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It's a Cold Day When We Get Left.
VOL. VIII.
HOOD RIVEll, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1897.
NO. 34.
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Comprehensive Review of the Import
tut Happening! of the Past Week
Cnlled From the Telegraph Columns
The Washington legislature met
Monday at Olympia, and promptly pro
ceeded to organize. W. H. Plummer,
f Spokane, was, elected temporary
hairman of the senate; Dudley Eshel
man, of Spokane, secretary of the sen
ate. The election of minor employes
ivas proceeded with until a number of
ilaces .were filled. The house was
ailed to order at noon by Assistant
. Chief Clerk Alexander of the last ses
sion. The election of officers and em
ployes followed, and C. E. Cline, of
Whatcom, was chosen speaker, and
Judge Carusi, of Clallam, chief clerk.
A committee was appointed to test the
contested places, and the house ad
journed. The nineteenth session of the Ore
' gon Mgslature met in Salem Monday
and failed to organize completely be
cause of disagreement between factions
in the senatorial fight. The evident
purpose seemed to be to delay the elec
tion of United States senator for two
weeks and they were successful. The
senate organized without friction, but
the house not at all. A vote for sen
ator can not now be taken until Tues
day, January 26. Joseph Simon, of
Multnomah, was chosen president of
the senate without opposition.
The four presidential electors of Ore
gon met in Salem and cast their ballots
for William McKinley and Garret Ho
:' bart. Hon. T. T. Geer was elected
messenger to- carry the vote to Wash
. ington.
A dispatch from Nice says ; that
eighty-two persons, including the
mayor and the mayor's assistant, to
' gether with many prominent citizens,
have been arraigned for corruption in
the municipal elections.
Advices received from Manila show
' ' that the Philippine insurgents - who
were deported to the Landrane islands,
the Spanish penal settlement in the Pa-
V cific, recently made a desperate attempt
, ) to escape, but were overpowered by the
j garrison and Spanish marines. Eighty
t of the convicts .were killed and forty
wounded. , ,
A passegner train on the Burlington
jumped a trestle near Omaha, and five
, people were injured, one fatally.
."" William Dobbs, of Union, Or., has
received the Maul prize for raising the
largest table beet for 1896. The con
test was open to all growers in the
United States and Canada. ' The prize
consisted of a $50 draft. The beet
weighed seventeen pounds. ' ,
Some boys while hunting near Peta
luma, Cal., shot a pigeon on a tree,
. and the bird dropped with a broken
wing. A message tied to the bird's
wing proved that it came from Walla
Walla, Wash., four days . previous.
The note was addressed to a San Fran
cisco firm. ;
Important ' papers showing the
amount due the Pacific roads sinking
fund, on account of subsidies paid the
J Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have
apparently been lost. The senate
adopted a resolution calling for them.
' The aoting secretary has replied that
they cannot be found.
The Columbia river salmon packers
held a meeting in Astoria for the pur
pose of fixing the price to be paid for
X salmon during the coming season. It
was decided to offer 4 cents a pound,
and a communication to that effect was
eent to' the Fishermen's Protective
; Union. The union met later, but no
J . action was taken in the matter of the
' oanners' proposition.
A thousand warring Poles, in Bay
City, Mich., were determined that Fa-
. ther Bogacki should not offioiate as
their priest. They attacked the par
sonage of St. Stanislaus church, and
stormed it for over an hour. They de-
molished the edifice and one man was
shot and several others wounded with
; clubs. . The priest finally surrendered,
and the police quelled the riot.
I A Chicago paper says that President-
elect McKinley will select Colonel John
V Hay, of Washington, as ambassador to
, Great Britain. Colonel Hay has been
: seoretary of the legation at Paris,
Vienna and Madrid and was often
; charge d'affaires ad interim at eaoh of
these capitals. In Hayes adminstra
i tion he was first assistant secretary of
: state.. Hay was one of President Lin
clon's secretaries.
Sir Charles Tupper at a dinner in'
London is quoted as saying: "I feel
great admiration for the United States,
but do not desire to possess their insti
' tutions. I feel that there is greater
security under British institutions for
life, property and liberty. Canadians
are greatly flattered at the deBire of
!, the United States to possess Canada,
, but so deep is their loyalty and so
united are the Canadians that the ques
tion is impossilbe. " The speech of the
ex-premier was received with great ap
plause. .
From All Parts of the
World and the Old.
House Voted A gainst Funding the
Pacific Railroad Debt.
Washington, Jan. 18. i-The' Pacific
railroad funding bill went to its doom
in the house today under an adverse
majority of 66. The friends of the
measure, who had predicted, its passage
up to the last moment, were surprised
by the decisive character of their de
feat. They had been led to hope from
the votes on the substitute that the bill
had more than an even chance of pas
sage; " ' ..- ',
The Bell substitute provided that if
the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
would clear off the first mortgage and
advance the government lien, the gov
ernment would extend the indebtedness
at 8 per cent. It was defeated, 110 to
156. .
The Harrison substitute, ' providing
for a' committee to negotiate a settle
ment of the debt, was rejected by the
house by a vote of 55 to 214.
Many of the members were as much
opposed to the substitutes as to the
Powers bill. The California and Mid
dle West members voted almost solidly
against them. When the vote, came
on the main proposition, the whole
house swung into line, and crushed it
by a vote of 102 to 168. The vote was
not taken directly on the passage of the
bill, but upon the preliminary motion
to engross and read the bill a third
time. Bills which become the subject
of such contests are usually brought to
a final test before the last parliament
ary stage is reached. The Reilly Pa
cific funding bill was defeated in the
same manner on' the same motion.
This was the fourth funding bill killed
in the house in ten years. An analysis
of the vote today showed that eighty
six Kpeublicans and sixteen Democrats
voted for the bill and ninety-nine Re
publicans, fifty-eight Democrats, six
Populists and five Independents against
it. ,.-r
After the bill was disposed of the
army appropriation and several other
bills were passed. .
. .. Oubacin the Senate.
Washington, Jan. ,13. The chief
event of today's session of the senate
was an impassioned speech by Mills of
Texas, in favor of a resolution intro
duced by him to declare the recognition
of a foreign government a congressional
prerogative and to recognize the inde
pendence' oi Cuba -and appropriating
$10,000 for the salary of a minister.
In support of the first proposition the
senator quoted a long line of prece
dentsf and speaking on the latter ques
tion, he strongly denounced the admin
istration, charigng it with favoritism
toward Spain. He spoke contemptuous
ly of Castillane and Weyler . and o'
Signor Crispi, because of his declara
tion that Europe could not look withou
concern upon the pretensions of tlx
United States. : The Cuban question
was the mercantile spirit of the nation
against its honor, he declared.
Proctor made a speech in favor of a
constitutional amendment to limit the
president to one-six-year term, and
Allen made an unsuccessful effort to
secure the adoption of the resolution
calling on the secretary of the navy for
information as to whether contractor's
men in the Brooklyn navy-yard are re
quired to work more than eight hours
per day. ;
Wrecks on British Coasts.
London, Jan. 18. The . storm and
fogs continue along the coast, and
wrecks have been reported at many
points.' . ' - :. . - .': ' .
A trawler, with six men, has been
lost off Yarmouth.
The steamer Gulf of Siam is ashore
in Moroock bay. Other ships' boats
have been picked up.
The Allan line steamer Lauranthian,
Captain McDoughall, from Portland,
Me., on December 31, and Halifax
January 2,' for Liverpool, struck off
Malin head yesterday, and arrived to
day at Moville with her fore compart
ment full of water.
The crew of the British steamer
Strathmore, from Genoa, twenty men,1
has been taken off that vessel by a
trawler and landed at Hull. The
Strathmore, which was bound from Al
geria to Sunderland, was wrecked in
the North sea on Wednesday. When
it became apparent that she was sink
ing, the crew took to the bridge, ' and
remained there without food until Sun
day, when they were rescued by a traw
ler. . - -.-
Massacred by Natives.
Bonny, Coast of Guinea, Jan. 13.
Consul Phillips, two consular officers,
Locke and Campbell; Major Crawford,
deputy commissioner, and Captains
Boisragen and Maling, 'officers belong
ing to the Niger coast defense force;
Dr. Elliott and two civilians, with a
number of Kroomen and native car
riers, , have been massacred by the
king's people, while on a peaceful
mission to Benin City. The consul's
yacht has just returned here with the
' London, Jan. 18. The foreign office
has received private confirmation of
the news from Bonny, on the Guinea
coast, telling of the massacre of Consul
Phillips and his companions while on
a peaceful mission to Benin city. The
object of the murder is not known.
Benin city is within the Niger protec
torate, and is sixty miles up the river
Benin.
Anglo-American Arbitration
An Accomplished Fact.
LORD SALISBURY AGREES
Accepts the Final Suggestions of Sec
retary Olney Only Lacks Signa
tures and Approval of the Senate.
Washington, Jan. 13. The proposi
tion for a general arbitration treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain is now an accomplished fact.
Lord Salisbury has assented to the last
suggestion from this side and nothing
remains but the attachment of the for
mal signatures of Secretary Olney and
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the latter hav
ing been clothed with authority by
Lord Salisbury. " These signatures will
be affixed today.
The treaty must be submitted to the
United States senate for approval, and
in view of the short time remaining of
the present session of congress every
effort will be made to have it submit
ted to. that body at the earliest possible
moment, probably within a day or two.
Ample provision has been made to
guard against a failure of the arbitra
tors to agree through a tie vote. A pro
vision has been made in such cases for
a refernce of the matter to a deciding
authority. Secretary Olney's insistence
of the absolute necessity of guarding
against a tie vote caused the delay in
the final draft of the treaty after the
details had been adjusted.
AN AFGHAN RAN AMUCK.
A Tragic Occurrence In an Australian
Town. . -
San Francisco, Jan. 13. Shortly
after midday on December 10 an
Afghan named Absalom ran amuck in
the streets of Freemantie, says the Mel
bourne Leader. - About noon a wharf
laborer named William Griffiths, a
ticket-of-leave man, aged 42, was stand
ing in front of an ironmonger's shop in
High street, when the Afghan suddenly
rushed up, seized an ax displayed for
sale outside the door, and struck Grif
fiths a fearful blow on the back of the
head, and while Griffiths was falling
Absalom hit him again. The man
expired instantly.
Flourishing the ax, Absalom rushed
along the street and felled another man
with a blow between the shoulders.
Constable Normoyle then arrived on
the scene, and pluckily rushed at Ab
salom. A struggle ensued, but the
constable and two citizens wrested the
ax from the Afghan and handcuffed
him. A great crowd gathered,.' and
cries of lynch him were raised. The
police had some difficulty in removing
Absalom to the cells.
he murdered man is supposed o
be a sailor. The second man assaulted
is Thomas Henderson. He is in a
critical condition.
WANTED TO ROB HIS FATHER.
Unsuccessful Scheme of William Busk
and an Accomplice. .
Santa Eosa, Cal., Jan. 18. Horace
Hall, a white haired old man over 60
years of age, and William Rusk, about
25 years his junior, are in jail here
charged with a peculiar offense. Rusk's
father is a wealthy resident of Atwater,
111. The young man left home about
ten years ago. ,
The scheme was for young Rusk to.
die, figuratively speaking, then under
the name of Brown to become admin
istrator of his estate. After this was
done, Hall was to write to Rusk's par
ents, telling them that Rusk was dead,
and that Rusk had borrowed $4,000
from Hall which Brown; the adminis
trator, refused to pay until he had
heard from Rusk's father.. The letter
was couched in sympathetic terms, but
made it plain that it was Rusk's duty
to send the money to Brown so that he
could pay the debt. - ' ; ,
Ha,d it not been the desire of the
Illinois farmer to see the remains of
his son, the game would probably have
worked; but, after telegraphing about
the body to "Brown" and Hall and
getting no satisfaction, he became sus
picious. Hall and Rusk bitterly up
braided each other for the failure of
their plans. ,.
. Anti-Suicide Sermon's Effect.
Stockton,;. Cal., Jan. 18. Ulysses
Simpson Barber, local agent for the
Jamestown stage, went to the Presby
terian church last evening and listened
to Rev. Philp Phelps preach against
suicide. "That was a ' good talk," he
remarked to three companions as he left
the church. This, morning the dead
body of Barber was found in his bed.
Death had resulted from strychnine
poisoning, a package of the drug being
found beside his bed.
Earthquakes in Mexico.
City of Mexico, Jan. 18. At 4:25
this afternoon an earthquake was felt
in Oaxaca.; The first shock was gentle,
but the second was very ; sharp, and
caused consternation; but no harm was
done of any consequence. There is
much seismic activity in the state of
Oaxaca, and at one point on the Pacific
coast earthquakes have kept fiskernsen
in continual alarm. .
To Bs Built at Port Angeles by Eastern)
; Mill Workers.
New York, Jan. 12. A Braddock,
Pa. , special to the World says: ' Mill-
workers at the Carneige plants here
and at Homestead, Duquesne and Pitts
burg, and employes of the Westing'
house works on Tuttle creek and Wil-
merding, are forming a joint stock com
pany to build a $2,000,000 iron and
steel plant at Port Angleles, on Puget
sound. The company has been incor
porated under the Washington laws. .
Twelve hundred of the prominent
millworkers of this section have,
in the last fortnight, subscribed about
$1,000,000 worth of stock. The plant
will employ 2,000 men, and will cover
thirty acres of ground. The work on
the mill buildings will be started in
April, and subscription books will re
main open until that time. The com
pany has been made great inducements
to locate at Port Angeles. Eighty
acres of land for a manuafcturing site
and 200 acres for a townsite, with 600
feet of wharf front on Puget sound and
railroad rights of way for proper de
velopment, will compose the bonus.
The iron and steel plant will include
a blast furnace of 800 tons, thirty open
hearth furnaces, bloom and billet mill,
rolling, bar and wire nail, sheet and
tinplate mills, foundry, machine shops,
blacksmith and boiler shops. . ?
The company holds 600 acres of iron
ore land of 69 per cent pure iron, and
1,000 acres of coal land that makes
coke equal to Pennsylvania Connells
ville coal.
THE TERRIBLE'S TRIAL.
Great Speed Hade by England's Mew
. Warship. - .
London, Jan. J2.-H. M. S. Terrible,
the new first-class cruiser, had her trial
over a thirty-two mile course off the
Cornish coast Saturday. The speed
developed showed an average of 22
knots an hour, beating, it is claimed
here, the record of every war vessel
afloat.
The Terrible was launched at Glas
gow in 1896, and she is equipped with
forty-eight boilers of the Bellville water-tube
type. This great ship is
built of sheathed steel, and is of 14,200
tons displacement. Her length is 500
feet, and her beam 71 feet, while the
maximum draught is 27 feet. She has
twin screw propellers, and has n in
dicated horsepower of . 25,000. She is
rated as a protected Cruiser, -; her
armored deck extending over the .whole
length of the ship. In its thickest part
it is four inches and tapers to three
inches at the ends. Her coal capacity
is 80,000 tons. The complement of
officers and men provided is 840.
The Steel Board.
; Washington, Jan. 12. The navy de
partment is carrying out the plans pro
jected by Secretary Herbert for the
prevention of further defects in steel
supplied for the construction of battle
ships. Having ascertained through an
investigation, made by a special board,
the extent of the defects in the plate
already supplied, the next step has been
taken by the reorganization of the steel
board. This has been done upon the
lines suggested by the chief construct
or, Mr. Hichborne, namely, to make
the majority of the board experts. Cap
tain Day, the present head of the
board, will be succeeded in' that place
by Commander Coquin, and Lieutenant
Everett has been succeeded by Con
structor Dashiel. Chief Engineer Free
man will be retained on the board,
consisting of one line officer and two
staff officers, the latter mechanical ex
perts. . This reconstructed board is
about to undertake a revision of the
specifications under which ship steel is
made, guided by the experience ac
quired by the special board. '
Drowned in Colvllle Lake.
Sprague, Wash. , Jan. 12. Two boys,
Fritz and Con Veyen, aged respectively
19 and 17 years, were drowned yester
day in Colville lake, two miles east of
this place. They left home in the af
ternoon, telling their mother they were
going on a fishing expedition. They
had not returned at a late hour and a
searching party Be ou The body of
the youngerwas brought to the surface
100 yards from shore; that of the older
boy was not recovered. They went out
on the lake in a sailboat, and the boat
was evidently overturned by the wind.
T,he father is employed in the railroad
shops in Spokane.
His Attempts Were Failures.
Fon Du Lac, Wis. , Jan. 12. Owen
Ferguson, clerk of Fond du Lac county,
shot himself last night twice, each
time too high to hit the heart. About
a year ago his' wife died. At the last
election he was defeated. A few
months ago he broke a leg, and before
that he was a eripple. It was reported
that he was short in his accounts. He
is still alive. '
A Hunter's Awful Death.
Atlantio, la., Jan. 11. Fred Foulk
Was 'attacked and killed by hogs in the
heavy timber about fifteen miles
northeast of here.y Foulk was hunting
rabbits, and accidentally, wounded one
of the hogs. Its cries attracted several
other hogs, and they attacked him and
literally chewed him to death. The
hogs had .escaped f6m farmers living
in that loeality, and were virtually
wild. . - ; 1
the
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH
News Gathered in All the Towns of
Our Neighboring States Improve
ment Noted in All Industries Oregon.
The Tigardville flouring mill, in
Washington county, is running full
time, and is not able to fill all orders.
Professor R. D. Williams, who was
tabbed by Ed Meador, orfe of his pu
pils, at Prairie City, in Grant county,
has since died. ;
One firm in Coquille City shipped,
during December last, 900 dozen of
eggs. The poultry shipments, too,
were quite large.
The schooner Free Trade was struck
by a heavy sea while crossing the Tilla
mook bar lately. ' The man at the
wheel waS injured and the steering
gear demolished. ,
Work on the Bandon woolen mills
warehouse has been stopped for the
present owing to claims on the wharf
between the river channel and the
place selected for the building.
"The logging camp of Nixon Bros. ,
near Peoria, in Linn county, burned
last week and all of the property in it
The Nixon Bros, were getting out logs
for the O. R. & N. wharf in Corvallis.
- The mail-carrier, while crossing
Warm Springs reservation with a buck
board and four horses, mired down and
had to get out with the mail for Prine
ville on a pack animal on a recent trip.
H. Clay, of Alrington, who has
7,000 sheep that are being fed in Min
nesota for the Chicago market, says
that there are 80,000 head of sheep
near ms place that are being fattened
for market.
Cut worms are "doing considerable
damage to fall grain in the vicinity of
Oak Grove, in Wasco county. The cold
spell in November did some damage to
grain in that part of the county, but
the in jury was not great.
. The Uamtilla county assessor has just
completed the military roll, which has
been turned over to the county clerk.
The roll contains about 1,800 names,
and is compiled alphabetically, so that
it is a simple matter to ascertain whose
names are upon it whose are not.
The people-of Arlington had an ex
tra dish of entertainment served Christ
mas night in the way of an Indian
dance,- given by about thirty of the Co
lumiba Indians. The Indians hired
the hall and charged an admission.
Nearly every one went to see them and
hear the musio they furnished on such
occasions. Like many other ballroom
celebrities, they were painted in the
loudest colors. ,
The Indians had a big time at Thorn
Hollow, in Umatilla county, on Christr
mas day. ' There took part in the fes
tivities 100 Umatilla Indians, five Po
catellos and four Ness Perces. One of
the Nez Perce Indians was found with
a bottle of whisky in his possession.
This was promptly taken from him by
the Indian polioe, who poured out the
contents. Two other Indians got some
what hilarious and were put in irons.
Washington.
The population of Chehalis county is
10,478, an increase of 1,400 in two
years. . .
The Electric Light & Power Com
pany is planting maple trees and other
wise improving the Tumwater park,
near Olympia. .
Judge Hume, in Seattle, has fixed
March 28 1897, as the date upon which
William Carey, convicted of murder,
will be hanged. . , -
It is thought that a new use has been
found for the black beachsand of Gray's
harbor, that it will prove valuable for
the iron that is in it. . 1 r(i- -,
In Kittitas county all approved bills
up to January 1, 1896, have been paid.
The last payment before this cleaned
up all warrants issued prior to April,
1895.
It is said that a measure will be
presented to the coming state legisla
ture to re-enact the beet-sugar bounty
law passed in 1898, which has now be
come inoperative by limitation. .
The Spokane Reform leauge will con
tinue in its work of trying to close the
saloons in that city Sunday, and has
engaged an attorney to assist in prose
cuting the cases that are expected to
arise. 7; . ':.v -
Mr. Dunham, one of the oldest set
tlers, of Gig Harbor, in Pierce county,
died last week at the age of 93 years.
He was the first man to settle at Gig
Harbor, and lived there during the lat
ter years of his life.
During 1896, the Rev. John F. Da
mon, of Seattle, married 153 couples.
The oldest groom was 66 years of age,
and the oldest bride 64. The youngest
groom of the year was 20 years old,
and the youngest bride 16.
Thfirn is a movement afoot, in th
southern Dart of Stevens county to di
vide the county on a line running east
and west, apout hall way between Qol
ville and Chewelah. There are about
12,000 inhabitants in the county.
A Resume of Events in
. Northwest.
Separation of Union Pacific and Iti
Principal Branch,
v Salt Lake, Jan. 12. The sale of the
Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern
railway, under the consoldiated mort
gage of August 1, 1889, was made today
under direction of John B. Cleland,
.court commissioner. Samuel Carr,
Walter C. . Oakman and "Henry G.
Nicholls, representing the reorganiza
tion committee, purchased the property
for $5,447500. The Utah Southern
road was bid in by the same parties for
$768,000. They also purchased the
Utah Southern extension, for $975,000.
W. H. Bancroft will be. general , man
ager of the company. ;
The transfer of the Oregon Short
Line & Utah Northern, with property
lying in five of the Western Btates, was
of great interest to railroad men in the
intermountain country. The events
were the legal forms by which the sub
branches of the Union Pacific trunk
system were foreclosed and bid in by
the holders of liens upon them, and are
to be followed by a reorganization of
the officers and employes of the line
involved.
INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS.
The BUI Completed and Reported to
the Hosie. tt
Washington, Jan. 12. The Indian
appropriation bill for the next fiscal
year was completed today by the house
committee on . Indian affairs, and re
ported to the house by Sherman, - The
bill carries a total of $7,465,000, which
is somewhat less than the appropriation
for the current year. The allowance
for schools, however, is increased $20,
000, and provision is made for starting
the new schools at Chamberlain and
Rapid City, S. D., whose establish
ment was provided for by the last bill.
, There is an item continuing the
Dawes commission, with special sal
aries and compensation, and $40,000
is given for the expenses of the com
mission of citizens who serve without
compensation. ; The claims of the old
settlers against Western , Cherokee In
dians, which have been a troublesome
question for years, are settled by a
clause ' directing the secretary of the
interior to pay $86,200 on proper requi
sition. .1.''
Three bills for the ratification of.
the treaties to secure Indian lands are
incroporated in : the ' bill. One is
Flynn's bill to ratify , the , agrement
with the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes of Oklahoma, by which the gov
ernment is to secure their reservations
for $2,000,000. .The second is for
ratification of the treaty of 1892 with
the Turtle Mountain Chippewas, ' of
North Dakota, for their Jands. Repre
sentative Mondell's project for making
a government reservation of the Hot
Springs on the Shoshone reservation,
in Wyoming, for which a treaty has
been made with the Indians, is includ
ed. , ";..--:v
One of the most important features of
the bill is the incorporation in it of a
bill recently introduced by Sherman of
New York, which provides for three
Indian commissioners to ' succeed the
present commissioner and deputy com
missioner. One of the three is to be
an army officer, and the office of deputy
commissioner is to be done away with.
Durrant Stay Get a New Trial.
San Francisco, Jan. 12. It is re
ported in legal circles that the supreme
court may send the Durrant case back
for retrial. At .least one of the jus
tices is said to have openly said the evi
dence against Durrant for the murder
of Blanche Lamont was insufficient to
convict. , He believes Durrant was
found guilty to satisfy the popular
clamor, and if he can influence the
other justices to the same view, a new
trial may be ordered, as was in the
case of Dr. Milton Bowers, who now
walks the streets a free man. Although
the Durrant case is now under submis
sion, Attorney-General Fitzgerald has
not filed his brief in reply to the de
fendant's brief. When that is filed
there will be a defendant's brief in re
turn. Two months may elapse before
the all-important decision of the su
preme court is handed down.
Head-End Collision.
Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 12.-rA head
end collision ocurred today between'
two freight trains on the Gulf, Colo
rado & Santa Fe road at Hazlett, two
miles north of here. One train was
standing on the main line waiting for
the other to take the siding. The en
gineer of the south-bound train , pre
sumed that the switch had been
thrown, and came ahead at a lively
speed and crashed into the north-bound
engine. . Joe Haggerty, of Gainseville,
engineer of the south-bound, and E. W.
Palushall, brakeman, were killed.
George Coombs, of Gainseville, the -other
engineer, had an arm broken, and
a man named Morris was badly injured.
Dragged to Death.
. Modesto, Cal., Jan. 12. Yesterday
Blakely, son of T. K. Wallis, aged 17,
was dragged to death at his home on
the San Joaquin river, eighteen miles
south of Modesto. . He was driving a
team hitched to a scraper, when he
was caught in the spring and the team
ran away. . For over 200 yards he was
hit on the head by the blade of the
scraper as it bumped along the field.
His head was badly lacerated, and he
remained; unconseious for six hoars,
when ho died,
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