Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-17

were MUTUALLY Interested. They b<.
came noisy, and Billy Porter entered
and tried 70 stop the row. This inter
Terence only reused the two men r.
fury, and both whipped out reviewers
and fred at close quarters. Eyery ons
In the saloon sought cover as the double
report rang out. The shots were fired
at the same instant and with like effect
irving fell dead with a bullet in MS
brain, and Walsh fell shot through tn.
heart. Neither lived long enough h
breathe twice after the shsts were fired
billy Porter and the gang ran out. su,
tne reports of the pistols were heard by
the police and the gang were arrested
Every person suspected of being in tbs
saloon 1t the time of the shooting has
been arrested.
Queer Com pIieatIon In the Coffee Mar.
ket.
Ngw YORK, Oct. i6.-There has been
much excitement and trouble in the
coffee market since Saturday by the in
PRODUCTION of new and unexpected
disturbing element. All of the larpes,
.ofee houses receive their own dis
patches from Rio Janeiro giving the
price Of coffee. The New York coffee
exchange also receives daily official
report ~ 10 the prices of coffee from
Rio Janeiro. On Saturday it was dis
covered that private advices quoted
their prices from IA TO 2 cents lower
than the figures posted at the coffee ex-
change. The fact that private advices
agreed In the main at length caused
them to be accepted as correcs. The
coffee exchange quotations were ignored.
there was large unloading of contracts
and further decline, here of * of a
cent. Gable advices continued to come
IN q conflicting and unsatisfactory
shape. Today il is said that MANY
thousands Of dollars have been lost by
contradictory advices. The South
American Cable Company is blamed for
the blnnders. Interviews with leading
Importers this afternoon extracted the
information that coffee had been decIin-
ing Tor year until bottom was reached
and that it has now begun to rise with
unusually large transactions.
The Ghost or n Dead Party.
WORCESTER Mass, Oct. l6.-Tbe
Greenbackers are in conference. At
noon forty were present. DIR. Arnold il
president. A committee to nom mate
the State Committee has been appoint
ed.
A Meeting OF Ceiered People.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The cOlored
people of the District will meet Mon.
day night to express their views in re-
spect to the recent decision of the Su-
preme Court on the civil rights bill.
Among the speakers to be invited are
Frederick Douglass and Ingersoll.
Convention OF sheet Iron workers.
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-The Scale Con-
vention for the Fourth District of the
AmalRamated Association of Sheet Iron
Workers to fix the scale of wages, is in
secret session here, but thus far has
made no Roadway, owing to the failure
~ delegates, from various important
points, to put in an appearance.
Indians on the Way 10 Washington.
Major Newell, the new agent of the
Spotted Tail Agency, is in the city, acI
companied by three chiefs, on the way
to Washington. to argue against throw
ing the reservation open to white set
tiers.
The Festive Cowboy.
GLENDIvE, Mont, Oct. 16.-Sheriff
Taylor yesterday endeavorea to quiet
three drunken cowboys, when he was
set upon and beaten. In the melee
Clayton Wilcomb, an Englishman, who
was about to locate here, was killed. A
freight conductor was also shot in the
melee. One of the cowboys was cap
tured and lodged in Jail. The other two
escaped.
Assignment.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16.-rhe Norton d
Weider Glass, Paint IL Color Manufac-
turing Company has assigned. Assets,
$50, 600; liabilities not known.
A Dissipated Fortune.
NEw York, Oct. 1G Surrogate Rol-
Inns denied the application made seye-
raj months ago on behalf of Beverly
b. Tilden, to open the accounts of exec
utors under his fathers will, and show
that their expenditures were extrava-
CANT and contrary to the provisions of
the will. William Tilden died in 1869,
leaving an estate valued at nearly ST.
100000. Beverly was a minor until
1880. Afiidavits in support of the mo-
ton assert that when u division of the
property was made il was SO reduced
that there WAS only enough to provide
for an annuity for the widow, and to
give less than 100000 to the younger
sous. The executors Bows be-
ing one-denied every allegation, de-
claring that the sons regulated all OK
penses, and that every dime had been
accounted for.
Gov. Mnvray's Report.
WASHINGTON, Dot. l6.-3ov. Murray,
of Utah, who has just sent report to
tho Secretary of the Interior, states that
there has long existed in Utah a combi-
nation to nullify the laws: that this
conspiracy led to open rebellion at one
time, and continues to evade and defeat
the plain viii! Of Congress, and he urges
Congress to take some action Ia secure
good government, and not rely on "team
aud railroad to effect the desired re-
form. He goes ON TO speak vf the dan
gers of another irrepressibie conflict,
and says that the militia of the Terri
tory IL not available. He calls atten-
ton also to the violation of the act of
1862, which declares IL unlawful for any
corporation or association for religious
or charitable purposes to acquire or
hold real estate Of greater value than
$4,000 within any city in the Terri
tory, by the Mormon church, which. ac-
cording TO the latest census. possessed
property within enc county to the
amount of $25O,00o. He says it is inn
possible to estimate the amount of
property geld by the church in other
counties in the Territory. He says he
also finds that, Notwithstanding the Law
of 1862 forbidding bigamy, it continues
TO be openly taught and practiced, and
that the Legislature Of the Territory,
created by Congress, not only joins bat
leads in the successful notification OF
this law. He says he has appealed 70
the Legislature to enact laws in accord
ance with those of Congress, but was
answered with the statement that the
great majority Of Utah's people believe
the act OF 1862 TO be not only unreason-
able, but also unconstitutional in shat
il prohibits the free exercise OF their re-
ligien," but they do not fail to recognize
the power of Congress under pressure to
enact as an expedient that or similar
similar laws. They can, however, only
view them in the light OF. history and
experience as improvident, mischievous
and dangerous. He alludcs TO the COR
poration immigration fund" con-
iirmed by the Legislature of Utah IN
1853, by which the whole system OF inn
migration Was handed to corporations
under the control Of the church; to Leg
islative enactmcnts by which the church
is declared sovereign in Utah, and the
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