The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-02-28
SHOT HIS SON-IN-LAW
Tragic Ending of a Family
Quarrel.
LINCOLN COUNTY THE SCENE
Was Shot Dead Before He Could Enter
the Gate-The Murderer Is an
Old Man.


ported from Summit, small station
about 25 miles west of Corvallis, in
the Burnt woods district, Just over the
line in Lincoln county, that John Nc
Calb was shot and almost instantly
killed 10y his father-in-law, John Nc
Dowell.
There seems to have been trouble for
some time between McCalb and his
wife, which finally ended yesterday by
Mcdowell having MCCALL arrested for
assault and battery on his wife. The
trial came off yesterday in Justice
Lukey's court at Little Elk, when Nc
Calb was acquitted.
Mcdowell and his family went home
ahead of McColb, and the latter fol-
lowed with the avowed intention of tax
ing his children, who were with his
wife at his father-in-law's. He rode up
to the Mcdowell place on horseback,
and called from the gate, asking if his
children were there, to which he was
answered by Mcdowell that they were.
He thereupon said that he had come for
them, and would take them, when Nc
Dowell told him he could not have them,
and it is understood that Mcdowell i'm
mediately fred load of buckshot,
which struck MCCALL and his horse.
The horse became unmanageable and
threw MCCALL off. As he fell he tried
to get up, saying: "You have not
downed me yet," when Mcdowell
rushed out with a revolver and fired
three more shots, all taking effect in
McCalb's side.
Mcdowell is 73 years old, while Nc
Calb is young man. Mcdowell claims
he shot MCCALL through fear that he
would be overpowered if he allowed him
to get too close. MCCALL was not armed,
and from the information SO far obtained
it is thought that the killing was not
justifiable. The coroner has been sent
for, and the inquest will be held today.
White Men WIN Hunt Otters in Alaskan
Waters.
| SAN Francisco, CAL, Feb. 27.-The
North American Commercial Company's
schooner G. G. White will sail today on
sea otter hunting expedition to Alaska.
She carries twenty-five men, rifles and
the usual outfit, also four engineers for
the steam launches which the company
uses in preference to the slow-moving
canoes of the Indian hunters, who are
supposed to do the hunting for the pelt
of the exceedingly valuable sea otter.
The revenue laws are most stringent
on the point that no white man shall
kill or capture this animal in the waters
of Behr1ng sea and along the Alaskan
coast, but the G. G. White has signed
prescribed hunters here, who will re.
ceive $3.50 for every skin they bring
over the side of the schooner. More
over they are provided with a stock o
new Winchester rifles, the use of which
will make the vessel liable to seizure, al
only clubs, spears and shotguns are tc
be used by the Indians, who alone are
permitted to hunt.
The launch engineers are employed a
$40 month for the season, and will
these small, swift steamers dartin,
among the coves and inlets of the hunt
ing grounds The chances of the otter t.
escape and of the Indian to realiz
wages from its capture are reduced to ,
minimum, though it has been the inten
tion of the government to leave the sc.
otter to Indians.
The schooner White has caused tn
government q great deal of trouble ant
HIGHEST of all IN T .esvenino D,