October 12.-Miss Vesta Raven
Lindblom, daughter Of Robert Lindblom,
was married here last night to Lieut. Clas
AXE PAUL. Of the Skareska Dragons. Swe-
den. Lieut.. and Mrs. PAUL. will sail this
week from New York for their new home
In Ystad, Sweden.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
Mitchell Insurance Case.

The hearing of the suit at law to recover
5000 on an insurance policy, instituted by
Milton c. Mitchell against the Potomac In
surance Company of Georgetown, was con-
tinued today in Circuit Court No. 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12
Mrs. Clark Granted a Divorce.

A decree was signed by Justice Hagner,
In Equity Court No. 2, late this afternoon,
granting Elizabeth M. Clark divorce from
John r. Clark. Habitual drunkenness on
the part of the latter was alleged. The De-
titioner Is also allowed to resume her maid
On name. Steibel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-12

Grain, ProvisiOns and Cotton Markets.
Furnished by w B. Hibbs & Co., bankers
and brokers. 1419 ST.. members New York
stock exchange, correspondents Messrs La
denburg, Thalmann & Co.. New York.
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toward the drifts along the Buffalo river,
east of Dundee.
One of the special correspondents at
Ladysmith expresses the opinion that
Boer commando of some 200 men visited
New Castle on Tuesday. made purchases
and then withdrew. This, he suggests. may
have given rise to the reports regarding
the occupa ton of Laing's Mex.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-27
Flow Pioneer "DM' Gardner
Defended the Flag at Car
son City in 1861.

The incident above alluded to - ses
told in his own words:
Yes, I've had some pretty close cal
but that little scrap in Carson City Was
one of those affairs that a man doesn't
care to run up against more'n once in
his life.
You see, it was this way. 1 was run
ming a saloon over in Carson City, New,
in 81. 1t was a regular red-hot rebel
town, cause, you see, about nine
tenths Of the inhabitants were South
erners.
"One day, about the LIST Of August,
the messenger rode into town, his horse
covered with foam and before he was
fairly on the ground, the news of the
battle Of Bull Run had spread through
that camp like a prairie fire.
Right in the middle of town the boys
had put up a pretty good sized flag
staff and the next day after the news
came of the battle of Bull Run 1 heard
that some Of the ladies had met and
were making a rebel flag. which was
going to be run up in place of the
stars and stripes.
II told 'em at the time, says I, II you
try to take down that American flag
you'll have to do it over my dead body.
II was only one of handful of Yam
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ladies who made the rebel flag. He was
trying to put an end to the unequal
struggle, when the long keen blade of q
bowie-knife was buried In his heart.
Poor fellow! He was brave man, John
was.
About the same time that poor John
fell some one hit me clip on top of the
head that mashed in my skull and
Well, didn't know anything more until
L woke up in the hospital
Nobody expected I'd live. But told
EN- when they all come stringin' in to
the hospital to see me, l told EN- I'd be
alive twenty-five years after the fell
lows that tried to kill me were in their
graves.
AS 1t turned out, I was right. you
see Bill Mayfield was killed, not long
after, in Placerville. Idaho, by gam
bier, and Cherokee Bob was strung up
for numbering two soldiers.
Henry Plummer, the third one, was
afterward Sheriff of Boise County,
Montana. Road agents were pretty
thick in that part of the country just
about that time and the strangest thing
about 1T was that every time a stage
was held up the robbers made big
haul
Folks began to get kind of suspi
clouS and started little quiet investi-
cation. They discovered that Sheriff
RUNNER was standing in with the
road agents. Yes, sir, that's a fact a
few days after the truth came out
Hummer left for parts unknown-by
the hemp line.
Il was in bed for two or three months
after that fight and the people in Car
son couldn't do enough for me. After
got well, Governor Nye of Nevada gave
me commission as second lieutenant
of Company A, Nevada Volunteers.
Would 1 do it again If 1 had to?
What defend the flag, you mean? I'm
q pretty old man, but while there's a
breath In my body or q bit Of strength
stripes"
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~ TABLED with bowie = knives,
e shot, and dubbed almost to
7 death, all at the same time. and
yet living to tell the tale! 1t
seems almost incredible, and yet
: William Gardner of Sacramento bears
on his head and body the indisputable
evidence Of his thrilling experience. and
the array OF long-healed wounds is to
him a badge of honor, for he received
, them while defending the STARS and
Stripes"
William ST Clare Gardner came to
: California with Commodore Sloat as a
powder monkey" on the United States
ship Congress. During the lombard
ment Of Vera Cruz he received wounds
for which he was afterward honorably
discharged from the navy.
Like many other pioneers William
Gardner. or Bill" as he is Familiarity
called. has made and lost two or three
fortunes. In the capital city's golden
days he was associated with Frank
Rhoades in the draying business, and it
was a poor days work that brought in
only SIS.
His life has been full of adventure
and hairbreadth escapes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-27
First Nlan in California to Vuear a Dress Suit
s Pioneer Who Created : Sensation on
The Streets Of Sacramento IN
Early DAYS.

stout-hearted and adventurous younS
fellow in these days, and. besides, be
dearly loved Joke. He was well
known and we'll liked in Sacramento.
as he and his partner, under the firm
name Of Paul, White & Co.. had dealt
in general merchandise and miners
hardware since the previous November,
and It struck his youthful fancy that
he would like to do something a little
out Of the common.
He had been q prosperous young
business man In st. Louis before COM
ing to California, and when he packed
his belongings for his long trip the
whim had seized him to include among
them full suit Of clothes Of as ultra
could provide, and with these every
accessory that could possibly be con-
sidered necessary to the toilet of q
regular Beau Brummel.
II didn't expect to wear them much,
of course" he says, If he can be coaxed
to tell the story himself, smiling at the
recollection Of carrying this collection
of masculine f1nery In his train and
paying extra baggage on 1t all the way
from Missouri across the isthmus and
through the Golden Gate and up to
Sacramento. II just wanted to feel that
l could dress up fine II l wanted to,
but" and he laughs again, Il never
wanted to dress up but just one time in
the first few years 1 was in California,
and then 1 didn't stay dressed up for
more than half an hour
Elegant as were these garments
which Mr.. Paul brought with him from
the States" fate threw another and
far more gorgeous piece of raiment In
his way before he reached his destina-
ton, which overshadOwed all his pre-
v1ous possessions in that special line.
The steamer Oregon, for passage on
which he and his companions held tick
cts, having become temporarily dis
abled by running upon some rocks on
her return trip to Panama, 125 Of the
impatient travellers banded together
and chartered the bark Eugene to make
the trip to San Francisco. Among this
number were several men Of pro-
nounced sporting proclivities, especially
In the line of cards, and the long pas
sage of 104 days, due to many vexatious
Gains, gave these Adventures an ex-
cellent opportunity to prey upon their
companions.
One young man, a son Of an ex-
tremely wealthy New York family, was
particularly unfortunate in this con-
nection and long before the bark
reached it's destination was rendered
utterly penniless by the superior skill
of his supposedly friendly antagonists.
who played with him, of course, Just
to pass away the time
In his extremity the unsuccessful
young gamester had resort to his
trunk by which to supply him
self with funds sufficient to tide
him over his troubles until such
time as he could secure a re-
mittance from home. He had been trav-
cling in Europe when the gold fever
attacked him and among his valuable
proofs of that fact was q coat for which
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he had paid in Paris just previous to
leaving that gay city the sum of 400
francs. Ascertaining the fact that Mr..
Paul and himself were of precisely the
same size he so importuned him to buy
the garment that the young merchant
against his wiser judgment and moved
far more by the moneyless predicament
Of his fellow voyager than by any real
desire for the coats possession finally
consented to purchase it, and packed it
away with his other sartorial treasures
where 1t remained for eight long
months before he ever dreamed of ex-
hibiting it in public. The description
Of this coat, as given by Mr.. Paul, fills
the modern mind with an emotion very
nearly approaching to awe. 1t was. he
states, Of the very finest and best black
French tweed, lined with heavy black
satin, with the collar, lapels and cuffs
hand think of that, We
swagger dressers Of to-day-in a most
elaborate, exquisitely designed and ar
tistically executed pattern Of leaf and
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bud and bloom worked in lustrous black
silk.
This was the browning glory Of the
attire in which Mr.. Paul took his IA
nous promenade up one side of street
and down the other on that long cele-
brated summer afternoon. And the
men who possibly and indeed probably
would have jeered at the bashful and
apologize appearance in their midst of
even one small deviation from the es-
tablished order of things in the straight
and narrow way of masculine attire
stood simply spellbound before the ag-
gregation of dazzling splendors of which
young Paul was the motive power.
Il did it just as a piece Of fun" he
says, but didn't feel a bit funny after
I got the things on and, started out.
Some of the other young fellows had
kind of halfway dared me to do it, you
see, and 1 thought it would be kind of
a joke. 1t was no joke at ALL though,
found, for a circus wouldn't be more
stared at than was. Luckily there
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were no little boys around then or I
should have been the head Of a regular
procession.
LAS it was I never felt so much alone
in my life as 1 did walking those few
blocks, but [ wouldn't hurry the least
little bit. I walked slowly enough for
everybody to get a good look at me
that wanted, but when 1 got back into
my store 1 packed those things all
away again and went back into my
bingham shirt and rough trousers
about as quick as 1 could conveniently
manage it. [ would have given those
dandified clothes of mine away to al
most any one who had asked for them
about that time, and it was many
long month after that before 1 ever
wore any of them again"
The fame of that afternoon promen-
ade, however. spread widely abroad.
and from then until now Mr.. Paul has
been known as the individual who had
the courage to be 1.-The first really we'll
dressed man in California"
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has olung to him through all the al
most half-century Of years that have
passed since, and Is as well known to
his brother pioneers as Is the name that
Is his own by birthrtght and bapttsmal
ceremony?
He simply arrayed himself In such
garments as man Of fashion In those
days would have worn for a promenade
on Partisan boulevard, or possibly,
on the shady side of ''the avenue" in
the American metropolis, and took q
leisurely walk along the principal
streets OF his temporary home. The
result was chaos-business and social
for the entire period Of his ramble.
His costume was the epitome of ele-
gance from the top Of his shining tall
beaver hat to the tips of his patent
leather boots and the ends Of his gloved
fingers. He was simply a living expo
nent Of correct masculine garments, as
they were depicted in the French fash
ion plates which California, In those
days, never saw; but had he been
dressed in pink tights and the fluffy
skirts OF a feminine ballet-dancer he
could not have created a more genuine
sensation.
To make fully understood the effect
which Mr. PauI's raiment produced
upon his townspeople 1t may be neces-
sary, perhaps, to state that Sacramento
at that time was emphatically a shirt
and trousers town" In population
OF is, 900 or more there were less than
fifty white women, and the men, feel
ing themselves free from all conven-
tionA restraints In the matter of ex-
ternal adornment, dressed In the sim
plest and what seemed to them the
most comfortable fashion Blue or red
flannel OF checked Bingham or seer
sucker shirts buttoned at the throat or
not according to the weather or the
fancy Of the owner, and with their
neither extremitieS tucked into the
waistbsnd either Of trousers made Of
the toughest and most serviceable
cloth, or Of stout and baggy oVeralls;
a pair OF heavy boots with tops reach
ing to the wearer's knees; and almost
any kind OF a hat that came handy
SO il had a brim wide enough to pro-
tect the eyes from whirling dustclouds
and the glare Of the sun-completed
costume that was perfectly satisfactory
to every white man in California at
that time
Not only miners and teamsters and
those engaged in rough work generally
arrayed themselves in this unpreten-
tious and inexpensive manner, but even
the merchants and clerks and other
men who depended for their livelihood
more on the exercising of their brains
than their muscles
So universal was this custom Of
rough garbing that It early became an
unwritten law in all the towns and
mining camps and it was long time
even after the first gold excitement
quoted down before billed shirt was
looked upon as being anything but a
proof Of effeminacy and general fool
ishness on the part Of its mistaken
wearer.
Almarin 3. Paul was, however, a
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KEGS in Carson City, but 1 made up my
mind I'd prevent that rebel flag from
going up or die a-trying.
well about noon of the 9TH of Aug
ust, 61-that's when it happened-5th
Of August, 81, word was brought to me
that that white flag with the palmetto
tree embroidered on it was to be I'M
furled to the breeze that very day
when / heard that 7 just locked up
the store and says l, not if William
St. Clare Gardner lives long enough,
there won't be no rebel flag run up to-
day.
Pretty near as quick as I can tell it
was at the foot of the flagstaff.
1.-The crowd was already there ahead
Of me, and L had only just time to see
that the red, white and blue was still
floating above our heads, and then l
made a grab for that rebel flag
"Yes-I got it all right, and quick as
q flash 1 wound it about my hand.
After that 1 was kept pretty busy
for few minutes. I didn't have no gun
nor nothing, but, if l do say it myself,
in those days there wasn't many men
could stand up before me in a single
haId-to-hand fight.
1.-THE fight was a little uneven that
day however. Fists don't count for
much against bowie-knives and pistols,
and three of the worst desperadoes in
the country had undertaken to do me
up.
They sIashed and cut at me until the
nag, which was still around my arm
and with which 1 protected my face to
some extent, was dripping with blood.
The flag was buried afterward.
Finally one Of them drew a pistol,
and placing 1T right here, over my
heart, fired. I guess providence must
have had his eye on me that day, for
the bullet went to one side.
Poor John Blackburn was United
States Marshal at that time, and he
was the only man in the whole crowd
that stood by me or tried to help me-
His wife, by the way, was one Of the