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Two Portland Physician Ktnpty
Their Itevolvrr Into
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THREE BULLET WOUNDS TOR EACH,
A Full Account or the. Woody
Cotuhnt Aimplunil May let
Holmen la Seiiouiily UurU
The people of Independence were
surprised to read in Saturday' Ore
gonian an account of a terrible duel
with pistols between Dr. Recce
, Holniei and Dr. Ausplund in the
city of Portland about noon Friday.
Augut 15th. Dr. Holmes is well
, known in Polk county, having been
born and raided near Bethel in this
county. lie is the youngest son of
the lute H. N. V. Holmes, a promi
nent cituen in the Pioneer days ot
Polk county, and a brother of Hon
A. M. Holmes and John Holmes,
who iivd near McCoy, and Hon. W.
II. Holmes, of Salem.
lu view of Dr. Holmes' wide ac
quaintance and high standing in
thia county, the following account
from the Oregonian is given:
A remarkable duel with pistols,
which has thus far resulted in no
fatalities, took place shortly b; fore
noon yesterday in the Dckuua
building, between Dr. Horatio R.
Holmes, a very prominent physi
cian, and Dr. Andre A. Auslund, a
younger member of the profession
The shooting took place in Dr.
Holmes' reception room, on the
fourth floor ot the building, wh-re
Dr. Auslund had attempted, at the
point of a pistol, so Holmes states,
coerce his brother physician into
signing a retraction of some dam
aging statements h alleges Holmes
had made concerning niui-'Ht ana
friends, among the latter, presum
ably, Mrs Dr. Chambers, resident
physician at the r ortland hospital
Incidentlly publicity has been giv
en to a serious scandal at the Port
land hospital, in which Dr. Cham
bers was a central figure; and it
was the attitude of Dr. Holmes.
who was until recently connected
with the medical start of that in
stitution, voward Ausplund, and, it
is presumed, toward Dr. Chambers,
who is a personal friend of Dr.
Auslund, that nerved the latter to
his rath deed.
The shooting was highly sensa
tional in all its details. Dr. Holmes
is a nrominent member of Port
land's medical profession, and his
.Aire is in the very heart of the
city The exchange of pistol shots
Hi-hw the attention of an immense
crowd, which blocked the busiest
corner in the city for nearly an
hour. The motive for the crime
and the publication of the trouble
at the Portland hospital gives add
ed coloring to the story of the duel,
which would have been t3 the
death had not the participants dis
abled each other by pistol shots
that were not necessarily fatal. As
it is, the life of Dr. Auslund is de
spaired of. Dr. Holmes was severe
ly shot, but will probably recover.
HOW THE AFFAIE BEGAN.
The shooting occurred at about
11:45 o'clock. The scene was room
28 on the fourth floor of the Dek
urn building, which is occupied in
common by Drs. Holmes and Amos
as a reception room. There were
no spectators, even after the duel
ists had left the office, and were
lighting in the hall, and it was not
until the combatants were 'nuaole
longer to continue their murderous
work that others appeared on the
scene. Accounts differ as to the
number of shots fired, but it is cer
tain that there were at least six,
for that many took effect, three on
each of the duelists. It is diSicult
to get at the exact facts as to how
the fight commenced, as the com
batants tell different stories, but it
was substantially as follows:
Dr. Holmes was on his way to
his office after a call upon City
Physician Wheeler when he met
Dr. Aus'und at the entrance to the
building. They must have passed
up the stairs from the Washington
street entrance, as the elevator men
did not see them. They must
have been talking heatedly when
they entered the office, for the door
was left open; still, the occupants
of adjoining offices heard no loud
ttlk. The first intimation that
there was trouble was the fusillade
of pistol shots, which commenced (
within a very short time after they
had entered the office.
Dr. Auslund demanded that Dr.
Holmes sign the written retraction
which he had prepared. Dr. Holmes
read it over, and said calmly:
"I cannot sign that, for I would
then be lying, and I won't lie for
any one."
"If you do not sign this paper at
once, said Ausplund excitedly,
"one of us must go into eternity."
So far the stories of the duelists
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(tree ur. iioimea saiu maw uc
ordered his visitor out of the office,
and, upon the latter refusing to go,
and exhibiting a pistol to enforce
his demand, struck him in the
face with his clenched fist. Then
Ausplund opened fire, his first ball
striking Holmes just under the left
breast, passing around the body
under the skin, but doing no seri
ous damage, and the second pass
ing through the looss nesn unaer
the chin. Dr. Holmes is known to
be a very cool man, and he did not
lose his presence of mind when Aus
pland's pitol cracked. He had
but a oS-ealibsr revolver in his
pocket, on the previous evening
having been warned that trouble
might be expected, and drawing it
hastily, returned Auspland's tire.
So close were the two men together
that the paper which Auspland
had prepared, and which Holmes
still held, was powder-marked and
spattered with blood, and the first
shot fired by Ausplund went
through it.
HOLMKS T11S PKTTF.R SHOT.
Dr Holmes fired rapidly, and
withVtter aim than his opponent,
for when he had emptied his re
volver Ausplund had received one
tail lot throuird his left lung, just
missing his heart; another had
shattered the bones of his right
firearm, and a third had shattered
the forefinger of his right hand.
Ausplund st-'ggered back through
the door and down the hallway to
ward the Washington street en
trance. Holmes following and
nourishing his empty revolver in
his hand. About 20 feet from the
office Ausplund fell, with the cry:
"For God's s.ike, don't shoot! I'm
killed! I'm killed!"
Holmes, in his frenzy of passion,
kicked the prostrate man, making
a wound over the right ear which
the surgeons at first took for a bul
let wound. Auspland at first cried
forouarter. but when he became
silent. Holmes believed him insensi
ble, and started hack for his own
office. But Ausplund was wide
awake, and, shifting his pistol from
his disable I right to. his left hand,
took a paniug shot at the retreat
ing form of Holmes, the bo net en
tering the latter's right leg. just
above the knee, and inflicting a
most painful wound. Dr. Holmes,
not knowing that he was hit, kept
on into the office, and reloaded his
revolver. He Ihen started back in
to the hall to "finish" the prostrate
Ausplund, but, on seeing him lying
there m agony, changed his mind
and went back into his griv.ate offi
ce, where he remained until help
came.
NINE SHOTS FIRED.
Just how many shots were fired
altogether neither the duelists nor
anyone else can state positively,
but it is thought that the number
was nine. Dr. Holmes emptied his
pistol, which has five chambers,
and but one barrel of Ausplund's
pistol remains londed. The shoot
ing took place in the reception
room, and there are sundry holes
in the walls and doors that show
some of the bullets went wide of
their mark.
THE POLK COUNTY PRESS.
News items and Editorial Ex
pressions. From the Dalian Observer.
The streets of Dallas are almost
deserted these days. People gone
to the coast or out harvesting.
The Polk county "political pot"
do simmer. The honors of holding
office are eagerly sought after these
hard times.
This week will almost finish up
the threshing of grain in this sec
tion of the county. While there
are different reports from different
parts of the county as to the yield,
it is fair to suppose that an average
crop has been harvested, if not
more.
A hard specimen of the man or
der, giving his name as Wm. La
Grande, was arrested by Marshal
Grant last Friday evening on a
charge of robbing an old man at
the Commercial hotel of all of his
money. The evidence was not quite
sufficient to hold LaGrande for the
grand jury, but he quietly took the
hint that his presence was not
needed in Dallas, and laft town ac
cordingly.
The work of laying heavy steel
on the railroad was finished up to
Dallas on last Saturday. Sunday
morning the gang was removed
back to Dundee, where they will
take up the third rail to be used on
this end of the line, and after about
two weeks of track laying near
Portland the men will be brought
back here, and the work pushed
through to Airlie. It is pretty well
stated that as soon as the work is
finished a daily train will be put
on from Airlie to Portland.
From the Dal la Itemlztr.
L. C. Parker and wife left yester
day for a visit to their old Ohio
home.
Mrs. Mull, of Reedville, a sister
of Mrs. Henry Howe, and a pioneer
of 1843, is here on a visit.
Mr. Harold, who lives just this
side of Mill Creek, brought in for
sale last Monday 280 pounds of
lard and 540 of bacon.
Hort Eakin, Joe Sibley, Fred
Toner and John Clark are fixing np
their traps for a tramp through the
Cascade mountains as soon as they
can get off. I
Samuel Orr says there is not a
single smoker in" his threshing
crew, and that in thirty years ex
perience around threehera he hti
never met a similar case.
Rev. Herschner is the pastor of
the Congregational church at Hood
river. He and family are visitiug
his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.
W. Laughary, out on the Luck la
mute, Monday evening J. J. Wiseman
and family were agreeably surpris
ed by the appearance of their life
lonir Michigan friend, Mrs. Rolls
Smith, who is out west traveling:
traveling
for her health, and incidently spy-
ing out some place for a new noiii.
when her husband's term as sheriff,
exp.res. being, man .
and a thorough lumberman, he
L,ld to erne and
pitch iuto the fine limber west oi
us.
Mrs. Elita Water, wife of Wm.
N. Yeater, was a daughter, of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Sherwood. She was
born near Monmouth, February
11, 1SG1, was married to Mr. Yeater
June 22, ISS i, and died at her home
near Lcwisville August 1, 1S53,
aged 34 years. The funeral ser
vices was held at the house, after
which interment was made in the
Smith cemetery. Mrs. Yeater
leaves a husband, one child, a
mother, three sisters and a host of
friends to mourn her death.
IIJM , v
THE PROISLEM OF TO-l AY
Corporations and Legislation jro
Hand in Hand.
THE PEOPLE MOST SAVE THEISEL75S.
Organization the Only Weapon
with Which I-abor Can Suc
cessfully Combat Cor
porate Greed.
Special OrrespnndeiKV.
Corporations and organizations
exist, and each successful revolu
tion of the wh -el of time gives us
additional legislation intimately
concerning both. The relations
which exist between legislation and
the organizations are peculiar and
should be the cause of serious
thought.
The fact is that corporations con
trol legislation to a very large ex
tent, and are enabled, by virtue of
their power to exercise this con
trol, to so hamper the efforts of or
ganization that they amount virtu
ally to nothing. If one will exer
cise a little diplomacy, it will not
be hard for him to find out that a
great many of the '"social events"
that occur, are directly the work of
agents of tome corporation; legisla
tors are wined and dined and
' shown the town" at the expense of
the people, and. sad truth as it is,
the money is, from their stand
point, well spent, and yields them
large returns.
If you stand around the capitol
of a state, or of our country a week
you may be surprised at the open
manner in which the corporations
and their agents do these things,
and you will not be at a loss to un
derstand why it is such a hard
matter to get laws passed that are
not in the interests of the corpora
tions. Labor organizations must
understand that i'i order to secure
legislation which will result to their
advantage, they must place them
selves to work against such influ
ences. There is scarcely a com
munity any where in which organ
ized labor is not strong enough to
say who shall represent it in the
legislature, and if such organization
will, with determined spirit con
clude to remedy such a condition
of affairs, we shall see less legisla
tion contrary to the interests of the
people in the future.
However, until some such action
is taken we may expect a peiiodical
repetition of the existing state of
things, wherein the corporations
have legislation their own way, and
labor, that is the people, pay the
bills. The men who have made
fortunes by virtue of the privileges
given them by law, are using, and
will continue to use, every effort to
secure a continuation of the advan
tages they have already secured by
virtue of the enactment of obnoxi
ous laws.
The laboring people should not
lose sight of the fact that the laws
of the country have everything to
do with securing for them, or fail
ing to secure for them, as the case
may be, the just portion of the
wealth created by their labor. We
cannot expect a law to set the rate
of wages, but we should expect it
to prevent unreasonable conditions
which either directly or indirectly
rob labor in general of immense
sums of money. If the united force
of the laboring classes were brought
to bear upon our legislators and
a . A A.
legislation, men wemignt expect w r
see a betterment of their condition ; ;
in all the various industrial pur
jfoits. S. S.
STATU NKW.
The telephone Hue from The
Dalles to Dufur is completed, and
talking was indulged in Saturday.
A prominent hopbuyer of Ma
rion county estimates the total hop
crop of Oreg ui for 18 at 100,000
bales. Last year it was 7 1,000, and
in ISM, oS.000.
The mail carrier was chased by a
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"coyote bounty of $2 is working al-
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and these pest are- being rapidly
thinned out in the county."
A new combined heading and
threshing machine is hiug run by
the Tobey brothers in Gilliam
county. Four men and 20 horses
do the work, and cover 40 acres a
day, leaving the grain racked in
rows.
G. W. Hawlsy, of Creswell,
whose barn' burned last week, sus
tains a loss on bam, bay, grain, five
horses, harness and carriage of
1 1000. There was no insurance.
Mr. Hawley was in Eastern Oregon
at the time of the tire.
Lake county has 1380 pop
ulation, according to Assessor Har
ris. Its H2,2i'i) sheep turned off
777.2!1S pounds of wool this year.
There are 0000 horses and 31.4(H)
cattle. Yields are rejnirted of 23,
oOO bushels of wheat, 18,101 of
oats, 43,4:)7 of barley and rye, and
31,400 tons of hay.
Oregon big red apples are just a
little bigger and redder than ever
before, says the Medford Mail.
Merchant J. R. Erford is in the
head wagon thus tar as to sue and
weight of apples, lie has a tree
.f ltcuteiiheiniers 'hut grows fruit
which individually measure four
teen inches any way you measure,
and weighs nineteen ounces on any
man's scales.
Header, did you ever take Simmons
Lives Regulator, the "Kino of
LiVEii Medicin es?" Everybody needs
take a liver remedy. It is a sluRgiBh or
diaeaied liver that impairs digestion
and causes constipation, when the waste
that should be carried off remains in
th.; body and poisons the whole system.
That dull, heavy foelinjr is due to a
torpid liver. Biliousness, Headache,
Malaria and Indigestion are all liver
diseases. Keep the liver active by an
occasional dose of Simmons Liver Reg
ulator and you'll get rid of these trou
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