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rook QEirrey jouni 0 I'JUNEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, OCfOl! Kit 3 1,1901. NO. 46 VOL V. C LYTLE HOT GUILTY Jury's Verdict After Be ing Out 18 Honrs. Defended Wife's Honor Thle, Ho Saye, Waa Why Ee Killed Emraett Eaaan, and Jury Muat Have Agreed So. Tlio principal event of thin term of Circuit Court was the trial of Andrew 1). Lytic for tho killing of Kmmctt Eitgun, July 21, near Per ham's saw . mill. The testimony introduced did not vary materially from that introduced at the pre liminary examination, and was to tho effect that Kagan attempted to criminally assault Mm. Lytlo dur ing the absence of her husband. The State presented its (tide of the case in an able manner and the defence wan ably handled, but the jury evidently accepted Mrs. Lytlc's testimony as being true, and in doing ho, could render but one verdict, as it iH an unwritten law that a husband has the right to de fend his. wife' lioiwr,, no mutter what the consequences nviy be It in to be hoped that al! parties are satisfied, us the case wus fuirly tried before an impartial jury of representative men of the county. Mrs. Lytlu's testimony in sub stance wan that Eagtn came to her home on the afternoon of Thurs day, July 18, und took liberties j wiih her, and that she tried to get him to leave her alone; he finally left, but returned again that! night, und came into her bed; room,. ud taking her from the bed and throw ing her upon the floor, attempted to outrage her, but after a struggle that lasted for some time, Eugan left. Her husband returning home Saturday noon, v and that niglt after they had retired, she inform ed him of Kagau's conduct. Lytle uro.se and went to tho pasture for bin horse", but could not catch it until daylight, lie then ;odo to a neighbor's house, borrow ed a revolver, and then proceeded to tho bunk house of the n '1 where Eagan was sleeping and opening the door, shot him. ,...;,..., Following "is the jury: J II drav. (foreman). J'L Window, C 11 Allen, C (i Eon(;Udy Hajwy, W Elliott, W II Foster, J D llarrill, C A Gilchrist,, Frank Johnson,. J H Pemaris, und J C Johnson. i Iiu Ulentii of the Trlnl.-; .", ,1 Defendant j.leai -'"not guilty" Oct. 22, 9 a m. Went to trial ict. 25, 1:30 J) m Jury.empaui kd 5 p m sam6 d:iy. Saturday: State's introduction , of cvidiiuwj and linished. 4;0 p m, fame day, and at 7:15 p m the de-fi-ndent look the witness stand; fol lowed by Mrs Lytle and other wit- ncssefl for the -defence, and all had , testified by 8:45!. .,, Monday, Oct. 23. 9 to 10:45 a m i wag taken up by the state in in troducing ; , rebuttal tcstimony.. W A Bell, for tno tato, addressed, the jury at ll':04 am and spoke in an able mannor for, 48 minutes. ' At l:p6 p m, M E 1 Brink, for the defendant, addressing the jury, fpoko tor 23 minutes. He was fol lowed by Barnes, in a 52 minute argument, received by applause at tho close. Menefee then addressed J tht jury for 49 minutes in a modest i but fcblc munner. '1 he Judge then " ; gave the jury instructions and they, , . , filed into the jury room at 4 prnitflrS. b. Ji. MajTOIl oPTl- nd lifter 18 hours rendered a ver dict of not guilty. Only. 27 witness out of 44 that were subpoeuied were called. Poat Items. Fmm our regular e"rreHiiIi:iit. The hay bands are at work again putting Up the third crop of alfalfa. Mr. and Mrs. Will Jessee, of Westfall, are visiting with relatives in this vicinity. Ed Gillen water returned from a business trip to Mitchell last week. Some of our bachelors boys are putting up new houses and others are repairing their old ones. We are to lose some of our neighbors and hope this is a sign that we are to gain some new ones. Mr. and Mrs.' Chas. Spaugh, of Looking Glass, Pugolas county, y-,. ,it Mm fimt tiart of the week v isilina with Mrs Spraugh's parents Mr. und Mrs. J. W. Wimcr. J. H. Kclley and family have returned from a recent trip to the volb-y. Frank Hughes arrived on Thurs days staE" frm Hoquiani, Wash ington. Frank spent' last winter on the creek and made many friends while here. Eugene Wimer, accompanied by bis wife, returned from Roselmrg last Thursday. Frosty Nohth. Price Paragraphs. Kfiim irar regular eorinimli-iit, Farnvrs are still busy putting in their fall crops in this vicinity. N. B. Moses returned the first of the week from 'a ' business trip to Prineville. . Randall Gibson and Charles Bedell were on tho Creek recently looking after business affairs. Charles has returned from, Al bany, where he went several weeks ago to sell "horses. He brought home a'disfigured man and a side padrileA Chac'ey we don't quite understand this. Will Gilchrist ' and daughter, Mrs. E-Laugldin, passed through here last week enroute to Prineville. Norns Morean has buut a new i house on his homestead. Hawkins Brothers are again pi - pnutore of tno fluiiry saw nnu. (Ji T. Boy nton, of- this section, went to Prineville hist week to serve as a juryman. L. V. Tice is again a resident of this purt of tUe worJd.--Ji'Miio. ; 'A Wttruyr.'-J'iike man over, in . . , .,, i f', I a very serious cuse but he thought ions of stock salt, gathered from!" -r r, the laky marsh this" PV.mmer. 'Ofllllttl " ul 6 course the salt is mixed with ,lirt and is only lit for stock 'pnrpose During a favorable rain several years ago over six hundred tons were gathered, r ' '-.,, " A man in California aceidently found a mountain of copper; u liueking broncho uncovered a for tune ledge for tho ridet in Idaho; a Nevada farmer finds" gold in the 1 1 1 ..1 ni lwi aMn ,f ! laou 110 wan inunniB v.. i.m .. l.ill 1 uhnvoU it nn(a".lninl-1!t5rit'g9 andgets,25 a ton out .of it. Is th.'t ..nD frnm tnt1AftV ' nf Villi'. illlQ DUI.I.II30 .IUIU i-" pose, or success irom just piain good luck. , Tenacity is all right but it needs good luck occasionally a a lubricant or it will lueak loose. Ex. .''--- A SAD ACCIDENT ously Injured. Hope3 for Her Recovery Team Frightened by Falling Tree ani Baokod Off oftJraae on Santiam Road. Last Tuesday about four o'clock as Mr. and Mrs. 8. R. Slayton were traveling on their way to the valley about one fourth mile above the Walton ranch they met a team and as the grade is very narrow at that point the teams could not pass. Mr. Slayton got out of his wagon and went to the assistance of the man coming up and togethei they backed his wagon about forty yards l"c B'uo- vau accomplished their work, a crash was heard and on looking up they saw a tree fall on the hillside above them, and frightened the team and it lunged forward and together with, the falling tree frightened Mr Claytons team which backed off the grade and rolled into the river something like 6hcThundred' feet. Mrs. Slayton was carried " down With -.tho wajtori ''iamlv' sustained frightful" injuries' 'ijich may yet prove fatal JVg soon as Mr. Slay ton saw the loam hacking. up he ran to it, but it' was to late to do any good-, , He followed iown the declivity and was .at ' the bottom almost as soon as the team and rescued Mrs. . Slayton from the water into., which she had fallen, which at that place Is quite deep. Mrs. Slayton sustained a 'broken limb and several, flesh wounds. Dr. Lamberson was' summoned from Lebanon and set the limb and had . Mrs. Clayton removed to Lebanon at once, . where she is now. II Parry was the man met at the point of the accident anl who went to their assistance and remain mi w iih them' until Thursday. Mr Parry brought uewsto this, place. Ed Slayton wont to Lebanon Thurs day and is'withHhis parents. Mr. Slayton ..did not sustain, any in juries of a seriqn nature. .One of the horses died, 'tho ' jMlof i;g day and the other thought to bo all right; the wagorf was almost m total wreck and the wonder is thiit Mrs. Slayton was not instantly killed. The ddctof said that if Was . Turwiccl as n'rop, Tanveed has come to the front ! timber,! n the northern jiartofthe as one of California's diversified and; district that is practically un vnlnnhln urodiiets. nd under tbei towihed. Much of this timber b scientific name of tirindella robusta is being shipped 'to an eastern pV tent medicjneliirnand.mahufac - tuivu Ji vv v.- Kb l,Jffa Aruiw sivs- ArgUSSajS. J. V."Tliomp Outd baledljlivich;, Malheur ton '75 bales of '250 pound each last year (heads in this district anJ.ioulo ,l,m i.mn ilKullt ihto fill n i 1 afford an outlet for the timber oi. U1IU W 111 , 'ivt.io wuvnv v , . " quanity this year. Ana thus a market has been established, for what has hitherto been considered worthless and a niiifance ' . Hold Train Itoblier. What is perhaps one of the boldest trainrobberics on record occured on the Southern Pacific near Cottage Grove last Tuesday morning. Tho robber got away with the contents of five registered mail pouches, which are supposed to have contained several hundred dollars. A despe'ate attempt was madetc pillage the express v;ar, but this was followed by the resistance of Messenger Charles F. Charles. But one robber was actively en gaged. There is evidence, however that another was present, and a theory that three were in the gang. The trouble began when the train had passed safely outside the yard limits of Cottage Grove, and ended within sight of the lights of Eugene, the main part of the train being left within about two miles of Cottage Grove, when it was deemed unsafe to continue the assault on the express car. The Sheriffs of Lane and Douglas Counties were promptly on the hunt. Piiikerton detectives were sent to the scene on the first . train from Port land, and a Deputy United States Marshal and three postal in spectors went up from Portland to take part in the search for the robbers. The robber performed in the regulation Jessee James style and carried , things with a high hand. After exploding a large amount of dynamite against the expre car without results, the engineer was ordered to cut out everything but the mail car and move ahead which he did. The robber left the car near Eugene. I No clue has vet been founds : Burn Oregon Land lUtrlct. Of all the Counties in the. State of Oregon, which Offers unlimited opportunities, for the : exercise of energy, capital and good .business judgment, there is , perhaps none where this can be better found than in the County of Harney. , It has . water, timber, minerals and oils, and the thousands of acres of rich agricultural lands, which are waiting to be appropri ated by living energetic citizens, This country extends 'north trom the Nevada line for one hundred and fity miles, and is about ninety miles across from east to west. ' Within its borders are the Stein Mountain?, Malheur, and Harney lakes? and innumerable small streams (which are filled with trout and jOtber, fish Jindf trill . afford water W irrigation Jof several mil lion acjres of land, asjjrell as fdr-: nifchintf lightAnJ'-jW in great i ..," X t, .-, '-.'J . i amounts, leioines without num ber can find' a substantial footing (ii this itof 'un'rrounding counties ift this district, and a small enipirt might easly be built up that coUm sustain- iVli w W Imt- liUiw tance from outside markets. There Urn nearly f.uy townships of fine tributary W ilvle3 Uiver on the soath side of the divide, unu hhe heail, waters. f the John Ua tin; timber lands in the south- - eru part of Grant County on the I i - L , uie east. BnureiusicHi.t j for the capitalists and citizens who settle in tho Bums District Pub. J lie Land.-.- 1 GENERAL HEWS. Items of Interest Gath ered Here and There 3ome Stolen, Others Not Culllngs From Our Exchanges News No tee of the Week Timely Topics The Judge Advocate General of the Army in his report for the year just ended shows that there were 6,065 trials by general court marti al being 600 less than the preced ing year. The L. J. Whitney dog and pony show, 1 which was or ganited in Spokane last winter and spring, recently went to piece in the Sound country and wa sold out at auction. ' Hay throughout the valley is not as plentiful as it was last year, and it is demanding a good price. As most of the rancher? have sold their beef cattle there is iio un easiness over the possibility of a severe winter. Lakeview Rustler. Oregon butter, put up in tins last June for export trade, scored 93 points, at the '. Pan-American. exposition, being one-half point higher than standard freh butter, and highest point scored ior ex port butter, c ' According to Sheriff ,Vfijliam Frazier, many hundred ( lieud of horses have been taken fron. tho ranges of eastern Oregon and other parts of the 6tate, for ue in tho armies of the world. Just a; pres ent the United States Government ageuts are looking out for 1'out 300 head for. use in the Ariihery branch.,. ! - t ,,.:. t ..,.;. From the Scientific Atn;.-.ican we learn that a meteoric siiov.-t r of shooting stars, 'equal to1' re nowned showers of the yeai v 1799, 1833 and 1867, will kr on November 15th of this '.xn'ir. .n Let ali remember the date, to: if ie!i a shower of stars falls Us- tfrtileied it is something to bewirii - of more than ordinary irt;er- Mv ' Sport' rivalling jn" ex',;- 'i: -nt that of iiWift'alo hunt, is f - i'. ed to take 'i-lace in Wasbint:t:m md Iron counties in Utah, :uV! ;v sa the line into Northern -'iia Tliiirsdny. when the p.'ojle '.lie Cana3a'n . uistricftxhfi ; " ' et forth a extermi nafe", V -' ' '' '.. ny .. . i i ;.. ; -desert horses' as can I IS I d " i.-J -I-; kd i; j. poughis, county, .girl's ,' .tight; Mjrf Knirua iici;,ll.u g.neer. .at; her : father.....; .Miw. .V';l.'ollun) liiuk;.'--1-' I:. work tlKruh,ly , au.d . .of atjl.ii her hands. w;r-ii i. sary.. Yhc country, y.iL.i i ...i ter off, if there , wer.v .-.tn tv i l ..... , btUous .yung .;la,die. -a.-";; -., ;nmny "uwivfpjnis'-. , i F'ilh ?. en land is' hfi-i' : epidemic in Slmniit N everyone- wno has -h'-lie-" right is lalking 'of -go in' - Agency PJa.ns oountiyMi-- ' : a' homestead. r ilie laii.l.i-.;. . i v. i very Lxt quality, ani n( producing st-ction cam celled ' anywhere-' in ! ? Leudtr;. lh ;!(.." : fl