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VOLUME NO. 166. ALONG THE COAST A San Francisco Man Attempts Suicide at Monterey. NEWS OF MARE ISLAND. Murderer Conkling Sentenced to Life Imprisonment by a Hollister Judge.

THE INQUEST AT PINOLE. A Young Tacoman Meets Death While on an Outing In the Cascades. MONTEREY, May A guest at the St. Charles Hotel, registering under the name of G. H.

Rohrs of 795 Haight Btreet, San Francisco, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself this afternoon. Two fishermen painting a boat at. the foot of Taylor street noticed a man sitting on the sand near them, but paid no attention to him until they heard a shot. The Mranger had put the muzzle of a pistol into his mouth and pulled the The bullet went through the roof of his mouth, missing the brain, and plowed through the skull. The wounded man was removed to the St.

Charles Hotel and made as comfortable as the circumstances would permit. The would-be Buicide is a German by birth, about 47 years old. He is slightly bald-headed, lias brown hair, cut short, a brown mustache, and sometimes wear 3 eyeglasses, and has given three or four different names since the shootintr. The pistol was a 38-caliber five-shooter, Harrington Richardson make. OF MARE ISLAXIi.

An Increase Made in the Force of Men at the Xary-Tard. VALLEJO, May Twenty-nine thousand dollars will be paid to the workmen at Mare Island to-morrow. Throughout the entire yard work is being vigorously prosecuted. Especially is this the case in the construction department, at the head of which is Naval Constructor William J. Baxter.

Although only a recent arrival at this station, it is remarkable how quickly the new official has familiarized himself with the vast amount of work coming under bis personal jurisdiction. The force of workingmen was increased by the addition of 30 shipwrights to work on the Hartford. The number of men employed at the yards and docks is now 133; construction and repair, 384; steani engineering, 199; equipment, 31; ordnance, 46; supplies and accounts, 30; medical and surgery, Total, 824. The tug Nellie met -with an accident a few days ago. Her after shaft was broken, and she is laid up for repairs.

Nearly all the ship-fitters are working overtime on the Olympia, so as to finish their labors by Tuesday. Orders are expected from Washington ordering the vessel on her official trial trip. She is now coaling, and will soon be ready for the run in Santa Barbara Channel. Stores going aboard in large quantities. The preliminary hoisting test of the big crane was to be made this afternoon.

It was the intention to hoist a weight of forty-five tons in the shape of four large cannons and a lot of steel rails. All maneuvers with the big machine were to be made 6o as to have tne crane in condition for the official inspection to-morrow. President Oliver Crosby of the American Hoist and Derrick Company of St. Paul, the designer of the crane, has reached Mare Island, and the preliminary test was to Lave been made under his supervision, assisted by Superintendent F. F.

Harrington and John Strom. When the hour arrived, however, it was found that during a speeding test the boxes got hot and the test went over till Monday. Commodore E. O. Mathews, chief of bureau of yards aud docks, lias taken his departure from the yard.

He left on a launch last night, catching the overland train at Port Costa for Oregon. The brief stay made by the commodore will undoubtedly prove of immense benefit to Mare Island. Heavy shipments of stores are being made to vessels on the Asiatic station and to the Monterey, now in Callao. CAPTURED AT SASTA ROSA. An Officer Runs ltown a Man Thought to llf an Oakland Escape.

SANTA ROSA, May Deputy fiheriff Murphy to-day arrested a man on suspicion of being Dempsey, one of the men who escaped from the Oakland prison on Wednesday. Murphy captured the fellow after a long pursuit. The stranger took refuge in a bunch of willows in Santa Rosa Creek and would not come out until Murphy drew a revolver and threatened to shoot. The fugitive then surrendered. When taken to jail the captive said his name was Jtiordan, and that he had been slopj.ins: in Napa.

Sheriff Allen telegraphed to the Xapa Sheriff and found no such man hart been there. Afterward Riordan said his true name is Thompson. The deputy sheriff, after receiving a careful description of Dempsey, thinks Thompson is not the man. Thompson is taller and heavier. He will be held on a charge of vagrancy, however, until Monday to give the Oakland officers a chance to see him, and aNo to discover the cause of his effort to escape arrest.

uoLLMTvii juvxnisnjgipa fate. Slayer Denied, a Trial and Given Life Term. HOLLIBTER, May M. Conkhng, convicted of the murder iof Charles Hard wick on February 28 was called up for sentence this morning before Dorn, his counsel, p. 8.

Geil made a motion for a new trial on the grounds that the jury had gone outside of the courtroom for evidence. The motion was based upon affidavits from several parties reciting that two jurors had produced a rifle and" some- cloth and had experimented With the same to see at how far a distance powder marks would show on cloth; that me evidence so obtained was used in the The San Francisco Call. jury-room to influence the rest of the jurymen against the defendant. Judge Dora denied the motion, and sentenced (Jonkling to life imprisonment at San Quentin. The case will be appealed on the above point.

COLOXELS IX COXMAXU. Governor Itudd Temporary Leaders for Two Jiriyades. SACRAMENTO, May Budd has not yet appointed the brigadier-generals for the First and Third brigades, and it is not likely that he will do so for some time. To-day he ordered the senior colonels in the two brigades to assume command of their respective brigades until the brigadiers are appointed. The First Brigade is composed of the Seventh and Ninth infantries in the southern put of the State, commanded by Colonels William G.

Schreiber of Los Angeles and E. B. Spillman of San Diego respectively. Colonel Spillman, being the ranking officer, will command the brigade. The Third brigade is composed of the Second, Sixth and Kiehth infantries, commanded'respectively by Colonel J.

W. Guthrie of" Sacramento, Colonel J. J. Nunan of Stockton and Colonel Park Henshaw of Chico. Colonel Gnthrie, being the ranking officer, wili be in command of the brigade.

Governor Budd has set the time when the various members of the National Guard wtio attained per cent at rifle practice in 1894 shall shoot for the State championship medal. The 9o per cent men of the Eighth Infantry will shoot at Chico on June 18, those of the Second Infantry at Vallejo on June 13 and those of the Second Brigade at Shell Mound on June 18. Lieutenant- Colonel James L. Rowland of the Seventh Infantry will shoot with the regimental staff in June. Adjutant-General Barrett took formal possession of his office to-day.

IX QUEST AT riXOLE. The Exact Cause of the Explosion Remains a Mystery. PINOLE, H. G. Curry of Martinez held an inquest i over the bodies of O.

C. Johnson and H. I Minugh, the only victims of the explosion at the California Powder Company's works whose mutilated corpses could be identified. Fifteen witnesses were examined, but the actual cause of the catastrophe could not be learned, and the verdict was simply that the workmen came to their deaths from an accidental explosion. No inquest will be held over the remains of the nine Chinamen.

About twenty pounds of bones and scraps of flesh, all that could be found of the tmfortunate celestials, will be shipped to China for interment. The funerals of Johnson and Minugh took place yesterday. The funeral cortege which followed the bodies to tlie grave was two miles long. VISALIA'S CELEBRATION. Hundreds of I'eople T'rom Surrounding Toxcns Will Attend.

VISALIA, May A representative of Visalia's celebration committee returned from Bakersfield this morning and reports that 300 people will come from that town to celebrate the Fourth of July in this city. Of that number 200 will be and a special car will be required to bring their wheels. Forty members of Company will also come to participate in the marksmanship contest for several prizes. The Bakersfield band, of seventeen pieces, has been engaged, and the people of Bakersfield are in correspondence with the Southern Pacific officials, trying to get special rates on six carloads of excursionists. Miss Jennie Ward is still in the lead in the contest for goddess of liberty, her total vote this evening being 1817.

Miss Stevens is second. ACQUITTED AT SEATTLE. Wil cox Found Not Guilty of the Charlotte Fetting Murder. SEATTLE, May William A. Wilcox, who has been on trial the past week for the murder of old Charlotte Fetting in South Seattle in September, 1893, was found not guilty this afternoon by the jury.

The verdict was reached after the jury had been out one hour and twentyfive minutes. Wilcox was tried last January and convicted of manslaughter, but the Supreme Court granted a new trial. This time the State tried to prove that Wilcox murdered the old lady and afterward killed James King of Tacoma, who was supposed to have had a hand in the first crime, and who was about to confess because Wilcox had not given him his share of the money which was stolen from the Fetting cabin. Wilcox proved an alibi. DROWXEO IX CO BLITZ HIT EH.

A Toung Tacotnnn Meets Death in the Cascade Mountains. TACOMA, May For several days it has been feared that Seth Catlin, son of Charles Catlin, a prominent and wealthy citizen, had been killed while in the Cascade Mountains on an outing. Today word was received here that young Catlin's horse was found tied to a tree on the bank of the Cowlitz River, two miles above the mouth of Cispus River. The horse was very weak from lack of food. The canoe in which young Catlin had evidently attempted to cross the river was found overturned two miles below where the horse was tied.

The spot is a wild and unfrequented one. A party has gone out to drag the river for Catlin's body. Mysterious Death in Perm Fallen. GRASS VALLEY, May 1 man named Harvey, who has been missing since Sunday, was found dead with a gunshot wound in his mouth at Reuben Herrod's ranch in Perm Valley, ten miles west of here this evening. It is not known whether he was accidentally shot, murdered or committed suicide.

"The Coroner has gone to investigate. Harvey hud worked two days for Mr. Herrod and Sunday afternoon left to take a hunt in the woods and has been missing until to-night A Tiaalia Footpad Convicted. VISALIA, May The jury in the case of Charles Brown found him guilty of assault with intent to commit robbery. Last February Brown and H.

B. Gebhardt held up Ah Tins on the Mineral Kins road, near isalia. Oebhardt pleaded guilty to the charge. Both men will be sentenced next week. A Clapton Farmer Killed.

MARTINEZ, May 24. Robert Hansen, a farmer who resided near Ciayton, was killed He was driving a rake and fell from it, and was either kicked by one of the horsesor struck by the pole. His skull was fractured. His body was brought to Martinez, and will be shipped to lowa. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1895.

STANFORD'S BIG GAME Professors and Seniors Contest on the Diamond. TROUNCED BY '95 MEN. The Learned Educators Fall Easy Victims to Their Opponents. THEIR PLAY TOO SCIENTIFIC. The Sphere Finds Dr.

Jordan's Waistband, but He Nets a Run for Hts Side. PALO ALTO, May The brilliant cardinal of Stanford is slowly turning to a dull gray. Students are deserting by every north or south bound train. "Quizzes" and "exes" have finished for the year, and the spiders are preparing to spin their webs over windows and doorways. The last lecture of the year has been hummed in scientific monotone from the professor's desk, and the last "cinch" has been placed against the backward scholar.

But still the blood-red college flag waves in the breeze of student enthusiasm, for Jack Sheehan, Secretary of the Stanford Class of '95. although vacation days have come the senior class intends to filch at least a few of those precious hours and to spend this stated time in festive celebration. When they have finally finished their revels the dust of disuse will settle upon the Moorish arcades and corridors of the great quadrangle, for the college will be closed until the autumn months are high upon the calendar. With the usual precocity of colleges the commencement begins when the term ends, and in the case of the class of '96 the festivities will last for a full week. The term closed to-day at 12:30 o'clock, and as the last senior student left the classroom he or she proceeded at once to prepare for festal duties.

The celebration opened with a game of baseball: For four years past it has been tii custom of the faculty to select a baseball nine from within its grave and reverend numbers and do battle upon the diamond field with the best handlers of the sphere that the senior class could persuade to stand against them. Heretofore the faculty nine has always beaten the senior nine, but yesterday the tables were turned. The seniors came out victorious on the long end of a one-sided score of .30 to 13; but there was much reason for the untimely defeat of the faculty. It lay in the fact that the class of '95 is the real pioneer class of the Stanford College. There have been graduations before, but there has been no class before it, which starting at the freshman year, has worked around all four sides of the quadrangle.

They call themselves "the pioneers," and the class yell, "Rah! rah! rere! we're right here! '95, '95, pi-on-eer!" explains their position exactly. They form the first class which has served for four years under the Stanford professsors. There are 16!) of them, and nearly seventy of that number are girls. The great game of baseball was called at half-past 2 o'clock. The professors were on the ground early, for they had to face the crack nine of the college, one that has come off victorious against many of the teams of the State.

The seniors came on the grounds shortly afterward, and they presented a motley spectacle as they walked from the grain field back of the gymnasium, trolling out the class yell. They were dressed as pioneer red-shirted, blue-shirted, with torn overalls and battered and as they followed the '95 class secretary, who led the way with a big meerschaum pipe stuck in his hat, they raised a laugh among the spectators that shook the hills. To make the game more even the seniors changed places each time, so that, in the seven innings played, every man had a chance to show his aptitude or inaptitude for a different position. On the faculty side President David Starr Jordan brought all the presidential dignity to first base, but much of the error column of the tutorial nine was due to his efforts. The other eight, being made up of most scientific material, played chemical, entomological or hygienic ball, according to which professor was immediately interested in the elusive sphere after each hit.

President Jordan did no base-running. He contented himself with securing "base on balls" or "base on hit by pitcher," and then letting McLean of '96 run the diamond for him. The president was hit but once. Baker was in the box, and as he let fly a curve he doubled up in a twinge of apprehension, for the ball flew straight for the ample presidential waist. It hit Dr.

Jordan amidships, with a sound as of a stone thrown in the mud, and while the senior nine bowed its several heads in agonies of remorse the genial president trotted contentedly toward the first bag. "If I had not been hit I would probably have made an out," he soliloquized, philosophically, and so it was thatgoud came of evil, for his proxy, McLean, made a run out of the hit in the waistband. i The game was a mO st interesting one, even though it did last but seven innings and was all one-sided, and when the last out had been made three hearty cheers were given by the victorious seniors for the ball-playing portion of the faculty. The nine were made up as follows: Faculty J. C.

Fish, professor of civil engineering, pitcher; G. M. Richardson, professor of chemistry, catcher Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of the college, first base; Frank Angell. professor of psychology, second base; Dr.

T. D. Wood, professor of hygiene, third base; H. D. Steams, professor of physics, shortstop; S.

W. Young, professor of chemistry, right field; A. T. Murray, professor of Greek, center field; V. L.

Kellogg, protessor of entomology, left field. Senior T. G. Russell, E. M.

Rea, P. M. Downing, J. F. Sheehan, Abe Lewis Arthur H.

White, William Harrelson, Scott Caihoun, Shirley Baker, and William Stuart manager. In the evening a most enjoyable reception was given by the president and faculty to the senior class in Roble Hall, and there the victors and vanquished met in a friendliness of sport only to be found between the graduated student and his late but still respected instructors. GRADVATES OIIGAXIZE. in Alumni Association of the Stanford l.tiw school Formed. PALO ALTO, May The graduates from the law department of the Stanford University met this afternoon to form an alumni association, which will include all previous, present and subsequent alumni from this college of law.

Professor Abbott, law professor of the university, is the passive mover in the formation of this new association, and under his direction it has been formed on exactly the lines as have the law alumni of Harvard and other big Eastern colleges. For president the new organisation has elected M. H. Kennedy of the class of '95, and for treasurer and secretary G. G.

Wigel, at present a Justice of the Peace in Palo Alto. For vice-presidents fifteen of the graduates from as many States of the Union were chosen, in order that the new organization may have as wide a range of usefulness as is possible. The object of the association is self-help and mutual advancement. A list of the names and addresses of the alumni will be kept by the secretary and published periodically, and hereafter any law graduate of Stanford University will find himself with a friend wherever he can meet a fellow-member of the association. BUDD OPPOSES PARDONS Answer of the Governor to a Plea for a Solano County Murderer.

He Will Ask the Legislature to Pass a Law Regulating: Executive Commutations. SACRAMENTO, May Rico Moraeoo will be hanged on the 20th of nsxt month if Governor Build does not interfere. G. A. Lamont, at the time Morasco was convicted, was the District Attorney of Solano County and prosecuted him.

To-day he came up from his home in Suisun and asked the Governor to commute the sentence and send Morasco to the penitentiary for life. He claims that the convicted man was poorly defended. He is an ignorant and weakminded man, wbo is hardly accountable for his acts. The Governor replied that those halfwitted criminals were the most dangerous we have. He said if people do not want murderers hanged they should give them some other sentence.

He had examined the case thoroughly, had read all the testimony, and it seemed to be a clear case, with no extenuating circumstances. He said there was no doubt but that many a man had been hanged because he had been poorly defended; that no Judge should appoint a sprig of a lawyer to defend a man whose life was at stake. It was not right. In a case where a man was on trial for his life he should at least be given an attorney who knows something of the rules of evidence. "I am opposed to this whole commutation business," said the Governor.

"One Governor will commute a man, and the next man who is elected chief magistrate pardons him. The whole pardon business is wrong. If I interfere in this case I will reprieve him for two years, and ask the Legislature to change the law so that a man commuted in such instances cannot afterward be pardoned." O. R. Ooghlan and J.

Debata, two other Solano County attorneys, also appeared, and asked that the sentence be commuted. The Governor did not say what he would do. SESSION OF EXDEA VOB ER3. Three Thousand I'mple Attend the Oathnrinn at Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, May 1n the Christian Endeavor Convention to-day committees were named as follows: Nominations C.

Z. Merritt of Oakland, Rev. E. B. Ware of Santa Rosa, Rev.

J. W. Phillips of Bakersfield, James Bell Lindsay of Santa Cruz and Mrs. Duston of Redding. W.

W. Milne of Sacramento, Miss Florence Guthrie of Weaverville and W. W. Thompson of Modesto. Rev.

G. McCollom of Loring, Rev. William Rader of Oakland and H. G. Wylie of Los Angeles.

The special committee that had been appointed to wait on Governor Budd announced that he would address the convention to-morrow night. The closing prayer was offered by Rev. H. M. Tanney of San and the convention took a recess till 7:45 p.

m. In the evening addresses were made by Miss Mindora L. Berry and Rev. E. S.

Chapman. There were about 3000 people present at the session. for Two Murderer a. SACRAMENTO, May Budd to-day offered a reward of $250 for the arrest and conviction of Andrew Parks for the murder of Elmer Newton, on February 19,1895, at Pasadena; also $250 for the arrest and conviction of Martin Toledo, for the murder of Juan Guazenbura, April 10, 1895, at Carson ranch, in Los Angeles County. Mnilrond at Di.r on.

SACRAMENTO, May W. S. Jones, residing at Oakland, was slightly injured by being rolled between the station platform and one of the cars at Dixon. He was brought to this city for treatment. One arm is badly injured, but it is not thought that his other injuries are serious.

SAN DIEGO SENSATION A Will of Ex-Governor Downey Found in a Bank Vault. IN HIDING MANY YEARS. The Document Is Old and Musty, and Had Been Executed in 1877. TEXT OF THE TESTAMENT. Half the Immense Estate Left to His First Wife, Who Died Years Ago.

SAN DIEGO, May A sensation was caused in this city and in Los Angeles to-day by the reported finding of the will of ex-Governor John G. Downey hidden away in a lot of musty papers in the Consolidated National Bank in this city. Receiver O'Connor was the finder. He was looking through a lot of papers when he came across a big envelope indorsed, "Last will and testament of John G. Downey." The importance of the document was in- Ex-Governor J.

Q. Downey. Btantly seen, as Governor Downey great estate is being administered as intestate property. At first Receiver O'Connor was inclined to send the will directly to the Probate- Court of Lob Angeles without opening it, but later he concluded to open the en velope in order to learn the names of the executors who would have charge of the will. Upon opening the document it was found to be dated in 1877 and named Stephen M.

White, Peter Donahoe and E. F. Spence as executors. Spence and Donahoe are dead and Receiver O'Connor notified Senator White at Los Angeles he would send the will to him by special messenger. Mr.

Wadham went to Los Angeles this morning on the errand. Though no copy of the will was taken its general provisions were learned. It directs that the home in Los Angeles and the house adjoining, together with all furniture, silverware, plate, horses, carriages, shall become the property of his wife. This was Governor Downey's first wife, since deceased without issue. Bequests of $5000 or $6000 are made to as many Catholic charitable institutions, including the Orphans' Home at Los Angeles, and the remainder of the estate is divided, one-half going to the widow and the balance equally divided between Governor Downey's two sisters, Mrs.

Peter Donahoe and Mrs. Eleanor Martin and the latter's son, J. Downey Harvey. The value of the estate is estimated at over $500,000. Governor Downey owned much real estate in Los Angeles and San Diego counties, including the great Warners ranch in this county, estimated to be worth $200,000.

He died Marcli 1, 1894, in Los Angeles.J supposedly intestate, and on the 17th of the same month letters of administration were granted J. Downey Harvey on the application of Governor Downey's sisters. The whole estate, according to law, would go to them in the absence of a will, and the heirs of the first and second wives would get nothing. The present will would have been invalid had the second wife haa issue, but as she died without children it will take effect unless a later will is found. That a later will was made there is every reason to believe from the circumstances that were made kuown to-day by a former attorney of Governor Downey.

Nobody knows anything of such a will, however, and if it is in existence it is probably kept closely guarded by persons much interested in so doing. "I got most of the facts from Governor Downey himself," said this attorney, "and know whereof I speak. I have every reason to believe there is in existence a later will, and that in it no provision whatever is made for J. Downey Harvey. Harvey was a favorite of the Governor, and was named after him.

It was generally understood that he was to come in for the bulk of the property. "Some time after the death of the Governor's first wife there came rumors that the Governor intended to marry again and that strong efforts were being made on the part of his sisters to prevent such an act, which would throw them and J. Downey out. Whether upon their urgent solicitation or not Governor Downey took a long trip, almost around the world, leaving his affairs in the hands of J. Downey Harvey, who was attorney in fact." The attorney related a story reflecting upon J.

Downey Harvey's management, and told of a suit filed against him by the ex-Governor, adding: "It was enough for one relative, he thought, under the circumstances, and he told me, and more than once, that he would cut J. Downey Harvey off without a shilling. "Now this old will bobs up and in it J. Downey is given one-sixth 01 the estate. I am satisfied that was not the intention of Governor Downey and that a later will has been made and is somewhere in hiding.

"So long as the property was all in J. Downey Harvey's hands, being administered as intestate estate, no will was wanted. But now that old will is in the field, which gives the heirs of the first wife half of the immense property, it may be to somebody's interest to produce a later will. Senator Stephen If. Wnite, who is named as executor in the will, is attorney for J.

Downey Harvey as administrator. The will is bound to cause a commotion, and perhaps those to whom Governor Downey really desired to leave his property will get their dues." THE Attorney Wadham of San Diego Asks That It lie Probated. LOS ANGELES, May Attorney James E. Wadham this afternoon brought from San Diego the last will and testament of the late ex-Governor Downey and tiled the same for probate with Judge Smith of the Superior Court. In the absence of Stephen M.

White, who is the only surviving executor of the will, no one would open it or divulge its contents. Senator White is now in San Francisco and the will will not be opened before his return. If the statement of the will's contents received from San Diego is correct J. Downey Harvey will not fare badly by the change from administrator to one of the legatees. He does not appear to be at all worried over the news of the finding of the will, the instrument having been drawn up so long ago as seventy-seven, when Harvey was still a very young man, it is not probable that his uncle discriminated against him.

What ill-feeling the Governor had against his nephew was engendered long after that date. This probably accounts for J. Downey Harvey's equanimity over the finding of the will. He postponed his departure for San Francisco on account of the event, but seems to be having a good time while waiting for the contents of the will to be divulged. He brought his bicycle with him when he came down here and yesterday rode to Santa Monica and back.

Today he went there again and is there tonight. The presence of the will in San Diego, its loss and discovery are accounted for in this wise. E. F. Spence, who is named as one of the executors, was the fast friend and confidential agent of Governor Downey, and was at that time engaged in the banking business in San Diego.

Naturally the document was left in his care and deposited in the vault of the bank. When Spence came to Los Angeles the will was overlooked and left in the care of Bryant Howard, then president of the bank. It was forgotten and overlooked until a few days ago, when Receiver O'Connor of the Consolidated National Bank, in going over the papers in the vault, came across a package labeled "Last Will and Testament of John G. Downey" in E. F.

Spence's well-known handwriting. MR. WMITE if I' JUS I. IK Though the Govern or' a Attorney, He Knew Xothing of the Will. The statements wired from San Diego yesterday that a will made by ex-Governor John G.

Downey had been found among the papers in the vaults of the Consolidated National BanK of that place is sure to create more than a little interest in San Francii co. The ex-Governor left a valuable estate, which has been managed by J. Downey Harvey, nephew of the deceased, and distributed largely to himself, Mrs. Edward Martin Mrs. Peter Donahne.

The ladies named reside in San Francisco and are sisters of the deceased ex-Governor. J. Downey Harvey is Mrs. Martin's son by her first husband. Mry.

Donahue is the widow of the late Peter Donahue and was his second wife. The first wife of ex-Governor Downey was killed in the great railroad disaster at Tehachapi in 1882. He narrowly escaped death himself in the disaster and many of his friends have said that his mind was so affected by the shock and the terrible scenes of the burning to death of his wife before his own eyes that he never was quite himself after the terrible event. He managed his own business affairs, however, with quite a degree of success, and managed to get in the newspapers by engaging himself to marry Yda Addis, a young lady of some note in Southern California literary circles. Stephen M.

White, who arrived in the city last evening, knows nothing of the purported will, although he transacted much of the legal business of ex-Governor Downey. He says that if the ex-Governor married after the will was made the marriage annuls it. At the residence of J. Downey Harvey last evening it was ascertained that Mr. Harvey had gone to Los Angeles.

At the residence of Mrs. Peter Donahue and Mrs. Martin, comer of Bryant and Second streets, word was given out that the former lady was sick and could not be interviewed, and the latter was not at home. The estate involved is valued at a million and a half. S.

P. Beach, manager for Mrs. E. Martin, was seen at his residence last night and interviewed. The first definite information that a will had been found came Thursday night in a telegram from Los Angeles from J.

Downey Harvey to his aunt, Mrs. Donahue, in which he said: "The heirs under the will are you, mother, Aunt Minnie and myself." The "Aunt Minnie" mentioned in the telegram is a half-sister of ex-Governor Downey. She is about 80 years of age and lives in the Visitacion Convent, Baltimore Md. Ex-Governor Downey's wife, who was killed in the Tehachapi disaster, was a Miss Gerradio, a Spanish lady, and three of her brothers now live in Los Angeles. They hava instituted litigation there, claiming that Downey signed a paper giving to his wife and her heirs certain property.

They contend for $375,000. Since the death of the ex-Governor the administrator of the estate has paid many debts of deceased from the rents of the property. Governor Downey died a year ago last March. After the death of his first wife he married his second cousin, a poor honest girl named Rosa Kelley. This marriage caused an estrangement between the Governor and his sisters, Mrs.

Donahue and Mrs. Martin. They held him here a year after his return from a trip around the world, but by the aid of Sarsfiela O'Reilly he gave them the slip and was spirited away to Los Angeles, where he married the girl. "She married for a home," said Mr Beach, "and died childless, her death antedating the demise of the Governor." This marriage also broke up the friendship between J. Downey Harvey and his uncle.

PRICE FIVE CENTS. ALIEN SCALPS SOLD Coyote Bounty Claims Investigated in Kern County. OFFICIALS IN THE DEAL. The Grand Jury Likely to Return a Number of Indictments. UNIQUE METHODS PURSUED.

The Scalps Said to Have Been Cast Into a Stove With a False Bottom. SACRAMENTO, May The Grand Jury of Kern County has for some time been engaged in an investigation of the alleged frauds in coyote scalp claims, and it is stated has obtained evidence that may result in placing many influential county officials behind the bars. A confidential agent of the Grand Jury has appeared before the Board of Examiners and requested that certain documentary evidence said to be in the possession of the latter be forwarded to the Grand Jury of Kern County, to be used in the trial which will follow the indictments by that body. It is rumored that hundreds of coyote scalps received by the county officials, after having been purchased by the State, found their way into the hands of certain outside persons and were again resold. It is also rumored that after being repurchased they again passed out the back door and were taken to other counties and resold.

There has been a keen detective employed on the matter for some time, and it is claimed that very damaging evidence has been procured against those county officials supposed to be interested in the deal. There is no room for doubt but that the report of the Kern County Grand Jury will result in indictments that will shock the entire community. YROMISEyr MEX IMPLICATED, Startling Developments Will Follow the Grand Jury's Report. BAKERSFIELD, May is almost impossible to give any positive facts about the coyote scalp fraud in this county, though rumors are plentiful and have.been since the Grand Jury undertook the investigation of the matter and; names of various prominent persona who have been connected therewith. The jury has been in session now since last fall, off and on, and one of the first matters looked into by it was the coyote frauds.

At the time the scalp appropriation bill was before Governor Budd the jury sent a strong protest against his signing it, alleging that barefaced frauds had been committed and stating that an investigation was in progress. Singularly enough, however, Senator S. C. Smith, representing this and San Luis counties, also a member of the Grand Jury, took a special trip back to Sacramento after the Legislature adjourned and made an argument to try to convince Budd that he ought to sign the bill. Budd was somewhat sarcastic in his remarks to Smith in reply, but neglected to sign the bill.

Since his return home Smith has been known here as "Coyote Smith." In consequence of this action Senator and Grand Juryman Smith, when the jury undertook the investigating of the coyote business again recently, as they had promised Governor Budd, was politely excused from attendance on the sessions while the matter was under discussion. What the Grand Jury has discovered has been kept most profoundly secret, but it is pretty well understood that three features of the business were investigated with more or less startling results. One was the receipt of a large quantity of scalps at Caliente from points in Arizona and New Mexico and their subsequent hauling to Bakersheld by team and distribution among those engaged in the frauds. The names of the persons engaged in this business are whispered, and it is pretty positively known that at least three of them will be indicted. One is a well-known merchant in town, and two father and son are or have been office-holders.

Another feature that has been investigated is a queer story about a sort of double back-action stove that is reported to have been used in the burning or pretended burning of scalps upon which bounty had been paid. According to report this stove had two doors so arranged that when scalps were put in an apparently hot fire they passed through unscathed and came out on the other side all ready to do duty again as often as might be thought prudent. Another story that was investigated was as to the midnight burial of certain lots of scalps out at the racetrack and their subsequent unearthing and use, the latter having been witnessed by parties hidden in the brush, whose suspicions had been aroused. These are bnt a portion of the interesting stories afloat about the matter. When the jury adjourned the other day it was subject to the call of the foreman, and in the meantime a trusty agent was dispatched to Sacramento to investigate coyote records on tile there and report back, so that there might be no mistake in putting blame for fraud where it legitimately belongs.

The report of that agent is waited with great interest, as indictments are expected to follow. At first some twenty-live persons were implicated, and it was intended to indict them, buj a coe slipped somewhere, and now the indictments will be limited to about six. Prtaluma to Hold a Fair. PETALUMA, May The Sonoma and Marin Agricultural Society some time ago decided to hold a regular annual fair and race meeting at Petaluma, to last six days, commencing August 19, providing the citizens subscribed $1000. Tonight the bonus reached $900, and the remainder and the fair are assured.

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