Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-06-27
THE CROPS OF OREGON.
Policemen Have a Tussle in
San Francisco.
LATEST FROM THE FLOODS.
A SteepIe Climber Killed, Troops
Ejecting CattIemen, Fire in New
York, News From Eugene, State
and Foreign News, Etc.
THEY AL cor wouNprp.

THEY ALL GOT WOUNDED.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27.-Police
Officer Knott went to the house of
Thomas Golding late last night to
serve a warrant on Golding's
son, Thomas Jr., on charge Of horse
stealing preferred by Clement
The officer was met by Golding, Sr.,
who braadished cutlas and threat
ened to kill him if he did not vacate
The premises. Officers Brown,
Gould and Magee responded to
Knotps whistle and an attempt was
made to arrest Golding and his son.
A number of shots were fired,
aud when the parties were finally
arrested and taken TO Jail it was
found that Golding, Sr., had bul.
let wound in his back, that will
probably prove fatal. Officer Brown
was shot in the right thigh, Officer
Magee had his right cheek split
open by blow from a cutlass,
Golding, Jr., had several severe
scalp wounds and Officer Knott
had wound across his forehead.
b. G. Mann, who was passing the
house at the time of the shooting,
and who took the officers to be bur.
glars, which belief the Goldings
alleged they shared, was struck by a
policeman's club, and knocked sense
less, while endeavoring to capture
the supposed footpads.
FROM THE FLOODS.
BOONE, Iowa, June 27.-The first
direct news from the scene of the
floods on the Maple river branch OF
the Chicago and Northwestern road
was received at the company's |
hea dquarters in this city yesterday |
The dispatch is from the operator at
Moville and says that town is almost
wiped out. Water runs in at the
depot windows and is up to the
ceiling of all buildings. All houses
in the fiat portion of the town has
been swept away and the railroad
turntable is washed from its place.
Three miles of track is gone between
Neville and Kingsley, and most of
the small bridges over the Sioux
river, This destruction is now be-
ing supplemented by another storm
raging at the present time and ex-
tending south to the maine line of
the North western. 1t is raining
very hard and the storm is travelling
east.
SIOUX CITY, June 27.-A man
went over from Correctionville to
Kingsley last evening and tele-
pL oned here the first particulars
about the flood at the first named
point. 1T came down the valley ;
with terrible force and carried out
the dam just above town. Houses >.
IN the lower part of town were .
,arried away and many people had ;,
narrow escape. Two children +
we're drowned. The number of ;,
louses destroyed is not known. Five g,
ridges were carried away, business l.
Iouses flooded, and great damage ~
one. =.
TRAIN WATER BOUND. II
SIOUX City, Iowa, June PA
nail clerk on the road arrived here
md tells of train on the st. Paul >,
Dad which is water bound at Hor- \
iick with the crew and twenty a
hree passengers aboard. He says =
here is no prospect of getting the
-rain out for couple of days. The
clerk waded-through miles of water
to reach here.
DASHED TO PIECES. q
ALBANY, N. Y. June 27.-James q
the famous steeple clim-
Der, know all over the country for
his daring ascenis, was killed at the
penitenitiary in this city yesterday
afternoon. Furguson was at work
one of the towers. He
was sitting in his little boatswain's .
,halr, forty-five feet above the
ground. He rose to rearange his "
gearing, and when he dropped back
nto his chair, the bricks at the top
# the tower to which his grabbing
hooks were attached to gave way
md he was thrown to the ground, CT
When picked up he was dead. Fer +
,uson had climbed every lofty steep
e in this section of the country, and
vas frequently called to New York, !,
Boston and Chicago. He always ii
worked without scr folding using b
'nly rope and his little boatswain's n
hair, -
10 EJECP CATTLEMEN. o
KIN0FIsHER. o. n, Jume 27.-A y
roop Of the Fifth Cayalary rein 4
'orced by company of Cheyenne
Indian scouts, has been ordered into
he Cherokee strip to EJECT trespass-
ng cattlemen and their herds. \
mo FIRE Ar NEW YORK, a.
NEW YORK, June 27.-The aImory |
Of the list regiment, burned out
This morning, only the walls being
left. The members of the regiment
had three hundred uniforms and
their arms Ia the building, all of
which are lost. A number of store