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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
KILLED
BY MASKED MEN
Four Hundred Helpless Ami
mails Shot as Result Of a
Fight Between Cattlemen'
Special Dispatch to III. Can

PRINEVILLE. Ore. Nov. -four
hundred sheep owned by q. S. Cowles
are the latest victims of the great
sheep war which has ragged through
out South and Central Oregon for more
than year. The sheep were sIaugh-
tered by ten masked men, who held up
the herder, disarmed him and ordered
him from the scene before the butchery
began The killing followed closely
upon the cattlemen's assertion, made
at the annual meeting OF their associa-
ton, that their cattle shall and will be
provided with grassing in the Blue
Mountain ranging district The slaugh-
ter occurred on Cowles' ranch at the
head Of Mill Greek, twenty-eight miles
northeast of PrinevilIe. II took place
October Is, but news Of it reached here
only to-day.
Cowles left his ranch short time
before the raid was made and knew
nothing of the slaughter until his re-
turn. The shooting of the sheep is
generally laid at the door of the cattle
men, who have made threats against
the sheep interests and who have
themselves suffered by unseen hands.
Following is the herder's story:
Late in the afternoon Of October Is
ten masked men, armed with Win
chester rifles, rode out of the timber
near his flock and demanded that he
throw up his hands until he could be
searched. Refusing to comply imme-
diately, the rifles were leveled at him
and he was threatened with death if
he offered any resistance. After search
ing his pockets and taking away his
revolver the herder was ordered to run
as rapidly as possible and neither stop
nor look back until he had covered
distance of three miles.
When only a few hundred yards
away he heard the shooting commence,
but he continued on his way. The
searching party which returned the
next day found 400 Of the band lying
dead along ravine where they had
been shot down while running from the
noise accompanying the shots. The
remainder Of the band was scattered
over a distance of several miles and
the entire day was consumed in getting
the sheep together.
The party then followed as far as
possible the prints of the horses hoofs,
but in the timber. where the pine
needles lay as thick as mating, these
were soon lost from sight
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
SALOON OWNERS
Want The CASH
Dislike General MacArthur's
Efforts to Crush Evil Exist
ing at Presidio Gates
PAY DAY is DEFERRED
Twenty Eighth Infantry
Will Not Get Money Until
1t Reaches Eastern Posts

A great protest Is going up just out
side the gates Of the Presidio. The pro-
test is made by the owners OF
the saloons and groceries in that
immediate locality because the
Twenty eighth Infantry. which is on
the eve of it's departure for Eastern
posts. has not been paid of and will not
be paid off here. so that the $4,000 or
thereabouts that Is coming TO the regi-
ment will not be spent around the Pre-
sidio gates.
General Macarthur has for long time
been trying to have the joints near the
Presidio abolished, but his efforts have
met with i'll success. In the present in
stance, with the cooperation Of
Colonel W. l. Pitcher. commander OF
the Twenty-eighth Infantry, he has
made big coup. All the saloons about
the entrance to the post have been run
ming without licenses, and the city au-
thorities are said TO have made no ef-
fort to stop the selling Of liquors at
these places The saloons have had a
Government revenue license, but that
is all. They have been kept open in di-
rect violation and defiance OF the law.
When General Macarthur found he
could not get the saloons suppressed he
decided to take the matter into his own
hands. He certainly grabbed the bull
by the horns this time. 1t is reported
that the saloons in that neighborhood
have allowed about so per cent of the
soldiers TO run up bills to the full
amount Of their months pay. Now they
will be compelled to whistle for their
money and wait till the soldiers choose
TO send them funds from Fort Smelling,
to which post most of them are bound
The Twenty-first Infantry is due to
arrive earlv this morning. 1t will be
met at Oakland mole by the SlOcum
and TRANSPORTED TO the PresidiO. The
regiment came in three trains.
The Twenty-eighth Infantry went
into the model camp yesterday prepara-
tory TO its departure. Companies L and
NJ, in command of Captains James A
Lynch and James Ronayne, viii depart
tomorrow morning for Fort Lincoln,
North Dakota, and Colonel Pitcher
with the other companies and the band
will leave early on Monday morning for
Fort Smelling, at St Paul
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
STUDENT RIOT
GROWS SERIOUS
Troops Are Called Out at
Innsbruck and With Fixed
BayOnets Charge the Mob

INNSBRUCK, Austria, Nov. 4.-The
rioting Of the students at the univer-
sity here, which began yesterday, be-
came so serious during the night that
troops with fixed bayonets marched
into the midst of the German demon
strators. At o'clock this morning the
latter we're besieging and wrecking the
hotels occupied by the Italian students.
An artist named Pezzy was killed by a
bayOnet thrust through the heart. The
building occupied by the italian faculty
of the university was wrecked
Order was restored at o'clock this
morning. The troops only charged with
bayonets after the students had as
sailed them with volleys Of stones.
Altogether there were eight Germans
and ten Italians wounded.
Herr Erler. the representative Of
Innsbruck in the Reichsrath. has teIe-
graphed 10 the Premier demanding the
removal Of the Italian faculty and hold
ing the Government responsible for the
consequences in event of its refusal TO
do so. There have been many arrests.
The rioting continued intermittently
throughout the day. The students. re-
inforced by q town mob. wrecked the
Italian Club and Italian Inn. smashed
windows in the Hofburg and made a
hostile demonstration al the Italian
consulate.
The Municipal Council held stormy
meeting this afternoon and adopted
resolutions demanding that the ItaI-
ian department of the university be
closed and for a public funeral for
Prezzey. the artist. who was killed by
a bayonet thrust when the soldiers
charged the German students
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
Rhode, Decision puplicated.

SAN JOSE, Nov AIN four suits
against the Bay Cities Water Company
to restrain that corporation from di-
yerting the waters of Coyote Creek, in
this valley, Judge Tuttle this afternoon
overruled the plaintiffs demurrers on
the same grounds as those recently set
forth BY Judge Rhodes in a, parallel
case
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
BuiIdine 10 Be Torn Down.

stock of $4,000 worth OF mems and
ladies' shoes to be disposed Of at once
will have TO do quick work To-day I
will sell ladies' and mems s3.50 shoes for
S1T5 a pair all Of the very latest styles
in patent leather, vici kid and box calf.
s175 will buy you pair at III Market
st. near Third J. Morris, Disposer-
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
WILL SPEND LAST DAYS
BEHIND BARS OF PRISON
Aged Boulder Creek Murderer Il
Sent to Folsom for
TxxPufy Years

SANTA CRUZ Nov 4-Thomas J..
Laws. 81 years OF age. who murdered
EIizur Wright upon the night Of July
30 six miles above Boulder Greek. was
sentenced to-day by Judge Smith to
twenty years at Folsom.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
BURGLARS PLANS FOILED
BY A NERVY PHYSICIAN
Noise OF Explosion That Wrecks Safe
ArOuses Doctor and He Shoots
at Thieves

SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 4-Safe-
blowers visited the Bank OF Endicott,
at Endicott, fifty miles south of Spo-
kane, early to-day. They wrecked the
safe, but the explosion awakened Dr.
Asa Henry, who began shooting from
the window OF another building. The
robbers fed, firing as they ran at DR..
Henry The s4sO0 in the safe was un-
touched. A posse of citizens has gone
in pursuit
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
Injured bv Failing Lumber.

Benjamin Astles, a workman in a
Lumber yard at Fifth and Channel
streets. was seriously injured yester-
day by being caught under a load Of
lumber. which tipped over from a fiat
car. He was treated at the Emer-
gency Hospital. where it was found
that the right arm bones were broken.
his face was lacerated and he had sut-
fered internal injuries.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
GETS FUN OUT OF CRIME.
CONFESSES BOY BURGLAR
Mexican Youth of Salinas Makes Re-
markable Admission in His
Plea of Guilty

SALINAS, Nov. 4.-CeIestino Juarez,
who was arrested last week for burg
larry, pleaded guilty in the Superior
Court this morning after confessing to
another robbery. He claims to be only
16 years Of age and that he robs "for
the fun of it,
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05

MONNIER CASE SET-Judge Graham yes
terSiav set November q as the date for the be-
Ginning OF the trial by jury OF the contest
AGAINST the will OF George Monuter- Attorney
Matt Sullivan for George Monnier Jr-. made
an effort for further delay. but George D.
C,T IIfns attorney for the widow. Anna Monnier.
successfully opposed the plea for more time
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
The NIlssion-street Branch Y. NJ. c. A

VIII conduct a star course Of entertain
ments. consisting Of five numbers. as fol-
lows: Edmund Vance Cook: poet and
tmpersonator; Knickerbocker Concert
Company. Ralph Parlette, humorist;
Blanchard and Venter Concert Company
and Wallace Bruce Amsbary-
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05

TO SUE FOR DAMAGES. Bleakmore
Yesterday petItioned the Superior Court for
appoint trler1f as guardian OF Everett Gail. six
year-oId boy for the purpose Of suing the San
Pedro and Y. L. Dairy for S395 damages The
lads leg was broken By being run over by one
OF the -defendants milk wagons On Polk street
on Septaruber So
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
PORCUPINE DISTRICT.

Charles W. Wright Of the United
States Geological Survey has made a
report relative TO the Porcupine placer
mining district in Alaska The dis
trict is in Southeastern Alaska, near
the international boundary line Since
the discovery OF the placers on Porcu-
pine Creek, in 1sss, the gold produc-
ton OF the region has amounted to
about $460, 900, according 10 the best
available sources OF information. In
part Mr.. Wright reports as follows:
The goId-bearfng gravels in this vicinity
confined 70 the few creeks and benches
lyfng within an AREA i've miles wide and ten
miles long that extends from Nugget Creek
the Salmon 70 the mouth OF Porcupiue
Creek on the Kiehini. Belts OF minerzlized
states included in this area are crOsscut BY
the streams and from these the gold has
been derived The workable deposits vary
from twenty-five feet 70 several hundred feet
ia width and are from a few feet 70 forty
feet OF more in depth. The gold-producing
ErzVeis on the Porcupine extend to the mouth
o. Mckinley Greek and up this tributary for
distance Of A mile On Nugget Creek the
gold : Ifn1fted the lower claims
The creek srsvels are the most valuable.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
Free Flour.

Send your name and address on a pos
tai and we will deliver you sample
sack of Summit Snow Flour" at home.
free of cost. c. A. Hutton & Co, room 4,
1s3 Spear street, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
Picture Franes.

Our Eastern selection of frames and
holdings for fall trade now in Better
and more beautiful than ever before.
Sanborn, Vail & Co., TAI Market street. :
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
The Mining World reports the great
fluctuations in the Homestake Mining
Company's stock as follows:

The highest quotation on Homestake Min
ing Company Of South Dakota in the history
Of the company IN 1901. when the stock
sold at S104 per share The lowest price at
which II has sold in the past ten years was
SIC per share IN 1s94- Its present market
value Is $55 per share The years Of greatest
dividends were 1890. 1900 and 1901 when each
year dividends 70 the amount OF IS per share
was paid In 1902 s. was paid. and In 1908
So and a similar sum will be paid for 1904
Dividends are paid monthly Of 25 cents per
share at present The lowest price the stock
has touched since 1ses was in March OF this
year. when II fell 10 SO so a share. The COM
pzny has paid IN dividends to date the sum
Of $I2. So. $50.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05

RUSH IT. Gabriel Printing Co.. Print Any
thing" 41s Sacramento St Never diszppolnt- .
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
Ell DORADO COUNTY.


The Georgetown Gazette reports
that the working plant Of the FL Dor
ado Copper Mining Company has been
increased and the mines that il owns
VIII be worked on a larger scale than
before In the earlier days they were
good paying propertis. The Placer
vile Nugget says that there is much
activity among the mines in FL Dor
ado County.
After several weeks OF delay the Landecker
mill Is nov running Colonel Jackson presf-
-. - - - - - =
taken from tie sIulce-
The Red Raven Mining Company, on slate
Creek near Single Springs. is preparing 70
commence work on the old Hunt Kathan
nire-
The Last Chance mine at colona viii erect
a ten-stsnp mill The mill has been purchased
and VII Be Installed and running in short
Al Nashville bota the HaviIah and the Mon
tezu1nR mines are running their mills night
and day TIE Montszuma is running ten
STAMPS and TIE Hzvilsh fifteen
Al the Levitt mine IN KELSEY district
large body Of ore was cut months ago, but il
Is expected that mill viii be erected on this
The san Andreas Chronicle reports
that the Thorpe mine in CaIaveras
County VIII be reopened, a deal for
that purpose having been effected
Work has been begun by the San An
dreas Blue Gravel Mining Company.
A contract has been signed for electric
power.
The Yukon World. published at DaW-
son City. estimates the total gold out
put OF the Klondike for the current
year at about $4,000, 900. The returns
that had been received at the time of
making tie estimate gave a known
total OF ss.5o0.O00 and upward Some
claims had not reported the results Of
their work The period covered was
10 the close OF September. In that time
the gold exported from Forty mile paid
royalties amounting TO 1855 The ex-
ports via White Horse paid in royal
ties the sum Of 81. .541 go
George A Tweedy has been inter
viewed by the Los Angeles Herald
about the mineral belt that runs
through the Sierra Madres in Western
chihuahua and Eastern Sonora He
says II substance:
While this belt Is remote from transporta-
ton. Il Is rich IN gold. generally free The
veins are true tssures- as q rule, large and
numerous The gold is generally too coarse
for the cyanide treatment. The Mulatos camp
Is Il about the center OF this gold belt ex-
tending northwest and southeast. a distance OF
about eighty miles each way Among the
prominent properties Of that belt are the MuIa-
ccs- Sshusyscan the north. TrigO. Colon
and many splendid prospects. This belt Is an
neglected on account Of its rernoteuess from
transportation BY railroad Being particularly
q gold belt with abundant timber and water
sufficient in most cases. many properties could
- 49,
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
OIL MEN UNEASY.

LIS <AnzrlcS MINING REVIEW IL may De
fairly inferred that the operations of
the Associated OIL Company are oc-
casioning some uneasiness among the
oil producers in the fields that lie south
Il Tehachapi- In part the Mining Re
view says;
The purchase OF the plant and real estate
Of the OH Storage and Transportation Com
panv By the Associated Oil Company means
that the producers q Kern County have de-
ciced 70 have 4 slice Of oil consumption in
southern California That the AssoCfsted OIL
Company should hasten 70 make known that
Il has no intention OF going into rzte-cuttfng
business nav Be accepted for what the STATE
merit is worth. that the company will not
precipitsrs a competitive war with the pro-
ducers Of Southern California may be well be-
for the tuturs-nor can Il Be expected that they
should Il the future should disclose a pro-
ducttou in Kern County in excess of sales,
the Kern people viii be very apt 70 do what
others would under similar circumstances do.
seek 70 unload It's sccumularions. Offering con-
sumers the inducement OF cut under prevail
Ing rates. Unless the producers IN the Los
Angeles. Whittier and Fullerton fields get to-
Eether with the Associated OIL people oil viii
Be sailing in a few months IN Los Angeles at
lower prices than It is selling Tor to-day.
Attention is directed by the Los An
geles Herald to an interesting and
somewhat surprising disclosure made
by the returns OF the mineral produc-
tion OF the United States for 1903. A
part OF the Herald's presentation Of
facts and deductions is as fol-
lows
The t0tzl mineral production OF the United
States fer 1903. the latest year for which
plete statistics are available was 81 25a 639
Az of this enormous vslU. S542 25s 5S4 was
contributed BY the metals and s617. .3s0. S3I BY
the n0n-u-staliic mineral products. II these
figures could b accepted as a Just valuation
Of - -
two Classes Il would appear that the metals
had contributed 81 per cent and the
rnLrals - 1er cent ot the total The mar
vllouS growth OF the American Portland
cement Industry shows that the gold pro-
duction Of Cripple Creek is parallel to and
onIy slightly above that for Portland cement
while the production Of Alaska sinks into com
pararfVe insignifcance The most surprising
part Of this increase in the cement Industry
has been within the past eight years A Port
land cement production valued at about So
500 COO IA 1see has risen 70 over 81, Ooo 000 in
TaQ-
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05
TO Nine TRINITY RIVER
LARGE PROJECT IN VIEW
VIII Tunnel Mountains to Provide a Way to
Uncover Wealth of Golden Gravel.

The intention is to work the property
BY the hydraulic process
OF the new smelter that is 10 be
erected in Shasta County the Search
light says:
The smeltsr OF 70 tons daily capacity that
is 70 b erected by the Mammoth Copper Min
Ing Company 10 reduce the ores OF The Nam
moth mine in the Backbone district will be
erected between Backbone and Little Backbone
creeks less than half a mile west OF the
southern Pacific Railroad II will Be connect
ec with the main line BY a branch railroad
that viii connect with the Southern Pacific
tracks sbour half mile south Of the town OF
kernet- The proposed location OF the Nam
moth su1elter Is made public by the fling OF q
deed Tuesday In which Charles Buffers and
wife. Jessie Buffers of Alameda County. trans
fer eighty acres of Land AZ the point mentioned
% A r Holden. the managing director OF the
United states Mining Company OF which the
Mammoth concern Is subsidiary corporation
TIE deed was executed On October IS last. The
consideration Il not given The transfer Is
made With the proviso that suelter be erect
&c On the land within one year from the date
CT TIE Instrument
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-05

From information available they average sew
era1 dollars 10 the cubic yard, though in local
buouzuzzs much higher values are obtained
In the bench deposits lower values may be
expected The extensive river beds are known
70 contain some gold. but are OF 50 low value
that dredging would probably be the only
profitable method Of working them
While some Of the deposits on the lower
claims Of the Porcupine have been considerably
developed the greater number remain un-
touched and to obtain the greatest yield from
them II will be necessary TO combine opera
tfous and work the various claims under one
manaEement by more economical methods than
are at present employed
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-03-04
The Girl Who Drinks

The following, taken from late copy
of the Seattle Star, points to a fact of on
ly too common occurrence but lacks a
lot OF adjoining the story:
"Oh, if don't take drink occasion
ally with the boys they will think 1 am
not a good fellow"
OF course these words were said by
some young fellow around town and
contain nothing startling.
OF course they were not.
They we're used by young girl in
Chicago.
She was handsome, finely dressed
and belonged to good family. And
she is only type!
Recently it was discovered by officers
of the law (who are always the last to
discover what is generally known) that
cocktails and spurious liquors were be-
ing freely dispensed from soda foun-
tains which the smart set of Chicago
trequented. Young women took their
thigh balls along with young men.
Only wink was needed.
And one who is not blind has seen in
cafes and restaurantsin the larger cities
young women with flushed cheek and
dulled eyes, raising strained voices, and
ibetraying in many ways the use of
stimulants. And he would be told these
young women belonged to highly repect-
able society
Why this growing habit?
The young women fear they may not
be considered good fellows They
think if they do not take social drink
with their gentlemen friends they will
not be considered up-to-date.
A mistake!
A man who drinks with foolish
girls does not respect her. Behind her
back he will laugh at her. He does
not care to marry such girl.
The girl who drinks intoxicants in
the company of men loses her sense
of propriety and fitness. She lets down
the bars of maidenly reserve. She sur
renders some of her girlhood, some OF
her modesty, and
II she persists and the habit is form
ed, something worse will surely befall
her.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-03-04
The Desert of Sahara

North of the mountains of the Moon,
in Abyssinia, lies the great Desert OF
Sahara, stretching 800 miles in width
from its southern margin, and 1000 in
length between the Atlantic and Red
Sea. 1t is hideous, barren waste, pro-
longed eastward into the Atlantic for
miles, in the form of sandbanks. and in
terrupted to the west only by few GA
ses and the valley of the Nile.
This desert is alternately scorched by
heat and pinched by cold. The wind
blows from the east nine months of the
year, and at the equinoXes it PUSHES a
perfect hurricane, driving the sand in
clouds before it, producing night at
midday, and overwhelming caravans
of men and animals in common destruc-
ton. Then the sand is piled up in
waves ever varying with the blast; even
the atmosphere is of sand.
The desolation of this dreary waste,
boundless to the eye as the ocean, Is
terrific and sublime-the dry, heated
air is like red vapor: the setting sun
seems to be a volcanic fire, and at times
the burning wind of the desert is the
blast of death. There are MANY salt
lakes to the north. and even the springs
are of brine; thick incrustations OF daz
cling salt cover the ground, and the
particles carried alOft by whirlwinds,
flash in the sun like diamonds. Sand
is not the only character of the DESERT;
tracks of gravel and low bare rocks oc-
cur at times not less barren and dreary
On these interminable sands and
rocks, no animal, no insect breaks the
dread silence; not tree, not a shrub is
to be seen in this land without shadow.
In the glare of the noon, the air quivers
with the heat reflected from the red
sand, and in the night it is chilled in
clear sky sparkling under ahost OF
stars. Strangely but beautifully con-
trasted with these solitudes, is the mar
row valley of the Nile, threading the
desert for 1000 miles in emerald
green, with its blue waters foaming in
rapids among wild rocks, or quietly
spreading in calm stream amidst fields
of corn and the august monuments OF
past ages.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-03-04
His Chicken Came Home to Roost

The following, taken from re-
cent Texas paper, not only hits the man
who wants Office and has not been con-
sistent, but that other large class that
send to Chicago and Seattle for its sup
plies and yet expect the community in
which they live to allow them to earn
the money with which they pay for them.
''For several years one Lee Blan-
Ghetto has been county clerk of Jeffer-
son county. and during all of that time
he has ignored the printing offices in
his home town and had the bulk of his
blanks and other county printing done
in St. Louis. Recently Mr.. Blanchette
announced that he would be candl-
date for comptroller at the next state
election and now the newspapers OF