Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 9, 1891, Page 5

i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1801 NEWS OF NORTHWEST Fionds Roast Alive an Aged Toll Bridge Keeper and Another Old Man. THRILLING WESTERN NEWS STORIES. Bome Queer, Romantic, Remarkable and Oriminal Doings From Many Sections, BRIEFS OF THE NORTHWEST'S GROWTH. Desperate Horse Thief Rounded Up Hidden An Army Officer Arrcsted For Hunting For Treasure- Stealing Another's Overcont. In a wild, rugeed, lonesome country about eloven miles southieast of Sonora, Cal., thore was enacted o horrible tragedy early last wook, Huch a murder has not for years, if ever, startled tho inhabitants of that quiet, every- day community, Men discuss the subject with fixed looks and determined voices which aurarifl for the perpetrators of the deed if they aro caught. Across the Little Tuol umno river, near the little hamlet of M.iton, was @ fine suspension bridge;s whih had been erected by private encrprise at a cost of over $10,000, at a plice which in former days was knowvoas Wood's ferry. 1t was a toll bridge, awl Charles S, Pease was tao keeper. He Wit sixty-four years old, and had coltected th tolls for years. With him on that fateful n'_itsat Byrum N, Lowe, a friend, who was sl years old. The tollhouse is a comfort- alie place, and the two old men sat quietly tolcing, when two sneaking assassins 1 ormed themselves up to the window of the #.all house, placed a rifle upon the sill, pulled the trigger and sent a bullet through Lowe's brain, It was then an easy matter to murder Pcaso. The supposed cause of the crime was robbery, but the poor unfortunates had not more than §15 upon their persons. Not satisfied with the diabolical crime they had committed, the assassins pro ceeded to 8dd arson to murder, They deliberately pre- pared to burn the toll house, perhaps to cover their crime, perhaps for some other reason as vet unknown. Soon the lurid- tongued flames wero lapping up the structure and the remains of the two old men who had been so foully killed, plan was com- plete. The bridge is in a rather lonely place, and no oue kuew of the terrible deeds until the following ¢ The blackened bodles presented a fearful sight. Lows was found lying on his back and his arms, legs and head were entirely consumed by the fire, only the white ashés outlining what was once the members of a human belng. His trunk was burned to a crisp, the heart and lungs being baked into a solid mass. Pease was horribly burned. A small frag- ment of the body was found lying at the base of the bridge abutment, but the head, legs and arms and a large portion of . the trunk wero entirely destroyed, and what was left was badly charred, Intense excitement prevailed throughout the county because of the crime, and great indignation has been expressed at the indif- fevence of the sheriif concerning the matter. Relatives of Pease telegraphed to Sheriff Thorne of Calaveras county that they would pay 81,000 for the arrest and conviction of ihe murderers, but who they are no one can conjecture. All the evidence points to the fact that the erime was committed before the men had retired, for portions of the clothing ‘were found ou the remains. Big Gola Strike. There is great excitement at Dayton, Ne- vada county, Nev., overarich discovery of gold in Eldorado canon. Jacob Grubber, a resident of Dayton, has for several weeks been prospecting in the vicinity of Eldorado canon, and about twoweeks ago he com- menced work on a claim which was abandoned some twenty or twenty-five years ago. He followed up the ledge and has been rewarded by a discovery which is likely to result in a magnificent fortune to him. He struck a body of quartz of almost unprece- dented richuess in the faco of his drift. The ledge 18 two feet thick and the quartz from foot to hanging wall is lit- erally speckled with free gold. Pieces of the rock crushed in a motar yiclded coarse snd fine gold in such quantities as to indicate that the entire ledge would work up in_the five figured thousands per ton. Hiro Ken- nedy, a wood hauler, arrived at Dayton from the canon at 4 o'clock at night, reported the discovery, and before daylight the next morn- ing a dozen people were on their way to the new Eldorado. Everything in the shape of a rig was engaged and many started on foot for ghe scene of the find, which is about four miles from Dayton. For the last two daecades but little prospecting has been done in Eldorado canon, for, although the sides are thickly interspersed with veins ana ledges, they wero supposed to be quite or nearly' barren, Huiting Hidden Wealth, E. Gricgo and C. N. Lewis of Albuquerque, N. M., have finally succeeded in purchasing from the heirs of Antonio Sandoval a piece of property of about ono acre adjoining the old church at Barelas, a suburb of Albu- auerque—in fact, the old ruins of Antonio Bandoval's house, Mr. Sandoval died in 1861 L avery advanced age. Ho was pecuilar, cccontric, close fisted, and was recognizod as oneof the wealthiest Spanish gentlemen in New Mexico. It haslong boen a mystery what he did with his moneyor where he de- posited it before the war, for he never did business with any bavk, and when he died no record could be found to lead to the dis- covery of his hidden wealth, Some, how- ever, were under the impression that the old man buried his money on his place, and among the believers was E. Griego. Mr. Sandoval was an oxtensive dealer in cattle, sheep and horses, and old inbabitants state that he would often drive large flocks of sheep to the murkets of Mexico and Cali- fornia, returning home witn bags of gold. For the past ten yoars Mr. Griego has ) trying to purchase the property, and it is authoritatively stated has at last succeeded in company with Mr. Lewis, The gentlemen will igato the property and will dig after the hidden money, which is thoughs to amount to several hundred thousand dollars, Paring Down a Chinamin The pocketoook containing §12,000 worth of diamonds belonging to L. M. Waguer, u Los Angeles jeweler, which mysteriously disappeared two weeks ago, has boen found. They were turned over to tho chief of potice by & Chinese vegetable peddler and by him roturned to Wagner. The Chineso found the Jewels the day after they disappeared, in St. James’ park. He did not know their value, and exhibited them to various persons on his route. He sold one stone valued at $600 to a sorvant givl for 8. Intelligence of this reached the police, aud with the cluo thus furnished, detectives were put to work. Finally the aumber of his vegetable wagon was found, and by this he was traced, being finally run'down yestorday affernoon. = Wag- ner had for two weeks offered $3,000 for the return of the jewels. The Chinese was given §0. Robbed and Nearly Frozen, George Clark of San Jose, Cal,, while in Santa Clara vecontly, was accosted by a young man, who asked him to cross to the other side of the town plaza and assist in fixing a broken down wagon. When about in the center of the plaza two other men sprang from benind a tree, gagged Clark, balf stripped him, tied him to & tree and searched his pockots. They securod $60 and 8 pold ring and escaped. Two hours later Knrllm going home from services at the lothodist Episcopal church found young Clark baif naked, unconscious and almost | frozen. The officers were notified and Clark was taken to the Valley hotel and pbysicians summoned. At midoight he had recoverod consclousness, but was in & very weak condi- tion, 1 Descrved Lynohing. A man named Alderman was recently ar- | rested at Nanaimo, B, C., charged with crim- | nal assault on & little girl, Idaline Tripp. After a summary examination ho was heid for trial. The child on giving her evidencein court created a strong feeling against the prisoner nua cries of “Lynch him!" wore repeatedly heard. The prisoner, while he pleaded not guilty, partly admitted the erime. Jilted and Saicuded Throe men out walking in Oroville, Cal., saw 8 man sitting against o railw com= pany shed some di o out of town. The front of his shirt was on fire and they ran to him, thinking he was drunk. While trying to putout the fire the man foll backwards cead and it was then secn that he had shot himself through the heart, He was identi- ledas M. S. Corbelay of Wyandotte. He left a letter to his fathor saying that he had taken his Life because Eliza Parker, a girl to whom he was engaged, had broken off the engagement. Tho Skeleton Out. A gentleman who arrived in Astorla from Portland stated that there 1s a dark, deep mystery at present connected with the Ains- worth building 1 that city, says the Astorian, On top of the building 1s a skeleton, whether of a man or a woman, however, heis unable to state. He said, however, that the ghastly object had been bleaching on the tin roof for several days, and that neither the coroner’s s, the police nor the reportors secin to o any use for it. So far as he knows, ymical museum or medical lding, heand others are anxious to have the matter inquired into, Faro-Playi A delegation from the Bar association ot Port Townsend, Wash, appeared be- foro the judiciary committee of the house at Olympia recently, und asked that charges of impeachment be brought against Morris G. Sachs, judge of the superior court of Clallam, Jeflerson, K island and San_Juau coun- it The delegation vresented a sworn statement by three reputable citizens of Port Townsend in which it is alleged that Judge Sachs is in the habit of visiting gambling dens ana_participating openly in faro. It is further charged that Judge Sichs has in sev- eral instances prejudiced cases and sat in judgment in causes where hehad a personal intorest, refusing first to excuse himself. Tho committeo advised the delegation to formulate charges of impeachment and to present them to the house, which will intura bring them vefore the senate. « Judge. Wanted to See the Coin. The new district attorney‘createda sensa- tion in banking circles of Hockton, Cal refusing to recognize o cortificato of spo doposit in a bank 0s a logal equivalent for money. When the new treasurer took office last month he recewve d certificates of deposit in the local banks and on changing the de- pository accepted their certificates for the coin, his bondsmen being principally stock- liolders of the bank, The county furnishes no safe place for the money, and it is the cus- tom to deposit it in the local banks. When the chairman of the board of super- visors, the auditor aud the district attorney were called to count the money thus morning o certificate of special deposit for $250,000 was not recoguized by the district attorney. “The other oficers were ready to accept it. The count was not made, and there is talk of taking the matter into the courts. Timber Frauds Convicted. In the United States court at Portland, Ore., last week C. I\ Stono was tried and convicted on a charge of defrauding the gov- ernment by fraudulently locating timber land claims, For the past two years Stone n company with @ man named E. J. Hyde has becn locating parties in Oregon and Washington on government lands, recoiving $100 rom euch ono. Alter final proof had been made Stone agreed to buy the land from tho parties who located it, giving them-a check on the bank for 81,000, payable in ninety days. The officers have been on their track for a long time, and_finally run them down at The Dalles several months ago. Stone, who is a desperate fellow, fought the ofticers like a tiger, but was finally over- powered. The penalty of this crimo’is two vears’ imprisonment. Both men will be ied on @ charge of subornation of perjury, aud, if convicted, will got an addional five years. Army Ofiicers Accused of Theft. A strange case was before the police mag- istrate at Miles, Mont., last week. Licutenant E. Anderson of Troop C, First cavalry,was charged with larceny and pleaded guilty. He was fined % and costs, amount- ing to §20, and ordered 10 return the stolen property. The facts are said to bo that Licutenant Anderson threw his buffalo over- cont on Honry Kankum's wagons, one of the military train from the Little Missouri. At night when he aud his brothor officers boked for tho coat it was goue, Audersou then selzed Rankum’s cont and fur gloves, not- withstanding the man’s protest, whbo was compelled to drive his team_ without either ovorcoat or gloves. When the command. ar- rived at Fort Keogh ho spffered intensely from neuralgia and had to bo treated by the doctor. He will probably bring suit for damages, The confession of guilt on the part of the oficer will make the case a more complicated one when it comes before the military authorities for trial, Denounced the Messiah. Black Coat, the progressive chief of 900 Arapaboe Indians on the Wind river reserva- tion in Wyoming has never accepted the Messiah theory and has used his utmost en- deavors to keep his peop'e out of the move- ment, In this work he was seconded by the priests, who have been laboring in the tribe ten years or more. Yetmany of the youung men have been keen to join the revival, This element was lod by a designing medl- cine man, a cruel old fellow, who set. up asa healer and prophet after ap escapo from o leaden hail during a horse-stealing ex- pedition. Several Dbig powwows wero held and on these oceasions the priests acted as arbitrators. The discussions were warm and free. Black Coat finally sug- pested a practical test. Five of the trive should visit the Messiah and report. He would name the chairman of the committee and the dissatisfied fuction could select the four members. This was agreed to at once, and Yellow Eagle, a brighv young red grad- uate from school at Geneva, Neb,, left with the three warriors and ,the meaicine man's brother and a first lieu ‘enant. They were gone five weeks. Four .m{s were spent witi the Messiah, Yellow Eagle makes a written report which is sent to the Cheyenne papers by Father Scaliin, Yellow Eaglo says he pl‘u{ad to the sup- posed Christ al) the way. He found the man at the fourth agency from here in Nevada, and his name is John Johnson, “1 examined him thoroughly and found him to be nothing but a smart Indian, well able to deceive the simple. T told him I had come to see my dead friends, as I had neard he could bring them Lack to life, When ne saw he could not tool me he said he had no power over the dead. 1 called him a liar and & fool for gettang bis peoplo into trouble, and that if he did not quit his false pretensions I would see that he was punished. 'He began to fear and tremble, and said runpers from five different tribes’ had been to see him, and he told them to be good and penceable and dunce only once a month. He s now found out and his power euded.” Yellow Eagle's party was given a big foast, and their report is accepted as tinal. ‘Frisco’s Veteran Fire Chief, Chief David Scanuel of the San Francisco fire department last week celobrated his seventy-first birthday. The Call-says that for & man who has attained age and wno for 0 many years has done fire duty, stood all the hard knocks and has been’ overheated and drenched times without numbor while at his post, in fighting tire, David Scanuel is most remarkable man, one who does not show the years he carrics but looks, as he proudly says bimself, tweuty years younger than he really Is. “1 may say," remarked an old veteran “that the chief is & rewmarkable man when you take into consideration that he has got scarcely a wholo bone fn his body. Why, he | has had brick walls crush him, smoke has laid him out, cornices hav been thrown from his bugey I do W how many times: but he has alway eame out all right, and is as ready to answer the call df duty as he ever was.' Chief Scannell was born in 1520, and lived in New York till 1846 when he joinea the vol- unteers and 100k part in the Mexican war, as a member of Company C, First New York struck bim, and t | stato volunteers, commanded by Colonel W. C. Burnett. He, at tho close of war, was an_officer. He came Californis o 1851 via the Isthmus of Darien and soon became identified with tho | fire department, and in July 1856 he becamo the first sheriff of this city and county uuder the consolidation act. In the early days he became n member of Empire Engine company 1, the compauy of which David C. Broderick was foremin, and which aftor his deata was koown as Broderick 1, In 181 he was elevted chief engineer of the volunteer de- partment, holding that office continuously until the close of 187, when the paid tire artment relieved the volunteers and the the to chief was succeeded by Franklin E. R Whitaey, On_the 4th of April, 1871, Chief Scannell was clected chief ot the paid department to succoed Charles H. onand held that position until April , when he was again succeeded by Whitney, who only held until December 1 of that y On that day Chief Scannell was again clocted chief enginecr and has held office ever sinco. During the time that s been an officer of tho department it ased_materially and he has done much to make it an efficient one. An Italian’s itom Sixteen years ago Petor Bacigalupi driftod into Oakland from New York city, where ho was born of poor Italian parents, He soon carned a good living and shortly afterward married Miss Lesseur, one of Oakland’s belles. Their married life was havpy for a time, and then they quarreled. Bacigalupt left his wife and after wandering about finally landed aboard of a steame: bound for Callao. Mrs. Bacigalupi did not mourn her husband’s absence, but securod_a divorco in San Jose, and last May married Andrew Duffy, a cigar dealer at the Seventh street broad e sta Bacigalupi's life from tho time he reached Lima, Peru, reads like o romance. 1 oaay heis the richest man in Peru, yet his capital when he reached the South Auwerican was but $4, and that was stolen from him before night. He becamo the confidential clerk of E, D. Adams, an American living and_doing business at Lima. Adams died aud Bacigalupi succeeded to his business and also married his widow. From that timo every step Bacigalupl took was nee. successful, Ho built up an enormous trade ayd carries in his establishment of American goods from a pin to an anchor, introduced _the typewriter, sold sowing machines, snap cameras and overy other kind of Américan invention. He fitted up two vessels as men-of-war, and made a fortune out of coal and pork specula= i He also built a_theater to seat 2,000 persons in sixty days, personally superin- tending its construction, He engaged in the | at a distance of about blghty feet from was engaged in painting thestoeple, when ho lost his balance. Hllnfiol haviog veen caught in the rope, he dangl tho air, head down, the ground, until his rescuers, “A. P, Montgom ery, 1. V. Garrigus: and E. P. Staridie spliced two ladders angd rescaed him from b perilious position, Corpstein was unconscious when found, the blood Tinning from his nose and mouth., He was ‘réstored to conscious- ness in about half an hour, NEWS OF THE. NORTH ST, HNebraska. A Sons of Veterans .camp has boen mus- tered in at Tekamab A broken rail ditohed tho fast freight near Osceoln, but no one was hurt, There are 200 more pupils enrolled Plattsmouth schools than last year. Albion business men talk of organizing a stock company to build a first class creamery. The Ancient Order of United Workmen lodge of Haray enjoyed a flue banquet last week. It is said that Madison teachers are unable to get their pay because there is no money in the treasury. While operating & circular saw, L. Alis- paugh, an Auburn bee hive manufacturer, lost his thumb. An eleetion has been called for March 3 at Tekamah on the question of issuing 10,000 in bonds for waterworks, The firm of<Lorance & Brush, bakers and confectioners at Auburn, has assigned for the benefit of creditors. The question of changing from the com- missioner system to township organi zation is being agitated in Burt county. The Home Missionary society of Rising City Congregational church has sent cloth- ing to the drouth sufferers valued at $150 A shooting match will be held at Hastings February 25 for 50 a side between Frank Crabill of that city and C. C. Halzworth of Juniata, A petition s in the being cireulated in Dodge county protesting against the proposed ap- propriation of $150,000 to advertise Nebraska ut the world’s fair, There was no coal for sale in Paxton last last week and the Union Pacific agent sceured consent to sell the comvany's supply in small quantities to those in need. According to the Nebraskan there is a man in Hastings so mean that although he has money, he allows his aged father and mother 10 be Kept by the city or starve, A Nebraska City man pawned his coat and shoes for whisky on a very cold day last week and was found in a drunken sleep in a hallway in his shirt sl at night. He was arrested and given a chance to sober up. The state buard of pharmacy will bold eetings for the examination of applicauts for registration as ph ists a8 follows: At Millard hotel, Omaha, Tuesday, February 10: at Lincoln botel, Lincoln, Wednesday, February 115 at Graad Army of the Repub- lio hall, Gratd_Island, Thursday, February 12. Examinations will occur promptly at d o. m. of each da; Madge D the adopted daughter of R. seventoen-year-old Day of Tekamah, printing aud publishiug busiucss also and prints the Peru lilustrado, the only periodi- cal of its kind in South A mer Great Northern Extension. Burns and Chapman, the well known rail- road contractors of Spokane Falls, Wash., have received offieial notice that their con- tract for building fifty-five miles of the Great Northern railroad had been approved by the chiof cngincor. This contract is for the con- struction of the road from Kootenai falls, on Kootonal river, westward to tho Halfway house, which is Lialf way between Bonner's ferry, on Kootenai river, and Kootenai station, on the main line of the Northern Pacific. This_is as far wost as the rond has been d efinitely located. Burns and Chapman will employ 2,500 men, some of whom have already been sent to the front to begin work. The coutract will roquire the expenditure of over 1,000,000, 85 it includes somo of the hoaviest worlk on the line. The contractors expoct to have their part of the road built and ready for operation by January 1, next, and it is confidently expected that cars will'be running to Spokane Falls by that time, as the work between tho Halfway house'and Spokane Falls will b comparatively light. Burns & Chapman are among the largest railroad con- tractors in the morthwest, haying built the Cascado branch of the Northern Pacitic, also the Spokane & Northern and a large portion of the Oregon Short Line. Surveying partios are strung out along the proposed line of the Great Northern from Spokane Falls west to the summit of the Caseade mountains. The indications are, however, that Spokane Falls will bo the western terminus of the road for atleasta year. Famous Horso Thief Bagged. One of the most notorious horse thievos of the western country has just been taken to San Quentin, Cal,, prison. His name is Jack Wiltiams, but heis known as “Black Jack. Williams has been a terror in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, for several years, and is grimly remembered by a score of horse- owners in southern California. When Cap- taln Lawton went in pursuit of Geronimo he employed “Black Jack” as a scout, and the latter rendered invaluablo sorvices in the ex- citing escapades which followed. He took to horse-stealing on a large scale, until ho. acquired large band of animals. The manner of his permanent caj ture shows what an important part words sometimes play in the dramas of lifo, “Black Jack” was first arrested for stealing horses in Sonora, ‘The courts in Arizona had no jurisdiction in the matter and the pris- oner socured his discharge. Marshal Paul subsequently had him arrested for smug- gling horses across tho border, The mar- shal had opium precedents to go by, and he believed that smuggling horses into the coun- try was just as illegal a procedure as bring. fug in contraband opium. The charge held, and williams will serve a good-sized term in n Quentin before returning to his old stamplng ground. Going Out of Politics C. P. Huntington’s threat that the South- ern Paciflc railroad compmmy must keep out of politics is either being carried out effectu- ally, else a big bluff is being made to deceive the public in that dircction, From different parts of California word comes that politi- cians whe have held sinecures from the big corporation are losing their jobs. An Oak- land, Cal., dispatch tells this story: Wil- liam' Cruse was explaining how he left the employ of the Southern Pacitic company, and this was the way he summod it up: “I was fired, fired bodily, and I want overybody to know it. I didu't resign at all. 1 was just fired.” Cruse is one of the West Oakland po- litical landmarks, Ho is a republican of the stalwart brand, and has boen oue of the principal faotors in the manipulation of First ward politics for many yoars. He was em- ployed by the Soutnern Pacific company as foreman of their bridge and building depart- ment, and as such he exerted an influence over the yardmen, and he it was who used to manipulato the vote of the railroad yards. But Cruse was always faithful to his * polit- foal trusts, If he did not labor very hard for the bridge and building department, so he will bo sent to Palo Alto and will be made a foroman ou the Leland Stanford, jr., uni- versity. Arizona Pow-Wow. An Indian pow-wow, under charge of Chisf Sherum of the Wallapai tribe. has boen golng on at Music mountain, in Mohave county. Delogates of fifteen of cach fromthe Apaches of San Carlos, the Yumas, Mari- copas, Pimas, Mohaves and Piutes have been in attendance. Captain Bill, a member of tne Wallapai tribe, gave information concerning the pow-wow, but refuses to state the object. Sherum, it is known, is not friendly to the whites, but is afraid to make any trouble owing to the weakness of his tribe, ' Captain Bill said the meeting would last about ten ays. Robbed by n Gunst. Herman Luckhardt, aged nineteen, whose home is in San Frauncisco where he is respoc- tably conuected, confessed to entering J, J Otw's assaying establishment at Nevada City, Cal. He had beon making bis home with the Ott family recently and in that way got an op- portunity to steal the key o the building and entered it. Owing to his youth he was per- mitted to plead guilty to petit larceny. Suspended in Mid Air, J. P. Corpstew met with an accident at the Cupertino church which neacly resulted in his deuth, says the San Jose Herald, He has aisappeared from home. loft at the school house and from what cau be learned of her location it is_thought she left to join & young man with whom she has become infatuated. This is her second es- epade and her guardian bas signifed his in- tention of making no effort to bring her back home M. C. Frank, editor of the York Republi- can, started out to shoot a polecat which was Filling his chickens. While carrying the gun in position to shoot it slipped from his_grasp and was discharged, the lond taking effect in bis foot aud making & wound so serious that it may be necessary to amputate the limb. Mr. Frank has only one arm, the other one having been amputated by a raliroad train o year or s0 go. From notes she Utah. The number of gentiles in Utah now is es- timated at 75,000. “Who Made Hell?""'is the title of a poem in the Payson Leader. Utah and Wasatch counties have purchased the old Provo Canon toll road for $,000. A vein of ashestos has been found in one of the levels of the Ontario mine at Park City. The Welsh society of Salt Lake will hold three sessions.on March 2 in celebration of St. David's day. Governor Thomas has proclaimed that the March term of the Second district court is to be held at Milford. Salt Lake county records hold 6,267 un- cancelled mortgages, The county assessor has just revised them. The shipments of mutton sheep cast from Utah the past three years are said to have averaged 250,000 per year, A strike of good ore is reported in the Turk at Dragon Hollow, Tintic, and another in Cottonwood, near the Emma, A paying vein of silver has been found in Chicken creek canon, near Levan, and pros- pectors are busy unearthing it. Willard, Utah, is to have a brick plant next spring that will have & capacity of 30,000 brick daily. The machinery has been ordered., It is said that there are upwards of fifty thousand sheep in und around the Wabhwah valley west of Frisco, and that most of them ist of herds that have been brought down from Salt Lake and the region immed- intely north of that county to winter. Pat Crowley and two companions, while working in the Bullion Beck mine at Eureka last week, were overcome by bad air. When discovered Crowley was dead and his fellow workmen insensible, but the other men soon recovered after beiug brought to the surface. A one-legged white man from Salt Lake and a one-legged negro from Provo had a des- perate sevel nd prize fight at Tintic last weel. The negro was victorious and put_ his man fo sieep in good shape. Tho fight was for #0 a side and the one-legged champion- ship of Utah, Salt Luke Tribune: George A. Smith of Kansas is in Salt Lake searching for his brother, Joln Wesley Smith, who_left Sioux Falls, S, D., sixteen years ago. John Wos- ley would do well to guh himself in a position to be found, as he is heir to an estate worth $100,000, which he can get by calling for it. He was seen in Ogden eightéen months ago, at which time he said he was going to Port- land, but nothing has been heard of him since, There are & great many wild, unbroken horses running at large on the desert be- tween Iron county and Ploche. These ani- mals are genorally the colts of stock turned out on the range by Iron county people. There is much speculation as to whom they belong because other horses than those be- longing in Iron county ruun there. It is claimed that the wild horses are a nuisance at present. and are occupying one of the best winter ranges in Utah, to the exclusion of other more valuable stocls. Washington, The new dock at Port Hadlock will be 325 feet long, 100 feot Wide, and will uft 8,000 tons, ' The Great Northerh railroad has filed with the auditor of Kittitas county a mortgage for £6,000,000, The farmers at Davenport are happy at getting 49 cents a bushel for wheat and in Laving plenty of cars 19 ship it. Prominent Washinglon statesmen wero victimized by an adventuress claiming to be Congressman Holwan's daughter. The litigation over the.Dead Medicine silyer mine, whnich has ocengecupying the attention of the Washington state courts for three years, has been amicably settled. A company is being itcorporated in Tacoma to build a natatorium to be' located in & five- story building. The first floor will be the swilming fank, secoad an assembly room and coneert hall, and the upper floors rooms and offlces. The investigation by the congressional com- mittee into the advisability of opening the Puyallup reservation, near Tacoma, hasde- veloped the fact that the Indians have sold or contracted to sell nearly one-third of the reservation, for which thoy have received some $25,000 in part payment. ‘The supreme court rendered a_decision in tho case of the state against the city of Spo- kane Falls to recover from the city 10 per cent of the ammount collected for liquor ises from April 2, 1885 to December, The amount alléged to have been col- lected by the aty during that time was §10: 000, The court decided in favor of the state, crsing the aecision of the lower court. nere are similar cases against Tacoma, Seattle, Walla Walla and other towns in which 'large sums of money are involved. Juder this decision the revenue of the state will be increased by over §0,000 annually, Three suits against the city of Seattle were heard 1n the superior court at a_special ses- sion ta determine whether the city had a right to imposo o special license of $1,000 & year upon saloons having musical and the rical atteactions, A short time ago the city council passed an ordinance increasing the license for saloons of this class from $100 to #1,00 a year. A number of proprietors ‘of eators got out restraining orders to provent ¥ from collecting this licenso and the from interferiug with their saloon musical attachments. The court has taken the case under advisement. California. A colony will by some people from 1llinois, Alively earthquake was experienced at Sunta Rosa. No damage was done, Murphy and Semple struck a_pocket near Coultervilie recently, from which they took §11,000 in fine gold. San Diego has entered suit for §52,104.85 against the Southern Pacific company for de- linguent taxes for 1887, Railroad Commissioner Rea has sued Uriah Wood of San Jose for alleged slander, He puts his damages at $100,000. A big bull buffalo has boeen shipped from rden City, Kan,, and will be placed in Golden Gate park in Sau Francisc: The owners of amme on White river, Tulare county, crushed twelve tons of rock last week nud got £1,000 worth of gold. The Los Angeles Times says the people of Oranee county are out £1,620 on the deal in gotting a separation from the old county. A train struck the Downieville stage at Marysville and_five persons barely escaped death., Some of them were badly bruised Thomas C. Riddl of San Francisco, has and committed, o the A prominent contractor been declared insane apa insane asylum, “Thero is a bill before the legislature calling for au appropriation of §200,000 for the pur- pose of constructing a sea wall at San Diego Three Santa Cruz dealers have been fined for selling cf rarettes to the same boy, he nted himsolf as being At San Jose George Baldwip, a veteran r, fell from a wagon and was killed by passing over his head and crushing his skull, Work will soon be started on a_jetty at tho entrance to the harbor of San Diego. years ago congress appropriated §5,000 the purpose. A compang is putting up machinery to run by steam at the gold brook near Crescent City. The expoct to work twelye tons of sand an hour, 2 A swan was killed in Trinity county last week by Vau Young. Its wibgs measu seven feet when spread out and it weighe sixteen pounds. Up to date ten lawyers are employed in trying to scttlo the estate of the late Farmer Johnson of San Joaquin county, whose will has not been found. A Mexican named Moyala was convicted of manslaughter at San Andreas and sent to state’s prison for two years and six months. His victim was an Indian. At Independence, Inyi and other plants are weather continues warm, and everything in- dicates that spring is at hand, Samuel Millikin of Santa Clara, the other ile lookiug for a lotion for his_eyes, rubbed some croton oil in tlem. 1t is feared he will lose one of the optics. While visiting at his Yolo county ranch after the conclusion of the Palmer trial, Sen- ator Fair stumbled and fell, cutting a_severe gashin his face. His left oar wus nearly cut in two. he California hop growers' met at Sacramento, the object being to procure legislative action on_beer adulterations, the prevention of importation of diseased hop Toots, etc. The experiments being made in the Sun Francisco city and county hospital with Koch's lymph are thourht to demonstrato so far the efficacy of the remedy in tuberculous complaints, A man named J. C. Clarkson is charged with baving swindlod a number of people at Los Angeles by meaus of an alleged bene- ficiary order known as “The Progressive Beneflt Order.” A house of ill repute in Williams was burned. One of the inmates, Sadio Adams, or Van Orden, pevished in tho flames and her body was' burned to crisp, The cause of the fire is unknown. A. Schiele, provrietor of the Central house at San Jose, which was destroyed by fire and in which two lives were lost, was arrested on acharge of arson aud released on 2,000 bonds vending examination, Charles Pelosier, aged twenty, of Watson- ville, while returnink from & hunt Mond identally killed. His gun_ caught while crossing a cattle guard and the load was di ed into his body. Track laying on the Southern Pacific ex- tension at Chino is in progress. Nearly 100 men are engaged in the grading, which is nearly finished. The company expects to open the liue some time this month. I'rank Wilson, a boy 11 years of age, is in custody at San' Diego for larceny, Heis a confirmed thief, having been arrésted half a dozen times within a year, On’ tho vresent cccasion he stole 810 from his father. Tho Lower Californian says thav_over £100,000 worth of cloths mado by the Ense- nada woollen mills have been shipped to Mexico, and they comparo yery favorably with imported English and Fronch cloths. A decision was rendered by three Superior judges of San Diego county that there is no legally existing police courtin that citv under its uew freehold charter. The salary has been reduced to 30 a year by the city council, Tne editor of a Colusa-paper saw fit to criticize a_baru-storming company recently, The manager and the “heavy villain” tried to assault tho editor, but he produced a_gun and drove the pair into the Sacramento river. Joseph Morrow was mysteriously shot near Elk Grove, and his assailant nas been identi- fled as T\ J. Batty, a stepson of Morrow. His stepfather stabbed him some years ago at Chico and the shooting was doue in revenge. The report of Isaac Upham, president of the San Francisco board of trade, made to that body shows the productions of California for the past year to have amounted to 119,415,114, an"increase of 4,062,857 over 1589, Tho petroleum excitement in the Mattalo section, near Eureks, bids fair to throw the country into a fever of excitement. There seems to be every reason to believe that oil and gas may be produced :n paying quan- tities, George I. Holt died in Santa Cruz. He was a member of the well known *California Hundred,” which went east and became Company A_of the Second Massachusetts cavalry, with which command he served from 1862 until the surrender of Lce at Appomat- tox. Contracts nave been signed for all the machinery required to run the new Stockton flouring mill ata capacity of of flour a day. The price was 860,500, will be the thivd mill of tnat capacity in Stockton, and will be in operation early next summer. Richard R. Jones, whilo working in the Tyler drift diggings near Campeonville, Yuba county, was shiockingly out up sbout the face and arms by the explosion of a blast. 1t bad hung fire, and he went back into the dritt to seo what the trouble was, when the charge exploded, ‘The residence of George Long near Lassen, was broken into recently and the furniture destroyed. The malicious persons, not con- tent with this, fixed a shotgun in the harn in such @ tion that when the door was opened the gun would be discharged, per- haps with fatal effect to the one entering, Fire destroved two dwelling houscs on Coronado Beach belonging to J. F. Beaudry and Mrs. J. 8. Briges. No cause can be given for the fire. The inmates barely es- caped with their lives in the clothes they slept in, Coronado has no fire department, and nothing could be done to put outtne flames. As Dr. Booth of Tne Necdles was leaving the bedside of a patient the other evening he was shot at by an unkunown assailant with a Winchester rifle. A policoman who at- tempted 10 arrest the man was shot in the arm. He was finally clubbed into insensi- bility and his weapon taken from him. He was insane. A warraut has been sworn out by John Kelly for the arrest of Justice of the Peace Lovejoy of Mississippi township, Sacramento county, for petit larceny, Ho charges him with picking bis pocket of 830, Ho says Lovejoy is an ex-convict and a reformed opium fiend. Lovejoy was elected by a small wajority at the last election. A few days ago the three-and-a-half-year- old son of Joun Kennedy of Nevada City strayed from bome and got lost 1n the moun- tains near by. He wandered around until nightfall and theu, like the babes in the story book, scraped some leaves together and 0 for r | bo started near Tulare City | slept on the improvised couch until day- vreak. He then made his way to & ranch, where ho was found by the men who were searching for him, lecontly 8 youug man who wis hunting in the woods near Novada City was chased by a wild hog and ““troed.” As the beast showed slgns of staying, the young man ref down for his ritlo, which ho had leftstanding aguinst the truuk. In drawing it up it was discharged and the ball so badly shattered the hand that it was found necessary to am- putate it. A. M. Thompson of Panoche was mstantly killed the other duy while digging a well on his ranch. A horse was employod in haul- ing the bucket from the well, and & new, stiff rope was being used. The rope became untied whilo the lnaaed bucket was beiug lifted from the well, and in falling it struck Mr. Thompson on the forchead, crushing the skull and causing his death The Ukiah Press says: D. (. Pitner 1s prepariug 4 novel incubator and one on a gigantic sca'e. His hop house is to be con verted into onme. The house contains two rooms, cach twenty-four feet square, with a capacity of 16,000 exgs. Ho will begin about February 10, by trying S,000 exes in one of the rooms. It is to bo heated with wood and kept at a temperature of 103, 1t will require attention duy and night. Oreg Isanc Briggs, o pioncer of 1847, diod at Springhield, Ho was eighty-nine years of age. The logislature has been asked to ‘appro printe $1,000 to start 4 rogue’s gallery at the state prison The Evening Telegram of Portland has been purchased by a party of St. Paul capi- talists beaded by G. H. Moftat, Ex-State Printer of Oregon W. A. MePher- son died at Portland. Dissipation had made him a mental and physical wreck. The Southern Pacilic rounahouse at Port- land was destroyed by fire, with two engines and throe coaches. Loss about $30,000 The state treasurer of Oregon reports cash on hand of 14 He also holds bonds rities for insurance companies worth ). Burglars entored the postofice at Rose- bergz and, opening the safe, took £1,200. They overlooked §75 in coin and about $4,500 in promissary notes. The steam schooner Louisa Olsen has sailed from Portland for a year's cruise to Behring sea. Sho is the first sealor to leave that port for northern waters. The Eugene City board of trade has de- cided to give £5,000 as a bonus for the estab- lishment of a first-class fruitand vegetable cannery at that place, Cattle and horses ‘are dying in large num- bers around More, and the owners have sent for tho state veterinary oficer to find out the cause of the epidemi Twel-Da-Ha-Ma-Nine, the oldest Indian Umatillas, died last weck. The he was more than one hundred and twenty years old. ‘aptain Allan P, Warron of the steamer shaw was drowned near Astoria a fow days ago. A boat e was instruck a snag and he lost his balance, falling overboard. A female cougar in Tillamook county killed seventy-five sheep recently in oné band. Hunters started for her scalp, but she es caped. Two of her cubs, however, wereshot. “T'he charred remains of B, Haggo, o farmer who lived near Boyd, ten miles south of The Dailes, were found in the ruius of his burned cabin, Hagge was a vacholor, living alone, and nothing can be learned us to the cause of the fire. 1d Bettinger, employed at the railroad yard at Pendleton, while uncoupling cars, missed his footing and was rolled along the track in front of & car for some distance.” He was unconscious when picked up, but it is thought he will recover. During evening service in the Baptist church at Linkville, the chandelier fell to the floor and scattered blazing oil_ou the carpet aud seats, A panic seized everyone but Pastor Spoon, who stood by and “saved the building frowm destruction, ‘The Skybomish, an affluent of the Snohom- ish, 4 stréam that empties into Puget sound, is said to abound with the “tyee,” or king salmon. This stream has not hitherto been resorted to by fishermen, but the Indians have spread the fame of the “tyee," and it is likely that it uow will be, At Meagher's Landing on the Columbia, near Astoria, a few days ago, Jeremiah Me- Graw attacked his brother, Rovert McGraw, and stabbed him three times, inflicting wounas that are likely to prove fatal. The wen had an unsavory reputation, but nothing is known of the cause of the crime, Five more damago suits have beon brought against the Southern Pacitic railroad com pany by passengers on tho tran wrecked at _ake Labish in_ November last. The dam- ages asked for n the five suits today amount o §02,850, In all sev suits Lave been brought, asking for §277,025. A bill introduced in the Oregon legislaturo aims to take the building of the city hall at Porland from the hands of the city council and place it in the hands of a commission. T'he councilmen will oppose the bill to the bitter end. They now have tho structuro well under way and do not propose to lose their job, Two Japanese women were shot in a Port- land house by a Chinaman, Thoy becamo involved in & quarrel over a smail sum of when the Chinese drew a revolver and fired several shots. One of the women fs thought to be fatally injured, ns a bullet entered ber thigh and ranged upward, The Chinese escaped. . M. 0. Holston, convicted of forging pen- siou vouchers and checks, was sentenced at Portlandto the penitentiary for ten years, Holston, who s an old man. broke down and wept bitterly. Ho claimed to be an old soldier and has ‘an_excellent rocord. It is claimed that Holston had nine wives, but this he emphatically denies. The rush of freight at Portland for San Francisco by the Union Pacific steamers during the past month has been unprece- dented. Grain, potatoes, etc., have been pouring in from Willamette valley until the steamship dock is crowded. The company has found it necessary to stop receiving any- hing but strictly perishable freight. Company G, First regiment, infantry, O, N. G., has issued a challenge to any company ou the Pacific coast for a drill for not less than $1,000 a side and the entire gate s, Each company to drill thirty-two men, two guides and three oflicers in the school of the soldier and company. Upton's tactics and official decisions to govern. Three army of- cers ave to judge and their decision to ve final. The drill to take place in Portland. Two boys, respectively eight and nine years of age, wero arrested at Portland the other day for breaking into a store under cover of the night, forcing the till, and steal- inga quantity of knives and books. The crime was excented with a_coolness and at- tention to detail that would have done an old hand proud. In cousideration of the boys' youth they were returned to their parents. A little girl of Mr. Linville, residing on Lower Trout creek, n Cross Ke, burned to death last week. Mrs. L attention was attracted by loud screams from the children, and when she returned to the house the mother found the dress of her lit- tle girl in flames. Itis supposed she went too close to the fireplace or that one of tho other children ignited her dress by holding a lighted brand to 1t, Ting Wing,n well known Chineso lubor contractor proposes Lo institute heavy dam- age suits against Pendleton and other east- ern Oregon towns for outrages committed on his countrymen in the recent raids. Ting Wing had'a larae force of men at work on the Union Pacitic railway, and as they all re wurned to Portland, glad to escape with th lives, ho will seck ‘redress of Manager M Nell for breach of contract. Some of the Chineso lost considerable property. Directors of the Portland clearing house last week held their annual meoting and elected & new board of ofticors as follows : President, R. L. Durham; vice president, W. M. Ladd; secretary, H. C. Stratton ; managor, J. L. Hartmao, A clearing house commitiec was appointed as follows: G. 1. Withing- ton, William Mackintosh, R, L. Durham, D, F. Sherman and L A. Macrum. The total exchanges for the vear ending December 31, 1800, aggregute $95,430,224.75; balances, $17,- 785,075,84. ~ The daily average exchunges, 08,527.87; daily average balances, § The total ‘exchanges during Junuary, 1501, were §5,654,545.11, Colorado, During 1800 2,317 dwellings were erected in Den ‘The' amount expended ou new buildiugs of all kinds was $16,500,000, Following is the number of acres of land filea aud entored in the various land ofiic's of the state auring 18%0: Denver, b, 7i; Pueblo, 239,407; Glenwood Springs, 62,7 Central City, 924,783; Del Norte, 106,001 ; Gunnison, 9,380; Durango, 70,08 ; Sterling, 97.254; Hugo, 15,620: Montrose, 25,0600; A% | ron, 87,000; total, 3,252,060, A pool was recently formed to work the Barker mine in the Novada district. A plant 18 belng orocted consisting of # thirty-horse power engine, friction hoister and {orty-horse power boller. Efforts are being made to_establish a keless powder plant in Deuver. ‘I'he proiectors are Germans and they are sald to iavo the monopoly of the inventor's rights in this country. It is estimated that the pla will cost §00,000, of which the German syn. dicato is ready to advance half. The report of IFish Commissioner Lana shows that there aro not less than 6,000 mile of trout streams in the state, and at least 500 lakes which it is the duty of the state to ep stocked with fish. There aro now wbout 1,00 miles of barren streams in the swate whore it s possiblo for trout to livo and thrive. The Lookout me poses Lo establish Tesorts in the ountr road will be built frdm Denver to thoe base and avother line be constructed to the crest of t mountain, Steam will bo the motive power. Articies of incorporation hava been filed in the socrotary of state's office for the Denver, Apex Guleh & Fookout Mountain railtoad. Ix-Senator Tabor is designated as prusidentof the company. The capital at hand is sufficiont to equip the road with the most substautial _appointme Work will begin this month, and the now line will ba climbing the crest of Lookout mountain by the end of spring. sm tain resort company pro. o of the finest suinmer A broad-gauge rail The Two Dakotas. Countorfeit monoy is too plenty in the Black Hills. Plerre barbers open on Sunday. An aluminum newr Chamberlai Arrangements are about perfectod new hotel in Deadwood. 1t is said that at least one hundred families will settle in Ouida county this yoar. Thomas Kennedy, an old-ti mer of Dea wood, died at Hot Springs Wednesday A thn -old boy baby In a baskot was leftat Iirs. Vose's door in Yaukion the ot ave been fined for keeping lay doposit has been found for a The South Dakota school lands rewaining unsold in April will be leased to tho highost bidders for five years. M. W. Shields, a tickot-ot-leave man, was rearrosted at Yankton for tippling and res turned to the penitentiary. Tramps at Deadwool mado a descont on and gotaway with the funeral feast loft ab the grave of a dead Clinaman. Clark & Smart's bank at Cooperstown has gone into liquidation. — This is said to be the first bauk failure m North Dakota. The committee of 100 at Yankton has no- tified the liquor venders that it means busis ness in its efforts to enforce tho law. Parker people will organize a company to work a quarry near that’ town. Tho stone resembies that found around Sioux Falls, Much of the re t cattle stealing in South Dakota which wis charged to the Indians appears to have beon perpotrated by white el The artesian well on Hind's ranch, near Woonsocket, will irrigate adjoining farms, the owers thereof paying $L an acre for water, ‘The jail at Ipswich is being rebuilt and ro- paived. It is less than eighteen months old, but so poorly built that the work wust ba done over. The school lands in Minnehaha county will be sold on April 13 at auction at. Sioux Falls, Nong of these lands can be sold for le:s than $10 an acre. A party of Sionx Falls people have planned a three-months’ tour in Kurope next sumumer, Juited States Judge Edgerton will be one of the number. Colonel J. S, Meyer of the famous Eighth cavalry is lecturing on temperance in South Dakota, under the auspices of the Good Templars of that state, . The school house at Gilby was burned Wednesday. The patrons of the school were divided on the question as to whethor a male or o fomale teacher should bo employed. The quarrel waxed 80 warm that the sehcol house was set afire, The site chosen for the South Dakota state fair is in what is known as Bast Park ad i tion in Sioux Falls. The Illinds Central railroad and electric motor lines pass imme- diately by the grounds, so that the quo: tion of choap transportation is solved. W. W. Orr arrived in the city from Wire neshiek county, In., with five car loads of at- tlo—150 head—says the Madison Ser Mr. Orr comes from a dry dist where feed was mighty scal ped his stock out to Luke count y to State Vetorinarian Collins has just o me pleted an inspection of the horses balonging to the Indians and found torty-two attho Yankton agency with the glanders. Theso have all been killed. Tne Indians expect tho government to give them other horses to take their plac Spink county commissioners offer a roward of 80 for the arrest and_conviction of any person charged with stealing lumber or othcr material from unoceupied farms. This is necessary on account of the frequent depro- dations of vandals. In some instances barns and valuable houses left by settlers for the winter have been wholly destroyed dur- ing their absence, This is the case in many counties. The Huron National pended December 16, has resumed business again, It was supposod that when the bank roopencd dopositors would make a rush for their money, but they did not. Only a few asked for their cash and the amonits wero bank, which sus- small, Business men and others made liberal deposits on_tho_first day, s their confidenco in Mossvs, Haz Fowler, the old president an continue to hold theirrespective positi Mr. Rousseau, who has lived in South Da- kota for thirty-seven years, told the Ouida Journal that he has expericnced there threa w inters like this on s that in cach instance the following spring aud summer wero marked by an abundance of rvain. For the past ten years each succeeding year has been drier than the one preceding it, and dry seasons must soon come to a close. Inall that time the winter of 1550-1 was the most severe, while the one two years ago was tho next iu severity. Wyoming. Methodists have dedicats Almy chureh, The farmers alliance has organizations in four counties. Sheridan's public schools had to bo closed ou account of an epidemic of scarle, |ever. A Laramie man claims to have sccared #8,000 on two trips o tho Alaska gold tieids. Evanston is overrun with men who want work und can't get it. They aro heading eastward, H. B. Ijams of Cheyenno has boen ap- pointed secretary of the state board of live stock commissioners, Willard C. Irvin is president, A company of local capitalists havo lo- cuted eleven quarter sections of land withia a milo and a half of Newecastle unde: tho coal lund law. ramic has an epidemic of measles. One ician bas five patients down with the s0 in o singlo family. Uinta county ranchmen say that sheop on the ranges will cone through the win i ed & new prime condition, no mtter how violent £ ruary and March may be. r end ' roid on Wednesday. An enginc with a snow plow ran into & passenger truiu neac Iron Moun- tain, Store orders are prohibited by law in t.e state, but Rock Springs business men use . forin of assignment of wazes, wh.ch is much the same thing, ‘They clam they bave to do this to protect themiselves, for there a:e WAY men 0 town to whoum they are couwi- pelled to give credit, Twenty-six miles soutn of Rawiins cn Cow crcek is it natural siok or basin embracing about eight thousand acres. This basin, it 15 predicted, will produce coal, petreleam’ ant natural gas. It is pitted with holes tuat look like horse tracks. Placo & funuel over a bole, apply & mateh and a strong flame ap- pears. kd F. Stahle, the Cheyenne surveyor, has made tocations there for 4 Denver syudi® cate, J. C. Baird, who was dofeatod for council- man in the lust Cheyenne city election by three votes has filed notice of contest in the district court. He was & candidate on the re- publican ticket and claims tne jndges of el tion acted illegully in refusing to coun & number of votes on which the voters hai placed the mark desigoating for whom they intended voting in the wrong place, Ho claims if these votes had been counted for for im ho would have boen elected by & ma- Jority of twenty-two,