THEY DIED TOGETHER.
THE UNITED ACTORS.
First Protective Association
Formed by Players.
THE
ARGUS,
Another Tragedy Added to
Portland's Annals.
IT WAS A MURDER AND SUICIDE
1 , A Well-Known Civil Engineer BhooU
and K1IU In. Mabel Calvin and Him
self They Wars People of Splendid
Feuilly Connections.
Portland, Or., September 17. It waa
bout 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
when John W. Stengele, a well-known
young civil engineer, ihot and killed
Mra. Mabel Calvin of Worcester, Man.,
who hat been vialting with relative!
here, and then, placing the deadly re
volver to his own head, blew out hit
brains. The tragedy occurred on the
idewalk on the south side of Yamhill
street about 100 feet west of Thirteenth
street. Three shots were fired in quick
succession, and the man and woman fell
side by side on the pavement Stengel
died instantly, and his victim gave only
one or two gasps after the arrival of sev
eral bystanders who witnessed the shoot
ing. Unrequited love prompted the
double crime.
The news of the terrible affair created
intense interest, owing to the splendid
family connections of both the dead and
also their large circle of acquaintances
throughout the city. Mrs. Calvin was
91 a daughter of 6. Forehand, President
and principal owner of the Forehand
Arms Company of Worcester, Mass.. who
is reputed to be worth several million
dollars. She came here about eighteen
months ago for the purpose of securing a
divorce from her husband, and had been
making her home with her relatives Mr.
and Mrs. Jewett, at 472 Yamhill street.
Stengele had been in Oregon five years,
and for some time was employed at his
profession of civil engineering. More
recently he had been working for the
city as receiving clerk in the work of con
structing the new water works. lie had
exemplary habits, and was well thought
of by a host of acquaintances, and had
friends all over the State, who will think
it Incredible that he would commit so
foul a crime. His mother is quite
wealthy, and lives in Chicago.
This letter explains that the shooting
was premeditated. It is as follows:
Portland Hotel, September 16, 1894.
My Dear Clohessy: Could any one
overlook the fact that I am mad? 1 have
done a lot of worrying, and you can now
see why I am not well and why I do not
sleep and eat as I used to. You know
we were to be married as soon as Mabel
got her divorce, and yon know of onr in
timacy for the past year or more. I
found to my sorrow after watching her
that I was not the only man in the case.
We had a row once before, but then I
wu not as positive as now, and we made
np. Yon have proved the only friend I
have ever had. I hope yon will never
nuke such a d I of yourself as
I have made of myself. I cannot stand
life any longer, although I have been
fairly successful all along. There is
enough money In my pocket to pay for
burial, etc. Iam not particular howl
am put away. Mabel is the only woman
, I really love. I cannot live without her.
and if yon knew how I have been treated
of late, you would not blame me.
"It is almost impossible for me to
write ; I am so nervous. I realize what
I am about to do perfectly, and I cannot
for the life of me check myself. This
desire to kill her and then myself came
over me a few days ago. I cannot live
any longer. Best wishes. Jack."
Mrs. Calvin was a strikingly hand
some woman. She had a particularly
graceful carriage and a sweet face, but
her most striking mark of beauty was
her clear, healthy complexion. She had
dark eyes and hair, and was of medium
height and buxom figure. Her father
supplied her with sufficient means to
satisfy every whim, and although she
had an extensive wardrobe of the latest
style garments, they were all of subdued
and modest shades. She spent two
months.durlng the past summer season
at the seaside, and is well remembered
by many who met her there.
TABIOCS INDIAN AGENCIES.
Ions the Largest Tribe and Osage the
Blohest.
San Francisco, September 17. 0. 0.
Duncan, one of the five United States
Indian inspectors appointed to travel
and Investigate the various Indian agen
cies, Is in this city. Inspector Duncal
has just returned from 'Round Valley,
where 6,000 acres of land have been ap
portioned to 600 Indians. He says the
most of the reservation has little value,
being composed largely of hills. Some
of it has been sold at a low price. The
business of the agency is pretty well
closed, the Indians having been put in a
nearly self-supporting condition. In
spector Duncan has been visiting a great
many agencies on this Coast and else
where lately. He says that last year the
statistics of the Indians showed that they
had . increased instead of decreased for
the first time in twenty years. He
added:
"The reason is that they are relying
on themselves. The Sioux constitute
the largest tribe some 17,000 that are
nnder the government. The Osagea are
the richest people in the world. There
are but 840 of them, but they have $7,
000,000, which brings them in an interest
of $360,000 a year. Besides this they
own a large area of profitable lands.
The Coeur d'Alenes of Idaho are the
most civilized of any except the Chero
kee!. They live in good houses, and are
otherwise advanced from the sale of
their lands some time ago. They re
ceived (660,000 or 11,100 for every man.
woman and child: so they are well
fixed." .
Under tha Mexican Flag.
Nw York, September 17. It was an
nounced, from Panama that a new
steamship line, the vessels to be built in
England and to sail nnder the Mexican
flag, is to be established between Pan
ama and San Francisco to connect with
the Tehuantepec railway.
Tha Seventh Magnitude.
Naw York, September 17. A special
dispatch from Kiel says Prof. Haltwig
of Bamberg has discovered the variabil
, ity of the star of the seventh magnitude
in Hercules. The star is a variety of the
Algoatype.
McDonald'! Trial Contlnned.
. Ban Francisco, September 18. The
trials of Richard McDonald, Jr.,H.T.
Graves, A. L. Jenkins and Charles Mont
gomery, charged with embezzlement on
grand Jury indictments, have been con
tinned until October 1.
' The Yield of Balslns.
Fresno, Cal., September 18. Since
most of the first crop of raisins have
been picked and cured, those who are
best posted on the yield say there will
be a sWtane of 600 to 1.000 carloads in
this part of the valley. The quality is
yery line.
VOL. l.
WKLLMAN'S EXPEDITION.
Tha Chleago Newspaper Man to Ball for
Homo Wednesday.
London, September 17. Mr. Well
man, the leader of the American Arctic
expedition, whose plans to explore the
far North were frustrated by the sinking
of his vessel, which was crushed in the
ice, will sail from Southampton for New
York Wednesday next by the steamer
Spree. He will be accompanied by the
American members of his party. In the
course of an interview to-day Mr. Well
man said the failure of Lieutenant Peary
to reach North Greenland shows that,
like the Wellman expedition, he met un
usual difficulties arising from the ex
tremely unfavorable season. He warmly
defended the expedition against the
charges made of inexperience and a bad
outfit. He especially protested that he
had not abandoned Prof. Oyen on Dan
ish Island. The professor, be added,
had 1,200 pounds of provisions on the
island, ana was therefore in no danger
from suffering from a lack of food. Prof.
Oven had himself perfectly absolved
himself from the charge of abandon
ment. In conclusion Mr. wellman stated
all the Norwegian members of the expe
dition had promised to accompany the
next expedition. As to Messrs. French,
Mohun and Dodge, he said, braver or
better men cannot be found. -
BIB POLITICAL TESTAMENT.
The Document le Brief and Was Written
la tha Stowe Bouse.
London, September 17. The political
testament of the late Comte de Paris
was made public to-day. The document,
which is very brief, is dated Stowe House,
July 21, 1894, and says:
"As I had no knowledge of my future,
I would not attempt to trace a line of
conduct for my son, feeling with perfect
confidence that he will always uphold
the traditions of our house, which are
love for France and the faithful dis
charge of all the duties incumbent upon
him. I hope that France will soon be
reunited, all parties finding a basis of
common agreement under the traditional
monarchy. If I went to Frohnsdorf in
1873, it was to show my respect to the
hereditary Prince. Since then I have
tried to deserve the confidence of my
party by fighting, although an exile,
zealously for France."
The document concludes by express
ing his trust that God has not abandoned
France, to whom he gave Saint Louis
and Joanne d'Arc. He felt certain that
France will return to her old religion,
and meanwhile he could only hope for
the unity of all existing parties. He
was sure that his friends would under
stand that this was a necessary condi
tion and precedent to all they hoped for.
THE YACHT BACK.
Propositions From the British Not to
Our Liking.
New York, September 17. Both Lord
Lonsdale and Lord Dunraven are seri
ously talking of building a yacht to race
for the American cup, and, judging by
the comments in English papers, a num
ber of important concessions will be
asked of the New York Yacht Club. It
is said that, if the Englishmen deride to
challenge with a seventy or an eighty
footer, they would like the New York
Yacht Club to meet them with a boat of
similar size and not have the Vigilant,
Jubilee or Colonna put against their
smaller craft. They also say that they
would like to have the races decided off
Newport to avoid excursion steamers.
While no formal proposition has thus
far been made to the New York Yacht
Club on the subject, the questions have
been informally discussed among the
members, and those in authority say that
neither proposition finds favor here or
would be accepted under any circum
stances. AFTER INFORMATION.
Australia Wants to Learn Many Things
From American Farmers.
8an Francisco, September 17. James
Mclnnes Sinclair of Victoria, Australia,
is in the city with a commission from the
Department of Agriculture of Victoria
to study the system in vogue among the
farmers of this country. He said to
day :
" The government of Victoria sent a
man to Denmark a few years ago to re
port on the dairy interests of that coun
try. The effect has been marvelous.
Four years ago our exports of butter to
the United Kingdom amounted to less
than $2,000. Last year our exports of
butter amounted to $3,500,000. Next year
the figures will be upward of $6,000,000.
My visit to America is of a similar na
ture, theugh the scope of my work is
greater. 1 nave to report on all the eco
nomics of srain production in California.
the sugar-beet industry, tobacco-growing
ana ponc-packing."
ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD.
Hutlnjr In Chleago Because Their Pay
Has Not Been Beeelved.
Chicaso, September 17. A mutiny
broke out in the ranks of battery D of
the Illinois National Guard last night,
and seventeen artillerymen were placed
under arrest, pending a dishonorable
discharge from the service of tne Slate.
The trouble has been brewing several
weeks, and bad its origin in the failure
of the State to pay the men for their
services at the stockyards during the
recent railway strike in sympathy with
the Pullman workmen. Last ntght was
drill night, and when the order was
?:iven to "fall in" seventeen men re
used to put on their uniforms and pre
sent themselves for roll call. One of the
malcontents voiced the feelings of his
fellows by saying :
" We don't put on our uniforms nntil
we get our sou."
United States Preferred to Canada.
London, September 17. The Chronicle
to-day publishes an interview with Sir
John T. O'Brien, Governor of Newfound'
land, who is spending a vacation in Eng
land, with reference to the question of
confederation. Uovernor U'Brien says
that, so far as Newfoundland was con
cerned, confederation was not a live
issue ; bat, if the question ever arose, he
should say that the people were probably
more inclined to join the United States
of America than Canada. It was moat
improbable, however, that inch an issue
would arise. There was no weakening
in loyalty of the people of Newfoundland
to ureal Britain.
IIILLSBORO, OREGtfN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1894.
THE EXPECTED ORDER
Changes Made in Location of
United States Army.
EAST GAINS FROM THE WEST
When the New Posts In Montana and
Colorado Are Completed Troops Will
be Further Concentrated List of
Posts That Will be Abandoned.
Washington, September 18. The or
der anxiously awaited in army circles
providing for extensive changes in the
location of the United States army was
issued to-day. They provide garrisons
for the old recruiting depots, and also
contemplate a considerable concentra
tion of troops. Several of the smaller
stations east of the Mississippi, as well
a few in the Western country, are given
up as no longer necessary. The regi
ments which are to be brought East in
whole or in part are the Third and Sixth
Cavalry, the Thirteenth and Seventeeth
Infantry and the whole Twentieth In
fantry, now stationed at Fort Leaven
worth. The Tenth Infantry, that has
heretofore been scattered between five
posts from the Pacific Coast to the Mis
sissippi Valley, will now come together
at Sill and Reno, while the whole Fifth
Regiment, formerly occupying five sta
tions, will be assembled at Fort McPher
son, Ga. As soon as some changes are
made in the quarters at Jefferson Bar
racks and Columbus Barracks, the two
troops of cavalry now ordered to the
former will be joined by four other
troops, and the remainder of the Seven
teenth Infantry will be sent to Columbus
Barracks, making the latter a regimental
post. David's Island will be occupied by
the artillery as a modern fortification,
which has been constructed there to com
mand the sound entrance to New York
harbor and is now receiving the arma
ment required as an artillery garrison.
Fort Columbus on Governor's Island
will hereafter be an infantry post, to be
ultimately increased to a full regiment.
The total number of companies now
serving east of the Mississippi is 100. In
future it will be 119, occupying thirty
one posts. The gain to the East, of
course, comes from the West, but the
number of posts remaining west of the
Mississippi is forty-nine, and those are
garrisoned by 245 companies, without
counting the Indian companies, of which
there are seven. It will be seen, there
fore, not more than two-thirds of the
regular army still remains in the West.
Congress has ordered the building of
two new posts, one in Montana and one
in Arkansas. When these are com
pleted other points will be given up and
troops still further concentrated. Gen
eral Howard's command will be in
creased to nineteen companies. The de-
Sartment of the Platte losses seven,
olorado four and Dakota eight. The
order itaelf is as follows :
cavalry.
First Regiment Troon A from Fort
Myer, Va department of the East to
department of Colorado.
Second Regiment The Junior Major
and three troops from Colorado to Fort
Kiley, Kan., and Troop t irom rort
Worth to Dort Kilev ; the Lieutenant-
Colonel and Troops B and I from Fort
Bowie, A. T., to Fort Logan, Col.
Third Kegiment The Senior Major
and Troops 0, E, F and G, now tempo
rarily at fort Sheridan, ill., to fort
Jiitnan Alien, vt., the movement to use
place October 1 ; headquarters and two
troopB, one of them Troop D, from Okla
homa Territory, by October 1 and the
Junior Major to Jenereon .Barracks, Mo.
Sixth Keeiment irom the depart
ment of the Platte to the departments
of the Missouri and East; headquarters
Junior Major and Troops A, E, G and H,
now temporarily at f ort Sherman, ill.,
to Fort Myer; the Lieutenant-Colonel
from Jefferson Barracks and the three
remaining troops to Fort Leavenworth,
the movement to commence October 1.
The Indian Troop L will remain at Fort
.Niobrara.
Seventh Regiment Senior Major and
Troop F from Fort Myer to Fort Stanton,
jn . M. ; the Lteutenant-uoionei to f ort ki-
Eighth Regiment Troop H from Fort
Myer and Troop D from Fort Leaven
worth to the department of Dakota.
Ninth Regiment Troop K from Fort
Myer to the department of the Platte.
Tenth Regiment Troop I from Fort
Leavenworth to the department of Da
kota. Troops of the Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth Regiments, as in the foregoing,
will move upon the arrival of the incom
ing troops for Fort Myer.
ARTILLERY.
Third Regiment The Junior Majot
and two batteries to Jackson Barracks,
La.
INFANTRY.
First Regiment One company from
San Francisco harbor to San Diego Bar
racks, to relieve Company C, Tenth In
fantry, without unnecessary delay.
Fifth Regiment To be concentrated
at Fort McPherson, Ga. ; Company A at
Fort Leavenworth and F at Houston,
Tex.
Sixth Regiment Company A from
Fort Wood, N. Y., and E from Newport
Barracks to Fort Thomas, Ky.
Seventh Regiment Company H, now
at Fort Leavenworth, and U at Camp
f not mute to f ort Logan.
Eighth Regiment Headauartera and
three companies from Fort McKinney to
f ort v. A. Kusseii.
Tenth Regiment The department of
Missouri headquarters and four compa-
nies to Fort Reno and four companies to
Fort Sill, the distribution to include two
companies at f ort Leavenworth.
Twelfth Regiment Headquarters and
Companies E and H from Fort Leaven
worth and Companies B, C and D from
Fort Sullivan to Fort Niobrara.
Fourteenth Regiment Company H
from Fort Leavenworth to Vancouver
Barracks.
Seventeenth Regiment From Fort D
A. Russell to the department of the
East: headauarters and Companies A.
D, E and G by October 1 to Columbus
.barracks, U. ; the Lieutenant-Colonel,
Major and three companies remaining
to the same station.
Nineteenth Regiment Company C
from Fort Mackinac to Fort Braddock
Twentieth Regiment From the de
partment of Dakota to Fort Leaven
worth. Indian Company I will remain
at Fort Assinaboine.
POSTS ABANDONED.
In connection with the foregoing these
posts will be abandoned under the usual
orders to be promulgated hereafter:
Fort Marcy, N. M. ; Fort Bowie, A. T. ;
Fort McKinney ; Fort Sullivan, 8. D. ;
Fort Supply, O. T.; Fort Mackinac,
Mich. ; Newport Barracks, Ky. ; Mount
Vernon Barracks, Ala.
Accompanying the new order, the War
Department makes public this state
ment: " The order for the discontinuance of
three recruiting posts Davis Island,
Columbus Barracks and Jefferson Bar
racksis contained in the announcement
that troops to occupy these stations
would soon be designated."
MIBACLE AT LOUBDE8.
Ona Sick Almost Unto Death Made
. Strong and Healthy.
New York, September 18. The Her
ald prints the following from its Rome
correspondent nnder date of September
2: Another pilgrimage from across the
Atlantic, this time from Canada, has ar
rived in Rome, and was received this
morning by the Pontiff with great cere
mony and graciousness. They came to
Rome last Thursday from Lourdes, where
they were during the national pilgrim
age. As they steamed into the famous
town of Bernadotte their American col
leagues were just leaving. In an inter
view with M. Rivet, the director of the
pilgrimage, he informed me that, al
though some of the party started out
with rather vague ideas of Lourdes, they
were all enthusiastically devout and de
lighted while there, ana it was with great
difficulty that they went away, even
with the prospect before them of being
received by the Holy Father. The first
day of their stay ten miracles were reg
istered at the bureau, and their faith
was strengthened to exultation by the
complete restoration to health of one of
their party. Mrs. Burque, the wife of a
physician of Montreal, suffering from
tumor, took this pilgrimage as a last re
sort, having been given up by the doc
tors in Canada. It was against their
advice, and even in Paris no one could
relieve her in any way, and she was told
that, if she took such a journey, it was
at the riek of her life. She persisted,
being strong in her faith ; and, though
much exhausted on arriving, a few days
later she re-embarked for Paris, radiant
with health, perfectly cured and devout
ly thankful to " Our Lady of Lourdes."
The reception at the Vatican was much
like that accorded last month to the
American pilgrims, the Pope seeming to
have a special love for his children across
the water, He murmured from time to
time: "Oh! ce sont mes Canadiens.
Oh I que je suis content." M. Rivet
presented the Holy Father with $2,500
lor Peter's pence, and was elected a mem
ber of the order of Advocates of St. Pe
ter. They left to-day via Florence, Ven
ice and Geneva to sail for Canada from
Liverpool.
CRUISER NEW YORK.
Waiting for a High Tide to Take Her
Off the Dry Dock.
New York, September 18. The cruiser
New York is in the dry dock at the
Brooklyn navy yard, and cannot get out
nntil there is such an unusually high
tide as that on which she went in nearly
a month ago. The New York took ad
vantage of a spring tide to get into the
dock to have her bottom scraped and
cleaned. It was expected another spring
tide would float her out. But the spring
tide did not come, and officers and crew
have orders to go and "watch the tide."
She may have to wait another month or
more, and even when she does come out
her woes are not over. It has been
learned that the blocks on which the
cruiser rested were not fitted so as to be
moved while the vessel is in the dry
dock. These blocks cover more than 100
square feet of the vessel's bottom, mak
ing large spots which it has Deen im
possible to scrape or paint. She there
fore must be moved out of the dry dock,
the blocks must be moved, and she
must then be put back so that dmerent
parts of her bottom may rest on blocks
permitting the painting oi the present
foul spots. .
EA8TEBN OREGON MINING.
Another Quarts Mill In Operation in
Baker City.
Baker City, Or., September 17. A
new quartz mill has been recently built
and put into successful operation within
the limits of the city. Ore from the
Emma is being reduced there, the re
sults being very satisfactory to the own
ers. As the cost of hauling fuel is a
great item, it will only be a short time
before several other mills will be erected
in the city. H. Winden, who has been
placer-mining on a gulch on Miner '
creek, reports the bedrock very deep.
Prospects are very flattering for a sucesB
f ul run next season. The gold is very
coarse. C. M. Tracy has uncovered a
very promising vein of free-milling or
near Sparta. He is now at work sink
ing a shaft, and if the ledge is found to
be extensive, preparations will at once
be made to make the property a pro
ducing one.
Cattle Buffering In Lower California.
San Dieoo, Cal., September 18. Amos
Gilbert has driven 1,600 head of cattle
from Valle de Las Palmas, Lower Cali
fornia, into the mountains, owing to the
scarcity of feed neat the coaBt. Pancho
Crosthewaite has moved over 1,000 head
of cattle as far as Trinidad Valley on the
way to the Colorado river bottoms,
where he will take up his permanent
abode, having left Mission Vieja. The
douth below the line is proving a serious
matter for the cattlemen.
Mexican Congress Opened.
City of Mexico, September 18. At
the opening of Congress President Diaz
announced that Mexico had proposed
the holding of a conference by the Ameri
can and Asiatic powers on the silver
Question, but the protect had been de
layed by the war between China and
Japan.
Black Republics Peaceable.
New York, September 18. The steam'
ship Clyde from Cape Haytien, which
arrived to-day, reports that up to the
time of her departure there waa no
further outbreak in San Domingo or
Uayti.
LOOKING UP HER PAST
Mrs. McCall's Suit Against
Young McAllister.
"FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED"
Tha Leader of New York's " Four Hund
red " Will Defend His Boa aa Mueh as
Possible There May ba Soma Testi
mony That Will Embarrass Har.
New York, September 17 Ward Mc
Allister believes in the old saw that
" forewarned is forearmed," and when
Mrs. McCall brings her suit for breach of
promise against the son of the famous
leader of the 400, there may be some
testimony that will embarrass her. Mc
Allister, Sr., has been gathering evidence
with assiduity that proves that he is good
for something more than a model for
those who wish to be in the swim. He
has learned that Mrs. McCall haa rather
an unenviable St. Louis record, and two
well-known men of that city, as well as
a prominent New York newspaper man,
may have to tell what they know of the
woman's past. One of the St. Lonisans
in question is Colonel John Norton, man
ager of the St. Louis Grand Opera House,
who is one of the best known theatrical
men in the conntry,and whose wife eloped
some years ago with Henry Moore, man
aging editor of the Post-Dispatch. Mrs.
McCall played a temporary engagement
in St. Louis not very long ago, which
ended in her chasing the susceptible
Colonel Norton through the streets with
a horsewhip. All this, with much inside
history, Mr. McAllister is said to have
gathered as ammunition in case his son
Heyward is called upon to renounce his
celibacy.
SALUTE AT MIDNIGHT.
Why the Attack on Wei Hal Wal Proved
Failure.
New York, September 17. The fol
lowing remarkable message in the origi
nal haa been translated by a Japanese
gentleman in New York. It was sent
by a special Japanese correspondent
serving with the fleet in the Gulf of Pe
Chi Li to the newspaper in Japan which
he represents, and the name of which is
for obvious reasons withheld. The Jap
anese government, which exercises a
strict censorship over all news relating
to the war, prohibited its publication.
It is dated " With the Japanese fleet be
fore Wei Hai Wei, Gulf of Pe Chi Li,
August 12:"
"At 11 o'clock yesterday morning, Au
gust 11, onr fleet, consisting of twelve
men-of-war and a fleet of six torpedo
boats, took advantage of the darkness of
the night and crept into the harbor at
Wei Hai Wei unknown to the Chinese in
the forts and vessels. Six torpedo boats
were sent out with the purpose of blow
ing up the Chinese warships anchored
within. The fleet was proceeding in the
wrong direction, and then, discovering
their mistake, they turned back, changed
their course and made straight to tha
place where the Chinese lay in safety.
When midway a British 'man-of-war,
which was anchored there, fired a salute
for the Japanese vessels, a very unusual
thing to do in such circumstances. Upon
this all the electric and search lights at
the forts were lighted in an instant, and
soon all the forts were in activity. An
exchange of shots for over an honr fol
lowed. Seeing that the plan to take the
Chinese by surprise had fallen through
on account of the salute from the British,
and further Bring being of no avail, the
J apanese retired. As the torpedo flotilla
was returning, a Chinese torpedo boat
discharged a torpedo against it, bnt failed
to do any damage, and for its trouble was
instantly rewarded by being sunk by a
torpedo discharged from one of the Jap
anese boats. The salutes from the Brit
ish vessels cannot but be regarded as a
signal to make the slumbering Chinese
know of the presence of the Japanese,
as it is not customary to fire salutes at
the dead oi night."
THE OPIUM SMUGGLERS.
How They Evade the Law In Southera
California.
Los Angeles, September 17. A big
gang of opium smugglers was unearthed
to-day by Collector of Port Gaffey. One
hundred and fifty five-tael cans of opium
have been seized and several arrests
made. The chief of the gang was Gus
Algren, a-restaurant keeper in Santa
Monica, who was arrested this afternoon
and brought to this city along with the
opium seized. Steward Smith and a col
ored boy of the steamer Minneola are
charged with having landed the opium
at rot Angeles. A man named JHcUlel
lan, a partner of Algren, is wanted, but
has not as yet been captured. It has
been known for some time that a well-
organized gang has been operating in
several places aiong tne coast, ana Col
lector Gaffey several weeks ago put Spe
cial Agents Cornell and Mappa to work
up the case. They discovered that the
smugglers were dropping the opium
overboard from sailing vessels outside,
encased in black bags. These were sunk
with weights, but had ropes attached
above to buoys. Confederates would go
out in small boats and pull up the stuff
and take it ashore in fishing bags.
Paying the Claims.
San Francisco, September 17. The
first damages growing out of the colli
sion between the steamers Oceanic and
the City of Chester have been paid by
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company to the families of the victims.
Ihe accident occurred in 1888 in San
Francisco harbor. Suits were brought
in behalf of the six minor children of
Colnmbus Davis and of three other chil
dren, whose parents were drowned. The
ury awarded the Davis children $10,000,
and the steamship company appealed
the case. The appeal is still pending,
but the company finally decided to pay
the claim in full. The results of the
ither suits hinged on the decision in the
Davis case, and they, too, have been set
tled. In all 126,000 has been paid out
10 far by the company.
NO. 26.
KIDNAPED FROM HIS GUARDIAN.
The Boa of Fredinand Ward Taken and
Recaptured.
Thonabton, Conn., September 15.
Thompson, a town one mile south of
here, was excited to-day by a report that
Clarence Ward, the ten-year-old son of
Ferdinand Ward, ex-banker and finan
cier of New York, had been kidnaped
from the home of his guardian, Frederick
D. Green. About, 8 o'clock two men
seized the child and put him in a car
riage. Thev the drove north toward
Webster, Mass. Mr. Green notified the
police of all the surrounding towns by
telephone, and then started in pursuit.
About 10 o'clock a message was received
here from Webster announcing the men
had been arrested and the boy recovered.
Fredinand Ward has several times tried
to get possession of the child. The boy
has made his home with his uncle, Mr.
Green, at Thompson since the death of
his mother, while his father was in Sing
Sing. Mr. Green was appointed the
boy's guardian by the New York courts,
and has charge of the property left to
Clarence by his mother. Fredinand
Ward since his release from prison has
made several attempts to gain the custody
of the boy through the courts, but has
always ailed.
TOO PBOUD TO BEG.
Tha Child Dead and tha Mother Dying
From Starvation.
Camden, N. J., September 18. Mrs.
Kate Massey, her three-year-old child
and her infant were found starving yes
terday in their house in Westminister
avenue, Stockton, near Camden. A
month ago Mrs. Massey's husband died
while undergoing an operation in a Phila
delphia hospital; two weeks later Mrs.
Massey gave birth to a child. She waa
left destitute, but she would not ask for
aid, and her neighbors did not know her
condition until yesterday, when Over
seer of the Poor John Eenner visited her
house and found her and the children
apparently dying. Mr. Kenner immedi
ately summoned Dr. O. L. Greembrecht,
but the doctor said the woman and her
children were too exhausted to recover,
but he took them in hand immediately.
The infant died soon afterward. Its
death was entirely due to lack of nourish
ment. Mrs. Massey can live but a few
days at the furthest, and the other child
is very low. The mother had starved
herself and given the trifling food she
had to her older children.
MINISTERS IN TROUBLE.
A Baptist Preacher Who Made False
Bepresenatlons.
Wabash, Ind September 16. Rev. J.
W. Power, Baptist Minister of Liberty
Center, who waa arrested, charged with
stealing a pocket-book from Miss Lizzie
( Sparks, and who was acquitted, was tried
by the Salamoni Baptist Association on
two charges, one alleging that he had
' represented that he had $1,700 on de
' posit in Indianapolis . banks, by reason
of which he secured two names as surety
on two $600 notes, which the signers paid.
I As a result of the trial it was decided to
expel the minister from the church.
rather rough on the minister.
Hillsdale. Mich.. September 18.
Word readied here yesterday afternoon
that at Frontier in this county Tuesday
night Key. Charles Clancy was tarred
and feathered. Clancy was until a year
ago pastor of the Methodist Church
here, but had trouble and started a
church of his own with a score of mem
bers. Tuesday night forty masked men,
among them husbands of the women of
his flock, called him from his house, and
liberally applied coal tar, dusted him
with feathers, and then rolled him down
a steep hill; Then they warned him
that he would receive another dose as
soon as he shed his feathers if he did
not get out of town.
The Bates Reduced.
Tacoma, September 17. The Execu
tive Committee of the Interstate Fair
has yielded to the public demand and
made a 26-cent rate of admission to the
fair for evenings and Sundays. The reg
ular rate of admission throughout the
day is to remain at BO cents, but in the
evening and all day Sundays the price
of admission is to be 26 cents. This rate
begins at once. The people and the con
cessionaires have been clamoring for a
lower admission. This trial is made as
an experiment. If the fair does not
continue to pay expenses, the trustees
say the straight 60-cent rate will be re
stored. Many believe the attendance
will be more than proportionately in
creased. Coming Baok From Behrlng Sea.
San Francisco, September 17. Lien
tenant Commander Morton of the United
States steamer Adams, which has arrived
from Behring Sea, in an interview statef
that the remainder of the patrol fleet
may be expected here shortly. The
Yorktown, which left Sitka on August
81 for Unalaska, is due here in about
two weeks, and the Banger may be ex
pected in a month or so. The extent oi
the damage to the keel timbers of the
Adams through their contact with the
rocks will not be known for some little
time, aa it will be abouta month before
she can obtain her turn in the dry dock,
other vessels being ahead of her.
American Bankers to Meet.
Baltimore, Md., September 17. The
Executive Committee, having charge oi
the arrangements for the forthcoming
national convention of the American
Bankers' Association, has received ad
vices indicating that fully 1,600 delegates
will be in attendance, and that every
State and Territory will be represented
This will make it the largest convention
of representatives of the financial inter
ests ever held in the country. The com
mittee, which will decide what subjects
shall and shall not be discussed at the
convention, will meet this week.
A Bloody Border.
Oaxaca, Mexico, September 17. Late
advices from Chiapas state the troubles
on the Guatemalan border are growing
more 'serious, and the indications
are favorable for bloodshed unless the
two governments reach an understand'
ing as to what is to be done with the
brigands and cut-throats, who make the
border country' their rendezvous and
prey upon peaceable citizens. 8everal
villages along the border in Guatemala
have been sacked by outlaws and mur-
srs and other outrages committed.
PUGILISTIC ACTOBS SHUT OUT
They Are Baaded together to DUeoarage
Bach Accessions to the Stage aa Cor
bett, Bulllvaa and Miss Foliar
Gompers Issues Them a Charter.
New York, September 16. Samuel
Gompers, President of the American
Federation of Labor, and Christopher
Evans, the Secretary, this morning per
formed the somewhat elaborate cere
mony of bestowing a charter upon the
"Actors' Protective Union No. 1 " of the
city of New York. The affair, which
took place at No. 8 Union Square, was
strictly private; hut, Judging from the
applause which came in noisy bursts
from behind the closed doors, the
speeches made by President Gompers
and the members of the Central Labor
Union to the town's vaudeville artists,
who crowded the hall, hit the pro fee- '
sional entertainers juBt about right
The speech of Henry White of the Gar
ment Workers' Union, in which he de
scribed the misery of East-side tailors,
saying that without an organization the
actors of America might fn future per
haps be brought down to the same star
vation wages, was received with great
enthusiasm. As soon as the charter had
been conferred and the Actors' Protec
tive Union No. 1 had become an integral
part of the Central Labor Union, the
election of officers took place. The
Presidency of the union was given to
John H. W. Byrne, who," besides being
a musical comedian, is the author of
leveral pleasing ballads. That he is a
strict disciplinarian is proved by the fact
that his first official act to-day was to
issue an order forbidding members of
the union hanging around the door and
hallways leading to the room of the
nnion. According to Matt Harrington
there are now nearly ouu members en
rolled in the nnion, ranging from $20 to
$160 a week artists. He said :
"What this union proposes is to ele
vate the profession and stop accessions
to the stage of prizefighters, freaks and
monstrosities generally. We shall not
attempt any violent methods. Members
of our nnion will not be forbidden to
lay with non-union actors, but we be
eve we can gradually brim about a
weeding-out of people who have no claim
to be retarded as legitimate members of
the profession. No person will be eli
gible to membership who has not been
on the stage for five years, and who is
not vouched tor oy nve brotner actors.
Our union proposes to be benevolent in
its purposes. It is not formed for the
purpose of strikes and to fight the inter
ests of the. managers, but it is designed
to oe protective, as matters stand at
present any irresponsible person can as
semble a company and leave the mem
bers stranded in some distant city, to
reach home as best they can or starve to
death. By affiliation with other anions
through the country pressure can oe
brought to bear against these swindlers
of actors that will drive tbem out of
business. We don't propose to make
any fight against Corbett's or Sullivan's
company, but men of that character may
in the course oi a lew years nno it naraer
to find support than they have hereto
fore. I have no hesitancy, however, in
saying that we are very likely to take
immediate steps toward preventing the
success of Madeline Pollard. It is infa
mous that she should go on the stage,
and we propose to see what can be done
about it. There are at least three thea
ters in this city I will not name tbem
where by the strength of organized
nnions she could to-day be prevented
from appearing. You must remember
that our union will have the support and
co-operation, when necessary, of the
stage nanas', thecaicium-iigntoperators'
and the musicians' unions, all of which
have been in existence for a long time."
BANK BECEITEB'S BUIT.
Crookedness of a Missouri Institution to
ho Brought to Light.
Sedalia, Mo., September 16. W. A.
Latimer, receiver of the First National
Bank of this city, filed a suit yesterday
in the United States Circuit Court at
Jefferson City for $368,000 against the
directors of the suspended institution.
The petition L of a sensational nature,
and makes public for the first time the
alleged methods of President Cyras New
kirk and Cashier J. 8. Thompson, aa well
aa those of the directors, in conducting
the business of the bank. Only three of
the directors, E. C. Cassidy, H. W.
Wood and John W. McClnre, have prop
erty that can be reached by the suit. J.
S. Thompson, the cashier, is a fugitive
in Mexico, and Cyrus Newkirk, the Pres
ident, is now residing in California. In .
a nutshell it is charged that the directors
allowed Newkirk to overdraw his account
to the amount of $101,000 and permitted
Thompson to gamble away $71,000 in
stocks and real-estate deals, besides al
lowing insolvent parties without security
to draw $90,000 out of the vaults. The
receiver alleges that the defendants as
directors during the whole time between
September 6, 1890, and May 4, 1894, ut
terly failed and neglected to perform
their duties, and failed to hold meetings
of said Board of Directors and look after
the affairs of the bank. They also signed
and attested false reports to the Comp
troller. Ex-Postmaster Convicted.
Spokane, Wash., September 15. Ex
Postmaster Pendleton of Sprague was
convicted in the United States Court to
day of embezzling $3,600 of the money
order fund. At a previous trial the jury
hung, eleven for acquittal and one for
conviction. Pendleton's case is a pecu
liar one. His books were kept absolutely
correct. He acknowledged the shortage,
but claimed the money had been stolen
by some one whose identity is not known
to him.
Desperate Anarchist Coming.
Washington, September 16. The
treasury officials are informed that the
Denmark anarchist, Yorle, a desperate
character, has suited as a seaman before
the mast on a vessel bound for San Fran
cisco. The immigrant inspector at San
Francisco waa to-day directed to keep a
sharp lookout for him.
Putting Her Home In Order.
New York, September 18. At the fag.
of the season, when the last of the social
celebrities are departing from Newport,
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has given orders
to have the famous marble palace put In
order. Many rumors are afloat. One is
to the effect that she intends to take up
her abode in Rhode Island in order to
secure a divorce, the laws in that State
being almost as liberal as those in South
Dakota. Another report says Mr. and
Mrs. Vanderbilt have patched up their
troubles, and that they are to live to
getner in tneir Newport home.
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