Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-15

Bailey, have caused great Social
sensation by clipping with and mar
rylug two men la the theatrical
line. The girls are sisters, aud
their father is John J. Bailey, chief
bookkeeper for the Hofiett-West
Drug Company. The family is very
well known. The father has been
for years actuary for the mercantile
and public school libraries. The
girls are very handsome and have
fine voices. They have often ar
peared in amateur theatricals, and
both aspired to shine as professional
stars. About the middle Of July an
opera company was organized Ia St.
Lonis by an Englshnan named w.
II. Williams, who, IL is said came to
this city well provided with proper
references. Among those whose
services he succeeded in enlisting In
the enterprise were the Baily sisters.
They knew their parents would OBJ
iect, 80 a scheme was fixed by which
the girls pretended TO be taking
music lessons from Mr.. Williams.
The family home is in the extreme
south end Of the city, and the girls
easily deceived the parents by pre-
tending to visit friends uptown.
The company was organized and a
tour arranged OF small nearby I'LL
nois towns. The parents thought
their daughters were with some ac-
quaintance in the city until they re-
celved letter announcing that Miss
Alice had married Williams, the
manager Of the enterprise, Julia had
married Harry b. Morgan, the tenor
of the troupe. The father started af eT
them, and tonight it is said that the
girls will leave their husbands aud
returu bone with him. The wed
diugs were duly and religiously sol.
emnized by minister in Flora, ILL.,
Williams is said to have brought
good credentials with him, but no.
body seems 10 know where be comes
from, except indefinitely from the
e at. Morgan seems 10 he un-
known. Julia is 81 years old, and
Alice is 10.
THE MINNESOTA STORM.
ST.. CLOUD, MINI, Aug. l5.-The
storm proves TO have been more
rious than was at first supposed
I'll the corn and standing grain in
its path was utterly ruined. In some
places the hail was fifteen to
twenty inches deep on the level. No
conservative estimates can bp made
of the damage but it is heavy.
swINnLING SCHEME.
ST.. PAUL, Aug. 15.-The st, Paul
detectives made a haul yesterday
morning. AS result Con Gleason,
the notorious confidence man, III e.
Clarke, new man 10 the police,
and George w. Young are in Jail.
The others who will be brought in
of the same gang are Jim Conners,
the short change celebrity, and Joe
Bush, of gold brick notoriety.
Clarke and Young are the men who
nave been operating the swindle for
which the gang have been arrested,
bile Gleason, Bush and Connors
are the outside workers. Three days
ago new firm branched out in St
Paul. The name of the concern
was the Washington Colonization
and Investment company, the com
pany claimed to be regularly incor
porated under the laws Of the state
to operate with an authorized capita
If 500, 900. The business was adver
tised extensively as that of dealing
In government land In Oregon and
Washington. Conners, Bush and
Gleason are plausible agents, and
and were highly successful In drum
miug up business for the firm. The
scheme these slick gentry have been
working Is one that "millions In 1t, "
to use Connors' own expression. II
was represented to the victims that
on the payment OF n certain sum,
graded according to the apparent
financial condition of the pigeon,
the company would bear all the ex-
lense incident. to securing to him
clear title to 100 acres of land IN
Oregon or Washington.