The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-07-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
A DESPERATE GANG.

A DESPERATE GANG.
I, WILCOX, Ariz., July 19.-News hs
just been reached that Lieutenant No
kay and bis scouts, in battle yesterda
afternoon with two members of the XII
gang in the Sierra Anchas mountains
killed Wah Lau Tab, the other escaping
into the mountains. The officers ant
scouts are following close, and it j
thought all will soon be captured. Wal
Lau Tabs head was sent to the neares
post for indentification. He is one of th
indians who killed Sheriff Reynolds las
fall, and it is supposed that he was witt
the Ki1 gang who murdered DIR. Hardie
of Los Angeles, short time ago, il
Buckers canyon.
STRUCK AN ICEBERG.
PHILADELPHIA, July 19-The Allen
steamer Hi6ernan arrived here yesterday
from Glasgow, after trip of ten days,
during which she had narrow escape
from being smashed to pieces on an ice
berg. The vessel ran through the fog at
speed reduced to five knots, and but for
this she would surely have been lost.
The iceberg was sighted just before s
o'clock in the evening at distance of so
yards. The engines were reversed and
the man at the wheel succeeded in slight
| ly changing the course of the wheel, so
that the berg was struck at the stand.
The iron plates grated alongside of the
hugh pile, and the vessel careened until
the sails touched the water. There was
great excitement among the nifty passen
gers. One passenger, a woman, was
thrown from high bunk and slightly in
jurcd. The berg was fifty feet above the
water and very long. After the collision
the Hiberian remained hove to till Satur
day, all the while enveloped in thick
fog. During this time the passengers suf-
fered intensely from the cold, and they
made many visits to the engine room,
which was the only warm place on the
ship.
SIZE WANTS DAMAGES.
SEATTLE, July 1o.-Martha Hansen,
guardian ad libitum for her minor
children, has brought suit for $4,000
damages against George Delfee, proprietor
of the 1. X. L. saloon, on Front street, for
selling intexicants to J. M. Hansen, who
committed suicide in the defendants
saloon last June. The complaint alleges
that on June II John Hansen bought of
the defendant intuxicante, and while Iy--
ing IN an insane and drunken state in the |
saloon, took poison and lay hopelcssly on
the floor until the defer dant dragged HIM
out at the back door and rolled him down |
stairs into an alley. He afterwards died
from the effects OF the poison sold him by |
the defendant and the brutal treatment
he received. Mrs. Hansen alleges that
her husband was sign painter and dec
orator, and was the support of herself and
children.
CAUGHT SMOKING OPIUM.
CHICAGO, July 19.-"Take all my dia-
monds if you wish; no one will ever know
the difference, but for heavens sake, for
The sake of my husband and children, do
not lock me up in the police station"
exclaimed an elegantly d-essed
woman to Officers Mackenzie and Duffy
his evening. The woman, who was evil
ienly OF great respectability, but whose
IDENTIFY was kept secret by her compan-
on, had been surprised by the officers IN
. vile Chinese opium joint just before
lusk.
Complaint had been made to Officer
Mackenzie of the existence of the place,
ome of the occupants of the building OBJ
ecting to the nauseus fumes of burning
'pium, which, they said, made them sick.
l,he two officers descended into the base
nent to investigate the matter, and in
mall, dark room, elegantly fitted up, dis
Overed the woman and her male compa
on iDdulgipg in the past time of smoking
plum. When the woman made fearful
flea TO be spared from the ignomlny Of
occupying cell in police station, she
trpped herself of her diamonds AMI
ewelry, worth at least $4,000, and begged
he policeman to hell themselves to 1t.
he was compelled, however, to don her
rnaments, and, together with com panIon,
zee Sun, proprietor of the place, and t
uantity of opium and pipes, was taken
the station. Here, after giving 6cti-
ous name, she was bailed out, and, enter
,g closed carriage, was hurriedly
riven away.
ROBABLE FATE OF THE RIVER AND HAIR
BOR BILL. i
WASHINGTON, July 20.-Friends of the t
ver and harbor bill are beginning to {
ave some fear for the future. There t
ave been whisperiDgs about the capitol t
le past week that rerhaps the bill would @
e allowed TO slumber on the calendar of v
ne senate until the adjournment. There '
strong opposition to it in certain circles u
n the ground that the appropriations OF c
lis congress have been very large, and t
rat this bill is not absolutely as necessary
> are the other appropriation bills which T
ave been passed or are awaiting passage. Il
is believed in some circles that the
resident is opposed to the passage of the d
yer and harbor bill. In the Republican r
aucus of last week an understanding was 4
ad that the bill would be considered as i,
ne OF ,he appropriation bills and called il
p some time during the tariff discussion O
,r passage. Senator Frye said yesterday Fl
hat he supposed the tariff discussion O
ould go on some time before the river I,
I'D harbor bill would be called up. In c
her quarters it is said that If any effort e
made to call it up the senate will re- ii
!
re grave doubts of the bill becoming f,
W.
HANGED AT HILLsBORO. p
HILLsBoRo, Or, July 20.-Last night
lis town was suddenly thrown into N
ate of excitement by the discovery of e
le body of dead man hanging in an tl
npty room below the stage of the opera II
ouse 1t was in fearful state of de- -
The body was only about Il
erect, being suspended by II
rope used to elevate baggage to dress ii
g-room of the stage. The man who a,
lme to this melancholy end was without 3,
~ doubt Charles Dupuis, Frenchman, a,
bose whereabouts have been inquired
r in THE Oregonian, and regarding hom
issue contained letter from
lerif Dennis to Chief Parrish. b
The man nassed through this town on | 49,