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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. SATUK DAY. JANUARY 23. 1897.
NUMBER 8.
PRESENTED BY DRIVER
Bill Providing for Punish-
ment of Absentees.
A BILL THAT WOULD BRING THEM
BUI Failed to Pass Senate Under So
pended Rale, and Was Tabled
So Change In tbe Bonae.
Salem, Or., Jan 19. In the senate to
' dav Senator Driver brought op bis hill
relating to the organization of the legis
lature and tried to rush it through to a
.final passage. He got it through the
second reading sa'ely, bnt ran against a
snag when it came to the third reading,
as his motion to suspend tbe rales and
place the bill on final passage did not re'
ceive the necessary two-thirds vote.
, The bill provides that when a mem'
ber of either house refuses to participate
in the organization he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con
viction shall be fined not less than $50
nor more than $500. It Is farther pro
vided that if the member persists in his
" refusal for over two days or more he
shall forfeit his seat.
The detailed vote on the motion to
suspend the rales and read the bill tbe
third time was :
; Ayes Calbreath, Carter, Driver,,
Dofnr, Gesner, (iowan, Harmon, Haeel
tine, Hobson, Hughes, Johnson, Mc-
Clung, Patterson' of Marion, Patterson
of Washington, Price, Reed 16.
Noes Bates, Daly, Dawson, Holt,
King, Mackay, Michel, Mulkey, Selling,
Smith, Taylor, Wade, Mr. President 13
r Absent Brownell.
The bill was disposed of by being laid
on the table and sent to the state printer
to be printed. . .- -
"... The following bills were introduced
By King, abolishing the board of rail
road commissioners; Daly, to exempt
homesteads from attachments and ju
dicial sales; aMcClung, requiring the
. county clerk to publish a list of tbe ex
penditares of the county semi-annually ;
Gowan, by request, providing for the
election of a prosecnting attorney;
Gowan, permitting county clerks to ad
minister the oath in pension matters
Gowan, referring to the pasturage of
stock; Smith, by request, relating to
executors' sales,
The senate accepted the invitation of
Commandant Byers to visit the Soldiers'
Home at Roseburg. A communication
was received from the board of trade of
Dallas, Tex., asking for the passage of a
bankrupt law.
Under the head of the eecond reading
of bills, twenty-five bills were read and
referred to appropriate committees.
The .senate then adjourned till to
morrow. . .
Nothing Done in the Honse.
Salem, Jan. 19. The honse was called
to order, today by speaker Davis at 10
o'clock. Thirty-four members were
present, including Misener and Gradke,
Democrats. ' Vaughan of Lane created
considerable merriment by moving that
the absent members not 'having been
heard from for a week, the governor be
notified that they are dead.
At noon the house adjourned till 2
p. m.
CANAL BILL IS TAKEN CP..'
The Senate Begins Consideration of the
Measure.
Washington, Jan. 19.- -In the senate
today Hale of Maine called up tbe bill
providing lor tbe organization of a
naval battalion in the District of Colum
bia.'. The bill was passed.'
- A bill was passed for a public building
' at Altoona, Pa., to cost $125,000, for the
incorporation of American instructors of
the deaf.
At 2 o'clock the Nicaragua canal bill
was taken up. Turpie of Indiana ad
dressed the senate in opposition to the
bill.
Nominations Confirmed.
Washington, Jan. 19. Tbe senate
committee on finance today voted to
report favorably the nomination of W
S. Forman of Illinois to be commissioner
of internal revenue. It is expected that
there will be opposition to tbe confirma
tion in tbe senate. Tbe committee also
ordered a favorable report upon William
Crow McCreery to be collector for the
first district of Missouri, which has been
held up since December 10th. Opposi
tion to McCreery is not so pronounced
as against Forman. -
TELLER BE-ELECTED.
Colorado. Legislators Toted Almost Un
animously for Him.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 19. Henry M.
Teller was re-elected United States
senator today by the almost unanimous
vote of the Colorado legislature, ah
members classed as Populists, Demo
crats. Silver Republicans and National
Silverites voted solidly for him.
senator camey, Populist, chosen by
lot for the honor, made the principal
nominating speech in the senate. To
William O. Jenkins, Democrat, was ac-j
corded the same privilege in the house,
because he represents Gilpin county,
where Senator Teller resides. There
were several seconding gpeeches, all I
eulogizing the senator highly.
Pension Bills in the Bonse.
WAseiNGTON.Jan. 19. Today's session
of the house, in pursuance of a special
order adopted yesterday, was devoted to
the consideration of private pension
bills. Under the order the debate on
each bill limited to ten minutes. About
900 private pension bills remain on the
calendar.
THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE-
Resolution Introduced Calling; on
Thnrston to Tote, for Sliver.
Lincoln, Neb. Jan. 19 Senator San
son), of Douelas county, introduced to-
dav a joint resolution reciting speeches
and letters of Senator Thurston, on the
silver question during the campaign of
1895. At that time, Senator Thurston
was an advocate of the free coinage of
the "American production" at an ' un
stated ratio. After quoting from the
senators utterances, tbe joint resolution
calls on him. to "cow support and vote
for any and all measures that will bring
about an abandonment of the existing
gold monometalism, and that will re
suit in a return to bimetalism. He is
reminded that we are not yet realizing
financial prosperity under existing gold
monometalism, and we think now as be
did before he was elected, and as he
stated at the time of his election, that it
is worth our while to try the experiment
of a return to bimetalism.
The Anti-Hat Crusade.
Des Moines, la., Jan. 19. -By unani
mous vote the six aldermen present at
tbe city council meeting tonight in-
structed the city solicitor to draw up an
ordinance prohibiting and punishing the
wearing of large bats at theaters and
public entertainments where such hats
obstruct the view of others. It is pro
posed to impose a fine of $2 to $10 for
each offense. The ordinance will come
up at the next meeting.
Denver, Jan. 19. A bill has been
trodnced in the legislature which lays an
embargo on Jhe high theater hat. It
provides a penalty of $10 for violation in
each case.
OUTBREAK AT THE PHILIPPINES.
Convicts Revolted, Killed Their Guards
and Escaped.
San Francisco, Jan. 19. A convict
outbreak at Caviie, Philippine islands,
December 6, was the occasion of more
actual fighting at the rebel stronghold
than has been precipitated by the entire
operations of the Spanish troops. On
that date 147 prisoners in the public
jail suddenly rose in .open revolt, killed
tbe guards and effected their escape.
As related in the mail advices brought
by the steamer Rio Janeiro yesterday
the alarm occasioned was indescribable.
The convicts, after placing hors de com
bat every guard of the jail, including
the superintendent, took possession of
the weapons they could find handy, in
cluding some Manser rifles and revolv
ers, which belonged to the guards, and
made their way toward the interior.
Tbe sentries in St. Felipe fort, in the
arsenal and in the barracks of the Caza-
dores and marine infantry on perceiving
their flight, opened 'fire upon them.
Tbe runaways then divided into groups.
The whole of Cavite seemed to have bad
a band in the destruction of the unfor
tunates or their recapture, so that the
result, up to December 7, was eighty
killed and some eighteen or twenty re
captured.
A San Francisco Mass Meeting;.
San Francisco, San. 19. Tbe Nica-
ragua canal mass meeting called by the
chamber of commerce was held .this
afternoon. Mayor Phelan presided. A
memorial was adopted, by which con
gress was asked to pass tbe present
Nicarauga canal bill, "thus providing
for our country and . the commercial
world wateray between tbe two great
i oceanB, for the benefit of all, with low
tolls and without discrimination..
The memorial continued :
"We also entreat that this beneficent
work shall remain under the control of
tbe government of the United States an
American canal, under American control.
For many years our government has
promised us this legislation, and mean
while our Pacific coast has suffered an
arrested development from tbe want of
cheap transportation for the products of
our soil and industry.
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AN ANGRY MOB'S ACT
Three Aegro Murderers
Lynched in Mississippi.
JOHNSTON WAS ONLY HANGED
Two of the Men Bad Confessed
to
Bavins; Murdered a Famllj of
Five Persons.
New Orleans, Jan.. 20. John John
ston was burned at the. stake in front of
the Cotton residence near Amite City at
3 o'clock this morning. Arch Joiner
was hanged. The same mob aleo
lynched Gus Williams, accused of mur
dering his wife.. The three men exe
cuted were colored.
Johnston and Joiner, according to the
confession of the former, were guilty of
tbe murder of five members of tbe
Cotton family near here, some time
ago.
The trio of murderers were taken from
tbe jail at Amite City together last
night by the mob. Williams was hanged
to an oak tree in front of the little Zion
church, not far from Amite City. The
The mob took Johnston and Joiner to
the scene of their crime, where they
were, executed.
Johnston and Joiner were brought to
Amite City from New Orleans yesterday
to plead to indictments, and after tbe
hearing were remanded without bail
During the day citizens called at tbe
jail and Johnston made a confession
His story of tbe slaughter of the family
was peculiarly brutal. He said be al
ways liked the Cotton family, and would
not have harmed them . bad it not been
for the fact that he was bullied. He
said be armed himself with an ax not to
hurt any of the people in the house, but
to prevent their escaping, as he had
been told to watch the door.
ibe murder, Johnston said, was
planned by Bud McKnigbt, suitor of
the girl Maud Miller, whose mother.
MrS. Cotton, whipped her 'for allowing
McKnigbt's attentions. This was the
only motive he knew for the crime.
He said Arch Joiner shot Cotton, the
bead of the household, with a gun, then
struck Marvin Stevens, a eon of Mrs
Anna Stevens, with an ax cn the fore
head. Joiner finished tbe men, and
then went into the room occupied by
Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Cotton and Lizzie
Miller, with Maud and several children
and killed the three women.
Joiner and Johnston bad walked
about a mile, when Johnston eaid he
would go no further. A wagon was pro
cured, and both negroes hustled into it
Tbe rain fell in torrents. There were
probably 200 men in line, all exceed
ingly orderly and quiet. When Inde
pendence was reached a halt was made,
and those who desired were given an
opportunity to see the negroes, after
whicn the march- was resumed in a
southeasterly direction from Independ
ence.
When within two miles of the resi
dence formerly occupied. by the Cotton
family the crowd set up a yell. Just be
fore reaching Cotton's place, a few lines
of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" were
bummed to a doleful tune. Arriving at
the place where the five murders were
committed, Johnston and Joiner were
made to jump out of the wagon.
Joiner had loosened the rope on his
handj and made a daring break for free
dom. He got off a few feet, when some
one grabbed him. A short bat sharp
tussle took place. Others ruBhed to the
rescue, and he was soon subdued and a
rope placed around his neck..
Johnston did nt endeavor to escape,
Joiner set up a piteous moan and begged
to be shot. : He requested to be per
mitted to fight Johnston, saying John
ston had gotten him into alf tbe trouble.
Johnston signified bis desire to fight,
and the negroes were given an oppor
tunity to punch each other.
Johnston was Not Burned.
New Orleans, Jan. 20. A dispatch to
the Times-Democrat . from Amite City
this morning says :
The crowd first decided to burn
Johnston at the stake, but finally con-
ciuaea to bang bim. .Both negroes
were, therefore, hanged and shots fired
into their .bodies."
NO DAMAGES FOR LILLIAN
Ashley-Badwin Bait Decided
in Favor
of Defendent.
San Francisco, Jan. 20. Superior
Judge Slack this morning decided the
suit of Lillian Ashley against . J. Bald
win for seduction. The case has been
tried and submitted to the court with
out a Jury some time ago.
The decision was against Miss Ashley,
who alleged that she had been seduced
by Baldwin at his hotel here in 1S93
She sued for $100,000 damages for her
self and for the support of her child,
which she alleged . Baldwin was the
father. ,
. The court decided in favor of "Lucky
Baldwin, on the ground that prior
meeting Baldwin, Miss Ashley had not
been a chaste woman.
And thus the millionaire turfman
ranchowner and hotel proprietor has
again demonstrated the . fitness of his
sobriquet. .
TOM M'KAY KILLED.
Shot by Newt - Gordon, the
Marshal of Kalamath Falls.
Town
Kalamath Falls, Or., Jan. 20. Tom
McKay, a noted character in this section
was shot and instantly killed by Newt
Gordon, town marshal, about 4 o'clock
this morning. .;.
Gordon and Charles D. Wilson
saloonkeeper, were Btanding in front of
the Linkville hotel,, when McKay, who
was intoxicated, accused Wilson of talk
ing about his familv. McKay started
for Wilson, saying he would cot his gizz
ard oat. . He struck Wilson and knocked
him over against the building, McKav
then started ' after GVdon, who drew
his revolver and told McKay to stop,
After repeated warnings to stop
McKay attempted to strike Gordon
when Gordon fired, severing the spinal
cord in McKay's neck killing biin in
stantlv.
McKay was a large and powerful man
and when drinking was dangerous. He
was a half-breed, a half brother of
Donald and Dr. William McKay, well
known in Eastern Oregon.
I Gordon gave himself up tq the deputy
sheriff. The coroner s jury has not yet
returned a verdict.
DEADLOCK REMAINS UNBROKEN,
No Change in the Situation at
Today.
Salem
. Salem, Jan. 20. The morning session
at the senate was a brief one, lasting
only thirty minutes. Fourteen bills
were read a second time and referred to
their appropriation committees.
four new bills were introduced as
follows:
Smith, fixing compensation of the
clerk ' of . the supreme court at
$3000 per annum and abolishing his
fees and providing that tbe secretary of
state and the state treasurer remit 75
per cent of their fees to the state treas
ury; Dawson, defining the terms land
and real property for the purpose of tax
ation; Gesner, providing for the con
straction of a macadam road by convict
labor from the asylum to the asylum
farm and appropriating the amount of
$6000 therefor; Harmon, establishing
free public libraries and reading-rooms
Tbe senate then adjourned.
No Change in the House,
Salem. Jan. 20. Tbe house met at 10
o'clock, and the roll-call showed thirty
four members present. There was no
incident of any kind whatever during
the session, and at 11 :30 the house took
a recess until 2 o'clock.
MASSACRE IN HAVANA PROVINCE.
Defeated Bpaiards Retaliate by Mur
dering Helpless Paclficos.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 20. Cubans
in this city say they have reports of an
other Spanish butchery. From the ac
counts of the affair it appears that 500
insurgents under command of Colonel
Francisco de Paulo d&Bhed into San
Miguel, Havana province, Saturday
night. Tbe Spanish garrison consisting
of 600 men withdrew without firing
shot. The insurgents held possession of
the town tor over three hours, looting
the stores, public buildings and many
residences. They capturing the mayor
and forced him to deliver the tax money
in his possession, amounting to $3000,
After firing the business part of the
town and several private bouses, the
rebels withdrew.
After the insurgents left the inhabit
ants 'busied themselves extinguishing
tbe flames. While thus engaged the
Spanish forces returned and opened fire
on them. ' Many of the inhabitants in
their terror, rushed into burning bouses
and were cremated.
Tbe Cuban reports say 40 persons
were killed, 18 of whom . were women
and children, and 60 others were wound
ed, some of them. fatally.
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HOUSE IS ORGANIZED
Davis of Umatilla Bounced
From the Chair.
OPPOSITION SPRINGS A SURPRISE
Benson Is Elected Permanent Speaker,
and 8 npr erne J a dee Moore Swears
In the Officers of the Bouse.
Salem, Jan. 21. The bouse met at 2
o'clock, and-iinmediately upon assembl
ing, Brown, of Morrow county, moved
that Davis be removed from tbe chair
and Smith made temporary speaker.
This was seconded by Sommers. ' Kiddle
protested against such action : as revolu
tionary, aud read an opinion of General
Williams, that the house could not or
ganize with less than forty members.
Riddle retired from the house after de
nouncing tbe action. .Brown put the
motion, which was carried, and ap
pointed Stanley, of Lake, to escort
Smith to the speaker's chair. He then
went up and introduced Smith, who
took a seat to the left of Davis. Smith
recognized Somers, who offered a resolu
tion that Moody be removed and R. R.
Hayes be appointed chief clerk. It was
then moved that the report of the com
mittee on credentials be read, but tbe
majority report not being pressnt, the
minority report was read and adopted.
Crawford introduced a resolution,
which was adopted, that - Hudson,
Gratke and Brown be appointed a com
mittee to invite the governor, secretary
of state or supreme judges to swear the
mem bers in. The committee brought in
Chief Justice F. A. Moore, who pro
ceeded to perform that duty. A motion
to proceed to permanent ' organization
was then carried. Benson was nomi
nated for permanent speaker and all, in
cluding Nosier, voted for him. The rules
of the last session were adopted,
Bridges moved that the speaker appoint
three pages and doo.-keepers. The mo
tion was carried.
A joint resolution to inform the gov
ernor that tbe house and senate was
now ready for business was adopted, and
tbe bouse adjourned until 10 o'clock to
morrow. No violence was attempted,
bnt there is no probability that the gov
ernor or senate will recognize tbe house
as organized.
WHAT WAS DONE IN CONGRESS
Senate Agrees to Honse
Indian School
' Resolution. -
Washington, : Jan. 1. The senate
haplain made a feeling reference today
to the affliction of Senator Harris, of
Tennessee, in the death of his wife and
the infirmity of his own health, and to
the continued Illness of Senator War-
n. '' ' -
The house joint resolution authorizing
Fort Bidwell, Cal., for an Indian train
ing school was agreed to. The bouse
bill was passed extending the time for
the building of a railroad through Omaha
and the Winnebago Indian reservation -of
Nebraska.
In the House.
Washington, Jan. 21. The house to
day resumed consideration of the Yost
Tucker contested election case from' the
tenth Virginia district. According to an
631
if riffliS
lip!
.ISp
understanding reached yesterday, a vote
was to be taken at 4 :30 this afternoon.
Dearmond, of Missouri, a member of
the elections committee, took tbe floor
in' support of the majority report, which
favored the contestee. Tucker, Dear
mond argued that the house should be
governed by the Virginia law, which,
for tbe purpose of tbe case, was a fed
eral law. He admitted the house could
disregard the Virginia law in order to
determine the intentions of the voters,
but to do so, he contended, would be to
establish a dangerous and far-reaching
precedent. .
STARVE IN SIGHT OF RELIEF!
A Miserable Condition Jf Affairs at
Chicago.' ';' ''.
Chicago, Jan. 21. Men, women and
children are starving in Chicago in sight
of relief, because the county commission
ers, blind and deaf, do not allow the
county agents enough help to distribute
supplies. ' The county treasury is rich in
its Burplus, and there are an accumula
tion of appeals from hnnzry families.
Hundreds of these applications are more
than two weeks old. The heads of the
families were discouraged then, and as a
last resort appealed to the county for aid.
They have seen their wives and children
grow weaker and colder, and no aid has
come, no bread, no coal. These men are
desperate now.
The county agent. is helpless to save
these famine-stricken men, women and
babies. He has relief on band, but no
way to distribute it, because the com
missioners have tied his hands, and are
deaf to tbe cries of the hungry. '
A warning bas been given that the de
serving poor are becoming dangerous
and that hunger Is likely to drive them
to deeds, 'in which their' cry will be
"bread." Men who gave this warning
know whereof they speak. They see
gaunt hunger at its woret, tbe glassy eye
of a strong man who hears the cry of his
wife and babies tot bread and warmth .
and is powerless to give it to them. The
men tell an appaling story but nobody
on earth can tell of the misery as it
exists in Chicago today.
Girt Burned to Death.
San Francisco, Jan. 21. Katie Kear
ney, the 13-year-old daughter of John
Kearney, a longshoreman, met with a
horrible death while playing about tbe
kitchen. Her dress caught fire from the
stove, and in a moment she was envel
ped ina sheet of flame. ' Before assitance
could be rendered she received burns
which resulted in her death a few hours
later.
The progressive ladies of Westfield,
Ind., issued a "Woman's Edition" of the
Westfield News, bearing date of April 3,
1896. Tbe oater is filled with matter of
interest to women, and we notice the
following from a correspondent, which
the editors printed, realizing that it
treats upon a matter of vital importance
to their sex: "The ' best remedy for
croup, colds and bronchitis that I have
been able to find is Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. For family use it has no eqnal.
I gladly recommend it." 25 and 50 cent
bottles for sale by Blakeley & Houghton.
New Mexicans Sympbatiie.
Dknvek. Jan. 21. A special to
the
Republican from Santa Fe says :
In the territorial council today, a joint
pjolnt.ion was adoDted expressing svm-
pbatby with the patriots fighting for the
independence of Cuba. ,