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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JANUARY 5, 1899,
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We are bound to lead: ' others may J follow.
Auction Sale will be for Cash only
horrible
tragedy
examination w’as made of the injured *
LISBON’S EARTHQUAKES.
PLIGHTED TO JULIA DENT.
men.
A
City
That Is liaised Over a Sepul­
Clatsop’s Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Williams was found to have been Man W ho Wai Once I'nirajfed to Mr«.
cher.
V. S. Grant 111.
shot through the right breast, and al­
It is impossible to lie long in Lisbon,
Killed at Seaside.
Alfred
«Sanford,
a
unique
character
though his pulse was beating feebly
who was supervising inspector of even nowadays, without, meditating,
The Desperado is Shot after Com­ when examined, he showed no further steamboats for the port of St. Louis vainly enough, about the great earth­
signs of life. Larners was shot in the during President Grant’s first admin- quake. The city is far more massive
mitting the Slaughter.
right groin, and he lived about 30 min. i istration, and who was engaged to. wed now than it was in. 1755. The thickness
utes
after being removed to Grimes’ hotel. Julia Dent, now Gen. Grant’s widow’, is of the granite walls of its churches amd
The burning of the Fulton cottage, at
, a patient at the city hospital, says a houses is laudable from many aspects.
Seaside, on Wednesday morning of last Miller, the other deputy, was wounded
St. Louis exchange, lie is suffering But this same substantiality would
week, culminated, on Friday in the in the leg, but his wound is not of a ser- from pneumonia, and Superintendent prove incredibly murderous if the
Rooms 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, Up Stairs,
ious
nature.
bloodiest tragedy in the history of Clat­
Sutter considers his recovery doubt­ earthquake of 1755 were, to repeat it­
N.E. Corner Third and Stark Streets.
Entrance 88Vi Third Street.
On
receipt
of
the
news
at
Astoria
a
sop county.
ful. When the war broke out for two self. Perhaps they do well to have con­
It was considered certain by every one special train was chartered and a large years Sanford piloted the famous con­ fidence; perhaps they have done amiss.
federate steamer Fred Kennett. Then Viewed from the Tagus, Lisbon of 1897
that the burning of the cottage wras for crowd left for the scene of the trouble.
A coroner’s jury was summoned, and he went over to the union side and seems to offer tremendous scope for a
the purpose of concealing a robbery, and
new seismic ruin. How her churcheR
served the remaining two years.
suspicion pointed to Charles Willard as after hearing the testimony rendered a
During Grant’s first administration and palaces on the hilltops and slopes
verdict
in
accordance
with
the
facts.
the guilty person, particularly as he was
might be overtimed upon the houses
The bodies of the three dead men were Sanford was pilot on one of the leading | and palaces lx*tween her hills!
seen a short time after the fire coming
With
steamboat lines. He was making $250 '
from the locality with a wheelbarrow placed on board the train and taken to a month. One Saturday night he went . anything like the same destructive
Astoria, those of Sheriff Williams and to the office of the company and ten- i force as in 1755, Lisbon would now be
load of goods.
Acting on the suspicion then aroused, Deputy James Larners in caskets and dcred his resignation. When reason ! rendered a scene of almost.irredeemable
chaos, and the loss of life would, of
Sheriff Williams on Friday, at Astoria, that of the desperado wrapped in an old was asked he would not give it. He course, be appalling. But these are.
packed his valise and went to Wash- |
sail.
secured a search warrant, and in com-1
one may hope, mere dreams inspired by
Just how the shooting of Sheriff Wil- ington, D. C. He went direct to the J
pany with Senator C. W. Fulton and
the skeleton ribs of the church of the
white
house
and
sent
his
card
to
Mrs.
others, went to Seaside to search Will­ liams and Deputy Larners occurred will Grant. He had not seen her since the Carmo on one of the city's hilltops. The
ard’s premises, and also all the cottages never be known, as there are no living day their engagement was broken earthquake wrecked this church, like
so many others, and it is preserved as
of which he had charge during the win­ witnesses now, but it is evident that many years before.
they were taken unawares, and were
Mrs. Grant received him and gave a ruin, says Chambers’ Journal.
ter season.
I
Some one estimated the loss of prop­
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About 3 o’clock that afternoon Sheriff killed with bullets from a revolver, as him a warm welcome. After a long erty here in the earthquake at. £530,-
six chambers of Willard’s revolver w’ere talk over old times Sanford told Mrs.
Williams, Senator Fulton and Deputies
STOKES Cc.,
Grant that he had tired of running on 300,000. The figures do- not seem mod­
empty.
A. E. Miller and James Larners, the two
est, when one reiiiembeirs that Portugal
Sheriff Williams w’as one of the most the river and he wanted to be appoint­
ASTORIA, OREGON-
latter being residents of Seaside, went to
ed inspector of steamboats for the port was then a rich country. They include
popular men of Astoria, and his untime­
of St. Louis. Mrs. Grant promised to also the solid little sum of £1,000.000,
the cottage of Mrs. Susie Lewiston,
ly death is deeply regretted
by intercede for him, and in a few days the value of the king’s diamonds, which
where Willard was living, to search it.
every one. He w’as about 40 years of age, the announcement was made that Al­ went with one of the royal palaces.
On rapping at the door they were an- i
a native of Kentucky, and had been a fred Sanford had been appointed to the These diamonds alone would now be ex­
swered immediately by Willard, who told
, resident of Astoria for about 10 years. position by President Grant. For many tremely acceptable to Portugal's im­
them to wait until he dressed, but from
He was elected sheriff last June, and dur- years Sanford held positions of prom­ poverished exchequer. If ever a city
subsequent events it is certain he wanted
I ing his incumbency was a faithful and inence on the Mississippi river, but mis- | was raised over a sepulcher, modern
timet) get his guns ready for action.
fortune overtook him recently. His Lisbon was. But, of course, it is late in
efficient officer. When the news reached
After a few moments he opened the door,
wife died and bis children, grown up, tb-e day to be. plaintive on the subject,
| Astoria of his death the town went left him, and now he lies an object of even if it were worth while at any time.
and on being told what was wanted,
wild with excitement, and hundreds of charity in a public institution.
told the sheriff, in a polite manner, that
FOUNDER OF TOMBSTONE.
citizens crowded the streets, eager to
he was welcome to search any of the
POETRY AND SCIENCE.
I know if his murder had been avenged.
residences in his charge.
Remarkable Career of a St. Louis Boy
' He was an honorable member of the Elk, A Blank Verne Description of the
Who Recame n Miner.
Leaving Messrs. Fulton, Larners and
Subtle Magnetic Fluid,
Red Men and Foresters, who have taken
Edward Schefflein, who was found
the sheriff in the house, he picked up his
Philosophers
and
physicists
are
com
­
charge of the remains. He was unmar­
dead the other day in his miner’s shack
rifle, and telling Miller to follow him, he
ried, and had no relatives in this portion monly supposed to be too deeply en­ in Oregon, had an eventful life, says the
started for John L. Carlson’s cottage,
grossed in dry facts and figures to have St. Louis Republic.
of the country, bui had a mother and time for the poetical interpretation of
’
he had in charge, and which he
“I reinember well,” said William H.
sister residing in St. Louis.
science, but the definition of electricity Boothe, an old-time mine promoter, to
<’*
ne one had endeavored to break
Of Charles Willard, the man who caus- given to an inquiring young woman by
i reporter, 'when he opened up the
into. There they were soon afterwards | ed the trouble, very little is known. He
the late Galileo Ferraris is direct con­ ’ontention mine nt Tomlbstone anil gave
"d by Williams and Fulton. The
tradiction
of
this.
To
her
question
he
| came to Seaside from Texas about seven
the place its queer name. 1 ought tc
asked Willard to come back to the
years ago, and had always been consid­ answered:
remember it, for it was I who grub­
. iston cottage. He made no objec­
“Since Maxwell has demonstrated staked Shefflein on that prospecting
ered a dangerous character. It was his
that the vibrations of light might con­
tions, but insisted upon walking behind
habit to carry a rifle and two revolvers sist of periodical changes of electro­ tour. He bunkoed me out of all but u
the others, which he did with his rifle in
with him night and day, and often re- magnetic forces, and as Hertz has given few hundreds.
“The stories that have been told about
his hand.
marked that he would never be taken Maxwell’s theorj' an experimental basis
Schefflein’» daring in penetrating inte
It was on nearing the cottage the alive. He lived by himself in a tent in
with his proof of the similarity existing the Apache country and particularly
second time that the tragedy occur­ Grimes’ grove, and earned his livelihood between, electro-magnetic waves and
red. Senator Fulton identified some ! by looking out for certain cottages dur­ light waves, the belief becomes more into the Cochise mountains, where he
found the Contention lode, are not much
shotgun cartridges in the house as be­ ing the winter. It has been a notable fact nnd more firmly established that this exaggerated. It was a pretty ticklish
longing to him, and began questioning for years that nearly every resident not light-conveying ether and the medium thing to do down there. Ohl Cochise
Willard as to where he got possession of left in his charge was either robbed or in which the electric and magnetic bail been ‘pacified,’ it is true, but he
STATIONERY, BOOKS-
them. This nettled Willard, although defaced in some way. That he was the forces act are identical. Therefore I had a lively son, Natchez, nnd a valiant
mav well reply to the question, O studi­
he answered that a friend had given them perpetrator of the crime a few days ago ous and charming maiden: ‘What is nephew, Geronimo, and they were the
PRESCR/PT/ONS CAREFULL Y COMPOUNDED.
active young leaders of about as ‘pizen*
to him, and he began to get ugly.
is certain, as quanities of stolen goods electricity?* that it is not only the fear­ a set of Indians as ever swung a Win­
ful
agent
which
at
times
lights
up
the
Fulton and Miller went inside the cot­ were found in his possession.
chester.
tage, leaving Willard, Sheriff Williams
County Judge Gray has placed a man heavens suddenly and startles 1 he soul
“So when Ed Schefflein struck the
with
its
loud
clapping
of
thunder,
but
and Larners standing outside. They had in charge of all the cottages left in the
Conten Gon lode and called the place
also the life-giving and life-awakening
just proceeded to the rear of the room care of Willard, and the owners will lie cause which, as light and heat, brings Tombstone,’ we thought it a huppy play
when two shots were heard in quick suc­ notified that their places will be searched forth the magic color and the breath of of Ed’s mind.
“The Contention proved to be a great
cession, and on running to the door, I for stolen property.
life, which transmits to thy heart th©
mine. It was enormously rich in sil­
Sheriff Williams was seen to throw up I Sheriff Williams had but recently re­ pulsations of IQie universe and awakens ver, but it was discovered just about the
in thy hou I the charm of glance and
his hands and fall backwards over the ceived a $5000 life-insurance policy.
time every condition arose to put down
smiles.”
bank. In front of the house were Wil­
the price of that inetal. However, it
lard and Larners, in a desperate hand-to-
PRESIDENT RUNS HIS OWN CAR. yielded an amount away into the mil­
IN A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.
lions. The Schefflein» sold half of the
hand struggle, although the latter had
Relieves the Motorman Who Is I’m- mine to Walter Dean, of San Francisco;
been shot through the right groin and Men Are Silent «nd Orderly nnd Are
provided with Warm < lothln*.
Hick Gird, of Ix>s Angeles; F. A. Tritte.
was fast growing faint, and his assail­
Simply Part of the Machin­
Albert Johnson, president of the Nas­ then governor of the territory, and
ant w’as fighting with the desperation i
ery of th* Ship.
sau Electric railroad, of Brooklyn, i» others in San Francisco for $500,000.
not above operating hia own private
of a demon. Fulton sprang at Willard’s
“Of course the Sheffleins lost most of
We are all curioui to know how the car with the regular motorman as an
head, and pulling him to the ground
their fortune. They couldn’t help it.
men who man the guns on a warship only passenger, lie proved it the other Ed was a restless fellow. He wasn't dis-
jumped on his face. Miller wrenched the are affected by an engagement—wheth­
day when be stood at the motor box sipu*cd, nor did he gamble or have other
rifle from his hand, threw it to the ground er they are full of the excitement of con­
lever of the car from Ninth street to the expensive vices, but he was generous
and taking out his revolver beat the flict that «oldiers experience in battle. bridge.
and a plunger on his lurk. He wouldn’t
desperado over the head.
!I. C. Skinner, of Hudson. Mass., who is
The railroad officials had occasion to settle down and do business on busi
Senator Fulton, in the meantime, pick­ on the Cincinnati, which took part in go to New York. His private car was
Less principles.”
—
•
ed up the rifle and told Willard to re­ the attack on Matansas, answers the run out from the shed at Twent-third
question
in
a
letter
to
the
Hudson
En-
Rgperlor Mortain.
street
and
started
bridgeward.
The
main quiet, or he would kill him. The
It is not a very great man who car­
motorman had failed to provide him­
latter, however, watching his opportun­ terprise, as follows:
“You are just one of the parts of the self with good, warm clothing, and a» a ries his honors as meekly a» the mayor
ity, jumped on his feet and started to run fighting machinery of the ship, and yon
result he shivered and shook on the jf Inverness who rebuked an admiring
away, when Fulton fired, missing him must do just as you are told, without front platform of the car until Ninth crowd in the word»: “Fr’ens. I’m just
the first time, but striking him in the asking questions or wondering why you street was reached. There, as if seized i mortal man like yersels.” Sir Wilfrid
face the second time, carrying away the are doing it. I must say that 1 had al­ with a sudden thought. Mr. Johnson Lawson tells the following story: “A
greater part of his mouth and nose. ways supposed that an engagement of jumped up from Lis richly upholstered woman was once pursuing her fugitive All
Willard fell down apparently dead, and the kind would work a man up to the chair in- the cozy car and- dashed out on cow down a lane, when she called out to
highest notch; that his blood would boil
some one in front: ‘Man, turn my
Fulton started to obtain help to care for in bis reins, and that his brain would the platform.
“(io inside and get warm," he said to row.’ The man took no notice and al-
The
and
Newspaper.
the injured men. leaving Miller on guard reel from the marine»« of excitement. I
the motorman, "ho attempted to ex­ low ed the cow to pass. When she came
with the rifle in hand. Miller stepped thought that cheer after cheer would postulate. But inside he nad to go. up she said: ‘Man, why did you not
back to aid Larners, who w as lying on pour from the throats of eager sailor«; There, seated in the big chair, just turn my cow?* He replied: ‘Woman,
Full of Interesting
the ground desperately wounded, when th«: the I gbt of battle would sh.nein vacated by his employer. Lr remained I am not a man; I am a magistrate.* *'
Willard w’as noticed to l»e fumbling their eves till they gleamed. I thought until the bridge was reached, where Mr.
It do not Abuse People.
w’ith his belt. Quicker than a flash he that men new to hattie behaved like Johnson deser’ed his poet at the motor
Oyster», after they have been brought
demons, or like the proverbial tiger w ho box and went on Lis way to New York.
drew* a revolver and fired three bullets,
away from the sea, know by instinct
had tasted blood sod would not be satis­
it
your friends
the first one hitting Miller in the left leg, fied until be hid gorged himaelf to re­
the exart hour when the tide is rising
Jardin Rra rlaateo.
just below the hip. Miller returned the pletion. But there was no sight of any­
and approaching their bed*, mid so, of
Th r Paria Jardin de» Plante« owe« it« their own accord, open their sheila to
fire with the rifle, the first bullet inflict­ thing like that. The men were s.lentand
origin to a floriat who, in the time of receive their food from the sea, as if
orderly
in
going
to
their
»tations
at
the
ing a flesh wound in Willard's shoulder,
Henry IV., irrew all aorta of native and
A
and the second hitting him in the left side, sound of ’general quart«»’ Icoulds-e imported plant», to M-1J flower« aa mod­ they were still at home.
little difference from sk» ordinary pro­ el« to the manufacturera of embroid-
■car the groin, killing him instantly.
l By this time help had arrived, and an ceedings at drill."
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