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. MM jeweler, Alha'ny, Oregon,
MOHMONS ROUTED.
unities win in nic
Salt Lake Election
MORMOHISM fHE ONLT ISSUE-
An Entire Family Murdered on
the Plains - of Oklahoma.
BUFFALO BILL'S BIG PROFIT.
He Is Raking in the Coin of the Real m
from the Britishers, Who Like the
'"'Wild West" Show.
Salt Lake, Feb. 11. Never be
fore in the history of the territory
has a political campaign been so
bitterly fought as the election of
municipal officers in this city. The
question at issue has been neither
republican or democratic suprem
acy, but Morraonism versus asti-
Mormonism. The last election for
memberB of the legislature, which
resulted in the liberals or anti-
Mormons carrying the city by a
majority of 41, has caused every
voter to come out and work to the
utmost, the liberals to again carry
the city, and the people's party, or
Mormons, to prevent a defeat fiom
which they probably could never
recover. The interest is so intense
that the legislature on Saturday
atliourned over to luesday.
The citv from one end to the
other has been "decorated with flagB
and bunting, as though it were a
national holiday, and during the
past week torchlight processions,
with thousands ot men, paraded
the streets nightly.
SKY-ROCKETS AND MARCHING' MEN.
The campaign really began last
June,and has been growing intense
ever since, ending on the part of
the liberals by an immense torch
light parade Friday night, in which
there were 4000 men. Illumina
tions and lire works made the city
a blaze of light Saturday night, the
Mormon parade here then closing
the demonstration, which was
much the snme as the other, but
with only 3000 in line, much lesB
decoration and illumination, but
an elegant display of fire works.
The campaign has been a great
political educator, something
needed here and never before had
to any extent.
The Mormon temple, which has
been bnildint! for over 30 years,
has red lights burning irom the
lower story to-night and the scene
is picturesque.
At noon the returns were re
ceived at Liberty hcadquarts from
22 wards, giving a total vote of
4()fi.! Gentiles, 2335 ; Mormons,
227S. About lrtilf of the vote was
polled at that time. The Gentiles
new claim that they will carry the
city by 1400 majority.
WHOLE FAMILY MUKDEREO.
Four ISloody Corpsen Found on
Oklahoma IMains. '
Wichita, Feb. 11. Forr bodies
were found thirty miles southeast
of I'urcell by two cowboys, James
Homer and JaineS Hemps. Near
by was a wagon and harness, the
horses having been taken away.
The corpses were those of a man,
apparently oO years old, with four
bullet holes; a woman, apparently
about the same age, with three
bullei, holes ; a young woman, ap
parently 20 years old, shot through
the head, and a boy of 5 years,
shot in the forehead. This dis
covery was made list evening and
reported to l'utrell to-day, when a
deputy marshal started to investi
gate. Tin: cow boys report that the
killii;;ir probably occurred ten days
a.o.
i:ri'i A!.o i:iLis i;!ciii:s.
Tlic r.ritisl'.ers Vatrotiizc the "Wild
West" Show Liberally.
' Losriov, Feb. 11. An agent of
tiie syndicate o! American capital
ist. which furnished the monov to
bring r.ui'uxh) Rill's "Wild West"
show. to Fr.ropo has been hero on
his way home with a, copy-bvok of
their receipts in 1'aris dnrintj the
exposition. JIo says the show
took in 3,G0v),O0 francs, or about
$720,000. According to the con
tract between Rufi'alo Rill and the
syndicate the latter was entitled to
30 per cent, of the gross receipts,
which would make their share ex
ceed 200,000. .Senator John P.
Jones is a member of the svndi
er.te. IN MONTANA.
Th- Democratic Senator Spirited
Over to Idaho.
Helena, Mont., Feb. 11. The
democratic state senator, who was
brought by the sheriff Saturday
night, was spirited away by demo
crats last night, and crossed the
Idaho-Montana line this morning.
All the democratic senators arc
now out of the state, and the senate
is without a quorum.
A Family of Six Drowned.
Kixiisrox (N. Y.), Feb. 11.
Four cliildrcn of Jacob U. Sinter
were skating on the lake at Rinne
watcr this afternoon when the ice
gave way ami the childreniere
precipitated into the water. Tlieir
shouts were heard by the parents,
who lived near by. By the time
the parents readied the lake the
children hail disappeared beneath
the ice. The mother, frantic pith
the thought, of the children's peril,
rushed upon the ice, which broke.
and she sank below the surface.
Slutei then attempted to reach his
w ife, and he too was drowned. The
entire family was thus wiped out
of existence, 'tonight a hundred
people are searching for the bodies.
CALIFORNIA DISHKS RATTLED
Earthquake Shocktt Early in the
Morning In the OransvltenT. .
Pomona. Fo. 11. Three earth-
qutke fI s in rapid mecesBion
were it i' In re aa 4 cifck tnis
morning. Several paDt-s of glass
were broken aod tome crockery
was moved from shelves, hut no
further damage resulted. 1
San dikgo, Feb. 11. A shock of
earthquake wns felt in this city at 4
o'clock thi morning, lasting about
a minute. It was accompanied by
rumbling noises.
Colton', Cat., Feb. 11. A heavy
shock of earthquake was felt here
at 4 o'clock this morning.
THE OREGON CENSVS.
Compensation of tbe Enumerator
and Their Work.
Washington, Feb. 11. The cen
sus supervisors are now being fur
nished with instructions and the
necessary papers to begin their part
of the work. In talcing the census 01
1S90 the estimates and basis of be
ginning the work are made from the
census of 1880, allowing in all cases
for the natural or extraordinary in
crease in the far western districts.
Oregon has been divided into two
districts, and the supervisors nave
been appointed. In the first district
John II. Shu,je,-of Oakland, has been
named, and in the second district, J
W. Strange, of LaGrande, will be the
supervisor.
The first district in Western Oregon
is populous, and the censns bureau
has estimated that it contains 204,000
people, whilo the eastern district is
estimated at 5S.000. The salary of
the supervisors will be 1000, aud
they are allowed a certain amount for
chrk and legitimate expenses incurred
in their work. The appointment of
enumerators is in the hands of the
supervisors, though it is supposed that
in most instances they will be chosen
upon ta.e recommendatieti of the sena
tors and representatives.
KILLED II EK SISTER.
Tied the Rahe to Cow'm Tail and
Drove It to Death.
I'aius, Feb. 11. A horrible crime
was committed 'iu a provincial town
to-day. A girl of 10 years was walk
ing the fields with her little tiister.
aged 2. The baby grew fretful and
the elder girl lost patience with it
and tied the poor thing to the tail of
a cow that was grazing in the r asture.
Then hu hustled the auimal into a
gallap. The tiny victim uttered
piercing shrieks which crew fainttr
as the cow galloped madly on. The
girl went quietly home and related
her adventure gleefully.
Several hours afterwards the cow
was found miles away with a shaps
lek9 ruass f human flesh dragging at
herheelsl
IN THE SISKITOL'S.
Three Weeks Without Comaannlca-
tion Provisions Banning Short.
Si8sic-S8, Cal, Feb.' ll.-V-The.Siski-you
mountains are nearly open. A
train of ties has left' here for repairs
at 'Ashland, But little . progress in
clearing has been made between Mott
and Dunsmuir as but a small gang of
Chinamen arc working. The whites
qnit under a reduction of their wages
to $1.15 a day. We- have been
tweuty-seven days now without com
munication. There is plenty of food
yet, but it will soon be getting short
TWO TKTSTS ADVANCE I'RICES
Edge Tools anil Window Class will
he Much Dearer.
PnrsiHKo.Feb. 10. Representa
tives of all the edge toofnnriufac
turers met here to-day and formed
a trust. The organization will do
business under the name of the
American Ax Company, and they
will regulate the manufacture and
sale of edge tools. A big advance
in prices will probably be an
nounced shortly. .
Springfield (Mass.), Feb. 10.
Members of the American Window
Glass Association, including repre
sentatives of every glass company
in the United States, met to-day
and advanced the price of glass 5
per cent, for the next five days, at
the end of which time a new price
list will be issued, and there will
be an advance of 10 per cent.
VIOLENCE IN GEORGIA.
An O anted Postmaster Threatens to
Kill His Successor.
Washington, Feb. 11. E. L.
Duckworth, recently appointed
postmaster at Sharon, Ga., has
represented to the postofHce de
partment that he is' prevented by
threats of personal .violence and
hostile demonstration from tak
ing possossioirof his office. It ap
pears that Duckworth, who is
understood to be an independent
republican, was some fime ago ap
pointed postmaster to succeed a
democra who. with his iriends, it,
is represented, havf used every
:::ea:is to prcver t- his successor
from taking charge of the office.
Threats of personal violence, and
even death, it is staged, were pub
licly made and heaped upon him.
On the 5th of the present month
Duckworth vrote to the postmaster-
generai that he could hold out no
longer, fearing he would be killed,
and asked thai his resignation be
accepted.
After a consultation from the
president and First Assistant Postmaster-General
Clarkson, Mr.Wan-
amaker last night telegraphed
Duckworth as follows:
"Whatever power this depart
ment has will be used to protect
you and put you in possession ol
the office to which you have been
appointed. Communicate freely
by telegraph the full facts of inter
ference with you further, and im
mediate action will be taken."
He also ordered two postoflice
inspectors to proceed immediately
to Sharon and investigate the
whole matter.
Attornev-General Miller has or
dered the United States marshal to
the scene of the trouble. Duck
worth was recommended for the
office by a large number of reputa
ble citizens.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Pacific Coast Appointments and
Appropriations.
Washington, Feb. 11. The house
committee on the Ohio ballot box
forgery resumed its sessions this morn
ing. Senator Stockbridge, of Michi
gan, and Senator McPherson, of New
Jersey, declared their signatures to
the papers to be forgeries. Several
miner conference reports on the bill
for the appropriations of $75,000 for
improvement of the mouth of the
Columbia was agreed to.
Committee on rules reported back a
new code of rules. The house pro
ceeded to consider it.
Secretary Tracy has appointed the
collector of customs at Astoria, Capt.
White, of the revenue marine seryicc,
and Dr. Railache, of the marine
postal tervice, a board to investigate
charges against Capt, llealy, com
mander of thp revenue steamer Rear,
of cruelty to American sailors duiing
the'recent cruise to Alaska.
nominations.
The president has made the follow
ing nominations. Charles Lmcry
Smith, Philadelphia, minister to Rus
sia; Sam 1 Merrill, ludiana, consul
general at Calcutta. U. S. consuls:
Edward Redloe, Pennsylvania, at
Amoy, Levi Meyers, Iowa, at Vie
toria, R. C; F. A. Mathews, Ca.i
fornia, a.t Tangier"; Jauicj O'Rrien,
Minnesota chief : justice of the su
preme court of New Mexico; Cornelius
11. Hanford, U. S. district judge for
the district of Washington.
MISCm.LANEOUS.
The senate committee on territories
directed the chairman to favorably
report a hill for the admission of
Idaho on Wednesday.
Rill making appropriations for pub
lic buildings ere reported and placed
on the calender as follows: Portland,
SoOO.000; The Dalles, $100,000;
Salem, $100,000.
The president has signed the procla
mation opening the Sioux reservation
in South Dakota.
MOKE MAIL I'OK OKEGOX.
Some of Which Is Now Wanted
in Albany.
San Francisco. Feb. 11. The
San Francisco steamer Oregon will
go on the dry dock Wednesday for
repairs and a general overhauling.
The Santa Kosa lelt for Portland
and Astoria yesterday morning
loaded down with freight and pas
sengers. She also carried away a
large amount of mail for Oregon
and the East. The Walla Walla
left the Broadway wharf this morn
ing for Victoria and Puget Sound
ports.
The postal authorities have come
to their senses and decided to send
the San Francisco mails to Port
land by the regular otcamers. The
experiment of sending them by a
revenue cutter was disastrous ht all
ways. Not only were two or three
days' time lost but the expense
turned out to be actually greate.
than the sum demanded by the
steamers for the service. ,
ISKAZIL IS ALL RltillT,
Fonsoca Is Loyal aud Ilcfuscs the
Cro n.
Rio hk Janeiro, Feb. 11. A
mob made a demonstration yester
day before the residence of General
da Fonseca, president of-the pro
visional government,, in favor of a
dictatorship. They urged Fonseca
to assume the position of dictator
for a period of livf years. Da Fon
seca did not put in an appearance,
but caused the mob to be dispersed
by the police. Among the mob
were many soldiers. The presi
dent in a subsequent interview pi id
he was opposed to a dictatorship,
and that the demonstration was
distastetul to him.
Qneer Advent of Kouncing Boy.
New York. Feb, 11. A fashion
ably dressed young woman, who
was accompanied by her husband,
startled the audience at the Grand
opera bouse last night by rising in
her seat and screaning. It was at
the conclusion of the duel scene in
"Mr. Barnes of New York." The
young woman fainted. Several
ushers helped her husband carry
her out,to the lobby. The per
formance was stopped and the cur
tain lowered while the woman was
removed, and before an ambulance
arrived a bouncing boy was born.
Piiislev &
lob Printers.
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Condition of the Rail
road Lines.
OPEN FE0M "FRISCO TO ASHLAHD.
The Southern Pacific Nearly
Ready for Trains to Roseburg.
THE MARQUAX QEAHD OPERA HOUSE.
Tbe Union Pacific Open from Portland to
Tbe Dalles- The West Side Road
Will Be Open To Morrcw.
Portland, Feb. 11 In speak
ing of the situation on the South
ern Pacific Manager Koehler to-day
said : "We have repaired the road
through East Portland so that
trains can move. We have a force
of men working at several points
along the line, putting in new
trestles. Most of the small trestles
between Ilarrisburg and Junction
have been repplaced, and in a lew
days trains can reach Roseburg
from here. A large force cf men,
in charge of Assistant Superintend'
cnt Pratt, of San Francisco, have
reached Ashland and passed on
with a force of 300 more men to
work from Grants' Pass northward,
having cleared the road through
the Siskiyous. They will come
north until they reach our force,
which is working southward be
tween Ashland and Roseburg.
The road is repaired so that trains
can go over it, and c expect Pratt
will make good headway from the
latter point to Cow Creek canyon
The exact situation in Cow Creek
Canyon is not known, as the wires
are still overburdened with busi
ness."
The Union Pacific line, which
has been blockaded between this
city and The Dalles by slides, was
opened this afternoon, and a train
is expected to arrive to-morrow.
OPEN TO CORVAI.LIS TO-MOI1KOW.
I Independence, Feb. 11. The
railroad across the Luckiamute,
live miles above here, is all right.
The wagon bridge there is dam
aged some, but not seriously. It
will take another day to rebuild
the bridge acros the Rickreal, at
Derry, but when that is done the
West S!de road will be open to
Corvallis.
THE GOVERNMENT ItOTS.
Portland, Feb. 11. Captain
W'dtcomb went to Post office bar
to day with the steamer Willamette
to inspect the government boats
and scows w hich broke loose dur
ing the flood and were caught at
that place. The snag-puller Cor
vallis and the dredger, Santiam,
also of the fleet, are sunk off Swan
Island. As soon as the water goes
down sufficiently an effort will be
made to raise them.
THE MARQI AM OPENED.
Portland, Feb. 11. The Mar
quam Grand opera house, just
completed at a cost $100,000, was
formally opened last night witli
the presentation of "Faust" by the
Emma Juch Grand English Opera
Company.
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
From (.rave to Gay in Western
Editorial Life.
We extract the following from t'e
last i st-ue cf the Arizona Kicker,
which was only a halt eheet, and
whiue seemed to have been printed on
a cheese-pres6:
Explanatory We owe our readers
au apo ogy for the shar.e and appear
ance of the Kicker this week, and
shall proceed to give it. Last Sunday
wc went over to Silver Rend to see
the boys and rake in a few subscrip
tions. Our office was lelt in charge
of a chap just from the cat who
clainie'.l to be George AlLe.d Town
scud. A3 we had never met George
we did not feci like calling the stran
ger a liar.
We intended to return Tuesday
morning, but in this couutry man pro
poses and mules and other thing3
buck against him. The infernal, lop
eared, stiff-legged, pig-headod, limb
spavined beast which we rode a tit
counterpart of our contemporary down
the - street threw us nine times in
going thirteen miles, and we arrived
at the Rend badly used up. e
hadn't yet raked in a dollar when
Lew Smith, a plug-ugly whom we as
sisted to run out of our town four
weeks ago, sounded his war-cry and
began to encourage the Benders to
hang us. M'ist of 'em were on a
druuk that day, and the proposition
at once found tavor.
Under the pretense that we, as
editor, publisher, proprietor and city
editor of the greatest weekly in the
west and which runs as an annex, but
under the same roof, a grocery,
butcher shop, feed store, shoe store,
hardware and cutlery, had been seek
ing to breaV down the social barriers
of the mighty west,, they hunted up a
rope and selected a tree. We ap
pealed, but it only added to their de
sire. We tried to argue, but they
wouldn't have it. Our editoral per
son was laid hold of and hustled
along to a rope dangling from a limb,
aud as we looked over the crowd and
failed to catch a sympathetic eye we
kit that our time had come.
Ti'e boys were white about oni
j tiling. Drunk as they were, thty had
DIS
ATCHES
sense enough to realize that, a great
.editor could not wind up his earthly
affairs iu a satisfactory manner under
fifteen minutes, and on motion of a
half-breed, who once succeeded in
borrowing half a dollar of us, the time
was increased to twenty . V e wanted
to argue the case, but it was no go.
We started in on a speech, but they
whooped us down. By the vime thai
we got down to business five of twenty
minutes had fled.
T" T .1 1 , a ... b I n. ,tfm tiA
UUI CU11VI1M . uaw
assisted at several amateur executions.
We bad always supposed that if the
crowd wete satisfied the victim was
bound to be. It never seemed much
of an effort for him to let go of earthly
matters, and we nave sometimes
wondered why more of them didn't
com ? forward and ask to be palled to
a limb. Our ideas nnderwent a great
change as we cat on a meat-box under
a dangliog rope, while the minutes
hurried away like a jack rabbit taking
the lead of a prairie fire on a windy
day. Any man who believes he cad
do business under such circumstances
is mistaken. He feels restless and
unsettled, and his . mind seems to be
distributed over acres of space.
It was only after we bad lost twelve
minutes of our . time fooling around
that we started in on our last will and
testament, and we hadn't written.
three lines of that before we suddenly
recollected that we , were without a
blood relative on earth. At to leav
ing the Kicker and its annex to any
galoot in town was not to be thought
of, and we finally made out a bill of
tale to that individval known aa
William of the HilL who has several
times appeared in oar town and at
tempted to run the city government
with a, broncho and two revolver.
We didn't expect him to. maintain its
high literary standard . and great
moral excellence, but we knew he'd
kill the postmaster and make a sieve
of our contemporary the first week of
his editorial career.
When time was up the noose was
placed over our head and tightened
under our chin, ard it admonished us
to observe the apparant enjoyment of
the crowd- They seem to feel in aa
good spirits as an army horse turned
out to buffalo grass, and their im-
I patience to make a pcuJuIum of our
body was another queer lealure ot t i:e
con yention . We had just been draw u
off oar feet, and our editorial ideas
were beconiing rapidly mixed, when a
lot of passing cow-drivers happened
along aud broke up the candy pull on
the ground that they were waiting to
hang us the first time wc came up
there. We were saved to be hung at
Phanix if we ever bhow up there.
We are just able t ci a I around.
We have chills, sore liirn.it, piin in
the back, headache and & general feel
ing that wc don't care a cqioer which
party elects the next Prudent. e
apologize for the appearance of thiols
this week, aud promise not to te
lynched aaiu it in our power to avoid
it.
DICI NK At. A IN.
King Milan Loses at t.amMing and
ltegsOueen Natalie for Money.
San Francisco, Feb. II. The Ex"
airliner's New York eorrcsDondenc
6endsthe following e;.lle from Lon
don: King Milan lias been on a wild
coroiisc at Monte CarI- and has lotc
500,000 francs at the gambling tables.
He has been mean enough, according
to current reports, to send his frima
Couut Milewaki to Bc'gra.le t beg ot
Queeii Natalie, his divorced ana
greatly wronged wife, f obtain her
influence with the government in
order to get a large earn irom the
Servian treasury. ,
Went Virginia Trait Areident.
Roanoke (W. Va.), Feb. 11. A
west-bound passenger train on tbe
Norfolk !fc Western railwaj', was
wrecked by the spreading of the
rails near Bristol to-day. Express
Messenger Kerr was killed, Mail
Agent Beck fatally injured, ano
the baggage master badly hurt.
Conductor Barnes and two passen
gers were slightly injured. The
others escaped with a shakirg.
An Eye to KiiNiness.
JtiTiuiie was the brightest, tf boys,
and having cvinecd a hive for wealth,
looked forwacd to tbe time when bi
would be a rich man. One moraine,
it breakfast, his aunt informed him
that during the night twins had been
added to the family, which alrer.dy
consisted of three besides .linunie
The doy dropped his kuiie and fork
and exclaimed: "Great Scott! Aunt
Mary, if father and mother keeper
at this rate there won't be fifty dol
lars to divide amoung ue!"
It Cured Him.
Jas. Shaw, an Oh:; far jut,
planted 3 hickory post deep in tl.t
ground, lied a straw iraa ti it, ant
then turned a fierce bull icto the
inclosure. The bull made a bee
line for the lay ligruc, struck llu
post plumb-center, and was killco.
so dead that he d:dnt tven kick
after falling over.
A Florida Boy's Nerve.
A boy living near Nassou City,
Fla., was out fire hintinii a few
nights ego, when he planted his on
tomethiflg soft and slippery, and at
once awakened the wiirning notes
of a rattlesnake. By the flickering
glare of bis torch he saw that he
had trod uptn tbe reptile, but for
tunately bad planted his ieot on its
neck just back of the head, and,
though it folded its slimy coils
areund his ankle and struck out
with its fangs with lightning-like
rapidity, it was unable to turn it
head to do mischief. TLc lad had
pretence of mind enough to keej
his foot firmly planted upon it
Etck. while with the r:x in his hcr
he stvti'.-riLt- hci:d from thebodj