in
VOL. II.
THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1892.
number-
Bold TRAIN ROBBERY.
A Passenger Express Stopa on tlie
Mern Pacific R.R.
THE PASSENGERS TERRORIZED.
The Express Car Blown Open With
. Dynamite Cartridges.
THE MESSINGBRBAOLX WOVNDl.
AMERICAN TIN MINING.
in a I
The ttobbers Escape With S30.00O.
, Evidently Professional Thieves.
Other News.
San Francisco, Aug. 5. A sheriff
posse ia on track of the meu who robbed
the 8. P. passenger and express train
near Collis night before last. The train
-which was held op was the south-bound
night express, leaving San Francisco at
-5:30 p. ni. The exact sum contained in
thp messengers safe has not been ascer
tained, but it is thought to have been
between $20,000 and $50,000. The Dal
ton boys are supposed to be in Idaho,
and it is a conundrum to railroad offi
cials who the parties concerned in the
robbery were. Whoever "they may be,
they were pretty bold in their operations
Several deputy sheriffs from southern
counties of the state are stated o have
been on board the train, but no resist'
ance was offered to the robbers. Gen
eral Freight Agent Smnrr, of the South-
m Pacific, was in a special car with
party of gentlemen bound east. Mes
senger George Roberts, who was wound
ed by the explosion of a dynamite bomb,
was pronounced by physicians to be ser
ionely injured. - He reeldos in Los An
geles. The two robbers boarded the
tender as the train was pulling out at
Collis, fifteen miles west of Fresno.
They covered the engineer and fire-
I and announced they had to obey their
. orders under the penalty of death.
When the train passed Kolindo station,
. the engineer was ordered to stop, and
the fireman was ordered with a lighted
cigar to touch off the fuse of a dynamite
cartridge which the robbers placed on the
piston of the driving wheel of the left
nana siae oi tue locomotive, me ex
plosion was terrific, breaking the piston
rod and partially disabling the engine.
The robbers then ordered the engineer
to get off the train and walk a short dis
tance along the track, while they pro
ceeded to bombard the two doors of the
express-car by exploding dynamite car
tridges, about eight in all, which tore
the doors into splinters and smashed the
floor of the car. The robbers, masked
and completely disguised, boarded the
express car, and, covering Louis Roberts i
the messenger, with double-barreled
shotguns, ordered him to open Wells,
Fargo & Co's. safe. Roberts Bet about
doing this, but was so nervous and ex
cited that he forgot the combination,
and so informed his captors, who there
upon struck him a heavy blow on the
head with the gun and threatened to kill
bim if he did not immediately open the
safe. With trembling bands he did so.
and they took out the sacks of coin.
When the desperadoes exploded the first
cartridge on the engine, the passengers
popped their beads out of the windows
l to see what was doing, but they drew
f them back again when tbev felt the
t pistol bullets and buckshot whistling
ipuNb tueir ears.
A Spokane Man Gets at The Facts
Direct Way.
From the Spokane Review.
To get at the facts about the tin mines
at Temescal, Cal., a reader of the Re
view recently wrote to the postmaster
there relative to the sensational reports
sent out by the San Francisco Examiner.
The answer was as follows :
Temescal, Cal., July 27. In reply to
your letter of the 21st regarding the tin
mines I can say it must be a mistake,
for the company have' about loO men
working, and mine from 20 to 25 tons of
ore per day. That paper said it would
fan two or three years ago, out it is still
working. There is plenty of tin. The
piece you saw in the ixamincr. was
about the manager. They have a new
manager and are working just the same
as ever. 1 have had about 20 persona
writing to me about the mines. Yours
truly, D. J. Dawson, Postmaster.
A week age the local democratic paper
was laboring under the delusion that
the product of the tin mine was protect
ed, and to show that protection was
death to industry it declared with much
vehemence that tho mines were a failure,
and J. Hamilton Lewis made the asser
tion that there was not a tin mine in ex
istence in the United States. Since then
both have been enlightened. Of course
they will now come forward with the
plea that the prosperous condition of
these mines proves the fostering influ
ence of free trade.
A HUMAN SEA ROLLS.
The Mighty Throng Reaching Denver
Unnrcceflentei . -
THE RAILROAD MEN ARE ANXIOUS.
A Blockade Threatened Which may Last
for More Than a Week.
THE FLOODGATES OfF-NED WIDE.
On Account of a Sweeping; Reduction in
Kates Everybody Is Taking a
Trip Westward."
SOUTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
Some Kxcittng Scenes at
" . Union.
a Meeting at
TREASURE SHIPMENT.
Allison was a Spy.
Boise City, Aug. 6. Allison, the de
tective who went to Gem ostensibly as a
miner, and conducted a small business
in the fruit and nicknacks line, arrived
here today. He became a member of the
miner's union, and was elected as its
secretary and afterwards gave for tho
use of the mine officials the details of
the proceedings of the union, their oaths,
mode of initiation, names of members
and officers and plan of procedure.
After the Gem light he left Gem and
will appear as a witness. It is under
stood that Allison's testimony will cre
ate a tremendous sensation. - It is ex
pected that it will tend to show that the
miner's union of the' Ccenr d'AIenes has
long been a lawless and incendiary as
sociation. It is said that Allison, while
a member of the union, got possession
of the records that will astonish the
country, and that will go a long way to
ward justifying the determination of the
mine owners to submit no longer to the
exaction of the union. -
1'arllment Opened.
Lonhon, Aug. 4. The new parliment
assembled this afternoon. The pro
ceedings today were purely formal, and
no business will be transacted until next
week. The queen's council, at which
the speech from the throne is signed,
will .be tomorrow. WTben Glad
stone appeared in the house this after
noon he wae given a widely enthusiastic
reception, the Irish members rising In a
body, joined by the liberals, waving
their hats and cheering. Hon. Arthur
weiiesy feel, speaker of the last house.
was elected speaker.
JDkkvek, Atfg. o. Ine leading ques
tion now is: "Will the railroad officials
be able to handle the mighty throng
which will reach this city Sunday and
Monday to attend the Knights Templar
conclave?" There is au expression of
anxiety on the faces of the railroad men
concerning the situation. When the
plans were made for receiving the
knights nobody imagined the floodgates
would be opened by a sweeping reduction
of rates. It is now prophesied that un
less a radical change is made in the pro
gramme there will be a blockade which
will not be disentangled for weeks.
Would not Dress op.
Dayton, Om Aug. 4. Frederick Kay
ser, an aged, eccentric and wealtlry
miser, has hanged himself as the' result
of a quarrel with his daughter. In ad
dition to stocks and bonds he owued
business and farm property here valued
at $250,000, and had a large cetate in
Sweden, left him by his parents. For
the past twenty-five years his daily avo
cation had been the collection of garbage
and slops, which he fed to stock on his
farm. Despite his wealth he dressed in
rags, and looked and acted like a dis
tressed mendicant. His only daughter,
a cultured girl, returned' recently from a
five years' absence in Sweden, where she
was studying music Her efforts to in
duce her father to clean up and discon
tinue his slop-gathering incensed the
old man so much that he committed
suicide. His wealth is estimated at
$500,000, and will go to bis daughter and
her imbecile brother. ...
Uxion, Si C, Aug. 0. A question -of
veracity came up at a political discus
sion here yesterday, between Gov. Till
man wKo asked Orr for1 his authority for
saying that a preacher had said that ho
(Tillman) had flaunted his profanity in
public. Col. Orr replied that he did not
divulge private conversations, and added
that Tillman knew tho statement was
true, asrhe could ascertain ;by appealing
to the preachers in general. The gover
nor said that sometimes an oath slipped
out, but that it had done -so only on one
occasion during the campaign. He ap
pealed t the ladies to signify if, in their
oninion, they considered liiin a black
guard, but there was no response. The
governor then said that if Col. )rr or
any other man said he flaunted his pro
fanity iii T)ublic, thev lied. ' Col. On-
advanced to tho governor and, catching
him by the arm, wheeled him around
and asked him if he was trying to raise
a personal difficult v. .Tillman replied
that he was not. Orr shook his finger
in his face and told him be could not in'
timate that he (Orr) lied without ha?'
ing it thrown in his (Tillman's) teeth
He told bim further that Tillman bad
boasted of being a "God Almighty" gen
tleman. 4 '.
Tho governor replied so ho had, and
Orr replied, "He did not do himself
credit when he made you." He again
caught hold of the governor and asked
him if he meant to intimate that he was
a liar. , The governor said that If Orr
had not originated the statement his
remark did not apply to him. By this
time the; .crowd had become a mob,
feopie climbed upon the stand, men
pulled their coats off, swore like troop
ers, and gathered around the two men
it looked as if there was going to be
bloodshed.. Orr stood to the rack and
told Tillman - he .had repeatedly used
profane words on the stand: The gover
nor said he had done it but once, and he
would leave jt toex-Gov. Shephard, who
had ftotgr tosay;, Col. . Orr .'again
caught hiild of, Taiwan, who bad turned
his head- toward the crowd in front, -and
told him If he wanted a- fight , he could
get it..: The governor Said he did not,
and Col. Orr went back to his seat, re
marking that Tillman must let him
alone. : The . governor turned ' to the
crowd and said that no living man could
bulldoze him '
Sixty Million in Gold Leaves San Fran
Cisco ftp the East
A STRONG GUARD OF PICKED MEN,
THE DALLES SENSATION.
History of the Accumulations of Gold in
the Sub-Treasnry.
The Farmers' Friends.
Studying the Planet Mars.
Vienna, Aug. 4. In an interview had
by a representative of the Associated
.Press at the observatory on Turken-
hanze, with the assistant astronomer
ildebrand, the latter said a careful ob
serration of the planet Mars was made
frqm the night of July 4 to that of Aug-
list 2, inclusive, by Herr Palisa. chief
assistant astronomer, and himself.
Dwing to the proximity of the planet to
he southern horizon, the result of the
Innervations was unsatisfactory. The
regress of the planet was watched for
in hour. At a point 52 deg.- above the
torizon, snow fields could be seen dis-
bnctly extending 30 deg. from the south
Me. Immediately after this white
atch, three large dark groups were ob
arved. "Perhaps." remarked Herr
lildebrand, "they are continents like
lose of our earth. The haze which en-
fcloped the lower part of Mars, however,
naerea accurate observations impos-
Me. The north pole and equator were
fcmpletely obscured." The observa
jons were taken at 1 :30 in the morning
ith the largest telescope in central
irope, ' ' ' - lr
A Fine Thing to Have.
Oregonian. It is a fine thing for a
people to have a waterway and its com
mercial possibilities stand between them
and railroad corporations. The people
of Eastern Oregon and Washington ap
preciate this and long with feverish
anxiety and almost belligerent impa
tience for the completion of the great
canal and locks at the Cascades. Avail
able waterways everywhere reduce the
cost of transportation. If they carry
only a fraction of tho goods they make
the. rate at which the rest is carried.
Mob at Dnqueane.
Pittsbuhg, Aug. 5. All is fftiiet today
at Duquesne. Yesterday a mob of 300
men from Homestead attacked 60 non
union men entering the steel works. The
mob were armed with clubs and stones.
In the fight Foreman 8tagle and another
workman were seriously injured, and a
dozen others more or less hurt. The
Sixteenth regiment is now here, and no
further trouble is apprehended. It is
stated that all bnt 50 of the old men will
return to work.
XI1K FORFEITED LANDS,
ipE ualles, July ae. following is a
copy of the act, recently become a law,
in reference to purchase of forfeited rail
road lands under section three, act of
September 29th, 1890.
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled
That section three, of an act entitled
an act to forfeit certain lands heretofore
granted for the purpose of aiding in the
construction of railroads, and for other
purposes, be, and the same is amended
so as to extend the time within which
persons actually, residing npon lands
forfeited by said act shall be permitted
to purchase the same in the quantities
and upon the terms provided in said
section at any time within three years
from the passage of said act,
Capt. John W. "Lewis, register of The
Dalles United States land office more
fully explains the question as follows
"By act of congress, approved September
29, 1890, claimants, under the third sec.
tion, were allowed two years from that
date in which to pay for the land to
which they were legally entitled. By a
subsequent act (Feb. 1891) this time was
extended to the 3d day of February,
1893, and by another and recent act the
time was further extended, to actual
residents only, to three years from Sep
tember 29, 1890. So that, as the law
now stands, parties entitled to purchase
Grant County News. : In conversation
with one of our enterprising farmers the
other day, the News man was informed
that Grant county, instead of offering a
bounty on squint;! scalpel' which Mor
row county tried and found ruinous,
should protect badgers, skunks, wild
cats and even coyotes, by making it a
misdemcnor to kill them. These ani
mals are al l great destroyers of squirrels,
and before their wanton destruction be
came so common the farmer's grain
fields and ! 'gardens grew unmolested.
Now, if they are destroyed it is the
farmer's own fault, for he has been- in
strumental in the death of the animals
that destroyed thousands of squirrels
every season. This farmer also said that
he had often met his neighbors, who
would boast of having just been instru
mental In the " Ignominious death of
some unoffending badger or skunk, and
who in the next breath would whine
about the squirrels eating their crops.
and want the county court to fix a boun
ty and pay them for killing the squir
rels. Farmers and sheepmen, protect
the badgers and skunks, as well as other
useful animals. They will not be apt to
eat your chickens while squirrels are
plenty. ' - ,- "
George Is no Greenhorn
Baker City Democrat. The visit of
Mr., Geo.; W. Weidler to Greenhorn
promises to be of great advantage to the
district. Mr. Weidler is a wealtbygen
tleman and being interested in the mines
TOO MICH 3IO MET FOR ONE PLAOE,
The Balk an Hand at the Time of the
. Chilean Affair was one Handled
Million.
Kan Fbancisco, Aug. C Quite a sen
sation was created last evening when it
was ascertained that $60,000,000 in gold
coin.hadleft the city for Washington,
guarded by a troop of picked men of the
railway mail service. . The report is that
the accumulated store of gold coin at
San Francisco has been steadily increas
ing during the past twenty . years.
When J. P. Jackson assumed - the office
of sub-treasurer, ho found more than
$70,000,000 in coin in the vaults of that
institution. Since then the amount has
increased to $76,000,000, and the accumu
lation was seriously crowding the vaults
In the mint, too. there had been a steady
accumulation. - At the time of the Chil
ean trouble, the government had stored
here more than $100,000,000. It was
then. that attention was directed to the
danger of carrying such an accumulation
of treasure, not only , in San Francisco,
bat in any seaport city. The proposi
tion to remove the bulk of the: coin in
tbo-sub-teasury vaults to Washington
was mooted then, and it has - come "up
regularly from time to time since, finally
resulting in its shipment to Washington,
nnuer a Btrong guard. ' - - -
under the third section, but not actual fof tha sectlon he will probably exert his
, A 8 are Care.
New York Advertiser. Queen Sophie
of Sweeden and Norway has been fully
restored to health. Her trouble has
been of a neivous character, and her
physician prescribed that she should
sweep-her rooms, light her own fires,
cook her breakfast and perform a num
ber of other manual offices in connection
with housekeeping for a few months,
and the prescription has worked like a
cnarm.
, Seeking Information.
Postlntelligencr. The business- men
of Spokane have at last tumbled to Jim
Hill's definition of "relative rates.
Nevertheless, Jim worked Spokane to
the queen's taste, and the citizens have
yet to learn wherein they have been bene
fited, at least as far as freight rates are
concerned. .
resiaents on tne iana, must make pay-
mem on or. oeiore reDruary 3, 1893.
Actual residents on the land will have
until September 29, 1893.
To be a Cardinal.
St. Louis, Aug. 4. It is stated in
Catholic circles as a certainty that at
the next meeting of the pope's consistory
"is uoiy lauier win announce the ap
pointment of Archbishop Ireland, of St.
Paul, as a member of the college of car
dinals. A prominent Catholic, who is
in constant communication with Borne,
says : , 'The appointment of Archbiehop
ireianu to ue carainai is just as sure as
any event that has not yet transpired."
influence in the proper direction.
Time's Change.
Galveston News. The. belle of a sum
mer or so ago whose beautiful train drew
after Ber a score or so of fashionable
beaux, now ties the end of it to the baby
buggy and pulls two chubby passengers
up life's steep hill in the evening
BORN.
In The Dalles, August 5th, 1892, to
the wife ol A. A. Bouney, a son. :
In The Dalles, August 4tb, 1892, to
the wife of W. E. Gilhousen, a daughter.
.-. . No Difference Dlseernable.
Press-Times. To the naked eye, the
warm weather has had no appreciable
effect upon the coolness between the
Telegraph and the" enemies of Any Good
Eastern Washington Man.
The jtoa Eruption. - ;
The -"opposition" of Mars is taking up
no more scientific observation perhaps,
than the present eruption of Mt. .Etna,
by far the' most destructive which has
occurred for years'. ' Beginning in the
early part of lpst month the volcano has,
without ceasing, sent forth rivers of lava
which' are destroying the vineyards and
orchards on its slopes and at 'its - base,
This eruption is peculiar in ontf respect,
and this is the fact that the principal
flow of lava is from numerous small
craters far below tho summit of the
mountain;' Indeed, from the principal
crater hot ashes, dust and steam ' are
mainly ejected, the lava, because of its
great weight, bursting out of the moun
tain's side at various points far beneath
the main opening. At the present time
five of these newly-formed craters are
active. The fertile lands which are be
ing covered with the fiery flood slowly
creeping down the mountain's side are
ompletely mined, and' many peasants
will be reduced to actual want unless
something is done for their relief at an
early date. It is said the Italian govern
ment will take steps in the matter, and
sufferers from this calamity will be re
lieved from this source. It would be in
teresting to know if there is any connec
tion between this eruption and the vol
canic disturbance which overwhelmed
the island of Sangir, one of the Phillip
jne group, so recently.
Opinion of a Portland Physician Pa
thology vs. Chemistry.
From tho Dally Oregonian.
. ,
. The alleged poisoning case at The
Dalles, an account of which appeared in
yesterday's Oregonian, has attracted
considerable attention of thinking phy
sicians, especially of Dr. Otto S. Bins
wanger, who expresses his opinion as
follows:
In the Oregonian I read a sensational
report, coming from The Dalles, which
not only excited my curiosity but also .
aroused my sympathy and scientific in
terest. According to the report Mrs.
Matilda C. Rogers died suddenly July 7.
Other information which I received gives
the date of her death June 28. One
week later, July 14, the body was ex
humed and the stomach, heart, kidneys,
lungs and liver ware sent for chemical
analysis to Portland. The chemist re
ported the presence of sulphate, of zinc
or chloride of zinc and also the stomach
and intestines in a highly inflamed con
dition. On the strength of that analy
sis, the justice decided to bind over
William Bergfield, the son-in-law and
suspected mnrderer of Mrs'. Bogers,
without bonds, to appear before tho
grand jury in November, and he is now
in the hands of the sheriff. Permit me
to quote some of the statements of that
report, also some of the results of the
analysis, and let us examine them in a
scientific light.
1. Tho analysis "proves the presence
of sulphate of zinc or chlorido of ' zinc."
The statement, "either 'snlphateor chlo
ride of zinc," after the analaysisis made
is worthless. The examination must
show with absolute certainty which one
of the two was contained in the stom-.
ach. . ...
2. "Tho body of Mrs. Matilda C. Rog
ers, who died suddenly a week before,
etc." ...!' ;
. ' While it is- trne that sulphate of zinc
or -chloride of zinc ean, under certain -pircu
instances, cause death, they never .
will kill suddenly Jn small doses they
produce gastric inflammation ; in larger
doses sulphate of cine produces vomit
ing, and chloride oi zinc cauterization of ten
stomach, which does not provo fatal
suddenly.- .Besides, the chloride of zinc -in
largo doses would leave erosion in the -mucus
membrane of the stomach. The
report only speaks of inflaination of the
stomach and not of the erosions.
3. The chemest reported the lunge.
heart, kidneys and liver in normal con
dition, but the stomach and intestines
highly inflamed.
. It is very doubtful that after a body
has been buried for one or two weeks,,
even if it was embalmed in the ordinary . '
way, it would show yet distinct infiam-
mation of the stomach and intestines..
In order to carry some weight, such a
statement must come from a physician
and not from a chemist, whose knowl
edge of pathology is at the very "best
rudimentary.
Granting, therefore, that sulphate of
zinc or chloride of zinc was found in the
stomach of Mrs. Rogers, it is more than -
doubtful that their presence caused her
sudden death. Bergfield is under arrest
and kept for trial, and on the strength
of this chemical analysis may even lose
bis life. Although personally acquaint
ed with Assayar Fisk and on friendly
terms with him, I deem it inv dutv to
call the attention of the proper author- '
ities to the insufficient evidence result
ing from his report. ,
Uer Influence Increased.
Tacoma News. The influence of wo
man in politics is increasing In Ohio a
nominee for congress is a manufacturer
of chewing gum.
Marion Hariand's Endorsement
Royal Baking: Powder.
BIED.v -.
In The -Dalles,-August. 6th, ,Wm.
Glenn, son of Wm. C. Glasius, aged 2
years, 2 months and 21 days. : Funeral
will take place to-morrow.
(Extract from Marion Harland's Letter to the Royal Baking Powder Co.)