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4 BATTLES WITH GALE AND SEA Perilous Voyage of the Little Schooner Morrill. Encounters Hurricane Winds While Returning From Alaska. Blown Nearly Seven Hundred Miles Out of Her Course In Ten Days. Special Dispatch to The CalL SEATTLE, March The trim little schooner M. M.

Morrill arrived in port this afternoon after battling with terrible gales for ten days, during which she was blown nearly 700 miles out of her course. She took twenty gold hunters to Yakutat Bay, whence they hoped to reach the Yukon country by the newly discovered route. As Captain Grant and the members of the crew describe the Morrill's adventures with the hurricane that raged in February in northern waters, it is little short of wonderful that she brought her people back to tell of it. The schooner, however, is stiff and staunch. For three days she drifted before the mighty winds that blew from the south and west.

Lite was made miserable enough for those on board by the Morrill's preliminary brush with a stiff wind off the straits, for many of her passengers had never before embarked on a long sea voyage. But compared with the weather encountered later tlie gales off the straits anrl from there north to Dixon Entrance were but summer zephyrs. J. S. Green, who owns the schooner, says that when he left Yakutat the wenther in Disenchantment Bay waw delightful.

Said he: "There had been some small amount of ice at the mouth of the bay and some of the schooners found It necessary to disembark their passengers at Yakutat. We went clear to the headwaters of the bay and found navigation open in good shape. The party that went north on the Morrill Is among the earliest to get over the route to the Alsek River. Travel over the pass is all right. People are going and coming continually.

At Yakutat there are 200 people preparing to make the start for the Interior." Mr. Green reports that the brlgantine Blakeley had arrived safely at Yakutat berore he left. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOLANO Body of an Old Gentleman Found on the Ferryboat's Car Tracks. Supposed Resident of Oakland Decapitated While Crossing at Port Costa. Special Dispatch to The Call.

ANTIOCH, March An old gentleman was killed on the ferryboat Solano at Port Costa last evening. No one saw the accident, and no one seems to know how It occurred. When found the body was lying across one of the numerous tracks on the ferry, with one foot crushed and the head entirely severed. The victim was a passenger on the No. 2 Sacramento train, which arrlveu at Port Costa at 7:20 o'clock.

He had a conductor's check in his pocket, punched for Oakland or San Francisco. Coroner Curry had the body removed to the Morgue at Martinez. It has not been Identified. The old gentleman was about 60 years of age, well dressed in black diagonal trousers and vest, blue frock coat, black overcoat, calico shirt, gray underclothing, laced shoes and black Fedora hat. There was nothing upon the body by which it could be identified, except that the shirt was marked "No.

2" on the flap, a peculiar marking for a shirt. Besides the conductor's check a couple of Oakland street car transfer checks were found In a pocket, together with a new purse, containing $6 65. It is supposed that he was a resident of Oakland. CARRIES FOURTEEN SHOT IN HIS BRAIN. Youthful Victim of an Accident Proves His Physician a False Prophet.

March A case which is a surprise to the physicians and a gratification to anxious parents is that of eight-year-old Willie Martin. On March Willie and his brother observed a hawk sailing above their father's barn on the farm near Gridley, and they determined to rid the place of him. The brother went Into the house and got a shotgun. As he came out the door the gun was discharged, and Willie, who stood about fifteen feet distant, received the charge of No. 5 shot in the face and head.

Fourteen of the shot penetrated tb'; boy's skull and the doctors probed deep Into his brain. He was given up to die, but with a perverseness quite astonishing he refused to realize the doctor's prophecies, and now he is running about his home with the other children of the family, apparently in no way the worse for the fact that he carries fourteen shot in his brain. COLLISION AT FRENCH CAMP DEPOT Fresno Flyer Crashes Into an Engine Upon a Sidetrack. Carelessness of a Fireman in Leaving a Switch Open Responsible for the Loss of a Life. STOCKTON, March The "Fresno flyer," due at French Camp station, four and a half miles above here, at 4:10 o'clock, was wrecked this afternoon.

William Huffman, the fireman, lost his life and a number of trainmen and passengers were injured. The disaster was the result of gross carelessness. The train was made up of a firstclass coach and a smoker, and the first exclamation of one gazing on the mass of wreckage is that it is remarkable that no more lives were forfeited in the catastrophe. This afternoon a large freight engine in charge of Engineer William Hatfield and Fireman R. P.

Stevens started from Tracy with orders to allow the flyer to pass at French Camp. The run was made on time- and the locomotive backed upon a siding, the switch being thrown by Fireman Stevens, who, according to the best information obtainable, went down the embankment to attend to something and failed to close the switch. Engineer Hatfield ran the engine back a hundred yards and was oiling it, when the whistle of the flyer soundod. As no flag was out at the station the engineer came down under full headway. As the train neared the switch, Stevens ran up, evidently remembering his neglect, but he was too late.

Engineer Henry Hahn saw the open switch signal when nearly upon it. In desperation he threw all the emergency brakes, but the train crashed into the big freight locomotive with a report like an artillery volley, and fire, steam and smoke enveloped the scene. People who rushed to the wreck beheld an appalling sight. The passenger engine had been literally torn to pieces and the first-class coach had rolled down the embankment, lying on its side. The yells and curses of the imprisoned passengers seemed to indicate great loss of life.

Engineer Hahn fell from his cab and staggered over the grass. William Huffman, the young fireman, was caught between the tender and the fire box and instantly killed. It was some time before his remains were extricated. Conductor Lev! Bardo and Brakeman Ed Hundley were bruised and injured, but with the help of people from the County Hospital near by they set bravely at work rescuing the passengers. They climbed upon the coach and began pulling women and children out of the windows.

In the wrecked coach ere about twenty people, but, strange to relate, REV. J. AVERY SHEPHERD DEAD. Passing of the Divine Who Opened the First Confederate Congress With Prayer. SANTA ROSA, March Rev.

J. Avery Shepherd, the oldest Episcopal minister In California and one of the best-known churchmen on the Pacific Coast, died at his home in this city this afternoon. Shepherd was born in Vermont. When quite young he moved with his father to Brazil, but after spending a few years in that country he returned to his native land and matriculated at Middlebury College, Vermont. Four years later he graduated from this institution, and at the request of Bishop Green of Mississippi he shortly afterward went to that State and took charge of St.

Andrews College at Jackson, where he remained for several years. While there he married Miss Evelyn Turner of Baltimore, who was Justly distinguished for her many and charming manners. After leaving Mississippi Dr. Shepherd went to Kentucky and at Louisville he was ordained a priest of the church by Bishop Smith. From Kentucky he and his wife moved to North Carolina, and nine years later they came to California shortly after the appointment of the Right Rev.

William I. Kip a Bishop, arriving here in 1854, eight months after that wellknown churchman. He opened a young ladies' school in San Francisco and educated many of the now prominent matrons of that city, afterward returning East and conducting a ladles' college near Montgomery, Ala. The war breaking out, the school was closed. Montgomery being the first capital of the Confederacy.

Dr. Shepherd opened the first session of the Confederate Congress with prayer, but did not afterward officiate at the meeting, although it has been Incorrectly stated that he was regular chaplain of that organization. Twenty years ago he came to Santa Rosa, and for many years had charge of this parish. For several years past he has lived in retirement. DRAGGED BY FOUR RUNAWAY HORSES.

Napa Young Man Badly Injured on a Ranch Near the Town. NAPA, March Joseph Henry, a wellknown young man of this city, met with an accident to-day at the Cutting Packing Company's ranch west of Napa, in which he sustained a compound fracture of the right leg. Henry had hitched four horses to a heavy roller on the hillside and then proceeded to take his seat, when the dashboard gave way and he fell in between the horses. The animals started THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1898. none were killed.

Among the several women and children not a limb was broken, but many were cut and bruised. Those who are injured were: Fred A. Grim, a traveling man from Ohio, cut by glass; J. A. Reynolds, adjuster for the Royal Insurance Company, stutioned at San Francisco, hurt in the back; A.

C. Burnett, fireman on the steamship Mary Garratt, running between Stockton and San Francisco, dislocated shoulder. Engineer H. C. Hahn of the Fresno flier train, with whom young Huffman was running-, was severely cut in the right but not seriously injured.

C. Cleveland, the Wells-Fargo messenger on the flier, was slightly hurt. As soon as possible an engine and coach from the Stockton yards went out to bring in the dead and injured. So quickly was this done by the railroad people that it was impossible to get passenger lists. The freight locomotive, struck headon, was knocked 200 feet, its front torn out and the tender and fire box mixed.

Pieces of wreckage from the passenger engine were strewed for a distance of a hundred yards. Boilers, tanks, tender and cab were one jumbled mass. The smoker, which was the second car in the train, left the track, but stayed on the grade. The crew of this train included Conductor Bardo, Engineer William Hahn. Fireman Huffman, Baggageman Charles Cleveland and Brakeman Ed Hundley.

While waiting the arrival of help, young Stevens, who threw the switch, lay groveling in the sand, moaning over his unfortunate act. He declared the company at fault, as he had been kept on the road forty-eight hours with no sleep and was half crazed on the run toward Stockton. Stevens is the son of wealthy parents, who lately got his promise to quit railroading, and this was to have been one of his last trips. C. H.

Huffman, father of the deceased fireman, is the originator of the Crocker-Huffman canal enterprise of Merced County, where he owned vast tracts of land for many years. A few years ago when his son Will expressed a desire to learn railroading the father urged him to turn his attention to some other business and offered him any necessary capital to engage in any enterprise which he might choose, and it is said he offered the young man $15,000 in cash to give up railroading, but the fireman determined to continue in his calling that was so full of interest to him. He was twenty-three years of age and generally well thought of. Among his young associates he was a favorite and his death is deeply regretted here. down the hill and dragged Henry some distance before they stopped.

One horse broke its leg and had to be shot. The flesh on the entire length of Henry's right leg was torn into threads. Medical aid was summoned and Henry was removed to the County Infirmary. He is a son of S. P.

Henry, a prominent citizen of this place. Sudden Death at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, March James Edward Friend, a well-known newspaper man, formerly of Birmingham, and later of El Paso, Texas, a soldier of the Confederate Army in the War of the Rebellion, and a man of genial habits and a large circle of friends, was found dead In his bed in the Willard Hotel this from internal hemorrhages. He v.as 59 years old. FAIL TO CATCH THE OUTLAWS Officers' Vain Quest Around Indian Gulch.

Lose the Trail of the Men in the Madera Foothills. Certain That Cliff Regan Is One of the Pair They Followed. SEARCH NOT ABANDONED. Difference of Opinion as to Whether the Mndera Led the Robbers. Special Dlipatch to The CalL FRESNO, March At midnight the principal posse returned, to Merced from the hunt for the Cross Creek bandits.

Eight or ten men are still on the trail. Sheriff Cunningham believes the men being chased are the robbers. They are thought to be heading for Raymond. FRESNO March Railroad Detectives Meade and Crowley and Deputy Sheriffs Peck and Timmlns returned to this city on the 5:20 train this evening from Merced, whither they went last night on a special engine when it was that the Cross Creek train robbers had been surrounded at a point near Indian Gulch. It was found this morning that the robbers were not surrounded, but had made good their escape before the gathering of the officers in the vicinity where they were supposed to be hiding.

The officers were divided against themselves as to whether the men supposed to be the robbers were actually bandits, and while a posse of twenty officers is still In pursuit of the men in question Meade's men have given up that clew and expect to strike a new lead. Peck and Timmins are strongly of the opinion that Bandit Cliff Regan led the outlaws, and they are satisfied that one of the men who had the rig that was recovered was jrtegan. The proprietor of the store at which the men bought worth of provisions and a hat described the man who did the buying and the description given fitted Regan in every particular. He -as then shown a picture of the Madera County outlaw and as soon as he set eyes on It he identified it as that of Reeran. The local officers are thoroughly convinced that the man at the store was Cliff Regan but the only question with them is whether Cliff Regan committed the train robbery, or whether he was merely making his way to more Becure fastnesses, believing his position too near here dangerous while so many officers are scouring the country for the train robbers.

Another reason why the men should be wary of the officers was the fact that the rig'whlfh they had was stolen from J. C. Anderson at Bates on February 28. The rig thoroughly overhauled. Nothing that would connect the occupants in any degree with the Cross Creek robbery was found.

The officers who surrounded the section of the country where they thought the robbers were corraled could find no trace of them this morning. It is nowbelieved that the men, from their point of vantage, saw the officers tracking them, and, abandoning their buggy, provisions and blankets, struck out through the ridge leading to the foothills. Parts of the ridge are thickly covered by undergrowth, but the men were tracked this morning to a place where the base of the ridge consists of rock, and there the trail was lost. Sheriff Tom Cunningham, the veteran peace officer and criminal hunter of San Joaquln County, is now with the posse following the robbers. Sheriff Warfield of Merced and Sheriff Prouty of Mariposa are also relentless in the hunt, while a number of constables and Deputy Sheriffs are on the trail of the men.

Detective Crowley does not believe Regan had anything to do with the Cross Creek robbery, while other officers think differently. Crowley, after talking for three minutes to the Indian Gulch storekeeper, said there was nothing in hunting those men and wanted to return at once. Meade was of different opinion. It is not thought likely now that the robbers will be caught for several days. CAPTAIN JOSEPH ARAM IS NO MORE Passing of a Man "Who Served Under the Bear Flag In California.

Was Left in of Santa Clara Mission When Fremont Moved Southward. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March Captain Joseph Aram, a pioneer of 1846 and prominently identified with the early history of California, died here to-day. He was a native of Onelda County, New York, and 88 years of age. Captain Aram came to California in 1846 from Illinois.

He- came at once to Santa Clara He had met Fremont at Sacramento, whrn the Mexican War broke out he organized a company and enlisted under the Bear Flag. When Fremont followed the Mexicans south he left Aram in command at Santa Clara Mission to protect the settlers. Later Aram went to Monterey and helped to construct a fort. In 1849 he returned to this county with his family, and he has resided here ever since. Captain Aram was a member of the first State Constitutional Convention and a member of the first Legislature which met in this city in 1849.

He established the first nursery in Santa Clara County. He always took an active interest in politics, and was one of the most prominent citizens of this city. A widow and two grown children survive him. SITKA HAS A MINING BOOM OF HER OWN Quartz Assaying Nine Hundred Dollars to the Ton Said to Have Been Struck. JUNEAU, Alaska, March 26 (by Steamship Cottage City to Seattle, March 30) -Sitka, the sleepy capital of Alaska, has a sensation.

Some of her people are becoming excited and have Monte Cristo dreams. According to the latest reports which have reached here from Sitka a semi-quartz semi-placer formation of slate and di found in "Pauda Basin, beyond Saw Mill Creek, back of what is known as Billy's Basin," has been assayed and found to run from $250 to $900 a ton. The formation is a sort of pebble, which is said to have come off glaciers. Ex-Surveyor-General Willey of California, a son-in-law of ex-Collector Moore of the port of New York, and a few others are among the principal owners of the property, which has been bonded. There is quartz in the gravel.

General Willey is over at Sitka now and has been there for some time and so has Mr. Moore. The news was brought to Juneau late to-night by C. S. Johnson, Judge of the United States District Court of Alaska, who confirms the report of the richness of the ground; by J.

M. Davidson from Sitka and by a Mr. Shelly of Portland, who carries considerable reading matter about it for a Portland newspaper. Mr. Shelly vehemently denies that it is a stock scheme.

A packer from Billy's Basin, who came over on the ship to-night to Join the march to the Klondike, says that assays of the gravel have run as high as $600 to the ton. It is impossible here to-night to get a more detailed description of the character of the gravel or of the locality. The same locality was prospected two or three years ago and assays made, the highest of which is said to have run $24. Pacific Coast newspapers published this at the time. It was known as the Gold Lake District, but very little has ever been done to develop it.

It is about thirteen miles from Sitka. The capital has always been believed to be surrounded by a rich mineral district. Any kind of gravel or ore which runs from $250 to $900, showing an average of $450, buriea the Klondike out of sight, hence the people of the capital are beginning to dream that 'Sitka will become more than a synonym for Klondike and to spread its fame. Reports more in detail are expected on the next boat in about two weeks. J.

M. Davidson is recently from Siskiyou County, Cal. He said in addition: "Do not give me as authority for this. I don't know anything about It. Some over at Sitka think it is a great thing and some take no stock in it I don't want my friends in California to get excited by anything from me about this." HAL HOFFMAN.

SENATOR ENOS DIES SUDDENLY Well-Known Politician a Victim of Heart Disease. Falls to the Ground and Expires in Front of His Dwelling. the Ha Had Been Prominently Be Public Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. SONOMA, March Senator John S. Enoa, a prominent attorney and wellknown politician of this State, dropped dead this morning at 9:15 o'clock from heart disease at the residence of Mrs.

R. J. Snyder, one mile east of this place. Mr. Enos appeared at the breakfast table at the accustomed hour and seemed In his usual good spirits.

He The Late Senator John S. partook of a hearty meal and then prepared for a morning drive. After harnessing his horse he started to return to the house. As he was about to enter the door he discovered the chimney to be on fire. He stopped and without a murmur fell heavily to the floor, dying before assistance could reach him.

Senator Enns for many years was a prominent politician in San Francisco and received many honors from different political parties. In 1880 he was elected by the Workingmen's party to represent the Thirteenth District of San Francisco in the State Senate. From 1883 to 1887 he served under Governor Stoneman as Labor Commissioner, and it was at the time of his appointment to this office that a great protest went up, his opponents claiming that office was created especially for his benefit. For a number of years he was prosecuting attorney in Judge Campbell's court, and he was well known in police circles. Mr.

Enos came to California in the early fifties from Fulton County, New York. Prior to leaving there he held the office of County Attorney. Owing to domestic troubles his home, which was one of the most beautiful mansions in Sonoma Valley, was broken tip about eight years and he subsequently took up hi 3 residence at the Snyder place. His wife, Mrs. Susie Exos, resides in San Francisco.

Nominations Confirmed. WASHINGTON, March The Senate to-day confirmed the following nominations: Thomas Mowprrove, Receiver of Public Moneys at Walla Walla, Wash. John Best, Register of the Land Office at Lewistrin, Tdaho; C. A. Scoby, Indian agent, Fort Peck Agency, Montana.

Grand Lodge Delegates. SANTA CRUZ. March San Lorenzo Lodge, I. O. O.

last evening elected A. P. Swanton, L. L. Fargo, William Lane, Warren Waters and Nathan Knapp delegates to the Grand Lodge to be held in San Francjsco.

NEW WAY OF BUYING VOTES Rea's San Jose "Gang" Springs a Unique Innovation. Insurance Policies Taken Out to Gain the Support of Agents. Thirty Thousand Dollar Risk on a Building the City Does Not Yet Own. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, March Mystery has hitherto surrounded the motive which led the City Council at a recent meeting to place $30,000 worth of insurance on the uncompleted High School building at the same time that $40,000 worth of insurance on the City Hall was renewed.

The mystery has now been dissipated. The facts that explain it make up another illustration of how the "gang" fraudulently utilizes the funds of the tax-payers to intrench itself in office. At the time the matter of insuring the High School building, which is now in the course of construction under the contract awarded to P. Byron, was up for consideration in the Council Mayor Koch objected to this expense on the ground that the city had no interest in the structure until it was turned over to the municipality after it was completed by the contractor. Despite his protest the motion to place this insurance was carried.

Contractor Byron, in an Interview with The Call correspondent, expressed himself in accord with the view of the Mayor. He said further that he had $8000 worth of insurance on the building, and would keep that amount on it until he had completed his contract and had turned the property over to the city and it had been formally accepted by the Council. Until that time he considered the risks of fire and other dangers were entirely his. He did not insure for more, he said, because he thought $8000 would cover any damage that would be likely to occur. Why, then, was this insurance placed when there was absolutely no necessity for it? And why were hundreds of dollars of the cit funds thus wasted? Thes3 are questions that tbu tax-payers have asked and are still asking.

Here is the answer: The "gang" realized that it was going to have one of the hardest battles to fight in the coming city election that it had ever been engaged in, and that one of the strongest factors in the contest would be the real-estate men, many of whom act as agents of various insurance companies. By giving them a little sop in the shape of some of this insurance, as well as part of the re-insurance on the City Hall, it was hoped to keep them in line for the "gang" ticket. J. D. Miner, the "gang" candidate for Councilman at Large, was selected to peddle out at least part of this insurance.

He went from one agent to another, and made a deliberate proposition to "swap" insurance policies for votes and Influence in behalf of the "gang" ticket, which is masquerading under the name of the People's Municipal ticket. To the credit of the realestate men. most of whom realize thoroughly that their best interests lie in the defeat of the "gang," Mr. Miner was not in all cases successful, but he kept to his task until he had no more policies to peddle. By the part that Mr.

Miner took in this matter he not only made himself a party indirectly to the robbery of the people, but he made himself liable to punishment under the purity of elections law. He was virtually spending the money wrongfully taken from the city treasury to further his election on the 11th of April. Mr. Miner Is the boss i candidate, who is running in opposition to J. P.

Jarman, whom "Jim" Rea is charged with having slandered and damaged to the amount of $50,000. Buys a Nevada Mine. NEVADA CITY, March Ely Hutchinson, representing an Eastern syndicate to-day took up a bond it has had for some time on a California quartz mine, twenty miles northeast of this city, and paid Colonel C. W. Tozer and Charles D.

Lane the purchase price of $50,000. A GARBAGE WAR BEGINS Private Contractors Fight Mr. Ellert's Company. Petition Says Sanitary Reduction Works Pollute the Air. Citizens Say the Big Chimney Distributes Odors Like Burning Rubber.

There have lately been so many complaints against the Sanitary Reduction Works that a petition Is now In circulation asking the Board of Supervisors to compel the company to do something to prevent the stench from polluting the neighborhood. Scavengers complain they charged unlawful prices for having their garbage burned, and there are evidences that there will soon be a battle between them and the sanitary company. "When the wind is not blowing out In the vicinity of the works," said A- J. Crawford yesterday, "the stench Is verybad, being something like the smell of burning rubber and old leather. There la a general complaint in the neighborhood that the works are run in such a way as to be a detriment to the health of the people and do great damage to property." There will be a meeting of private garbage gatherers and owners of garbaga drays to-morrow for the purpose of devising ways and means to defeat the proposed ordinance that compels all garbaga dealers to buy a special wagon, which Is owned by the Sanitary Reduction and covered by divers patents.

Those making the fight say that agents of tha company are good underground politicians, and that they have mastered tha art of handling Boards of Supervisors and others in such a way as to get laws passed that benefit their company. It is probable that the circulation of the petition now being advocated in the Mission Is the signal for the beginning of a war that will last for some time, for It is a fight for survivorship on the part or private contractors. PINK AND WHITE WEDDING, Miss Blanche Evelyn Baldwin Weda John McGaw at the First Unitarian Church. The only large church wedding of Lenten season took place last evening at the First Unitarian Church, the contract- Ing parties being Miss Blanche Evelyn Baldwin, daughter of Orville Dwlght Baldwin, and John McGaw. The edifice was prettily decorated for the occasion, palms and fruit blossoms forming a background for the pair.

It was a pink and white wedding, and the color predominated. Miss Emma Sweigert was maid of honor, and the bridesmaids were Miss Isabel Preston and Miss Clare Sweigert. Miss Bernice Wilson and the Misses Gertrude and Ruth Freese were the flower girls, and carried large baskets of La France roses. The best man was Lewis James, and the ushers, four In number, were G. H.

N. Sexton, G. T. S. White, F.

A. L. Roberts and C. Cas- The sweet strains of the Lohengrin brN dal march ushered the bridal procession into the church, and during the time of the ceremony, which was by Rev. Horatio Stebblns.

H-Bretherick rendered Dubois' "Nuptial Benediction Song." After the ceremony a reception -was neia at the home of the bride's parents, on the corner of Washington and Spruce streets, only the relatives and intimate friends of the newly wedded couple being present. Death of Mrs. Bainbridge. Much sympathy is expressed In a- 1 circles for Colonel E. C.

Balnbridge, U. retired, whose wife died In this city day before yesterday. Colonel and Mrs. Bainbridge came to California less than two years ago from St. Augustine, where the Third Artillery, which Colonel Bainbririge then commanded, was stationed before the order came transferring the regiment to the Pacific Coast.

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