IBE PARIS HOLOCAUST
- MUvauka«,May 10.—Alexander Har­
ris, a farmer, living five miles south of Evidence of Steady Growth
Waukesha, on the the Mukwonago
„ x and Enterprise.
road, and hia wife, were murdered ^his
morning when at breakfast. A hired
lastte MeCarmsta and M ím Laura
CAUSE OF THE FIEE A MYSTEBY man was wounded, but escaped. A
Baiter, aged 1« ami 14 respectively,
hired girl was also wounded, and zit ITEMS OF GENEBAL INTERES)
■hay were retaining frees school, and
likely to die.
*Mk refuge andar a large ptae tree. A
The crime was committed by William
htet of lightning struck the tree, and
Pouch, a farmhand. Pouch worked for
the girls treat kun bail sene id rue. Soon
Harris about two years ago. Last night
Ghastly Scsaaa.
affiter. a neighbor mw Mire Boiler aim-
at his request he was given lodging overt
te^ araiateriiw
his house, and
New York, May IA—A dispatch to night.
he and ethers instituted g search.
About * o’clock this morning Harris
Stages have begun to run again be­
the Herald from Paris says: The scene
They went to the tree and found the
on entering Porte Eight, of the Palaise and a hired man went to the yard to tween Eugene and Foley Springs.
de I’lndustrie last night, when the milk the cows. Mrs. Harris and the
StrewberriM along South Myrtle
bodiM of the victims of the Rue Jean girl were preparing breakfast; Pouch creek, in Douglas county, are ripening.
f Goujon were taken there, was of a fear­ left his room quietly, and, going to ths
The school fund apportioned in Coos
ful description. There had been placed yard, bade the men there good morn­ county during April .amounted to
ing.
Harrie
and
the
hired
man
were
the charred corpses of what had been a
•7,114.
few hours before beautiful women of sitting on stools near each other.
A Pendleton man shipped twelve car­
lf hair an inch wide was burned
the very beat families of Paris. The Pouch drew his revolver and fired at
ia the akin from the last cervical bodies were laid out on roughly im­ the farmer, killing him. He then shot loads of cattle to. Council Bluffs, la.,
last week.
third floras I vertebra.
At the
provised platforms of boards taken from the hired man, inflicting probably a
The woolen mill, broom-handle fac­
■pot there was burned black a anywhere about the place. They were fatal wound.
■s big as a man's hand. Between charred beyond recognition. Almost
Pouch then walked leisurely to the tory and Mwmill in Bandon are all run­
•ee and the sole of the foot, on all the bodiM were burned about-the kitchen. He told Mra. Harris her hus­ ning full time.
eg. a atrip aa inch and a half head and feet, while the middle of the band would not be in for a few minutes
The Klamath county Sunday school
isrirte was burned. Her hat was litor-
body remained comparatively intact. and he would eat hia breakfast at once. convention will be held this year in
ally torn to pieces, and was burning
Ambulances kept coming up in a The woman waited upon the murderer, Klamath Falla, June 13 and 18.
•hen she was found.
Her shoes were
The street lamps no longer burn in
stream, bringing more and more of the who seemed to relish his meal.
Itaru to shreds, and one'was lying about
After breakfast Pouch started to walk The Dalles at night. The contract ex­
unfortunate victims, the crowd outside
-tex feet from her body, and the other
giving way in awe-stricken silence. toward the door. Before Mrs. Harris pired and the council hashed the lam|w
i lirtesia fie si easy
WetHitbeteefiii< i The Rue Jean Goujon was almost im
realised what was about to happpen he
al! these injuries, site was finally |
wheeled around and shot her in the
Business for the month of April at
passable.
z
,
•brought hack to cousciouenem. She is
Of the bazaar building in which only breast He' then Arid at the hired the Astoria custom-house footed up
a few hours before everything had been girl. The farmer’s wife died soon af- •48,000, being the largest month's re­
ceipts in the history of the office.
fair and beautiful, there remained only
• few charred poles.
Inside the for recovery. Pouch then rode away on
Bob Hinman, who was captured in
,
wrecked building there was nothing but a bicycle.
Yuma, Aria., and who is wanted in
A posse ¿f farmers is in hot pursuit Roseburg, was working in a mine in
pieces of rage, wood and human re­
main*
The firemen were digging The farmers are greatly excited and Ari son a under the name of Robert
among the debris in search of the enraged, and should they get hold of Hanks.
bodies. There were not enough ambu­ the murderer he will undoubtedly be
Stockmen in Harney county have
lances, and the bodies had to be placed lynched.
been busy moving their cattle to the
The supposition of the authorities ia open ranges, to get them off the flat
*n wraps. Then came soldiers, police
and firemen to carry away the dead, and that Pouch is either insane or commit­ lands subject to overflow, and to save
ted the murderers in order to hide the the expense of longer feeding hay.
The man­
will. The soldiers carried sheets in evidence of another crime.
The telephone line being built from
ner in which the murders were com­ Heppner to Long Creek has been com­
which
to
wrap
and
transport
bodies.
svenmr from a shot in the right tem-
mitted shows plainly that Pouch delib­ pleted to Hardman, and it is expected
ple. Wliether it was a case of suicide There were women nurses from 1’Hos­
erately arranged his plans. Harris was that the line will reach Monument in
ar accident there were many opinions. pital Beaujon, also with sheets, wait­
quite well to do.
Pouch worked for about a week, and Long Creek by the
The object of the man’s journey here ing to cover up the dead before they
him in the summer of 1835, but nothing 30th of May.
were
taken
away
in
the
ambulances.
’
—
may help to ciaar this up.
Near the western wall, which bound - occurred as far as known to cause
Tie- lied Mountain train was nearing
There
is
great
activity
in
the hop
enmity between them.
Pouch is 30
lioesland, when, as usual, the car doors ■ «1 what had been the bazaar, bodies
yards
in
this
vicinity,
and
also
further
years
of
age.
the
name
of
the
hired
•un locked, while the customs in- were literally found piled in heaps and
man
who
was
shot is Nelson McHolt north, Mys the Roseburg Plaindealer.
their
position
seemed
to
indicate
that
a
-Spector made hie rounds. Fisher opened
The vines are being carefully trained,
The girl is Helen Vesback.
h* Mime and took oat his revolver, it terror-stricken rush had taken place, or
and the yards cultivated, and the out­
Latest
reports
from
Mukwonago
state
May be preenmod to avoid paying duty. an instinctive huddling together in the
Mrs. Harris was not instantly killed look is very favorable
The gun discharged and lie was shot in face of death. There were pieces of un-
The Baker City Democrat says that
as
at first stated, and may recover.
I
derskirts
all
over
the
ruins
and
frag
­
'the very place that would be selected
ments of woolen garments and corset There is little hope for Nelson McHolt, it is reported on what seems to be relia­
-tf.-*»-
1-__ ■■•h
“Ot «“d tbe skin about the
Tiny little /slippers were the hired man, and Helen Vesbaok’ ble authority the O. R A N, will soon
. ••““d in burned frum the cloee contact covers.
'
put on a line of steamboats to ply be­
everywhere to be seen, crisp and the girl.
-re.
•«•!*’“- Tbe deoeased wau
tween the Huntington bridge and Bal­
y Mbmi «Ji in'* -O * Mason and a Knights af Pythias, and charred by the heat. On one side was
A HEROIC BOY ENGINEER.
lard landing.
These boats, it is ex­
ree
t« ” ' —«
* handaosne, stalwart man of a pile of valuable jewels, etc., guarded
pected, will transport ores from the
by policemen. There were bracelets
m —
|W- I“ hie valfoe were pictures
and rings, completely free from flesh, H. Saved M»r Lives a* th. Blah »t Seven Devils mines to the railroads.
rsMtetaer.'
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w?fe
tw" ohiWreD. *“d a
Hi. Own.
Two men named Casey and Ott had
showing how terrible had been the
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«■
-ttatmaent of hie aooounta as reoorder.—'
Houghton, Mich., May IA—With a
flames in their fury.
a thrilling experience in the Umatilla ?
box containing 300 pounds of dynamite river near the MiMion one day lest
I spoke to two women who were
Standing near the ruins. The elder on fire, ten feet away from him, John weekt Ott attempted to ford the rivers
Thomas, a boy who rune a compressed- with a four horse team, hitched to a
one was Mme. Rochezautier, and the
air -hoisting engine in the Tamarack load of hay.
younger was a servant
He miscalculated the
mine, stuck to his post and Mved the ford and was carried down stream about
iteci States,
the ladies, ■aid Mme. Rochezautier. lives.of the men at work in the minr- 100 yards, When Mr. Casey swam ont
The «Mo­
by hie bravery..
and cut the harness and rescued the
"Ohl ouch cries I We called to the
Ten seconds after Thomas had hoisted horses; then swam around the rack and
men in the Hotel de Palais, which
fronts on 17 Coro de la Reina. It was the men to the level the dynamite ex­ cut Mr.. Ott loose. The wagon and
ploded, smashing the engine to pieces load of hay were lost.
the work of a moment to tear down the
iron bars of the windows and to throw and doing other damage, but the men
More Bodies Taken From
Ruins of the Palace.J t
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Washington.
out a chair.
We hauled the poor
The citisena of Snohomish have
women in there. They were so fright­
.The miners working in the 98d level secured the Dorrance academy build­
ened that they did not stay here long.
They were so terror-stricken that many had put seven caste of dynamite in a ing, and fitted it np as a hospital.
box for future use. At noon a miner
The stockmen around Pasco have
Htaiw eup. which is in the form of a could not cry. But many were lost
accompanid by Thomas went to hia been gathering up saddle horses for the
Runpkin, surmounted by a bust of Mr. and I mw several rush out from the
post, gave the alarm to the miners in last week, and making preparations for
Mr. and Mra. Bayard were flames and fall dead. We saved at the level below and ran hie engine un­
the spring round-up. —
least
150.
”
visibly affected. Mr. Bayard, oa-riaing
He then
•Mlle. Ie Comte, of 93 Rua Jean Gou- til he had hoisted them out.
The eighth annual state convention
ftowspnadto Sir. Crane's sentiments.
fled. The alarm of fire caused great ex-
Ijon, Mid:
MM greeted with a storm of applause. t ’’The fire broke out at 4:80 o’clock. eitement, but no miners were injured of the Washington State Union of
Cristian Endeavot, . Will be held in
He «poke for an hour slowly and impres-
It was terribly sudden. The heat was in the rush to reach daylight from a Taooma, July 1 to 4 inclusvie.
worse than the smoke. You could not depth of 8,000 to 4,000 feet.
.The school fund apportioned in Walla
I go into the street for fear of the heat.
" alia during April, amounted to |3,-
For Poaoo la Caba,
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Washington, May IA—Own miss ion - The bazaar burned up just as if the
New York, May 10.-A special to 817, and the number of days’ attend­
' sr Hermann lias recommended to the wood had been soaked in kerosene. 1
the Journal from Havana says: Your ance in all of the distriota was 867,071.
attorney-general the suspension for the should think there were 8,000 people
correspondent is able upon high author­
There are five sawmills in the neigh­
। present of legal proceedings growing out there, because, you know, the nuncio
ity to confirm the Journal’s recent borhood of Napavine, Lewis county,
>sf eiteep pasturing within the Cascade was there during the afternoon and that
Washington reports as to negotiations and all of them are running full time.
nature forest reserve. The attorney-gen- made an extra attraction.
He had pending there between Secretary of
Common laborers there are paid 81.80
Md is requested to instruct the United hardly left when the flames burst out.
State Sherman, Dupuy de Lome and a day.
-dtates attorney for Oregon to stay all They seemed to spring up all over.
Estrada Palma, looking to a peaceful
A petition has been signed and for­
(PHMsedtags until further orders, in
“So fierce was the heat that all win­ solution by purchase or otherwise of
warded to the Chehalis county commis­
view of tlie legislation pending in con- dows and shop fronts opposite were
the Cuban question. .The story is the sioners requesting them to take steps to
<ress and the probable early action by cracked or burst open. Birds in the
topic of conversation in all the dubs. repair the South Bay roadway and
the department on the question.
windows dropped dead from their per­
El Dial 10 de la Marina, the reformist bridge between Ocosta and Laidlaw.
Tie reoummendation is due to a rep- ches as if struck by lightning, and
oragn here, in a leader, sounds an omi­
The horticultural commissioner for
rerentattoo from Oregon that great many of the neighbors were so para­
nardaliip and loss have resulted to lysed by fear that they did not know nous note of warning by initmating that Asotin county, says that the fruit crop
-Shsepownsrs of the state by their ex- what to do. The fire lasted only twen- I the so-called reforms that Premier Can- in the Asotin creek valley will be some­
ova. has offered to the island will be thing enormous.
In fact, this is the
Mwiton feurn graaing lands within the ty minutes, but such a twentyminutes
little more than a farce, should Cub* report that comes from every fruit sec­
reserve ou which they have been de- I shall never forget! ■ Women ran I
be left to pay the cost of the war. Spain tion in the county.
In some orchards,
shrieking into the street and fell dead i
must pay it. El Diario declares, other­ it is said the winter apple crop will lie
in the roadway overcome by the heat,
wise she cannot hope to keep the colony short, but this complaint is not general.
burning from bead to foot.”
i
and continue to monopolise its trade. Gardens are thriving nicely.
Luke, who fought under the famous
Nisqually Indian chief, Leschi, anil
who was one of the last of the follow­
h *toMm. iuma«, mm » mm ®
natural history, is about to
ers of the old warrior, died on the Nis-
*W SMI II
-towmr undertake an extensive systematic ex-
He was 80
the governor to reeign. Thia action is qually river last week.
■BgreesBmn BMtoraassm fftasntim. among the inhabitants of the
desired by Governor Rogers as a reault years old. In hia earlier days Luke
Mnsgmt Mbshmi Avne, «asiMtbe North PKifk ocean between
of the recent occurrences that
mde»Aw“ *
“«rks-
■Mail mattf qgSSW n- theMamar river, in Asia, and the Col-
harmonious action impossible.
man and good tillicum generally. The
ombia river, in America.
The funds
One of the board said tonight that the remains of the old brave were interred
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important undertaking have
members had not decided what aotion beside Lecchi's bones, on the Nisqually
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*M«wMly provided by Morirs K.
they would take, but they would hold
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'81 •—•kawfl ^Mip, the president of the museum
Spruce logs on Gray's harbor are
a conference as Boon as practicable, and
lding
when
wfaobradaoe eo maofa already for the
scarce,
and the demand for them is
the
fire
broke
oift,
B^r
e
r,
-
»
—
wuuiu
»Raj>e wan
‘■Udmg, arireMement of science and for further-
greater than the output. The logs are
l. mm MV MtfhMg. hM tag the mask of the American museum largely due to her ihirmity. She saw all stand together.
The governor said that be did not worth about »6 per 1,000. The supply
the fire and made her way to the exit,
care at this time to enter into a discus­ of cedar logs on the harbor is also much
being among the first to reach it.
sion of the difficulties that have mads less than will be consumed in filling
Under forced draught the new British
to Bct farther present orders on hand. The price of
first-olaM battleship Jupiter made an with the board as it is now constituted. cedar logs is firm at *4.50. The fir
average of 18.4 kifota in her four-hour' " The members of the board will doubt- logger has very little to brighten his
trial, nearly a knot more than the con­ lem decide soon whether they will resist outlook. Most of the loggers My they
tract speed.
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the governor or quietly acquiesce in will cut no more fir than necessary at
•8.50.
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his request
A right with Tramm-
M wmb Breakwater, was wrecked off
•^ »tawd ef Itoderiguea, 880 Miles
Mauritius, on February 4.
^25«
JMt readied bere. Three
MS’of the cargo only were sävel Cap-
Asm Chrintie, hie first officer and four-
teesi of tlw crew died at sea of lever.
la thanking others for pM favors
'M of as solicit new.
Marshfield, Win, May 10.-MJhief of
Police Gerwin and Fred Myets, a. brew­
ery employe, were fatally injured today
in an encounter with tramps* During
the day six tramps hung around the
brewery drinking. When Chief Gerwin
tned to disperse them by persuasion,
four of them showed fight, and one of
them slashed the officer with a knife;
cutting'S fearful gash in the left side
ot the abdomen and a smaller one in
the hand.
While interfering, Meyers’
bowels were literally ripped out.
Three of the men were captured, and
a mob surrounded the jail.
W«»™
Williams averted trouble by sending
the prisoners to Grand Rapids on a spe­
cial train with a detachment of the
national guard.
Waste« te Sall Hla BoSy.
The city of Taooma has issued 1,674
Ban Francisco, May 10.—William bicycle licensee.
Last month 1,065
Oppermann, a musician in hard luck, licensee were taken out. A comparison
to make a contract with with last year’s record shows that on
the San Francisco board of health to May 1, 1806, there were but 785 licenses
the effect that, in consideration of 8100 ¡Mued.
he w<m,d 8el1 hi>
The Tacoma warehouses of the Stand­
di“*ction- hi« P*rt of the con-
ard Oil Company, which were last week
S
no*10 •* «"i«1
destroyed by ftje, will be rebuilt on the
until after hie natural death.
same site on Center street, and it ia ex­
It is Mt ¡mated that 3,000,000 tons of pected to have the main building com­
pure silver are held in solution by all pleted within the ensuing sixty days,
says the Tacoma Ledger.
the waters of the earth.
Ksstenal Steam brat Wroske*.
•Spokane, Wash., May 10.—A brief
telegram from Jennings, Mont., says
the steamer Ruth wm wrecked in a can­
yon six miles above there. Twenty-
two passengers were aboard, and all
were Mved. The steamer is a total
■l^k. The Ruth was running on tha
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
peny has Written to the tKUurer of
Pacific county asking the amount of
the taxes due on the company’s land in
this county.
Tbe company says that
when the land is situated in road dis-
^iots in which the generaj levy is more
than 8 mills, and the special levy more
than 6 mills that, unless the treasurer
would receive the taxes up to that
amount, it would not pay taxes but let
them go delinquent and settle the mat­
ter in court. The treasurer has been
instructed by the state auditor to col-
tact the taxes ia full.