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2 FREE FROM QUILT. Lizzie Borden Acquitted by the Jury. WHO COMMITTED THE DEED. Though She Is Net the Culprit, Vet Is the Mystery No Nearer Tar UoKMtxe New Bedfoed, Jane 20. the opening of the Borden this norn ing, District Attorney Knowlton resumed his argument ln behalf cf tbe Commonwealth.

I addressed Mil to tte motive fori the He pointed oat tbe enmity of I JXzzie toward her stepmother as sufS- cient motive for murder, and said ber kiiiinz necessitated the killing cf her fattier, who was a stern man, wbs koew tf the enmity, and wi. loved bis dead wife. The only way for Lizzie to possibly escape pnolsbmest lay in killing ter father. It is a theory only, but one which consistently account fer tbe double murder taking place with a period of one hour and a half between the acts. 'in all yonr he asked, ive yon ever heard of.

an attempt to create an alibi in wbicb tbere more straining of tbe circumstances than in this one? 'Ihat barn abb! will not stand." lie then commented on the old and fluvy cor.dition tl barn, and the fac that keen-eyed people found no traces of poison having been there. How she could avoid gettins blood on her clothes the jury could not answer, because they were neither women nor murderers. It was a sicguiar thing that tbe dress, after being kept so long, was burned oa that particular Sunday. Lizzie bad Deen told on Baturnay night tbat she was accused of the crime, and on tbe next morn had burned Isi dress. The speaker said that Mrs.

Began bad never denied the "yougave-roe-away" story coder oath. Tbe prosecution did not claim that it Introduced tbe hatchet witn which the murder bad been Bitted. It showed that the hatchet bad been wet and robbed in ashes, and tbat the blade fitted most miraculously into tbs bole' in the skulls. The speaker continued arguing that tiie silk dress prod need defendant was not the dress worn at the time of the murder. '1 two versions of the story of the horning of the defendant's dress were irreconcilable.

He iii-cu the defendant's conduct since the order, and eald the product on of ti.e hatchet was no part of the Government's ease, and closed with an eloquent appeal to the jury. 'J lie court then took a recess, and on reassembling defendant was given an opportunity to sneak. She said: "I am innocent, but I will leavs my case in your bands and with my counsel." Justice Dewey then 'barged the jury. He. defined the different degrees of murder and stated tbat the resumption of Innocence was increased by the defendant's character.

There must be a real and operative motive for a crime of this sort. The Judge further charged the jury to weigh the evidence to see whether the defendant's permanent state of mmd showed a motive for tbe crimes. Every material allegation in the indictment must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, that is to a moral certainty. He compared direct and circumstantial evidence and said that the failure, to prove an essential fact would be fatal, but the failure to prove a helpful circumstance not a fact might not be. Lizzie's statements about the note were discussed at length, and the Judge 'said they must be satisfied that they were false.

Every fact proved must be reasonably consistent with guilt. The Government dii not show that anybody else bad an opportunity to commit the crime, but it most prove the defendant committed It. The jury must reason as to the effect of defendant's conduct and statements. They were not to reach a conclusion from expert testimony, but were lo apply to ita reasonable judgment. They might convict, even if satisfied that the act was done by another party, if they also found that defendant was present aiding and abetting the commission of the crime.

The mere fact that defendant did not testify should not influence them against her. Judge Dewey, continuing, said that the government claims that these acts come under the head of murder in the first degree. The law says that in order to prove Ibis every claim must be established beyond a reasonable doubt. It is stated that the government presents its case on circumstantial evidence. It is understood by the couil that the governmeritelaimed that the essential fact embraced in the note matter, namely, that she made statements which she knew to be false when she was making them, but contemplates the possibility of there being an assassin.

Might he not have come upon her when the note was at liana and removed it as one of the links In the evidence? lv cases of circumstantial evidence, unless every link holds good, the chain is worthless. The jury is asked to bear in mind the supposed fact that there is nothing to connect the defendant with tbe murder as far as outward appearances go. At the conclusion of the charge the attorneys consulted a lew moments and then tbe jury was allowed to retire. It was just 4:30 o'clock when the spectators, who bad kept their seats patiently during the retirement of the jury, noticed a movement indicating their return. A moment later the twelve men filed into their seats and were polled.

Miss Borden was asked to stand up and the foreman was asked to return the verdict, which he announced as "not guilty." Then all the dignity and decorum of the courtroom vanished. A cheer went up which might have been beard a mile away I If hi" "ii land tbere was bo attempt to check it. i Msis bead went down neon the rail in front ol ber and tbe tears Mr. Jennicgs was almas: crying whit Mr. I Adams seemed incapable of speech.

As soon as lie r6.m was cleared, and wben ite had finally zone Miss Borden was taken to tbe room of tte Xstjre and allowed so recover ter composure only tte -4-- friends upon her and only tbe caresses of ber de- voled admirers. At tte expiration of an boar she was placed in a carriage and driven to the station, where she leek tbe I train for Fall River, hot home no probably, bat still only otjtctiTe point for tte immediate present. THE CRIME AND ITS MYSTERY. If Lizzie Borden Did Not Commit the Murder, Who Did? Altboagh the trial is endef and a jury bas declared Unto Borden not zuilty of, tbe atrocious double crime with which she stood chareef, titers is about UM case yet a mystery tbat has never boon unraveled, try the most tola analytical minis to unravel it as 'bey may, aod that now seems will never bo solved. If Lizzie Borden did no: kill her parents, who did? Andrew" D.

Borden, a man whose wealth mated at from to $500,000, was found murdered and with hU sad almost cot to sees on the lounge in the sittingroom of bis ise, on second street, Fail R.v*r, st 11 o'clock on the morning of Thursday, August 4, When tbe a'artied friends and neighbors regained their senses sufficiently to Intend to acquaint bis wife with tbe occurrence they found ber murdered in an almost exactly similar manner, on the floor of the second story "spare XL," whither she had gone to prepare it for 'he reception of a guest. It appeared, ttcuzh this point was never folly Investigated by the police. that only two people were ii st about boose at the time, namely, Lbs Borden, the dead man's danzhter, and Bridget Sollivan, a servant. Owing to the facts that superior was requisite for the concealment of the crime and that the danzhter had not warmly loved, though it could not be shown tbat sbe even disliked her stepmother, and also tba: sbe had teen Impatient of her father's piciou fell upon Li2zie Bontoa, and Ci'y Marshal Hilliard and District Attorney Knowlton i roseentrd the case on tbe theory of bet guilt. In a secret cross-era ation three days long, when she was de.

prived oi counsel and to tell same story over and over again for the purpose of creating discrepancies, the District Attorney succeeded in Baking accused contradict bersell in several and undoubtedly convicted her of falsehood. This was when she said that she had believed that bet stepmother was out that morning, because she bad pot a note at k- 1 ing her to call on a sick friend. There is no evidence lhat such a note was ever received, and the contention that she first told the Story to prevent I er father from going upstairs and afterward to if. The were in own or less important points, such as when she ac- I counted for her own temporary from the room where she had been and where her father was murdered, by saying bos that 6be bad teen out to the barn to eat s.r.t^rs for a fishing excursion to Marion, and again that she tad been there to get a piece of iron to fix a window. Again she sa sbe had given her father his s.itp-rs when he came in at 10:45 from his morning visit to the two banks In which he was Interested, while the fact was that be lay 'town in his boots to take the nap from which, ho never Again, she said, in response to one question, tbat the Gshl.nes for bleb she wanted the sinkers wen at Marion, and, being pressed, tald that she had intended to buy new lines.

If she did cut sinkers in the barn she never produced them nor the piece of lead from whicb they were taken, though had she done to the Di'trict Attorney would have denounced them as manufactured evidence and argued against their admissibility in i court. But It on this barn story, its improbability anftofntrsdietions, that the prosecution bore most heavily in arguing for a was in fact Lizzie Borden's alibi. If slie was not in the burn lbs must have been In th" house, in the I very room or the kitchen adjoining it I where her father was Bordered, or in the yard, where she would have seen bis murderer escape. On the point of intent the prosecution had one materia! fact, namely, that on tbe day before the murders Lizzie Borden had i tried to buy prussic acid in a drugstore at South Maine street and Columbia avenue, Fall River, saying that she wanted it for I the purpose of packing furs. The fact was that tier furs had been parked for months.

Identifications are things In which witnesses make many blunders, but even if Eli Bence, the drug clerk, had been mistaken in bis. it is probable that the woman who asked for the prussic acid i would have come forward and corrected i the probable, that is to say, except on the hypothesis that another murder was meditated In Fall River that day and never carried out. As to motive the prosecution was very I weak. District Attorney Knowlton dwelt much on Andrew Borden's niggardliness, I which had prevented him from even put; ting a stationary. bathtub in bis house.

But murders for money are almost invariably committed for ready money and Lizzie Borden had plenty of that one thousand dollars in bant, a hobse yielding rent, some corporation stock and a very moderate allowance for pocket money of $2 a week. She was but 32 years old, and before she was 35 her father, who was 70 years old and not robust, was pretty sure to leave her a fortune, while in a few years more her stepmother's life, then 07 years in being, would end and with it the last barrier between her and her sister Emma and the whole Borden estate. The only evidence that there bad been any trouble In the family, about money matters was that Lizzie and Emma some years before, on the occasion of a handsome gift from their father to their stepmother, prevailed upon him to make over to them real estate worth £3000, which at the' time of the murders stood in their names. Two blood-stained hatchets were found on the Borden premises, and it was shown on the trial also that shortly after the murder Lizzie had burned a dress which, she i claimed, had been stained by paint. Furj ther, It was in evidence that after she had been held to answer for the Lizzie Borden received, visit from her sister, and the two had engaged In an altercation during which the accused girl, I seemingly in anger, had used the words: "You have given me away, but I will not yield an inch." The matron of the jail, who told this story, denied it to several witnesses, though she subsequently swore to it on the stand, and both- the denials and tbe affirmations were in evidence.

On'the other hand, Lizzie Borden was a young woman whose moral character was of the highest, and who bad conducted herself In all her thirty odd years of life as would any well-regulated young person In a well-regulated- New England community. Her story of the murder, briefly, Is as follows: She said that her father complained of not feeling well and that he lay down on THE MOBNING CALL, SAX FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1893. I the sofa, sbe ad jailing the pillow for htm tbat tte fUtiras were net hot enough to iron with and that to pet in the tune while they were heating she. went ent into the back yard. She stopped there for a few moments and picked np some pears which bad fallen to the ground from the trees.

Then she thought she would go into tbe barn for seize sinkers for Ler fish line, as she was going to the next day to fisb. Her father told her tbere were sinkers in a Utile box npstairs in the barn and the went there to get ttem. Sbe bad net been in the barn before in three monies. Sbe went tr.rew open the door and stood tr.ere while she ate four pears. Then she looked for tte and came into tte house.

When tte got in she fooad ber father murders: and summer. fed Bridget. On ber cross-examination she was confronted with the fact that sbe had once before said she went to the barn li niece of iron for her i.i line and with tbe farther fact that lying in tbe yard close to the tarn doer were pieces of lead with which she could hare made Then was asked to explain how it was on tha: hct morning sue went to the hottest place on the premises to stand and eat a place from which, she had testified, sbe could not see the yard or anybody who came into it or left it, bat could give no satisfactory answer. This, it must be borne in mind, was on tbe. preliminary examination when she was for murder.

The defendant did go on the stand at the trial, but her physician that she was under the influence of morphine when examined, tte drug given her by himself, and that the eject ot morphine was to produce hallucinations, to cloud the mind and canse a person to give confused answers to ques- i tion The medical experts in Boston who ex- amined the stomachs of the murdered man and wman testified that in their opinion Mrs. Benton was killed from an hour to an hour and a half before Mr. Borden. They based this belief upon the stages of digestion cf the food in each of tfcelr rton aeba, and it bas come to be the accepted opinion. If that is the case and Lizzie was the murderess, she mist have butchered her mother about 10 that it at about the time or before ber father went downtown.

This Involves believing that with her mother lying slaughtered upstairs this unnatural monster of a girl went ealmlv about her ordinary household duties: that chatted and laughed with Bridget- Bridget testified to and then took her chancer on Bridget getting out of the way long enoujh to split open her father's head as it lay resting en the pillow, which ibe had smoothed for him to rent upon. It involves also believing that after butchering ber mother, with Bridget about the bouse and apt to come upstairs at any mo- ment, she was able to make way with her weapon and her blood-soaked garments of slaughter as quickly and deftly as she did after 'he murder of her father. Much stress has been laid upon the fact of Lizzie's wonderful composure after her first incarceration, but tbls, it now seems probable, was rather the effect of morphine than ef natural self-ecu At all events, doting the trial just closed, she; has conducted herself very ranch as an ordinary woman, a trifle less than ordinarily emotional, would have done a llkecrisi-. Emotion, strong emotion. is paroxysmal and not continuous.

Humanity could not endure the strain if it were. And Lizzie has broken down at several and at several other limes bas only controlled herself by an effort visibly strong. ,7, From the first it was apparent on the i trial that the police, having conceived a suspicion of the girl, bent every tat and circumstance to accord with that suspicion. It not co much a case of finding out who the murderer was as of prov- ing Lizzie Borden guilty. Every other theory of the crime was rejected.

There seems to have been even no attempt to in- vestigate any other theory or to discover other solution. Every fact was brought out by the police as strongly as possible to tell against her, and this spirit was so apparent that it worked the de- struction of the ease of the prosecution. In their hurry to convict the police rushed in headlong, contradicting other on most material points, until the prosecution found itself Involved in a hopeless tangle of something akin to perjury and the verdict of acquittal became almost a foregone conclusion. With that verdict of acquittal comes the old mystery, if Lizzie Borden did not commit the double murder, who did? The assassin, whoever it was, must bave come and gone unseen. At the head of the stairs in the Borden house there is -a closet in which he could have lain concealed.

When lira. Borden came upstairs he might have approached her from behind in the bedroom where she was found and murdered her. Then he might have hid in his closet again until he thought. there was another opportunity, sneaked downstairs and murdered Mr. Borden as be lay asleep on the sofa, Lizzie being as she said in the barn.

After that be escapes to the street and goes away unnoticed with his weapon under bis coat. All this of course does violence to a dozen probabilities and enables the murderer to dodge what would seem to be almost Inevitable chances of being caught at his work or seen coming, away from it. But are they any more violated or Jthe chances taken any greater in this case than they are on the theory that Lizzie Borden did the deed ls it any more Improbable that a murderer could have' so acted and escaped than it is that 'Lizzie could have twice transformed herself with ligh niue change rapidity Irom a blood-soaked butcher to a spotless, primly clad young woman, free In the first Instance from all signs of excitement or agitation, and In the second only agitated as a girl naturally, would be who had just discovered her father lying murdered at her feet? In whatever way you look at this crime in whatever way you try to picture it and conceive how it might have been done, you have to make up your mind to accept things which are wildly improbable on the basis of any past experience of human action. It is a mere choice of Improbabilities at the best. i FIGHT THE TRUST.

The Distillers of Illinois Not in the War for Fun. Peokia, 111., June The distillers who have been fighting the Distilling and Cattle-feeding Company, at a conference to-day decided to assist the Attorney-General in every possible way in bis efforts to destroy the company. To further the plan they had their attorney draw up a statement giving ihe history of the organization of the trust In 1870 and this will be sent to the Attorney-General. lafMlfi Rates to the Fair. New York, June The general agents of the trunk lines met to-day and decided to recommend to the executive committee of the Trunk Line Association a special rate of one -fare for the round trip.

Chicago and return, on special World's Fair excursion trains. Do you ii.r. If so. and you want to kill the perfume of same. chaw White's Yucatan Gum.

It will do it in two mlauteaXX ALL DOING WELL. Condition of the Wounded Bandits. THE SONTAGS IN MINNESOTA. Incidents of Their Career in the Northwest Recalied-An Old Crime of Chris Evans. to Ibi Uoa-fas Cali.

Yisalia, June Fred Jackson is free of fever and very cheerful. His appetite Is excellent, and the stamp of his leg is knitting well without any discharge. He bas not suffered the slightest pain since tbe amputation. Dr. Pattersoon took control of Evans and Sontag yesterday.

He reports their condiiion to-day at follows: "Sontag's arm is paining him a little more than otherwise to Is doing well. Evans is pro- gressing favorably, with the exception of a slight lever and a little more pain in his I right eye. There is no increased swelling I in the eye. lam satisfied that a buckshot i penetrated the inner corner of tbe right eye then passed backward and probably in the orbital cavity. He can't see with tbat ye.

Tbe iris is wholly paralyzed and the functions of the eye suspended." June Mrs. Mary Sontag, mother of John and George '-onisg, i passed through here to-night lit Yisalia, Daring her stay there she will be tbe guest of Mrs. Chris Evans. TWO STORIES OF THE BANDITS. The Sontag Boys' Minnesota Career.

An Old Crime. A number of years ago the writer was visiting Mankato, Minn. At the time rumors of a raid by the James boys were rife. The Missouri authorities noti- I fied the Chief of Police at Mackato that it was reported to tbem that the bank at Maokato was tbe objective point, and as a consequence the greatest precautions were adopted by the bank officials. Armed guards were kept up day and night and the utmost vigilance prevailed.

On the morning of the raid the writer and a little boy were fishing the junction of the Minnesota and Blue Earth rivers, when bis attention was attracted by hat his companion called a party of soldiers minx up the road. They certainly did I resemble soldiers. Tne party consisted of eight or ten -mounted men, riding two abreast, ail wearing long linen dusters, wbien completely concealed their weapons. On reaching Mankato Jesse James, the leader of tbe party, Halted bis men opposite the bank, and oismounw. went in.

A glance was sufficient to show him the armed men silting and standing around, and throwing down a 820 he asked for change. then crossed over to where his companions were seated on their horses and was beard to remark, "The Is up here." He then entered a saloon an purchased a quart bottle of whisky and remounting his horse he and his party proceeded up tne road in the direction of Northfield. The attack on the bam: at Northiield and the killing of the cashier and the fight that followed is well known. As soon as the news reached Mankato the citizens turned out to the number of at least 500. armed with what weapons could be hastily collected.

and every roadway was patrolled. Prominent among these men were the Soutag or Conant brothers, John and George. This was their first baptism of fire, and presumably their first lesson in the art ot highway robbery. The day after the raid a party of citizens surprised the bandits and captured their burses and saddle equipments, leaving them afoot. This part of Minnesota Is cut up by what are called "winter that is, roads which in winter lead across the frozen and in their efforts to escape the bandits frequently followed these roads and found themselves balked by an impassable sheet of water and were obliged to double back on their tracks.

There are two bridges at Mankato, and it became necessary for the boys to cross there. The wagon bridge was strongly guarded, but the railroad bridge adjoining it was not thought necessary to guard, and at midnight on the third day after the attempt on the bank the outlaws secured a handcar and would have made their cape but for an unforeseen clrcumcumstance. It was the custom at a large flouring-mill to blow the whistle at midnight; this mill adjoined the railroad track, and just as the bandits passed the mill the whistle blew. Taking this for an alarm signal they jumped from the car and scattered In the timber, where they were all captured, and are cow doing time in the Stillwater penitentiary, with the exception two James boys, who. mounted ou one horse, ran the gauntlet of the guards on tbe bridge and made their escape.

This raid of the James hoys at Mankato In which the Sontag beys took part on the side of law and order must have undoubtedly been a potent factor in starting them upon their lawless career of robbery and murder. About eighteen years ago in the summer 1675, says the Yisalia Times, there occurred a fight between two men on a mountain road in this county, that has just been revived by recent events. That fight was betweeu Chris Evans and an old man by the name of A. D. Bigelow.

Many conversant with that trouble still live here and in different parts of the county, and from some of those persons we bave gathered the facts of this story. Close to the northern limit of Tulare County and on the western slope of Redwood Mountain is located the site of the old sawmill long known as tho Hyde mill. In 1875 or thereabouts the mill was owned by K. E. Hyde and run by Joseph H.

Thomas, both of this city. Among those who worked at the roil), or among timber near the mill or teamed between Yisalia and the mill were Chris Evans, his brother-in-law, Louis Byrd. and A. D. Bigelow.

Bigelow was known at the mill as a ''literary feller," for he occasionally wrote for the papers and had tha reputation of being something of a poet besides. One morning there was a sensation in camp. Chris I Evans bad found tacked up on a convenient board a short. piece of anonymous doggerel, badly spelled and badly rhymed, but containing hints that lie construed as slanderous references to his domestic affairs. No names were used in this poetical effusion, but Chris Evans flew into a rage over it.

It was not known 'who wrote It, hut common consent seemed to lay its authority upon Bigelow. Evans soon found an opportunity to wreak vengeance upon the supposed author. One day Bigelow and a friend by the name of Hunter came to what is known as Rattlesnake Mountain, on -the Camp Badger road. Near here they were met by Chris Evans: and Louis Byrd. While Bvrd stood Hunter off witb a gun lest he might interfere, attacked Bsgelow and most eraeliy best and braised bim.

It is said bis finishing strwke was a vicious wrench of biceiow's neck that almost dislocated it. was an eld grayheaded man, while Evans was yoonz. strong and in tte very prime of yoi.t_.fol vigor. Bieelow died about a year afterward. He claimed teat he never felt well afur tbe assault of and many bated his death to tbe effects of tne beating and tho wrenching os then endured.

His daughter Is married and Is living at present at A complaint was lodged azainst Evans and Byrd. and J. S. McGatey, who was deputy at tbat time coder Ai.s---£-.;. was sent to arrest tbem.

The two men at took the mountains, and for several days eluded the Chris declaring that he would be taken. But bis father-in-law. Jesse Byrd. sent tbem word to come to iowo and give themselves no and he wo old pay any fines that be imposed npon item. Thay did so, and subsequently were indicted for felonious assault and were convicted.

Evans waived time and was fined HIRAM RAPELJE. The Man Who Shot Sontag in This City. Meeting Two Strange Just Before the Battle With the Outlaws at Stone Corral. Hi Kape'je. the man who shot John Sontag, is in town.

He pronounces name with the consonant heard and not silent, as is the ease in most Calif nia words. He is a Htebiftan boy, and his intimate friends when address blm call him Hiram. Very few people meeting him on the street would recognize him as the hero of the memorable fight which ended In the rapture of the two notorious outlaws. He is soft in speech una quiet hi manner. He neatly.

height about 5 feet 8 inches, bis age shout 46 years, at.d be is square built. His occupation Das been that of a st ige-drlver. Speaking I the bzht a week azo last Sunday. In which Sontag and Evans were disabled. Rapelje said that be had been in Hiram the Man "Who Shot Sontae.

the field nearly sixty days looking for the two men. His trip under Uuited States Marshal Ganl was tbe most arduous of the" many he had made. The party bad suf- fered great privations while camping on the trail of the robbers. Burns was not taken along as a fighter, but because he was thoroughly acquainted with every loot of ground and In regard he proved to be an extremely man. One incident which has escaped the attention of the reporters who have so I graphically described the circumstances of the battle of Stone Corral was related by Kapelje.

This was the appearance of two other men on the ecene about half an hour before Sontag and Evans waited into "heir trap. One was driving a cart and the other mounted met him on the road near the bouse in which the posse had concealed themselves. They stopi ed and spoke for several minutes and then continued ou their way. Kapeijs says he believes these men were friends of Suntag and Evans, and were looking for them in accordance with a previous appointment to bring them to Visalia, which point the outlaws were making for that Sunday afternoon. In reeard to the capture of Chris Evans after he was wounded, Kapelje said that he had the first information that the wounded man had taken refuge in tne house of Llie Perkins.

He bad received his information through a letter fr a friend who was very intimate with Mrs. Chris Evans. He had communicated wit Deputy Sheriff Hall and there was an understanding that Kapelje was to run down the stricken game. But, in violation of his compact. Hall started out on the same mission, his only object being to secure the reward for the capture of Evans.

When Hall's party were seen driving so furiously in the direction of the Perkin- i bouse Rapelje believed they were friends of Evans and concluded to follow them. Kapelje at the time did not know exactly under whose roof Evans had taken refuge. His only information was that the bandit was somewhere in the vicinity. When he arrived at the Perkins house it was still dark. Mrs.

Parkins informed him that Jivans was lying wounded upstairs, and was so badly hurt that be could offer no resistance. asked for a light, but did not wait for one. He walked upstairs in the dark. When he reached the room where Evans was lying Hall struck a match, lighted a candle and claimed that Evans was bis prisoner. Kaoelje returns smith tn-day.

RAIN CAME DOWN, Literally Drenching the White City. SPOILED THE ATTENDANCE. The Weather Now Seems to Be th; Only Uncertain Quantity About the Bis Fair. to The Moa-rrxoCAti- Chicago. Jure The opened hot, but with ends and a good uni made getting about id fair grounds quite comfortable.

People began pouring into tbe grounds early, an unusually large proportion of them giving evdence being visitors from outside the city taking tbeir first view. By 10 It was estimated that XX ft it JO had passed the and Chief Tucker of tbe bureau of admissions was of fon that near 900,000 would be tbe day's i record. About noon the weather changed and in a short time rain was coming down in and the prospects for a big attendance wgre ruined. Tf.e weather erntinued stormy for the remainder of the afternoon and evening. The big Ferris wheel will be dedicated -morrow witb appropriate ceremonies.

The exposition authorities have set apar October 20 to 24 for a big reunion of war veterans of both the Confederate and Union armies. Te Grand Army posts will make efforts to bring all Use old soldiers possible to Chicago. are now being made to give the Spanish c- ravels a royal welcome on their arrival here, after their long voyage via tba St Lawience River and tbs great lakes. Tbe Mexican exhibit in tbe Forestry building was opened to the public to-day without ceremony, and the German wine exhibit v.iii be opened to-morrow by Commissioner Wermuth. Oregon is one of the States will receive daily shipments of fruit and vegetahies In the sea-ion.

first shipment, cf strawberries arrived to-day and came on: crisp and fresh as en th- day tbey were pieied. Or goo also inaugurated a daily telegraphic statement crop and conditions in tbe State, and it proved quite an interesting ihe Boor tests made in he cultural build'ng Oregon fiour waa l.utsd to be superior for whiteness and amount of eluten. Can da outstripped her competitors in the June exhibit of cheese. exh' btts, mostly cheese. these 130 scored rush en neb to win or dh of them beinz an manufacture.

Thirty-one lots scored higher than any from tbe United States, ringing in excellence from 93 per cent down. The Illinois board has decided on August ss Illinois day. A special effort will be made to mako it attractive. A party of twenty-one children, sent here from California as a reward for fine scholarship in the rublic schools, wrgiven a recep.inn in the Children's Building to-day by tbe Board of Lady Tbey were greeted by the president of the board, wbo made a pleasant talk to them aud congratulated tbem upon the prize tbat must' be of so great benefit to em us a trip to the great Columbian Exposition will undoubtedly be. There was music by the Exposition Orchestra.

The various departments in the tiuilding were shown the children. Mrs. Mary Manes Dodge was present ana made a fhort but interesting talk to the little girls. After the reception each little California girl was presented with a silver spoon as a souvenir of the trip. The children were taken to luncheon on the roof garden.

The West Virginia State building at the World's Fair was dedicated with simple i ceremonies tc-day. The lowa State band; I furnished the music for the occasion. Owing to small attendance the three world's congresses on banKinz, railway I commerce and insurance consolidated today. Bradford Rhodes of New York ad- dressed tbe congress on tbe "World's Experience in Banking." John J. P.

Odell followed in a brief address, and John F. Dillon read a paper on the constitutional guarantees of railway properties, franchises and rates against legislative spoliation. General Horace Porter read a naier i on "Safety Devices Applied to Railway Cars." This afternoon the Congress of Boards i of Trade convened. Secretary Stone of the Chicago board made an address of welcome and the remainder of tbe programme consisted of responses. A special conference of the State and I National Bank Examiners was held ana to-night there was a meeting of the Com- merce and Finance Congress.

Auk the speakers were Horace Whits on "Single Gold Standard," W. Meddaugh on "Railway Strikes," and Dr. Charles Bombaugb on "Life Insurance Progress." The "ttendance to-day was 123,318. of whicb 38.091 were employes and officials and 456(5 children. BANQUET TO MARKHAM.

The Great State of California Cannot Be Duplicated. Chicago, June A dinner in honor of Governor Markham was given by the Califomians in exile in the grand banquet hall of the Auditorium this evening. None but California wines appeared upon the menu. State Commissioner Robert McMurray, who presided, proposed the health of Governor Markham as the first citizen of California. Governor Markham rose, complimented the State and national commissions upon the harmonious manner in which they had acted, and said that to tbem all credit is due for California's magnificent representation.

"We he said, "because we have not duplicated California at the fair. California cannot be duplicated, because it is in miniature the United States. I congratulate the Commissioners upon the success of their labors, but we are not through yet. I want to warn people who think that display they saw in our building is California's exhibit to come and see it on I September 9. That will indeed be California day.

Our native sons and daughters will put on more style than those of the other States of the Union put together." Following the Governor short complimentary speeches were made by General T. W. Palmer. Murk McDonald. Moses Handy.

General. Miles and General Mattox. M. B. de Young spoke at length upon the proposed winter fair in Sau Fraucisco He was followed by Horace G.

Piatt, who did full justice to the toast "The Native Daughters of California." Short speeches were also made by S.W. Furgusson, Washington Porter, James D. Phelan, Colonel C. J. Murphy.

W. D. Kerfoot and Dr. N. J.

Bird. About fifty prominent Chlcagoans and Califomians were present among whom were Judge William T. Wallace William Irelan T. J. Hendy, H.M.

Laroe. P. T. 3. C.

Slobbs. A. Page Br' wa, Norton Bcsb. C- F- yen i Petersdorff, A. C.

V- We Drnry Colonel C. J. MarpSy, K. jL. Brownfieid.

SUNDAY CLOSING. President Harrison Desires to Put Himself on Record. Nra- Yoke, Jane la respcese a ex Harris I graphed tba from "If I am quoted as having expressed approval of tbe aetfaa ef eoenaissjosers in opening en Sunday, cr cf the decision of the Circuit Const cf it is without authority. I said to nenwaper ia Cb that is my tbe qcev.i-n r.ave been as closed forever wfces tbe Congressional donation As to the ruling of Chief Justice FaiUr, I eon Si not express a safe opinion without as ex aminatien of the briefaasd p.eadings; bs I am not inclined to a equity ran only take zince by tion inquiries strictly pecuniary. Washington, Jane Ointy has called cpon ny tte Treasury Department for an opinion cf the present status of all tte World's Fair appropriations and question-, ie view tf I the decision of tba 1 tod Court cf Apnea at Chicago on Saturday.

Tbe request is written by Assistant Secretary of tbe Treasury COWBOY RIDERS. Doc Middleton Put Out of the Race by a Lame Horse. Slots irr, June GiliesE.e sed IX ttieso Pee, cf the cewtor spent nigbt here and started at 6 a. st Gillespie's horses fine trim. Prtc's I buclcsktn looks ratber grogzv.

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