Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1894-06-28
IN THE WEST.

SPRINGS, COlO., special:
There is the utmost excitement here
owe the daring outrage perpetrated
by masked men shortly after midnight.
Adj. Gen. Tarsney has been in the city
several days acting as counsel for the
arrested Bull Hill striking miners.
He vas stopping at the Alamo Hotel.
At the hour named the telephone
rang and a call came for Tarsney.
While standing at the telephone
seven masked armed men appeared
outside and the various parties at the
hotel we're verawed. Persons in the
vicinity took Tarsney out, forced him
into a hack and drove rapidly north
three miles into one Of the suburbs,
stripped, tarred and feathered him
and left him lying on the prairie be-
fore the police, who were at once mott
fed, could overtake them Oh horse
back. When the Job was finished, &C.
cording to the driver OF the hack. they
left Tarsney lying OF the prairie with
the injunction to get out OF Ell PasO
County, as he was not wanted either
in Colorado Springs or Cripple Creek,
and that II he returned he would get
worse treatment than that already
given. 1t il believed the outrage was
perpetrated by deputy sheriffs, who
held q meeting earlier in the evening
at Antlers Park. The police were
handicapped by darkness, and when
they arrived Gen. Tarsney could not
be found.
SAN FRANCISCO special: The sailing
schooner Unga Is lost and all hands are
drowned, is the announcement made
by u private letter from Japan. Like
the Matthew Turner and the Mascot.
the vessel capsized in a typhoon and
all hands We're lost. The Sophie Suth-
erland sighted the overturned vessel
off the Japan coast. The crew of the
Unga consisted OF John Anderson, cap
| S%igOsalois Petracia, Chris Hansen, b.
| Einfelt, William Sparkling, Fritz Lo.
man, Julius Bear and p. Dahlgaura,
able m The Unga left in the
early part OF the year. Tldings are
anxiously awaited regarding the opera
ton and fate of sealers Mary Fl.
Thomas, Alton, G. G. White, Rather
and the old San Diego. Not one Of
them has been reported since leaving
this port. The carelessness of u hunter
caused a powder explosion on the seal
err Lille L. recently, blew up q large
portion Of the vessels quarter deck
and badly injured three hunters.
TACOMA. WASH, special: Single
men say that unless some OF the trans
continental roads reopen for traffic
within two weeks every single mill
in the state will be shut down. No
shingles have left Washington since
the floods blockaded the roads. Shin
giles have been steadily accommodating
ne Tho ,ntl1. ,ritk eNorpA1xy n <,,.t1ot
1t Is reported here that all the shin
gle mills along the Great Northern
have been already shut down. That
road has furnished very few cars since
the strike, and none since the food.
At present none Of the roads-the
Northern Pacific, Canadian Pacific,
Great Northern and Union Pacific
are giving any cars for shingles.
KANSAS CITY special: 1t has just
leaked Out here that the westbound
merchandise rates from Chicago and
the Mississippi to the Missouri River
and westward are to be advanced all
along the line July ]. The advance
was decided upon at a meeting OF the
traffic managers in St. Louis, but it
was agreed to keep to matter quiet
The following is the scale OF advances:
Slass ] anu CLASS z, D cents per nun.
dred weight; class 3, 3 cents: classes 4,
5, ALB, G and d, ? cents. There will
be no advance on class +. This will
put the rates higher than they have
been in five years in this territory.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, special: The
Examiner states that the big Sutro
Tunnel in the Comstock mining re-
gion, Nevada, has been attached to
force the settlement OF claims aggre.
eating S32, 900 against the Comstock
Tunnel Company, which nov controls
the property. Thel original cost OF
the tunnel is said to have been some
thing like %, QUO, 900, but owing to the
decline Of mining operations on the
Comstock. the property has gradually
deprecated In value.
SAN FRANCISCO special: Advices
received here state that the wreck OF
| the whaler James Allen resulted In
the loss of ~forty.one men OF . crew OF
, forty-nlne. AZ the VS. was received
. few days ago that only two mon, the
. captain and frst mate, were drowned,
the Latest neWs y not cro1tted hers, ;
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