The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-12


n eventually select some young and com
J, paratively untried man and give him
: chance. l also wish to discover a lad
flied for the head of the female depart
: ment.
e PIONEER DEAD.
OREGON CITY, April 7.-Mrs. Juliu
LOCUS died at her home in this city yes
terday after brief illness of a week, ageC
4S years. Mrs. Antonio LOCUS came iron
, Germany to America in 1858. and witt
. her mother to Oregon in 1859. Elever
years later she was married to Juliu:
LOCUS, since which time she has been 8
!, constant resident of Oregon City. Mrs
LOCUS has, at spells been in i'll health, but
since last summer her health had beer
quite good up to a week before her death
No serious alarm was felt up to day OIL
, two previous, when her friends became
anxious, yet the doctor said she was con-
valescing, but Sunday afternoon she sud-
denly passed away. Mrs. LOCUS was a
woman of kind disposition and pleasant
manners, and had won warm place in
the affe, tions of this community. She
leaves, beside host of friends, husband
and three children, Augusta, Sophia and
William, to mourn their great loss. The
funeral will occur from the residence at
12 o'clock on Wednesday: and the re-
mains will be conveyed by boat to Port
land to be laid beside her mother at Lone
Fir cemetery.
SEATTLE RAILROAD CHANGES.
SEATTLE, April 7.-Frederick w. D.
Holbrook, manager of the Seattle, Lake
Shore & Eastern railroad, to day rendered
his resignation to the company, to take
effect May 1, after which date the position
will be abolished and the duties of the
office assumed by Managing Trustee A.
s. Durham. Holbrook will retire per-
manently from the road, but will proba-
bly, take position in the construction de-
partment. Managing Trustee Durham
to-day appointed F. w. Dunn acting
superintendent of the Seattle, Lake Shore
and Eastern, and he at once assumed the
duties of the office. This is new position
on the road Mr.. Dunn is an old time
eastern railroad man, having held import
ant POSITIONS on several of the most
prominent of the eastern and southern
| roads.
| STOLEN FROM JAIL.
SPOKANE FALLS, April IA daring
and successful attempt to break jail was
made by number of prisoners confined
in the county Jail here last night. The
plans of the leaders in the movement
were we'll laid and carried out. The
crowded condition of the Jail added to
the chances of the prisoners making good
their escape. At 12 O'Clock Turnkey
Beard made the usual round, and every
thing was all right. The prisoners were
engaged in singing and making loud
noise, but as this was nothing unusual,
the suspicious of the jailer were not
| aroused.
Immediately after the jailer made his
rounds the bars were wrenched off, and
four prisoners crawled through the break
they had made. The lamp burning on
the window sill was turned up so that the
flame came out at the top OF the chimney.
Then the four prisoners ran behind the
prison cage. A cry was Immediately
raised by the others for the jailer to come
and put out the lamp, which would ex-
plode. Beard responded to the cries by
coming from the Office. Seeing the lamp,
he made for 1t with the intention of put
ting it out.
As be did so be was suddenly felled to
the floor by blow on the head from one
Of the prisoners, who ran up behind him.
The others then came out from their
hiding place and assisted in binding the
iailer with ropes and gagging him.
After liberating nineteen prisoners IN
the upper tier they made their escape,
ocking the Jail gates behind them. The
jailer lay in the position in which he was
placed for about two hours, when one of
the prisoners reacked through the bars of
his cell and united his hands. Beard
soon liberated himself then, and ran out
into the jailyard, where he commenced
banging on the Jail gate with piece of
timber. Sheriff Hinchliffe, who resides
opposite the Jail, was awakened by the
noise, and ran over to the Jail. The
sheriff quickly summoned a posse and
started off on the trail at once.
The sheriff has issued circular de-
scribing the men and offering a reward of
$3.50 for the capture of all the men, or
$25 for each one captured. At II o'clock |
this evening three men, Corner, Jefer-
son and Gibbons, burglars, had been
captured.
PRoPHETsTowN, ILL, DESTROYED.
BURLINGTON, Ia, April IA report |
reaches here late tonight by railroad |
wires that Prophetstown, Ill.,, has been |
partially blown away by cyclone, and |
many people killed. No other particulars |
can be learned, as the wires are now pros
trated by the storm.
LATER.-Inquiries sent in all directions
up to l o'clock have failed to bring |
further particulars of the storm at Pro-
phetstown. The first report, through the |
railroad people, was that stock train was
Just leaving the town when the storm
struck it, forty cars being blown away.
The report also stated that the town was
almost swept away. 1t seems doubtful
il the report can be verified to night.
Prophetstown Is on the Clinton branch |
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
road, in Whiteside county, and is one of
the oldest towns in the state. 1t has
population of 800 inhabitants.
CHICAGO, April Sit seems impossible
to get further news from Prophetstown.
The wires in that vicinity are down.
Railroad people think the situation not go
serious as has been repoI ted.
CHICAGO, April Sup to 3:15 A. M.
efforts to get further information about
the actual state of affairs at Prophetstown
are futile, and it is not likely anything |
will be learned to night. An extremely
violent thunder and lightning storm ragged
throughout Northern Iowa, Illinois and
lower Wisconsin to night, but no serious
damage is-re ported from any other point.
This leads to the belief that the report
from Prophetstown may be exaggerated.
LOUISVILLE, April Tt has just been t
learned that Harper's Ferry, Henry county,
was almost completely destroyed by the
tornado. The village was composed Of
less than two dozen houses, and is con-
siderable distance from any railroad. All
the houses were blown down and the in
habitants buried beneath the ruins. Two
persons were killed and seven or eight
badly injured.
DALLAS, Tex, April Tn consequence
of the Inundation OF the machinery at the |
city water works there Is almost water
famine prevalent. The electric street |
light power is shut of, and last night and
to night the city was IN darkness.
THE PAN.AMERICAN SOUTHERN TOUR,
WASHINGTON, April THE interna-
tional American conference will leave on |
the Southern tour April Is, and return to
Washington May 10.
MURDEREK's BODY STOLEN.