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irving at the Indian school early in
the morning, a horse was stolen on
which the stolen saddle was placed.
Later in the day they arrived at
Jacg Gibson's stock ranch on New
river, where they held up the man in
charge, but the amount secured is not
known.
About 5 o'clock they arrived at Cod
dard's station, small road house en-
the Black canyon road, and Goddard
being absent, they held up the man
in charge, one of them covering bin
with a revolver, while the other robbed
the place, securing about $500 n money
and jewelry. Mounting horses, they
rode in an easterly direction for few
miles, when they dismounted ard
fiendishly cut the threats of both
horses, leaving them weltering in their
blood with saddles and brides on. even
leaving their coats tied on the saddles,
and then they struck out afoot.
The sheriff's office was notified carly
this morning of the crime anu officers
started Immediately to take up the
trail. The Cherokee Indian is said to
be quite young, while his companion
is not yet out of his teens. Both are
we'll known and capture is certain.
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Ortega Branded as a fiend

San Jose.-The trial of Jack Ortega, a
local prizefghter, for felonious as
salut upon Oracle the eleven-year old
daughter of M. Gamble terminated
in verdict of guilty, the jury having
been out about eight hours. The Of
Tense was committed on the night of
August &c, and the details were so bru-
tai as to be indescribable. Mrs. Gam
BILE, the mother of the child, upon
hearing the little ones pitiful story,
went into commissions and died within
few hours.
The entire community has been in
tensely wrought up over this case,
and the verdict is heard with great
satisfaction
HISTORY OF THE CASE.
San Jose.-On the 26th of last Aug
ust Oracle Gamble, an eleven year old
child, was raped, and her mother died
from the nervous shock Jack Ortega,
a local pugilist, was suspected and his
arrest was followed by most con-
vincing chain of circumstancial evil
dence which connected him with the
case. At the preliminary examination
he was positively identified by the
child as her assistant and two other
witnesses claimed to have seen Ortega
with the girl in his buggy on that
night.
The case aroused considerable feel
ing here and to avoid threatened lynch
ing the prisoner was removed the
night following his arrest to Redwood
City. The Ortega family is one of des-
perate characters, several of its mem
bers having served terms in States
prison and reform schools.
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Queen Makes Heroic Rescue

New York, Nov. 5.-A dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Lis
bon says:
The Queen of Portugal, at Cascals, a
fashionable resort, made a thrilling
rescue. She has been staying at the
palace of Cascals and was on the peach
watching her boatman, Crooms, bring
ing his boat in to shore. Suddenly
a huge wave overturned the boat.
Croom's arm was broken and he was
overcome by the undertow, which car
ried him beneath the waves. The queen
is an expert swimmer Seeing that
her boatman was drowning, she sprang
into the sea before any of her attend
ants could prevent her. With rapid
strokes she swan to the boatman's
side and held him up until persons put
out in boats and rescued both the
queen and her boatman. Crooms was
taken to the royal palace.
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GouIds to Pay Boni's Debts

New York, Nov. Bon the authority
of IAN intimate friend of the late Jay
Could the World announces that the
debts of Count Boni de Castellane will
be paid in full by the Goulds at once.
THE scandal attending the claims
amounting to $4,70O,0OO against the
spendthrift husband of Countess Anna,
is to be stopped" the World aids.
"A lump sum probably will be con-
tributed by George, Helen, Howard,
Edwin and Frank Gould, to wipe out
these debts, as they consider the hon
or of the Gould family is involved"
Incidentally, the World article says:
''It was ELECTED that the Gould mil
lions have necessarily doubled sine Jay
Gould's death. That Annals share is
nearly $18,000,00O and her income
nearer $1.O0O,000 than the $500, 900
mark as heretofore stated. The value
of the Gould estate is now estimated
at $125, 1000. OOO."
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Bloody Butchery of Prisoners.

Berlin, Nov. considerable impa-
thence at the meagerness of the news
from China is finding expression here.
The inference is that German censor
ship over such information is very
strict.
Letters from privates in China begin
to find their way into the Social Dem
ocratic papers, showing that the Ger
man troops give no quarter. The
Bremen Buerger Zeitung publishes a
letter from soldier in Peking, who
said he witnessed the following scene
Sixtv-eight captives, some of them not
vet adults, were tied together by their
pigtails, beaten until bloody by the
Germans, compelled to dig their own
graves and then shot en- masse.
The Halberstader Volkszeitung prints
a communication from Picking in which
the writer says; ''No prisoners are
taken. All are shot or, peferable sab
cred to save ammunition. Sunday
afternoon we had hayoneted seventy
four prisoners. They had killed one
of our patrolmen An entire battalion
pursued them and captured seventy
four alive. 1t was cruel; it was indies
cribable.'
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BOERS CAPTURE AN OUTPOST
Are Still Causing England Much Uneasiness

Cape Town, NOV. 3-It transpired
that a Boer commando captured
British outpost of ninety men in the
vicinity of Geneva, October %, and
afterward held up a Cape Town mail
train, looted the carriages and passen-
gers, destroyed the mails, set fire to the
train and decamped on the approach
of an armored train. Not wishing to
be hampered, the Beers later released
the prisoners they had captured.
London, Nov. 3.-The South Afri-
can situation is improving, and Lord
Roberts will soon return to England
with majority of his staff. Arrange
ments are being made in Cape Town
to send the batch Of refugees back to
johannesburg, and accommodation is
being provided in Bloemfontein for a
garrison of 1000.
Nevertheless, the activity of the
Beers continue. On October 26, a
commando of 300 captured a garrison
of 80 men at Reddersburg, but after
wards released them. Trains from the
south to Pretoria are attacked by Beers
almost daily. On October "a the bur
ghers occupied Koffeyfontein.
On the other hand, Gen. Knox las
inflicted a reverse on Gen. Dewet's
forces, near Paris, capturing two
guns, one of them a weapon lost by
the British in the Sannas Post affair.
The daily tale of British casualties
is heavy. During the month of Octc-
Der, the British lost 1877 killed in ac-
ton, including fifteen Officers, sew
enty-one died of accidents and n'rn-
ty-seven captured or missing, a total
almost equal to the monthly average
for the duration of the war.
The Express publishes a sensational
statement that the Beers revival is
more serious than has hitherto been
believed, and that in consequence
Lord Roberts return is likely to be
still further postponed 1t says also
that no considerable party of troops
VIII return before January or Febru-
airy while the regimental drafts from
England will continue and 5000 horses
will be sent out.
The paper definitely declares that
the Beers are we'll armed and abun-
dainty supplied with ammunition, and
that the campaign is likely to last
another six months.
In the best informed quarters, how
ever, it is asserted that there is no
ground for the pessism of the Express.
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Fought Before Their Wives

Chicago, Nov. "a special 10 the
Chronicle from Elberton, Ca, says:
An alteration between James e.
Hammond and T. ]. Wall, brothers.
in-law, living eight milo~ from here,
resulted in a duel between the men
wherein Wall was killed, the two wives
being the sole witnesses to the battle
Wall was beating negro for disobedi-
ence, and refused to hear his wife's
plea in behalf of the oc'ored man.
She then went to Hammond, her
brother, asking his intercession.
Upon this Wall Nooarro incensed,
and drawing a revolver chased Ham
mond from his presence, threatening
to kill him. Hammond obtained d
shotgun. The relatives met again in
less than an hour, each accompanied
by his wife. A duel then ensued. and
Wall was instantly killed, while Ham,
mond escaped without injury. The
women were the only eye witnesses. u
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Severe Earthquake

Layton, Cal, Nov. 5.-Several dis
tinct earthquake shocks we're felt in
Cahto, Mendocino county, today. The
first shock, which occurred at 2:15
o'clock this afternoon, shook some of
the largest buildings in the town. At
2:4O another shock, equally as severe,
was felt, and shocks continued at brief
intervals until o'clock AT 6:32
o'clock this evening the severest shock
of all was felt, followed several seconds
later by a loud report, which made
windows rattle In several sections of
the town chimneys and old walls top
pied down. A strange feature of this
visitation of temblors is the violent
disturbance of the mud volcanoes To-
Gated near here. They Immediately
became violently active, belching forth
mud and warm vapor. Their roar can
be heard miles away.
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PIucky Woman Kills a Robber

Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 5.-A shotgun
in the hands of nervy woman ended
the career of Ventura Pace, Mexican
robber, in a sensational fashion to-
night. Mrs. Lena Peterson, residing
in the southern part of the city, nearo
a noise in the cattle corral in the
rear of her house. Taking a gun, she
went to investigate and saw man
trying to get calf out of the corral.
She called to him and he started to-
ward her. She commanded him to
stop, but he hurried on and she fired
both barrels into his body at distance
of a few feet. He was killed instantly,
and a coroner's jury returned verdict
fully generating her. Pace was a
breed and a desperate character,
having but today been released from
jail.
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ODD ITEMS

The Stockton Health Officer has
urged the Board of Education to re-
quire students to bring separate drink
ing cups to school.
A telephone company in Tennessee
has prohibited the smoking of ciga-
rettes by it's empl: yees.
Rumor has it that no man who ever
lived amassed millions so rapidly as
Mr.. Alfred Belt, who is reputed to be
the wealthiest man in the world, with
a fortune of e2OO,OOO,O0O and an in
come sufficient TO make ten new mil
l1onaires ever year. The whole Of this
colossal fortune has been made within
a quarter of century. Mr. Belt, who
owes his millions to Kimberly and
johannesburg, is a man of 46.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ITEMS

One hundred workman employed on
the big Santa Susanna tunnel at Chats
worth Park are said to be on a strike.
Nine hundred dollars in coin was
found in the cabin of J. A. Freburg,
who was killed at the Declez quarries.
A young man of Tulare who threw
stones at Chineses laundry was given
a sentence of $50 days in the County
Jail.
Mrs. Julia Williams of Bella Vista,
the oldest woman in that section of
California, is dead, at the advanced
age of 95 years.
Juan Purreia of Lakeside, San Diego
county, is probably the Oldest w."
the State of California. On the Great
Register he appears as ITO years of
age. He states that he is not able to
mark his own ballot.
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Fanny's Debts Not Paid

Boston, On the representations of
the trustees of the late Fanny Daven-
ports estate, that up to the present
time they have not been able to dis
pose of the property, so as to meet the
debts, the court appointed Henry NJ.
Spellman and Robert w. Frost as COM
missioners to take the matter in hand
and pass upon the claims as they are
presented.
The trustees of the estate, who are
Melbourne Mcdowell, husband of Miss
Davenport, and Mrs. May Davenport,
her sister were allowed two years to
settle up the property, but they have
been unable to do this within the pre-
scribed time, owing to the bad con-
dition of the real estate market. The
property consists of the summer home
of Miss Davenport at Duxbury, in this
State, and some holdings in Chicago.
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Corpse in a Box

New York, While workmen were
clearing up a cellar formerly occupied
by the late DR.. Thomas S. Holmes,
who had a drug store in Brooklyn,
they came across a bcx securely fast
ened, which was found to contain the
petrified head and trunk of girl about
IL years of age The police made an
investigation and became satisfied that
the skeleton was the property of DIR:
Holmes who, is said, experimental
with an embalming process which he
had used during the Civil War, and
the secret of which he died without re-
vealing.
1t was DIR. Holiness boast that he
had discovered a process of embalming
that would ossify bodies. He was at
work on the process when he died;
During the war DIR. Holmes embalmed
the bodies of many soldiers. He also
embalmed the body of President Lin
coin.
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Safe Robbers Jailed

San Francisco, No. 3.-Chief OF
Detectives Seymour believes that the
perpetrators of the recent attmpts to
rob the safes of the Pacific Rolling
Mills, the Bauer Lamp and Reflector
Company and the Brooke, Follis Elec-
trio Supply Company in this city, have
been run to earth in Chico. They are
ex-convicts, and are known as Claren ce
French, alias Edwards, alias Charles
are under arrest at Chico for robbing a
hardware store.
Both men are expert electricians,
and the methods they pursued in com
hitting the robbery that has landed
them in jail tally in every particular
with those pursued in the offices of the
three firms mentioned.
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ALL ALONG THE COAST
Interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That Will Be of Great Interest To
Both Old And Young.

A resident of Fair Cakes found two
months-old girl baby ON his front
doorstep.
w. s. Harlow, Under Sheriff of Ala
media county, has held that Office for
twenty five consecutive years.
Sacramento is to have an immense
cannery which will employ over 500
people and will cost upward of $50, 900.
Santa Cruz, Nov. 3.-James Lang,
who was injured by the accidental ex-
plosion of a gun few day ago, died
today.
Arthur Geissler, Stanford Univer-
sity football player, broke his collar
bone in a scrimmage against the
second eleven.
Frank Peters, a Santa Clara fisner-
man, caught an immense skate over
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Two Vessels Aground

Hamburg, Nov. 4.-The Hamburg
American line steamers Fuerst Bis
marck, bound from this port for New
York, via Southampton and Cher
bourg, and the Pretoria from here,
bound to New York by the way of
Plymouth, both went AGROUND while
passing down the Elbe at Schulau,
about thirteen miles from here As
sistance has been sent from here to
help the stranded vessels off.
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Kitchener Commands

London, Nov. 4.-Lord Roberts. ac-
cording to dispatches from Cape Town,
has taken his sick daughter to johann
nesburg, and Lord Kitchener is left in
command. Gen. Dewet is reported 10
have made his appearance near Frank
fort in the Orange River Colony, and
small bodies of beers Continue harras-
ing tactics.
1t is asserted that Lord Kitchener in
tends to stop the pusuit of commanders
and try to settle the colonies by garri-
soning and organizing the towns for
rapid raids with mounted troops
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S. p. Wants a Short Line.

San Francisco, Nov. 4.-The South
ern Pacific is negotiating with the
Rock Island road with the view OF Sc
curing a short line out of Southe r
California to Chicago. The plan cor
templates an extension of the Rock
Island from Leberal, Kan, TO con-
nection with the Southern Pacific at
Ell Paso.
1t is also stated in the item that the
Southern Pacific has abandoned the
building of connection with The Cen
trail Pacific in Nevada, utilizing the
Carson and Colorado as a link.
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TELEGRAPH|C RESUME.
The Beers and English Still Vigorously
Contesting.
OTHER HAPPINGS OF INTEREST.
Reported From All Parts of The World
Which are of Particular Moment to the
Busy Reader.

Jackson, Miss, Nov. 5.-The State
Board of Health officials report one
case of yellow fever at Natchez. The
source OF the infection is not yet
known. The patient is the wife of the
local Baptist minister.
Waco, Tex, Nov. 5.-The suit of the
State of Texas against the Waters
Pierce Oil Co., for penalties amounting
to 100000 for alleged violation of
the antitrust law of 1889, ended to-
day in favor of the company.
New York, Nov. 5.-John McQuaue, a
clerk in the War Department, is lying
in the emergency hospital, his life in
the balance, says a Washington special,
to the World. His neck was broken
during a football game last Sunday,
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No Indemnity Can Answer

London, Nov. 5.-Dr Morrison, wir-
ing to the Times from Picking, Nov
ember 1, says:
THE evidence in the Pao Ting Flu
trial to fix the responsibilities for the
massacres showed that an American
lady before execution, was lead naked
through the city, and that he'd breasts
were cut off.
"The destruction of two temples is
not an adequate punishment for such
inhumanity.'
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Hawaii's Great Spitfire About to BeIch
Forth. Severe Ouakes.

San Francisco, Nov. 4.-The passen-
gers on the bark Roderick Dhu re-
port that the volcano at Kilauea, thir-
ty miles from Hilo, was momentarily
expected to begin its periodical erup-
ton, on account of a series of severe
earthquakes that took place Oct. 10.
The first of the shocks, Oct.10, oc-
Cured about 8 o'clock in the morning,
was very violent, and laster Is seconds.
There were three more strong shocks
during the day.
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occupied a coach of the special train
assigned to carry the Fourteenth
United States Infantry to Ting Ku,
and declined to leave when requested
to do So, Col. Daggett of the Fourt-
zenith Regiment called the American
guard, and forcibly elected the officers.
The French are greatly nicensed over
the incident, and demand an apology.
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Rivers Shot Fatal.

Oakland, Nov. 4.-Deputy Pound
master Peter Farrell, who was shot
in the hip by Edmund Rivers during a
quarrel a few days ago, died at the
Receiving Hospital this morning of
lockjaw brought on by the wound. The
police say Rivers will be charged with
murder tomorrow. He is now held
on a charge of assault to murder.
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Youths on a Highwayman's Career

Prescott, Ariz., Nov. 5.-After steal
ing a saddle in Phoenix Sunday MORN
ing, two youthful highwaymen, one of
them a half breed Cherokee Indian,
started out on a career of crime. The
pair had one horse and saddle and ar
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MINERS TORN INTO SHREDS
AufuI Explosion in West Virginia Mine

Phillip CIV. Va.,) Nov. S.-Thirteen
miners were killed by an explosion
that occurred this morning at 1 o'clock
at the mines of the Southern Coal
and Transportation Company at
Berrysburg, six miles from this place.
The force of the explosion was SO
great that mules were killed at the
mouth of the mine and cars were
blown forty feet from the track. One
man was blown in two at the lnins
and his body thrown against a pile
of lumber at the mouth of the mine.
Two men were found sixty feet from
the mouth of the mine.
An hour after the explosion hun
dreds had visited the mine The sight
was a most horrible one. Strewn along
the main channel and about the open
ing were the arms, legs hands and
other portions of the bodies of the
dead miners. The miners insist that
the explosion was caused by fire damp
The night shift went on duty at Z
O'Clock. Everything went smoothly I'M
til about midnight, when the explosion
occurred. The dead were mutilated be-
yond recognition, and tIir news was
calculated to make the strongest heart
fail.
The explosion was rrohah1v tho re-
suit of an accidental discharge of dy-
Mantle. caused perhaps by conclusion
of a blast.
The property loss is light.
Operations will be resumed at the
mines as usual on Monday.
lChicago Post:] Work is to be
rushed on the Chicago postoffice, and
Ol1r ahi1dray
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DEATH FOR BOXER LEADERS
Officials Have Been Sentenced to Death
Bloody Butchery Of Prisoners
WILL BE BANISHED
Dowaser Empress and Her Advisers must
Remain AMY From Peking Hereafter.

Poa Ting Flu, Oct. 26.-The commits
sion of inquiry into the outrages on
missionaries here has sentenced to
death Tein Yang, the province judge;
Wang Hung On, the military COM
mandant; Gen. Kin, Tato, and other
officials. German and French troops
will garrison Poa Ting Flu for the win
ter. The preparations are complete
for destroying on Oct. 81 the most
venerable temple in the city.
Washington Nov. 2.-It is stated to-
day in quarters well versed in Chinese
affairs that outside of the question OF
indemnity punishments ETC., now un-
der negotiation at Picking, there are
three vital and far-reaching questions
to be determined viz. First, the remoV-
al of the Empress Dowager personal
ly and through the influence OF her
advisers from all participation in the
Chinese government. Second, the ere
alton of an indemnity fund by the in
crease of China's customs revenue,
either by the payment of duties in
gold, instead of in deprecated silver
as at present, or else by doubling the
present silver duties from five to ten
per cent. ad valorem, and third the es-
tabHshment of minister of foreign
affairs, in place of the old and cum
bersome system of the Tsung Ii va
men.
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Dasgett Fires the French

Tien-Tsin, Nov. Yesterday, at
Yang Tsun, a party of French officers
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but the doctors say there is an even
chance that he may live.
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lChicago POST Work is to be
rushed on the Chicago postofice, and
our children themselves, may live to
our children's children, if not our chill
dren themselves, may live to see it
completed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-31
NALCOTT Won A BATTLE
BARBADOS BLACK WAS TO HAVE
MET MYSTERIOUS BILLY
SMITH, OF BOSTON
SMITH. TOO I'LL TO APPEAR
Andy Walsh, MiddIewefGht, Substi-
tuted, and Though He Was
There at the Finish, Was
Clearly Beaten.

NEW YORK, March SO.-Joe Walcott,
the Barbados negro welterweignt pugil-
list, defeated Andy Walsh, of Brooklyn,
who is in the middlewelght class, IN a
twenty-round bout at the Broadway Ath-
letic club tonight
Walsh, who had only been in training
six days, was substituted in place of Mys-
ferrous Billy Smith, who was too i'll to
go on with Walcott. Walcott weighed 142
pounds, and Walsh 154. Walcott was a
favorite at 2 to l.
From the word go the negro was on the
aggressive, and he punished Walsh badly
the seventh round he sent Walsh to the
floor with right hand swing on the
neck. The Brooklyn man regained his
feet quickly, and went back to the negro,
whose right eye was almost closed from a
hard straight left-hand smash.
From this to the end of the bout Walcott
let up somewhat on his aggressNeness.
but at intervals he let go some terrific
punches, all of which made Walsh stag
ger.
Walsh's legs We're in bad condition, aud
he fell TO his knees three or four times
through weakness, but gamely went on,
despite terrific punishment, and was fight
ing a a fair rate of speed when the b IL
ended the bout. The judges agreed OH
Walcott as the winner.
Young WalcOtt, Joes brother met B lily
Needham, Of st. Paul, Mimi, In the IRE
liminary bout of twenty rounds at 80
pounds. Both men fought hard and tast
Referee Charlie White decided on the ne
gro as the winner.