Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-05

Tor SO 900 each, and others were
given amounting to $4,000. The
sandfords got money on these notes
aud II the signers Of the notes are
compelled TO pay them, il may rnin
them. This fact has been kent se
cret until Saturday. This will make
SandfOrds' liabilities over 500, 600
The safe was opened by an expert
today, and all Il contained was SIC
in small coin. The grand jury re-
turned fifteen indictments for for
gerry, embezzlement, obtaining
money under false preteuses, and
larceny. %he county will offer q
reward of 81 ,OcO for the capture OF
Sandford brothers
REED 10 RESIGN.
WASHINGTON, Oct. St is re-
ported that ex-Speaker Thomas B
Reed will tender his resignation and
retire from the house before congress
meets, in order to accept a RESPONSE.
BILE position with an important cor
poration in New York city.
INTEREST TO MINERS.
CLE-ELUM, Wash, Oct. 5.-A
court ruling Of general interest t'
miners were made by Judge Growers,
Of the Kittitas superior court, today
Two weeks ago John p. Mears, 2
Nell kuowD placer miner of the
Sw8nk district, was arrested at the
instance of Phillip Cumiskey for
trespass on an unsurveyed agricult-
ursl claim held by the complainant.
On trial Of fhe case, the defendant
was fined $50 and costs, amounting
in all TO Sl75. under the state tres
pass law Of 1889 and 1890. A bond
was given for the same and ten days
given for appeal. At the expiration
Of the period the bondsmen for
Mears requested a discharge from
the surety, and the prisoner was
taken to the county Jail to serve b
sentence of forty mine days. A writ
Of habeas corpus was at once applied
for, which was granted by Judgt
Graves on a hearing of the case
The decision Of the justice court was
sustained and the prisoner remand
ed. Mears jumped the cam OF
Cumiskey in the belief that it con
tained precious minerals, although
no pay dirt had been shown up t.
the time of his arrest. The claim IL
located in one of the richest sections
of the Cle-Elum mineral district, ID,
Swank. A number Of fine Tanchei
are in the midst of the same terri
tory, and the owners Of the latte
have been very much stirred vi
over the matter, fearing that de
cision in favor of Mears might seri
ously affect their land interests,
GOLD COMING BACK.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Steame
Latouranine from Havre brough
50, ASS, 900 in gold and Steamer Kais
er Wilhelm a million i'm gold.
BURNED TO DEATH.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Three per
sons were burned to death early thi
morning in a fire in five stor,
brick tenement house in this cit!
and two others are fatally burned
The dead are josephine Ryan ageC
five, Mrs. Murphy AMI Katie Dunn
When the fire was discovered tn
only stairway in The house was OF
fire and it was impossible for th,
inmates to escape by that way. Min,
families resided in the house anC
each family had an average of thre,
boarders aggregating fifty persons
The policemen FASTENED to the fir,
escapes on the front of the building
and aided the men. women anC
children to descend. In this way
they were assisted by tiremen whC
quickly answered the alarm. Th'
firemen rescued Matthew Ryan anC
his three young children were
almost overpowered by smoke and
unable to help themselves. On,
fireman on duty was Matthew Muir
ply, husband of the woman who
was burued TO death. He found his
wife burned beyond recognition
Little Josephine Ryan, the dead
womau's niece, died soon after being
removed from the house. Mis-,
Katie Dunn was overcome by smoke
and burned TO death. The fire
broke out in an unoccupied hous,
In the alley and the police believe
1t was of incendlary origin.
THE NEW YORK PRLsBYTERY.
NEW York, Oct. 5.-At the semi.
annual meeting of the New York
presbytery today, the prosecuting
committee appointed to prepare
papers in the trial of Prof. Briggs
presented report embodyine
charges against him. The charges
In brief are as follows: Disbelief in
the Bible as the only true source OF
divine authority, disbelief In verbal
inspiration and the inerrancy Of the
scriptures, disbelief in immediate
santificatlon at death Of the souls OF
those dying in the faith. Prof
Briggs moved that his case be taken
up the first thing In the afternoon
but the motion was defeated.