Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-03

| ineDceu showing THIS morning the
first of the season.
GRAND ARMY POST MUSTERED.
LA GRANGE, Dec. .-Mustering
Officer Holloway, Of Portland, mus
tered in Oliver p. Morton post M.
3S. G. A. r., last night with thirty
eight members. The following off
GERS were elected:
$. r. Reeves, post commander;
q. A. Hartman, senior vice com
lnander; o. Ralston, junior vice
commander; H. W. b. Brown, chap
lam; Thomas Prothers, adjutant;
M. f. Hooker, quartermaster; j. c..
Henry, officer Of the day.
CARELESS WITH A GUN.
PENDLEToN, Or, Dec. 3-Peter
Nicols ls lying at the county hospi-
tai with an arm full of buckshot.
He had walked to Umatilla and
Cold Spring on hunting trip, buy
ing gun from Lynd Bros AT
Cold Spring, according to his state.
ment made to the authorities, he
met u German section boss named
Baker, and the two went hunting
in different directions, and when
Nicols got back to the house he
found his host sitting on the fence.
After a little talk the gun of the lat
ter, which be carried in his left
hand, exploded, the charge striking
NIcols in the arm near the shoulder
Baker then went into the house,
to which Nicols afterward crawled,
finding Baker, two men and a
woman there. The shot is believed
to have been purely accidental,
although very careless, and the Sec
ton foreman was not arrested. He
took the wounded man to Walla
Walla, but refused to pay the hospi-
tai charges, and brought him after
ward to Pendleton. Nicols Is
seriously hurt. He is % years old
and says he has no home.
THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS FINED.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Justice Wood
man, before whom the case of the
anarchists arrested at the meeting
held Nov. 1lth, are being tried, to-
day decided that the assemblies
raided were unlawful ones. He
fined the leaders 500 each, and the
Others $40 each. These fiues at
the instance of the city prosecutor,
were at once suspended. This action
is presumably taken for the purpose
Of averting an appeal to the higher
court. 1t Is understood, howover,
tue defendants will appeal.
BOLD KIDNAPPING.
DALLAS Texas, Dec. 3.-Tuesday
night at IL O'Clock, while II. j.
Dean, prominent business man,
was riding IN buggy with two
other men near the fair grounds the
carriage was surrounded by four
men. The latter drew revolvers, and
throwing blanket over Deans head
lifted him from the buggy. They
compelled the other occupants OF
the carriage to drive OH. The affair
was reported to the police, but no
arrests have as yet been made. No
trace of Dean could be found today,
and the object of the kidnapping is
mystery.
LATER OF THE KIDNAPPING.
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 3.-When
the -four men reached an un-
inhabited neighborhood, the latter
was compelled to disrobe and a
bucket of tar was poured on him.
The regulators then notified Dean
10 leave the city inside of twenty
four hours, or his life would be for
feited. Jumping into the carriage
the men drove away in the direction
of the city, leaving Dean to walk in.
The victim of this outrage Is charged
with being the correspondent of a
scurrilous Kansas City newspaper,
although he denies the charge. Dean
failed to recognize the perpetrators
and no arrests have been made. He
says, despite the warning, he will
remain in the city.
PRoHIBITIoNIsTs.
PORTLAND, Dee. Sat the meet
ing yesterday, at Hibernlan hall
on motion of @. w. Brown the fol-
lowing were appointed committee
on platform aud resolutions; Il. p.
Hackleman, of Albany, Linn county;
Rev. J. IL. Rourke, Salem, Marion,
county, ID. A. Snyder Newberg
Yamhill county; J. Ill, Amos and
J. T. Edwards, of Portland, Multi
nomah county. The chairman of
tnis committee announced that they
would meet directly after the meet
ing ut the rooms 81 Lloyd Thomas,
the secretary OF the National Prohl-
bition committee, No. S5l, Port.
land hotel.
A resolution was oil red and
adopted, Ia accordance with the
spirit of the lneeling, to reorganlz
the stat central COMMITTEES. The
following psrsoas were then ap
pointed ehalrnen of the count,
committees respectively; W. \.
Brown, Baker county; E, $. Sands,
Benton county DIR. kenny, Cla,sol
county II. H. Ramp. Daugla.
countyi IT. Wilson, J,,sephh e |
county; As Patterson, Lane coUnty;l
H. 4, II ,ckleman, liun cnnnty,