Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-23
BUCKET And ALL.
BeardsIey Sentence inde6nate-
ly Postponed.
FIVE BOYS DROWNED At WASHINGTON
The Anaconda not Sold, The Treas
ury Balance, Wants our Govern
or, A Young ScoundreI, State
and Foreign News, Etc.

.
y BEARDsLEY's SENTENCE SUSPENDED
; PHILADELPHIA, June 23.-Johl
/. Beardsley, ex-city treasurer, who sew
eral days ago pleaded guilty of EN-
c bezzlement Of public funds, wa
: brought to court for sentence today
/ but on motion of the district attor
ney the sentence was suspended in
definitely.
District attorney opened the pro
ceedings by stating that he wished
o call some witnesses, from whom
: lie court could get information on
which to pass sentence. An expert
accountant had testified that Boards
ley, in his two years and half OF
, incumbeney of the office of city
treasurer, had received 5000, 900 in
terest on the public funds, and that
Beardsley used S500,000 in specula-
tion and had loaned 5000, 900 to one
banking firm and 100000 to anoth.
er. He also loaned 100000 to
the Bradford Mills Company, of
which he was owner. Beardsley
also sold and converted to his own
use, $4,000 worth of government
bonds he held for the city, but this
money was subsequently returned.
Expert found that Beardsley's stock
operations had cost him in the
neighborhood of 100000.
THREE BOYS DROWNED.
WASHINGTON, June 23.-While
diving from a spring-plank yester-
day, John Chanlis. aged 10, nephew
of the late millionaire Chanlis,
struck his head on the bottom and
was drowned. When young John
McKeown, son of the millionaire oil
king, jumped in to save him, the
halfunconscious boy dragged him
down. Walter Jones, aged 13, son
Of the presiding elder of the Wash
ington district of the Methodist
Episcopal church, leaped in in a
brave effort TO save his two friends,
but was overcome and all three were
drowned.
TWO OTHERS DROWNED.
| WASHINGTON, June 29.-TwO sad
cases of drowning occurred here
yesterday of boys about Is years of
age. One of them, Charles Davis,
while carrying a milkcan on board
q steamboat, slipped from the gang
plank, and although a brave man
jumped after him and tried to save
him, he went down in sight of his
frantic and heartbroken mother,
who stood on the wharf. The other,
Roger Conpell, colored boy, while
bathing got beyond his depth and
lost his life.
THE ANACONDA MINE.
NEW YORK, June pa San
Francisco dispatch was published
Sunday in which it was said the fa-
nous Anaconda copper mine, near
Butte, Mont, had been sold for $25-
600, 900 to an English syndicate. The
owners of the mine are Marcus
DAILY, j. b. Haggin aud Lloyd Tevis.
Mr.. Haggin was first seen by a Tri-
bune reporter. He said positively
there was not word of truth in
the report and he did not know
whether the mine ever would be
sold. Marcus DAILY was seen by a
reporter and said: "Less than a
week ago there was not money
enough in the world to buy the Ana
conda.n
TREASURY BALANCE.
WASHINGTON June pa state
ment prepared in the Office of the
secretary Of the treasury giving OPP
erations TO date shows net balance
in the treasury of S4,765, 900.
A YOUNG sCOUNDREL.
PARKERsBURG, VIVA, June %
Clarence Neal, a boy Is years of age,
who killed his father when only ii
years old, committed another bloody |
crime while attending a church
festival at Riverside Friday night.
Neal got into difficulty with
another boy named Dobson. After
the boys had been separated short
time, Neal went in search of Dobson
with the intention of killing him.
Charles Skidmore, boy of Is, was
standing by leaning against tree,
and as he Was dressed like Dobaon,
Neal mistook him for the latter. He
slipped up beside Skidmore and
struck him on the head with a
loaded whip, crushing his skull and
nilicting fatal wounds, Neal killed
HE father four years ago with an
iron poker, and, although 1t was
proven that he had threatened his
father, on account of his youth and
through sympathy for his family,
he was acquitted on the ground Of
self-defense. The boy has always
been vicious aud feared by all who
knew him.
WEATHER REPORT.
SAN FRARCIsCO, June 23.-Fore.