Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-22

bile talk among the insurance men
and fr department.
WEAR COATS or MAIL
SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 22 For
the past week or so band of Chi.
nese highbinders has been hanging
around Chinatown alleys, evidently
prepared when the time should
come to take hand In the expected
battles between the local high.
binders. They have repeatedly
been stood up by the police and
searched for weapons, but none were
found on them. One of them, how
ever, when first searched wore u
coat Of mail, but as there Is no ordi.
nance against the wearing Of such
armor be was allowed to go.
Last night the watch for this
special warrier was kept, aud on
Stockton street, hear Pacific, he aud
a companion were met and taken t.
the city prison. Wong Chez, when
searched, had on armor, which con
sists of a close fitting jacket of steel
links, closely interviewer to double
thickness and capable of turning
any sized calibre pistol bullet. H.
deed, Sergeant Barke states tha;
his particular suit has been tested
o resist even q rifle ball.
OF course Chez "no sabed" any
thing as to why he wore the armor,
,s did bis fellow prisoner, Wah
Chuck. No weapons could be found
on either prisoner, who could only,
therefore, be charged with vagrapcy
on general principles.
AS a matter of curiosity Chee's
armor was placed on the scales a.
the city prison and weighed just %
pounds, quite load for even such a
stalwart highbinder as Chez to pack
around.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
BALTIMORE, Dec. %. - Central
station officers were startled Sunday
afternoon when "a young man rushed
in excitedly and informed them
there was dead girl in a cab at tn
door. The officers opened the cah
door, and there sitting upright on
the seat was the body Of IA well
dressed young woman, her eyes
closed and her hands clasped in her
lap. The young man was
Carl Keller, reporter on Ger
man newspaper. His dead conpan
ion was Clara Keller, about 26 years
old. Keller told the police that,
although of the same name, he aud
the girl were not related, but several
persons have been found who say
that Keller represented the girl to
them as his sister. He explained to
the police that the girl had been a
servant In the employ of Henry
Dangeplock, and that she had been
very sick. At the request of her
employer, he said, he was taking her
to be married. Dangeplock says
Keller has been boarding at his house
and last Tuesday the young woman
came to the house and asked for
him. She waited and when he came
In they greeted each other affection
ately, and he said she was his sister
from Newark. He asked permission
for her to remain. He was out all
night engaged in his duties as re.
porter, and she occupied his room
during his absence. In the daytime,
while he slept, she occupied the
sewing room. Two days ago Keller
said he was going to return to his
wife, who boarded at another place.
He left, but the young woman
remained. Last night she was
taken violently i'll. AT daylight
Keller was sent for, He got a cab
and took the girl away. The city
physician held post-mortem, but
will say nothing further than they
don't think the woman committed
suicide. Keller was held pending u
further investigation.
U. p. Il. b, TAKES.
OMAHA, Dec. 22.-The Union
Pacific this morning obtained a