NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. [By Telegraph.] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 93, 18 October 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. [By Telegraph.] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

San Francisco, 27th September. An American paper says Dr. Tanner is not dead, and has not been to Amsterdam, where ho is circumstantially reported to have met his death under curiously dramatic circumstances. The doctor has never been out of the United States, and is said to be in training for another starvation feat, which he promises shall last over ninety days. 1 he Presbyterians of San Francisco have found Mrs. Cooper, sister of Colonel Robert Ingersoll, guilty of heresy. The trial and termination created some excitement in re- | ligious circles. A bush fire in Marin County, California, spread over 25 square miles of territory. William Pixley, who started it to burn out a poison oak thicket, lost his life. A Mexican boy has been scourged to death in Hnachuea on the complaint of a white girl to her father that he had insulted her. Atterwards the girl confessed she bad only told the story " for fun," and now the white men justly fear Mexican retaliation. A tragedy occurred in Arizona, at the White Mountains, on the Ist September, which caused much excitement. It appears that General Eugence <- arr, in command of Fort Apache, leit that place wi>h seven officers and 110 men to punish the savages for depredations committed in that region. When they arrived at Obion Creek, the Apache Bcouts treacherously turned on command with well-directed voileyß, and other Indians, lurking in the vicinity, joined with them, and massacred Captain Hentig and ten of the soldiers, and General Carr and the remainder of the force retreated to Fort Apache. A ''medicine man," it is said, wai the cau*e of this bloody affair. He was arrested by Lieutenant Caux, when an Indian, remarking " You shall not arrest my brother," immediately shot tie ofiicer. This was the eignal for the slaughter. Another account says tho "medicine man" had promised the Apaches that, at the gathering of the corn harvest, he would cause all their dead chiefs to rise again, and by the r aid the white men would be driven from the country. The Apaohes were afraid he could not carry out his purpose it he was arrested. There is great dread of a general war, and all the troops in the forts and garrisons around >an Franci-co are being hurried to the Bcene of hostilities.

The members of the Wellington Amateur Dramatic Club have decided to give a short series of popular concerts at the Athenieum, the proceeds of which will be devoted to their wardrobe fund.