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 q
100000 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 Is. 1t 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 a. IN. The fire of a
year ago was caused by this same
woman, who threw q 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 conf1agratiOn. If it had
not been that about 1000 men turned
out and worked like Trojans 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 num-
b =r of persons were seriously injured,
among them being: Pete Mullins, of
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, it is possible
that ere long we shall be able to tele-
phone without wires, have electric
lights without wires, ride in electric
cars prope lied by electricity delivered
thereto from stationary dynamos with
out connecting wires, and transmit
electric power in general without
wires; but Nikols Tesla ella ms to have
made an invention that is more
astounding. In his own sanguiue way
he declares that when this invention
flor which he is asking patent) is
adopted, war will be abolished. He
says: "War will cease ito be possible
when all the world knows tomorrow
that the most feeble of the nations can
upply itself Immediately with wea-
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 |
atioat will be of no more use than so |
much scrap iron. And this irresistible |
power can be exerted at any distance |
by an agency of so delicate, so impal- |
pable quality that l feel that 1 am |
justified in predicting that the time |
will come, incredible as it may seem, |
when it can be called into action by |
the mere exercise of the human will, |
A dispatch to the Denver News from
California. dated Nov 10. |
says that the first section of the west
bound Santa Fe train No. 1, was stop
ped two miles west of Daggett the
previous night by two men who got
upon the cab of the engine with drawn
revolvers and ordered the man at the
throttle to throw up his hands. This
he did.
The robbers evidently expected to
patch. They were not disappointed
and the Erobbers ordered Engineer
Bunnell to carry twenty pound bag
OF dynamite to the express car. Mes
sengers Hutchinson aud Blskeley an
peared at the door of the express car
armed with guns. The robbers fired at
Blakeley, who locating them by the
Hash OF their guns, returned the fire,
killing one robber. The dead mans
torn away. The other robbers STAN
peded and made their escape.
A posse is in pursuit and it is expect
ed at least one of them will be captured
shortly. The dead man has not been
identified.
1t is thought the men were novices
at the train robbing game. They Sec
ured no booty.
A valuable letter introduced in
evidence during the first trial of the
Burns case in the county court mys-
teriously disappeared from among the
papers prior to the trial in the dis
trict court. 1t is presumed that the