Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-18

congress urging that body TO author
ize the immediate commencement
ana speedy completion of an unub
etructed channel Of not less than
twenty feet in depth aid Of sufii
cieut width through the lakes and
the connecting waters between
Chicago, Duluth, Superior and
Buffalo.
NO STARVATION.
CRY OF MEXICO. Dec. 1S.-Re.
ports from reliable sources in every
state Of the republic is to the effect
that the rumors of great distress
caused by the famine, and Of riot.
ing by Impoverished people, is I'M
true. In Chihuahua, Durango, Zac-
tetas, Chihias and Potosi crops
failed, causing some suffering, but
measures for relief have already
been taken. There has been nc
actual starvation reported in any OF
these states.
THEIvETT MURDER.
MERGED, Cal, Dec. 18.-Detec.
tives who have been following up
the case of murder of the wealthy
rancher John Ivett, for which crime
August Olsen, Ivett's brother-in- law,
was recently tried and acquitted,
claim to have found new and suffi-
cient evidence to connect Olsen with
the crime. Olsen was acquitted OH
evidence which, 1t was claimed, was
based on perjury, but a trial of one
of the witnesses suspected of giving
false testimony also resulted in ac-
quittal. The detectives new say
they have found that Olsen passed
the night after the murder at
house Of bad repute, and that shirt
stained with blood was found
where an inmate of the house states
it was concealed by Olsen.
THREE BULLETS IN HIS HEAD.
SAN JOSE, Dec. 18.-Jacob Hefl,
aged 81 years, one of the wealthiest
citizens and an old residence Of this
city, put three bullets into his head
with a revolver this morning. He is
not dead, but there is no hope of re-
covery. No reason can be assigned
for the suicide. nnless it was the re-
cent loss of $4,000 in street COLI
tract. He backed the contractors,
and the work was not accepted by
the city.
A DISABLED STEAMER SIGHTED,
PORTLAND, Dec, 18.-Captain w.
w. Rhoades has received very in
teresting letter from Anthony w.
Miller, keeper of the Cape Meares
light station. 1t involves a mystic
rious unknown and disabled ship
about which some one in Portland
may know something. The letter is
dated 18th inst, and is as follows:
Sir: Having written you some
thing on the 9th about a disabled
ship, 1 will now add that upon my
return to the station on 10th /
learned that after had left on the
previous evening the vessel drifted
In and anchored near Three Arched
Rocks. On the morning of the 10th
she drifted northwest, passing Cape
Mears about noon, when we discov-
cred that 1t was not the TIuckee, as
at first supposed, but a large steamer,
more In appearance like the Will
or Danube. She still has her
but seems 10 be disabled
about her machinery, Though she had
steam sufficient to whistle and did |
80 number of times while passing |
in front of the station. She has two |
masts and white smokestack; carries
two flags on her foremasts and
flag of distress aft. The upper flag
Oh the foremast is a white field, with
either diamond, square or circle in
red in the center. She was last seen
at sunset on the 10th, heading to
sea, and about six or eight miles
northwest from this cape.
"At 8 o'clock on the 1lth a steam
schooner came from the southwest,
passed the cape, and continued
north, but was too far in shore to
nave discovered her. At 10 o'clock
wo tugs came from the north, and
in the vicinity, where she
vas last seen some eighteen hours
before. A large steamer passed south
Ibout noon, but they were all too far
n shore, as the ships must be quite
distance at sea-"
FIELD INDICTED.
New YORK, Dec. lS.-The grand .
lry today returned an indictment
gainst Edward M. Field, of the I
efunct firm of Field, Lindley 4 Il
o., charging him with forgery In
he second degree. I
PROHIBITION.
CHICAGO, Dec. lS.-The national
committee met here this :