Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-09-25
MISCELLANY.
TIE LoNqsHoREMEN's RIOT.

among the longshoremen has broken
out again. Thus afternoon, after the
two factions had appeared before
Justice Patrick to have their cases
set for trial, they wandered up aud
down the avenue, each faction jcer-
ing at the other.
Three OF one side found a single
representative of the other side in
the State saloon on Pacific avenue
and pr ceeded TO "do him up"
Constable Isham happened to he
present and attempted to stop the
onc-sidei fight.
The fight lasted nearly half an
hour, aud although. the three men
were arrested at Itailroad aud Ninth
streets the fight was not really over
until the men were locked in a cell
at the city Jail.
Six policemen and two drays to
gether with a large crowd of citizens
were necessary to take the three
men to the jail.
UNSATISFACTORY INSURANCE AD-
JUsTMENTs.
PUYALLUP, sept. 25.-Considera-
BILE feeling Is being raised here by
the fire insurance companies. The
fire occurred week ago last night
aud SO far as heard from only three
firms have been satisfactorily settled
with aud two of these are non-resi-
dents of the town or state.
Mr.. Wise, a Jewish merchant from
Portland, who makes n habit Of
coming over here every hop picking
" ith anything he can sell, had an in
surance OF $1,000 on one Of his stores.
He saved nearly, If not quite all, of
his goods from his store, and was
paid his full insurance last week.
Mr.. Wi lis, Of a firm from Salem,
Oregon, who make business of
handling bankrupt goods, and is
engaged at present in selling out the
Gibbs stock Of general merchandise,
had his Insurance Of $500 paid with
in Il day or two after the fire, being
the first that was settled.
There are six or eight other firms,
all of reliable business men Of Puyal-
lup, that can get no settlement from
their insurance companies aud con-
sequently PuyalIup business men as
n whole are getting disgusted with
Insurance companies.
A COLLEGE ROW.
HAMILTON, Ohio, Sept. % The
fraternity of Old Miami university
ut Oxford INDUCED In q sensational
fight on Saturday night. Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity was on
the point Of initiating n candidate,
and, according TO their honored
custom, put him in 4 collin and
other members of the fraternity,
clothed in black gowns, were carry
ing the coffin and occupant around
the village. A member of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity learned of
he proposed initiation, and as the
"guat rooms" of both fraternities are
In the same building and reached 10y
the same stairway the latter, bent
on mischief, strlng wires across the
stairway aud hall at different places.
The pail bearers, clothed in black,
entered the hallway and stumbled
across the wires. Tie occupant of
the cotlin fell out, cutting "A great
cash in his check. This ansered
the ID. *. +. boys and throwing of
their masks, they were face to face
with crowd of their rival fraternity,
men of the Phi Delta Theta and
Beta Theft Phi. The fight in
moment became general. One ID.
X. T.. man drew ~ revolver and
,evelled il at his fellow students
head. The other side also drew re-
volvers and a bloody battle seemed
imminent, when the city marshal
appeared upon the scene and
claimed the whole party as his
prisoners. This caused all the re
volvers to disappear. No arrests
were made, however
PROPERTY INTERESTS on THE
soUND-REAL ESTATE AND
RENT.
TACOMA, Sept. 25.-The real estate
market which has been extremely
quiet for some time past, shows a
slight revival, the week ending
stronger than usual. ii. G, Glenn
ent made u large sale of land in the
vicinity of The new railroad shops, a
few days ago, at profit of about %
per cent. in one year, which caused
some furry along the line. Resi-
dence property on the lines of, or
contiguous to, the street cars have
been In demand. While there have
been many inquiries for properly
along Pacific avenue, none changed
hands. One of the causes that has
interfered with the sale OF the cheap
lots is that the banks will not loan
money on outside property. Ihey
must have 1t gilt-edged, and then II
js difficult to get a loan of one-third
of the assessed value or about one
eighth Of the p,ice asked. Despite
the fact that nearly all the property
being disposed of is for middle class
residence purposes, the total Of IN.
sales recorded last week amounted