The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-01-25
THE JoHNsrowN RELIEF FUND.

port will be made as 10 whether the con
p!etion of the canal under the condition
conceded by Colombia in 1878 is consld
:. cred possible.
THE YOUNGSTOWN RELIEF FUND.
4 PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.-At meetin
8 of the Johnstown flood relief coInmissio
] to- day Governor Beaver presided. AR
a engagements were perfected with tn
f Girard Life Assurance Annuity Compan
, for the administration of au annuity tun'
! whereby 522 children, under 16 years q
] age, orphaned by the flood, will receiv
$50 annually until they reach the age q
J 49, Various other forms of relief for th
destitute were adopted. The secretary
report shows that there were estimated tt
, have drowned in the Conemaugh vale,
$3.50 persons, number bodies recovered
!, 1875, identified 1921, unidentified 654
missing 6O5 The relief fund received
from various sources amountt d 10 So,
003,O ,O73. After all expenditures for relie
have been paid, the commission have or
hand unexpended balance of $7O,631
U. 8. MARSHAL OF WASHINGTON.
TACOMA, Jan. 17.--Captain Thomas
r. Brown, of this city, who will be nomi'
mated for United States marshal of this
state, is Well known on Puget sound. He
was born at Perrysyille. Ind, in 1916.
He enlisted in Company K, Thirty seventh
Illinois volunteers, when only 16 years
old. and served four years and nine
months. His company took part in the
battles at Peaside. Prairie Grove, Chatta-
nooga Bluff, VIcksburg and the taking OF
Mobile. He received a lieutenant's COM
mission, but was never mustered in on it.
| He came west after the close OF the war,
and located first at Salem, Or. About
nine years ago he removed to Tacoma,
and has been identified ever since with
the progress of this city. He is at present
president of Browns Wharf & Navigation
Company, and is interested in a number
| of other important enterprises. He is
also prominent member of the G. A. r.
HOW WALKER BLAINE DIED.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-Only now
have the circumstances of Walker Biaine's
death come to light. A week'ago to day
he acted as best man at the wedding of
Lieutenant Rea of the navy. After the
ceremonies he attended breakfast at the
residence and then made several calls.
In the evening he attended reception
given to Mrs. General Grant by Mrs. John
r. Mclean. Friday he was taken with
the grippe and gradually grew worse un.
til Sunday, when the family became
alarmed about him.
Tuesday the doctor regarded him as crit
icaIly Ill, and despaired OF his recovery,
but Wednesday night, shortly before his
death, the symptoms were more favorable.
The doctors left tue house at 1880, giving
MIR. and Mrs. Blaine cheerful information
about his condition, and after discussing
1t they sat in the library reading. at &
O'clock Mrs. Blaine went up stairs and
gave Walker his medicine, leaving him
In charge of his sisters Margaret and
Hattie, whom she cautioned to see that
he was we'll covered, as he was in violent
perspriation.
AS they sat in the room reading some
minutes later, the sisters noticed some
thing peculiar about their brothers
breathing and going TO his side found the
body almost rigid. They screamed to
their father, who came running to find
that his son was dead.
None but those who know the Blaine
family we'll can understand the shock the
he came from college in 1876, Walker
has been his fathers night bower, and the
sense of dependence was not only re-
markable, but was increased with years.
The funeral will take place tomorrow
morning.
THE BLOCKADE IN THE sIERRAs.
TRUcKEE, CAL, Jan. 19.-The present
storm is conceded to be the heaviest since
the winter of 1876 and TT. Ali the roads
leading out of Truckee, which Is on the
eastern s,ope of the Sierra Nevada mount
aims are blockaded, the depth of snow
ranging from eight feet on a level to
twenty feet where it has dr.Gted. The
railroad company has several hundred
men shoveling snow east of here. A snow
plow with an engine started from i.'re
but only went about mile wen il he
came blockaded. Shovelers finally cleared
q road so the plow was enabled to return
here. In large cuts the snow has drifted
to depth of fifteen to thirty feet. A
snow plow with five engines was ON the |
road thirty SIX hours attempting to reach |
tunnel No. '13, about eight miles from |
here, but the attempt had to he aban-
dOned and the entire crew returned on |
foot, leaving the snow plow bockaded |
in both directions. Another snow plOw |
with twelve engines started TO C ear the |
road to Summit, but only succeeded in |
getting two miles from here, when they |
were securely blockaded on both sides.
Eleven hundred snow shovelers are at |
work near Blue canyon.
s. Jacobs, a line repairer, left Summit
Erid ri hos
As severe storm has prevailed since APP
prehension IS felt for his safety.
FOUL MURDER DONE
OLYMPIA, Wn., Jan. 19.-The public |
opinion of to day according to number |
of pit rsons who viewed the body of d. NJ.
Brown, who the coroner's jury CAIN
committed suicide yesterday, is that foul
play has been done, as there are no pow
der marks visible, and that the ball had
turned and entered his head Iengthwise. |
Your reporter on learning these facts i'm
medlately interviewed the coroner, in
company with the two brothers of the |
deceased, who concur in the opinion ex-
pressed above. The coroEer's jury, from
the evidence they had, without doubt |
rendered their verdict such as they hon.
estly believed to be true, so no blame can |
be attached to them. An investigation |
will be made tomorrow, as the brothers |
of the deceased intend that the matter |
shall be probed to the bottom.
MORPHINE CURES DEsPONDENCY.
SEATTLE, Jan. 19-MamIe Stetson, a
fallen woman. sulcided this morning by |
taking an overdose of morphine IN anNup
town lodging house through dependency |
brought ON by sickness and fear OF the
deserlion of her lover, Sim F. Gumberts. |
OF the woman very little Is known. She
gave several names, but letter left gave |
tine name of Mamie Stetson. She arrived
here six months ago from Portland, near
which place she is supposed to nave re-
latIves living. She is native of Ca!Ifor-
MIA, 90 years of age, of Spanish des cent,
and lived for time at San Francisco.
xvUynOM,S SILVER RIl.I,