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First Of The Kind

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
April
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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A ÍU.OODV CONFLICT. PoüTi.AND, Ore. April 2b. - Word comes trom (Valla Walla of a bloody conflict between 150 Boldiers and a sheriff's guaní, í ti which the latter while repelling an attack on the jail by the troops fired upon them witli deadly effect, th' soldiers answering1 with a volley wliu'.i mowed down a number of the citizens actin ; .ís guards. The pecullaritj ol the affair is .that it v;r the flrst instanee recorded whero soldiers, armed and uniformed, ba i to mob violcni' ■ a ■ civil authorities. On Wedm I A. J. llunt, a pmiblcr, whosc reputation was bad eren among bia rompanions, became engaged in an altercation with Private Miller and struck liim in thc face. Miller returned the blow and waa gettihg the best of the íight when Jlunt drew a revolver from his hip pocket and shot Millcr dead. A mob at once collected and an atteinpt was made to lynch the murdcrer, but he was hurried to jail By the authorities, who determined that the law should take its course. Talk of lynch ing has been hcard on the streets ever since the raurder, and the sheriff, fe,aring an attempt would be made to take tKo prisoner out and lynch him, swqrc in a number of citizens as special depUties, armed them with rijles ana placed them inside the jail with instructions to guard B6 prisoner at all hazards. FridaT night the jail, a strong structure, was surrounded by fully 150 soldiers, who demanded the surrender of Hunt. The sheriff refused, hot words were exchanged, and several Of the more impetuous deputies fired upon the soldiers, who answered with a volley. The dispatches say half a dozen persons were killed and many wounded, but whether they were citizens or soldiere Uiotknown, After the shooting the soldiers are reported to have battered down the door of the jail and riddled Hunt with buil Suf Fb ANCI8CO, April 27. - The president had a conference with Brig.-Get}. Ruger late Suniiey afternoon in regard to the lynching of the murderer at Walla Walla by a party of soldiers' last Friday night. Subsequently the president sent the followinfl telegram to the secretary of war at Washington. "The affair at Walla Walla is discreditable to the army discipline. If there ís reason to believe, 03 appears, that the mob was composed of soldiers you will order a court of inquiry and see that the respoii-ibüity for the disgrace is flxed ahd ths guilty aro brought to a prompt

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