The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 14, 1893, Page 2

pil D ROBBERS SHOT. Result of a Raid on a Bank at Delta, Colorado—Cashier Blachley Killed. Ray Simpson’s Good Work.—With a Winchester he Kills two of the Outlaws. Delta, Col., Sept. 7.—The most} daring robbery ever committed in this part of Colorado occurred here | in broad daylight this morning, the object of the attack being the Far bank, and while the suis secured was siall, the robbery resulted in the death of three people —the cashier of the bank and two of the made the attack. The raid was planned on the lines of those that bave been made in Kansas towns, particularly at Cof feyville, where the Daltons met with such disaster last year. is that the bandits, if not members of that gang, have at least been identified in other bank robbers of a similar nature. The bank opened for business as usual at 10 o'clock this morning. At 10:30 three mounted men rode up to the door of the bank and, entering quickly, rushed up A. F. Blachly, cashier, presented guns and demand- ed what money he had. The cashier refused to give it up. The robbers then made a grab through the window, secured $500 and opened fire. The cashier fell, being instantly killed. The robbers then fired at H. H. Wolbert, assist- ant cashier, but missed him. The shooting attarcted the attention of citizens and Ray Simpson, a leading hardware merchant and a ‘dead shot” ran for his Winchester and started for the alley in the rear of the bank, where the robbers had tied their horses. The robbers had started out of town when Mr. Simpson got there, but he succeeded in killing two of them by snooting them through the head. Athird shot killed one of the robbers’ horses and together man and animal fell to the ground. After killing two of the robbers Mr. Simpson continued after the third one, taking several shots ot him, but without effect. Mr. Simpson then returned to the town and, getting together a posse, started at once in pursuit. The robber is thought to have about a mile the start and is mount- ed on a fine horse, going in the di rection of the mountains. If the outlaw is acquainted with the coun try there is a chance of his escaping otherwise the posse will capture him dead or alive. In the latter case he will undoubtedly be lynched on his return here. The two dead robbers were also well mounted, and the horse that was not killed was caught by the citizens. Four hundred dollars was recovered from their persons, the escaping robber carrying away the other $100. The suspicion that the men impli- eated in the robbery are remnants of the famous Dalton gang seems to be general. ~ They are not known here, and their identification has not yet been secured. The dead bandits are koth young men, of fair com- plexsion, and one of them strikingly handsome. The coroner has taken their remains in charge. Mr. Blachly, the dead cashier, was an old resident of this place, and leaves a wife anda large family of small children. He and a Mr. Bald- win owned the bank. Delta is the county seat of Delta vounty, and has a population of 900. mers’ and Mechanics’ highwaymen who Valuable Coal Deposits. Col. R. D. Blair is using his dia mond drill with splendid results on Gen. John I. Blair's land, 1} miles west of Brownington. Three holes have been made west of their old No. 2 shaft, and from 42 to 4Sinches of good coal found at depths vary- ing from 85 to 90 feet. Heavy sand rock was struck at a depth of 50 feet, heavy lime rock underlying it, and a thin layer of soap stone over the coal. Three additional prospect holes will be put down and should the coal and roofing prove equally as good, it is understood extensive min- ing will begin at once. This coal is found on a portion of the tract where veins in paying quantities’ were not thought to exist.—Clinton due to him that the holders of the | Price soc. Democrat. The belief | MISS POLLARD STRONG. inridgze introduced | His Congressman Bre Her to Noted Women as Aflianced | Washington, D. C. | quiry here among the friends of iB oth the Breckinridg and Blackburn the fact that | Colonel Breckinridge not only se cured the chaperonage of Mrs. Luke} Blackburn for Miss Pollard by rep | | resenting that she was soon to be- |families discloses come-his wife, but that he involved {a number of other society women in {Kentucky avd in Washington by himself introducing Miss Pollare and referring to Mrs. Luke Black- | burn as her chaperone In this way | lit is said he made Miss Pollard a | welcome guest in the family of Sen {ator Blackburn, whose wife is to have introduced Miss Pollard in | they were at the jail said several Washington families of high social distinction. It is Breckinridge was served said ag soou as Colonel with summonsin the breach of friend solicited an suit he sent a Blackburn avd view. inter- senator that all the facts inthe case would soon be explained,and begged him to use his good offices to have the suit withdrawn. Senator Blackburn was Bieeecred It is said he regarded himself as Colonel Breckinridge had put upon his family. He was induced, how- ever, to appeal to a number of pub- lie mén here to suspend their judg: | ment. Breckinridge is said to have declared that only his high regard has become reconciled to Congress- man Breckinridge and will be one} of his counsel in the Pollard breach | of promise suit. The change is} doubtless owing to the influence of! Phil Thompson, i ridge’s | who is and Blackburn’s iB most intimate friend. The report| that Blackburn declared his purpose | to hold Breckinridge seems to be erroneous. It is quite certain that Mrs. Luke Blackburn is an indignant as ever. She is a lady of strong character and} resolute in purpose. It is be! however that the case will never tried. The strongest the state, it appears, will be brought | to bear in Breckinridge’s defense. counsel i influence in PUT IN JAIL. JUSTICE County Judges of St. Clair Co. Tightly } Locked Up. | K. C. Times, The St. Clair county judges who are | in contempt of the United States | court in refusing to order a tax levy} to meet the bonded imdebtedness of | the county, are for the first time siuce the beginning of their trouble | being subjected to close confine | ment in jail. Heretofore the judges when committed to jail for contempt | hie only been ostensibly. They, ot course, were not allowed to go home | —it being a long distance to St. Clair county—but they had the lib- erty of the jail building and could roam through the surrounding local- ity whenever they pleased. Their room in the jail was never locked except when they chose to turn the key in the door themselves. Around the jail they seemed to strangers | more like deputy marshals than prisoners. During their Jast term | of confinement their liberty went so | far that Judge Copenhaver, presid-| ing judge of the court, who was a veteran of the late war was allowed | to march inthe parade on Decora- tion day. As to visitors they were not restricted. This treatment of judges, however | isatanend. They will now have! to conform with the jail rules. Yes- terday afternoon they were given) their first bitter dose of what | they will have to go through. was in obedience to the orders of| court under whose commitment they are in jail. The judge was greatly | ux pricon in St. Clair county as it was bonds agreed to accept 50 cents on the | promise | to Senator! This request being granted, | Breckinridge is said to have told the | at the cooluess of the proposition, | grossly insulted by the alleged sight | | me. | their money. have accumulated until $975.000 is | | the amount claimed by the holders | It, Itis this, displeased with the result of the) the acitne in payaient of their claims | | He considered it a rema arkably favor- | |able opportunity for the county, but | | when, at the election last week the Sept Goo | proposition was voted down by ma- eRe jority of ten to one it became appar-! ent that the judges efforts to effect a comprom ve were In Vain. he had allowed the home to order them a parole was understood that if the proposi- tion did not carry they would come July 5 judges to go the election, giving back to jail under the old commit- ment at the expiration of the speci fied Tuesday evening ae made their appearance ne Ti Judge P hil was in no mood to see St. Cl sand they were well aware of that fact They neve ‘theless wanted to let him know that time and promptly as stated in yesterday. rs judg yesterday aud waited in the hallway | while Wallace W. Lawton, prosecut: | ing attorney for St. Clair county. went into Judge Philip’s chambers. After waiting nearly an hour the | that he was done with St. Clair peo- ple that he had nothing to say to the judges, and that they could go to jail They obeyed, and lat- er in the day Marshal Stewart had a long conference with Judge Phil- ips. | The marshal was given to under-| stand that the liberties grauted by him to the judges must end. He went back to the jailand in a few minutes later the judges were taken | to the room assigned them on the {4th tloor and locked up. The room was supplied with the ordinary cell | furniture. The judges were chagrin. baek for the families into which he had} : eit jed by the unexpected move. secured Miss Pollard’s introduc} B eee Seed yaa tion prevented him from pursuing a| ings lasts Hoele nD ee Bee | aes that ould’ clea bid’ Gwnl| | Copenhaver cit “I favored the skits ‘ j compro: s+ proposition but it was Teciewille Ken GepeeGe=lnie now rejected. What will next be done in reported that Senator Blackburn Uno nati ties, ty ited, Bip fe jas T an concerned I can do nothing. | The wili of the people is law with Icau only remain here and let the indebtedness question be settled as it may be. Ju lge Nevitt said: | the flume ps reported me “Its just as before—the | disposition of the people of our At first the amount was A good many years ago the hold-; | ers of nineteen of the bonds surrend- | ennai and other attendant expense on them was three times the amount. Ifthe holders of the ontstandmg | bonds will turn county for $231,000,the amount they | them over to the were issued for, they will receive The interest and cos 8 ! who, through the influence of Judge | Philips, agree to settle for half the amount. If the county court want- ei to order the tax levy to meet this ; we could do so, but we do not in- | tend to make the order as long as the people of the county declare against it so strongly as they did last week. “What do I expect we will do next? Well, nothing so far as I see now. We are here at Judge Philips’ mercy. There's nothing to do but saw wood and say nothing. I don't propose to resign and will not make the tax levy. If I have to stay here for the rest of my official term, over a year, I will do so; but at the end of it the county can elect some one jelse in my place I don’t expect any other compromise proposition to be made. “While away we transacted no ‘county business. We promised Judge Philips not to do so and kept our agreemert. It made our people angry, acd some of them looked at itas though Philips was | trying to coerce them into agreeing | {to the compromise. This made some | | votes against the proposition. There , were many other influences which helped defeat it.” What Is a Guarantee? 1 It you have a cough or cold, a tickling in the throat, which keeps you constantly coughing, or if Judge Philips of the United States | you are afflicted with any chest, throat! or lung trouble, whooping cough, &c., and you use Ballard’s Horeheund Syrup | as directed, giving it a tair trial, and no | benefitis experienced, we authorize our | advertised agent to retund your money on return of bottle. It never tails to give satistaction. It never disappoints Sold by H L Tucker, drug gist. until Sept. 5. It! e | purpose of capital.* || Accordingly | -|they we-t to the federal building} judge spoke to Lawton telling bim | eae Confidence . | Kansas € The re f saneness — present is but anc jfidence—in the busi showing itself day. Ban Men who w; to sacrifice their price a now holdi 3 they expected aboom. Tho ones who put money away wher was of little u elves se to then unyone else and ;of no use to are bring- jing it out nov and seeking to put it | | where it will serve the The people are f | buyiu x of weeks everythin rs of distrust, ectionalized the e the world, erumbled away and it is tariif wall does eee now, as it has not been for past, for money or credit totbe trans- iferred from east to west and from nort to south without a discount 80} i | he avy as to wipe out all the profits | | of trade. In Wall street slg 08 | tors and investors are grabbing for the securities which they sacrificed jin the insane belief that the country | was gto ruin. In the grain markets there is a more contident feeling and the disposition to sell all the available surplus of the country at once and at any price, for |fe ar not being able to sell it at all,! {is no longer prevalent. Everywhere there is evidence of growing faith in the stability of the wealth of this nation, blessed,as it is, above all nations in material resources and in the enterprise and genius of its pec- | ple. | Itis nothing but a return of sanc- jness; norhing but the vanishing of a strange spell of insanity w night took control of a part of the people. Thanks to the cool blood of the | country it was not so disastrous as jit might have been. | | | The majority of the people of Ameriga are too | | well balanced in mind to be carried lq | away by such an influence as that which has been in control of some | = ‘thousands of minds for two months past. It is worthy of note also that even those who get scared on occasions soon control of back into regain | their judgment and get | county is to pay nothing more than | leceactomed channels quickly, as responsible | the original amount of the outstand- | though nothing bad occurred to dis- jing bonds. | $2! 50,000, the bonds calling for $1.- jas any other | 000 each. jturb them. remarkable characteristic of tke | American people is their capacity to recover quickly from ealmity. The the Re- Quite as great conserving foree of * Jered them for $19,000 although the | public is the recuperative power of lits people. No disaster can greatly overwhelm them. Much less, then, |cau the causeless fright of compara- | cvely few check for many weeks the jinereasing prosperity of the country. | Peffers Uniyersity. jator Peffer has temporarily dropped | his measures for financial relief and jis wuch interested in a bill whick he has introduced into the senate car- rying this broad title; “To advance learning in the arts and sciences and ito promote the general welfare by founding a college of scientific learn- bia.” This bill goes just a little bit fur- ther into government control of edu- cational matters and makes just a little larger dip into the government funds than anything which avy of the Populists haye ever before suge gested. The institution will be known as the Scientific University of the Red, White and Blue Cross. Only $20,000,000 are appropriated for founding the institution, but there is an endowment fund of $800,000,- 000. The endowment fund is to be loaned to citizens at the rate of 2 per cent upon the security of pro-j| ductive agricultural lands, worth | double the amount of the loans, but | not unless the state guarantees the| payment of the principal and inter est. in which these loans are to be made denominations, from one cent up to $20. All contracts in the country that stipulate for payment in any thing but legal tender are void. | No charge for tuition shall be made! | while all perons from 12 to 20 years ‘old unable to pay costs of living and jother nacessary expenses while at-| ‘tending said college, they shall be/ ” | entitled to free subsistance. legitimate} weeks such | Washington, D. 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