The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-01-25
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE sILCOTT STEAL.

THE SILCOTT STEAL.
!, WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-When Sllcott
skipped Representative Wilson, OF Wash :.
iagton had drawn even to date. He voted
against the refunding bill. He affirms
that he would have done SO IT be had
! been looser. Hermann, of Oregon. was
, looser; he voted for the bill. Carter, OF
Montana, was one months pay short when
Silcott left. He did not 60 on record
when the vote was taken, for he had
paired. He did make a speech, however,
in which he urged that as the members
were interested parties they were not
competent to pass on the legality OF re-
funding, and be favored reference OF the
question to the court of claims. Hans
brough of North Dakota was one months
salary short. He voted to refund.
WASHINGTON APPOINTMENTS.
Senator Squire of Washington, has
recommended P. H. Winston OF Spokane
Falls to be district attorney of his; state,
and Thomas B. Brown of Tacoma, to be
marshal.
EXILING OUR COLoRED CITIZENS.
The senate then took up the bill intro
duced by Butler, to- provide for the emi-
grafton of persons of color from the
Southern states, and Butler proceeded 10
address the senate, He said:
He believed that if the government
would do Its duty by the negro, instead
of coaching him and confusing him with
civil rights and empty statutes; if 1t
would render him substantial assistance
in his struggle for regeneration and free
| don, hs. ryrpId illumips tho 6ark
nent of his fathers with the light of Chris |
tlanity and law. As to the etfcctIon on
the Southern states, he said that If the |
South could be thus relieved cf a part at
least Of its superabundance of cheap |
labor, there would be such an immlgra-
tion Of white intelligent, progressive citi
zens that the prosperity of the South
during the last decade would pale into
insignlfcance as compared with It's future
progress.
Mr.. Hoar replied to Butler.
| 1t seemed to him that this proposition
was the most astonishing that had ever
been heard in the legislative history of
any free, civilized and prosperous people.
From all climes under the sun laborers
weIe thronging all one way in their eager
desire to share the harvest of national
prosperity and national glory, and yet in
the senate of the United States propo-
sition was made that by the force Of the
nation, aided by its treasury, eight mil
lions of Iaborers born on American soil,
everyone them entitled to every right,
were to be deporled IN what the senator
had justly styled the dark region of the
dark continent, and which, in spite of re-
cent explorations of their illustrious citi-
zsns, was less known to readers of history
to day than 1t was when the Roman his
torlan attempted description of it 800
years before the birth of Christ.
Blair spoke agrnst the bill. He
thought that if instead of exporting 5000
900 cOlored people there were 10000
white people exported to Africa and kept
there, the whole difficulty would be
settled.
AsPHYXIATED BY GAS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16.-Dr. Henry
Devils, about 60 years Of age, died In
lodging house on Pacific street early
this morning from asphyxiatIon by gas.
DR.. Devils came to the lodging house Mon
day morning, from Eureka. He had
letter of recommendation from W. H.
Parker, county clerk of Jackson county,
Or, which showed that he had lived there
for fifteen years. DevIs had practiced as
an herb doctor.
HE KILLED BIBLE sCoFFER
MADISON, Wis, Jan. 16.-John Kuhni
to day pleaded guilty to the extraordi
nary murder of William Christie, and
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Kuhni confessed that he killed Christie,
and explained that the latter was coatin
ually scoffing at the Bible. He says his
reason for dismemberiIg Christie was to
get the scoffer's heart out to see whether
it was black. Kuhni Is the man who
was brought back from Queenstown, Ire
land, to stand trial here.
KNEW WHERE HE WAS GOING.
Los ANGELES, Jan, 16.-Late at night
gardener named Collins crept into a
haystack TO Sleep. He was suddenly
awakened by cracking noise, anG
crawled out in time to escape being roast
ed. As he reached the outer air be was
accosted by tall man, who, revolver in
hand, ordered him away. The mysterious
individual, with the cry: 81 am gong to
hell" leaped into the flames. Collins
was arrested, and when be told the story
he was laughed ut. In searching the ,
ashes lot of charred human bones and a !
revolver were fonnd. No clue to the
identity of the insane stranger could be
found.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC sNow-BoUND.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16.-The north
bound train which left here Tuesday
evening is still stalled three miles OF
Sissons. Wednesdays train is also at
D,JI 60 bo |
gines from the latter were detached and
run ahead with large force of track re-
pailers and snow pows. A snow and
wind storm has ragged all along the Shasta
division north of Redding for thirty-slx
hours continuously, not only blockading
the track but injuring it to such an ex-
tent that skilled mechanics had to be
sent all along the line in company with
snow sh0velers.
SIX CHOcTAws CHoKED.
FORT SMITH, Ark, Jan. 16.-The hang
ing of six condemned murderers took
place at 12 P. NJ. The men executed
were Austin the Choctaw, John Billy,
Thomas Willis, Sam E. Coin, Jimmy Bur-
ries and Jefferson Jones. The crime for {
which Austin pa!n the penalty was the
unprovoked murder of Thomas Elliott,
in May, 1888. John Billy and Thomas
Willis, both full blocded Choctaws, were
convicted jointly of the murder of white
man whose name was supposed to be A.
B. Williams. Williams had refused to !
give the Indians whisky, and they killed
him. Sam Coin and jimmy Bnrries, al.o
Choctaws, murdered Houston Joyce, of
Franklin, Tex, in November, 1888. for
hls money. The last man was Jefferson
Jones, another Choctaw. His victim was
an old man named Henry Wilson, whom
he killed while going throug the territory
on the 18th of last March.
THE GRIPPE IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16-The death rate in
Chicago tor the first three DAYS of this