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oc--oo--ooo--o-v-o Cheapest Daily Paper 5 3 0 I Newsy, I Sparkling In the State. 9 2 And Bright. oo oo- (( SANTA CRUZ, TUESDAY' EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1900. VOLUME V. NUMBER 108.

Smttttd, BRYAN WAS BOUGHT. WAY IS OPEN TO SETTLE STRIKE. GRAVES STILL CAUSES WORRY. IF AFFLICTED, Or any member of your family is suffering from a painful, difficult, acute or chronic disease, and all other physicians, doctors, medicines, have failed to give relief or affect a cure, consult the Original Quaker Doctors at the QUAKER HOME, 224 Pacific Avenue, rr or Santa Cruz, Cal. They Cure after all others fail.

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m. to 12 m. and 1 to i p. m. Explanation of the Nebraskan's Stani" ou the Sixteen to One Plank.

PEORIA, 111. In an interview in the Evening Journal C. M. Kingman oi Delavan alleges that William J. Bry-fen insisted upon a 16 to 1 plank in the Democratic national platform at Kansas City because of the promise of cash from silver mine owners.

Mr. Kingman says that among his acquaintances is a young woman who is an intimate friend of the Bryan family. She exchanged visits every year with Mr. Bryan's sister, who is also the I Democratic candidate's secretary. She visited in Lincoln at the Bryan home this year for a month, and left that city the morning the Democratic convention met in Kansas She went from Lincoln to the Lakes, where she remained for several weeks, and it was while she was returning from the Lake? to her home in Jacksonville, 111., that Mr.

Kingman met her and learned the story he -tells, in the Evening Journal. This young woman, who Mr. Kingman says is a member of one of best known families in Jacksonville, stated that while she was at the Bryan home, the week before the convention, a delegation of five men from Colo raJo, representing the silver interest of that section, called upon Mr. Bryan and made him a distinct business proposition. They told him that if he would sujpport the silver plank in the platform, insist upon having the ratio oi "115 to 1" inserted and refuse to run for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket or refuse to accept any nomination on any other than a free silver platform, they would pay him $150,000.

The young woman asserts, says Mr. Kingman, that the offer was accepted by Bryan, and that his stand before the national convention was based un-on his financial agreement with the Colorado silver men. "She told me her story," said Mr. Kingman, "in, the most straightforward and innocent manner and, knowing her and her family connections, I do not doubt for a single instant the truth of what she has She had no reason for telling me what she did. and I can not question her sincerity." The "Sentinel" takes not one particle of stock in the above' statement; does not believe that the man C.

M. Kingman exists, and if he really does that he ought to be kicked from Peoria to Boulder Creek. TRIO OF PLOTTERS ARE NOW IN PRISON. CHICAGO, October 8. F.

W. Way-land, assistant manager of the Mooney and Boland detective agency, was arrested on his return today from Virginia, charged with complicity in the alleged plot to defraud the New York Life Insurance Company, the Canadian Order of Foresters and' the Knights and Ladies of Honor, in which Miss Marie Defenbach became insured for $12,000 shortly before her death, which occurred suddenly on August 25 last. Dr. A. M.

Unger and Frank II. Smiley, a detective, were arrested on the same charge yesterday. It is believed that Miss Defenbach was originally one of the conspirators and that she expected death was to be feigned and another body palmed off as hers. On August 21st Miss Defenbach called at the office of a lawyer named Johnson in the United building ani told him she wanted to make her will. Some days earlier, it is stated, Dr.

Unger had told thk lawyer a woman would call on him for this" purpose and she announced she had come in accordance with the appointment. She told Mr. Johnson she wanted to leave her property to Smiley, her affianced husband, and then she went away. Ten clays afterwards she returned to see if Mr. Johnson had the will ready.

It provided, as she instructed, that if her debts were paid her property was to go to Smiley, but she then wanted another provision inserted. It was that after her death her body was to be cremated. This surprised Mr. Johnson, but he complied with the request. He was so struck with the circumstances, however, as the cremation has not been in original will, that he called in witnesses to the will from the adjoining offices as a matter of protection.

Miss Defenbach then signed the document. Two days later she died in great agony. Her body was hurriedly embalmed and then cremated. A coroner's jury returned the verdict that death was caused by dysentery. SUPREME COURT CONVENES.

WASHINGTON, October 8. The Uni-, ted States Supreme Court corveced to-' dav at noon. Justice dray and Justice McKenna being absent. No motions except for admission to practic? wen entertained. The docket will be called tomorrow.

i CAUSTIC REMARKS BY LOS ANGELES PARTY MEN. White Said to Sent a Hair-Raising Dispatch. Have LOS ANGELES There is half hearted joy among the Democrats, for William Graves, the party candidate for Congress in this district, has again promised to make a serious try for election. Mr. Graves will begin a stumping tour at his home, and will then work his way soiuh by easy stages, reaching Los Angeles, it is hoped, some time before November 6th.

This welcome intelligence did not reach the Los Angeles Democratic headquarters direct or in official form. It came, however, via San Francisco through Chairman Sims of the Democratic State Central Committee, and is considered reliable. Now that Mr, Graves' health has recovered sufficiently to enable him to begin. his canvass, some of the more unreasonable of the party leaders are complaining that he should have mapped out an itinerary which would bring him to Los Angeles a day or two before election, if at all. It is insisted by these unreasonable people that Mr.

Graves, if he mus't become acquainted with the electors of his birthplace at all, as soon as he has made his public bow to the peoiple of San Luis Obispo on Monday night, ought at once to hasten here. "He might bring his physician with him and a certificate that it would endanger his life to stay with us any longer than one day, but we are titled to a sight of our candidate as soon as possible," is the way one leader expressed it. "Then, when we see Mr. Graves is really as ill as has been stated, we will get behind, him through sympathy. What we desire to know, however, is that the intentions of our candidate are honorable." The Democratic County Committee has assesed Mr.

Graves $250 as a cam paign contribution, and if he honors the committee's draft in this particular those who will handle the money would, perhaps, not care whether he showed up here at all or not. Stephen M. White sent to Mr. Graves a telegram yesterday which those who were privileged to see it declare to have been warm enough in its language to have thawed out the north pole. NEW POWDER COMPANY.

REDWOOD CITY. Articles of incorporation of the Delta Powder Company were filed in the Clerk's office. The company Is organized for the purpose of manufacturing powder and high explosives, to buy and sell real estate, maintain machinery, and Is to exist for a period of fifty years. It is organized- with a capital stock of $100,000, which is divided into 1,000 shares, having a par value of $100. Five hundred dollars has been subscribed by the following shareholders, who are also directors of the company: P.

P. Chamberlain, George H. Rice, F. A. Towne, George C.

Ross, F. H. Thorpe, The principal place of business is to be at Redwood City. TWO HUNDRED PERSONS HURT. DULUTH, Minn.

A special from Evelth, reports a dangerous explosion. Seven thousand pounds of dynamite in the powder magazine at the Pruce mine, situated a half mile from town, blew up about 6:30 this afternoon. A hole 100 feet square and 25 feet deep marks the spot where the magazine stood. The force of the explosion was so great that it smashed every pane of glass within a radius of two miles. The mine laboratory and warehouses were totally wrecked.

At least two hundred people were hurt more or less, being thrown by the shock or hit by shattered glass. The explosion was plainly felt at Blwabik, twelve miles distant. The cause of the explosion is unknown. SUIT AGAINST A BANK. STOCKTON, October 8.

A. Richards, a former wealthy farmer, today began an action against the Farmers and Merchants bank of this city, the complaint containing some sensational allegations. Richards alleges that in 1890 he placed to his credit in th bank $40,000, of which the bank paid out $23,000 at his request later. The suit is for the balance, and it is alleged that none of the transactions were placed on the books of the bank, the purpose, it is paid, was to defraud Richards, who declares that he did not learn of the facts until he demanded an accounting in 1900. CALL FOR CONVENTION TO DISCUSS THE WAGE PROPOSES.

Coal Barons Think That an Arrange-1 i mnnt AIM Kn DaaU mum ii in uc iicawiuu. SHENANDOAH, October 8. President Mitchell today issued a call for a convention of mine workers of the three districts comprising the anthracite field to meet in Scranton, on Friday next. HAZELTON, October 8. President Mitchell refused to say anything as to what the convention would probably decide to do in the matter of the ten per cent net Increase.

Neither would he anticipate what business other than that relating to the advance in wages would be brought before the delegates. It is not unlikely that the abolishment of the sliding scale will come in for some consideration. None of the labor leaders here will publicly say whether the increase will be accepted or rejected, but there is a strong belief that the men in convention will vote to go back to work. Now that the convention is a certainty there is a feeling of relief in the entire region and it is confidently expected that a week from today will see the mine workers going back to work. President Mitchell win call the convention to order and preside.

It is almost certain that the convention will vote that all its sessions shall be held secret. Meantime labor leaders say their efforts to close up, the mines still In operation will go on.j Notices of ten per dent advance in wages and reduction in the price of powder were posted this morning by M. S. Kemmerer and company operating the Sandy Run colliery and Coxe Brothers and company operating six collieries. The notices are similar to those put up by the ether companies, last week.

G. P. Markle Calvin Pardee Dodson and the Silverbrook Coal Company, hereabouts, have not yet offered their men an increase. These four concerns1 nominally employ upward of 4,000 men. In addition to the concentration of sheriff's deputies In this city, every colliery had yesterday forces of coal aud iron police fully armed.

There was no marching of large bodies of men this morning, as anticipated, but crowds gathered as usual in the vicinity of the various collieries. The greatest crowd, which numbered probably 300 assembled in the neighborhood of Cranberry colliery, on the outskirts of the city. Quite a number of women on their way to this mine were turned back, some through fear and others thrgugh persuasion. The company officials said the colliery is working as usual today. Another crowd gathered in the vicinity of No.

3 slope and No. 40 shaft of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company In Hazelton, but no disturbance occurred. The Inclement weather probably had much to do with the pacific trend of affairs. SHAMOKIN, October 8. Not a colliery in this region resumed work today.

Pea and nut coal is being prepared for market at Cameron City, the coal being taken from the Culm banks. The strikers are endeavoring to Induce the few men at the mine to refuse to do this work and there may be a march to enforce the request. A MINNESOTA TORNADO. BIWABIK, Minn. The tornado that raged in this vicinity was most violent.

The storm cut a pathway 150 feet in I width through the northwestern por- tion of the town, completely wrecking several buildings. The property loss is estimated at $100,000 and the known fatalities number nine, with a score or more injured, some severely. The storm swept in a northwesterly direction after leaving here and struck a little Finnish settlement near Pike Lake where a number of buildings were wrecked, in one of which an entire family, conslstng of husband, wife and four children, were instantly killed. So far their names have not been obtained. It Is believed that when the more remote districts are heard from further the casualties will be raised.

PROCLAMATION OF PEACE WILL BE ISSUED THURSDAY. NEW YORK, October 8. A dispute! to the Journal and Advertiser from Cape Town says: A proclamation of peace in Suit! Africa is expected to be issued by Fiel' Marshal Roberts on Thursday next tint being the anniversary of the declaration of war. Lord Roberts leaves at the end of the month for England to assume new duties as commander in chief of thr British army. v.

Prof. H.Russell Burner.M.D. Tbe Old Quaker Doctor. fenses. But the friendly viceroys and Minister Wu do not share in this view.

The minister considers the question of punishments especially disposed of by the edict of the emperor and the German and the American notes exchanged last week. The only difficulty he apprehends is in case the foreign ministers seek to designate certain persons who shall be punished in addition to those the government may select for punishment." FELL 1,500 FEET STILL LIVES. Parachute Failed to Open Properly, but Balloonist Landed in a Tree and Escaped with Severe Injuries. OAKLAND. Through the failure of a parachute to open properly Daniel i Maloney, an aeronaut who made an ascension at Oakland Park Sunday, narrowly escaped death.

The balloonist dropped over a thousand feet before the parachute opened. Then the air caught only one side of his umbrella-shaped affair and he fell 300 feet further with great velocity, landing in the top of a tall eucalyptus tree. The landing in the tree lost him his hold on the parachute, but undoubtedly saved his life. After losing his pnrachute Maloney fell from the tree top to the ground, forty feet below. He was picked up unconscious, and it was found that he had sustained a serious injury to his spine, a sprained ankle and severe concussion of the brain.

It is not believed that his injuries are fatal. MEXICAN RIVER FLOODS. ST. LOUIS, Mo. Telegraphic advices from Tampic, Mexico, state that the Panuca and Tames rivers which empty into the Gulf at that place are on one of the biggest rises in their history and great damage has been wrought by the floods in the populated and cultivated valleys above here.

At one point near Chila station on the line of the Mexican Central Railroad, the Tames river is over fifty miles wide and has swept to destruction hun-dreds of houses occupied by Mexican farmers and laborers. Many drownings are reported, all the tributaries of these rivers in the southeastern parts of the State of San Luis Postosl are out of their banks and have washed away whole villages and ruined thousands of acres of growing crops. SAN JOSE Mystery is added to the trial of Constable Begerow of Alvlso for the murder of Joseph Cech by the dlsappearnaee of B. Benjamin, one of the jurors. When court opened Benjamin was not In his place, and all sounds of the bailiffs voice failed to bring him into court.

An adjournment till 11 o'clock was taken, Rnd later till 2. At the afternoon hour the juror was Bttll missing, ar.d the case was continued until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Judge Lorigan issued a bench warrant for Benjamin, and instructed the Sheriff to find the recreant Juror and bring him into court on Monday. A '(ft CHINESE COURT WILL NOT RETURN TO PEKING. WASHINGTON, October 8.

The effort to induce the Chinese imperial court to return to Peking has failed after a week's persistant effort on the part of the powers. News to that effect was brought to the State Department today by the Chinese minister, who received it via St. Petersburg from Viceroys Liu Kun Yih and Chang Chiu Lun under the date of October 4th. Minister Wu received the message last night. It was as follows: "The departure of their imperial majesties for Shen Si (province) was due to distressing conditions at Tai Yuen Fu.

There is a scarcity of food supplies in the province of Shen Si on account of the long continued drought and the provisional capital Pai Tai Yuen is almost deserted, the trades people having left on account of the disturbances caused and continued for months by the boxer rebels, who had invaded the province with the encouragement of Governor Yu. Their majesties, therefore, were obliged to proceed to Shen Si, where telegraphic communication with Shanghai and other parts of the is opened and rapid communication with their majesties may therefore be carried on. Thus certain official business may be transacted expeditiously, owing to their presence in heng Si rather than in Shan Si. The temporary postponement of their majesties' return to Peking is owing to the presence of the allied forces there, on account of which solicitous fear is doubtless entertained, besides a dread of the outbreak of epidemic diseases, which usually follow after great disturbances, distruction of property and military operations. It is hoped that the powers will be considerate in their judgement in this matter." The important feature of the message is the confession that the court is restrained by fear of the allied forces from returning to Peking.

The movement takes the Emperor and Empress Dowager about 300 miles further away from Peking, though according to the statements contained in the message by reason of the direct telegraphic communication with Shanghai, the court practically will be nearer for purposes of negotiation with the outside world than it was at Tai Yuen. Minister Wu. has been informed also that Viveroy Yu, of the province just vacated by the court, has been impeached because of his anti-foreign tendencies, which is the first step towards his degradation. It is said there are no boxers in the newly chosen territory, so that the court will have thrown aside the hostile influences recently surrounding It. As the dispatch is dated four days ago, it Is taken that the trip of the imperial party began prior to that time.

It will be slow and tedious, overland most of the way with a short stretch of river navigation. Singan was formerly the place of imperial' residence and the ancient palaces are still there. The only disquieting feature of the movement, comes from Japanese advices stating' that the new point of location is strongly fortified, which Is some indication that the imperial family is still In flight and Is seeking sronrer de.