Evening Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 1

Cheapest Daily Paper I Newsy, Sparkling a is In the State. And Bright. VOLUME VI. SANTA CRUZ. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1902.

NUMBER a2. ORD AGAINST ORD. WESTERN CANADA EXCITED RAKER ATTACKS THE CONFESSIONS. SLEW NO ONE. BUT MADE A CONFESSION.

I TAFT STILL TALKS ABOUT PHILIPPINES. REDDING. Feb. 19. For eighteen years a leading business man of Texas opened the argument for the defense has been hounded by his conscience I In the case of James Brown.

Raker for a murder he believed he had done read the statement that the defense in California. Finding himself un- had not been permitted to introduce able to carry his awful secret longer, all the evidence In behalf of Brown he has confessed and asked to be that it desired, and implied that the brought beck for trial. Now evidence prosecution had used base means in begins to arise to show that while the securing the testimony of many wit-conscience-stricken man was certainly nesses for the people. He attacked an accomplice, it was not his bullet the rulings of the Court on several that killed Charles Hemstreet the occasions, but the allusions were so crime which has driven him well nigh made that the Court went no further mad. According to the apparent facts, than to rebuke the speaker.

Raker James Leonard, merchant of Hondo, was reprimanded several times for In-Texas. is guilty of an unsuccessful plot i troductng matter into his argument to rob, but he Is not what he believes that had no part In the case and was and declares himself to be a murderer, threatened with being sent from the neaaing witnesses are ready to dls- prove his mistaken self-accusation It was on the summer night of Au gust 6. 1884. that Charles Hemstreet, one of the best known men of Colusa county, and stepson of Dick Hamilton. left his saloon at Princeton, fourteen miles north of Colusa, and started up the street to his home.

As he passed the saloon of Adam Houck friends call- 1 ed him In and the half dozen men faced the bar. As they raised thelt glasses two men, with pistols leveled and with their faces covered with masks made from pieces of barley sacks, appeared in the doorway and cried, "Hands up!" I All complied except Charles Hem-1 street. He reached for his hiD nocket. drawing his revolver. One masked man was tall, the other short and they fired as Hemstreet raised his weapon.

The saloon man received a ball near the heart and as he did so fired two! Court If you have no more decency wild shots, one of which struck the'nrd manliness than to use cuss words man behind the bar. In an argument I will send you to jail, The masked men ran out the door come weal come woe. and the inmates out the rear. The Raker said: "There were forty op-wildest excitement prevailed. Fearing portunities to shoot them had any one the work of the murderers might notiwanted to.

A bullet could have been be finished and that they were still at i 8ent through their reeking, rotten hand, no man dared enter the saloon I brains as they stood at the windows in for some minutes. Judge Matt W. i their K'ass house of iniquity that Herron, now of Redding, was then house of hell" (as Mr. Raker calls the Justice of the Peace at Princeton, and1 Grand Central Hotel, where the prose-A. Klemmer, now of this city, was cutlon has its headquarters) "to pre-Constable.

These officers were sum-, vent them from testifying In this case, moned and with drawn guns they en- i na(1 anv one wanted to. If Jim Brown tered the place to find only Hem- and other men in jail were guilty, and street's dead body lying on the floor, 1 knew Hutton and Morris knew wlth 'hls $250 gold watch and purse of thing against them, why did not Brown $90 undisturbed upon his person. i get them out of the way forever. If The crowd of men had regained their a man wi" commit the awful crime of courage and a posse with arms and siting the life of old man Calvin lanterns set out to track the murder- i IIa11 of 75 years, who had gone through ers. They were trailed to the sand- tne Clv11 War and swing him into bar on the Sacramento river, 200 yards would he hot have sent a away, but there the trail was lost.

through the heads of Morris and Nine riavs later a ataa Hutton if they knew anvthiner against word that the dead body of a man was im' to save nls own life and that of lodged several miles down the river. It la was badly decomposed j.but was quick- thu, snort TROUBLE OVER A CORNER STONE murderer. In his pocket was his bur- i lap mask and the revolver which kill-! ed Hemstreet was stuck in his rope, nicn vas La'1 at San Jose Has a Narrow Escape. The men who witnessed the murder testified that the tall man also fired, SAN JOSE. The corner stone of the but that it was the bullet "of the man Carnegie Library building is causing who was drowned that killed Hem-! no end of trouble.

Consternation was StKf.t'ikf I caused this morning when Contractor or eighteen years the crime has re-curtl turn hied to one side, the Rtone mained an unsolved mystery of Co- 1 TV side tne stone lusa county, and the identity of the I that had been placed Wlth BO much tall man who escaped had never been ceremony Sunday, and made ready to guessed until a week ago, when news I substitute a plain stone. He gave as came that James Leonard, a highly his reason that his specifications call-respected citizen of Hondo, had ed for sandstone, while the corner nviTe st'ct Attoey stone provided by the Council and duly Uvalde county that he was the tall waq rfinit Tinmnr savs murderer and thnt ho onnM nn. i-i 'nscriDeo was or granite, uumor says A Santa Cruz Co. Case Transferred to Santa Clara Co. SAN JOSE, Feb.

suit which has been pending in the courts of Santa Cruz Co. for the past twenty-two years has been transferred to this county for trial. The action is between John Ord, as guardian of the person and estate of George Ord, Mary K. Ord and James L. Ord as plaintiff, and Annie Ord et al.

as defendants, and Involves the title to eighty acres of valuable land called the Aptos rancho or the Ord ranch near Soquel. From what can be learned concerning the suit from the papers filed the action Involves a family quarrel, which has been waged with much earnestness tn the courts of Santa Cruz Co. One peculiar feature of the bundle of documents filed In the Clerk's office yesterday Is that the complaint and the answer and cross-complaint are missing. Just what has become dfKuments the attaches of the Clerk's office in this county do-not know, as they did not arrive with the other papers. It seems that the plaintiff, with his family and his brother.

William Ord, lived on the Ord ranch since 1865 and, that the latter held the title to the property. Together the two brothers improved the place. They constructed drives, built a pavilion and fitted the place up so that it became famous the surrounding country. In 1873 illiam Ord made a deed conveying the ranch to the children of his brother. William Ord married Jane Ord, the defendant, in 1877, and in 1878 he conveyed the same property to his wife, which he had previously deeded to his nieces and nephews.

William Ord died not long after this second conveyance and then the difficulty between the members of the family commenced, buit was commenced in 1880 and the property has been in litigation ever since, with settlement seemingly now 5af when the complaint was filed in 18S0. The case has been transferred to this county on the ground that the presiding Judge of the Superior Court of banta Cruz Co. was at one time an attorney for the defendant. Delmas represents the plaintiff In the action at the present time. The property which is in dispute is ccnuidered very valuable.

BLUNDER OF THE PHELAN COMMISSION. is now stated by members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that the Chinese exclusion bill will probably be reported at the end of this week. A meeting Is to be held Thursday to consider the bill and go over the evidence given at the" hearings. The Senate Committee on. Immigration is going over the hearings which closed Saturday and will take a longer time to report the bill.

Some inkling of the claims to be made by the California during the next campaign has been B.n-u iijiuusu me ueniucrauc papers. It was intended to claim that the fate of exclusion hung In the balance until the Democratic commission appeared on the ground and worked for the bill. But all this has gone glimmering since the commission committed the blunder of proposing to let in five representatives of every wholesale firm in China. This proposal embodied in section 5 of the bill as proposed to be amended by the California commission wna re. jceived with surprise by the members i 1 vi uum cumin uiees, wno naa neen tola over and over again that California was a unit for the rigid exclusion of Chinese and against any experiment in admitting merchants which might mucij a luuimuic tue auiuission of coolies.

The California delegation, particularly Representative Kahn, pointed out the weakness of the proposed amendment and declared that the people of California did not desire, and would not consent to such legislation. The uemocratie commission men, perceiving Its blunder, withdrew the amendment. That act destroyed all the In fluence or the California commission, if It ever had any. BURGE FOUND GUILTY IN LONDON. LONDON, Feb.

19. On the resumption of the hearing of the charges in connection with the Liverpool bank at the Old Bailey, Dick Burge, the pugilist, was on the stand. He testified that he had known Laurie Marks, the missing American bookmarker, for 18 months, and that he advanced him 250 in October last on the understanding that they were to divide the profits on Marks' business. Subsequently Marks informed the witness that James Mances (an American: bookmaker who is supposed to have been connected with the robberies) had a rich friend in Liverpool and suggested that he, Burge, go there with Mances, as a lot of money might be made by their transactions. Burge declared be never saw Thomas P.

Gondle, the accused bookkeeper of the bank, until he met him in Holloway jail. When he heard of the Bank of Liverpool frauds he had no Idea that Marks and Mances were connected with them. Burge was found guilty. Sentence In his case was postponed until the trial of the other accused men la completed. ALTURAS.

Feb. 19 John E. Raker courtroom ne persisted in Dimging such matters into his argument, Court Mr. Raker has no authority to say what the Court's Instructions to the jury will be. There is no law which says the wnole testimony of a witness shall be viewed with distrust, and the Court will so instruct in this case.

Spencer Don't argue the matter, John. Raker it, I don't care what any one says; I know what the law Is. Court Mr. Raker, you are fined $10, or you will go to jail for two days at the end of this trial for using profane language in your argument. Spencer That was a small thing to nne a man for.

Raker He can't more than quarter me and pull me to pieces. Every time I open my mouth I am chucked into jail and fined. ing the contractor "to place one gran- laid Sunday will be placed to remain. BILLIARD CHAMPION. NEW YORK The amateur billiard championship of the A.

A. U. tourna ment, which has been in progress the last two weeks at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, was won by Charles S. Norris of the K. His opponent was Wilson II.

Sigourney of San Francisco, the champion of the Pacific Coast, and while the game was a lengthy one it never lacked interest from start to finish. At one time the Call fornian was nearly 100 points behind, but he closed the game with some wonderful all-around billiards, and at the finish was beaten by only 23 points, the final score being 400 to 377. Norris played a splendid game, and his nursing at times was equal to the best exhibitions ever given in this vicinity by professionals. Norris' win entitles him to first place In the tourney and Sigourney takes second place. Lots of men who wouldn't be rseen carrying a market-basket will walk through the streets with a string of fish in one hand and a pole in the other.

WASHINGTON, Feb. other questions pertaining to the Philippines discussed by Governor Taft today In his testimony before the Senate committee on the Philippines was the attitude of the different ic-ligious sects toward one another. He said that generally the relationship Is a friendly one and the churches are seeking to secure a foothold in the Islands. He also referred to the ecclesiastical courts, saying that under Spanish rule the members of the religious orders could elect to nave civil cases In which they were concerned tried In those courts rather than in the regular tribunals. In reply to questions he said that from 25 to 50 persona had been deported from the Philippines and they were all sent to Guam by the military authorities because they are considered irreconcilables, whose presence was injurious.

He said in reply to Senator Allison that bo far as the Philippines advocates of Independence had expressed themselves all of them desired that the United States should continue Its protection of the islands; in other words, they wanted independence with a United States protectorate. The witness waa asked a great number of questions about the Malolos constitution. He said that the convention which adopted it had been made up largely of residents of Manila, although designated by Agulnaldo to represent the various provinces. Comparatively few of the Filipinos, he said, are familiar with the United States and he did not believe that Agulnaldo is among those who have this familiarity. Governor Taft also gave Informa tion concerning the newspaper press I of the Philippines.

i "Are the newspapers there at liberty to advocate the independence of Islands?" asked Senator Culberson. "They are under the restrictions 'imposed by the statutes which we i discussed yesterday just as others are." "Therefore they are prohibited from "That is the effect of the statutes while war continues." MAY CLOSE KLONDIKE TO PROSPECTORS. Sensational Order Issued by the Privy Council at Ottawa. SEATTLE A telegram received from Dawson states that an order which arrived from Ottawa February 7th gives to the Treadgold Water and Mining Syndicate absolute possession of all vacant ground and all ground to become vacant in the richest portion of the KiondiKe. ine Canadians have Joined the Americans in expressions of indignation and will leave for other gold fields.

The business men of Dawson see ruin staring them in the face. It is said that unless action is taken at Ottawa immediately six weeks will see the Klondike a deserted camp. All work is abandoned and miners, prospectors and business men are making preparations to seek American soil. The camp is in a turmoil and at the time the telegram was sent a monster mass meeting was In progress. What is known as the Liberal Club has wired resolutions to Ottawa praying Parliament to thwart the action of the Privy Council, which is held responsible for the issuance of the order.

The order elves far greater advan tages to the Treadgold Water and Mining Syndicate than was ever before contained in any one document affect ing the development of the Yukon. It gives to A. N. C. Treadgold, Sir Thomas Tancred and other members of the syndicate title in fee to all lapsed or vacant placer claims on Hunker, Bear and Bonanza creeks and all their tributaries.

As is well known, El Dorado creek, the richest in the world, Is a tributary of Bonanza, and Is therefore Included. Lapsed or vacant placers are those which have reverted to the Government owing to non-compliance with the law. They revert from the original locators. So sweeping is the concession that all bench claims vacant or to become vacant are included. This will give away all the vacant ground in a portion of the country known to be rich.

Of the paying creeks only Dominion, Gold Run and Sulphur on the flowing Indian river will remain open to prospecting. ACTOR SENTENCED. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 19. C.

I. Mortedge, an actor, found guilty on his second trial for grand larceny, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. Mortedge at the point of a revolver held up the cashier of a restaurant and the bartender in a saloon in the downtown district. He pleaded guilty and said he wanted the money to start a company of players on the road. He was given a sentence of twenty-five years on the charge of highway robbery, but the supreme court reversed the verdict on the ground that he had committed grand larceny and not robbery.

The union labor party will put a ticket in the field at the coming municipal election In San Jose, KLONDIKE CONCESSION TOTREADGOLD COMPANY REGARDED A BIG GRAB. Dominion Government DeniesThat Monopoly Has Been Granted, and Says That It Will Investigate. VANCOUVER B. The announcement of the obtaining of the concession by the Treadgold Company has agitated the entire western part of Canada and the greatest excitement has prevailed in the Yukon. Governor Ross is now on his way out from Dawson, especially In connection with this matter, and had it not been for a big snowstorm, would have been in this city a week ago.

The statement is made by a special from Ottawa that all rights of miners under the existing regulations are fully protected, especially in regard to the use of water, but no denial is made of the substantial points of the matter. The Dawson Government wire was repaired and the first news in a special says that a mass meeting was held in the Yukon capital to discuss the matter. Mayor MacAuley of Dawson presided, and the interest was of an intense degree. The meeting was firmly of the opinion that the conces sion was not obtained without the I grossest misrepresentation, and that It had not been shown the Minister who granted the order that it was a great and unjust interference with and ab- rogation of vested rights. A.

N. C. Treadgold was a schoolmaster in a small town outside of Oxford until April, 1898. He formed one of a party to go to the Klondike and also came out as the representative of a mining Journal. As a journalist he secured introduction to friends of the Government at Ottawa who were after a timber concession near Dawson, which they afterward obtained.

The situation was peculiar. Boyle and Slavln, the politicians who had the matter in hand and who expected to make a big thing by the grab, were stopping at the same hotel in Ottawa and had run short of cash. Learning that Treadgold was an Eng- llshman bound for the Klondike, they; proposed that he take an interest in the timber concession and pay over $1,000, which relieved their necessities, This was done, and the payment of the board bill was the first step in the move which is now causing such con- sternation. Through Boyle, Treadgold secured acquaintance with Sutherland of Winnipeg, a prominent politician, who is said to be interested in this latest deal, which is characterized as a big game of grab. Treadgold, by sheer persistence, followed R.

G. McConnell of the Dominion Government survey party through the Yukon, and obtained essential knowledge, which he is using to ad- i vantage. Engineers say his present scneme is impraciicaDie, dui wnetner or not, he has the miners on the hip. Knowing that the project could not be floated in London, where Tread-gold's -name was known, Sir Thomas Tancred was interested, and that gentleman was in Dawson last summer. The order in Council was granted last summer, but the latest amendment is what Is causing such an uproar.

It practically gives control of the water rights to the Treadgold syndicate. OTTAWA The reported dissatisfaction tn the Klondike arising from a Government grant to the Treadgold Water and Mining Syndi cate of all vacant ground, and ground which may be vacated in the future, and providing for the diverting of the waters of the Klondike river for mining purposes, will be considered by the Dominion Government authorities here. It is said, however, that under its rnTitr.qt thf rnrrmnnv must Hiinnlv a certain quantity of water at certain prices to miners. The particular ground of objections is as to the company getting the abandoned claims on Bonanza and small tributary creeks. But before this a very large sum of money will be required to be expended by the company.

Commissioner Ross of the Yukon is now on his way here and the matter will no doubt come up for discussion, and if It is shown that any rights of the miners or general public are Interfered with the affair will be properly adjusted. Richard W. Scott. Secretary of State, said that the proposal had been before the Government in one shape or another for several years. It had its origin in a project to Introduce hydraulic power In the Yukon to utilize water and distribute it over areas of mining land not workable under present conditions.

Treadgold and others were willing to invest several millions In the scheme, but not before they received concessions from the Government which would Insure a reasonable return on the money invested. A clause had been inserted protecting miners in so far as they can demand and secure water raised by hydraulic process, and thus work their own lands. The project Is in the interest of the country, the Secretary said, and there is no suggestion of a monopoly. COMMON POWDER'GOOD ENOUGH. OAilA MAU1A, JOI1I1 Slimming, i the Hiirh School boy who tried to in- vent noiseless arid smokeless powder, Is sufficiently "recovered to make his appearance on the street, He says the powder now in use is good enough for him.

I maintain secrecy and wished to be i urtner that Influences were brought to brought to trial for his crime. He Dear uPn Curtis' bondsmen to corn-said that he was tramping down the Pel the action taken by him. This river on August 6. 1884, and upon difficulty was obviated by the City nearlng Princeton ft II in with a young Council passing a resolution empower- workman, whose name he did not learn. Thou imr I the young man proposed that they hold l' up the first saloon they came to in the i lnis waa n0 sooner arranged than little town he reluctantly consented.

another storm burst. A committee Leonard said they had no thought of from the pastors' union, composed of shooting, and fired only when Hem- Rev. H. C. Meredith, Rev.

J. T. Mc-street unexpectedly drew a revolver. Kittrick and Rev. E.

F. Brown.brought Thev then tried to swim the Hvpr Leonard became separated from his I Vi uoullu 44 -companion and had never learned objecting to the corner stone, and ask-whether he drowned or escaped. Leon- Ing that it be removed for the reason ard got away safely and went to "it is offensive to refined taste, as. is intended to advertise a special in- Judge M. W.

Herron says he believes stitution, is a mutilation of the library the records of the inquest over ullding a misuse of Carnegie's gift, drowned murderer giving the ff vn nml reflection onrhecnl-Uiony of the witnesses, who declared Is otleDSve on a reflection on tiie cui-that it was his bullet that killed Hem- ture and intelligence of the commu-street, are still In the Justice's office at Princeton. Some of the witnesses I What called out the pastors' union are still living, and it is entirely -pos- protest was the following inscription sible that a trial of Leonard may showjon tne face the stone: "Laid by Inerffl'VherrtrTSsa county Jose P' 0" 522' by hi! TwTy from HondoTo request of the Mayor and Common lusa with Leonard. It Is probable that Council the prisoner has not learned of the re-1 The City Council Tefused to enter-cent development in the case. I tain the pastors' protest The stone POINTS FOR JACK TARS. SAN FRANCISCO.

Sailors Injured in the discharge of their duty are enti- tied to proper surgical attention even should it be necessary for the master! of the ship to deviate from his course at the loss or time and possioie injury to his cargo. Such is the purport of an opinion handed down by United States District Judge De Haven in the suit of Matthew Bridges, a sailor, against the ship Iroquois. While on a voyage from New York to San Francisco Bridges fell from the mainyard to the deck, sustaining a fracture of the right leg. The patient was sent to the Marine Hospital at this port, and because of the delay it was necessary to ampu tate me iB oeiow me Mice, uuge De Haven's opinion awards $3,000 damages and costs to the crippled sailor. WEDDING TOASTS.

May their Joys be as deep as the ocean, and their misfortunes as light as its foam. May their voyage through life be as happy and free as the dancing waves on the deep blue sea..