fir
iorsethieves Captured' By
k Wallowa County Officers.
11
;NE OF FORMER SHOT IN HEAD
fJruIil,t la Knternrlse, Or., Attacked
II, Woman With an Uuiltrella, and
Phot by Lawyer, Itiit N..t Fatally
L Grande, Or., Oot. 12. Partiou-
,jiirJ of a battle between nursetuieves
uil deputy sberitta in waiiowa county,
ere received from Enterprise today,
few days ago two men, George
fund Heiiry Smith, passed through the
Imnaha with a band oi norses, sup
posed to have been stolen, and camped
on Corrall creek. A day or so after
ward a warrrant was issued for their
arrest. It was iearen iney woum re
jist, and five men were sent out to
hriog them in. The camp was easily
luuic-d, and Hnry Smith was found
in it and oaptured by strategy. Four
! officers went to the camp, leaving a
6fth in obarge of the horses. The
uffi.era carried nu arms in sight, and
(be horsetbief did not suspect them,
so that when tbey asked to see his pis
tol, he passed it over for inspection.
The pistol was then turned on bim,
mid be was compelled to hold up his
hands. He was then taken away from
the camp and left in obarge of an
officer.
Two of the officers started out to find
the other brother, and one was left to
watch the camp. George Smith re
turned to tl) camp and "got the drop"
on tbe officer, and hold him op. He
inspected that something was wrong.
and proceeded to maroh the officer up
the trail. After proceeding a short dis
tance, he met the two officers who were
looking for him. The officers opened
fire, which was returned by Smith, bit
none of the shots took effect. Tbe offl
oers tbeu took refuge behind trees, and
Smith fired four shots at them, three
of whioh hit the trees. The deputy
that Smith had a prisoner, full to the
ground hb soon as the firing began, to
escape the stray bullets.
The shooting cooled the ardor of the
officers somewhat, and they turned
their efforts toward keeping the trees
between themselves and the horsetbief.
While the horsethief was trying to get
another shot at the men behind the
trees, the officer that had been left
with the horses oame np aud shot the
horsethief in the head with a shotgun.
He had heard tbe firing aud came up
just in time to relieve his brother offl
cerj from an unpleasant position.
. Henry Smith was brought to Enter
prise last night and lodged in jail, but
tieorge is too severely injured to be
moved, and was left in oamp. A sur
geon left Enterprise for the oamp this
morning, and until he returns the con
dition of the wounded man will not be
known. It is supposed the sight of
both men's eyes is destroyed, if iokel
Stubblefield did the effective shooting.
Ivauhue to the Rescue.
La Grande, Or., Oot. 12. At En
terprise, in Wallowa county, today, F.
S. Ivanhoe shot and seriously wounded
R. C. Gregg. Mr. Ivanhoe is a well
known attorney, aud Mr. Gregg' is a
druggist. The report rooeivt-by tele
phone Bays that Mrs. J. W. Dalzjll and
Hregg were having trouble over Mrs.
uaizeu s son, aud Mrs. Dalzell had as
saulted Greet! with an nnitirnlla. In
attempting to disarm her (4nBU broke
the umbrella, and a sciimmage re
sulted. Mrs. Dalzell continued the as
Sault, and. in nrntnntina himself.
iregg used considerable force. Just
i mat time Ivanhoe appeared, and
seeing, as he Bupposed, a man assault
ing a Woman tnnlr d Ehnt at- tha man
'i 'ie first time he missed, but the seo-
'ua snot struck Gregg in tbe jaw, in
flicting a severe wound. The bullet
was recovered bv Dhvsioians this after
noon. Unless blood-poisoning sets in,
no serious results are appreheuded.
COURTS MUST SETTLE IT.
Klertlou Hoard's Decision Concerning
Name or Gold Democratic Tarty.
New York. Oot 12. The board of
elections, at a meeting in Brooklyn to
uipht, rendered a decision that tho
party name of the national Democratic
party was substantially the same as
that of the regular organization, and
that sb such, it was an infringement on
the rights to use the thereof by the reg
Blur party. It waa deoided further that
certificates of nomination of the na-
ti'iual party were not party certificates
within the law. The board also in
dorsed the opinion of Corporation
Counsel Burr that there was sufficient
doubt in regard to the questions at ia
ae to make it desirable that the roat
tr should be determined as soon at
possible by the oonrta.
A Rich Dlscoverr Reported.
Trail, B. C Oot 18. A disoovery
' froe gold quartz has been made at
Waterloo, fifteen miles up the Colum
bia from Trail. 8peoimens, said to
nve been taken from the outoroppings,
re liberally sprinkled with gold that
visible to the naked eye. Tbe second
Payment of several thousand dollars
has been made on the Waterloo mines
ij tha Horn Spoon syndicate.
TERRIBLE SIBERIAN FLOODS.
.ri uamaga and !,,,, 0r Llf.
Near
v laillvontnt'k.
i Taooma, Oot, 13 Reports from
! Vladivostock, which arrived mHu
from Japan per steamer Taooma,
I that luot ,.,, u , 7 . . i
1 tY H thl Plama bortenj
ion the Ussuri were the scene of terrible
state
I uuous. me rivers Siphoou, Mor,
Sauta Chasa and Iman were all out,
ann tne plain for hundreds of miles
was tumea into a lake, in some place mining olaim on a portion of the ocean
I twenty-six feet deep. The Siberian shore near the cliff house, of the rich
.railway was flooded for 120 versts est quicksilver mine in the world. A 1
from Iman, the las station on the moderate estimate of its value they
I road and in many places washed away j thought would reach fl0,000,000, and
; and for some days telegraphic com- as the ledoe
munioation with Vladivostock was in
terrupted, both on the government aud
private lines. The grain orops were
being gathered, and were stocked in
i oiiHttveu iu me news, ann tne winter
atock of ny was being housed. All
j these were oarried away, as were in
! most cases the stook of tbe farmers, as
! well as their houses.
, News had been received of the ;
j deaths of over a score of people, and it ;
I was feared that in the more remote
districts the loss of human life would
be still greater, i'.esoue parties were
out in all directions, taking the farm
ers and their families to places of
safety in the few boats to be found in
the district, and the governor-general :
at Vladivostock has dispatched a party like Adam from their Eden. They !
of soldiers, with two light draught ; hope that the government will allow
steam launches and four lifeboats, to them to develop as much of their claim
assist in the work. This party found as lies between the lines of high and
great difficulty in reaohing the soene, ! low tide, for even with this morsel
owing to the state of tbe oountry. j from the feast they think tbey can ao
As the settlers have lost their all, i quire wealth enough for all practical
even their stook of foodstuffs for the purposes.
winter, there is likely to be great dis
tress and famine in the region during ,
the coming winter.
ASTONISHING BLACKMAIL.
A Story That Rivals the Campbell Ab
duction Case.
San Francisco, Oot. 13. Such a
story as Millionaire Campbell told and
proved against Oliver Winthrop comes
now from Charles Montgomery, pro
prietor of the Brooklyn hotel, who is a
man of means, position and high repu
tation just such a story, save that tbe
kidnapper, to call him so, is declared
to have planned more wisely than
Winthrop, executed more skilfully,
reaped a substantial reward for his
daring crime and gone soot free.
; For more than a year Mr. Montgom
I ery has held his peace and kept bis
j pledge of secreoy, and no one but his
: wife and hiB lawyer has known that
he was the victim of an astonishing
piece of villainy, and that he paid a
large sum of money said to be $10,-
000 to his captors as the price of his
liberty and personal security. ,
Tbe Chronicle this morning pub-!
: liabes a sensational Btory to tbe effect ;
j that a year ago last July Mr. Mont- J
! gomery bad been lured into a vacant j
house in the most populous pari oi me j
oity at midday, and nad been held a :
prisoner and threatened with torture j
and death.
and naa nnauy agreed iu
pay his jailer the sum be demanded
wunin a suouiudu .u ,
lease, had sworn not to betray the rob-
I ber and had paid the money as he
I promised.
In an interview upon the subject
: Montgomery said his reason for not
' having given publioity to the story
j earlier was that the kidnapper threat
i ened to kill him if it ever beoame pub
I lie, and both he and his wife believed
' that he would keep his word.
MRS. C'STLE IS GUILTY.
Her Hollrltor
Admits That
the Kurs
She stole
! New York, Oct. 13. A dispatch to
' the World from London, conooruing
I the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M.
i Castle, of San Francisco, says their
I ..... m aJmirmrl tri u mnrA.
SO lienor irauai; -
sentative of the World today Mrs.
Castle's guilt Michael Abrahams,
their solioitor, is a orimiual lawyer
of wide experience and great ability.
Ha d(ilared today that "I have had
her exaimned by some leading speoiai-1
ists in mental diseases, ano nave no
rfnnht that the judge will admit ber ;
I symptoms are such as to warrant a de- j
fense oi Kleptomania, o .u.
from pains in the head, from complete
from pain, in -,
loss of memory and from other irregn
laritie.. which, according to , medical
soienoe, are known to ue irequeuny .
associated with delusions, ner case ;
will be decided in a month or six
weeks. We shall apply ba" ,or
her again next Tuesday, and I hope ,
she will be released on bonds we can
offer The whole faot of the matter
is in short, that Mrs. Castle did take
these artioles, but her husband is per-;
feotlr innooent of any knowledge what- j
ever of L-er doing so."
. i
h. v.ta or Two Gamblers. '
..i s.l. rmt is Mnnh '
18. Mnon
nitimeni nrevailain the Indian ter- j
riSfSv- operation of gambler.. !
riyory r Indians. The
rartrlTnayment of the Osage tribe taw nation is entitled to take all the
-aaT.de Thursday and hundred, of coal beneath tbe .urface within a mile
r.mW. wee"eut with .11 kind.'radiu. in every direction from hi.
of device., from the shell game to the works.
gold briok BWindle. Two gamblers Election Reforms In n.tralla.
fleeoeda crowd of full bloods, and Melbourne, Oot 12 Trie asserablv,
their viotima became enraged and drove gfwr gn gii.nlgnt ,itug, passed tbe
them out of the settlement. The gam-, ieoond nlliilaK oi ,ne hill establishing
blera were overtaken at Turkey creek jemgle loB rag, Md "oue man to one
and killed. Tbe namea are not known. I T0
A QUICKSILVER MINE.
Unfortunately for the l)lnroTn la on
(iovermneut Land.
San Francisco, Oct. 12. For a short
time yesterday Christian Soli and
.Tnhn P i. I .,
,. - u "in prospeotors, De-
Uved tbey said good-bye to poverty
and had iumned into ri.hi tw
clouded the fame of Monte Cristo from
view. They were the possessors, they ,
Were COUflrinilt ho moiina ..
Adolph Sutro, as they thonght, they
believed they could acquire it under
the mining law.
The dream was short-lived. Thev
had scaroely left the city hall, after
filing their mineral notice, when thev
learned that they had located on a
piece of the Presidio, instead of the
possessions of the mayor. With this
knowledge away went shimmering
dreams of untold wealth, for title to
militarv reservation!) id hnvnnd thn
reach of the caveat of the law regard
ing mining claims.
Hut even in the face of this disheart
ening turn of fortune, Green and Soil .
still hope, although an inscrutable and
immutable hand had banished them ;
PAPERS REFUSED HIM.
i Merchant Rosenbloom U Nut a Walking
Kncyclupedia, Bu He Can't Vote.
Omaha, Neb., Oot. 12. Merobant
Rosenbloom, of Omaha, was today re
I fused citizenship papers in the district
'. court because he could not name the
, number of representativea each state
; has in congress. Judge C. K. Scott,
; who has obtained notoriety through in
j arbitrary oourse on the bench, pre
: sided.
Rosenbloom was subjected to a severe
; fire of cross-questions. He answered
: correotly as to the manner of electing
: a president in this country, tbe re
; quirements of a foreign citizen desir
j ing to become naturalized, the number
of senators and representatives in
congress, and the number of senators
, and representatives Nebraska has in
congress, but when asked tbe number
of representatives from eaoh Btate, he
, was stumped. He offered to name
Borne of them, but this was not satis
1 faotory to the oonrt. Becoming some
what indignant, Rosenbloom exolaimed:
1 "I am only a plain business man,
; your honor, and do not have the time
to study up all these questions."
"That does not make any differ
ence," haughtily replied the court,
"if the people don't know any more
abont the requirements than you do,
they should never be naturalized."
onrty informing tn9 app,icant
The court closed the book with a
.w u. tBii.nj nn mnh anA nnid noi
get his paperB.
THE ARGENTINE WRECK.
The Disaster Was Due to a Dense Fog
Prevailing at the Time.
Kansas City, Oot. 12. A curious
combination of wrecks took place in
the Santa Fe yards at Argentine. A
dense fog caused the trouble.
Four
trains were wrecked, but, strange to say,
only one man was hurt, and be not
fatally.
An eastbound freight train, in trying
to enter the yard, was stopped by a
switch that refused to work. Before
the trouble could be remedied, a spe
cial freight, which was following close
behind, came along. On account of
the fog, the danger signals were not
seen until too late. The second train
dashed into the first one, wrecking the
engine and several cars. Hardly bad
this collision oocurred, when passen
ger train No. 8 crashed into the rear
of the wrecked special, and a few min
nteg ,ater paBaeugel. trai Na 2, the
oolifnrniu limited, nlnwed through the
rear oarg of No g ,
Tne only per80n nurt in these wrecks
wgJ g gwitchman named George Slater,
was a switenman namea ueorge Biater.
who bgd hl, grm Droken and his beat
bg(Jly Hig lnjorieSi glthougb.
pgjnf,, are not considered dangerous.
n( pasaengeri Were somewhat shaken,
bn(. nQ one eUe wgg injnre(1. The
damage to railroad property amounts
t0 50 000.
Mining Decision,
8onth McAllister, I. T . Oot. 12
Chief Justice Springer, of the Indian
territory court of appeals, baa rendered
decision.which involves a title to tbe
coal mine property operated by tbe
CUOOtaw, UKianoma ac wuu railway
ana QireoiiT auounuH yiupon.T iu
ana oireoiu aueoiing property iu tno
.i
Choctaw nation to the value of several
millions. The decision hold, that ;.uy
person who disoovers ooal in the Choc-
In Koul Cuban DanitoDi.
Havana, Oct. 12. Weyler is fooling
our contul, Lee. The order prohibit
ing the American consul-general from
visiting the military prison keeps bim
from peisonally investigating the con
dition of Americans imprisoned there.
He has to rely upon what Weyler tells
him. lu their last interview Ueueral
Lee complained of the unsanitary con
dition of the cells tbe American pri
soners were in. Weyler replied boldly:
"Ob, 1 have attended to this matter.
They have been removed to cells Ncs.
41 and 42."
General Lee retired flattered at bis
upposed success, not knowing the
Americans have always occupied cells
Nos. 41 aud 42.
Those cells, by the way, are gloomy
and so damp that water oozes from the
ceilings and trickles down the walls,
wetting tbe floor, which never dries.
In one of these wretched cells are Mel
ton, theAmeiicau newspaperman, and
George Aguirre, locked up with a man
suffering from small pox. Tbe dis
agreement between Weyler and Lee
continues, the arrested Americans suf
fetiug the consequenoes.
aharkey at San Finni-Uco.
fciuu FiaiiuUuo, Oct 12. Tom Shar
key, resplendent in a light snit of the
latest New York cut, has returned to
the city. Several sports journeyed
across tbe bay to meet tbe "big gun" j
in pugilism. Sharkey was informed '
of the latest phase of the attempt to
make a match by Dan Lynch. Shar
key, who is thoroughly bent on fight
ing aud who is desperately in earnest,
became quite indignant.
"1 win wait and hear what Corbett
has to say in his letter," said Sharkey.
"If be does not mean business I will
leave for the East aud will make either .
Corbett or Fitzsimmous fight or I will
stamp huh as pretenders and show ,
them up to the world." j
Sharkey was asked if be was satisfied
wiih the winner taking all of the ;
110,000.
1'nat is perfeotly satisfactory. I do
not want a cent if I lose the contest."
Sharkey told hiB friends that Corbett
and Fitzsimmons were "dead" ones
and related bow the Antipodean was
willing to give a bag punching exhi
bition t.wina a Hav fnr SlnO a week.
This is one of the reasons that makes !
Shaikev think that both Corbett and I
FitzsimmouB will
near future.
have to fight in the
To Develop Corean Mlues. '
San Francisco, Oot. 12. A party of
prominent Denver mining operators
and capitalists are here on their way i
to Corea to engage in a big mining ;
venture. While unwilling to disclose
iboir plans, it is understood they ex-
peot to take advantage of a concession j
granted by the Corean government for
the exploration and development of :
oertain vauable mining property in the j
hermit kingdom, and are taking with
them a civil engineer to superintend
the construction of a railway to oon-1
neot tbe mines with the seaport of j
Chemulpo. The party inoludes H. Col- J
burn, L. L. Bailey and George Arthur
Rioe, all of Denver. With them is W.
T. Carley, a oivil engineer of Cbatta-;
nooga, who will have charge of the (
railway construction and such other ,
works as tbe syndicate may undertake. I
The members of the party have engag-1
e'd passage on the steamer China, which
sails today.
Attacked by I'lrates. j
Malaga, Oct. 12. The Spanish mer-
chant steamer Seville, from French
MaHftarranaDti nnrta vAnnrta that tha I
! wi, r..i.i, Jhn wi.
! recently near the island of Hnloemas, a
Spanish prison settlement off the ooast
of Morocco, was attacked by armed
Moors in boat. The pirates bound
tbe crew and pillaged tbe ship. The
crew of the Seville succeeded in rescu -
ing one of the crew of the Corinthe
and captured one boatload of the Moors.
When the Seville approached the Cor-
inthe, the pirates opened Are upon her,
killing two men ana wounding iour
and eventually compelling the Seville
lo retire, a opauiHii uuut una i;etu
sent to Morocco with instrnotions to
demand the release of the prisoners and
the payment of indemnity. Tbe out
rage took place in Spanish waters.
Peter Fellers. j
Wnnrihnrn. Or.. Oct. 19 Patar
i Fellers, who died a few days ago at
j renew, wno aiea lew nay. ago a
1 bis home near Butteville, was one of
, the oldet p, rg ln Mgrion
onwa. uu.u.-u,iU..u..0,i h property" being construed to
came to this oountry in 1847 and set-! . t . ,
" . , ' ' .. . mean other property of the same char-
tied in Davis county, Illinois came to . . t. ',,, . .
. ,,. '. ., ' . acter as the kinds mentioned. T ie so
Oregon in 1868, and for tbe first four i v,M ... .,. ,,
year8, ran. freight team between Ore- j 00" "
guu Ksiiy uuu Aiunuv. uioii amtitKi
upon bis present farm near Butteville, I
where be lived for forty-two years. H j
left a widow and six children.
Ivory Again Remanded.
London, Oct. 12. Edward J. Ivory,
alias Bell, tbe saloon-keeper of New
York, obarged with aiding and abetting
the alleged dynamite conspiracy, was
brought up again today on a remand
from the Bow street police oonrt council for tomorrow morning to oon
Counsel for tbe treasury department aider how public business oan be most
called several witnesses. The prisoner ! harmoniously carried on.
was again remanded for a week.
Wholesale Grain-Dealer Assign.
Philadelphia, Oct 12. John Lunn,
wholesale grain dealer, has made an
assignment for tbe benefit of bia credit
ors. Tbe liabilities amount to $78,000;
assets, $80 nnn
TORTURED A DYING WOMAN.
; The Horrible Crime or a Chicago
riiynlolau.
Chicago, Oct. 9. Carl F. Niu, a
physician, stabbed his wife to death
and afterwards blew his brains out.
The couple had lived a quarrelsome
and nuhappy life, aud the woman bad
made repeated efforts to obtain posses
sion of her husband's property. Dur
ing a quarrel, Nitz stabbed bis wife in
the abdomen with a surgical instru
; nieut, and, the wound not proving
I fatal, stabbed her a seoond time.
From notes found in the room it is
, evident that the physician had sat down
: beside his victim to watch her die, and
' that, while bo oooupied, he repeatedly
; plunged the knife into the vital parts
i ann on paper noted the effect of the
wounds inflicted. For over four hours,
as shown by his notes, he tortured the
1 dying woman. During this time, he
went out and prooured an oyster stew
at a neighboring restaurant, and pur
chased the revolver with which he
finally killed himself.
Late iu the evening the police learned
of the murder and went to the house.
Nitz, who had hid in the basement,
killed himself when he found there
was no chance of escape. While the
woman was slowly dying, the aged fa
their of the physician sat in an adjoin
ing room ignorant of the tragedy that
was being committed. The murderer
and suicide was 40 years of age, and
well to-do.
BAD JUDGMENT ONLY.
Coroner's Jury's Verdict In Kallroed
Accident Near Roseburg.
Roseburg, Or., Oot. 9. The ooro
uer's jury resumed taking testimony in
the trainwreck case this morning.
James Porter, engineer of No. 16, and
Superintendent Fields were heard, and
the jury brought in tbe following ver-
di' 4 M': , . , , "J
"We, the ooroner's jury, impaneled
auu sworu iu inquire uuw tuu uuuuhku
persons were, and when, where and by
what means they came to their deaths,
do find tbe deceased perous to be Albert
Toy, John McGonigle and George R.
Happersett; that tbey came to their
death Ootober 6, 1896, half a mile
80Uth f Oreen's station, on the South
ern Pacific railroad, by.a collision be
tween two locomotives. It was elicit
ed from the evidence that the souh
bound engine was running undei or
ders, and that the northbound engine
had a right to flag baok, as there was
no telegraph station at Green's station,
and did oomply with this regulation
up to the straight traok, one mile and
a half south of Green's station, which
straight traok tbey had a right to run
over unflagged when they oould see.
It being daylight they dropped down
this straight track with the intention
of flagging through the fog and around
a small curve. We find no one guilty
of breaking the regulations of running,
but defioient jugdment was shown as
to the distanoe from the fog that would
make them safe in commencing to flag
again, which, according to evidenoe,
they were intending to resume."
A Flslirrmau's Haul. '
Aberdeen, Wash., Oot. 9. Last eve-
ning at abont 8 o'olook, a fisherman
I known as Austian Pete, while drifting
j for salmon in the harbor, felt an una
i sually heavy weight on his net. Upon
hauling np the net, be found the dead
body of John Fuss entangled in the
meshes. The ooroner was at once noti
fied, and took the body in charge. It
will be buried today. Fuss had been
I drinking heavily, and after 6 o'olook
I laBt eveniK left Dolan's saloon, on the
?rn,?r ' H,oron, nd F B'reeta- t?.UiuK
ms ,"Bn8ln? 1 DB WH"g,?"g 10 Jmp
orerbogrf." J bey paid little attention
J? h" rem"k' " (ht8 teanently
! hreatened o commit suiolde. He was
'aBt ge8n "ua Bbout 7 clock' Hnd h,U
D P,cked P J
j '
j stealing Keal Kstate Not Crime.
8an Franoisco, Oot. 9. The sunreme
; oourt day decided that, to obtain real
estate under false pretenses is no orime
nnder the statute. James H. Cum-
i mings was tried for such an offense in
tbe supreme court and acquitted on
demurrer which contended that the
code only defined the offense of obtain
ing money nnder false pretenses, and
of swindling to obtain merely money,
merchandise and other property
; It ' . H th t thi aMmntJs , '
was held that thi. exempt d re. 1 e.
K. a, Orr la Now Mayor of Tacoma.
Taooma, Oot. 9. A. V. Fawoett,
acting mayor since April, vacated tbe
offioe at 8 o'clock this morning, the
Btate aupreme oonrt having deoided E.
H. Orr, the contestant, entitled to be
seated pending a further hearing of tbe
case, which will be in the superior
oourt in abont two months. Mayor
Orr called a speoiai meeting of the oity
I
Horses for Honolulu.
Ellensburg, Wash., Oot 9. Claude
and Ralph Helm left today with a oar
load of Peroheron horses, bound for
Ban Francisco, wbenoa they will aail
for Honolulo. The horse, range from
! 1.400 to 1,800 pound, each.