El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-21
The Spectator.

Returning Klondikers bring the
news to Skaguay, Alaska, that the
City of Dawson has been visited with
$500, 900 fire in which forty buildings
were burned, including the new post
office building and some of the best
buildings in the city.
The fire occurred on the morning of
October 16. II started in the Green
Tree saloon as the result OF row
between two women of the
town. Belle Mitchell threw lighted
lamp at another woman. The lamp
broke, the oil spread, and in few sec
onds the building was on fire. The
fire started at 500 q. m. The fire of
year ago was caused by this same
woman, who threw a lamp at man
with whom she had a quarrel. A
month ago she tried to burn her own
place in Third avenue, in Dawson, by
throwing lamp at q woman, and near
ly caused a cOnhagrstlon- Ii 1t had
not been that about 1000 men turned
out and worked like Trojsns with wet
blankets, buckets OF water and axes
and aided in the operation OF the fire
apparatus, the whole town would have
gone up in smoke. There is no in
surance at Dawson and the loss falls
entirely on the individuals. No one
was killed during the fire, but q num-
Der of persons were seriously injured,
among them being: Pete Mullins, OF
j the infantry: G. o. Ellis, Dan Millen,
w, A. Jones, Constable Tipp, Private
Enfield and AL Haskins.
Wireless telegraphy now being q
| fact, says an exchange, 1t is posi- BILE
| that ere long we shall be able to tele-
phone without wires, have electric
| lights without wires, ride in electric
4 Id ~. al t,if ~ dnli Two sa6
| thereto from stationary dynamos with
out connecting wires, ana transmit
electric power in general without
wires; but Nikola Tesla cla! ms to have
made an invention that is more
astounding. In his own sanguine way
he declares that when this invention
! flor which he is asking patent is
: adopted, war will be abolished. He
saws: "War will cease ito be possible
! that the most feeble of the nations can
supply itself Immediately with a wea-
J pom which will render its coast secure
and its imports impregnable to the as
/ saults of the united armadas of the
world. Battleships will cease to be
! built, and the mightiest armOr-clads
and the most tremendous artillery
| afloat will be of no more use than so
much scrap iron. And this irresistible
4
| by an agency of so delicate, go impal-
pable quality that l feel that L am
| justified in predicting that the time
| will come, incredible as 1t may SEEM
when it can be called into action by
! the mere exercise of the human will
| A dispatch to the Denver News from
Barstow, California, dated Nov. 10
says that the first section of the ives
bound Santa Fee train No. l, was stop
ped two miles west of Daggett tn,
previous night by two men who go
upon the cab of the engine with draw
revolvers and ordered the man at tn,
throttle to throw up his hands. Thi
he did.
The robbers evidently expected t.
meet pals at this point, says the dis
patch. They were not disappointed
and the srobbers ordered Enginee
Bunnell to carry q twenty pound bs.
of dynamite to the express car. Mes
sengers Hutchinson and Blakeley ap
J peared at the door of the express ca
armed with guns. The robbers fired q
! Blakeley, who locating them by tn
} flash of their guns, returned the fire
4 killing one robber. The dead man
J torn away. The other robbers STAN
peded and made their escape.
A posse is in pursuit and it is expec
] ed at least one of them will be capture
shortly. The dead man has not bee
Identified.
9l 1t is thought the men were novice
|. at the train rObbing game. They SCI
= ured no booty.
A valuable letter introduced
evidence during the first trial of tt
Burns case in the county court my
teriously disappeared from among Il
papers prior to the trial in the di