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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-08

Jacob Wooley was the first witness
! before the Mazet investigating COM
mittee, today.
| Before questioning the witness, Mr..
| Moss offered in evidence two entries
| from the records of Capt. Prices pre-
| cinct showing that Geo. Mayer had
! been arrested and held for trial on a
| charge of stealing an inlaid plate worth
Si5 from Jacob b. Wooley. A receipt
| produced by Capt. Price from A. A.
Nantine K Co., showing that he had
written to that firm several vases for
$50. the amount for which they had
been pledged in the pawn shops was
also offered in evidence by Mr.. Moss.
Wooley repeated the statement of yes
terday about plate that had been stol-
en- from him and about vase he had
seen at Vantine's. He had told the
manager at Nantine's that he believed
the vase to be a stolen one. Shortly
after that WoOley said Capt Price told
witness that he intended to divide with
him the money he expected to get for
the vase
A number of questions We're asked
to show that witness was not actuated
in testifying by any feeling against
Capt. Price or by any suggestion of
Mr.. Moss.
\ John Henderson, a precinct detective,
was called and asked to give a list Of
suspected policy shops. He had not
the list with him and could not re-
member the addesses wanted. He said
he had heard that Al Adams is The
Policy King" and that a Mr.. jameson 4
is his manager.
Question after question regarding al |
legged gambling places were asked by |
Mr.. Moss, but the witness was unable |
to remember much, if anything. about !
them.
John Gilligan, a plain clothes man." /
said he had made two arrests in the |
last two months.
What did you pay for your detail?"
asked Mr.. Moss.
Gillisan declared he had paid moth
ing.
The witness said it was his duty to
go through the precinct looking for re-
puted pool rooms and gambling places,
but like the previous witnesses, he
could not remember the addresses of
any of these places.
Galiigan was excused, and Mr.. MaZet
ordered that a copy of his testimony
and that of the previous witness be
sent to the police commissioner.
Patrick Curry was the next witness.
Mr.. Moss presented a memorandum
book containg list Of suspected
houses in the Tenth precinct. Reply
ng to demand for list of suspected
policy places Curry professed ignorance
IF the methods of playing policy but
said he visited an express office in !
nth street where he was told policy I
vas being played.
Curry said he had made several ar
,ests during the last month. He pro-
fuced lists of suspected places and
cad the addresses. He could not say
gambling really took place in these \
places. !
Continued on page 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-08

Recent events have shown that the
supply of natural gas in the Indiana
field is slowly giving out In some
parts of the gas belt now the gas com
panies refuse to make new connections.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-08
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-08
HIGH AND MIGHTY.
Mazet Committee Puts Itself
Even Above the Law.
Capt. Price Continues His Defiant At
titude Toward Lawyer Moss.
And Evidence AccumuIates CT GAMBLING and
immortality in TenderIoin.

New York, June For several hours
today, the Mazet investigating com
mittee sweltered and listened to tn,
testimony that at no time produced
startling or particularly weighty state
mentS but just as the committee was
about to adjourn for the day a slight
clash occurred between the Mazetters
and a court Of law. Subpoenaes were
issued by Magistrate Olmstead. anC
served upon the members and on the
council Of the committee to attend the
examination of Henry Henderson. to-
morrow morning, in the Central police
court. Henderson is Capt Prices coun-
sci, who was elected from the court
room. last week
Mr.. Mazet immediately said that the
committeeman would not answer as
members of the Legislature We're not
amenable to ordinary subpoena. Mr.
Hoffman differed, saying that as the
Legislature was not in session, there
was no immunity. Mr.. Moss to smooth
over matters said he would send note
to Magistrate Olmstead. asking that
the hearing be set for some time when
it would not interfere with the com
mittee's work as the committee itself
stood adjourned until tomorrow morn
ing.
The most important witness examin-
ed. today, was Capt. Price and the
main work Of the committee was in ex-
aiming Price and other witnesses in
an effort to show that the police cap
tain had not attended to his duty as
police officer. Much Of the same en-
nifty that was shown the committee by
Price on previous days was also ex-
hibted, today, and the captain was no
ticably defiant and menacing in his at
titude toward Mr. Moss once during
the proceedings Mr.. Moss tried to have
Price removed from the sitting because
Of an insoent response he made to
question from the committee.
The committee. yesterday, deprived
Price of privilege of counsel, and to-
day, it required that if he wished to put
any questions to the committee he
must first reduce them to writing.
Other witnesses We're examined to
show that pool rooms, policy shops and
other gambling houses were running in
the Tenderloin district without moles-
tatiun from the police. capt. Price de-
MED that there We're any such estab-
lishments in the district and several
other policemen pleaded ignorance Of
their existence.
Hugh Bonner, former chief of the fire
department. and Edward F. Croker, ac-
tive chief. were also on the stand but
their testimony was in no way impor-
tant.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
Special Dispatch to The Gail

. SAN JOSE, March 30.-Ehe stockhold-
ers OF the Union Savings Bank are dis
satisded with tire majority Of the board
c1 directors appointed by Judge Lori
gan. and petitions ara being circulated
FOR signatures among the stockholders.
calling q meeting for the purpose OF
'etsctlng q new directorate. No trouble
is being experienced ii. getting sisners,
and. d meeting viii be held IN about
zen days The directors objected TO are
Feea~ Dunlop, Simpson and stock Rea
is trustee for one share, Simpson trus-
lee for ten shares, Dunlop has acquired
a few shares since appointment, while
stock owns thiT;y-iye shares In all
this quartet owns less than fifty shareS,
vetsthey have combined and are run
ming things Directors Calllsch, Eaton
and Jones, thu minority opposed 70
.Rea,s administration, own over 800
The directors Of tia bank met this
rIOrning. The seven appointed Dy
Judge Lcrigan we're present. &. P
Brsslaw, Who still claims 70 be d.
rector. was absent All along ne mas
insisted he would take part IN the
bank business. but for some reason
he failed 10 appear. Trouble from nlHl
was looked for this morning, and i
was expected further delay would De
scccsSiCued. The business OF the DaIh
vas talked over, but nothing Of I'm
por-aCce done. President Rea then
made one q MS characteristic speeches
Hs said several o. the members of The
board we're opposed % him. He hoped
5hcy would all work IN harmony In
fact they must or NJ would take steps
80 see that they did, intimating ne
would throw them OUT Il they did not
Yh=re promises 10 be some startling
disclosures when the Howard Indebted
-ress comes up II court The bank
claims Howard owes them 1905, 600 The
lat5er asserts about &225o10 II THIS
Indebtedness vas relinquished two
sears ago in order 10 keep him II bust
-TIsss and not drag the bank into IN
sGITency then. The directors are going
. q press The claim 0f $4,000. There
IS sll9 500 u this that the bank has
E6 vouchers for. Howard Is very deaf
ara always carries q pad around with
him for persons doing business with
grlra 20 ar.re OF. His business win
tn bank vas carried On IN this manner.
Howard saved all the pads, however,
and tcey viii cut q figure II the case
II Is sa!d there viii Be no trouble to
T7ro<e that President Ward Wright for
gzye Howard s Indebtedness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
LITTLE ROCK AND
NEW ORLEANS RACES
Blue Dan, Good Thing, Causes the
Bookies TO Lose Quite
Heavily.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 30.-Blue
Dan. in the sixth race, was the good
thing al the opening day of the Little
Rock Jockey Clubs spring meeting. lie
was backed literally at from % TO ID TO l,
and won very handily. There was a
strong tip out on him and the books lost
heavily on the win.
The Derby, the fourth event on the
card. furnished one of the hottest fin
shes Of the day The attendance was
large and the weather fine in the after
noon after q cloudy morning. Track ilne.
Results:
Cross second, Special Notice third;
Sly Six ffurriongs-General Magruder won.
Thanksgiving second, Granny third; tlme'
= Four 5t urlongs-Unsightly won, Lizzie
Mccarthy second, Bonita Brush third;
''l ATka I1st Derby, one mile-Prince Nc
Clurg. 112 (Van Dusen) coupled with
Hardee Pardee, TO 3; and Leo Planter,
Il9, CEvereD s to 5, dead heat; Hardee
Pardee. rs. IT. Burns), third; time, l:43.
Mona p also ran.
six furiongs-Horseshoe Tobacco won,
Draw Lad second, DeBlaise third time
seven furlongs-Blue Dan won, Tony
HONG second, Ransom third; time, 80
showery, track fast. Results:
Selling. six furlongs-Cottonplan won,
Command second, McAlbert third; time,
1'i Fi2e furlongs-True Fit won, Myrtle
Gebauer second, j. Lucille third; time,
Selling. one mile and three-sxteenths-
Sutton won, Woodranger second, Friskal
third; time, 2:0212.
Seven furlongs-W atercrest won, Gold
Fox second. Tom Kingsley third;
time, 1:27.
Selling, one mile and twenty yards
Salvarse won, Climacus second, Caslin
liE s;eenIlinget i'i seven furlongs-scrviner won,
Mamie: L second, Prince Of India third;
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
HUMAN FIEND
DULY HANGED
Man. of Many Murders
Pays the Penalty.
WENT WITHOUT A STRUGGLE
REFUSED TO HAVE SPIRITUAL
CONSIDERS.
Fitting Close of the Career Of E
Bates soper, Who Killed His
Father, Wife and
Children.
VENT WITHOUT A STRUGGLE
TO HAVE SPIRITUAL
CONSIDERS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

HARRISONVILLE, Mo, March 30
Z. Bates Soper was hanged at $50 this
morning. He refused TO have any
spiritual CONSIDERS. He fell a distance
OF seven feet, breaking his neck and
dying without q struggle. The eXecu-
ton was private, being witnessed by
only forty persons.
Z. Bates Soper was one Of the most
cruel and most unusual Of murderers.
The crime for which he was executed
was the murder at their home at
Archie, near here, Of his wife and two
daughters. the latter aged four and six
years respectively. The murder had
been deliberately planned and was re-
voting. Soper ran butcher shop one
day in April. 1891, he announced that
he had learned that there was blind
tiger" or an Illicit saloon in town and
that he could not live in a place so
wicked. He sold his shop and disap-
peared. Four days later neighbors
broke into the Soper home and found
the mother and children dead in bed.
an ak and blood and brains were every
where. Soper had left a note saying
he could not properly support his fam
lily and he believed they would be better
off dead.
Soper went 10 Portland, Or, and
taking the name of Prentice, married a
respectable widow. In April, 1897 he
deserted his second wife, taking their
-year-Old child with him. He after
ward killed the child, choking it into
insensibility and burying it alive.
Later Soper. under the name of
Homer Lee, leased and worked small
fruit farm near Ashland, Cal, where
he was captured June Il, 1897. After
being landed in jail here Soper con-
fessed not only the killing Of his wife
and two children in Missouri and his
child III Oregon, but admitted the muir
der in 1880 of his father. According TO
his own story, on the evening Of the
st-named murder Soper started to at
tend a literary society. on the way he
met his father and shot and killed him.
Throwing his revolver away, he pro-
ceeded to the society and took part in
the exercises as if nothing had hap
pened.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
LITTLE CHILD. DESERTED
BY TITLED RELATIVES
Niece of the Baroness de Buren,,
Relative of the Late Empress of
Austria, Needs Assistance.

LONDON. March Ca woman accom-
panied by a pretty 3-year-oid girl applied
at the Bow Street Police Court to-day for
assistance She said that three years ago
the Baroness de Buren,. alleged 10 be
relative Of the late Empress Of Austria,
brought TO the applicants home a young
woman. 16 years Of age, who the Baroness
said was her sister. Later the latter was
confined and remained three months with
the nurse. The girls mother and sisters,
who, according to the applicant, were liv-
ing in an expensive house in the west end
of London, refused to take the child and
told the nurse to send IT to a founding
hospital or do what she liked with it, The
applicant however. was not willing to
make the. child a pauper, and kept ii. But
now the nurse was in such straitened cir
cumstances that she was unable to keep
it any longer.
The applicant also said that when the
baby was a year old the family went to
San Francisco. where the applicant knew
the father lived.
The Judge advised the nurse to write
to the parents of the child, and to no
tify them that if they did not support it
the child must be sent to the workhouse.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
GOVERNOR CAGE
AND DAN BURNS
They Have JOurneyed to
the Southland.
Special Dispatch to The Call

Los ANGELES, March 30.-The COM
ing together of many prominent Re
pubIicans in the home city Of Governor
Gage has caused a lifting OF ears and
arching of eyebrows The first to ar
rive was Collector John c. Lynch who
insists his Federal position has not lost
him his residence in the Southland. and
deferred going north as he knew the
Governor would reach here. Judge y.
Blackstock followed and announced
the policy Of the Railroad Commission.
To-day Governor Gage arrived, and
so quietly has he moved about that not
a friend greeted him at the depot. At
ter a visit TO his law Offices the Cover
nor retired TO his DoWney ranch. He
says he has come home for ten DAYS
vacation to get away from Office cares
and Office seekers.
1t has leaked out inadvertently that
Dan Burns came down with Gage in
company with expert Hamilton. and is
examining the Red Rover gold mine at
Acton owned by Senator White. Judge
Ross, c.. J. Denis ard Governor Gage.
This property has never been exported.
and Burns was asked by Gage to make
a special trip at this time. so that the
Governor and associates could be def
llLE4y lHLDIiIt0 " IIElliEL VI 44OI the
bricks coming from the property are
the real thing.
Politicians shake their heads when
canvassing the information that the
visit of the Governor and Burns is due
solely to the fact that the executive
wished Burns to inspect the Red Row
er mine. The shfewdest Republican
leaders believe that if Colonel Burns
really came down with Governor Gage
the prospective slate Of new appointees
to State offices would undoubtedly be
canvassed before Burns leaves Los
Angeles. The cheek by jowl attitude
Of the Republican machine and the Re
publican executive causes many OF the
faithful TO think that Burns Will be
able to speak by card when he returns
north.
A pretty contest in Democratic poll
tics is being mapped out. If success
full, the plans will tend to the reahgn-
ment Of several factions of the party
at this end of the State. On one side
will be he Virginia cOlOnels. led by
Stephen VI. White, with George S. Pat
ton, w. r. Burke and John T. Gaffey
as lieutenants in the field. In oDposi-
ton will be the faction led by Abbott
Kinney, with the leaders Of the old line
directing operations in the trenches.
The prize contested for is 10 be the
United States Senatorship, providing
the Governor does not call the Legis-
lature together to fill the vacancy.
Senator Whites friends have always
contended that he is the Moses who
has in recent years led The party TO
victory in this vicinity.
Kinney and friends will next year
seek control of delegates from Los An
geles to the State convention. where
the contest will be whether there shall
be resolutions pledging the delegation
from California to vote at the national
convention for William ]. Bryan and
is to l. Kinney while never exactly
a Is to 1 man on the silver question.
has always supported Bryan and the
Chicago platform.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
MRS. BANNING'S BITTER
RANCH EXPERIENCE
An Experiment That Has Resulted
in Many Years of Litiga-
tiOn

LOS ANGELES, March 30.-Mrs. Mary
II. Banning the present head of the il
lustrious southern California family, is
the plaintiff in a suit which has been
dragging YEARLY for seven years. She
seeks to obtain possession Of livestock,
including one bull calf, heifers, mares, a
pony plow and a lawn mower. The live
stock during these years Of litigation has
grown 10 maturity. while the implements
are out of date and useless with rust.
The suit is the outgrOWth of Mrs. Ban
ning's venture in ranching in connection
with DR.. Joseph Harmon, whom she mad
known for twenty years. He induced her
to purchase the Tejauta rancho near
Compton for S31 800 in 1887. The doctor.
who posed as a rich man, caused her TO
pay $4,000 cash and both signed two
notes of so so each. The first year the
ranch paid. but the following season a
deficit Of from $4,000 TO 5000 was incurred.
The doctor one day confessed that he
could not meet the obligations. as his
belongings were all mOTtgaged which
caused the plaintiff 10 pay of the debt
and take possession.
In the spring of 1891 DR.. Harmon went
back TO the ranch under an agreement
10 farm on shares. He was to have the
use of the stock and machinery. During
this period the monetary storms surged
about the Observation-Disclosures encom-
passed his financial ruin. The property
described was attached, his creditors be
lfeving that the chattels belonged to
him. Mrs. Banning has been trying for
years to prove otherwise
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
JAPANESE SCHOONER
REACHES HONOLULU
Going After Sharks, the Vessel Is
Driven by Storms to a Fort OF
Safety

HONOLULU. March 21-There arrived
here to-day. about two hours. previous TO
the departure OF the Australia. the rwo-
masted japanese schooner Riusiu Maru,
Nakegave master. eighty-one days from
Toxic and sixty-four from Wake Island.
She put into this port in distress, having
had all her sails carried away. in an aW-
full gale near Wake Island She was II
the mercy OF the storm and was dFlEen
along for six days. At the end OF TINS
time the weather abated and some new
sails were made. With these the RlUsiu
made Honolulu where the captain INTENDS
to have repairs made.
The little forty-ton schooner went 20
Wake Island after sharks. which abound
there. Il is we'll known. OF course, that
both japanese and Chinese are very Fond
OF shark meat, and that very pFontao4e
cruises are sometimes made.
The Riusiu Maru is the arst Japanese
schooner that has called at this port she
has seventeen japanese and four Euro
peans aboard, OF the former three are
apprentices learning navigation me
Riisf1I Maru is owned by a japanese lieu=
tenant in the Mikado's navy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31

Story of a Sailor From
the BattIeship Iowa. J.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SEATTLE, Wash, March 30.-John
H. Abel, young man about p years
Of age, is anxious to be placed under
arrest as a deserter. He alleges that
he has been a member of the battle
ship Iowa's crew for four years and
that he was shanghaied at Callao,
Peru, in January last. He says that he
has passed through the Santiago cam
paign on board the Iowa, and met with
misfortune while the ship was making
the voyage from New York to San
Francisco.
Abel's story is 10 the effect that when
the Iowa was at Callao, January 2, he
and several of his mates had forty
eight hours shore leave They imme-
diateIy started in 10 enjoy the sights
and for a time drank deep Of the pleas
ures Of this Peruvian port. AS IS Gus
tomary they finally ended up at sail
or boarding house. Here Abel says he
was given knockout drops in drink
OF whisky by the keeper, whose sur
name is AIeck. He was relieved Of all
of his possessions, and when he re-
gained his senses found himself on
board the Italian bark Altcar, bound
for Vancouver, 3. c.
For about two months Abel per-
formed service OF DUdIu Inc ~ al
which arrived at Vancouver March 4
At that port the kidnapped sailor. in
company with several of the crew, left
the bark because the captain refused
TO pay them money until they returned
10 CaiIao. Abel soon cut loose from his
COMPANIONS and made his way across
the Canadian line into Northern Wash
ington. He secured work in a saWmlll
At Deming and wrote letter TO the
Of the Iowa, Teciting the
story which he rehearsed at police
headquarters this afternoon. He re-
ceived in reply letter from captain
Terry advising him 10 give himself up
as a deserter.
Abel then made his way to Seattle
and consulted the police as to the pro-
per method Of delivering himself, wish
ing to get back to the battleship. He
was referred 10 Assistant Quartermas-
ter ". ". Robinson and United States
District Attorney Cay, VINO VIII llke4y
communicate with the San Francisco
officials.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-31
TRYING TO HOLD
TWO OFFICES
But Auditor Morrison Will Have. to
Resign as Police and Fire
Commissioner

SAN JOSE. March 30-Now that Police
ard Fire Commissioner Thomas F. Morri-
sen has been appointed County Auditor
a crop Of candidates has appeared for the
place in the police and fire departments.
The city charter very plainly. provides
that a Police Commissioner shall not be
eligible for a city, county or State office
Morrison has not yet declared his inten-
ton 70 resign. and the report is current
that he has even consulted an attorney to
see If he can not hold both places. There
is no salary attached to Police Commits
sioner, yet the influence one exerts in the
police and fire departments amounts 70
Considerable. Morrison undoubtedly sees
an example of this dual official life IN
Sheriff and School Trustee Langford. The
latter was a member of the city Board
of Education at the time Of his election
as Sheriff. yet Langford fills both places
to-day But in his instance the law is
not so plain. Morrison must resign from
the Police and Fire Commission, or, 1t Is
said, steps will be taken to compel him to.
There are no less than a dozen being
urged by their friends for Police and Fire
Commissioner. Two clergymen. Rev. Dr..
Maclaren. a Presbyterian. and Rev. H. M.
Tenney, q Congregationalist. think they
would make good Commissioners, and
several influential men are making their
fight Clifford J. Owen, city editor of the
Mercury: Ernest Lion. Al Col and Jesse
Levy, prominent young business men, are
among those prominently mentioned. and
one Of the four will most likely be chosen.