The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-03-08
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RATTLE IN THE BIG BEND CoUI!TRY.
R1rzv1LLE, Feb. 2S.-A bloody batt
was fought this morning near the Blyth
ranch, seventy miles west OF here. J
Douglas county, six persons partlciPatin
in the affray. Four were wounded, rw
fatally, and two have slight wound
The fight was over the ownership OF
stack containing few tons of tule an
;imo;hy hay. 1t seems that Blythe ha
purchased the hay and held bill OF sale
The Wilson brothers also claimed tn
stack and were determined to hold i
Both sides armed themselves and starte
for the secenc of the killing, each deter
mined to hold possession. Arriving, th
battle commenced.
L. G. Wilson was shot through tn
abdomen and chest, it Is supposed fatally
Virgil, his brother, was shot through tn
back, and man who was working TO
them, escaped injury. Dick Gar!lck ant
Dutch Ben, the employees on the Blythe
ranch, were shot in the shoulder ant
head respectively, and the wounds ar
not considered necessarily fatal. Anothe
employe escaped injury.
After the revolvers were emptied, they
were used as clubs, and their strokes
could be heard quite distance. Each
party supposed that they were battling
for their own or their employers property
Frank Brooks came TO Ritzviile and DR..
Burroughs has gone to the scene. Several
of the parties are we'll known il the Big
Bend and Spokane Falls.
| UNKNOWN 10Y KILLED BY THE CARS
! SPOKANE FALLS, Feb. 29.-The west
bound Northern Pacific train due here e!
II A. NJ, did not arrive until 0:30 this
evening. The delay was caused by two
trif1ing accidents in Dakota. At Herrin S
station the train ran over an unknown
/ boy, ag ed about 16, who was trying TO
swing himself aboard. He was cut In two.
Tie remains were taken to Hope, Idaho.
NEWS FROM wALLA wALLA.
WALLA WA1LA, Feb. 2S.-At Riverside
station, on the Oregon & Washington
railroad, while two men were unloading
watert tank, the tank fell. John Has
klns had both hips crushed, and the other,
whose name is unknown, was injured Sc
verely internally.
TERRIBLE WEATHER II NORTH IDAHO.
SPOKANE FALLS, Feb. 2S.-A Reoie1o
special from Genesee, Idaho, says: Wed
uesdav morning the mercury fell to. AZ
degrees below zero. G. 3. Moore,
travelling man from Chicago, in coming
from Lewiston had both ears frozen. ct
first the physician thought he would lose
his ears entirely. Samuel Brainhart, of
San Francisco, another commercial trav-
eler, had his nose and ears badly frozen
Fears are entertained for the fruit crop
Stock are dying by hundreds. One man
lost 700 head last week near Endicott.
Feed cannot be had for love or money.
sILCOTT Is CAUGHT.
WINLocK, Feb. 2S.-Shertf F. A. Deg
Ter arrested man in Toledo to-day call
ing himself E. E. Thayer, whom ne be-
lieves to he ex Cashier Silcott, and
brought him to Winlock this evening.
The person arrested answers to SIlcott's
description in every respect, except that
he wears short side whiskers instead of
chin whiskers.
SHOT IN THE CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Ex Congress
man Taulbee, Of kentucky, was shot in
the head and dangerously wounded this
afternoon by Charles K,ncaid, correspond
ent of the Louisville Times. Taulbee has
been removed to his boarding house. 1t
is feared his wounds will prove fatal.
Kincaid is in the police station. physic-
al wreck from nervous prostration, walk
ing to and fro and moaning.
HOW THE FEUD ORIGINATED. I
LOUISVILLE. Ky, Feb. 2S-There has
been long standing ill-feeiing between
KIncaid and Tauibee without definite
cause. 1t is generally known that this
was aggravated two years ago by Kin
caid sending the Louisville Times, for
which he was correspondent, an account
of the unbecoming conduct of Taulbee
and female clerk in the patent office.
SET FIRE TO HIS PRISON.
SEATTLE, March IA desperate at
tempt was made this morning TO fire the |
county Jail by David Denee, the young
Desperate who was sentenced recently to |
the penitentiary for robbing faro bank
and shooting the doorkeeper.
At . A. M. the night guard heard s!ifled |
cries for help in the cells below where he
was on guard, and rushing down with an
attendant discovered the corridor and |
cells filled with smoke.
In the cell in which Denee and young
fellow named P. Fay, charged with burg
l'ry. We're confined. they discovered
Denee choking Fay to keep him from
The cell door was opened
and Danee and Fay taken out. Fay was
iasensible and Denee fell over in fit.
The fire was subdued and Fay carried |
upstairs, where be soon returned to con-
sciousness and told his story.
THE FUR SEAL LEASE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Secretary
has directed that lease be |
made with the North American Com
mercial Company of New York and
San Francisco, l. Liebes president, for
the exclusive privilege of taking fur seals
upon the islands of st. Paul and st.
George, Alaska, for twenty years, from
May !,
This company made three proposals
Tor tine privilege. The one accepted by
he secretary is known as bid No. IL,
md differs from the other two IN being
IN offer without conditions. Among
other things the company agrees, as far
is may be practicable and consistent
with their interest, to encourage the
dressing, dyeing and marketing of seal
,kins within the United States. The an
aual revenue to the government under
The lease, on basis of 100000 seals per
annum, will be about $l,000.000, as
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