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10 THE MOKN1KU- UKlflGOfflAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1903. HIS DOUBLE Strange Story of Frank McBride's Wives. BETRAYED BY HIS WOUND Mystery Surrounds Identity of His Assailant. TWO WOMEN CLAIM HIS LOVE Each, Says She is His Wife, but He Repudiates One, Who Says She Was Married to Him by a Mormon Bishop. A strange tale of a dual personality, with two women each claiming to be his wife, lies back -of the case of Frank M. McBrlde, 'about 40 years old, a well-known man about town, who Is In the boarding house at the southwest corner of Tenth and Market streets, suffering from a se rious wound In his throat He belongs to one of the first families In this state, be ing a son of Judge John R. McBrlde, of Spokane, who Is a prominent politician In the State Of "Washlne-ton und tran rv memoer or the first Constitutional Con vention of the State of Oregon. Frank !L McBrlde's uncle is ex-United States Senator George VT. McBrlde, of Oregon. There Is a Mrs. Frank M. McBrlde with the wounded man at the boarding-house at Tenth and Market streets, and two of their children are with them. There is a Mrs. Frank M. McBrlde at 511 Second street, with her daughter. Norma Mc Brlde, S years old. Each woman asserts that she is his lawful wife. McBrlde says he was stabbed by a would-be highway robber, who escaped. On the contrary, it Is stated that the real assailant Is the Mrs. McBrlde who lives at 541 Second street. The wounded man will undoubt edly recover in a short time unless unlooked-for complications set in. The affair has a Portland-Salt Lake end to It, with a dash of Mormonlsm. No ar rests have been made, and It is likely that none will be, as the injured man will not prosecute. Each of the wives denies the existence of the other, and no legal proceedings are anticipated. Woman Lets Out Secret. It is probable that the story of Frank M. McBrlde getting his throat cut last Sunday night at Second and Market streets, as he says, would not have been made public at present had not the Second-street Mrs. McBrlde called at the po lice station yesterday and asked the ad vice of the police. She saw Chief Hunt, and in substance said: "My husband came home Sunday evening covered with blood, and he lias gone away from me. Can't I make him support me and my little daughter?" That was all the woman would say, and the Chief asked Detective "Welner to ercort her to the office of District Attorney Manning. Neither Mr. Manning nor Mrs. McBrlde, of Second street, will admit what took place at this interview, but it is stated that, since the woman will not institute proceedings against her husband, probably no action will be taken in the case by the District Attorney's office. Two Wives Claim Him. Unusual efforts were made by the peo- i pie Interested to hush up the matter. Frank McBrlde's wound is serious, yet he was not taken to a hospital, and "his wound was first dressed in a drug store 1 close by whore the stabbing took place, and afterward by Dr. Rand. During Men day, McBrlde said in explanation of the fact that he was going about the house i with his throat wrapped up that he was troubled with a neck sore. Secondly, he said that he had been stabbed by- a foot pad. Last night, he was interviewed by an Oregonlan reporter at his residence at Tenth and Market streets, and spoke distinctly in spite of his wound. A woman was present whom he introduced as his wife. Mr. McBrlde began by sajing: "I wish to state that this lady Is my wife, and that she is the only wife I have in spite of what others may say." "Yes, I married my husband over 20 years ago." remarked Mrs. McBrlde. The reporter faced the wounded man and asked: "What about a woman who says she is your wife, Mrs. Frank M. McBrlde. and lives at 541 Second street McBrlde Denies One Wife. McBrlde never flinched as "he replied: "Don't know anything about her." "Nor her child?" "No." "Your throat is cut "Who cut it?" "A boy attacked me Sunday night at Second and Market streets and said: 'Hands up.' I kicked him, and then he stabbed me in the throat and ran away." "Did not a woman claiming to be your wife, cut you?" "No." "Might your assailant not have been a woman dressed up in men's clothes?" "I don't think so," "Are you or your wife connected in any way with the Mormon Church?" "We are not Indeed my people are respectable people from Idaho," protested Mrs. McBrlde. From outside sources, it was learned that McBrlde came to the Tenth-street .house about two years ago, and that he Jiad been employed as a Jewelry salesman. Deserted Wife's Story. The reporter next visited the other Mrs. McBrlde, at 541 Second street and found her to be a well-dressed, intelligent-looking woman about 24 years old. In reply to queries she said: "I have only been once married, and my husband is Frank M. McBrlde. I was born in St Augus tine. Fla., and my family is as good as any in the South. The McBrldes came from Virginia. I met the men who Is now my husband in Salt Lake City, and he married me when I lacked nine days of being 13 years old." "Are you a Mormon, or is your hue band?" "We are not" "How do you explain the fact that your huBband is now at Tenth and Market streets with a woman who says she is Mrs. Frank M. McBrlde?" "Oh, I have heard of that other woman before, but I don't believe there is any thing to the story. I tell you he Is my husband, and the father of my JIttle girL We had three other children, but they are dead. He was always a good husband to me, and provided for me up to now. He has remained at home with Us every night except when he was away sometimes. On one occasion recently, he told me that he was going away duck-shooting with a man we both know, and when I afterward met this man. the latter denied that he had been with my husoand." "When were you married to your hus band, nnd where?" "Slightly over 10 years ago. at Salt Lake, by the Mormon Bishop Weller. at the Third Ward meeting-house. We were In such haste to get married that I said I was 18 years old. Before the ceremony I had to let down the tucks of my dress to make people think I was older. Now, please understand I am not a Mormon, nd neither is my husband. Why were we , married by a Mormon bishop? Oh, we were iff a hurry to get married. I thought he loved me so. Of course, I know people In Salt Lake." "Now. about your husband being stabbed in the neck?" "He, I and our daughter were In our nome after tea, Sunday night. when my husband went out, saying lie wanted to bacco. Then he came back, saying that a boy had cut him, and I helped to dress his wound at the drug store. Monday morn ing. Dr. Rand called and dressed my hus band s wound in this very house. After ward my husband went out, and I have not seen, him again. I do not know where he is." And here Mrs. McBrlde showed her husband's blood-stained shirt, which she said he discarded when his wound was being care for. "Can you produce your marriage cer tificate? Is it here?" "My htlsband has it There was no license taken out so far as I know. He attended to that part of it" "It has been said that you stabbed your husband." "Who told you that?" The reporter was silent and Mrs. McBrlde went on calmly: "I did not cut him. I may have eald so for a" josh, when his wound was being dressed. My husband's business? Latter ly, he has been an advertising solicitor. Oh, he will come back to me before long." "And you'll forgive him?" "I won't say what I will do," saloV Mrs. McBrlde, of Second street McBrlde Was at Salt Lake. BAKER CITY. Or., Oct 27. As far as can be learned Frank McBrlde was here about three years ago with a handsome woman from Utah and passed' as an agent for a magazine. He was arrested on suspicion of robbing the Postofflce In Salt Lake, of which he was ex-Assistant Postmaster and had served a term in the penitentiary for fraud. He was released here and afterwards a negro who com mitted a diamond robbery in the Port land Hotel was convicted of the Salt Lake Postofflce robbery and Is now In the penitentiary. McBrlde's Salt Lake Career. SALT LAKE, Oct 27. Frank McBrlde was formerly Deputy Postmaster in this city, and at one time quite prominent He was arrested on the charge of embezzling Government funds and sentenced to a term In the penitentiary. He was also ar retted in Baker City, Or., on account of some Irregularity in the Government serv ice. HUE LOSS MUST BE PAID. Dr. John Welch Wins Suit Against Fire Insurance Company. Judge Frazer yesterday decided the suit of Dr. John Welch against the Amer ican Fire Insurance Company to recover $600 Insurance in favor of the plaintiff. Welch was engaged in the dental supply business In the Dekum building, and was burned out on March 3, 3S03. The Amer ican Fire Insurance Company refused to pay on the ground that its policy, written by its agent John H. Burgard, was to take the place of a policy for a like sum held by Welch in the Citizens' Insurance Company, and while the new policy was dated March L the contract really was that the new Insurance was only to take effect at the expiration of the other, which was on March 7. The further de fense was made that Welch collected the insurance in the Citizens' Company, and, therefore, was not entitled to the other insurance. Welch denied all of these al legations. He said his Iobs amounted to I10.04C, and his total insurance to $SS00, and he was entitled to collect everything due him. Judge Frazer decided that a verbal con tract didn't go while there was a written one. In the written contract the new in surance "commenced March 1, and Welch was entitled to the money. CHANGES ITS TACTICS. Municipal Association to Prosecute Owners of Gamblers' Premises. The action which the Municipal Associ ation instructed its legal advisers to take against open gambling in this city will be instituted some time this week. The delay is due to the difficulty found by the attorneys in devising an effective method pf proceeding against the gamblers when the city and county officers refuse to make arrests oftener than once a month. The first plan considered by the associa tion's lawyers was an Injunction against the Mayor and the Chief of Police, which would restrain them from continuing an alleged conspiracy under which the gaming-houses are enabled, to do business. The many legal objections to this course, and a suspicion of Its effectiveness, have led the attorneys to consider the plan of prosecuting the owners of the build ings in which gambling-houses are con ducted. A state statute provides pen al ties for any person who shall lease property for gambling purposes, and the association may decide that this method would be better than the Injunction pro ceeding. It is quite, possible" that actions will be begun "within a few days along .both of these lines. WHO SMASHED THE SIGN? Dennison Suspects Union Barbers, but They Deny It. Some one with malice aborethought took aim at a sign marked "Shaving 10 Cents" painted on the window of Den nlson's barber shop. 205 Morrison street early yesterday morning, and sent a block Of wood smashing through the plate glass, just above the spot where the sign is painted. "If I had known that he was such a bad shot I would have "had the sign painted in larger characters," sarcastical ly said Mr. Dennison yesterday. "I could not getmuch Qf any trade down here in charging 15 vcents for a shave, and I cut my price to 10 cents. I sent my union card to one of the officers of the union, and he swore about it I'm here to make my living, that's all. I blame the Bar bers' Union people for my window being smashed. They are to blame, or people who are with them. It's a shame. Yes, I have my license as a barber from the State Board of Barbers' Examiners." The officers of the Journeymen Barbers' Union, Portland branch, deny all com plicity in smashing Dennlson'a window. Oldest Indian in Sac Tribes. GUTHRIE. O. T., Oct 27. MosesKeo kuk, aged SS, the oldest Indian in the Sac and Fox tribes, died today at his home at the agency. Keokuk was an unusually in telligent Indian, and very religious, being a member of the Baptist Church. He was the son of the great chief for whom Keo kuk, la., was named. Large Massachusetts Firm Falls. LOWELL, Mass., Oct 27. The firm of Horace L. Shattuck & Son. hardware, bicycle and automobile dealers of Lowell, Boston and Providence, 'have assigned with liabilities, it is understood, of $500, 000. i To -Prevent Sale of Property. Leander Lewis has sued Multnomah County to restrain the Sheriff from sell ing lot 14. block 6, Procbstel's Addition. One LBdr's - Recommendation Sold Flftr Boxen of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablet. I have, I believe, sold fifty" boxes of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets on xne recommendation of one lady here who first "bought a box of them about a year ago. She never tires of telling her neighbors and friends about the good qualities of these Tablets. P. M. Shore Druggist Rochester, Ind. The pleasl ant purgative effect of -these Tablets makes them a favorite with ladies every where. For sale by all druggists. STRIKE IN CHAIN GANG COUNTY PRISONERS REFUSE TO WORK ON ROCKPILE. "Chick" Houghton Figures as Labbr Agitator as Well as Thief, but Supreme Court Intervenes. A, revolt among the county prisoners employed on the rockplle occurred yester day under the leadership of "Chick" Houghton, and, had not an order been re ceived a short time afterward from the Supreme Court staying the execution of Houghton's sentence, he would now be confined in a dungeon and fed on bread and water. Houghton was tried on a charge of as sault with Intent to rob C. A. Aplln at Robse'B Park. He was found guilty of assault only by the jury, and was sen tenced by Judge Cleland to six months' hard labor on the rock pile. His attor ney will test In the SupremeCourt the question of the right of the -county au thorities to woric prisoners, and in the meantime Houghton will probably enjoy a rest This will agree with him, because he is altogether averse to manual labor of any sort Judging from his past career of Idleness and vice, and If he ever de velops his muscles it will no doubt be done through force of circumstances in some penal institution. when James F. Johnson and A. S. Brlggs, the guards over the prisoners who make up the County Jail gang, com manded them to turn out for work yes terday morning, the men. all acting un der the direction of Houghton, declined to move. They said they would work no more, but they will be taken to the rock- pile this morning, and, with Houghton omitted from the gang, no trouble is an-L Mr. Johnson made the following state ment regarding the affair: "Houghton was first taken out on Tues day, October 19. He worked only three days. He told Brlggs -and me in the be ginning that if his 'attorney did not get him out In three days, he was going over the wall,, but he didn't go over, because we put a ball and chain on him after that Then he refused to work. We make a daily report to the County Com missioners, and we informed them about the Houghton case, and they told us to take him along as usual with a ball and chain, and If he declined to labor, he would be placed in a dark cell. Today he refused to go out and all of the other prisoners did the same. Up to the time 'Chick' Houghton became one of the rockplle crowd, we had no trouble with the men. but ever since he has been there he has been a disturbing element He di vided the prisoners Into two parties, and told them they could break out of the corral very easily. In all my experience I never handled a better set of men. They took an interest in the work." The prisoners who have been working under guards Johnson and Brlggs are: Hugh O'Brien, Ed McKay, James Hall, Charles Duncan, Reuben Ncer, C. Shan ley, Charles Palmer, Tony Jurlch and Charles Brodle. There are three prison ers sick. W. T. Hume, who will appeal. the last case against Houghton to the Supreme Court, applied for a certificate of probable cause yesterday and Supreme Justice Moore set the case for hearing on Thurs day and suspended the execution of sen tence. There is also a robbery case pending In the Supreme Court, in which he was convicted and sentenced b'y Judge Frazer to five years in the penitentiary- TO KILL OLD TAX LIENS; Purchaser at Delinquent Sale Sues County to Quiet Title. P. H. Marlay, of Nebraska, who does business in Portland through H. E. Noble, a broker, commenced suit against Mult nomah County to quiet title to C3 pieces of property purchased by the plaintiff at delinquent tax sales for the 'years 1SJH5. 1897, 1EM. 1S95. 1901. etc. The complaint recites that Marlay is the owner of this property, and that the county claims tax liens against it for earlier years than those purchased by Marlay. The pre vious county Hen in many instances con sists of the 1892 mortgage tax claim. It is alleged that the county sold to Marlay in good faith, without reservation, and pretended to convey to him all the right of the county, and now cannot set up any prior claim. The list of property in cludes lots 3 to 6. block 299, Portland; the undivided one-half of lot 4, block 2, East Portland; east one-half of lot S, block 22. 'East Portland; also lots in Alnsworth tract Carter's Addition, Columbia Heights, Dolan's Addition, Elizaboth Ir vlng's Addition, Excelsior. Fulton Park, Glscome tract Griswold tract Grover's Addition. Hazlewood, Highland. Llnn wood. Meadow Park, Midway, Mount Ta bor Villa, North Alblna, Portsmouth, Sell wood, Smith's Addition. Sailthson's Addi tion, Southern Portland, Woodlawn. The evident intention of Marlay is to BRYAN IN A TIGHT BOX. i-How.DlDYOul tTlliS perfect a complete title to all of the property named in his list. Decisions by Judge Cleland. Judge Cleland will today hand down de cisions in these cases: Caroline Schroeder vs. Multnomah Coun ty; demurrer to complaint Richard Fink vs. W. B. Honeyman, et at; motion to the answer. Judge George will announce decisions today as follows: Dlckenbach vs. Hima; motion for judg ment notwithstanding the verdict C E. Inman vs. Louis Ravensky; motion for a new trial. Peter Hobklrk vs. Portland National Baseball Club, et al.; on merits. Judge Scars will decided the following cases: In re Helen Steele; habeas corpus. Joseph Bertrand vs. Marccllne Bertrand; divorce. Joseph Drlnkall vs. Lou E. Drinkall; divorce. Charles R. Moore vs. James C. Shofner; findings. Accuses Husband-of Cruelty, Suit for a divorce has been filed by Sarah O'Donnell against Joseph M. O'Don nell, because of cruel treatment Mrs. O'Donnell charges her husband with hav ing beaten her and falsely accusing her of infidelity. There is one child, Lee HObson O'Donnell, 5 years old, of whom she asks the custody. Informations Filed. District Attorney John Manning filed information in the State Circuit Court, yesterday, as follows: Ed Lundy, alias J. Bush; attempted lar ceny from the person oTO. H. Crabb. Emma Johnson; larceny of dress-skirts and shoes from Minnie W. Goddard. J. L. Conway; robbery. Estate of John Green. The 12th semiannual account of the es tate of John Green, deceased, was filed in the County Court yesterday by C. J. Reed and B. G. Whitehouse, executors, showing J21.SC0 on hand April 1. 1903; $4755 receipts, and $2127 disbursements. The principal receipts were rents from the Goodnough and Strowbrldge buildings. Articles of incorporation. Incorporation articles of the Oregon' Dental Supply Company were filed in the County Clerk's office .yesterday by Jospeh Hickey, D. F. Knapp and J. F. Drake; capital stock, $25,000., Baptist Young TVlen Organize. The young men of the Second Baptist Church, East Seventh and East Ankeny streets, have formed a young men's club. Its officers are as follows: President, W. K. Hall; secretary and treasurer. K. W. Burgj; assistant secretary and treasurer, Donald Lewis; instructor. Miss Emma Joseph; assistant instructor, Rev. S. C. Lapham. The club will fit up a room in the church handsomely for a library and meeting-room", which will always be open and will take up the systematic study of the Bible. Yoy Can Be Cured. No. 11 Cedar Terrace, Hot Spkeso6, Ark., April 28, 1903. "When I wa3 first married I found that my strength and health were gradually diminishing. I became nervous and irritable, and was in bed a week and sometimes ten days of every month, and had intense bearing down pains. My husband had the best physician for me andI used his medicine for nearly four months, but I gradually grew worse, had less strength, ang, finally, I was unable to leave my bed at all. A friend who was calling on mc brought me a bottle of "Wine of Cardui and was, so loud in its praise that I told her that I would take it to please her. I was surprised and pleased that before I had used the bottle I really felt fit's . f syssijijq CufiJ better, so I kept on using it. Eight bottles brought back my lost health and strencth, and 1 have not had a sick day in six months . J , B - TxjuauWK, St. Aotbbw's Socibtt. Mrs. Finnegan had little hope of relief because she knew spells of menstrual suffering with attendant bearing down pains month the pain was growing more severe. But Mrs. Finnegan was cured by Wine of Cardui. She is now so well that there are few women who would not be glad to have the health she has. And any woman who has those dreaded bearing down pains can have the same relief. You can be free from menstrual irregularities if you take this pure vegetable wine. Why don't you take it when you see what it has done for others? Secure a bottle of Wine of Cardui to-day. Your druggist has $1.00 bottles. A. wllHns martyr I 5 coffers rrar behold For courts to ruclfy Upon a cross of sold. SNIFFS BATTLE FROM AFAR EX-GOVERNOR GEER WATCHES LAND FRAUD INVESTIGATION. As a Spectator and Disinterested Party Only He Hopes That No Guilty Man Will Escape. Ex-Governor T. T. Geer was at the Per kins Hotel yesterday and was congratulat ing himself on his ability to watch the Government Investigate the land frauds in Oregon with no personal Interest save that of a spectator. "I am glad," said Mr. Geer," that I have not in 25 years acquired an acre of land under any state law." The ex-Governor then expressed his conviction that the exposures and prose cutions being made by the Government would rfave a salutory effect on unscrup ulous speculators and politicians, and would result In the reservation of the pub lic lands for their proper purpose, the supplying of homes and livelihoods to those who are willing to till tne soil. "The constant abuse of the homestead law," said Mr. Geer, "has resulted In the acquisition by the rich of large areas of land which should have been kept by the poor. Had the rich obtained possession of these areas by legal means no protest could bo made, but as a matter of fact I think a majority of the lands were se cured by. some evasion of the law." Governor Geer expressed a fervent hope that the GSvernment would pursue its In vestigations and prosecutions to the end. "I am sorry to see the names of so many well-known men brought Into these land fraud scandals, and I sincerely trust that they may have no difficulty in showing their entire Innocence. But at the same time no guilty man should be permitted to escape." CANAL DEMAND IS KILLED. Colombian Committee Against Ask ing America $20,000, 000. PARIS, Oct 27. Cable advices received here from Bogota, Colombia, announce that the Congressional committee of ex amination has reported adversely the bill declaring Invalid the extension of time granted the Panama Canal Company. This committee also killed the resolution de manding from the United States $20,000,000 and from the Panama Canal Company $10, 000,000 additional. A resolution has been enacted provid ing for the adjournment of the Colom bian Congress November 14. There Is a possibility that a resolution of some kind will pars Congress- regarding the action to be taken by the Colombian Government In canal matters, but the situation Is com plicated by the Presidential election, which occurs In December. ' If it's a "Garland" that's all you need to know about a. Stove or Range. LIMIT IS REACHED Depression in Stocks Will Go 'No Further. CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS Portland Banker Returns From. Con .. ventlon and Teiis Cause anti Ef fect of Depression-Pacific Coast Feels It Slightly: That the recent depression In the price of stocks and bonds on Wall street will not have a serious effect on the business of the country in general, or of the Pa cific Coast in particular. Is the opinion of bankers in general as gathered by Benj. I. Cohen, president of the Port land Trust Company of Oregon, at the convention of the American Bankers' As sociation at San Francisco, from which he returned yesterday morning. , "I paid special and particular atten tion to the condition of .things in the East," said Mr. Cohen to an Oregonlan reporter, "and talked confidentially with some of the leading bankers of the coun try and had the benefit of their private telegrams. There has been a tremendous liquidation back there, which has been caused by squeezing the water out of institutions which were overcapitalized or whose operations were too greatly ex tended upon an insufficient" foundation. Moreover, a great many of the syndicates which have been attempting to make something out of nothing have come tp grief and the members of such syndicates. In the effort to save themselves, have been compelled to sacrifice securities of real intrinsic value at bargain-counter prices In order to keep out of the bank ruptcy courts. This process has now gone so far that the sheep are pretty well scattered from the goats and I believe that the bottom has been reached. The money market has eased off and the mar ket for legitimate securities, both stocks and bonds, is slowly Improving. Labor Situation Improves. "Much serious attention is being given to the labor situation, but this, too, shows some slight signs of change for the better. There have been some spo radic failures in different lines, but the consensus of opinion is. that the banks and trust companies of the United States as a whole are in good shape and present no cause for uneasiness. Moreover, the general business ' of the country is in good shape. "There will undoubtedly be some con traction In certain lines and a good many men will be thrown out of employment until wages and working conditions are readjusted on a more satisfactory basis. But as the country has been going ahead rather too fast, all these conltlons to gether only Indicate such a natural re action as will in the end make for the commercial and financial health of the country." "But has not the West become to a large extent financially Independent of the East, so that depression in Wall street will not be felt here as much as it was in former years?" , West Most Prosperous of All. "There Is no t doubt whatever in my mind." said Mr. Cohen, "that at this time the West in general and the Pacific Coast in particular is better off and pos sesses the elements of solid prosperity to a greater extent than any other part of the- United Statea Perhapa the- strong-, est evidence that all danger of further distress or more extended llquldatidn has passed away is that for the last 10 years the West and the Pacific Coast have been steadily saving money. Mortgages have been paid off, obligations have been set tled, gold has been dug; out of the mines and crops reaped from our fertile fields, with the result that this year less money has been called for by the West for the purpose of moving, crops than during any other year in my recollection. I there fore conclude that a prudent conduct of our business affairs Is all that Is requisite to bring about a continuance of tho pros perity which has prevailed during tho past three years.' "How did the convention go off?" "It was the most successfuFthe Amer ican Bankers' Association has ever held and wo were most hospitably enter tained." Conservatism the Thing. "The only effect liquidation In the East has had on the Coast is to cause con servatism," said R. Lea Barnes, cashier 6f the Wells-Fargo Bank, "for all the banks in the West are gradually becom ing more independent of the East The people througnout tne iaxst expect a gradual depression through the next two years, so that they will adjust themselves to circumstances without seriously feel ing it" Several Easterns delegates to the con vention have passed through Portland on their way home. Among them are: R. L. Crarapton, assistant cashier of the National Bank of the Republic of Chica go; John McCarthy, assistant cashier of the Commercial National Bank of Chica go; H. S. Zimmerman, assistant cashier of the Mellon National Bank of Pittsburg, and W. B. Geery, cashier of the St. Paul National Bank of St Paul, Minn. Can't Find Hops, so Wants Cash. A. F. Flegel. trustee in bankruptcy for Phil Nels, has sued Charles Kos & Bros. Company, American Surety Company and Baumbach, Relchell & Co. to recover $1500 on a bond. It Is set forth in tho complaint that on March 12, 1902. Neis that every time she-had those she was weaker. And every went Into voluntary bankruptcy after having been sued by Estelle May, to whom he owed $1271. She attached ISO bales of hops. The hops were claimed by Koss & Bros. Company and Baumbach. Relchell & Co., who secured possession of them by filing a redeliver bond for $15C0. Estelle May obtained a judgment against Nels for $4490. which she assigned to the trustee In bankruptcy. The hops cannot be found, consequently the bond Is syed upon. ASSAULT ON HIGH SEAS. Female Passenger on the Alliance Ac , . cuses One of Crew. That Mrs. A. H. Ames, of Marshfield. Or., was drugged and brutally assaulted by an unknown employe on the steamer Alliance during a voyage from San Fran cisco to Portland recently is the com plaint that has been made to United States Attorney John Hall, of this city. Pursuant to this complaint the District Attorney at San Francisco has been wired to watch for the arrival of the ship there in the next few days and arrest, if pos sible, the person guilty of the crime. The complaint to District Attorney Hall came In the form of a letter from Mr. Ames, the husband of the outraged woman. According to this letter his wife was returning from a visit to San Fran cisco and on the first night out from land rang for a glass of water. It Is al leged that the attendant who answered the bell took her water that contained a drug. It is further said that, while she was under the influence' of this drug the attendant assaulted and outraged her. She cried for help, but her appeals were unneeaeu. xne next day. It 13 said, she told the steward of the outrage and asked to see the captain. She was refused the request and was forced to lie in her state room in a serious condition, without aid or attention" until she arrived here. When she reached home she Informed her husband of the affair. He immediate ly communicated his complaint to Mr. Hall. The latter was preparing to have a John Doe warrant issued when he learned that the ship had sailed back to San Francisco. Accordingly he notified the attorney at that place to hold the crew upon the arrival of the ship and make a thorough Investigation, arresting the guilty party if he could be located. The penalty for this offense committed upon the high seas' was- formerly death, but the present law leaves it to the discre tion of the Jury. SCHOOL BOND ELECTION. Refunding of Bonds to Voted on November 18. A special school election will bo held on the afternoon of November 18 for the pur pose of determining whether the outstand ing bond Issue of school district No. 1 shall be liquidated by another Issue of $90,000. This has been decided upon by the Board of Education, and Clerk Allen is now preparing election notices for distri bution. 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