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Ji Jj 1 ui: -b I -ta'-4i -l rMh rifMv 9it4IU'T lv HK'V'i ir-JMKd -Asfolhksnitii6ti- e- riSr-i iW 'Jia I vs 'kisa-w-iVv 41! i Aeri' Los Angeles Record flONDAV NOV 26 1900 OXB CE1T 25 CENTS month FIVE O'CLO Delivered Anywhere ONE CENT Most All the Ladies Fall in With pretty piece of (rearing sppsrel the minute they spy It It's born In They can't help It and we don't blame I 1 1 them In foot we rather encourage that trait la their character why ws carry se many pretty garments ia our eloak sad suit rooms mention a few her that would Inspire lev were you to see them CONQUEROR OF MANILA VISITING IN LOS ANGELES General Francis VGreene Here on an Asphalt Deal of Magnitude His Ideas About the Filipinos CONGER TO BE RECALLED President McKinley Not Satisfied With 1 Powrrs Agree Scrlpps-Blade Neww Association NEW YuKK 0v The Mall and Express' Washington dispatch says tost tha president contemplates relieving Min- liter Conger at Pekin for prrsislently' maintaining an attitude that Is not Indorsed by tbs United States FOREIGN ENVOYS AGREED WASHINGTON Nov M-The state department has received a dispatch from Minister Conger at Pekin giving the details of ss i agreement which has been reached by the foreign envoys a to the demands to be made upon China The agreement will be laiu before the president this afternoon No statement of the contents of the dispatch can be HARMS BRAZENLY RETURNS TO HIS OLD fiAME OF Seeks Publicity Through the Medium' of the Times SOME BEAUTIFUL CAPES An aitrachan cepe mads from good skins 14 Indus long satin lined storm collars a beaufy An astrachnn cape Inches long msde from selected skins astln lined storm collars Just In BIS WRONGED WIFE IS ASSISTING HIM the market as far sHt is able to do so Geiural Ureen Is Jwtler known lo the public as a military man tban as an asphalt magnate He I a graduate of West Point but resigned from Ihe army many years ago When ths Spanish war broke out be wna commissioned brigadier general snd then promoted to major general do was In command nt the fall of Manila snd returned to tho United States before Agulnaldo's Insurrection He says that the defeat of Mr Bryan means the end of ell trouble In the Philippine From personal observation he has mall opinion of the ability of the Flll-pinoa to govern themselves They are ho rare divided Into numerous tnoea with diversity of dialects Interests and Ideas and 1 per cent of Ihe population can not speak even Spanish In many of tho Islands the people are not even clothe- It hr ridiculous so he says to expect auch a people to govern thcmwlvn Ucneral Greene will be the recipient of many atlenilonn while here not only on account of hla business connections but on account of hla social qualities A new kersey cape la black sad castor 24 Inches long self tailor strap trimmed high norm collar fc UillWI $350 A black cerrsy eape Inches long trimmed In I rows tailor snaps all around alg-i storm collar strap Listening eeeeesoee WAISTS Of sll wool flannel la red blue and black Made dress iletvt standing collar plain tack dull front -An an wdol waist cordsd front cox Inn and cugs fitted lining dress sleeve new arrival ra as witi) vwf $200 SUITS A cheviot suit made single breasted fly front silk lined Jacket full skirt new cut black and navy An all wool grey homespun suit double breasted--box front romsia silk lined Jacket coat back Inverted pleat bnck skirt lined and tailor finished iss ei is iirens $1200 MMlilf General Fronds Greene of New Tork accompanied by Ueoige Griffith Jr Bchaumle rg unfi A Bewail of New York and Bernard lllenenfeld of Ban Francisco arrived from the north this morning and the party 1 quartered at the Van Nuys Half an hour after arrival the party took a tally-ho and left for a rid through the different quarters of the rlty to Pjcadeoa General Greene Is here on business connected wltn tho American Asphalt company In civil life he Is one of ahs leading enAi-m of ihe country and has lately brfome Interested In sn asphalt deal which will Include most of rtis leading producing properties of this state Mr Blcnrnfeld Is Interested In the Standard Asphalt company which accounts for his presence at this lima In Los Angeles The dctailtOof the asphalt deal have been told many times as well as the connection nf Cracker and a number of society men of Ban Francisco hud with It Tbs new company proposes to get down lo a strict business basis and to control WRONGS OF PEOPLE ABE TIRED OF WATER Clllatns Ask the City Council Id Drain Off the Flood Waters A problem demanding serious consideration of theirlly council and Ihe fllf cn" gtnrer le how to prevent ths repetition of ffang-r from uneualty heavy rainfall From all over Ihe rliy come complaints of people who demand the immediate drainage of Hooded luu gnd struct and lha repair of lnadouute storm dtalna an- replacement of auonen crossings The necessity of draining the big flooded area below Westlake park In the Fourtn ward was urged upon the rlty council this morning by Fresldi-nt Silver who said lhat the board of public work should today find a plan for removing the menace lo health The park department demands a larger storm drain for tlu- relief of Hollenbeck lake During the tain last week the lake roa eighteen inches In twenty minutes aid that was after Ihe lake was overflowing its banks Boyle avenue waa in danger of bring washed out Petitions were rrrtlred today from various people In the hill region asking for relief fiom stagnated wnter All were ra frrred to City Engineer Dimmed who will try In find a means of correcting the engineering mistakes lhat were made ytitra ago snd find a Wsy to pci ml water to run doa-Q hill STILL FANNING THE AIR Fresh Violations ofThe License Ordinance Disbelieved by Chief Elton "If Ihe Time had any genuine desire lo aid the department It would furnish me with nny positive proof It may have serurtd rif the violation of Ihe license ordinance" The linker was Chief of Police Elton Hla a item Ion was directed to a fresh tirade from ths eostlr nt the eruner of Filet street and Broadway An aitcmpt had been made In prove that liquor waa sold In the city over local bats yesterday had out a numlx-r of men In ciliacn's dress" said Chief Elton not a sign of unlawful selling of liquor was deleclrd by them An oilier In uniform csnntit gain entrance aiijwhcie I question exceedingly If lha Times reporters gut sultl-clem pioof In Justify the filing of a complaint hut they exploited the result of thetr efforts nil the same with the apparent Intent of discrediting -ths department on election day and next sn-day they will have thrfr men nut If there Is any Illicit liquor fling I want to anew it It Is useliss however to fan the air with the ncwspaiiera unless evidence I -at would be accepted In court can be unearthed We can't find it and If ths reporter of the Times esn it Is a duty for them to give the reengnlsed officers of ths law the benefit of their knowledge" Harris Has Eighteen Days in Which to Before Facing an Arizona Jury on a Charge of Unlawful Cohabitation Held by-Threats of Death In the Tent of a Local Oil Man Stlneefo True (o his published boasts Harria magnetic healer and ac-eusrd adulterer hss returned to Lai Angeles and resumed at bis resident- 921 South Oliva street the porarilr lntetruptrd by his flight ficm the city wltb a married woman Harria was overhauled and arrested at Phoenix The wife whom he had forsaken heie' woman-llke promptly sent money to ball the gay benedict out His trial Is set for December IX at Phoenix and the thrifty prisoner hastened back to town and sought that Mecca of the tea Angeles medical fakir the advertising office of the limes The aggrieved wife ha forgiven all and la assisting Harris in his business The "professor" Is very cheerful over the way events have shaped themselves lie final that he hse received a very large amount of notoriety and adveitislng that ha has not had to pay for and that In consequence hl business Is In a fair way to exceed his fondest Dreams Thst very large class of people In Ios Angelas who make It possible for fakirs and mountebanks to thrive like gteen bay trees hers aro not likely to be prejudiced against Harris by bis latest disreputable eecapade It is said the cleaned up MX week before he ran awuy with pretty Mr Clalie Blnford How that he has obtained all this free advertising estimates of his Income cannet be made It may reach 11309 a week Harris advertises that he has a He admits naively that "be la In mors knowledge now which he gamed from the last year's experience" Little Claire McComas Blnford whom he lured Into lasting dishonor has more knowledge loo and so have her sorrowing relative William Hill who works In ths oil Acids has been arrested on a charge Involving gross depravity Ha Is al'eged to have abandoned hla wife and two children -and lo hare long kept two glila In tent in West Pico street by threats of death Hill Is an engineer 13 nr V) yean of age Hla family lire attSS North Avenue Twenty-three Two years age It Is aid ha went to Vermont and Induced a woman whom ha knew In that state lo allow Jtlm lo bring her U-yenr-old daughter with him to Cnllfarnla This child' Is alleged to have been his first vlrlim Last week Hill engaged LUlie Usher a 12-yenr-old girl of this city to go to hla residence and enre for hla children Instead of taking her there he conveyed her to his tent two miles west of the CHAMPION LIAR IS CRAZY Joe Mulhatton Modem Munchausen is Confined in an Arizona Asylum CLAIMS HE IS SCHLATTER Rev Charles McLean Says that He is the Original Healer" and Can It Word comes from Phoenix Aria hat the territorial Insane asylum now contains us an Inmate Joe Mulhatton who Is known In Los Angeles as ths national champion liar Boms years ago Mulhatton when a prosperous and successful commercial traveler found amusement In sending out often through the Associated Pnss the most astounding fake stories that ever fooled newspaper readers His business often called him Into out-of-the-way places whence he could send out wlth- out frsr of quick contradiction able stories of disasters that never occurred and freaks of nature that no man srver saw The audacity of some of these fakes waa enough to taka away one's breath 1 Mulhatton thus became known as a A BLOW AT CASTELLANE COUNT BONI CANNOT GET BIS FINQERS ON OOVLD PROPERTY New York Courts Have Added to the Woes of the Scion of French Nobility and His Extrsgant Wife Scrlpps-Btadre Nows Association NEW YORK Nov M-The mipreme court of this city today granted temporary Injunction restraining Count Bonl Castellano and his wlfe'ftom collecting rents cn property bequeathed to Anns Gould In trust by hrr late father Jay Gould Thu court further direct that George Edwin Howard and Helen Gould Do also reatrslne as trustees under the wlllfrom paving over the rents ta the countess Ths plaintiff Is lawyer Dlttmar snd Ihe nature of his slut Is not revealed In ths papers It Ls quits evident however that It I another elap at the count The netlon is -believed to be Is direct line wilK ihe action already taken the French courts which have gnpointed George Gould trustee ef the Gould property In the eventual hope that Count Bout's debts may some day be paid it was learned later that Dlttmar sues Count Castelbine sp-assignee of Mest-hglmcr Londun hrlc-a-brnc dealer who has claims against ihe count and countess fqr It Is claimed that 1230000 Is 11 that Is required fur the-lr support out of tne Income of the counices of 000000 annually and Wertheimer asks that Ihe dlfferenue bs applied tu the drbts Visitors at jre Alpine Taven Recent visitor at Alpine tavern are: Ociald Tucrum Halifax 8 Rev Gerald Gay Pasadena John It- Reynolds and wife Ablngton 111 George To -r Maggie Palter Tapper Riverside III 8 Bmullin Aurora Mo Mrs CVPIuyter Aurora Mo Mumle Glni-ers Philadelphia Pa A Tiller anil wife St Louis Mrs Klchsid Derby Oakland CaL Miss Winona Detby Oakland Cal: Mis George Perry Oakland A Brown London George Simon it Manning Chicago RrssIgnleCsrMiage Idn A White Grand Rapids Mich Marlon Mains and wife 8 army Fred Walter and wife Buffalo' Thacker and wife Jam Angeles Collin snd wife Oakland Mrs McDonald Miss puke surge Beattie 1st Angeles Mrs Lyon Mix Ella Lyon Pittsburg N- Burns John Kahn Los 'Angelr James Bihrlendt Los Angeles Uemhlsef Harrisburg Pa Brmhlscf Harrisburg P-i Groige Foster and wife Spokane Wash Wllllum Parker Jr and wife Oak land Max Watusklnsy Los Angeles Clark Miss Grace Clark Kalamuio Mich Rev Dr and Mrs -A Nelson Brooklyn Will Hensaw A Jevnc and wife Los Angeles William Kalin Kaflts New York Johnson Philadelphia Pa Ch-ule Haines Airs Mnise Miss Lola Malse Klger Los Angeles Phllpit Baltimore: Miss Hutson Los Angeles Hunter snd wife Ban Francisco 8 Lanlngcr und wife Han Francisco Alexander snd wife Lon Angeles' Mrs Waltkr Tiffany Oakland Mlse Llllle Hartley Los Angeles Lively New York Miss Gucttler St Luuls Mis Lena Lowley Keokuk Ia Mrs James Estes A Innes Los Angeles Mrs Crane Mize Crane Michigan Bunting Whittier Cal 'A Armllage Seattle Wash Sheldon Kellogg snd wife Ban Francisco Miss A VUsen Los Angeles Miss Mercedes Garcia New Lighting Company Mast Wait Major John Jones was before" the council this afternoon to urge the passag nf an ardlnnnce granting to tne People's Lighting company a franchise to erect poles string wires build conduits and lay -gas pljies In the elly to be xblo lo compete 'In supplying light The petition and ordinance were referred to the boaid of public works Major Bsach Visits Southern California Major William Beach of Ih regular army Is at ths Westminster He has been connected with the engineer corps at Manila and for two years was on -the staff of General Joseph Wheeler Before going lo the Philippines he was professor of military science at West Point In company with his wife Major Beach Is lo visit filcnds In Pasadena Be Frightened the School Children Frank Guerrero Is under arrest at the dly prison on a charge preferred by the principal of the Griffin venue school -of making a public nulsnnca of hlmnelf In the school (founds today His bail was fixed st 1100 and be will plead tomtirow Serenth Ward lass fieetiag There will be meeting of the residents of tbs Beventh ward this evening at XU East Fifth street AH voters are invited to be present and number of good speakers will be there City Issues will be presented from an Independent standpoint Desperate Detd ef Revenge Bcripps-Blades Niws Association LOUISVILLE Nov Rudolph Sommers Tanner in revenge for being sent to the workhouse for assaulting his- wife this morning disemboweled ibe woman and then placed the knlfcsgalnst it jraH snd literally impaled himself will die Cold Air Petition Referred The petition of the Ice and Cold Btorsge company for permission to lay cold sir pipes In the city streets today cam up before tho city council and was referred to the board of puullc works Grocer Snjs Re1 Did Not Doctof HOjh Faulkner a grocer charged 'uith using formaline foi tue preservation of milk pleaded not guilty today hi police court Hie irlsl was set for Friday afternoon of this week Bailer Denied It Beripps-Blsdre News Associations LONDON Nov General Sir Redvera Buller denies the report that he has been asked to accept a peerage i JACKETS Of covert cloth kersey melton and cheviots marked from II to I7H colors are tans black end blues This season's assorted styles to dose1 A kersey doth Jacket ta Ian eastor and black silk lined double breasted box front pearl buttons taller finished tiiixxxtxtxxxiaXMtxil COATS A fine kersey coat double breasted box front pearl button I rowa kersey straps on button front and back satin lined colors ten castor snd black XMStMtlSXXXfXM Ladles' kersey cost Etdfi style tailor strapped mams Persian lined collars and revere new sleeve silk lined MU MIIBV IMS" $1650 MMSIXXiflllllXXIXXl DAILY RECORDS -o-o-o-o-o-o-o'e-o-o-o-e-o-o- peaking of Irrigation congresses ths one that meet at the national espllal and that other st Sacramento are ths most Implacable enemies of dryness His desdbrolunes the duke of Manchester Is possessed of an old freak suit a pair of cracked shoe and an evening suit Wonder where he 'got the evening suit? The United States supreme court In upholding the validity of the Tennessee cigarette law declares that tobacco Is solace to the hnmen race Divine in books glorious ta pip When tipped with amber mellow rich and ripe Like other charmer wooing the caress Mot dsssllngly when daring ta fqll dress Yet thy true lovers more admire hy far Thy nuked give me cigar! Bo Mary Wilkins will not wed Dr Flow-man If a woman will she won't you may depend on 't end If she won't she will and there's an end on 'L Cheer up doctor 1 The United Stales minister to Ecuador isys It ls a good country for persons of large means to Invest In Just what we thought We have had an eye on Ecus- dor for soma tint Our Shanghai correspondent Hon Dam LI wires us that Prince Tuan Is writing his memoir modeled on De Qulncey' and will title them of Gold-Leaf Eater" Golt of Kansas Is a delegate to the good reads convention Improved highways would enable him to go It to jjbotter advantage Dr Morrlaon superintendent of ths Chinese crisl Is dissatisfied with the Chinese edict Still LI Hung Chang Is doing the best ha can Senator Wolcott Is to- succeed Chari magne Tower as ambassador ta Russia The reward of treachery according to the silver insurgent If tbe sultan really wishes to buy an American warship ha might price the Kentucky when II arrives at Smyrna with that little bill It Is related by morning paper that a 1 tale of depravity eo base was told at tha police station last evening that tbe eldgf members of the force "shuddered" Those dreadful sipries should be told gently to the tender members of the fore' Big Oil Deal Hade The control of the Union Oil company has passed from Ihe hands of Thomas Bard and hla associates to persons at present at the head of the Edison Electric company and Its airxd areoctaflon Tori slice William Blasts and John Miller will be thff moving spirits of the new organisation Re consideration given for the property Is said (o be net quite million dollar Tha company wlU be capitalised st 116 000 OX and the earning capacity of ths plant will be largely Increased H31 Form ally Charge! A formal charge was preferred today In police court against Hill tha oil men who is alleged ta have kept two young women ta durance ta his tent In Weit Pico street Moffett swore to the complaint against him Tha prisoner has not yet bean arraigned In court Local Revs Niles Barney Pearson of Redondo has a felon Tho dlsagracablo visits? was lanced st the receiving hospital this morning and Barney went rejoicing on his way Victor Aurrent reports to tho police detectives the lose of four IS gold piece He had tho money at tha Lynwood a lodging bouse ta Commerclsl street Chapleao a tailor st SI Booth Broadway had pair of custom mado trouser worth stolen from Ms premises last Thursday It is little 1st but he wants the police to hunt up the thief who touk them A Brown of III South Broadway had a gold stick pin a garnet stlcl pin and a lot of collars and ties stolen from his room by a aneakthlef November 1L laa police detectives are looking for the property WILLIAMS AND DIXIE KID: Kid Williams and the Kid meet tonight for the third tlmd at the United' Athletic clubL Taking tha two recent contests between these two as a criterion the go will be worth tha mo hey WOODS-THOMPBON: Boh Thompson will meet 'to sign articles for a twenty-round go this afternoon with Blliy Wood to romo off before ons of tho local dub ta tbo near future Bcv Charles McLean who says that ha la the divine healer la In the city and Intends to open meetings next Sunday night It la yet Indefinite hew long he will remain In Los Angeles He gays that ha is after the beat theater In the place and Invites the sick and skeptically Inclined to com and sea him 1 Mr McLean bears a marked resemblance to the pictures of Which were published In Denver InTSSL He la (lender apparently about yearn of at and speaks with a pronoUhced German accent Ha says that after he left Denver ha was buried -but aid not die and that Ihe reported finding of hla notwithstanding Harris must soon face a Jury in Arlaona on a charge that may put-him In a territorial prison for len years he brnsenly advertleea: am ronvinred that I will cute 93 per cent of all cases 1 treat during the coming year the Arlaona Jury finds him guilty i adultery Harris will have the convicts of Yuma penitentiary for patients That sums of them would bo women there can be no doubt but Harris would find all his magnetism noceessry to bring about an eloiiement there The saya In hla advertisement: have permlseion from quite a number 'Of my patients to use their names snd you are at liberty to call tip -or write them relative to the treatment' It Is noticeable however that Harris dpes not advise prospective patients to call upon Mrs Blnford who Is now his most celebrated and unhappy 1 The "Professor" offers to lend anyone who writes to him a letter of advice Should attractive young married women of respectable standing In society apply to him he might po-lhly advise travel to Arlaona points preferably Mrs Harris like a true woman has taken the "professor" back To a reporter who called upon her this morning aha would voice no word of censure of Harria or of Mrs Blnford did you begin divorce proceedings?" was asked did that to get control Jf hla money I knew that It takes money carry out the course of folly he had undertaken I think he left because of an' Impulse snd I wanted to bring them to a halt byat- tarhlng hla money so that he would have a chance to come to hit bone Is erroneous ag ha la still very much alive Mr McLean does not claim that Jra accomplishes any cures Ills claim rather la that he la only acting as God wishes He said during a conversation: ask no man to believe in me I do my work recording to Dlvlnrf guidance I have Imi1 failed In the Lord's work No man ever was able to point to a single patient oT mlfic and say I had fooled that patient dr that I had not helped him you see the blind made whole beiore your eyes and db not believa It la you wuo are blind These people thank God for their deliverance Have yon any power to doubt their sincerity I have no power and claim none I am only Ihe representative of God" his temperature was HJ end pulse 71 At 9 hla temperature was MX and pulse 11 His majesty passed a good night perspiring profusely" At I o'clock this morning the temperature was MK and pulse ini' ANOTHE REASSURING BULLETIN LIVADIA Russia Nov An official bulletin Just Issued says thst tha esar'a condition today Is very satisfactory and that distinct improvement oa observed TOO MUCH DOCTOR LEMBUKO Austria Nov 26-Tha Kur-yer Lwgwskl learns that' nine physicians are In attendance on tha cur four Russians two Germans one Dane on Finn and one Baptised Jew Serious difficulties have arisen among them as each nationality favors different treatment It la said to be a case of much doctor" LETTER Appreciation of His Assistance asms to go before my fellow dtlaens as candidate bnZ after the earnest solicitation of my democratic and republican friends and upon mature deliberation I consented and now want to win i Having so lhany good friends to vote snd work for ms I feel thst my election would bs a groat compliment after having devoted the greater part of my life ta tb advancement of the city we eh leva ao well My fellow cltlaene without regard to party affiliations seem to recognise Ay efforts snd their kind werde as-aura me that I have not lived my life In vain Again thanking yon gentlemen for ths kind worda contained In your postal I am as sver very truly yours WORKMAN TWO GIRLS Pirn Xlreet railway terminus where both of tha girls were found yesterday by the Police officers In a slate of abject fear Induced by their experience Hill hns been working on an oil well 1ft the vicinity of hla tent He bad' previously maintained thBjVcrmnnt girt at home but took beraway on pretense nf employing her an his couk Hill's Vlfe powerless In rennet It Is said has endured the misconduct cf her husband for two years By bard work she has supported her children and the facte of the case might not have gained publicity had it not been or the anxiety of Mrs Usher when aha discovered that her child had not been taken home with Hill blit had been secreted elsewhere Hill denies hla guilt but tbs officers claim Urey have a straight case against Mm modern Munchausen In those daya the man lied only for fun The habit became set snd mors recently he practice if hla art- tax keep -himself afloat under ad-vc rally and to satisfy his' craving for strong drink Two or three year ago Mulhatton was In Lni Angeles- far a time and became known ns money-borrower He tried by devious means to make a raise from newspaper offices and other sources but he msde no headway and Went hence to Arlaona wheto ha became Interested In mining ventures and is said to have msde a llllle money At the age of 42 he Is confined In the asylum a raging maniac a wreck of strong drink Ferae who live In Ban Francisco were her guardians and through an emissary whom thty sent down here they a'tempt-td to get the child away from the society but Judge Allen after hearing the matter decided continue tha care fur further Investigation leaving Ferae In charge of tha humane aoclety mean-white It wae during thli pinlinunnce that Ferae waa adopted on November -1 by Mr and Mrs Jenkins of this city While the adoption was being per'ect-ed however the Ban Francisco grandparents resigned -the legal guaidlanshlp of Ferae and Miss Nichols an aunt living hi Ban Francisco applied for and waa granted lettera of guardianship Both the Jenkins pnd Mrs Nichols now claim the child and Judge Trask ha been hearing argument on the case today in habeas corpus proceedings An Impression prevails that tha court win regard the San Francisco guardianship as having priority over the local adoption and give Ferae to Mrs Nichols DO BETTER Crude Oil Company Stockholders thousand ifaates of stock were out cama to tho conclusion lhat so much money had gone Into the treasury Stockholder have made such mistakes before They did not count on expense for offices advertising and for ths 19 per cent commission paid for the sals of ths stock All these things were explained to Judge Campbell Another thing that worried the stockholders was ths rumor that tha company had not paid for' its lands This was disposed of by showing that XJ9I0 had been paid on one piece and J3000 on another Beside this Ihe company hss several thousand dollars worth' Of machinery on Ihe ground The well had reached a depth of feet when the treasury went dry Three-quarters of a mile away ths nearest producing trail Is on the old Puente lands and It la 1300 feet deep Vice-President Beveridge says that he has hopes that tha company can continue ths devclopnpnt few hundied feet further READS LIKE A ROMANCE History of Little Feme Rietow for Whose Custody Many Are Seeking MYSTERY OF ILLNESS London Has No Belief in the Bulletins that Are Issued by the Russian Doctors RACE MATINEE IS PROVIDED The Driving Club Will Be In Evidence on Thanksgiving Afternoon Tha first -race-an tinea of the newly-Incorporstcd local driving dub will be held at Agricultural park Thanksgiving day Entries for (he several trotting and paring events scheduled have been' coming on so fast that the program dommlttee ls assured pf at least five of the fastest and In all probability best contested races that local lovers of such sport hsvs bad an opportunity to enjoy Such hoi sea as Byron Efkenbrecher's beautiful pacer Wilhelmlna with a tee-ord of 2:1114 Willard Stlmsun'i new pacer Hanford II who has Clipped off mils ta Milo Potter's handsome bujr mare Primrose David Llewellyn'a newiy-ae-qulred pacer Bex Alto 2:07 iiun-drem's Burley Fa 2:17 end Frank Hum-pnreyW pacing mar Nellie who hss a record dose onto 2:10 have shown their ability to beat and will go in the pacing event The free-for-all trot will Include such horses as Willard Stlmson'i Richmond Chief Brown's gamp old Medico Uncle Jim Brown's Chico Tflibot'e General Wild and Moorhead's Moroltsa Several in this dare have repeatedly shown close to two-minute speed and an the owners are to drive there Is sure to be healthy rivalry between them Arrangements have been made for several other race including 2:8) dss 1:20 das and 2:40 class race CITY SAND BANKS UNSiGBTLf Contractors May Nnl Hereafter dtore Building Material on VacanJ Cltyqlaj -The practice of contractors and others of utilising vacant city lots for the storage of sand gravel and atone is to be discouraged by ths city council Hereafter It will be unlawful to maintain Ihe ugly looking beep of building material In district- that are occupied by dwelling except wffh the consent of majority of thu property qprneis of tha block Councilman Todd Introduced the ordinance this morning snd he explained that the object Is to' prevent contractor and othel-s from maintaining the unsightly heaps of sand soil gravel pnd stem in localities where they become a nuisance Councilman Pierce wanted tolnclude In the lnteidiellon logs lumbrr and trash but his suggestion was not adopted By corsent tho final passage or the ordinance was deferred for one week Killed kj Lit! Wire Bcripps-Blades News Association AKRON Nov Fraifk Werner a tinner snd Louis Kohrcr a gash'lter picked up a live electric wire on Worcester avenue this morning Both stooped st the same momrnt ff lift the wire which had been blown down by ths storm Both men died at ths same instant Their fingers were burned off by the current Denar Agiii Cider Arrest Stewart an old man who hear a srrlklng resemblance to the newspaper portralle of Oom Foul Is again Incarcerated at the city prison Ths old man Is an Inveterate beggar By such mild mean he secures frequent admission to tbs hospitality of ths city CiRiaissioier WUsm Girea Up Bcripps-Blades News Association WASHINGTON Nffv ta-At noon It was stated that the condition of Internal Revenue Commissioner Wilson is unchanged but hope Is almost abandoned by bis physician Seaator Davis $bwlj Djisc Bcrippo-Blades News Association BTi PAUL Nov Senator Cushman Davis' condition Is unchanged this morning With the exception thst tha pules 'Is little weaker i a I BIRTHS MITH: October a et Brent street to the wife of Ralph Smith a daughter NRLBON: November If at 114 North Beatiflry avesue ta the wife of Adolph Nelson a daughter r- Tarkeji for Eipreu Employes The married employes ef Well Fargo A Co were presented' Saturday with turkeys for Thanksgiving together with oyster apples and celery This annual donation has long been a pleasing feature of the company's munlflccnc Doll wigs cheap Vacy Steer Hair Star Undertaker Spring TsLlLW AGONCILLO IS fOR WAR DECLARES THAT THE TROUBLE IN THE PHILIPPINES MUST QO ON He Is Expected to Go to China and lo Jlupcrirflend the Shipment of Arms to the Insurgents' Bcripps-Blades Ntwa Association PARIS Nov- When seen today regarding hla plans and those of Ihe Filipinos Agonclllo laid: election of McKinley makes all negotiation for peacs In tha Philippines Impossible In the future The only thing left for us la to fight to the finish'1 WILE GO TO HONG KONG PARI8 Nov Benor Agnnrllln the Filipino agent In Europe will resign rum his position head of the Puiie Junta In a few days and mart next Sunday for Hong Kong tf assume direction of tha Importation uf arms and ammunition from some Chinese port Into the Philippines' Agonplllo's successor will probably be Eduardo Lcte a creole aged 90 years who I now living In Bsrggussa Spain and who to editorial witter for a Spanish paper UYERT DORSE DRIVE TO DEATH Ex-Dcpnty Sheriff Vignes Charged Cruelty to an Animal A Paul Vignes hired a hors November 1 at the Btable with which to drive to Whittier He was gone seven or eight hours and when he returned It wan evident the hone waa lli In about a half hour It died and Vlgnea la today being tried In Justice Morgan's court on a charge of cruelly to animals The broken whip with which tha hone was beaten forms an Interesting exhibit In the case Tha prosecuting attorney alleges that ths animal wav overdriven and stablemen swear positively that there waa ample avldenoo of such a slate of things Vignes saya the horse must have been 111 when he took It from the' (table for he drove not over twenty-seven mllea and did not burry A TORNADO VISITS VIRGINIA Much Damage Done but Nb Fatalities Are Yet Reported Serlpps-Bladea News Association RICHMOND Va Nov At I this morning a tornado demolished tha West Point Va Male academy the pub lie school and several residences but there were no fatalities At Newport News the gale blew seventy miles an hour Bchfibners dragged their anchors narrowly escaping beaching Other points Iff the state report muen damage from flood and wind PHILLIPS SERVER THE SHORTS Another Turn fn the Corn Corner Benda Price Higher Than Ever gcripps-BIades News Aneortatlon CHICAGO Nov 1 Tha prwilelion of Corn King Phillips that the price iff that cereal for November delivery would mount to cents per fills hel became a reality before the end of session The price then dropped back to XX and closed at cents The- alarm of the aborts becoming picturesque Many traders preaict that ths pries win go os higfi as 77 cents receipts were up to tha average but little was at grade BROKEN RAIL PLAYED MISCHIEF Tteck Department of Southern Pacific Blamed for tha Wreck of tho OwL BAN FRANCISCO Nov fT-The maintenance of way department of Urn Southern Pacific Is charged with the responsibility for tha accident to the northbound train between Antioch and Cornwall yesterday Tha department It being Investigated to locate ths blame While running sixty miles an hour the train Jumped the track wrecking two sleepers and the dining car No llyee were lost but a number of people were bruised It Is alleged that the broken rail that caused the accident hat been allowed to remain -Jn place for months though the track department knew of tho break Bcripps-BIsdes Hears Association LONDON Nov Kr-Tha mystery of tha osar's Illness continues The censorship Is so drastic that not a word except the colorlees reports of tha court physicians are allowed ta leave Russia This fact furnishes occasion for numberless rumors that the emperor la dead -that be was poisoned by nihilist or that ha contracted typhoid fever from drinking water from a well In Which fever germs were afterward found A at Petersburg dispatch says that three more physicians have been cent to Livid la relieve thorn at tha osar's bedside Tha csailna Is said to be 111 from worry and la In a serious condition ow-Ifffe to ber expected confinement soon LIVADIA Russia Nov A bulletin Issued says: esar passed a good day yesterday Ha was able to sleep a little ad there wai some perspiration At Ij The history of little Ferae Rlctow the X-yeqr-oId girl child who hss flgprcd several itmea In the local courts promises eventually ta read like a romance Irst little Feme Who la a pretty blonde child attracted public attention ns lha ward of the local humane society She Is an ore -phan and was living with ha unele and aunt Henry and Caroline Rietow Tha undo was arrested an a charge Inhu- manlty toward tne child It waa shown In court that he had cruelly mistreated Ihe little maid Ha had whipped her and turned a garden hose on her naked body Tha man and hla wife made the defense thst Ferae was addicted to a habit which made haisb corrective measures' necessary The uncle was heavily fined and the child was temporarily given Into the chargp of tbo humane society Then the Ban Francisco relatives cf the child began a fight lo secure legal control of her The sensational report gained cuirencey that Ferae la heir to a tU000 estate I It appears that lha grandparents of! HOPING TO Officers of the Puente Reassure the From time to time of late tha up-country stockholders of the Puente Crude CHI company of Los Angeles have been making Shareholders In San Bernardino Redlands Riverside and other places thereabout fearful of the prospect of being assessed on tbelr stock to put the company In a shape to liquidate and go on with development have loudly declared that money has been wasted In tha effort to procure a producer Their clam-ora were so Insistent and persistent that President Bpocf Mickey Vice-President Philo Beveridge and Secretary Bush-nelL Insisted that lha up-country stockholders organise and sand a trusted representative to Loe Angeles to look through ths bocks They sent -Judge Campbell of Ban Bpr-nardlno and ha made a thorough Inepee-tlon of affaire In the Loe Angeles office and has returned feeling convinced that tha worst that could be said of the company is thst foo much was attempted with insufficient ready cash The stockholders knowing that so many AH OPEN Ex-Mayor Workman's Friends' Kind Mcssra Clark A Bryan have handed to the Record the following letter from Hon Workman for pdbllcatlon in response to a communication from them offering their services fit promoting his lection city treasurer They are acting solely from a sense of duty believing Mr Workman la entitled to recognition for hla publlc-epl riled ness: "Lee Angeles CaL November HL 190ft "Messrs Wesley Clark and Bryan 117 Weal Third fit City: I received yodr esteemed postal of tha Bd teat and wish to assure yon of my heartfelt thaifks I desire to how my ippree lattes of tbawfforte made In behalf of yeureolves and my Other friends during this tay candidacy for city treasurer At first I waa avtrso to allowing my.

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