Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-28
TIE PAN AMERICAN r. R.

ter Of the Pan American Railway
company has been filed here. The
line is to run 24O miles from
Victoria to Brownsville, on the Rio
Grande. The proposed capital is
$3,OOO,OO0. This is supposed to be
the inception Of a big enterprise, 10
extend the road eventually through
Mexico into South America.
TRAIN ROBBERS CONFEssEs.
SAN ANToNIA, Tex, Oct 2S.-
James LaDsford, one Of the men ar
rested on charge Of being implicated
in the Southern Pacific train rob
berry has confessed his guilt. He
claims to have been forced into join
ing Fields, Flint and Wellington,
the other robbers, by threats on his
life.
HE WAS TIRED OF LIFE.
OAKLAND, Ca, Oct. 2S.-Wood
Hopkins, of Sau Jose, committed
suicide at his lodgings here yesterday
by taking morphine. Deceased left
this letter: "OIkland, Cal, Oct. 26.
1s91.-To those it may concern:
take my life because it is miEe and
am tired Of it. Please forward let
ters to my mother and friend with
out opening them. AS for my body,
do what you want with it. To my
friends-good.by. My luck is against
me. Break the news gently to my
mother"
MUST PAY FOR HIS CHIPS.
New YORK, October %. Chief
Justice Ehrlich of the city court has
decided that buying chips at game
Of poker was legal transaction, and
that the person buying the same
could not avoid payment on the
ground that it was gambling deb'.
rhis decision was in the suit OF
Edward w. Green against John A
p. Glore to recover $l44.70, the |
amount of two checks given by |
Glore during a friendly game Of
"draw" to Marcus Sitter Of 1863 East |
Hghty-ffrst street, who acted as
banker, in return for the equivalent
IN "bones." GIore is member Of
the firm of John A. p. GIDre d Co,
dealers in produce. One of the |
checks was on his individual az
count and the other in the name Of
the firm, but payment was stopped |
on both. Sitter had transferred the
checks to Green, who brought the
action.
Glore admitted that he won and
lost during the game. "BIt | after
ward found out that 1t WAS a skin
game aud notified the bank not to
pay the checks" he testified. His
attorney asked that the case be dis
missed on the statutory ground that
claim for a gambling debt had no
standing in law. Chief Justice
Ehrlich directed the jury to render a
verdict for $14S.2O and they did So
without leaving their seats.
DRANK FRESH CIDER.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Oct. 2S.-The
town of SutervilIe, swenty-nine
miles from Pittsburg, is greatly eX
cited by the expulsion of Rev. Alex.
Laird and John McElroy from the
Sons of Temperance for drinking
fresh cider. In addition, David
Warren, Robert l.. Wilson, Robert
Hunter, A. Prlddy, and John Ovens
are hooked for expulsion next Tues
day. They violated that section Of
the Sons of Temperance laws which
forbids "the manufacture, sale and
use of cider or wine. fermented or
uufermented, or of any kind of
spirituOus or malt Liquors, or any
kind of intoxicating drinks as a
beverage, whether enumerated in
the pledge or not"
Since his arrival in Suteryille he
has spoken out so boldly against the
sale Of liquor that White Cap no.
tice, warning him to leave the town
in twenty-four hours, was sent to
him in May, 1890. He drank cider
at the farm of William Cuffron, on
October, 8. He could not get either
cider or apples In Scotland, and
thought it no harm to drink the
glass Of sparkling cider when off.
cred. He feels the expulsion very
keenly, and his treatment has called
forth the indignation of the cOngre.
CATION and the people of Stuterville,
who denounce in unmeasurel terms
the action of the leaders of Sons of
Temperance. The membership OF
the lodge has dropped from seventy
FIVE to thirty inside Of two weeks.
AN INDIAN sKIRMIsH.
FORT AssINABoINE, Mont, Oct.
2S.-News has just been received
here of very spirited engagement
yesterday between band of Blood
Indians and force of Canadian
mounted police. The fight took
place just across the International
boun sary line aud not more than
hfty mil,s from this post The
arliculars received are somewhat
meagre, but are substantially to this
effect.
The BlOOds, who are old-time
enemi,s of the police, and their oI.-
poncnts in many bloody skir'
n1ish in Vaara mast haVA baan trat.