VOL. VI. THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY: OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10. 189G. NUMBER 45. NO DUEL WAS FOUGHT Congressman Hepburn's Son Was Foully Murdered. SEW LIGHT CAST OX THE TRAGEDY Bli peath Was Hie Result of a, Political ."--'- Conspiracy- Crime New! of ' , the Day.. . ' C ' Washington, Oct. 6. The killing of Frank Hepburn, son of Congressman Hepburn, at Chester, Ark., is attributed to a political conspiracy m un H"' " - . the affair which nas reacnea wasuiuB- ton. The following is a copy of a letter . received by Chairman Babcock, of the Republican' congressional committee. from a correspondent at Chester, Craw ford county, Ark., where the killing oc , curred :" "Regarding the killing of Frank C, Hepburn, son of the Hon. W. H. Hep burn, of Iowa, on the streets of Chester, the reDort was sent out that it was a duel between Hepburn and W. A. Sims. ' This reuort was not correct. The facts are, brieflly, these : .-. "W. A. (Bill) Sims was lying on the depot platform in apparent good humor, The city marshal, R. J. Beam, and sev ... eral others were Bitting around when ' Hepburn came across the street and in a playful, mood cut Sims' .shoestring. Sims sprang to his feet in a rage and demanded .to know who cut bis shoe string. Hepburn replied : 'I did," whereupon Sims stabbed Hepburn in the left breast over the heart, but the ' knife striking a bone, saved him for the time being, but Sims, now thoroughly aroused, threatened to cut Hepburn's throat from ear to ear. ' Hepburn re- . treated to his room and got a pistol and came back on the street. ' "Sims, in the meantime, armed him self with a srun and came back with a heavy coat' on, tantalizing Hepburn, when the shooting commenced. Many were aware of what was" going ttrbap- pen, ' yet Hepburn was not warned. Subsequent events go to prove a pre meditated murder and political con Bpiracy. Hepburn died in! a few hours, being shot through the bowels. - "Sims was arrested. A preliminary trial held before a justice of the peace found him ' guilty of manslaughter, Later Sims was released on $1,000 bonds and fined $50 for carrying concealed weapons." , Victims of a Baby Farmer, Chicago, Oct. 6. Three dead babies have been taken from the Chicago river, near Harrison-street bridge, since last ! Thursday, and men are' at. work drag- sing the stream to ascertain whether more babies lie In the muddy bottom, The police believe the search will be successful, : Then search will be made at the other bridges. The bodies had I been in the water for some time, but not long enough to prevent an autopsy being made. r.--. When the doctors examined the little I bodies they found that in each case the I child had been alive when thrown into the river, and that death had been - caused by drowning. The authorities are convinced that the dead bodies are - the, victims of a baby- I farmer. I . '.".'- I Abbeville, S. C, Oct. 6. Willedge Malone, a boy 14 years old, went with aland his class give us any amount of shoteun to a colored woman, Mattie Hellmah, who owed him 25 cents and told her he would shoot her if she did " not pay him. She replied that she had no money, and lie would have to shoot Thereupon the boy' emptied. botbba reld of the gun into her, killing her. He is in jail. - " ' " " ' ' : ' A ohd Woman's Crime. Kansas City, Oct. 6. A report from , . Arkoe, Mo., states that a young-- woman - has been arrested for the horrible mur- ;.- der of Mrs. 'John Baumley, near that place, last Friday.' It is said she was in - love with Mr. Baumley, and murdered . the woman so she could marry her hus band. "; The yqnng lady was tracked with - 'bloodhounds, and when confronted is ' said to have confessed. , j" .Butcher Wejrler'a Methods. ,. .' 'Key Wst, Oct. 6. Butcheries on an awful scale -are ' - being ' perpetrated nightly in Havana, according to a letter received here from one of the most re liable correspondents in Havana. Every sight at police headquarters prisoners are taken oat and placed on the books as released, f These individuals, in - charge of three policemen, are placed in - a boat and start off. They; don't land anywhere, bnt after a while the officers ' come back without the prisoners. This action has been watched night after night. From the 1st of September to tbeOtb, 83 pfi8oner8 have disappeared in this way. .Five men were drowned on the night of September 26th. ' ,' From the Cabanas and Morro castles prisoners are taken out and drowned in the same -way. ". The reason they are taken bnt of the harbor is on account of. the number of sharks which get hold ot the bodies and leave no trace. La Earrera has five men under arrest on suspicion ot putting .a oynaoiiie bomb under a gas main. - They are kept at the -police station and tortured to make them confess. The torture con sists of feeding them with dry codfish and not allowing them any water. No other food is allowed and tbey die of starvation if they refuse to eat the salt cod. This is said to be the means em- by Weyler in Barcelona and it is 8ajd u neyer failed t0 . produce the de sired effect. TWO ENGINES COLLIDE. Fatal Railway Accident Near Rose' ' bars-. ' Rosebubg. Or., Oct. 6. A fatal colli sion occurred this morning, between and 7 o'clock, between two light locomo tives on the Southern Pacific railway half a mile south of Green's station, re suiting in the death of two men, and the injury of five others. The following is the list of dead and injured: " John McGonigle, of Portland, .fireman on the eouth-bound engine, instantly killed. ' A. X. Toy, of Salem, brakeman on the north-bound engine, instantly killed James Porter, engineer on the north bound engine, severely bruised- and one ankle broken. -. George Happersett, fireman on the north-bound engine, both legs broken and feet crushed, rendering 'amputation necessary of one leg below the knee, and the foot of the other leg. Ben Lohr, Lead and face cut. J? red Wall, conductor ol rorter a en gine, braised ana cut aoout tne lace and head. Engineer McCalley, badley bruised It appears that Conductor Wall, of the south-bound overland, left his tickets and papers at . the. station, here, dis covered his loss, 'side-tracked the train at Dillards, and started a flag back with the light engine. Meantime, the papers were discovered by the station agent here, and the train dispatcher ordered out a light engine to overtake the over land at Myrtle Creek, keeping a lookout for No. 16 and the Bection men. The morning was denselv foggy. The south bound engine did not see the . north bound, which rounded a curve, colliding with the above result. JKnginaer forter reversed his engine before being thrown from the cab, and his engine broke from the tank and ran south about 2.i miles, where it was found, exhausted. -The tanks of both engines were badly demolished. ' The Florida Eieco, Jacksonville Fla., Oct. 6. The state and county, election passed off quietly in this city today, with indications of a large vote. The weather is clear. Chairman Rawis, of the Democratic ex, ecntive ' committee, claims that Blox ham, candidate for governor, will have Plurality. fne itepuoucan chair man concedes Bloxbam 12,000 more than the Republican nominee, Gunby. ABOUT Trie. "SLOPPtK. His Researches In the Garbage Recep- tacles and His Finds. That man is a slonner." remarked a do! ice. officer to a Washington Star writer a few morninjrs since, "and he trouble. If he stole we could reach him by law, but as he only finds we can not easily reach him." In further ex planation he said : "A slopper is a man who searches through the garbage cans ia the alleys in the rear of hotels, board ing houses and private houses." Some search ,for spoons, knives and forks that are thrown into the garbage recep tacles by careless servants, for it is a fact that there are'' more silver spoons and knives and forks thrown away with the garbage than are stolen by servants, though the contrary is gen erally believed. The slopper is gener ally an hour or so ahead of the garbage collector and he is often more regular and- careful in his rounds than the gar bage man.' .. - . . ' 'By industry we thrive, as the line in the copy-books used to contain, and by industry on, a good west end route, especially one which, takes in a num ber of boarding houses or hotels, a slop per can find enough tableware to pay f he expenses' of his tour. Often . he makes a rich find.," Very frequently he has permission to 'slop the can from the owners of the house themselves, for he tells them he is on the lookout for stray pieces of meat, etc., which he sells to those who have dogs' to feed. ' Some stoppers are honest enough to return. any silverware they may find for the dog-meat -privilege, but it is a terrible temptation to many, and one they can not or do not at times withstand." FOUR ; DELEGATIONS Cold Weather Cannot Keep the People from Canton. OHI0ANS AN R .WEST VIRGINIANS The Plans of the Republican Party . Mark Burnt Well Pleased With .-the Political Situation, . .Canton, Oct. 7. The rains of yester day, which drove the McKinley crowds indoors, were dried np by a bleak, cold wind today,- which made it necessary to carry out the days programe, save one early meeting on the lawn, at the Taber nacle. There were toiir demonstrations, by as many .delegations. , ', Two Ohio counties sent crowds, and it was intend ed to double them np, but tbey were so' much larger than expected that the doubling-up process would not work. Combined, they filled . the. hall twice over. ' ; -. -. A particularly enthusiastic delegation closed the day's doings'. It came from, ParkerBburg, W. Va., and filled a special train of 10 cars to the platforms: This party was introduced by Hon. E. M. Caldwell. . I National Chairman - Mark ' Hannal stopped over in Canton between trains this evening. He was met at the depot by Major McKinley, and was a guest for dinner at the major's borne. He ex pressed himself well pleased with . the political situation and spoke In the most sanguine terms of the result. Coin" Harvey Almost Mobbed. Clinton, la., Oct. 7. rVV. A. Harvey, author of "Coin,"' narrowly escaped being assaulted at a meeting here last night,, when be spoke on free silver, but turned his address into an attack upon Generals Sickles, Alger, Howard and the others of the celebrated veterans who are traveling through Iowa and Illinois. He referred . to the generals as "old wrecks of- the -rebellion who have lost their honor and patriotism, and are-the tools of political Shy locks," - His words were greeted by a storm of .hiases and cries of "Shame, shame," which ren dered it impossible for him to make himself heard. He tried to continue, but gave it up as the storm continued. A large number of Grand Army men were in the hall and took Harvey 8 words, almost as a personal affront. There were loud yells of "Throw him out." "Drag him off the platform," and "Put him in the street." Grizzled veterans leaped from their seats on all sides and started into the aisles, Shaking their fists and yelling threats. - The cooler heads . interfered, however, and restrained the old soldiers, The majority of them, instead of return ing to their seats left the hall in a body. They were joined in their exodus by many of the audience.' 'THE BOSKBVBO ACCIDENT. The Terdiet of the Coroner's Jary Finds . No One Gollty. . Rosebubg, Oct. 7.-The coroner's jury today held an inquest on the bodies of Albert Toy, John McGonigle and George R. Happersett, who were killed in the collision yesterday on the Southern Pa cific. The jury found no one guilty of breaking the regulations of running, but there was a deficiency in judgment as to the distance from the fog that would make them safe in commencing to flag again which, according to the evidence, they were intending to resume, y: r The Cuban Straggle. ', ' Havana, Oct. 7. During an engage ment in Plnar. del Rio between the Spanish troops under General Boinal and the insurgents nnder Antonio Maceo it is announced the insurgents lost' 250 killed while the troops only had twenty -eight men killed, fifty seriously injured and twenty-five slightly wounded. Shot by a W oman. - Albany, Or.,- Oct. 8. News from Sheddn station says that Edward Far well was shot twice ' in the bowels to night by Mies Thompson. - It is believed Far well ' will die.' No particulars are obtainable tonight. , ' , ' .- - Star Pointer Wins. ' - 'j Lexington, Ky., Oct. 7. The track recordtwas lowered by Star Pointer in the free-for-all pace, from 2 :05 to 2 :03. Free-for-all, purse $2,000 Star Pointer won in three straight beats. Time, 2 :03, 2 -MX, 2 :06. Frank Agan was second in - the three heats ; Robert J. third."' ' ''- ; '. ' '' '. '' Astronomical Dlsoorerles. ,". . Boston. Oct. 7. A dispatch received here from Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., announces that the astronomers of ! flirt flKoorr n t ro hovaitMniMirafl llint (ha planets Mercury and Venus each turns once on its axis during one revolution of the sun, making the day jnst . equal . to the year on these ; planets. They find' further that Venus is, not cloud covered, as has been reported, -bat has about it a thick atmosphere, while : Mercury : has none." "'- -' , . THBIli HOPES 'SHATTEllKO.' Two Old Prospectors Kind a Quicksilver San Fbancibco, Oct. 8. For a short lime yesterday Christian Soil and John P. Green, two old prospectors, believed they said good-bye to poverty and had jumped into riches that' clouded the fame of Monte Cristo from view. They were the possessors, they , were confident by means of ..filing a mine claim ou portion of the ocean Bhcre near the Cliff house, of the richest quicksilver mine in the world. ? A moderate estimate of its value they thought would reach $10,000 000, and, as the ledgo was on property owned by " Adolph Sutro, as thev tbonght, they believed' tbey could ac quire it under the mining law. ,The dream was short-lived., Thev had scarcely left the city hall, after filing their mineral nitice, when they' learned that they had located on a piece on the Presidio, instead of the possessions of mayor. With this knowledge away went skimmering dreams- of untold wealth, for title to military reservations is beyond the reach of the caveat of the law regarding mining claims. ' But even in the face of the disheart ening tarn ( fprtnne, Green and Soli still hope, although an inscrutable and immutable hand had banished tbem like Adam from, their Eden. . Tbey hope that the government will allow them to' develop as much of their claim as lies between the Hues of high and low tide. for even with this morsel from the feast they thinf they can acquire wealth enough for all practical purposes. DU MACKIEK IS DEAD. Author of Trilby" Passes London. - ' Away- in London, Oct, 8. George Du Maurier, artist, novelist, author of "Trilby," died, at 2:3CLo'dock ihis moriwDg. ; - . His end was painless. He passed away surrounded by bis ..friends. - For days be has been hovering between life and death, at intervals conversing with friends regarding bis work. Upon one; occasion a friend at the dying man's bedside referred to the suc cess of "Trilby" as a book and a play whereupon Du Maorier replied: , ' ."Yes, it has been successful, but pop ularity has killed me at last."' V One of Du Maurier's friends who was present at bis death said :. '. "He died almost as tragically as Sven gali. At the zenith of Trilby's .'fame Svengali became the. victim of an affec tion of the heart. Du Maurier has gone the same way. At the zenith of his popularity the author has succumbed to heart trouble from which tie has always suffered, his suffering being accentuated by 'a constant succession ot exqiting in cidents in which the closing few months of bis life were spent. Checks rained in npon him as bis old heart trouble in creased. ' This, complicated by an affec tion of the lungs, took him off." , NICHOLAS IS ' TENTl'BESOHK.I He Wanted to Explore the French Capital Incognito.. . , Vibnxa, Oct. 8. It . is rumored here that the czar will attend the wedding of the Prince of Naples and Princess Helene of Montenegro October 24th. . . A dispatch from Paris says that the hczar asked the prefect of police there whether he might not venture to explore Paris incognito. . . The prelect said that it would be so unsafe that if bis majesty insisted tie won Id. feel ; it. his - duty to resign. -'-.''- '- .'..-.. Advertised Letters. Following is the list of letters remain ing in the postoffice at The Dalles un called for Oct. 10, 1896. Persons call ing for the same will give date on which they were advertised':' "r ' Blalock, R Y ' Bnckler, EI ,"' Dimmick, Jas . Dotson.JDdw Failey, Mrs Berre Freeman, Aaron . -Glenner, B F Grubb, A J Hall, L J ' , ' Hunt, j; , : ' Hailbur, Ana , . Harvey, J T ' . Johnson, A A .1 . Johnson, Wm : ; -Llawellyn, F- ' " Leslie, Frank . Lohrli, Konrad . Lauer, A A Lynch,' Al vis - r Robertson, Jas Robertson, Jno . Robertson, Tellie '. Sharp, Eld W W Smiley, Tbos Sheppard, J T -' Todd, Harry ' Warner, Minnie N . Wagner, Grace Wilhelm, Frank Wadkins, Mrs J A ' Wilhelm, E W . Wbitoff, Chas . , ' J. A. Cbosskn, P. M. '.'.'. - ' ' : ' .. ' . Tygh Valley. Boiler Floor Mlllsi ' Tygh Valley Roller Flour Mills are rnnmnir full tlme on-.no. l wneat. r lour equal to the beet always on nana xriccB to BUib lav tiujea aiau umiii icou in quantities to suit. :'.. . . 1 . ' . 11 .' 1 1 I 1 .W. M, MGUOBKLE & BON. aug8-6mw ' v - Proprietors. AFTER LIVELY FIRING Horsetlneyes Captured bv , Wallowa County Officers. 0E OF FOkMER SHOT IN THE HEAD Drngglst in Enterprise. Or.,' Attacked by a Woman With an Umbrella, j . , and Shot by a Lawyer. . . La Gcasdk, Oct., 8. Particulars of battle between borsethieves and 'deputy sheriffs in Wallowa county, were re ceived by telephone froni' Enterprise to day. . ' :. ,'.;;. !"."' "A few days ago two men, -George and Henry Smith, passed through .the Im riaba with a band of horses, supposed to have been stolen, and camped on Car rail creex. A day. or so afterward, a warrant was issued for their arrest. Jt was feared thev would resist," and five men were sent out to bring .them - in The camp was easily located, and Henry Smith was found in it and captured by strategy. Four officers went to camp, leaving a fifth in charge of the , horses. The officers carried no arms in sight, and the borsethief did not suspect tbem, so that when tbey asked to see his pistol, he passed it over ' for inspection. The pistol was then turned on him, and he was compelled to hold np bis hands. He was then taken away from the camp and left, in charge of an officer. Two of the officers started oat to find the other brother, and one was left to watch, the camp. George Smith re turned to the camp and "got the drop" on the 'officer, and ' held him np. He snspected that something was wrong, and proceeded, to march the officer op the trail. After proceeding a short dis tant, be met the two officers who were looking for - him.' The officers opened fire, which was returned by Smith, but none of the' shots took effect. The of ficers then took refuge behind trees, and Smith fired four shots at tbem, three of which. bit the trees,- The. deputy that Smith had a prisoner, fell to the ground as soon as the firing began, to escape the stray bullets. " - , The shooting cooled the ardor' of the officers somewhat, and fhey turned their efforts toward keeping the trees between themselves and the borsethief. While the borsethief was trying to get another shot at the men behind the - trees, the officer that bad been left with the horses came up and shot the borsethief in the head with a shotgun. He had heard the Bring and came ud just in time to relieve bis brother officers from an unpleasant position. ' - -" ' -V - H'AMIOS TO THK RKSC.VK. Saw a Man and Womtn Straggling, a . .Shot the Man. " . La Grande, , Oct." 8. At 'Enterprisen in Wallowa county, today., F. S. Ivan hoe shot and seriously wounded R. C Gregg. M. Ivanhoe is a well-known at torney, and . Mr. Gregg is a druggist, The report received by .telephone Bays that Mrs. J. W. Dalzell and Gregg were having trouble over Mrs. Dalzell's son, and Mrs. Dalzell had assaulted Gregg with , an umbrella. In attempting to disarm her, Gregg broke the umbrella, and a scrimmage resulted. 'Mrs. Dalzell continued the assault, and.. in protecting himself, Gregg used considerable force. Just at that., time Ivanhoe appeared, and, seeing, as he supposed, a man as saulting a woman, took- a, shot at the njan. The first time he missed, but the second shot struck Gregg in the leg, in flicting a severe wound. The bullet was recovered ,by physicians this afternoon Unless blood-poisoning sets in, no seri ous results are apprehended. ' ; . ' x . Coin" Denies It. Keokck, la., Oct. 8. Regarding the alleged treatment of AV. H. Harvey Coin") by an audience at Clinton, la.,' Harvey baa furnished the following statement: - y. ' . . There is not one word of troth in the printed report that the audience or any oart ol it treatea me aisrespectiuuy, or took umbrage at what I said at Clinton. The report is made out of whole cloth, and has not a word of truth for its basis. f You , probably pay top much a month for tea; it is probably not very good. Try 'Schilling's Best. J you don't like it, your gro cer returns your money. ; You may find unexpected pleasure and "profit in- it : ' Scbflling fit Company . S77 Take yoar watches, clocks and jewelry repairing to Clark, the Ea9t End jeweler. - Absolutely Pure. - - - i . A cieam of tartar baking powder. Hlcbent nf . all in leavening strength. Latett L'nitrd Slate Government Food Report. . Royal Bakiko rowDis. Co., New York A PLAIN TALK TO WORKINGM.EN. The A B C of the Silver Question. Lt us not get mixea np witn com- silver idea. Let us not befog our irain with ar guments about the .crime of J 873 or bother with the many theories which the advocates of free si Ivor are giving oa. But let us take a common sense view, ' of the situation. ' Suppose Bryan was elected and the free coinage act had been passed and that free coinage was an actual fact. Suppose that silver could be taken to the mint and coined into silver dollars at rha vnfin nf 1A 11 1 . How would that affect usf .. ' We haven't got any silver .bullion. ' . A whole lot of people who own silver , mines have it, and so they could have it coined into 10 to 1 dollars, ont not . i 1 1 i i paving uaj ourselves we couia not uuvw a solitary, single dollar coined nnder the free silver act. " . Now, suppose, however, that all ihe . silver mine owners and others who had silver took it all to Washington or Phil adelphia or to some other United States mini sua osu it cornea into in 10 dollars, and ... .' . r, .' Suppose so much had been coined that all the silver in the world was made 1ULU xu IU a uuiioxn, auu . Snppose that every one of these dol- . lara was piled "In one heap right on the next block, and '' Suppose every single one of them waa worth J 00 cents here and everywhere.' . What good would they do us unless we had something we could trade by which we could get ono? Well, we have something to trade; evory body has. ; : '' Some have labor, bo much for a dollar. -Some have lumber, so much for a dollar. ..'.'"' Some bare sugar or potatoes or bams - or coal or something else, all so much for a dollar. We have advertising and subsorip-. tinna .an mhnh fnV u Hnllnr When we want one of those eilver dollars, we cannot go and take it. They ' aon i oeiong 10 us, xney ociong to me men who tnnlr the silver to the mint to . be coined. . . . .. ' . 1 If we took, one, it wonld be steeling. ' If we asked for one for nothing, it would be begging. ; , ,If the owners gave ns one for nothing, it would be a gift. . ' '. . . . ..." If we borrowed one, it wonld cost us '. intprpRiL Anfl so " Most of us, to'get one, must trade la- . bor, lumber, sugar, coal, advertising or something to get it. ' ' ' This is absolutely and honestly so, isn't ltr - . . ' Well, being so, why do we take any chances on the dollar? . . We can get gold now. ' ' , l. .A. i. everywhere. .-.'-, " . . : 'i So we have supposed the silver to be, but , . -.. . -, . , .- : Suppose it isn't. . 4' What then? ' ' . ' .' . What is the use of taking a chance ' unless we can do better? A silver dol lar won't be worth more than 100 cents, ' Will it?. . , :.'',' ':. We are getting that now. ; ' Let well enough alone. Some say duty compels a uemocrat to . back np and vote for a Democrat - Ton have Bryan's word that he is no Demo- crat. ,Uet him deny that he said it. Some say it is pretty bad now. . 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