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VOL. III.
THE DALLES, OREGON, Fill DAY, AUGUST 18, 1893.
NUMBER .T.
IN A FOREIGN LAND
Dcatb in Sontli America cf a Former
East Porllani Girl
LOVKU SOT WISELY HIT TOO WELL
Trur Story, That Contains More
.Sensational Llcmcnts Than Any
Modern Novel.
There lire nmny people in thin city
any the Portland Oregonian, who
rmiimnlHtr pretty lnubel Mann, of
the Fast Side. Fighteen yours ago lior
(alitor, JuIid Mann, owned a generul
merchandise store over there, and the
girl wai hi chief assistant. I lor re
markable business ability, no Ion thnn
her 'reU beauty and charming manners,
inu'tc i. or one of the most popular young
ladle 111 the community, and wbeu he
became .Mr. Ralston and retired to do
inestio privacy the hearts of immy
swain wore severely wrenched. Soon
after her murriage Hho accompanied bor
hilHbund to Kan Francisco, whore she
lived happily until he liecame a widow
with two young children to provide for.
The year had dealt gently with her per
tonal charms Indeed, they we- I with
maturity and the convention.., period
of mourning had scarcely lapsed w hen
from a hunt of suitors she chose Captain
C. H. I-ewis, one of the beHt-ktiown nav
igator on this coast. In due timo she
benime the mother of two more rhild
rn, the youngest of whom wan born
tight years ugo. Suclr vuh the earlier
binary of the bcautilul woman whose
mysti'riou death in South America,
admit eighteen mulitliB since, created
hardly less of a sensation down there
than in now being stirred up in Hun
Francisco by a content in the courts over
the payment of $.'1,000 insurance on her
life. The teHtimony in the cane reveals
a romance of InteiiMe interest.
IIKB FATAL INFATUATION.
In June, 1H91, Captain Lewi tKk hi
wife on a voyage to Callao, and while
the ihip wan lying in the I'eruvinn port
the bright and bandHoine woman she
wuh then in herXld year received much
social attention from the city's bent
people. At a grand ball at Lima, the
capital of Peru, situated a few miles in
land from Callao, ehe met the men who
were the principal actori in the chain of
event which culminated in tier tnyeter
iou death. One of them wan Charles
Iockendorf, an American, and the pro
prietor of a large merchandise store at
Lima. He wa a handsome fellow, of
middle age, and in Mr. Lewi he found
a woman of unusual attractiveness, while
ha immediately became madly infatu
ated with him. Her knowledge of busi
ness, acquired in the F'.ast Portland
(tore, assisted her charm of person and
nianner to captivate the man of com
merce, and the couple alternated tender
love passage with grim talk of "shop."
That very night a liaison wa formed,
and the woman became the man' part
ner in a gigantic opium-smuggling
cheme. That night she wa also intro
duced to Peter llacigalupl, an Italian
who managed a newspaper and theater
at Lima, and W. J. Taylor, a New
Yorker. They were taken into the
smuggling enterprise. Mr. Lewi re
mained at Lima evernl weeks after that,
and when her husband' ship wa ready
to Bail she went aboard, but her heart
wa left in the keeping of Dockendorf.
II EK IIAHK IIKTKAVAL.
When the infatuated woman returned
to home and children she was destitute
of the happiness with which they once
filled her. Melancholy had supplanted
it, and her husband frequently found
her brooding. Then letter from Dock
endiirlT begun to arrive, and llnully she
received an invitution to return to Peru
and receive her share of the profits
niudo by the opiiim-Hmuggling deal. So
on November 2oth, 1HIU, she left hus
band, children and borne and set sail for
Callao. When she arrived there, a
month later, it wa to find a chilling re
ception instead of the cordial greeting
she expected from her lover. He re
pulsed her endearing approaches, and
told her coldly and plainly that it would
be impossible for him to resume inti
mate relation with her, as he expected
hi wife to return from her visit to New
York. It wa the first Intimation the
unfortunate woman had received that
her paramour had a wife. She up
braided and threatened him a only a
corned woman can, and then It wo
that the scoundrel sent for llacigalupl
and Taylor and turned her over to their
tender mercies.
FOl'Nll DEAD.
On January 2,18112, a few day after
her arrival at Callao, the woman wa
found dead In her apartment at the
Hotel Maury, by a pbyslolun who had
been summoned to attend her by Pock
endorf, ISaclgalupl and Taylor. The
trio claimed that they had called to pay
their respect to Mr. I.ewis, and that
in the conrse of a general conversation
she suddenly complained of feeling ill
and threw herself upon the divan.
Finding that they could afford her no
relief, they quickly ent for a doctor,
but she died before bo arrived. So the
physician made a sucrficial diagnosis
of the case, and signed a certificate to
the effect that heart disease was the
cause of death. Karly next morning
the remain were interred in a cemetery
between Lima and Callao, and the two
cities commented on the absence of the
erstwhile friend from the funeral of
the deceased. The only mourners at
the grave were an Americun clergyman
and a poor laundress and her little
girl. liadgalupl took charge of the
dead woman' effect, which were more
than ample to pay the funeral expenses,
and sent ( apt. Iewis a letter telling
him of the death and burial of his wife.
That wa ail.
A CHARGE or ML'HDER.
Mr. I.ewis had a policy on her life of
f:i,(KM) in the Union Central Insurance
company, payable to her husband in
trust for her children, but the company,
after a searching investigation, contested
its liability to pay the policy on the
ground that the holder committed
suicide. That was ttie condition of
things on the night of September 27,
1R!2, nine months after the woman's
death, when Itacigulupi was arrested on
suspicion of having set his printing
establishment on fire to get the $45,000
for which it was insured. On the follow
ing day a charge of murder was added to
that of arson, and liefore the sun set
Dockendorf was ulso in jail for complic
ity in the assassination of Mrs. Isabel
Iewis. Then it came to light that Ilaei
galupi's private desk had been saved
from the flames, and that the chief of
police bad received an anonymous letter
stating that the desk contained some
thing which would convict its owner of
having poisoned Mrs. Lewis. The chief
acted upon the bint, and found a bottle
of poison and the purse and other eliects
of the dead woman. A the evidence
wa not sufficiently conclusive to convict
the men of murder, that charge was
withdrawn. But it wa strong enough
to impel Captain Ixtwia to seek the
assistance of the San FranciBco courts in
collecting the insurance policy on his
wife' life. The case is now on trial.
HDK'IDK OK kU'RDEB?
Those who are given to theorijiing can
find plenty of material to work upon in
the sad ending of Isabel Lewis. The hy
pothesis of death from heart disease Is
made reasonable by the exciting event
through w hich the woman passed juHt
prior to her demise. Suicide appears
plausible enough when her high-strung
temperament, her discovery of Docken
dortT dunlicity and her hopeless future
are considered, But the theory that
carries most weight with the disinter
ested thinker is that of murder, because
of the menace that the woman's exist
ence wa to the smuggling ring. "Hell
hath no fury like woman scorned,"
and it is more than likely that in her
ruge at being cast aside by the man for
whom she had sacrificed home and fam
ily, this wronged woman either threat
ened to divulge the secret of the illicit
combine or was actually caught in the
act of exposing them. In either case,
her eternal silence wa desirable to the
men involved, and there was nothing in
their character to indicate that they
would hesitate at committing murder if
no other means of Belf-preservation were
availoble.
A OIUI.'M HKKOIC SAt'lUHCE.
(lave I p Hfir Mr to Have Her Younger
Mister.
Hl'NTINUTON, L. I., Aug. 10. Mis
Anna Thurston, a 17-year-old daughter
of William Thurston, of this plow, wa
drowned yesterday while trying to save
her two young isters, Cornelia and
Kliy.ulieth. They went to the harbor for
their regular morning bath. Cornelia
stepped into deep water and Anna went
to her assistance. Cornelia grabbed
Anna by the nook and scrambled up on
her back. Anna struck out for the
shore, but sank. The streams of Elir.a
both attracted attention and Cornelia
was pulled out. Anna's body wa found
on the bottom.
Thru Young tilrla Drowned.
New Yoiik, Aug. 11. Kd'tth Floy,
Lizzie Pond and Ella Johnson, aged 10,
11 and 17 respectively, were daowned in
the bay while bathing oil" the foot of
West Forty-first street at 6 o'clock last
evening. The bodies were recovered.
Hot ut Inn for Calomel and gulnlne.
Simmon Liver Kegulotor, purely veg
etable, I equal to blue mas or calomel,
but without any of their injurious prop
erties. Hove tried it in a most satisfuc
tory manner. Pk. J. H. Bowen,
Clinton, Ga.
THE BATTLE BEGUN
An Annnncnt Reacted on the Silver
Question.
BOTH SIDES INTRODUCE HILLS
Will Ik Debated in the House Fourteen
Days A Vote T Be Taken Au
gust iHlh.
Washington, Aug. II. The confer
ence of the silver and anti-silver men
has reached an agreement by which gen
eral debate on the bill for repeal of the
purchase clause of the Sherman act will
be limited to eleven days. This will be
followed by a debate of three day under
the five-minute rule, when voting will
begin on the bill and the various silver
amendment.
The present arrangement is that the
repeal bill will be introduced in the
house today ; that an accompanying res
olution shall prescribe the method of
procedure and general debate liegin at
once. If carried out, this programme
will bring the house to a vote on bill
and amendments August 2Bth.
The silver men's part of the pro
gramme is to offer first a substitute
looking to free coinuge at the present
ratio; if defeated, votes will lie taken on
amendments fixing the ratio at 17, 18,
11) and 20, in order, and finally, if these
fail, upon the Bland-Allison act.
IN
rHE not SK.
Ilte Itrrun on the Kill for
an t o-
conditional Repeal.
Washington, Aug. 11. On the assem
bling of the house, immediately after
reading the journal, Wilson, democrat,
of West Virginia, introduced the repeal
bill.
At 1 p. m. Kaynor, democrat, of Mary
land, liegan the debate in support of the
Wilson bill for an unconditional repeal
of the silver purchase clause of the Sher
man act.
Kaynor said the adoption of free coin
age would tie the United States to the
tail of any bankrupt nation of the world.
Opening the mint to silver niiyht for a
time maintain a fictitious value of coin,
but the value of the bullion would
always be regulated by the market price.
A long hr the Sherman silver act re
main on the statute book so long will
it lie impossible to effect international
arrangement; so long will monetary
conferences result in failure.
Kaynor said that what kept silver and
gold at a parity was the misplaced con
fidence of the people, if the real condi
tion of the treasury was known there
would be no necessity for a repeal of the
Sherman law ; it would repeal itself.
The conetitution nowhere establishes
gold and silver as the money of the
country ; there was no obligation to coin
silver nor purchase and store it for the
benefit of the miner. While referring to
the democratic platform, Kaynor spoke
as follows :
"I know the declarations of that docu
ment have been differently construed,
according to the views of the gentlemen
expounding them. As for me, in this
supreme hour of my country's need, I
am not blinded or intimidated by the
glittering words of the convention's
declaration."
Bland, rising to open for free coinage,
expressed regret that a number ol gen
tlemen, of whom the speaker who had
just sat down was one of the most capa
ble, had seen fit to change their jiosi
tiou upon this question, to abandon a
large portion of the voters who had
aided in giving them the seats they
occupy, and to turn their faces to the
east and their backs to the west. As to
the declarations in the democratic plat
form, Bland asserted it was the under
standing that the free coinage o' silver
necessarily meant a repeal of the Sher
man law ; the two are so antagonistic
they cannot exist at the same time.
"But we are met now with a suggestion
that we legislate piecemeal ; to repeal
the Sherman law and take our chances
in securing anything in its place which
ehull meet the pledge of the platform to
coin both silver and gold. This is be
cause a panic ie upon us. The voting
masses of the country," said Bland,
"may liecome panic -stricken election
day ; If they do, I'm afraid those gentle
men w ill feel the force of that panic."
Bland then sketched briefly the history
of the financial legislation of recent
year.
IDLE MIN IN IW YOKK.
Arranging for Monater 1'araile for
Neat Week.
New York, Aug. 8. Arrangements
are being made for a parade of the un
employed, probably to take place next
week, and it will form a melancholy
sequel to the mognificent display illus
trating the progress and wealth which
have flitted along the streets of the
metropolis on the recent occasion of
national remembrance and as a melan
choly prelude to labor's yearly celebra
tion, September 4th. The secretary of
the American Federation of I.aW esti
mates there are 100,000 men out of work
in this city. The promoters of the
parade argue for a peaceable array of the
supporters of families w ho humbly ask
their brother man to give them leave to
toil, but for w hom there is no opportun
ity. It will be worth pages of statistics
in bringing home to New Yorkers the
terrible condition existing. There ure
7,000 cloakmakersout of work. Of 9,000
baker, 4,(XK) are idle, which show a
greatl y red uoed consu m ption . Of 25,000
cigarmakers, 10,000 are out of work on
account of the greatly decreased demand.
It is estimated 50 per cent of the Central
Iabor Federation, composed of waiters,
piano-makers, clothing-workers, etc.,
lack work.
YELLOW FEVER IS GEORGIA.
It Klrat Victim Is One Kent to Guard
Against the Mconrge.
Washington, Aug. 12. Startling
news comes by telegraph from Bruns
wick, Ga., to Surgeon General Wyman.
Yellow fever has appeared in that city,
and its first victim is a man who was
sent tl.sre to guard against the scourge.
All information concerning the matter
kbcvn to Wyman is the following tele
gram, received by him tonight from
Brunswick :
Surgeon Branham, detailed to enforce
quarantine regulations at this port, is
very ill in this city at a private resi
dence. The local physicians say he has
yellow fever. The jieople are greatly
alarmed."
Pr. Wyman took immediate Heps to
prevent the disease spreading. Sur
geon Carter, who arrived in Pensacola
tonight to take charge of the quarantine,
was ordered to proceed immediately to
Brunswick to see that United States
sanitary regulations are enforced. Sur
geon Hutton, who had a large exper
ience in Jacksonville in the yellow fever
epidemic of 1SSS, arrived in Washington
today from Detroit, and he wa ordered
to Brunswick. The officers of the Ma
rine hospital are not surprised to learn
yellow fever ha appeared in Brunswick.
Some time ago the bark Anita Berwind,
on which vessel the captain died of yel
low fever, was permitted to pass quar
antine and the crew landed in Bruns
wick. Surgeon Carter, who investi
gated, said the Brunswick quarantine
regulations were very loose. In fact,
only the local quarantine officer super
vised the inspection of vessels, Georgia
having no board of health. The port it
now in charge of the United States ma
rine hospital service.
ONE DEATH RESULTS.
Anlntle Cholera Claim On Victim at
New York Quarantine.
Nkw York, Aug. 12. The health
officer's bulletin said that at midnight
Francisco Mola, one of the passenger of
the steamer Karamania, died ot cholera
at Swinburne island. The remain were
cremated this morning. Nine more sus
pected cases were removed to the island
this morning. The examination shows
all the patient ent there yesterday are
Buffering from Asiatic cholera. This
evening Dr. Jenkins issued the following
bulletin :
"At 1 o'clock today GuiseppiJAdamo,
aged 45 years, was transferred to Swin
burne island hospital. The census of
the hospital tonight show the following :
Cholera patients 14
Convalescing 1
Suspect 3
Total 18
"All the patients in the hospital are
improving and I think all will recover,
with the exception of three case, Fran
cisco Calola, Paola Mariano and Gengis
Corias. Bacteriological examinations
have in all cases confirmed the diagnosis
of cholera. The following cable, mailed
to Paris and ent from there, wa re
ceived tonight from my representative
in Naples: Cholera cables from New
York arc frequently confiscated by the
Italian government. There are IS cases
and 7 deaths today."
A Itrnljr to E-Secretry Trrj.
Washington, Aug. 12. Speaking of
Fx-Secretary Tracy's proposition for the
im mediate coinage of the silver bullion
in the treasury to relieve the monetary
stringency, treasury officials point to
their statement of August 5th, showing
that it would take five years for the
mint to eon vert the bullion into silver
dollars, and that the certificate could
only be issued on the profits on coinage,
certificates already licing out to the
bullion value.
Clrrvland Hangrd In Kfttgj.
Golden, Colo., Aug. 10.-- President
Cleveland was hanged in effigy last night
bv free-rilver enthusiasts.
:ly a o
Small Attendance in tbe Honse During
tlic Sil?er Delate.
AX EXODLS TO THE SEASHORE
There Most of the Members Will Re
main Until the Day Set for a Vote,
Returning Only to Speak.
Washington, Aug. 12. The silver de
bate in the house today did not attract
much public interest. The knowledge
that no vote can possibly be reached un
til August 28th cause the member to
take little interest in the proceedings
and it is doubtful whether ther9 was a
quorum present in the house today.
Many members left for the seaside last
night resolved to remain until it should
be time for them to return to deliver a
speech, and nearly every member is
preparing one on the financial situation.
It seem likely that the daily spectacle
in the house tor the next two week will
be that of an impassioned individual de
livering a fiery speech to a score or two
of his personal friends and an array of
200 or 300 empty benches. When the
house adjourned today there were not
more than fifty representatives in the
hall. Weaver of Alabama was the first
speaker today. He finished the speech
commenced by him yesterday, and was
followed by Wheeler. The latter
heartily approved the president's views
in regard to the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act, though he believed the
present depression wa not entirely due
to that act. It came from the threats
of the democrats to pas tariff legisla
tion. Morse of Massachusetts followed
Mr. Wheeler. He gave his hearty ap
proval to the views of the president rel
ative to the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman bill, but be be
lieved that the present business depres
sion was not attributable entirely to the
Sherman bill. It came from the threats
of the democratic party to pass tariff
legislation. Then Harker of Ohio spoke
in favor of repeal. He had had, he
said, little controversies with the repub
licans, in which be charged the republi
can party with being responsible for the
present situation, but he eulogized
Sherman for bis attitude at the time of
tbe passage of the law which bears hi
name. In conclusion he stid that in
stead vi being abused, Sherman should
receive the grateful thanks of the whole
people.
BOWERS SI'EAKS FOK FREE COINAGE.
Bower, of California, spoke for the
free coinage of silver, and in doing so
cast a slur upon political platforms, de
claring that no party platforms
amounted to anything, nor was it in
tended to mean anything. He referred
to the scarcity of small currency, and
raised a laugh by stating that he went
into a drug (tore this morning to buy
something which cost 15 cents and could
not get any change. Continuing, he
said :
"Free coinage of silver will tend to re
lieve the present depression. Many
bank of the United State which today
are closed will be glad to receive the
dollar of our daddies. This nation can
make it own money for it own people
and if (England wants to put up bars, all
right. This great country which can
produce every necessity and every lux
ury must not suriender to little inlands
which must depend upon what they can
obtain from other nations. This ques
tion is no partisan one. It is a business
one, and as tuch it should be con
sidered." Delegate Rawlins, of Utah, lent his
voice in favor of free coinage, and at the
conclusion of his remarks the house ad
journed until Monday.
IlEMOtltATS IN THE SENATE.
No Orranlon for llanty Artlon lirraiiaH
of the ltlmte m the lloime.
Washington, Aug. 12. The senate
democratic caucus committee today ad
journed over until Monday, when it will
meet again and attempt to come together
on some common ground. Owing to the
agreement reached in the house the
committee feel relieved, and sees no
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reason for pressing action on it part.
The fact that the house will devote two
week to the discussion of the silver
question removes the necessity that
existed to formulate a plan immediately,
and the probability is that the caucus of
democratic senator will not act finally
upon the policy to be outlined by its
committee until toward the close of the
debate in the house. For the same rea
son it is said the finance committee may
take more time in the delilieration of
the various measures referred to it, and
not make u report so early as antici
pated. MI ST NOT IGNOliK SILVER.
It is repuftcd there was a very signifi
cant occurrence in the senate finance
committee Thursday. A motion was
made authorizing the chairman to in
troduce a bill to amend the law govern
ing the issue of national bank notes, to
peruiit the issue of notes to the par
value of the bonds deposi ted as security
therefor. This was agreed to after dis
cussion, by a majority of 2 to 1. Then
it was proposed to authorize the chair
man to report the bill to repeal the silver-purchase
clause of the Sherman law,
whereupon Vest is said to have made a
speech denouncing the proposition and
notifying its friends that no bill which,
ignored silver could pass the senate.
Under the influence of the remarks of
Vest, the committee unanimously re
considered it action on the currency
question and adjourned.
1)1 K TO t'KI.MINAI. CAKELESSXE99
A Gambler'a ItvkleMH Handling of a
lift vol ver CauKf a Wonian'e I)ath.
Pendleton, Or., Aug. 12. Ed. Dol
son shot and killed Jessie Walton in a
bagnio at 8 o'clock last night. Dolson,
who is a member of the tinhorn frater
nity, was slightly intoxicated and was
flourishing a big Colt's revolver in a
reckless manner and dropped it on the
floor. The witness eaid it was dis
charged when It struck the floor, tha
ball striking the girl in the mouth, pass
ing out at the top of the head, killing
her instantly. At the coroner's inquest
this morning a verdict wa rendered
that the victim's true name was Tillie
Wallis, and that Dolson was guilty of
criminal negligence and recklessness in
causing her death. Immediately after
tbe shooting Dolson was locked up
and this afternoon was arraigned be
fore Justice Bishop on the charge o
murder in the second degree. He
waived examination and was placed
under $2,000 bonds. Unable to give
bonds he was locked up. The dead girl
was buried this afternoon.
Gkntmmrh, I am mibject to periodical attacks
of kick heitdache of the wunt pmiHiblu tv)ie, anil
commenced taking Kraue'n Headitche I'tipsiiien
taut summer. They cure it in every Instance,
and Hiuee that time 1 am enjoying nplendiii
health and huve (ruined ten MnudM in weight.
Yours very truly,
K. M. NIKLS,
Col v th, Iowa,
China Repllea to Ituaala.
London, Ang. 11. The Chinese gov
ernment, replying to Russia' recent
demand for an explanation of the mass
ing of Chinese troops on the frontiers of
the Pamir, say China intends to occupy
only the Chinese Pamir from which ehe
will not recede an inch. The note adds
that China doe not interfere with
Russia's occupying other part of the
Pamir, but hopes Russia will confine
her operations to those parts.
Fleeing from Yellow .lack.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug 11. Two hun
dred refugees from Pensacola and other
points, fleeing from the rumored yellow
fever, arrived here last night. Some
stopped here and others went further
north.
Karl's Clover Root, tiie new blood
purifier, gives freshness ami clearness to
the complexion and cures constipation.
25c, 50c. and $1.00. Sold by Snipes A
Kinersly, druggists.
The Annie Faxon lllonn I p. (
It is reported the Annie Faxon was
blown up on Snake river this morning
and nine person killed three of the
crew and six passengers, among them a
woman.
Tygh Valley Holler flour Mill.
I in complete repair; always in store
flour equal to the beet. Also old style
coarse and fine (ira'iam flour, mill feed,
etc. W. M. McCokkle, Propr.
tll.lt. Sin
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