Show NEVS FROM NEAR LI I c I I I ILL PRO lSG THE MURDER OF OFj THE BLIND WOMAN 5 7 1 S straggle With a BurKlar The Case I of frlucess Colonna Mysterious Dfwaiipcarifacc The Jackson Hole Country under and Kreiuont Gold S Santa Rosa Feb 121lrs Mary Jane Fowler and Mrs Elizabeth Bryan sisters sis-ters of Nancy Hardin Meagher the blind woman who was murdered at her home near Pelaluma are still in jail S here They occupy rooms in the front I art of the jail and preserve a very isCreet silence Yesterday there werec 1 tne callers at the jail who expressed a desire to see them and when the jailer took them up stairs Mrs Bryan petulantly informed them that she was not receiving callers and that she would be pleased if they would bestow their curiosity upon somebody else Sirs Fowler however arose boved pleasantly pleas-antly to the callers and resumed her Beat in her usual good humor They will be taken to Petaluma Wednesday Wed-nesday morning when their preliminary prelimi-nary examination will begin The officers S ficers profess having secured considerable consid-erable important evidence since the arrest ar-rest of the women and the boy and appaiently believe that enough of a J case has been made out against them to warrant the justice in holding them I for trial S Experiments have been made with tie shotgun belonging to the Pryans Which they think will have a very imp im-p ° rtanf bearing upon the case It Is also claimed that evidence has been umulaed against Johnnie Bryan to show that the lad did not tell the truth when he talked about the kindn of slpt he used in the gun when out hunting the day before the murder Minnie lay stretched out on the cot iu5 < cell and when a San Francisco Examiner correspondent called to seeS see-S him today he was In good humor and I laughed at the efforts of the authorities authori-ties to fasten the prime upon him Why they cant keep an innocent I ppron in jail long said he I dont l know anything about the murder and I k cant tell em anything and it wouldnt make any difference if they kept me iu jail here forty years I Do you suppose he said rising upon up-on his elbow to make his words more emphatic that if I had known any Sjjmg about who killed Aunt Nannie I If S uld not have told it long ago Of I c urse I would I jes couldnt keep S fmm it No sir anybody mean and cnvardly enough to shoot a person through a window without giving em any chance at all would have given the whole thing away long before thisThen Then the boy laughed at the story that the Petaluma boy who had been I hunting with him had disputed what he said about the kind of shot he used I rd like to know how he could tell 1 jJst what kind of shot I used He I didnt have any good chance to see I hp said He said he had always liked I his aunt Nannie and she liked him but Meagher disliked him He used to I tease me he said < and one time he chased me off the place with a whip I ause he said I was listening to what f Javas being said over at his house 5 ied If he had repeated anything S > had ever heard to his mothers folks Tohnnie said he had told them things he thought were for their best interest S inter-est But he denied with vehemence any knowledge of the murder First hes aid they had Fred accused and it looked like they would hang him But they soon dropped that Then they pitched onto ma and me and Mrs Fow S I I S ler Pears to me if I had thought one S pprson had done It I would have stuck tn him a while and not dropped him aiiit > once to go for somebody else ButJpose they must pitch onto some Bi Then Johnnie switched off and talked nut his folks His father he said LP1i about twelve years ago when he S ras three years old He is the young S er1t ohild and S calls himself the baby S of 1 the family Pretty tough isnt itS it-S for the baby to be shut up in jail for something he knows nothing about he Bald with a smile Struggle With a Burglar San Jose Feb 12This morning about 4 oclock Edward Off night clerk In C W Fishers drug store on First Street was awakened Ly a stranger gently tapping at the front door Off S thought it strange that the party did not ring the bell and put his pistol I in his coat pocket At the door a man I was standing who unsuspectingly enTered en-Tered when admitted and asked for grime chlorate of potash for a sick child While taking the jar containing the medicine from the shelf the stranger stran-ger suddenly turned out the gaslight ajfji advanced a step or two confront ing Off with a gleaming revolver and I a command to give up all the money in the store Off was about to give up the keys when an opportunity presented present-ed Itself and he struck at the stranger knocking his revolver to the floor A I desperate struggle ensued and Off was I badly beaten over the head with the butt of a pistol his scalp being terribly terri-bly cut He finally managed to draw his own weapon and fired two shots as his assailant made his exit through the itai door No booty was secured Offs head is in a frightful condition from the beating Examiner A Point For the City Oakland Feb 12The city has gaUid quite an advantage in the three corf ined fight for the water front Since the institution of the suit of the state against the railroad company it lias been feared that the city could ob talc no standing before the court in rder to show that there were interests Involved othe than those of the state and the railroad But this fear has I lvn set at rest by the signing of a stipulation by Attorney General Hart aii < 3 H S Brown whereby the attor nff for the city will be permitted to dAend the citys interest In the mat tel American Princesses The experiences of a young married lady well known in this city says the I San Francisco Call in getting rid of her princely husband will not probably prob-ably convey a lesson to unmarried ladies whose papas are rich enough to make hunting titled husbands a reasonably I rea-sonably profitable industry It is a lay deeply planted in the human heartS heart-S that each individual shall acquire knowledge by his own experience The S wisest of men cannot transmit their knowledge except by adding to the store from which all knowledge is drawn The flight of one princess from her husband will tot prevent a certain I cer-tain young lady also well known in this state from flying in the opposite direction It would be interesting if the actual princess and the rich young lady who proposes to become a princess prin-cess would get together and exchange confidences It would be an Interesting Interview but it would not have mat I ma-t rial results AH the tears the actual princess could shed would not prevent fie aspirant for princely honors from I seeing how it is herself S f terIotis Disappearance Samuel Hart who kept a laundry office at Ellis and Leavenworth streets left his place of business two weeks aero and from that time up to a late hour last night bad not returned there or to his home at 506 Jessie street Hart is 24 years of age 5 feet 10 Inches In height and was dressed in pepper and salt pantaloons and vest and a brown overcoat When he went away toe left his coat in his place of business I and slipped on an overcoat which S gives rise to the belief that he intended I intend-ed to be absent only a short time S Where my poor boy could have pone to siSd Mrs Dora Theodore j hid mother yesterday js a mystery Iave visited the morgue the prisons 1 sthe hospitals and all to no pier j Be He was at my homethe day i 5 f c 5 0 S before he disappeared and was In good I spirits He had a good home and so far as I know had no entanglements with any woman which would force him to take a sudden trip out of the city He made no preparations for leaving as everything isin his room as It was when he leftit > KO to his place of usipessSari Francisco Call 5 5 5 T e Giinle Golil Placers The Fort Collins Express says Ed A Nye has just returned from the Le Garde gold placers Mr Nye reports that every foot of ground from the Laramie river to Shipman park Is staked He succeeded in locating two placer claims on one of the small tributary tri-butary streams of the Le Garde The now varies in depth from two feet at the Laramie river to five feet in Ship man park and of course he found it Impossible to satisfy himself as to the alue of the new discovery Men are coming in and going out daily some crossing the divide from this side and I others coming in from Wyoming by the Laramie trail There is no doubt that the country west of us will be thoroughly prospected the coming II summerBoomerang TIic Jncl son Hole Country A correspondent of the Laramie Boomerang writoi from Marysvale In the Jacksons Hole country as follows fol-lows Now this time of the year you will see 15000 elk concentrated within a snace of ten miles long and one mile wide Also bands of black ail deer some mountain sheep and moose chickens ducks and swans are numerous numer-ous People here have to deep watch on their haystacks at night because a common ordinary fence will keep i no elk inside nor outside and it is no uncommon un-common thing to wake Ip in the morning morn-ing and find a hundred or so elk and deer Inside your fence at your haystack hay-stack or in your yard and you need not go further than to open your door and shoot all the meat you want Sometimes it dont require a fun but a good knife will bring all he meat you need Of course everybody KHOTS of the creat riches burled along he banks of Snake river Gold has been found in Quantities but heretofore it could note h not-e saved because it was so line All these obstacles have been overcome ly Mr Boyce of Pocatello idaho This entleman has at last invented a machine ma-chine which saves 95 per cent of the fine gold and one months test has proved that anyone owning one of these machines can save 60 T = day on Snake river The machine is a rocker process with an endless motion and will work with 300 inches of water fifty tons of gravel per hour or 1200 tons in twentyfour hours The cost of the machine is 5300 which is i cheap I have letbrs from six different parties Doming inhere in-here next summer with machinery One gentleman by the name of Wilson has bought six of these machines ands I and-s preparing to come in here I think every foot of ground along Snake river will be taken next summer Will say that about 10000 acres of good placer ground is in Jacksons hole waiting for someone to take it up and work it A party of Laramie gentlemen own about 2000 acres and W O Owen is at the head of this company and they will sure make a good deal of money out oft i of-t I have a rich gentleman from Mississippi Miss-issippi i ready to put in a large ditch costing 25000 Will commence work as soon as the snow disappears and then look out for the Snake river gold I had a talk with one of the heads of the Mormon church a bishop and he says 100 families are booked for Jack S sons hole to arrive next July The settlers in here number now about 125 in I allseventyfive men fifteen married mar-ried women and the rest children Cattle S Cat-tle raising is the main business and I during summer taking out tourist and hunting parties Will gladly give any information about this country Pictures on Their Passes A California county editor objects to the rule of the fair commissioners requiring from editors photographs toe b to-e put on their passes He attacks the rule in a sarcastic strain and winds up the attack with the following imaginative description of the arrival of a rural journalist at the fair J Bird the young and forcible editor of the Jaytown Combined Harvester arrived S ar-rived today He had a little difficulty though in gaining admission Since t his photograph was taken he has been working eighteen hours a day and has become somewhat emaciated therefore there-fore does not do his picture justice He was allowed to enter after his signature signa-ture was compared with the one the ticket bore and indentifying himself by producing an unreceipted bill for his photographs Virginia Chronicle Tinnier and FremoTit Golil There is a good deal of interest manifested man-ifested In thi gold fields of Fremont b county and there is every indication that the coming season will see a large immigration to that country Several citizens of Cheyenne are preparing togo to-go there to seek their fortunes next year and the interest has extended to Colorado and many experienced miners will locate there to help develop the minees already located There is muse m-use in talking it has been demonstrated demonstrat-ed that there is gold in that countr3 and any quantity of Cheyenne Sun Ore Shipments During the month of January the Eureka and Palisade Railroad company com-pany received in transit to Salt Sand S-and Vallejo Junction Cal 1226 tons of ore from Eureka district and other mines as follows From the Diamond 747 tons Eureka Con 181 tons Jackson Jack-son 105 tons Richmond 87 tons Phenix 46 tons Idaho 41 tons and Hamburgh 20 tons There were no shipments to report from White Pine 5 the ore teams having all been laid off for the winter Reno Journal |