The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-09-07
japanese. No news concerning the late
seizures was received.
HELD A CLOSE PRISONER.

, seizures was received.
HELD A CLOSE PRISONER.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2-L. Dougherty tol
an associated press reporter to day tn;
on August 10th he received letter fro,
his brother, Edward G. Dougherty, date
at ZaruEla, Ecuador, stating that nc ha
been held a close prisoner since Jun
18th.
Mr.. Dougherty went to Ecuador seven
teen years ago, and has been engaged i
various enterprises OF that country. Ii
married niece of the president of Ecu
ador in 1878, and has recently been en-
gagged in gold mining. The letter CAV
no reason for the Imprisonment, but re
ferred to correspondence enclosed, vhicl
had been handed United States Consu
General McGarr. No correspondence
was in the letter when it reached here
and his brother thinks it was tamperct
with by the authorities.
Cablegrams sent by Dougherty from
| Chicago since the receipt OF the lette
have failed to elicit any reply, ard be ha:
complained to the state department.
THE UMATILLA RESERVATION.
WALLA WALLA, Seyt. 2-One hundred
and sixty acres of the Umatilla reserva.
ton has been ordered to be set apart fol
the benefit of an Indian school, and will
be selected in few days by Rev. T. NJ
Gun, of this city, of the Presbyterian
board of missions.
The Catholic church has also been
granted 100 acres for school purposes.
THE KANSAS CITY SUNDAY LAW.
KANSAS CRY. Sept. 2-Judge Boland,
of the police court, to-day handed down
saloon men of the validity of the penalty
clause of the Sunday law.
The law is city measure and requires
a tIial by judge to revoke the license of
every saloonkeeper convicted of selling
liquor on Sunday The city ordinance
confers the power to revoke licenses upon
such judges
Judge Boland in his opinion holds that
the ordinance, and therefore the law, Is
unconstitutional, and dismissed the cases
of fifteen saloon men.
The city attorney will appeal.
TO HIDE HER SHAME.
NEWARK, n. j., Sept. 2.-It has come
to light that Lizzie Mueller, a girl who
died here on Monday, took arsenic to hide
her shame. She had been living with her
uncle, II. A. Goodbreed, proprietor of the
Centennial hotel, at Union, Or. She
came East short time ago, and five
months ago she became engaged TO marry
Henry Wandell, of Union. The engage
ment was broken two months ago. Good.
breed, who came East, upon receiving g
notice of the girls death, says that Wan
dell left Union upon learning that the
girl was seriously ill.
AN o. R. & N. TRAIN DERAILED.
LA GRANDE, Sept. 2.-The east bound
passenger train of the o. r. & n. went
iHto the ditch about two miles west of
on the Blue mountains to-day.
The train was coming down the bill at a
fast rate when she ran into band of cat |
tie IN rounding sharp curve. the engine
aud three cars being derailed. The train
was stopped after running about one
hundred yards, and it WAS found that the
engine and the mail car were badly dam.
aged.
Fireman Meacham jumped and was
hurt in the fall; the mail agent was hurt
slightly. A delay of about eight hours
only was the result.
RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 2.-Governor
Lowry arrived from Greenwood this
having succeeded in getting
the armed whites who had assembled at
to return to their homes, in
stead of going to the scene of the threat
ened race war.
The three military panies that left
Greenwood by boat last night at 12
o'clock, have not been heard from, but it
IS not believed that there will be any
conflict.
ANOTHER TOWN VISITED.
GREAT FALLS, Mont Sept. 2-sThe
news has just been received here hat
Barker was almost totally destroyed by
lire Yesterday.
The fire started IN a miners camp three
doors below Zeigler's house, and swept |
from there uD the valley, burning all the
eastern portion of the camp. 1t is sup
posed that Ellis, his wife and four chit
1ren were lost. Three men also are miss
ng.
Barker is the business center of the
entire Barker district, and is about sixty |
i've miles southeast of Great Falls.
A HORRIBLE FATE.
LOUISVILLE. Sept. "A Courier Jour-
anI special from Somerset, Ky, says:
William Oates, prominent and wealthy
'armer residing few miles from Month
,ello, left home on business with his wife
Ind left two young daughters in charge \
If the house.
Oates had in his employ a negro boy
nearly grown. Knowing that the Older
people were away, he entered the house,
md after locking the doors upon the two
,ouDg girls succeeded in ravishing the
aged 12. The other girl es-
.aped from the room, and going to aAl
leighbor's house gave the alarm. u
A posse was Immediately organized
md started in pursuit. He was caught |.
n the woods and tied to stake. A rail-
zen was then built around HIM, coal oil
vas poured over him and upon the rails.
match was then applied, and the negro
vas burned to death. q