The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-03-15


from the effects of his frozen feet.
Edward Green, Wild Horse mountain
farmer who was brought to Pendleton
some days ago on a charge of insanity
and released, attempted suicide a few
days ago by taking morphine, but was
prevented by physician.
THE CITY OF FAMINE.
San Francisco, March 12-All this
afternoon the cit,zens' committee for the
relief of the unemployed. were busy ex
amining applicants for work, and when
the Cffice closed $50 tickets, emitting the
holder to employment IN Golden Gate
park had been issued, making 600 tickets
in all that bad been given out by the
committee. Subscriptions received to
day swelled the amount at the disposal
of the committee to $1,000, which will
insure work for about 200 more men, and
the committee hopes to raise enough
money, IN addition, to put 1000 men In
all to work.
The scene about the committees quar-
tcrs was an interesting one when twenty
five dozen sandwiches, purchased with
collections of money from the produce
exchange, were passed TO the hungry ap
plIcants for work, and policemen with
buckets of water passed down the line
giving every man drink. Later an un-
known man drove up with wagon load
of biscuits and cheese, and sandwiches
were again dispensed. A batch of meal
tickets, 500 In number, were given to the
committee TO- day by the same firm which
heretofore supplied several hundred
tickets for needy workmen.
BURNED TO DEATH BEFORE HER HUs-
BANDS EYFs.
PORT HURON, Mich. March 12-Mrs.
Carlisle, an aged lady living three miles
west of MarysvIl.e, while fixing the FIRE
In stove Saturday accldentIy ignited her
clothing and was so horribly burned that
she died Monday. Her husband, the
only other occupant of the house, wit,
messed the whole occurrence, but was
pOwerless to help her, as he IS paralytic
and unable to move hand or foot. For
three hours he was compelled to witness
the excruclatlng agony OF his wife.
When the daughter returned from church
medical aid Was summoned, but too late.
KILLED WHILE RESISTING ARREST.
SEATTLE, Wash. March 13.--Andrew
A. Holt, alias Andrew A. Anderson, a
famous smuggler and pirate on Puget
sound for years, was fatally shot at Sal
mon bay, just north of this city, late to-
night, while resisting arrest at the hands
of United States officers.
Holt has been known to be smuggling
for many years. Two years ago he bought
the sloop Alaska, laid in a cargo mainly
composed of whisky, and went to Alaska
to trade with the Indians. He was not
heard from for about nine months when
he was arrested and taken to Sitka for
selling liquor to Indians. His sloop was
con6scated and Holt was released on his
own recognizance.
One stormy night Hot stole sloop
from the government storehouse and dis
appeared. He made the voyage to Puget
Sound alone in small sloop in the worst
storm ever known on the coast, arriving
here about fourteen months ago. Since
then he has kept in hiding near Port
B!akeley, where his wife lives on ranch,
and In Salmon bay. just north of the city,
which he made his base OF smuggling
operations from Victoria.
CANOE IN MID OCEAN.
PORT TOWNSEND, March 13.-Eight ma
tive islanders Of the Pelew group, in the
South Pacific ocean, were picked up at
sea on December II, nearly dead from
starvation and thirst, by the American
ship Joseph S. Splnney, now In this port.
The crew had been in an open canoe for
eight days. They had embarked for a
neighboring isle, when heavy gale came
up and blew them 260 miles from land, at
the mercy of the wind and waves.
The party consisted of king, his son
and SIX members of his council. Ia this
condition they remsined eighteen days.
One died the second day, after storm.
o. December IL the old king, fuint with
hunger and mad with thirst, decided that
his son Boyga, the boy aged l6, should
he killed, that his father and the others
party were making preparations for the
sacrifice, the boy accepting his fate, when
tie white sails of the ship Joseph s. Spin
ney hove IN sight and the boy was saved.
The ship hove to aud took the poor
wretches on board. The king lay in the
bottom of the canoe, unable to move.
The chief officer carried him on deck un-
der his arm.
THE SCHOONER CHANCE MISSING.
ASTORIA. March 13-The steam schoon-
er George H. Chance, belonging to the
Portland Deep Sea Fishing Company,
which left here month ago for short
fishing cruise, is reported lost. The
revenue cutter Corwin has gone In search
of her. The Chance was commanded BY
a new man, Captain G. w. Adams, not an
experienced skipper, and her engineer
had no sea license, hence mariners here
think the report of her loss well founded
The vessel carried crew of fifteen.
Manager Williams, of the company own
ing her, came down February 81, ex
pecting to meet the schooner here on her
return, put was disappointed He ex-
pressed TO particular anxiety then, stat
ing that the Chance might stay out
week or two longer.
THE BARGAIN SEALED.
PORT TOWNSEND, March 13.-H. w
McNeill, manager Of the Oregon Improve
ment Company, signed contracts late last
evening with the Port Townsend South
ern Railroad Company to construct a line
of railroad between this city and Port
land, the work to commence April 1.
twenty miles to be finished September
and seventy miles completed by next Jan
uary. The negotiations had been pend
ing several days, when the citizens sub
s:ribed nearly Sl,5OO,OOO in cash and
land.