The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-02-22

y in number of divisions to day for men
o bers of the chamber of deputies. NJ
= quette and Merry, two Boulangi>ts, who.
: election was quashed by the chamber la
s December, again head the poll in tw
' divisions of the Seine department. Bu
t second ballot will be necessary. Thre
G Boulangists are reelected in the division
, of st. Denis and one in the first divisio
of Sceaux.
SHAME TO THE GOVERNMENT.
: ST. PAUL, Feb. 16.-Indlan Ager
Cransie, of the DEVILS Lake reservation
In North Dakota, told Pioneer Press re
porter to day that the des.itulion anon
the Indians at that agency had been ur
derstated. The winter has been yer
severe and. In his opinion, if the $500
recently authorized for their relief by tb
president, be delayed longer, there woul
, be few Indians to receive any benefit
i. therefrom. He says that unless NOR
help is quickly furnished it is doubtful
whether the 900 Indians on the reserva
tion will live until spring. Already
number of deaths have resulted from
starvation.
THE FATAL INFLUENZA.
M1DNEApoLIs. Feb. 16.-Reports from
the Mile Lac Indian reservation in ad
vance of the visiting commission, indicat,
the presence of the severe and fatal epi
demic, la grippe. 1t is said to be quit
equal to an epidemic of smallpox, and il
some encampments there have not beer
enough we'll Indians to feed the sick
even if they had sufficient food. TIL,
head chiefs are expecting aid from The
government, In response to telegrams
sent to Washington, but none has come
An estimate places the deaths at from
forty to fifty. Indian Agent Scbuler has
sent medical aid and some supplies from
Brainerd, MINI.
KILLED IN HER BED.
MCMINNvILLE, Feb. 17.-Yesterdsy a
report was brought to town that Mrs. N.
L. Scott, living fourteen miles distant, on
the road TO Salem: had committed suicide
by shooting herself in the head. Later
1t was learned that most shocking mur.
der had been committed.
Mrs. Scott resided in McMinnville for
several years, until last summer, when
she was married to well. to- do farmer of
this county and removed to his home.
| The husbands story Is that he arose Sun
day morning about Z o'clock and went
| to the barn to feed the stock, leaving his
wife still in beG. AS she was complain
ing of slight headache, he told her to
lie as long as she wished, as it was Sun
day and there was no need of hurry.
Soon after he went to the barn he heard
1 fho 0f t,nf in
the vicinity was not uncommon he paid
no attention to it. About twenty min
utes later he heard another shot, he went
to the house and found his wife lying
on the porch in her night clothes; in the
last agonies of death, and blood flowing
from three ugly wounds. He spoke to
her but received no reply. He then ap-
prised the neighbols and boy was sent
| for the coroner.
The verdict of the jury was that the
deceased was murdered by some un-
| known person by three gunshot wounds
made by No. birdshot from shotgun.
The first two seem to have been fired
I at once into the woman's face when she
was lying in bed, one charge striking In
the center of the forehead, the other
plowing through the right temple and
| setting the pillow on fire. The charge
did not go through the head, and she
either arose or was carried our through
the bedroom and through the kitchen on
| to the porch, where another charge was
fired at close range into her right lung
through her right shoulder blade, where
she fell and was found by her husband.
The dog ran out into the orchard bark
ing, and Scott thinks he saw man run
| ming awny through the orchard.
Vardaman Scott, stepson OF the de-
ceased, was seen here to day, and says
the old felix's got along as happily as
could be. The people throughout the
country are greatly shocked. as Mrs.
Scott was well known and highly re-
spected. She has one so1, Frank A. Cook,
Of Portland, in the grocery business, and
another in California.
No cause Is known for this mysterious
and awful crime. The atrocity of it
seems to exceed that of the murder OF
Corker with an ax at Lafayette some
years ago, for which Marble was hung,
| and even the murder of Mrs. Petch, In
1889, for which G.. w. Smith was convict
ed hut committed suicide by taking NOR
phine in the Lafayette jsil to escape hang
| ing. One theory is that 1t is the work
of tramp, as the shotgun with which the
| killing. was done was in the bedroom of
| the deceased, und being loaded was q
| handy and fatal weapon to cover up an
other crime, but as her money end valu-
ables were undisturbed another con-
clusion. is that she was in the way of
property that might 60 to others.
The testimony before the coroner's
jury disproved all possibility of suicide.
as the shotgun with which the work
seems to have been done was lying across
the bed, having been put there after the
victim had left the bed. One barrel was
| loaded, but seems to have been reloaded,
as there were some exploded percussion
caps about the room. A map also lay
across the bed.
Deceased was wel!-buIlt, well-pre-
served woman, of fair complexion, and
was so we'll known here that two persons
are together but few minutes without
speaking of the crime. She was So years
OLD. and affectionably known as "Aunty
| Cook"
| SALEM, Feb. 17.-Susplcion in the
| neighborhood of Wheatland IS SAID to
point strongly to the husband or his son
as the murderer, as there had been trouble
with deceased over signing deed few
days ago, and because of the inability OF
the facts found by the jury to bear the
old gentleman out in his story of seeing
u man run through the orchard. deceased
used to live here.
AFTER BIDDING HER GOODBY.
| ALBANY, Or. Feb. ia shocking
domestic tragedy was enacted in this city
this evening. George Saltmarsh, young
business man, who was married short
time ago to Miss Lola Riley, of Eugene,
shot his wife and then himself ut Q
| o'clock. After marriage the young
couple lived happily together for few
weeks, when the young wife deserted
Saltmarsh, saying she had transferred her
affections upon some one else. She re-
:. turned last Saturday, and they have been
living together until this evening, when
Saltmarsh said he was going away, and
made all preparations to do so.
He went TO bid his wife good by and
as they stood upon the sidewalk he drew
revolver and shot her in the neck. The
ball ranged upward, coming out at the
ear, making only flesh wound, aud she
will recover. He then shot himself IN
the right temple, inflicting wound from
which the brains slowly Oozed. Physi.
clans say he cannot recover.
SHOT DEAD IN A BALLROOM.
| ARLINGTON, Feb ia report comes
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