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She t ww VOL. XXXII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895. NO. 10. A. l t i ' 3r TRANSPORTATION. East and South -VIA- The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co. EXPRESS TRAIN3 RUN DAILY. 6 15pm I Leave Portland Arrive 8:20 A. u 30 -JO P h I .pave Albany Arrive j, 4:25 A it VAb a M Arrive H. Franclwo Leave f 7:00 P M A brive trains a op a1: all stations from Port land t' Albfinv, flls.i at Tangent. 8beddf, Hal spy, II rris'inre J juc ion City, living, Engeue, Comtork, Drain hi id all stations from Kote bat to Amilaud, inclusive. UOSEBITRQ MAU DAILY. 8:3 i A u l.eave 12: 45 P m I i eave b:'M r M I Arrive fori land Air ve 4:30 P M Albiiiv Arrival 12 SHOP Ros-biirr Leave I 70 am Pullman B iffet leepers and second-class sleeping ara attached to all through trains. WEST SI OK M1VISIOS. Between Portland and Corval'is. Ma'l train daily (except Sunday). 7'HO a m Leave Por laud 12:li p m Arrive Corvallis Ariive 16 3 p m Leave 1 00 p u At Albany and Corvallis connect With trains ol ibe Oregon i'aeinc railroad. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday). 4:40 p x Leave Portland Ariive 8 2i am 7.2b P I Arrive McMinnville l.eave 5:L0 a m Through tlrkets to all points in the Eastern Mate, Canula and Rnrone can I e obta-ned at lowest rate from A. K. Miner, agent, uorvams. R. KOEHLER. Hanatrer. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. 4 P. A., Portland, Or. E. Mi NEIL, Deceiver. TO THE EAST GIVES THE CHOICE OF . TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES - VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL VIA UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA AND KANSAS CITY LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS : .....for SAN FRANCISC For fall details call on or address' W. H. HURLBURT Gen'l Pass. Age Portland Oregon Pacific Railroad CHAS. CLARK, Superintendent Connecting with Str. "HOMER" bete auina anil S in Fraud co. nt'-smer leaves San Francisco and Yi aboiv. every nine days. Kubis reserved t change silling datet ont notice. v For freight and passenger rates apply t agent. CHAS. J. HENDRY8. SON A d Nos. 2 and 8 Market St , San Franc, o, J. P. BERGIN. G. F. A P. Corvallis CHAS. CLARK. Snperlntenden Corval.ia, Or. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. J. B. MARKLEY & CO., Proprietors Main Street, Corvallis. JOS. B. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office over First National Bank. Corvallis, Or. Will prac ice in ail the state and federal court. Abstracting, collections. Notaty public Con veyancing. THE NEW aid 0. UN. mm To points in WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, DAKOTAS, MINNE SOTA, and the East. . Thrnnrh tickets on sale to and from CHICAGO. ST. LOUIS. WASHING TON. PHILADELPHIA. NEW YORK. United States. Canada and Europe. 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BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Lteed Stenographer and Notary Public Court reporting and referee sittings made specialties, as well as type-Writing and othi r reporting. Office opposite postoffice, Corvallis, Or. E. HOT-GATE. H. I- HOLGATE. Notary Public. Jasiice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - - - Oregon J. B. Brysoh W. E. Yates J. Feed Yates Bryson, Yates & Yates LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON WAY EAST CD.'S LISES-Ttie Short Routi BOSTON, and ALL POINTS in the transcontinental line. Bans buffet AN OLD MAN'S CRIME A Brutal Murder Committed Near Grant's Pass. WAS OCCASIONED BY A QUARREL Held His Wife In Three Feet of Water I'ntll She Drowned in the Pres- -' ence of Their Children. Grant's Pass, Or., May 21. One of the most cruel murders of the year was oommitted near this city about 2 P. M, today. Charles Fiester, a man of 68 years of age, drowned his wife, aged about 55 years, in a hole of water near the railroad track. The crime was committed in the presence of their three young children, the eldest of whom was 10 years. . After the murder was committed Fiester sent the. child' ren to Merlin, four miles further on, to tell the older boys what had hap pened. The difficulty grew out of fam ily troubles of long standing. Fiester came to this city later in the evening and gave himself up to the sheriff and is now in the county jail. The pair had been separated for a long time, and when Fiester came to town he prevailed upon his wife to go to Merlin, where he was logging and keep house for them... The woman con' sented to go for a week, and they started to Merlin, nine miles distant, with the three small children. After going about five miles on the way a quarrel came up about her receiving letters from some man, and after a hot quarrel Mrs. Fiester started back for Grant's Pass, but was soon caught by Fiester and dragged to a hole of water, about three feet deep, near the track, and held her under the water until dead. After the woman was dead the man claims to have tried to drown himself, but failed, and setting down on the track, sent the children to Mer lin to tell the folks what he had done. He remained until the crowd came up from Merlin, and then came to Grant's Pass and gave himself up to Sheriff Hiatt Coroner Kremer at once went to the scene, and the corpse was taken to Merlin. The inquest will be held here tomorrow. Fiester talked freely about the mat ter to everyone, and says he is ready to die. He has resided in Merlin for a number of years, and always seemed to be a good citizen. A great many rela tives reside in the neighborhood of Grant's Pass and Kerby. About a year ago his daughter, Jet Black, was mixed up in a killing scrape in this city, in which Jess Bice, of Lebanon, was killed by the woman's husband, Sam Black. The latter is now in the penitentiary. People who are well acquainted with Fiester do not think that it was insan ity at all, but simply that he was an gered, wanted to kill his wife and did so. THE NEW LAND LAW. The Time for Purchasing Tidelands Has Now Expired. Olympia, May 21. Many citizens of this state are evidently laboring under a misapprehension of the new law, judging from the number of applica tions to purchase tide lands being re ceived by the commissioners of public lands, even now that the sixty days al lowed by law for such applica tions have expired. These applications are all based on the statement that they are the first legal applicants, after the preference right to the land and im provement owners have expired. As a matter of fact, the law recognizes no suoh second application. Sections 58 and 59, page 552, session laws of 1895, defines the rights of abutting owners, and section 60 says: "In case the person mentioned m sec tions 58 and 59 of this act do not, within the time limited, exercise the right to purchase herein given, then said lands shall be open to the public for sale, as herein provided. The board of state land commissioners may sell surveyed and platted tidelands remain ing unsold at public auction, upon the following terms and conditions." The remainder of the section defines how such sales shall be conducted by the commissioner. A Sensation Promised. London; May 21. If the case of Miss Birdie" Sutherland, the chorus girl in the Gaiety theater, against the Hon. Dudley" Churchill Majoribanks, eldest son of Baron Tweedmouth, for breach of promise ever comes into court it will be the most senasational trial since Miss Fortesque, the acrtess, won 10,000 pounds from Lord Garmoyle on a simi lar charge. Miss Sutherland is very handsome, being nearly six feet tall, and only 18 years old. Her real name is Annie Louise Watkins. She first met the Hon. Dudley Majoribanks at the Prince of Wales' club. It was a case of love at first sight. He proposed and was accepted. When his parents learned of the affair they were very much disturbed. Mr. Majoribanks went to Canada with his mother on a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, governor-general of Canada. The young man did not return with his mother to England, but remained in Canada, and the match was broken off. Miss Suth erland then placed the case in the hands of a well-known theatrical lawyer, who retained in her behalf Sir Edward Clarke, who defended Oscar Wilde in his recent trial. C. F. Gill, who appeared against -Wilde on behalf of the treasury, and various other legal talent have also, been retained. Smuggler Foas Sentenced. San Francisco. Mav 17 Henry L. Fobs, the smuggler and Chinese certifi cate forger, was today sentenced to four years in san tuenon, ana nnea il,vou in the United states aistnoc court. SOUTH DAKOTA'S SENSATION Governor Altgreld Has Taken a Hand in the Benedict Affair. Huron, S. D., May 21. Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, has taken a hand in the Benedict affair that aroused so much interest in South Dakota. Gov ernor Sheldon received from Altgeld a telegram saying he had heard that Ben edict, for whose extradition he had granted a requisition on the charge of larceny, had been acquitted on that ground, and was about to be tried on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the state, and calling the attention of the governor to the fact that he," Altgeld, believed this would be a violation of the laws governing extradition. Gov ernor Sheldon has replied at length, set ting forth all the facts of Benedict's connection with the defaulting treasurer Taylor; his presence with the latter in the bank in Chicago when the . money was drawn, etc. ; the conveyance by Taylor to Benedict of a large amount of property for the consideration of $1, and the various other points brought out in the course of the investigation; also the fact that officials of the state believed Benedict to have been in con spiracy with Taylor, and adds: In the absence of a decision whioh justifies clearly the action of the state in this case, can it be possible that the state can be stopped from arresting and trying a person of this kind? Must all the rights of an individual be so jeal ously guarded, and is the state forbid den to protect itself simply because it is a state?" ENGLISH YACHTING SEASON. These Races Will Decide Which Boat Will Come to America. London, May 21. The yachting sea son in British waters was opened in the Thames yesterday with matches under the auspices of the Thames Yacht Club, and was continued with races today under the auspices of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The races, there is reason to believe, will be the most interesting for many years past. The contests be tween the Ailsa, Britannia and the new Valkyrie III, naturally, form the lead ing attraction, in view of the challenge for the American cup, but immense in terest is likewise being taken in the twenty-raters owing to the appearanoe of Herreshoff's new cracks, Kiagra and Isolde, which are expected to make matters warm in this class. The im portance of the match in the Leviathan class more especially, would be but small, but for the fact that the - meet ings of the Ailsa and tha Valkyrie III will decide which shall be the boat to contest in the American cup Defender. A well-known devotee of the sport re cently said the American cup is beyond thesreach-oCithes the Ailsa orfRbVal" kyrie III. Herreshoff's boat, he de clares, will outsail either Watson's or Fife's creation. Earth Still Quaking. Florence, May 21. The earthquake which occurred here at 9 o'clock last evening, has proved more serious than it seemed at first. Thousands of peo ple passed Saturday night in the streets, and a second shock at 1 1 o'clock increased a thousand-fold the first alarm. Similar events occurred at Baris, near here. The casualties there included four deaths and many injuries. Numbers of houses were badly cracked. Other villages in the vicinity suffered still worse damage. At Grassina forty houses were wrecked. At La Paggi several buildings fell and three persons were entombed. The church at San Martino was destroyed while full of worshipers. Several persons were crushed to death in the ruins. The villages of Gallezzo and Gambino were badly damaged. The prince of Naples and a corps of engineers have gone to these villages to aid in the work of rescue. Fort Angeles to San Francisco. San Francisco, May 21. E. A. Lass- ley, the matress-maker, who traveled all the way from Port Angeles, Wash., to San Francisco, in a house-wagon, looking for work, which he failed to find, is camped on the sand lot at Sev enth and Mission streets, awaiting the recovery of his wife, who gave birth to a son' in the house on wheels Saturday morning. The entire family has occu pied the rolling home since August last, and have experienced rather hard times. There are three children be sides the newcomer, and the only means of support they have had was derived from the sale of a pamphlet describing the trip from the north. Will KemirVe the Temptation. St Louis, May 21. President Will iam Thompson, of the Bank of Com merce, has issued a peremptory order forbidding any and every employe of the bank from attending horse races under penalty of dismissal. The tend ency and opportunity at the races to lose money and eventually to become defaulters is so great that the president thinks it dangerous for young men to attend. -He has decided that his clerks shall not submit themselves to such temptation. The French Defeat the Hovsa. Paris, May 21. A dispatch from Majanga, Madagascar, says the first battalion of the Colonial regiment had a sharp fight with a large body, of Hovas near Maxovoay. The Hovas fled at the point, of the bayonet, leaving sixty dead and wounded. There . were thirteen of the French wounded. The French then occupied the Hova oamp. Killed the Baby Instead. San Francisco, May 21. Nicholas Genotti, a cobbler, while crazed with drink, struck at his wife with' a piece of iron pipe. The woman avoided the blow, but it fell with crushing force on the head of her young son, who was in her arms. The skull was fractured, and he will probably die. Genotti was nested. . PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Condensed Telegraphic Re ports of Late Events. BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WISES Happenlng-s of Interest in the Towns and Cities of Oregon, Washinton and Idaho. The last Spokane grand jury severely condemned the present lee svystem. The "Sunday cases" cost Walla Wallaoounty, Wash., $1,059, and the expenses of the Hoyt trial were $850. .The South Palouse is dwindling, and the pioneers say such an action of the stream is proof positive that the Palouse country needs rain. The taxpayers of the La Grande, Or.. school district are talking over the pro postiion of buying the Blue Mountain university property for $2,500. The Fort Klamath Indians have is sued a general invitation to the Pitt river Indians) celebrate July Fourth on the Klamath, Or. reservation. It appears that the building of the Blaine. Lynden & Nooksack railroad can be secured if the localities inter ested put up a subsidy of $15,000. Twenty thousand fruit trees have been planted in the vicinity of Lake Chelan this spring and a great deal of ground is being prepared for next season's planting. William Fetros, the Yakima, Wash., sheepman, has driven 11,000 sheep to the Columbia opposite Umatilla, and is now shearing. The wool will be sold in Pendleton, Or. The Satsop, Wash., skimming st&- tion in operation only since the 1st of the month, is receiving upwards of ?,000 pounds of milk, and the quant ity is increasing daily. John Stewart has men engaged in Lane county buying up 500 cows which he is to deliver at Squaw creek, in Crook county, Or., He will start the drive across the mountains about June 1st Sheep shearing is now in full blast about Wallula, Wash. Shearers com plain of the low price paid or shearing, 6 cents and board themselves, when cents with board was the former price. The city council of Spokane' has passed an ordinance to bond the city for $278,700, to complete the new water works. The vote was 13 to 2. It is not known whether Mayor Belt will pproxe-or. veto., the ordinance. An order was made by Judge Buck at Spokane Wednesday, for Receiver Drumheller, of the Falls City Manu facturing Company, to pay the general creditors of the corporation 25 per cent of all claims approved and allowed. Upon the petition of 537 citizens of Benton county, Or., the county court, in session there last week, ordered that the sheriff be allowed only one deputy at $50 per month, and the recorder a deputy &t $10 per month just one-half the former allowance. Benton county, Or., had to pay the state $119.24 interest on the state taxes due from this year's roll. After Treas urer Clark thought he had the taxes all paid, he received a note from the state treasurer demanding an additional $119.24. He remitted the amount Sat urday morning, and now for the first time in three years Benton county owes the state nothing. The extensive operations that have been carried on at the Black Jack mine, near Hornbrook, Or., on the Klamath river,- have been closed down for the present, at least, and all but four of the thirty to thirty-five men who had been employed were discharged. This mine, which is a gravel deposit similar to the Jillson mine adjoining, was originally owned by Messrs. Cooley Ryan and Burckhalter. The Fletcher "mill, near Weston, Umatilla county, Or., is now being run at full capacity, and later one depart ment, the manufacture of fruit boxes, will be running day and night The mill will run all summer. At present fourteen men are employed, but the force soon will comprise forty good lively hustlers, who will turn out 20, 000 feet per day. Now 17,000 feet are being sawed. The season's output is expected to aggregate between 2,000, 000 and 3,000,000 feet Mr. JJ'letcher requires about twenty yoke of cattle when everything is going full blast Tr. ia estimated that the acreage of potatoes planted in Whitman county, Wash., this year, says the Harrington Leader, will reach 6,000 aores. Count ing on 200 bushels per care, which in most sections is considered a small crop, there will be raised this year no less than 1,200,000 bushels, or 26,000 tons of potaotes. Of these not more than 9,000 tons will be required for home consumption, and perhaps less than 2,000 tons more for the markets in the immediate vicinity. No season ever opened more auspic iously in the Palouse country, Wash., says the North Idaho Star, than this. To begin with, the little snow that fell in the winter disappeared early. Farmers got early at work in' their fields. The sou was m suberb condi tion. Plowing was early completed, and the ground whioh had been summer- fallowed worked up as mellow as gar den. The weather remained dry tmtil. the sowing was done, and then came the welcome rains, and the great ior ward leap of grass, and grain and fruit. The prospect is for a forward year, and the outlook is for an abundant crop oi everything the Palouse soil ' produces. The grain fields indicate a large yield and the orchards promise proline re turns. " THE OFFICERS DEFIED. Lively Scene at a Seattle School Caused by a Principal's Disobedience. Seattle, May 20. The dispute be tween the boards of health and educa tion in regard to the closing of the Rainier and South schools as a precau tion against scarlet fever reached a crisis this morning. . Acting under or ders from the health board, Health Of ficer Palmer and Officer Corning order ed the closing of the two schools. Principal Gerard, of the former school, refused compliance, and told the pupils to enter. . A wild scene followed, the 400 or 600 children entering at doors or windows, some of them throwing stones at the officers and getting out the hose to give them a bath. The officers vainly strove to inter cept them, and it was not until noon that order was restored by the arrest of Mr. Gerard and the removal of the children from the building. Less exciting scenes occurred at the South school, President Taylor being arrested for resisting the order. The school board afterwards ordered the two schools closed, under protest, until the courts settle the dispute. THAT SPRECKELS FAMILY ROW, The Head of the House Has Confessed Judgment and Gone Abroad. San Francisco, . May 20. Claus Spreckels, accompanied by bis wife and daughter, left today for Europe. They will be gone three months, the greater part of which time will be passed in Germany. Claus Spreckels, through his sons, John D. and A. B. Spreckels, has con fessed judgment in the suit for slander brought against him by his son, C. A. Spreckels, and the young man will re' ceive the $300,000 damages he asked for. The reason for this acton is given that Spreckels, Sr.,- received informs tion that his son would seek to prevent his departure for Europe. According ly the loyal sons, John D. and A. B, Spreckels, in order to save their father further annoyance, instructed the attor neys in the case to confess judgment and end the matter for the present But Clans Spreckels will not admit that he confessed judgment in a moral sense, so he has instructed his attorneys to be gin suit for an accounting against . C, A. Spreckels, to compel him to account for'all the money he has handdled for his father. The attorneys have also been ordered to bring suit against Ru dolph Spreckels, who sided with his brother in the quarrel with their father, to recover $500,000 worth of stock of the Palnhau Plantation Company, which Rudolph claims his father gave him in 1893, and from which he draws $5,000 a month dividends, which it is allaged-hftieia uairctft. supply the sinews of war against his parent The trouble in the Spreckels family commenced over a year ago, when C. A. Spreckels sued his father to recover stock in the Hawaiian Commercial Company. This suit was compro mised, and then Rudolph followed with a suit to prevent the transfer of $700,- 000 .worth of stock held by Claus Spreckels as security to the Nevada bank. Following this came the suit against the Oceanic Steamship Com pany, instituted by C. A. Spreckels, who alleged that he was being frozen out Finally C. A. Spreckels sued his father for slander, on account of the newspaper interview in which the father said his son had wasted his money and would soon be bankrupt THE CENTRAL WASHINGTON. Temporary Receivers Appointed for thl Branch Road at Spokane. Spokane, May 20. Judge Hanford in the United States court today ap pointed Leverett S. Miller, of St Paul, and C. P. Chamberlain, of Spokane, re ceivers of the Central Washington branch of the Northern Pacific. The appointment is made upon the petition of a majority of the bondholders, who have become dissatisfied with the Northern Pacific control. Monday last they filed a bill for foreclosure. The appointment of receivers is temporary. The motion to make it permanent is made returnable September 9. A short time ago the bondholders sent an agent out to investigate. He reported that the road runs through a good country and ought to be made to pay. The first step taken by the bondholders to throw off the Northern Pacific influ ence was the removal of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company as trustee, and the appointment in its place of the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York. The road is now being operated by the receivers of the Northern Pacific under a lease from the former trustee. It is made discretionary with the trustees whether the present lease shall be continued or not Three alterna tives lie before the bondholders: Lease to the Northern Pacifio, lease to the Great Northern, or operation as an in dependent line. The road is 109 miles long, and runs west from Spokane to Coulee City. Actual Work to Begin. San Francisco, May 20. The direc tors of the San ' Francisco & San Joa quin Valley railroad have called in a second 10 per cent installment on stock subscriptions, to be expended for ma terial and in starting the actual work of building the road Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report MM OREGON SHORT: LINE Decision Handed Down in the Receivership Contest. VICTORY FOR THE PETITIONERS If the Conditions Are Met, the Receiver Will Be Egan, Who Was Ap pointed by Gilbert. : St Paul, May 17. Judge Sanborn, of the United States circuit court, handed down his decision in the re ceivership contest between the Union" Pacifio and Oregon Short Laie rail ways today. It is practically a victory for the petitioners for the appointment of a separate receiver for the Short Line. If the conditions are met, it is oonceded that the receiver will be John M. Egan, who has ' already been ap pointed by Judge Gilbert, at Portland. The matter came up ten days ago, the American Loan & Trust Company, of Boston,. holders of the second mort gage of $10,873,000, moving for a sep arate receivership. The Union Pacifio receivership opposed the motion. The action proposed here is the sime as had already been taken in Judge Gilbert's court, as applied to the property in his circuit Under Judge Sanborn's order the re ceivers are directed to prepare a state ment of money in their hands applica ble to paying interest on the first mort gage of the Oregon Short Line. The order further provides for a hearing, at which will be determined ..the amount which will be necessary to' pay into court to satisfy the interest of thefirst mortgage, and in case such an anTonnt is paid, to arrange for turning the" property over to the receiver appointed under this last bill of the second mort gage holders. . The petitioner agreed to pay this interest in case a separate re ceivership be granted, so that the sep arate receivership seems assured. As J. M. Egan has been appointed for a part of the road by Judge Gilbert, and as his appointment is desired by peti tioners, he seems assured of the ap pointment as the receiver for the entire Oregon Short Line. CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME. The New National Association Has Been Given life. San Francisoo, May 17. Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Co-operative Commonwealth, a co operative association with the follow ing directors: Mary E. Squires, George W. Sells, E. J: Hicks, Miss A. Swain "and J. K. Phillips"- There will be a mass meeting tonight in the lecture room of the old St Marcus church, to present the plans of the commonwealth. The co - operative commonwealth was first organized in Seattle, Wash. It is non-sectarian and draws no color line. In an interview yesterday with Miss Addie Swain, the secretary of the local branch, she explained that the main feature of the plan for co-opera tion is the reserve or development fund. This was her argument: "On a basis of 500,000 men, 10 cents per day for six months or 150 working days, accumulates the marvelous sum of"$7, 500,000, and in a year $15,000, 000. The society is now organized as a national body, and has at its com mand 600,000 men and $15,000,000 of capital. It can immediately set all of its members at work in its own employ. The savings of the people, now in the banks, amount to about $3,000,000,000. This could be placed in the co-operative savings banks and a percentage used to establish new industries instead of be- ing loaned at enormous rates of interest to serve as dragnets to gather in the land and its products for the benefit of a few commercial fishermen. "This reserve fund could be invested in purchasing or constructing railroads to free the commonwealth from trans portation companies. "For instance, with this reserve fund of, say $15,000,000, a railroad could be constructed from Portland to San " Francisco with branches to Stockton, San Jose, Los Angeles, Fresno, and all other important points on the coast, and the surplus could be replaced while the work of construction was going on. Thousands of acres f mineral land could be developed and thousands of men employed who are now idle." Mayor Sutro has promised to donate 200 acres of land in Round valley to the commonwealth. The Spring Valley Water Company gives water free to the community. Trouble in the California Militia. San Francisco. Mav .20. The evers- insr Post Bflvs that there is to be a gen eral upheaval in the Third infantry reg iment, National Guard of California, and that Colonel Thomas F. Barry and the captains of three companies will re tirfi. not heinc willing to serve under the newly-appointed brigadier-general, R. H. Warfield. To Visit Lady Wilde. Kftw York. Mav 21. Mrs. Frank Leslie is to sail for England Saturday to visit, her mother-in-law. LadrWilde. anA tn rln what she can to comfort that lady in her trouble in the disgraceful scandal in wmcn ner eiaesi sonr-uscar Wilde, has cut so prominent a figure