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iWig SAltf FRANQISgQ CHE027IGLE TXTESDAX 2hOTEMBEB 29 1892 A ACT His Attempt at Murder and Suicide He Fires Two Shots at Lent Another Shot in His Owa Brain Will Probably Proye Fatal The sound of three shots startled the people on the corner of California and Monteomery stiosts yesterdav neninc at a Utile arter 530 oclock Tifo ol the ibots were fired at George Lent a cubier in the firm of OForrel Lang and the third was fired by the woald murderer at himself It took effect just oyer Ills right ear and will certainly proTe falsi according to the examining doctors One of he other shots struck Lent in the right thigh bat Inflicted only a flesh wound that will heal in a few days At the receiving hospital it was learned hat the would be murderer and suicide 521 James Fognrty and that he was already prepared for the shooting is proved ly the fact that he left a long ill spelled and rambling letter addressed to the Public Press to now this will tell why i don this In the letter he charges William Lent the father of his intended Tictirn with haying swindled him oat ol 2400 in a stock deaL Lent the elder was president of the Bodie Mining Company and Fogarty charged that Lent induced him 10 purchase and hold the stock on the assurance that it would rise Instead it fell aid Fogartv holds Lent responsible ior hs loss llis attack upon young Lent was to revenge himself for this Mr Lent was formerly a stockbroker of thu citj Fogartj worked for him as a coachman and gardener in 1873 After si raomns servic ne was discharged for attempting to assault one of the servants During all the time he worked far the Lent lamily Mr Lent says he never spoke of stocks to bis employe nor did any stock transactloa that iLr Lent rernem iers take place between them Fogarty wi considered by the famly to be a little flighty in the head but no particular notice was taken of it Since Fogarty left the family the Lints had heard nothing cboat him except that De worked lor a short time for Colonel Frye and for Mr Schmieden From both of these places he was discharged a lion time after he was employed After he left Scnmtedells his whereaoouis were unknown to Mr Lent and his family un about month ago wnen a postal card was received at the nouse on the corner of Eddy and Polk streetsdiricted to William Lent demanding 2400 which ho wrote Mr Lent had Swindled him out of and making obscure threats if it were sot paid Soon after as no attention was paid to this communication there cams a letter this lira addressed to Mrs Lent This was in tne same strain as the card preceding Detectives were set to watch the man but they learned nothing about turn Another letter again addressei to Mrs Lent followed and the next heard of the man he had tried to shoot young Lent and had then shot himselC The man is partially if not entirely crazy and has spent some of the time since he dropped out of sight in an insane aylum I he rest of the time lie has been working at a coachman in this city Be used to make Kobert Regies saloon on the corner of Montgomery and Pine streets his Headquarters and Regie says that Fogarty was interested in stocks although be said but little about his affairs George Lent the man who was snot did not even know that he had been shot at bat thooght he had been hit by a stray shot tired at some otner person He was greatly surprised when he learned that his life had been sought but the fact is indisputable for at the end of his letter to the public Fogarty says am very sorry for the yonog one but 1 could rain him meaning Lent his former em piojer in no other wsy it is oelieved that the mans mind naturally weak was turned by losses in stocks and that hit bliad desire for revenge selected the employer who bad discharged him and who was president of the company In which he lost and that he selected this method of revenging himself Mis Dixi hv Tlitrt vmmp New York and bears a strong resemblance uo ncicni iaer piays mat gentlemen has Written A limTtUnlnt 1 mL schemes of an adventuress Ellen i mews to secure the property of Dr Rutherford a physician with a mania for hypnotizing In doing so she is aided by her buftbond who masquerades as a business friend Miss Dixie incites the enraitvof the ndveotarens who andtir Ti ttf drive the girl from the house She is about to sneered when Joe Bronson Dixies uncle appears on time and the adventuress and her co worker are thwarted Miss Rosa rlved Mis Dixie with bernsual viTscity Cawtborn was highly amusing a a German and introduced some concertina playinjr that ws certainly a noveily Edgar Halstead made a nest character sketch ot Professor Paddleoffski a bogus musician enri the remainder of the roles were capably taken The play went with considerable rra for a firt production and is one of the best in Miss Rosas repertoire Miss Tillie Salinger sang the rnle of Leonora in II Trovatore at ibe Tivoli Opera house last night much to the satisfaction of the large an lieuce which greeted her efforts with nnb3tinded nr pUuse Mr Oimt was sick and could not appear and his role Count di Luni was very criuuaoiy renaerea by signor Ka poleon tliasf Mildre1 McCloskey made her debut as Inez and for a young lady ucnset to the stage it was a marked success She has a clear soorno voice which she uses well and enunciates with a distinctness that makej her vocalization pleasant to hear She is pretiy and attractive and was not overcome by stage frght My Official Wife and Minnie Selig man commenced their second week at the California last night to awell fillel nouie ine taiiiornia annouacei lor next week the last appearance of Clara Morris in San Francisco During this engagement Miss Morris will be seen in a large repertoire of some of her most famous impersonations Hor opening bill will be CamUle a ptrt in which he has never had an equal Toe sale ot seats opens Thursday morning Railway Franchises on AH Sides Extension of Twenty third Street THE PLAYHOUSES CLABi MORRIS APPEARS EOSE MICHEL AS The Two Roses at Stockwells 2few Bills at the Bush and TiVTjli Clara Morris brought out last night at toe Baldwin Theater the strong old melodrama IJose MicheL 01 its riad it is unquestionably one of the best examples the siiuations being naturally brought asoui and the characters cleverly contrasted It is lacking in comedy partly because the little streak of amusing matter mat used ts run through the somber rench melodramas becomes weak nowa iiays while one can still recognize the drarnaiic in them Miss Morris naturally plays Rose Michel differently from the other exponents of the part sue puts that individuality into it when mates her notable and renders it altogether on less theatrical lines Her power has always teen recognized and in psrts of Rose Michel Mie has great scope for i Indeed Miss Morris brings out all there is in the part Vnat changes sht has herself made have teen to suit her own point ot view They ao not weaken or indeed alter ranch the original points ifi the play I Colville pave a Tery strong impersonation of Pierre Michel and tne cast generally was uti to the requirement This will to Ciari Morris last week at the Baldwin which will tx clowd while thestttl rKOves over to the Grfud Opera house to get up and run All Babd for which the sale of seals opens to day A very pretty and rather dainty play is Ine Two Roses by James Afbery which pruduced last night at Stock wells Theater It ceearoe famous by Henry livings reriorinsnce years ero of Digby Ciran a mest original aud difficult chrlcer part This pan Mr lientey Uyed last night with excellent point and effect It will bear a little more elaboration of detiil but Mr Henley has caught It very well and ha stives an artistic performance The piece other ie was daintily played especially by Victory Batenan and Bebe Vining as the two daughters ytry charming and pretty pictures Aucrey Doucicault took Caleb Deeci tne blind youth admirably ajid drew the sympathy of the audience by a simple unaffected piece of acting Henry Jewett made a ruanlv straightforward Jack WyaU and Kick Long did Our Mr Jenkins excel leutly Fanny Young and JohiOack had paru very well in heir way Xext week Captain Heme A will be produced and it is expected to make a hit Patti Rosa produced new play at the Bush street Theater Lst ritght It is a comedy drama fa three acts entitled Four Vetoes from the Mayor Removals and Appointments UNCLE BILLY WOLFE THE OLD STEAMBOAT RUNER PASSES AWAY He Was a Noted Character in the Early Days of This City William Wolfe At the sge of S2 after a life of itirricj sd ventorc Wilitara WoMe better known as Uncle Billy the pioneer iteamboa matter died at 030 oclock last evening in tna Colintr Hospital where he had been ascn about two weeks ago Wolfe was bora iu Wajnineton county Fa in 110 but spent nw of hu early life In New York In 1837 he wsf lieutenant of Morgans fconu ill the war wth the Semiuoe Indians and he fought under General Zachary Taylor at Ocheechobce when the great chief Osceola vraa defeated Wolfe afterward returned to Pennsylvania and for several years he was first mate on a steam boat runninj between Tittsburg and New Orleans Darin this period of his lite he married and two daughters were born to him In 1S50 he came to Cslifornia and soon became a runner lor one of the steamers plying between San Fracciico and Sacramento Th competition between tne tw steamer the Senator and the New World was very briafc and the runners were allowed 1 a head for every passenger secured Wolfe wa a man of gigantic strength and was quirk as a Sash both with knife and pistol aud these qualitiei wen invaluable to him in those days whn hardly a day pasied without a fightTm the whirf tween th runners of the rival lines Wolfes first montha work netted aim nearly JlOOO and for many years while he followed this occupation he rarely made less than 400 a month Inia53 he gave hia wife 10000 to enable her to visit her old home in New York and he never heard of her again Uncle Biliyj reputation for atrength and courage commended htm to the Vigilantes in 1S5H and he became chief of their detectives In that capacity it was he wbo made the arreat of the notorious Yankee 6ulivan In 1875 Wolfe killed Alex ander Ray at Pigeon point in an altercation over some property which Woife had been hired to hold in the interest of one ot two rival claimants of ths title He wis tried at Redwood City for murder but was acquitted on the iround of self defence After that Uncle Billy dropped out of slzht for msny years until he came back to this city from Calistoea about two yeara eg In September 1891 the CiirOMC LE learned that Uncle UUiv was lvtnc in ana Iriendles and without money iu a lodging houte on LtedesdorfTttreet The itory nf hia career pub lished at the time in the Chrokicik brought to his assistance tome ot nis old inenas ino helped him until his increasing infirmities both of body and of mind made it desirable ttut he should be cared ior in some public institution He was taken to the County Hospital where he died last night of old age and general debility TO DAYS KACK8 The Horses and the Weights They Are to Carry The entries and weighta for to days races are as iollows First race nlne sixtsentha of a mile Flora 113 Mias Ada 119 Annie Moore 114 Paramatta 122 Lottie 119 Princess First 122 Queen 114 Red ITiuce 122 Stone man 119 second race selling seven eighths of a mile Motto 109 Garcia 104 Malcolm 10S 1 JIaoclM 109 vear olds Sir Reel 103 Castro 103 Lady Marion 103 Dick OMalley Ill Donna Lilla 112 Nictel Exchange 112 Crawford no Fourth race thirtcen sixteenths of a mile for alt sgta Cheerful 99 Rube 115 Alius 102 PramattslUi Bonny Elue 119 Miu nie Elkins 103 Fifth race selling three fourths of a mile Luty PS Mcro 91 Princes First 97 Nellie 97 Carter 103 Rd Prince 112 COUKT JiOTES Helena Goesch was divorced yeaterday from Max Goesch because of his conviction ot a felony judse Hunt has granted Victor Henry Lind sey a divorce from Ora Anita Liudary because of the wifes intimacy with ElwardE Rowe Suits lor divorce were 2ieT yesterday by Lilian Macfarlane against Ciarence Mac larlana by Christina McDermoit against John McDermort and by Marie de Bruyn Lemtins against Samuel Lemkius A Bowers has brought another suit In equity against the Pan Francisco Bridge Com panyfor alleged Infrlngemn of a dredging patent The first trial of the case was concluded in the Circuit Cout a few days ago but the jury tailed to agree The will of Joseph Galland was filed for probit yesterday His estate is valued at S10OO0 He bequeathed 1000 to a brother 1000 to a istr aud 200 to ihe Jewish coo grctatlonof Pudwizz prBsaia The remainder was bequeathed lo his widow The suiTof Tfceodoie Fox against the Crown Point Gold and SUver Mining Company the trustees of the Sharon estate and others for allfd fraudu in the management ol the corporation has been transferred Irom the Superior Court the United States Circuit Court The John Spreotels Company has brought suit 1 the Untied Sttei District Court against the owners of the schooner Lizzie A for reasonable aalvage nd th moaut at rx pene Incurred in rlgatlng and towing the loundered vessel from the vicinity cf Point Diabio to Hunters Point Judge Hebbard rendered a decision yeater div modifying the decree of divorce granted the plaintiff in the snltof Kate Hart against Hn Under mat decree Hart as been Daring his wife 40 a month alirruny He tas now been reUeved from tEikfr any snch payment subsequent to April lssL nnilner was committed to jail for flvedavs by Judge Coffey yesterday for contempt of court Henalnger Is one of the appraisers of the esute of Edward Harper and ft was shown to the court that he had concealed and withheld papers which would assist the estate to establish title to eertaln real estate Lapses who desire a beaoUfal smooth and refined cooplexlcn should use the famous Gloria Water lira Welch jaigr 3 Cury street The application of the San Francisco and West Shore Improvement Company for a railway franchise on Twenty fiftti street Potrero avenue and other thoroughfares was defeated at the meeting ot the Board of Supervisors last eventnp not receiving the necessary majority yoio of all the members Those who voted in the affirmative were Burling Curtis Ayeri Hunt Taber and Wilkinson and in the negative Artignes Eilert Carnes Coffee and Hever Taber gave notice ot a motion to reconsider at the next meeting Tne cppiicatioD of Messrs 6herwood Goodall Burns Reed end others for a franchise to construct a railroad in the northern psrt of tbe city along First avenue Fulton Scott Fell Webster and other streets was defeated on a motion to pass to print by a vole of 6 to 5 An order granting Fowler and Louis Dunand a franchise for a railway over certain streets previously published was laia over for one week An order was passed to print granting the City Kailroad Company the right to extend its tracks commencing at the intersection of Silver avenue with Mission street along Mission street and the new county road to the county line also commencing at the intersection of Mission st eet and Richland avenue along the latter avenue and along Andover avenue Km rrufc aireet Holly Parle atenneWest Park street and Holly street from Mission street to Richland avenue also commencing at the intersection of Mission street and Cohlanet avenue along Cortland avenue Butler street Blaine street North avenue California avenne Powell avenue also from Mission streatalong TwentyTwenty ninth to Noe A resolution consenting to the abandonment by Ihe Bay View Railroad Company of the franchise for a street railroad on Fourth Kentucky and Railroad avenue was passed to print An order granting lo the Presdio and Ferries Railroad Company a franchise over Baker street from Jefferson and OU Greenwich from Baker lo Franklin was passed to print A petition ttas filed by Joseph Wall ana John Harper for a railway franchise from the intersection of East and Commercial streets along Commercial Davis and Pine to Central avenue commencing at the intersection of Devissdero street with tbe waters of the bjy then southerly on Devisadero to Grove atreat commencing at the intersection of Pine and Iaguna to Market across Market alont Guerrero to Fourteenth to Dolores to Niiieieenth from Noe along Twenty sixth to Fotrero avenue from Devisadero along Grove to Stanyjn from Devisadero along bddy to Mason to Market from Devisadero along Washington First avenue Like street Eighth avenue street to the Ocean boulevard commencing at tbe intersection of Eighth avenue and street along Eighth avenue to the park Referred to the street committee An order granting John 0 Byrne A MtCaithy and others a franchise for a street railway over venous streets in i Sannyside and south of the park was de feated on a motion to psssto print Ihe position of Joseph Cook clerk of Police Court 1 was declared vacant and EJ Cocroy was appointed to the vacancy A resolution to appoint Wllliama clerk of the Justices courts waa defeated by a vote of 6 to 4 but will be brought up for reconsideration at the nezt meeting The appointment of Williams waa opposed by Artigues Barling Eilert and Taber who voted in the negative and Hunt who was excured Mayor Sanderson tiled veto messages declining to give his approval to certain orders granting permission to reconstruct building 1332 Dupont street it being a death trap the building 709 Dupont eet it having been damaged over 40 per cent by fire and being a shell the building 21i 220 Fosom street it having been damaged by fire leaving but a shell the premise corner Folsom and Steuart streets also being unfit for reconstruction The messages took the usual course and were passed to print A resolution of intention to close Hub hel Irwin Alameda and other streets in Mission bay lands st the request of the Southern Pacific Railroad was adopted liy a vote of 8 ayes to 3 nays Artigue Elert nnd Heyer voting in the negative These are the streets the railroad company desires to use for terminal facilities The report ot tbe commissioners tor opening widening and extending Nineteenth Twentieth Twenty first Twenty second nnd Twenty third streets was modified as follows Amount allowed for lands and improvements in the original report 100525 23 In modified report 75253 hi total expenses in original report 59991 79 in modified report 45 190 57 A resolution confirming threport as modified was adopted but Eilert gave notice of a motion to reconsider at the next meeting Ludwig Mtsohul filed a notice with the board that he had commenced proceedings in the Superior Court enjoining it from confirming the report of the Post street commission extendingjhat street Sewerage Commissioner Irving Scott was granted sixty days leave of absence from the Stale Tho fniiotving communications and pe tiiions were referred to the committees From Dr Rotert Williams asking for compensation for making the autopsies for the city for the last two years From Chief Crowley asking that the Board shai have all entrances to the new City Hall closed and locked at 6 daily and that the watchman shall report to Ihe sergeant in charge of the police station each half hour during the night A resolution removing Samuel Dennis night watchman of the new City Hallwas adopted Burling remarking that as there had been two burglariss in tbe building witmn a week the watchman was ho longer needed From property owners aklngthe board to cornvel the San Francisco and San Mateo Railroad Company toccQply with a resolution ordering it to plank and put In order certain parts of Wic rcisMtvey over which its line passes and that all peti tions of tbe company far further franchises he denied liida for aireet work unmooring 176 were received and relerred to the street committee A holiday having intervened since tbe last meeting of tbe board preventing the publication of certain measures the legal lengthor time a Urge amount of business was laid over until tbe next meeting December 5th the day of the fight A heavy weight natch was discussed and there la a profcdbllfty that Billy Woods and Billy Smith will be signed is the course of a few days Nothing will he done with the clubhouse project until after the Dswson OCounell fight which coraeS off on thi eight of December Sib The Zelner ppers match was set for thf first week in January Zelner will at once go into tralnlosr at Sausalito while Fepners will get himself into condition at Btrney Farleys place Tbe regular monthly meeting of the PsciSc fox Terrier Club was well attended last nlcht A Baumgarten presided The establishment ot a bench show circuit on tbis coast as advocated by the Pacific Kennel Clab was favored The committee on prizes shoved a knumber of handsome cups as suitable prizes following classes Beat and itcoad best fix terrier tn the show beat aud second bast fox terrier bitch in open class best and second best fox terrier dog puppy best and second best fox terrier bitch pappy best fox terri bred bt California Only dogs owned bv members will be allowed to compete for these prizes which will be awarded at tbe sprln shows ot the Pacific and Southern California Kennel Clubs Bitty Woods has been appointed manager of the Utah Athletic Oiuh of Ogdea THE WOKLls aPOBfc The California Clab Hatches Barron and PnrKlL The directors of the California Athletic Club met last night at their rooms in the Flood building It was decided tojnatch Jim Purtell and Jim Barron lor 1000 purse The fight was set for the last week In January The men are to wctrh in at 140 pounds at IS oclock OS asTT WA9 ABCSIYJfi The Season or His Arrest at the Santa Crux Kncaoipment One of the almost forgotten Incidents of the Nationsl Oaard encampment at Snta Crus in 1B01 had an airing in Jndge Hunts court yestrday The case on trial as that of Max Levy against Captain Samuel Blumenberg of the San Francisco Hussars Levy had sued for 10000 damages allegfu that dorihz the en campment he was assaulted and arrested without cause at the instigation of the defendant Levy waa formerly a member of the Hussars hut at me encampment he was simply au ordinary citizen engaged in taking care of tbe horses nstd by Captain Blumenbergs cnmmaru The testlmonv taken yesterday showed that the arrest ol Levy was In consequence of certain slanderous language aoplied by him to Captain Blumenberg and Lieutenant Stern The Lieutenant remonstrated whereupon Levy assaulted him with a sword which hi drew from the scabbard of a corporal It waa further shown that the entire time which Levy spent In the guardhouse would not exceed Sheen minutes The case will go to the Jury to day WIS AN lIENi A Decision Against Brown and Fait Tally Sheets Were Official Documents Judge Lore Refuses lo Eleas8the Culprits Accused by ODonnell THE CUETIS TKIAL MRS HOLDEN TELLS HER STORY OF THE SHOOTING A New York Witness for the Defense Who I Not Wanted Yet The trial of jr Curtis for the murder of Police Officer Grant was resumed yesterday before Judge Murphy A throng of eagr spectators packed thomselTes into tbe courtroom until it cotild hold no more and then they crowded and pushed and craned their necks in an endeavor to catch a glimpsa the accused man until they filially worked him up to such a pitch of nervous eicitementhstltwai fonnl necessary to have the bali2 exclude from the room all except those tat could find seals before Ihe hearing of the case could be proceeded with The first witness wss Mrs Jennie Holden mother of the girls whose testimony was taken on Friday Mrs Holden was an eye witne to tne affray whlcn resulted in the death of Officer Gram and shs proved a strong witness for the prosecntion Sn said taat her attention had flrt been attracted by hearing loud voices on the strett and that upon going to the window she saw a large and a small man engaeed in a ruffle Thelarvcrof the men seemed to be trying tn compel the other one to sreorar any him the man resisted and frmebt When the eeuffle had contiEued tor several minutes the smaller man drew a revolver from his pocket and fired three shots ottnep rson with whom ho had been scufBinir aiterwards running mi in the direction of Fifth street Mrs Holdens testi morty concluded with a description of the manner in which the police officers who had started in pursuit of the man wto dia the sbootlnc returned abortly afterward with a prisoner who looked very much like the person whom she had a tew momenta before seen quarreling opposits her house Under the fireot a searching cross exatrlns IV eroti made him ttervovt In the light cf an opinion rendered by Judge Love yesUrdajr afternoon Wtliism Brown Registrar of Voters and Kiy Fait Itis deputy have causa to fjeel uneasy The cases of Brown and Jfalk came up in tbe Police Court on the motion made by their attorneys to qbaah the complaints made against them by Dr jC ODonnell for having falsified election returns Their attorneys argued tnat the complaints did not state a public ofianse as tbe semi official tally shees which the culprits are charged with haying altered were in no sense public documents Judge Love denied tbe motion to dismiss and held that under section 113 of the statute the offense charged is a crime Tbis section refers to any paper that is filed or deposited in any public office or place for any purpose whatever said the Judge The language is very broad Now as I understand it these semi official returns the blanks are printed at tbe ex pense of the Government They are issued out of the office of the Registrar they go to the different precincts of the city and county with instructions to tbe election officers to mars down on them the vote as it was cast and to return them fo the Registrar Xow continued Judge Love if these papers can be altered it Is time we found it oat because it can be readily seen that if anybody 1 dont mean to insinuate that anybody hsa done sc bnt it can be readily seen that if anybody was vicious and wanted to alter the official returns the first thing would be to mutilate the semi oracisi returns in order to make the two correspond when the official count came off Now if these papers are not official snd not worth the printing on them it is about time tbe people fonnd it out because if they are not official they are instruments of evil and ought to besuppressod If the Registrar has no right to have them printed he baa no right to send them out en I it seems to me they ought to be stopped This is not a conn ol record ti the Judge in conclusion and the defendants cannot le injured if their motion to dismiss is deiieJ Tills is a matter of very grave importance and I am not going to dismiss these complaints and hold that these papers are naught They certainly serve some official purpose They sre put out in an officiil way they come back and are deposited in be Registrars office If they hare been rltered 1 think that under this section of the code here has been an offense committed If I am wrong in my conclusions however the defendants have their remedy They can jo before tbe Superior or tbe Supreme Court on writs of bslwai corpu and have this point decided within a very few hours The motion to dismiss is denied In the course of his remarks Judge Love declared that he had given the question more study and thought than any other Lmatter that has been before him as a po nce magistrate The preliminary examination of Crown and Falk wjs continued until next 5fon day afternoon It habeas corpus proceedings are not had in the meantime on the law point raised by their couneel the talcing of testimony for the defense will begin at that time XIBCSXJLAJXXOV tion Mrs Holden remained firm tn the statements she had previously made and the only point gained bv tbe defense was in connection with her description of the manner in which the shooting bad been done he stated positively mat the men were engaged in a struggle when the abota were fired end by doing so placed herself iu dirct opposition to her daughter who on Friday last swore that the men were several feet apart at tliat moment Mrs Jlnnie Johnson wbo also resides near where the murder waa committed and who was a witness to it was next placed on the stand Her testimony was to tbe same effect aa Mrs Holdens and threw no new light on the matter She became a little confused however when asked by Attorney Foote if she bad at any time made a statement to a police officer At first she denied havinz done so Then later on she admitted that she had and gave as an excuse for the first denial the fact tnatabedid not know that the men to whom she had recited her version of the shooting were police officers Upon the Conclusion of Mrs Johnsorj testimony the prosecution endeavored to place witnesses Sullivan and Toomey on the acand but as neither one answered hii name when called the further hearmg of the case was posl pcoea until jo a ji lo usy Tne ne have discovered at present to Wilson expressing a willingness to come here aud testify If he is wanted He says he was a witness to the shooting and that his evidence will positively secure the acquittal of Curtis If has been decided not to use him at this trial however but to hold him in reserve as the basis fora motion for a new trial in case Curtis should be convicted She Will Be Tried for order Liuie Valentine the dissolute woman who was arrested several weeks ago on suspicion of having administered a fatal dose of morphine tn John Ashton the sailor boarding master Of 816 Front street who waa taken from the Fort land Hotel in a dying condition was In the Police Court again yesterday morning Judge Rtx fonnd that there was probable cause to believe tnat tbe woman poisoned Asbtou with the intention of robbing him and held ber for trial before tbe Superior Court with bonds fixed at 10000 The charge is murder Cboicz lots in Port Angeles for sals at 624 Market street mill jo a ji lo uay leasinses ew witness that ihe attorney for Cortia Anaheim wovereo is George Kunbold He ts dative Oti nt in New oik city and he has written riour i0a CHAKUES Feldman Buys OF FRAUD Ola Partner Robbed 1 870000 Feldman sued Van Leak yesterday for an accounting The psriiet were partners for many years in the business of buying and selling broomcorn under the ilrm name ol Feldman Ca About two years ago the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent and the defendant who had alwaya had charge of the business rendered an accounting which at the time was accepted as satisfactory Feldman now says he has discovered that the accounting was false He alleges that during ihe Partnership Van Laak robbed him of nearly 70 OoO It is specifically alleged that when broomcorn was purcaaaed the defendant appropriated the beet half to his own nse and shipped tha inferior stock to Australia for the brn fit ol the firm The diff renco in value of the two qualities of corn Is stated to have been 35 a ton By this mans alone Feldman charges that he has been drfrud of 65000 He also chimes than Van Lt manufactured brooms out of the eood corn and sold them for hi own benefit thereby realizing large profits It Is also alleged that Van Laak charged tbe firm 4j0 tor cacn of fire broom sewing machinesmachines for which he paid only 400 each and that he charged S3 a ton for packing 1850 tons of com for shipment when aa a matter of fact the actual prio paid was only f6 a ton Feldmau asks hat the partnership settlement et aside aud that the detendant be required to render a true accounting of the business SOUTHERN CALlFOIiMA YINE8 Titlcattural Commissioners Keport od Their Condition A report on the condition of the vineyards in Southern Calfornia prepared by Viticultural Commissioners Bichowsky and Sborb has been Issued from the State printing office and may be had on application at tbe Office Ot the viticaiturai CemraUiioD 317 Fine street An investigation into the reported reappearance ot the vine malaiy the tAnarielm dlieaia was made and the results from inspection of a number of vineyatds In San Diego aud ursnKt counties arj indicative ot lue prera lenCsiin several of a vine dlscass similar to the but not to a great extent pro very serious injury The commij nd a tendency to disease in a few San Diego vineyards but as a general thing no canae ior alarm was discovered A Stolen Watch Fonnd About six weeks ago William Corbett had a gold watch chain and locket taken from him while he was drunk He was unable to give any definite information to the police bat believed he had ben robbed In a Fourth stlr alOon Yesterday Officer Diwes learned that Toomas Mclnerney bad the stolen property in his possession and placed him under arrest The watch was lound on bis person Mclo erbey kept a saloon at 130 Fourth street at the time of the robbery i Charles Calhonrrwu held by Jndge Joach imsen yesterday to be tried before the Superior Court Ior mlnslaugnterwiih ball fixed at 50Q3 On Octob 7th Calhoun fatally In lured A Anderson striking him on the nead till a pleceot scantling The men were sailors oa two schooners which ran afoul ot tacli otberln trie channel at tbe foot of Third street a Money for Satcl Worth more than standard value worth two for on for tho Worlds Fair1 and more than that to you I Wo aro selling half dollars for a dollar apiecf tou get a i Original Design ji Worlds Fair BcautiM Sntivptiir ffnlti in ji for a Dollaf Executions A Work of Art In Itself We devote the entire amount towards and ennobling the Peoples Great Fair Souvenir and Rare Coins as an Investmenti Highest of all in Leavening Power Laiest Govt Report AIMOlUfEMlPS For purity and oars to preparation tb Royal Baking Fawcier equals any In the market and our test shews tnat it has gTeator leavening power tHaa lay of which vr Have any knowledge RISING rroi ceaiatry UBirwaUy of Oiliforaia aal Stat Analysts Coin 5 Goldpiece 182 a 1804 Silver Dollar Half Dollar 1796 1802 Silver 5 Cent Piece 1856 Eagle Penny 1793 Copper CentAmeriy Queens Jubilee 5 Sovreign Eng Napoleons 100 day sr French King William Coronation Ger 1861 German Peace 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