Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1895-01-03
WESTERN.

and did not receive the necessary certificate
for insurance companies.
WESTERN.
CHICAGO special: The Times says: An
international deal in copper is likely to be
| perfected soon. Ever since the smashup Of
the great corner In copper which was cre-
| ated by a French and English syndicate
three years ago, spectators have been fig
uring how to put through some such
scheme. This time 1t is a combination of
| English capital which is engineering the
deal. Representatives of the combine from
London were in Chicago for several days,
and were joined here 10y John Demplcr Of
Glasgow. Arthur Trumbull of New York,
who is interested in the American end Of
the deal, also came here, and the party left
for the west. Their mission, it is said, is to
confer with the owners Of the immense
Montana and Arizona properties. The
scheme Of the syndicate is to get the owners
to cut in two the output, which is now
100000 pounds a month. This would
bring down the figures of the Anaconda
property to those Of the Hecla and Calu-
met mines. All arrangements have been
perfected for the carrying out of the deal,
and It only remains for Marcus DAILY to
give his consent. He is a difficult man to
deal with, but the promoters profess to be-
lieve that they can afford to offer a big
enough inducement.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, special: News
has just reached here that a most horrible
holocaust occurred at Silver Lake, Lake
County, Ore, on Christmas evening, in
which forty-one were burned to death and
sixteen badly injured, five of whom will
die. A large crowd had assembled in
Chrisman Bros Hall 10 attend a Christmas
tree festival. While the festivities were at
their height, some one climbed on::a bench,
from which point he expected to get a bet
ter view Of what was going on. In doing
10 his head struck q lamp hanging from the
ceiling, overturning 1t. The oil immediate-
ly caught fire and everything in the room
being dry and of al inflammable nature,
the room was sOOn q mass Of flames. Some
0ne shouted: "Shut the door and keep
quiet; it can be put out" BY this time
the confusion was SO great that people be-
gan scrambling in a wild endeavor to get
ont. Women and children were trampled
under foot, and as there was only one exit
to the hall, and the fire being between the
majority OF the crowd and the door, many
people rushed headlOng into the flames.
SANTA Rosa, CAL, special: The county
treasury was robbed OF nearly 5000 here
and Treasurer Stolen was locked-M Che
vault and left to die by t~hs-bnfglars. The
robbery occurredst &o'clock in the morn
Ing, blt was not discovered until 5 o'clock
m the afternoon. All this time StOfen lay
In the vault gasping for breath. He wa
finally rescued by his wife, who was the
only person besides himself who knew the
combination. As soon as Stolen revived
he said he opened up his office as usual
about . o'clock. AS he was carrying one
Of the trays with money from the vault a
tall man in his stocking feet stepped into
the door Of the vault and with an uplifted
dagger in his right hand told him to drop
the trays, which he did. The rObber struck
him q powerful blow OF the back Of the
head, which rendered him unconscious, for
how long he could not tell. lie says the
man was tall and wore chin ,whiskers and
must have gained admittance to the office
during the night and waited for him to
open the safe.
SAN Francisco, special: The coal
laden bark Sea King, twenty-five days
from NaniamO, h. c., came into port. On
Christmas morning the Sea King was
sighted ten miles north Of Port Reyes, only
. few hours distance from San Francisco,
and her owners were becoming anxious
about her. The schooner John f. Miller,
twenty five days out Of Portland, was also
t0wed into port. She was sighted Of the
FarOllan Islands. The schooner was then
in q disabled condition, having been
stripped Of several Of her sails, and it was
feared that she had been driven put to sea
again. Nothing has been heard Of the coal
laden ship j. b. Brown since the ed inst,
when she was sighted off Cape Mend0cino.
She is out twenty five days from Naniamo.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, special: The COM
munity Is highly excited over the brutal
murder of A. II. Weber and his wife in
their home, which was subsequently plum
dered by the murderers. Weber was an
elderly grocer, reputed to be wealthy. lie
was supposed to have had considerable
money about the house. The couple lived
alone above the store. The dead bodies of
Webber and his wife were discovered by
the grocer's son. He found his parents ly-
ing dead in the kitchen, the clothing torn
from their bodies and their heads gashed
and crushed from blows of an axe. Every
thing was Overhauled and not a cent Of
money escaped the murderers. There is no
clue.
SAN FRANCISCO special: United States
District Attorney knight stated that he
would shortly recommend to the Attorney
General to dismiss the charges against at
least three-f0urths of the A. r. U. men
now under arrest In this district charged
with conspiracy, growing out of the recent
strike. He believes that there Is no chance
VI c0nyicting them. The trials now in pro-
gress In this city have not developed as
strong . case of conspiracy as was expect
ed. The district attorney declares, how
ever, that it is his intention to sfubbornly
prosecute the ringleaderS in the recent dis !
Los ANGELES, Cal, special: The oil
producers Of this city have held an impor-
tant meeting to further a plan of system
attic marketing Of the petroleum product.
papers are soon to be filed OF
in organization to be known as the Oil
Producers Company, the object being to
minimize the cost Of distribution Of the oil
,roduced and regulate the price. The oil
will be marketed through q common CEN
er, the contracts for delivery to consumers
d be made by . board Of directors.
KANsAs CRY, No., special: DR.. r. r..
varrirg, health officer has issued q gen.
III statement Of the RESULT OF the trial Of
10 anu-toxine for diphtheria in Kansas
ity. His opinion, briefly, Is that anti
1xine u almost uniformly cf1caciOus III
I'D when the disease arst appears, or at
sAat before blood poisoning Gets In. Out
{ thirty cases al but four lived, and the
Octor shows that that the disease was too
e advanced In these cases when ntt-t0x-
10 Wa administered.
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