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The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
RECOGNITION
FOR SHAT TER
Will Not Be Retired Next
Month.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CALL HEADQUARTERS. WELLING-
TON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Sept. s.
AS a reward for his services in connection
with the Santiago campaign President
Mckinley, l understand. proposes to con-
tinue Major General Shafter in command
of the Department of the Pacific with his
present volunteer rank after the time is
reached for his retirement on the 14th of
next month
Under the law his retirement, after
reaching siXty-four years of age, is COM
pulsory as far as the regular army is
concerned and there are some who queS-
tion the authority for assigning retired
officers to command under the volunteer
rank. But the President, l am told, has
been looking into the matter and believes
that there is nothing to prevent General
Shafter from continuing in his present
command under his volunteer commission
OF major general SO long as authority for
keeping up the provisional army exists.
The President proposes to renew his
recommendation to Congress for some
substantial recognition for General Shat
ter's services in the Spanish war, and it
is hoped that by continuing him on the
active list with his present rank OF major
general legislation may be secured which
will permit him to retire with at least
that rank when it comes the time for
mastering out the provisional army
There is one precedent for the proposed
action in General Skaters case. General
Graham, who was in command of Camp
Alger, was allowed to retain his volun-
teer command for several months after
he had reached the age for retirement as
an officer of the regular army. The ac-
counting officers raised some objection at
the time but subsequently decided 10 all
low him pay for the time he served under
his volunteer commission.
When the time comes for General Shaf-
ter's retirement next month an oppor-
tunity will be offered for rewarding one
of the Philippine heroes with a brigadier-
ship. Major General Lawton, who has
only the rank of colonel in the regular
establishment, will, according to the pro-
gramme as at present arranged. be made
brigadier general of the regular army
General Macarthur, who holds the rank
of lieutenant colonel in the regular es-
taglishment is also to be rewarded the
same way when Brigadier General Ander-
son retires in January, and General
Wheaton, colonel of infantry, is booked
for the brigader generalship which be-
comes vacant next spring when General
Merritt retires. The retirement OF the
latter officer will also open the way for
the appointment of a major general in the
regular army which will go to either
General Lawton or General Macarthur.
Subsequent developments in the Philip
pines will doubtless have much to do with
the final decision in relauon to this ma
1Or oeneralSliD
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
CLARA FOLTZ APPEARS
TO DEFEND YDA Adds
Upon Technical Point She Obtains
Continuance of Twenty
Five Davs

SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 5.-Yda Ad
dis Storke appeared in court this morning
with her attorney, Clara Foltz of San
Francisco, this being the day set for her
arraignment on the charge of having at
tempted to murder Attorney Grant Jack
son on the morning of July last. The
defendant shows decided signs of break
ing down, and her two months confine-
ment has made a great change in her.
She is thin and wears a haggard look.
Nevertheless, she entered the courtroom
to-day with the decisive walk which is
characteristic of the woman.
Mrs. Storke'S counsel raised a technical
point, which for while made it appear
that the information would be set aside
by the court. The information read An
attempt to murder Grant Jackson" and
Mrs. Foltz claimed it should have read
IAN assault with intent to commit mur-
der" She declared there was no such
crime as attempt to murder mentioned in
the statute, and Yda Adds Storke could
not be held for doing something that is
not known as q crime in the Penal Code
This is a point which Judge Williams said
he had never known to have been passed
upon He thought it should be thorough
ly investigated before a decision were
given. He gave twenty-five days in
which to submit briefs on Mrs. Foltz's
demurrer.
Attorneys Starbucl1 and Garfield filed
the formal notice of appeal in the libel
case to-day. The appeal is taken from
the Judgment and order denying a new
trial made on July 10. fl
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
SUFFERINGS OF
ALASKA MINERS
.. F. Durham of This
City is Drowned.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PORT TOWNSEND. Wash, Sept. O.
Among the passengers on the steamer
City of Topeka, which arrived tonight
from Alaska. were a number of miners
from Copper River
W. z. Hendricks of Hanford, Cal, after
eighteen months prospecting, returns
with nothing but the clothes on his back,
having lost everything in trying to cross
Valdes glacier He reports the death of
y. f. Dunham of San Francisco by
drowning while attempting TO cross one
Of the glaciers streams early in August.
Durham was a director of the Golden
Eagle Mining and Dredging Company of
Naldes.
The body Of a man named Smith, jew
elsr from Chicago, who was frozen on the
glacier last November, was found i'm
bedded in the ice just before the party
started out. The remains were buried by
T. {. B. Nadeau of Psyche, Wash, is
the only one Of a party of three who re-
turned 70 tell the tale OF misfortune ana %
death. Nadeau spent $500 in his search
for gold and returns physical wreck.
His partners were Edward Dreyfus OF
Nova Scotia, who last November sue.
Cumbed TO scurVy, and John Starr OF
Paterson, y. J.. who was drowned while
crossing stream in an effort to reach
the coast. Nadeau narrowly escaped the
same fate. Their supplies We're all lost
in the stream and Nadeau made jour
ney of nearly 200 miles alone and with
out food.
Two men, P. Barley and F. Cole of Min
nesota. were down with scurvy on Tasina
River. Miners contributed enough of
their scanty means and sent DR.. PiersOn
10 their relief. Pierson had not returned
when to-day's arrivals left Valdes.
The United States revenue cutter Perry
was at Naldes when the party left. The
object of her visit was to bring back forty
destitute miners. 1t is thought she will
bring out eighty or a hundred.
on the Topeka We're also two victims
of the Edmonton trail, G. Fraser and G..
II. Fraser, brothers, from Calgary, AL
berta, y. w. T. They started over the
trail in May, 1898. and succeeded in reach
ing Lard River after enduring numerous
hardships. They prospected Lard River
thoroughly. and the best diggings they
found would pay only from 81 to s. per
day. Several hundred men We're scattered
upon and down the river. AT Glenora G.
Fraser, while cutting wood with which to
build a raft, cut his foot and was brought
down the river on a stretcher.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
SHOOTS HIS FOE
FROM AN AMBUSH
John PendIeton Murders Jacob Randall
as the Result of a Claim-Jumping
Dispute at Redding.

swered. 'You had better send word
uptown to his partner and have them
come and get him."
Pendleton walked to Redding, a dis
tance of five miles, and went straight
to the Sheriff's Office and gave him
self up. He was brought back to Kes-
wick this afternoon to be arraigned be-
fore Daniel Thompson, the local JUS
tice. Thompson refused to hear the
case, as he was interested in the min
ing claim. Pendleton was taken to
Redding to be arraigned there.
Pendleton claims he fought in self
defense and that Randall had made
threats against his life. Randall was
unarmed at the time of the affray, al
though he had been carrying weapons
no later than yesterday in anticipation
of trouble. Both men have been fire.
quently concerned in mine jumping, of
which there has been much of late
about KesWick. The claim in dispute
is considered valuable because it will
be at one end of the new bridge to be
constructed across the Sacramento. 1t
was originally located as a placer by
Pendleton and his partner. Two
months ago Randall filed a quartz
claim notice on the same ground, and
yesterday Pendleton filed another
quartz notice on his own ground, so
the claims were three deep. Pendle-
ton is and Randall was an old resident
of Keswick Randall leaves a widow
and four children.
The Coroner held an inquest this af-
ternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
RAY PLANTS GUNS
ON YUKON'S SHORES
Commander of the American Troops in
Alaska Erects Cannon Fortifications
at the Town of Eagle.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

winter. The army post is beautifully
situated, rising thirty feet above the
river. The troops have an immense
parade ground, which occupies por-
ton of the town site, Colonel Ray hav-
ing purchased a number Of miners
cabins.
The cannon Notifications command
the river for some distance above and
below the town, which is now port
of entry. All vessels going and COM
ing must stop, else the new cannon
will be fired at them. There is still
another very interesting sight at
Eagle just now. Three hundred tons
of beer, whisky and other intoxicants
are piled up on the banks Of the river,
having been denied admittance into
British territory. Canadian authori-
ties are turning back, and have been
for some time, all vessels carrying
liquors. Liquors have accordingly
been put ashore at Eagle, where the
American customs officers seized them.
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06

"HE mystery of the movements |
and operations OF the criminal /,
conspirators whose leader and
dominating spirit is Augustus
Howard has practically been
solved by Chief of Police Lees and his
officers A second member of the dan
gerous band, James Kelly is in prison
in the City of Mexico under the name
of William Watson, and is likely to pay
the penalty for a serious and daring Of
Tense He is the thief who was repre-
sented by his fellow thief, James
Casey. as being dead and buried in a
New Orleans cemetery. The arrest Of
Kelly has prompted the police to tell
all they know of the manipulations of
the Howard gang and the story reveals
another nest Of experienced, clever
bank sneaks and safe robbers, whose
operations have been international,
whose ability has been dangerous to
every community in which they moved
and whose escape from justice has
been mCSt remarkable.
All of them, according to Chief of Po-
lice Lees. from Howard to the least ex-
perienced of the crowd, have either
been under arrest or have worn con-
yict stripes. There is every moral con-
viction to warrant the accusation that
they robbed the treasure box of the
steamer Alameda and were engaged in
several other daring theftS. In this
work they did rot stop at plans of mur-
der and did not scruple to stCop to
petty larceny. Bigamy, forgery, rob-
berry and grand larceny are registered
against their names.
And now James Casey, who is under
arrest at the City Prison. adds a eli
max to the registry of their crimes by
declaring that he was paid $4,000 by
Augustus Howard to murder Willard
T. Green and throw his body overheard
from the steamer Alameda. This money
was to be divided among Casey, Kelly
and Murphy in equal shares. The
money was paid, so Casey told Cal
reporter last night, by Howard the
night before the Alameda left this port
This admission has given the police the
chief reason for wishing to capture
Augustus Howard, the head and front
and master spirit of the conspiracy
When Howard fed from this city he
went north and is now known positive
ly to be in Canada, where his arrest
Is expected any day. The career of
these criminals has been a strange one.
They are known in dozen cities as
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06

known as T. Lewis and Of whom the
police have little knowledge, registered
at the Palace Hotel, occupying the
same apartment. Mrs. Kelly and her
child went to the Russ House, register
ing under the name of Mrs. Reid and
child. Kelly secured rooms elsewhere,
but was very frequently at the Russ
House. Murphy found quarters in
hotel on Third street.
AS already indicated, the police
know very little of Lewis, with the
exception that he was in constant as
sociation with the rest of the gang
and came to this city with them on the
Mariposa Lewis also left on the
Mariposa on April 20, 1889. with Muir
ply. for Sydney. Murphy on this oc-
casion gave the name of ]. w Win
ton. On the return trip on the steamer
Alameda a man who called himself
mining man returned under the name
of Albert Lewis. Whether this Albert
Lewis is T. Lewis the police have as yet
been unable to determine. These asSo-
Citations and connections of Lewis ana
the rest of the crowd are particularly
significant in relation to the robbery
of the treasure box on the Alameda. 1t
has been established absolutely that
Murphy was in Auckland two days be-
fore the robbery of the Alameda took
place. and Lewis was supposed to be
in Sydney at the time of the robbery.
With Casey and Kelly definitely 10
Gated in this city, the circumstances
connecting all of these criminals with
Tho rohbnrV very strong
After this robbery was committed
the police directed their suspicious to
Kelly and Casey, of whom very little
was known at the time by the police
authorities In this investigation the
police succeeded, quite unexpectedly
to themselves, in establishing the fact
that Casey and Kelly were two of the
men who had robbed the Auckland
Bank. On February 16, 1899, the Chief
of Police received a letter from j. 4.
Tunbridge, Commissioner of Police of
wellington, New Zealand. This letter
detailed the circumstances of the rob-
berry of the bank and gave descrip-
ton of the notes which had been
stolen. 1t will be remembered that the
fact had been definitely established
that Casey and Kelly arrived in this
city on January IL, 1899, from Auck-
land. In the local Investigations of the
police it was discovered that the very
notes which had been stolen from the
branch Bank of Auckland had been
disposed of in this city by two men
answering perfectly the description of
Kelly and Casey. The notes were sold
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
JOHN CASEY, TOOL OF HOWARD.

dangerous men, but their traffic in San
Francisco is at an end.
Two of them are in Jail, but the other
three, including the arch conspirator,
Howard, are at liberty and the police
declare that they will not cease their
efforts until they have placed him be-
hind the bars.
The criminal record of this crowd is
interesting. The first trace of it, as far
as the information of the police goes,
begins in Melbourne, where, in the mid
die of 1898, Casey, Kelly and Murphy
were arrested for robbery of ware
house The dangerous trio did not re-
main long in Jail, for on October 20,
1898. they succeeded in escaping and
made their way to Auckland, where
they prepared Immediately to turn an
other criminal trick" On November
q. 1898, the branch of the National
Bank of Auckland was robbed of G235,
and suspicion fell upon Casey, Kelly
and Murphy. The authorities did not
possess sufficient evidence to arrest,
but now that they have it from the
police Of San Francisco, they indicate
no very earnest desire to prosecute
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06


o'clock this morning Jacob
Randall was shot and killed by John
Pendleton, who fired from ambush and
took Randall unawares. The crime was
committed on the mining claim in dis
pute and which is not worth 81 as a
mine but has prospective value as j
town lot proposition.
Jacob Randall was the mail carrier
from the depot to the town. This
morning he was making the usual trip
afoot to the depot. The trail led over
the mining claim and past a cabin
situated thereon. The claim is at the
south end of the Southern Pacific
bridge across Spring Creek, three quar-
ters of a mile from town. Pendletor,
TO all appearances, had been lying in
wait for his victim. From within the
cabin he took steady aim at Randall
as the latter came down the hill. The
shot was fired at a distance of ten
feet. The assassins aim was true.
Randall staggered ten feet further and
Iell dead.
Pendleton coolly changed his cloth
ing, dressing in his best. He locked the
cabin and started afoot for Redding
Men at the bottling works a hundred
yards from the scene of the crime
asked him as he passed at what he had
been shooting.
I've shot Jake Randall" he an
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06

TACOMA, Wash, Sept. 5.-Two
big warlike cannon point out over
the banks of the Yukon from
i Eagle. They stand on a broad
plateau rising thirty feet above
the stream, commanding the mighty
river for miles. This interesting infor-
nation is brought by S. A. Warren,
just arrived from Eagle. One might
imagine, he says, that the American Yu
kon metropolis was going to war with
British Dawson, a few miles across the
line up the golden Yukon. Colonel Ray,
commanding the American Yukon SOL
diery, completed the erection of the
two cannon a few days before the
Warren left Eagle, August s. Several
salutes were fired in honor of the
event. There are $50 soldiers at Eagle,
and Colonel Ray is pushing work as
rapidly as possible on the Government
barracks, which are to cost $780, 900. He
wishes to get the men housed before
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06

From Auckland the trail of the thieves
Is to San Francisco.
After the robbery Of the Auckland
Bank the thieves found the town too
hot for them and they determined to
come to San Francisco; and they ac-
cordingly took passage on the Mari
posa on December "a, 1898, for this city,
arriving here on January II, 1899. Kelly
took passage under the alias of William
Watson. Casey came under the name
of Dunnie, Murphy under the name
of James Brodie, and Kelly's wife and
child under the name of Mrs. and Miss
Reid. Upon their arrival here the
crowd separated. Casey and man
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
MRS. JAMES KELLY, WIFE OF THE CAPTURED THIEF

to Sutro Co., Goldberg & Co., and
Neville & Co., on January 18th and
25th Two crimes had thus been fas-
tened beyond dispute upon Casey and
Kelly.
The police were in a much better po-
sition to trace the criminals than be-
fore. Photographs of the malefactors
were obtained and local officers re-
newed their vigilance. On March 80,
1899. wagon Of the Anglo California
Bank stopped at the express office of
Wells, Fargo & Co. on New Montgom-
cry street. The wagon contained $4,000
in gold coin. A moment after the We
hicle came to a standstill we'll
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06
Fire in q Gas Plant.

WOODLAND. Sept. 5.-The Woodland
Gas Company's house was totally de-
stroyed by fire this afternoon. The tank
contains a sufficient supply for the city
Tonight The company expects to resume
manufacture tomorrow. provided the
generator and boiler were not too badly
damaged. The loss cannot be estimated
until the damage to the generator and
boiler is ascertained,
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06

ESWICK, Sept. 5.-Mine jump
ing, of which there has been a
good deal in Keswick of late,
has resulted in a death. At I
The San Francisco call., 1899-09-06

Continued on Third Para.
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-08-19
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
SWEEPSTAKES MINE.
Justice of the Peace of ; First publication June 15. '99.

To James A, NolIey, your heirs or assigns; signed, your co-owner in the Sweepstakes mining claim, situate in the Warren Mining District in the County of Cochise, Te ritcry of Arizona, the location notice of which IS recorded in the office of the County Recofer of the County of Cochise, in book 6, page the sum of one hundred dollars in each of the years from and including the year egh- teen hundred and eighty-seven. to, and in- cluding the year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, making a period of twelve years, in the performance of the annual laws of congress to be performed upon said claim to hold the same.
 And you, your heirs and assigns, lave failed to contribute your proportion of the expenditures required by section 2324 ofthe revised statutes of the United States, to be and including the year eighteen hundred and eighty seyen to and including the year eighteon hundred and ninety eight, making period of twelve years. , The sum due from you, your heirs or as- sigus to the undersigned, your co-owner iii said claim,as your proportion of the lnon- eys expended hy 1t upon said claim as above ser forth, Is six hundred d,llars, for which ynU arc delinquent at the date of this notice.
 Ou, ynur hnirS and assigns, are hereby notified, that. if you should fail or refuse to cOutributa your proportion of the above expenditure within ninety days after the publication of this notice once 0 week for ninety days,your interest in theSweepstakes Mining claim will become forfeited to, and the property of. your cO-OWner, the under signed, whose residence and place of busi- ness are at Bisbee, Cochise County. Arizona. CaipEP QUEEN CONSOLIDATED MINING Co.
 Dated July lst, 1899.
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-08-19

THE attorney-general of Nebraska, Satur- day last, began suit at Omaha against the Standard OH company for violation of the anti-trnst law enacted by republican con gress. This should be done in every state in the Union. The company should be given a lively contest and if the congressional statute can not be enforced one will be enacted that can be.~A fight all along the line will have she effect of showing that the people are in earnest In their intention to restrain this corporation. It is not the proper thing to be supine In the matter and take it for granted that the federal statute will not or can not pc enforced. Nor is it incumbent upon eny ssase tc await a decision in the Omaha case. ane mpre suits the better. Each state has n sa'arieu attorney general to attend to legal business of this character, but the oil mon opoy will have to employ expensive lawyers ana may after vi hile learn that 1t Is cheaper 70 pc reasonably decent and fair than to nave 70 defend expensive suits in every state In the Union.
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-08-19
IN THESE days of narrowing uncertainty

IN THESE days of narrowing uncertainty the republicans are not overlooking any crumbs of consolation. The St. Louis Globe Democrat says: The adoption of the single gold standard and expansion blanks in the republican convention in Lyon county, Kan sas show how that state stands on those two issues. There was some opposition to Q square out and out deliverance in favor of gold, but only two votes could be mustered by its opponents" The republicans do not out much ice in Kansas. Since the fall of Ingalls they have all gone over to the popu- list party. Besides the action of n handful of government office holders in Lyon county Is no indication of the sentiments of the re- pubfcans of the state of Kansas.
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-08-19


 SAYS the Boston Transcript: Mr. George H. Burr, president of the St Johns (Kansas) Trust company, who has just returned from western trip, gives cheering accounts of the financial condition in that section. Money" said he, lis cheaper today in Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis than it is in Boston. I do not believe that the west will have to bor- row dollar from the east this year to move It's crops, except possibly to draw on it's eastern balances. The state banks of Kansas have gained $i,5O0,00O in deposits for the three months ending July 30. As to the crops they are almost beyond comparison" It Is now Tn order for the organs to claim that the republican administration is responsible for tho good crops. The Dallas News and San Antonio Express neglected to lay at the door of Mckinley responsibility for the Brazos valley flood,
The Arizona daily orb., 1899-08-19
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soon pass away. I was
 treated by several able physicians, but in spite of their efforts the Cam cer spread until my con- dition became alarming; After many months of treatment and growing steadily worse, l de ci ded to try 8. s. g. which was SO strongly recommended. The first bottle produced an i'm. provement. l continued the medicine, an d in four months the last litr tie sea b dropped oil. Ten years have elapsed, kSeaSe has returned"