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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
EASTERN.
I'craonnI and Pollllral.
Washington, Dcc. 24. Editorial com
mouta ou several California newspapers re
ceived here have led to the discovery of a
somewhat serious telegraphic error in trans
mission of the text of the preamble to Pago's
debris bill. The Becond clause of the pre
amble sets forth that the alleged rights and
uses of hydraulic miners are now disputed by
the owners of lands in the valley below the
miners. The telegraph changed the word
"now" into "not, and consequently made
Representative Page to say precisely the con
trary to what he really said.
Senator Miller's condition has materially
improved sinco yesterday. He was to-day
able to leave his bed and walk around the
house, but is not permitted to go out of
doors,
Ex-Senator Sargent, who arrived in New
York a few days ago, proceeded through to
Boston on his way to spend Christmas with
relatives in Massachusetts.
Gov, Kincaid, of Nevada, after making a
short visit to Washington, has gone to New
York city.
Congressman Curtin and several of his
Democratic colleagues from Pennsylvania, in
cluding ex-Speaker Randall, express consider
able vexation at the reports which have
gained currency and which have been es
pecially brought to their attention by a re
cent caustic editorsal in the San Francisco
Bulletin concerning the alleged purpose of
Curtin and his friends to take revenge upon
soutnern claimants of seats in congress tor
the opposition of sonthern Democrats to Cur
tin's admission in last Congress, emphatically
denies that he has even thought of voting on
southern election cases in any spirit of re
venge or otherwise than upon their merits.
His Pennsylvania Democratic colleagues say
there was never a conference among them on
that subject and do not know of any such
project and would not join in any if it were
were proposed. They also emphatically
assert that so far from being subdued, Gov.
Curtin has been received in the House of
Representatives with the greatest kindness
by Democrats and Republicans.
An evening paper publishes an interview
with Cannon, of Utah, in which, after stating
4lia li. MA.iv.il 1R RAP. vntAD n C.a tn tna 1 '.'
1357, and otherwise going over familiar
grounds of his claim for admission as delegate,
he replied to various interesting questions as
follows:
"Mr. Campbell raises the question of in
eligibility on point on your having plural
wives. How about that?"
"Yes; I'm a Mormon," replied Mr. Can
non, "but this is a late day to raise that
question. Certainly the statutes of the
United States, as revised in 1862, make it a
penal offense to have more than one wife, but
I have served as a Delegate four times. I am
on my fifth term and the circumstances have
not changed. I say this is a late day for that
plea. The whole trouble has arisen from a
desperate attempt of the Governor of Utah to
usurp the votes and rights of the people.
The returns from the elections are that I was
elected," returned Cannon, "and there is no
doubt that Congress will sustain the returns.
My religion is the only point raised why I am
ineligible, but if the certificate of Mr, Camp
bell is not prima facie evidence, he cannot
take his seat. I hope to go in on my broad
certificate and the election returns. Camp
bell's certificate is unusual. It contains lan
guage that invalidates it."
"Are you a minister in the Mormon
church." broke in the interviewer, "Well,
we are all ministers in our church. We
hare no paid ministers at services. One is as
able to be called upon to preach as another."
"is juormomsin increasing.'
"Oh, yes, it is always increasing."
"Suppose another law, one more rigid,
should tie enacted, abolishing Mormonism,
will your people try to maintain the church,
and the theory of takiug more than one
wife?" "Yes, the religion cannot be done
away with,"
"Have you held any other office than Dele
gare in Utah?" "I hare been member of the
Legislative Council and the Board of Re
gents," replied Cannon.
"To return to tho contest," remarked the
reporter, "Keifer, as speaker, refuses to
recognize you." "Well, if he docs not call the
roll tor Utah; that may be a failure of recol
lection. This same objection to my religion
was raised against me in the 44th Congress, -but
I was finally admitted by the unanimous
vote of the House. I shall succeed in this
ontest, too."
PACIFIC COAST.
8am Francisco Hems.
San Fbansirco, Dec. 24. The suit of
Richard & Co. vs the California Paper Co. for
recovery of $32,471 on contract to lurmsh
paper, which contract it is claimed was un
filled on defendants' part, closed to-day. The
verdict rendered judgment for plaintiff in the
sum ot $1344 86 damages.
The preliminary , examination of Fritz
Scholh, charged witli murder of A. Rupinsky,
concluded to-day. The accused was held to
answer without bail.
Warren Dutton and A. D. Moore have
brought suit against James D. Walder, Thos.
Menzies and Henry D. Hairison. for $200,000
lor services rendered in negotiations tor pur
ehaso of outstanding debts of the North Pa
cific Coast Railroad, which transaction was
accomplished in November, 1880; also for
ncguuauua ui certain shkk ceruueates anu
other property.
The mortuary report for the week shows
105 deaths, 67 miles and 37 females.
Mary Marchini has presented a remarkable
petition to the Board of Supervisors for pay.
meot of damages in $50,478, alleged to have
been caused by loss ot iter husband. It is
alleged that the city of San Francisco, through
it agents, servants and employes, threw up
an embankmtBt and made a fill along Church
street, between Twenty-Fourth and Twenty
Sixth, thereby preventing the natural flow of
water. It is alleged that water accumulated
and became stagnant, and that Marchini came
in contact with and inhaled poisonous vapors
of the stagnant pool, from the effects of
which be sickened and died.
It is stated Jndse Devens will lie appointed
to succeed Chief Justice Gray as head of the
supreme court of Massachusetts.
ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH.
Revolutions continue in Hayti.
The United Inland issue of the 24th, has
Deen seized.
Stringent rules for greater security of thea
tres against fire will take immediate effect.
Chas. H, Reed has been added to Guiteau's
counsel, Guiteau wants Scoville to retire.
The Irishman prints an article to tho effect
that the "no rent" policy will bo ruinous to
Ireland.
Reports are current at St. Petersburg that
the relations between Russia and China are
somewhat strained.
Isadora Herman, of New York, dealer in
worsted goods,, lias failed lor 70,000 on ac
count of speculation.
The trial of the negro rioters is proceeding
uw ..iciiuinu, mioa., uuu uiu lesuiliujiy IS
pretty strong against them.
General logerot has defeated an Arab troop
iier xuuieuu wnu severe loss auer ODStinate
and prolonged resistance.
Tho people of Santo Domingo are greatly
excited over the report of an U. S, steamer's
having made a survey of Samana bay.
Donahue, land agent and clrk of Tober
curry, county SJigo, board of guardians, was
fired on in his office and dangerously wounded.
President Guzman Blanco, of Venezuela,
asked the legislature for authority to organize
a force of 25,000 men to repress a threatened
revolution.
Tho lord mayor's fund for defense of prop
erty in Ireland amounts to 7,000. The fund
for the relief of Irish ladies in distress has
reached 10,000.
Later particulars from Aghobbailcguo re
port that the men engaged in repairing the
Protestant church there were not attacked.
They were only Boycotted.
Reports of 23 deaths from cholera at Elwedj,
Egypt, received for tho week ended the 15th
inst. Some caravans broke ouarantine bv
avoiding the ordinary route.
Thomas Powers O'Conror. M. P.. lectured
at Omaha on the 23d, to an enthusiastic audi
ence of 150 people, under tho auspices of the
ianu league, in iso) a s upera House.
A messenger lost in Wall street on tho 23d,
a loan envelope from the Bank Commerce of
New York, containing a large amount of ne
gotiable stock certificates.
Gen. Crook arrived at Washington to look
after his chances for promotion in event of
uen. jucuoweus oemg retired, iho event is
not likely to happen for some time.
In the trial bv court martial at Mieiin.
Russia, of prisoners who participated in
the anti-Jewish riots last August, among the
prisoners are some wealthy merchants accused
of inciting the mob.
The Linple interest in the Central railwav
was to-day sold to Sir Edward Reed, an
English capitalist. Ths transfer gives Sir Ed
ward a controlling interest in the Florida
Central, of which he was to-day elected President.
AU prisoners confined in the iail at Her
nando, Miss., escaped on the 22d. Among
the nnmber was Ed Helms, colored, under
sentence of death for the assassination of
Rufus Armstrong.
Up to this time Mrs. De Long has no ad
vices different from those already given for
publication. It is believed it will be some
time before DeLong's party can be heard from
after the relief party reaches him.
Stewart, the notorious train robber, incen
diary and bank robber, has been arrested.
He said he robbed the Chicago and Alton train
of $10,000. Detectives have been looking for
Stewart for seven years. He is to be taken
to Kansas City, where ten indictments stand
against him.
At Castelton, Ireland, Miss Reynolds,
charged with aiding anal abetting a criminal
conspiracy to prevent payment of rent, was
ordered either to find bail to keep the peace
six months or undergo a month s imprison
ment. She refused to give bail and went to
jail.
The special minister to Cuba and the Chi
nese consul at Mazantas were among the pas
sengers on the steamship City of Washington
from Havana on the 22d. They are on their
way to Washington to pay their respects to
the Chinese minister, anil will then return to
their posts of duty.
.To-day began the trial of Will Vance, who
was supposed to be in sympathy with the ne
gro rioters at Marion, Mississippi, who on
election day, nov. tn, Killed several people.
The prosecution is proceeding on the theory
that there was a conspiracy to commit mur
der, and expect to convict Vance by word and
deed.
Jose Villa, the man who was stabbed at
San Jose on the 20th. made a dying declara
tion to the effect that his assailant was Fran
cis Careno, and that tho stabbing was done
without provocation. Villa was standing at
the bar when Careno beckoned him to the
door, and on reaching the threshold he was
stabbed.
Timet Washington special: An ex-member
of the Pacific railroad committee who has a
fund of iuside facts, growing out of his former
connectien with that body, has decided to
offer a resolution in the House immediately
after the holidays to authorize investigation
ot the altairs of the .northern I'acinc.
A dispatch from Tangiers says the troops
dispatched by the emperor of Morrocco and
captured by Chief Bon Anena, have joined
the latter in proclaiming a holy war against
the French. Theysubsequentlydefeated tribes
who refused to' join them, The revolution is
spreading and the emperor has neither
requisite means or prestige to suppress it.
An Italian named Giovani B. Trabuco, aged
about 55, and an old resident of Santa Bar
bara, was found on the 23J, brutally mur
dered at his home near Ortega hill, about four
miles from Santa Barbara. His throat was
cut, his skull broken in and his hands tied
behind him. It was supposed that he had
monev in the house in which he lived all alone,
and that the object was robbery.
Advices received at the Indian office at
Washington are that the smallpox is rapidly
spreading among Indians in the belt of the
country extending from Montana to Idaho.
Inspector Hayworth reports that the Kicka-
poo Indians in the Indian Territory are in a
starving condition, ine Indian office will re
live them as soon as possible.
The United States grand jury at Omaha,
adjourned sine die, without finding an indict
ment for the murder of Col. Watson B. Smith
clerk of the United States court. They have
been investigating the matter for about two
weeks and examined about forty persons, but
obtained no tangible clue, hence his death re
mains as dark a mystery as ever. A maioritv
of people believe he was murdered, and quite
a ouraotr oeueve ne snot nimseit accidentally.
Democrats in Washington are disgusted
with the committee assignments, no attention
having been paid, they claim, to the order of
precedence. Money talks of declining to
serve on the post office committee because
Springer leads him in position, whereas be
should be first. Democrats claim the electoral
committee is in the interest of sonthern He
publicans, contests having been made agiinit
three southern members, and they expect a
summary unseating of Democrats to follow
unless filibustering prevents, and this course
ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH.
Hawaii has entered the international postal
union.
Both houses of congress have adjourned till
January 5, 1882,
C, B, McKenny, of Minnesota, has been ap
pointed enrolling clerk of tho house.
M. C. George is one of the commerce com
mittee ot the nousc.
Col. Forney's will has been probated in
Philadelphia. No public bequests made.
Decisions of the Irish land court commission
arc regarded with dissatisfaction by many
tenants in tho north.
Tele eraph communication with Valparaiso.
South America, and way stations, will be
made before many months.
The well known trotter Red Cloud, with a
record of 2:18. died at the stable of his owner.
Jas. Wade, of Edinburg, Indiana.
Policeman Fitzpatrick, who shot and killed
Officer Norton, surrendered himself to In
spector Byrnes at New York on the 21st.
The confirmation of Postmaster General
Howe followed promptly and unanimously
the reception of his nomination by the senate.
Capt. William Vandogrott, a noted Confed
erate, was shot and killed at Charleston, W.
Va., by Henry Legg, during a quarrel. Legg
is in jail.
The trial of Esnosito. tho allured bric&nd.
extradited fiom the United States, was begun
at Palermo on the 19th. Of 32 witnesses
summoned 15 failed to appear.
The highest price ever offered for real es
tate in Chicago was bid and refused ou tho
the 22d, for property on the corner of Adams
and State streets 5,000 per front foot.
Wm. Raynor, U. S. deputy collector of in
ternal revenue, shot dead John Morrison, the
best known Southern sportsman in the South
west, in a quarrel over a courtesan. Raynor
surrendered.
Several of the Jeauuetto crow are badly
frozen. Russia has sent necessaries to their
assistance. They are 4,000 miles from St.
Petersburg, and it will take 3 months to
reach there.
The grand councilor of the Order of Chosen
Friends, Charles W. Bryan, received a favor-
able reply from the supreme council to the de
mand of the grand council, held in Saa Fran
cisco a few days ago for a separate jurisdic
tion.
ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH.
Guitteau and Scoville are daily in rtceiptof
htreatening letters.
A corrected list of the victims of the Ring
..i..ti.uiCITN MO.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has as
sumed large proportions.
Manning A Berry attached the Nevada and
Oregon Railroad on the 24th for $17,000 on
ai-i-uuiu ui supplies xorwarded.
A fire broke out in New York on the 24th,
at 71 and 74, South street, and destryod $2.
000,000 worth of property.
C. H. Adams, of the Springfield Republi
can, has accepted an engagement as man
aging editor of the Baltimore Times.
John Orville Evans, president of tho Mu
tual Union Telegraph Co., died at tho Gilscy
House, New York, on the 25t'j, after a short
illness.
r Tho prand inrv itifiieteil .T Ifnu..,! Wlt
for sending Jay Gould blackmailing letters.
Prof. J. E. Hilgard has been appointed su
perintendent of tho coast and geographical
survey.
Tho Cuban governor has discovered falso
certificates by which 170 negroes who ought to
be free aro held in bondage.
Tho Colorado freight pool has collapsed for
the present, owing to the failure of some roads
interested to come to time.
Postmaster-General Howe telerr.inh ho
will assume the duties of his office between
tho 1st and 6th of January.
Denials of tho story about Jeff Davis get
ting away with the Confederacy's gold aro
coming in from various ex-Confederates in the
South.
Bernard Stetzer, a German cooper, shot and
killed his wifo at Columbus, 0., and then
shot himself in his own house. Whisky was
sne cause.
OKEGOirs PBOCRES8.
What a Ran Franclars Paper Says About Oar
Wheat aad name Manufactures,
Oregon, as shown by the accepted estimates
of her late wheat crop, and by the immense
volume of business her merchants are doing,
has taken enormous strides during the past
t SENATOR'S WsJBIU
S. B. No. 146-For the relief of Col. W.L
White to the amount of $1,333 33, for actual
services performed by him as a clerk in tats
land office at Oregon City,' under contract
with the register and receiver thereof, in mat
ters connected with the donation claims. A
two or threo yeats. With a good season in nnlar bill passed tho Senate in June, 1880,
18S2, says the San Francisco Merchant, it may J Dut faiIed in the House.
o. n. no. hub uranting a pension to Phil.
be fairly estimated that her wheat production
will increase nearly fifty percent, over that of
the present year, and in all other brandies of
production in a like manner. Oregon has been
steadily adding to her population, for tho last
few years, a class of thrifty, industrious far
mers, and as theso cot over thn iliftteiiltiea
and hardships of establishing themselves in a
new and strange country, they will make the
vanoys ami piams ot their new State blossom
like a carden with tho fruits nf their tml
Tho sage lands there, as elsewhere, when
moisture is not wanting, aro fertile, and only
need breaking up to turn them to excellent
profit. It may bo long before Oregon will
overtake California as a wheat-growing coun
try, because this State is adding every year to
its grain fields, but it is not too much to ox
pect that Oregon in 1SS4, and certainly in
1885, will stand whore California did in 1870
as a wheat exporting country, and every year
thereafter tho difference in California's favor
will grow less and less. There is no ioalonav
in this State over tho prosperity of Oregon.
On the contrary, we rejoice with them, for it
is so much more added to tho power and
wealth of the Pacific Coast. In Orernin thorn
is some chafing possibly over her partial de
pendence on California manufactures. The
feeling is not unnatural, and a similar phase
is exhibited in mot tastes which, developing
their agricultural resources, suddcnlv finds
themselves wealthy and populous enough to.
Ut tftA4 4 IH MA Ata.l lMM -J l-!ll.-.4.
The total amount of funds for the relief of thought of mau a g"ent It
Michigan sufferers raised in Rhinaon in . i? n n i. V .' I. . ..
S43.000, besides a large amount of clothing p'rTmise" not to r'Ktcut amTa! low ,, to
it threatened.
Fred W. Newbureh. assistant secretarv of
the State board of public works, has been ar
rested for raising checks to the amount of
54,UUU at (Jolumbus, U. Ho confesses to
that amount, but large forgeries are sus
pected. Smallpox has broken out at Manheim, a
town 14 miles north of Chicago. Several
cases are reported. This dreaded disease
seems to be spreading rapidly in this State,
cases being reported from many widely separ
ated sections.
Vice President T. F, Oakes, of the Notth
ern Pacifio Railroad, and party, returned to
Chicago from their ten days' trip over the
Northern Pacific lines. They went to the
extreme end of the road,
A Republican senatorial caucus on the 21st
met without reaching a decision as to the
Democratic proposition that Neil Brown, late
reading clerk of the house, be elected to the
same place in the senate.
The corporation of Dublin has considered
the question of conferring the freedom of the
city upon Parnell and Dillon. The proceed
ings were disorderly, and the meeting dis
solved on technical points.
Jos. E. Bea was fatally stabbed at the cor
ner of Eldorado and San Pedro streets, San
Jose, on the 21st, by a party unknown. The
two had been in attendance at a fandango and
had a quarrel about one of the women
present.
The wifo of Henry George, a citizen of tho
United States, took a chair at a defiant meet
ing of the ladies' land league Tuesday in Dub
lin. A male porter on leaving the premises
with a bag of letters was arrested and sent to
Kilmainham jail.
ii P.. T upper died in the chair of Dr. S. J.
Sovereign, dentist, at Chicago on the 21st.
He had taken chloroform while having teeth
pulled and died in a very few minutes. Tup
per was from Hammond, and had been pur
chasing goods here.
The senate confirmed the following nomina
tions: Alonzo J. Edgerton, chief justice o'
Dakota; Jesse Spalding, collector of customs
at Chicago; Pierre C. Van Wycho, superin
tendent of the assay office at New York; J.
B. Rekfieldt, assayer at Philadelphia mint.
Mrs. John Evans, of Sherinan, Montcalm
county, Mich., locked her house and went to
a neighbor's, leaving two children, eight
months and three years, in the house. Shortly
after the house was discovered to be in flames
and an attempt to rescue the children unavail
ing. The grand council of the order of Chosen
Friends, representing about' 30 lodges, that
held aloof from the recent independent move
mea, to-day adopted a report petitioning the
supreme council to be set apart as a sRn.arAt.n
jurisdiction, whenever tho membership shall
IMUU ,VW,
A Tribune' Cleveland correspondent has
talked with prominent Buckeve r)mnnr.at9
uu uuuiiiicii iinurinnuon mac mere is a grow
ing sentiment in favor of Tildeu's nomination
in 1881; that Pendleton's boom is of no ac
count, and that it is expected that President
Arthur will divide the Republican party in
Ohio.
Another financial fiaud has just developed.
Frederick A. Palmer, auditor of city accounts
at Newark, surrendered himself and was im
prisoned on his own confession that he had
embezzled about $125,000 of the city funds
during the first three years and lost it in Wall
street speculations. He asserted that no one
was implicated with him.
One of the Indians wounded during the
shooting scrape at a camn at Nevala Citv
put an end to his life by cutting bis throat
with a piece of glass. The other wounded
Indian is still alive. The white man who
shot one of the Indians has not yet been cap
tured. It is said he is being pursued by some
... ... u.njr,,, u, lual ,, caugnt, iney will
nuke short work of him.
and other supplies.
It is reported at Chicago that freight rates
to New York on cram havo been c.nt tn ton
cents per hundred. Tho report is not fully
confirmed, however.
Postmasters complain of losses of revenue,
under tho present partial prepayment of post
ago on first-class matter, and an abolition of
the practice is being agitated.
On the 24th two freight trains collided
near Spokan Falls, killing Nicholas Metcalf,
foreman, and Albert Kitchen, conductor,
wounding several others, and telescoping
some cars.
The store of J. H and J. B. Prince at
Ureen Plain, Va on the 24th burned, and
two clerks, named respectively Glover "nd
Murrell, perished in the flames. It is sup.
posed the men were murdered and the store
set on fire by tramps.
A family row at Helenwood, Tenn., on the
25th, resulted in the shooting of six men,
three of whom are dead. Helenwood is a
mining town off from the railroad and the
particulars cannot be learned,
Frederick Lane, a well known brewer,
chairman of the agitation committee of the
brewers' congress of the United States,
failed at Reading, Pa., on the 25th, liabili
ties $300,000, assets about $250,000.
The Russian Official Messenger says : On
the 19th thieves entered the office of the im
perial receiver at Sebastapol by driving a tun
nel, and stole 40,000 roubles. Three arrests
have been made and 27,000 roubles recovered.
Owing to the influence of Ali Ben Kalefi,
an Arab rebel chief, three of the largest
tribes in Southern Tunis hold out against tho
French. The insurgents pillaged the large
town of Kaso Mondenig. The march of Gen
eral Logerat's column from Sfax in conse
quence is postponed.
At midnicht on the 24th. at Walla Walla.
Charles Lauster, night watchman at the
Stine House, had a row with Mat. O'Hearn,
an engine fireman on the O. R. & N. Co.'s
road, who was drunk. During the row Laus
ter's left leg was badly broken at the anklo.
O'Hearn fired two shots at Lauster, neither
taking effect. O'Hearn. who is an old resi
dent at The Dalles, was arrested and lodged in
jail.
THE rUI.-lKVILLK AFFKAY.
Hank Vaughn and Lone tn
Becover.
a Fair Way to
John T. Owsley, a millionaire who was
obliged to take and hold some Chicago prop
erty in spite of his protest some 20 years ago,
and who became rich through its means, died
on the 21st. It is said he owns 20 acres in
the heart of the city. ,
Three noted bandits, two of whom pass un
der the same name and were known as Man
uel Asundo, and the third as Lucas F-ance,
were captured near Retosa, Mexico, on the
12th, and hanged by Mexican Vigilantes, who
go under the title of "a commission."
Tribune's Coolidge, Ks., special : Monday
night the wife of Postmaster F. E, Hardtsty
wa, outraged by Barney Elliott, during her
husband s absence. Next morninL' Hardeatv
went into the Urn. riddled Elliott' bo.lv
with bullets ami pounded his head to a jelly.
A combat between twentv smuirirler ami
custom house guards assisted by cavalry, has
occurred between Carmao and Mie. in Mex.
ico. Lieut. Meea, commanding the cavalry,
a corporal and one private were killed. The
smugglers escaped with, considerably booty
into this State.
From a gentleman just arrived from Prine
ville we learn that Vaughn and Long, the par
ties engaged in the late shooting affray at that
place, are both in a fair way to recover. They
each send a messenger daily to inquire after
the other's health, and their narrow escape ap
pears to have destroyed all their animosity,
and eah is solicitous for the recovery of his
late antagonist. Tho facts in the case, lie
savs, were about as stated in the Standahm.
When they first quarreled over their cards
Long drew his pistol, and Vaughn told him to
shoot if ho wanted to, as he hail "nothing on
him." Long then put uo his pistol and
Vaughn went and heeled hunsell. Mutual
friends succeeded in getting them to agree and
shake hands oyer the matter, but when thoy
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nib. ....... ... .-, wM.Qa nuivuu Idling UUtTUll
his left hand, which Vaughn refused to ac
cept, and tho quarrel was renewed, and Long
again drew his pistol, Vaughu, from his
previous career, knowing that if ho shot first
he would stand no chance of escape in catie of
a trial for murder, again gavo Long the first
shot, upon receiving which he immediately
drew his pistol, and the shooting was kept up
till both weapons were emptied. The parties
were standing iu a narrow passage between
two billiard tables, and when the frequenters
of the saloon, who had vamoosed at tho first
shot, returned, they were clenched in what
was thought lobe t death grip. Long will
probably lose the use of his arm, as the
shoulder-blade and collar-bone were broken.
Vauiihn will carry a bullet inside of his
shouhler-blado the remainder of his days, but
will not probably be much the worse for his
adventure.
continue forever to manufacture for them
what they cau just as woll manufacture for
themselves. Their papers, or some of them,
Bhould follow tho example of the San Francis
co Merchant, and popularize tho sentiment i
"Patronize home manufactures." It may
bring on the paper taking tho lead in this
movement a ridicule at first, and a little oppo
sition from interested quarters, but the people
will soon see that tho Oregon journal which
labors to advance Oregon manufactures and
Oregon commerce is the best firend of the
State.
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.
A Son of Mr. J. E. Uorntnn Instantly Killed
by Falling Into a Well.
About four o'clock yesterday afternoon
Clarence F. Boynton, a son of Mr. J. E.
Boynton, clerk in Ladd & Tilton's bank, was
instantly killed by falling down a well at his
father's residence in East Portland. The un
fortunate lad, who was a bright, intelligent
uuy, ni(eu it years,a invuriie wun nis teacners
and all who knew him, had agreed to assist
his mother during the vacation in the tem
porary absence of the servant girl, and at tho
time above mentioned he went to the well to
draw a bucket of water. The well, which is
nearly fifty feet in depth, and close to tho
house, is as usual prote.ctod by a curb, which
was about waist high to the boy, and is fur
nished with a pulley, over which runs a ropo
with a bucket at either end. He was accus
tomed to drawing water, which he has done
many times without trouble, but on this oc
casion the planks were wet and slippery, and
in some manner he fell into the well. Assist
ance was at once procured but tho fall had
proved fatal, the boy's neck boing broken,
and only the lifeless body was restored to the
?;rief-strickn, heart-broken mother, Mr.
Soynton, who was on this side, was met by a
messenger while returning, who informed him
of the sad news, and he returned to a house
of mourning bowed down with grief anil
anguish.
oneon Morris, of Mehamah, Marion county,
Oregon, on account of disability contracted on
tho 16th of July, 1846, in the war with Mox
ico, while in company "F," Fourth Illinois
Volunteers.
S. B. 51 For tho relief of F. G. Schwatka,
Sr of Salem, in the sum of $10,000, for his
donation claim taken by the war department.
in sections 0 and 7, in T. 8 N., R. 10 W.,.
known as Point Adams, where Fort Stevens
now stands. Tho claim of Mr. Schwatka for
this tract of land was referred to the general
commanding the department of tho Columbia,
O. O. Howard, for report by a resolution of
tho Senate in 1879. General Howard made a
strong report in favor of paying tho sum
claimed by Mr. Schwatka, which report has
been referred to tho committee on claims witii
tho bill
S. B. 52-For tho relief of M. P. Jones, in
the sum of $24,597 75, to reimburse him for
monoy deposited in tho U. S. depository at
Portland, to complete tho United States sur
veys along the lino of tho Oregon Central
Military Wagon Road in Southeastern Ore
gon, and to pay the expenses of tho clerical
work in tho office of the United States sur
veyor general of Oregon, said money being de
posited under the provisions of an act of Con
gress approved May 30, 1862, upon tlio sur
render by him to tho commissioner of thogon-
Slippery Ju-k McDonald.
Some bi'x weeks sinco Constablo George
Ward started for Astoria on the steamer
Fleetwood, having in charco one Jack Mc
Donald, a deserter from the ship Harry Morse
then lying at that place. On tho passaco
down, McDonald jumped from tho boat and
Ward reported that lie sank before reaching
the shore. Tho story of his being drowned
was not believed at the time, and is now
proved to bo false by his return to this city
en Thursday evening. He savs that ho
slippped the handcuffs from ono wrist, but
held Ids hands in such a position that tho re
moval was not noticed. Ho is a splendid
swimmer, and had no fears of drowning. Af
tor mi got to shoro ho went to work m a Jog
ging camp, mid has hcen at work ever since.
lie also went to tho hound, lie gives as u
reason for jumping ovorboard that James
Turk, who had his advance money, refused to
buy him a blanket, or an oilskin, or rubber
boots, and he would not go to sea without theso
necessaries, yesterday McDonald was ar
rested by Depi.ty U. S, Marshal Chailes
Frush, on tho old chargo of "deserting from
a ship which he had legally joined," and was
committed to tho county jail once more It
will be a lucky thing for tho officials of this
section when this slippery Jack is safely
shipped and out on blue water.
A TKHPKBANt'K lHAMIIO.
Credit Ta Wktn Crrdlt I Due.
The Portland correspondent of the Astorian
gives a lady credit for stopping the sale of
liquors on the O. R. & N. Co.'s boats in the
following neat, little story : " Before it slips
my memory I must tell yuu how it happens
that no liquors are sold on river steamers.
Aliout a year before the sale of the old com
pauy to the O. It. 4 N. Co. Capt. George J.
Ainaworth, son of Capt, JolinC, was apjtoint
ed general superintendent. At a favor to his
wife, who made the request, he issued an or
der abolishing bars. Theso were no little in
come to the vtewards, and after the new man
agement came in, large amounts were offered
for the privilege of selling drinks, but the ex
penence of 12 mouths showed such improve,
ment in the behavior of rough passengers (and
boats on every trip carry many who are not
Cheoterfields), and so much Utter discipline
in crews, that no money could induce the new
company to restore the bars.
Tho Washington fmleperulent says: Neither
money nor lies would make the Monumental
mine.
Youthful Dki'Iiavitv. We hear of three
boys who have lately been discharged from
different mercantile establishments where
they were employed. It appears that they
were in the habit of frequenting places where
they had uo business, and spending more
money than they could afford to legitimately,
A watch being set upon them, they were de
tccted in pilfering, andof course discharged.
This is a very sail business for the boys, and
unless they at once and forever reform, their
live can only be in misery aud wretchedness
to themselves aud disgrace to all connected
with them.
Violating ah Ordinasck, Complaint has
been msde to Chief Engineer Jordan that the
Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Company
are violating an ordinance of the city in build
ing the front of the fourth story of their
building of wood without covering it with in
combustible material. The matter should be
looked into, and if there is anything wrong
in the plans of tho architect, they should at
ouce bo changed.
Ahpiitxutki), A painter at work in the
forward compartments of tho steamship
Walla Walla yesterday had a small charcoal
fire built in order to dry hit work quickly,
tho fumes from which soon rendered him in
sensible. A comrade, seeing his critical con
dition, drew him on deck and dashed snmo
water in his face, which soon brought him to
his senses,
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From good authority the Walla Walla
Union learns that a camp of Indians on an
island near White Bluffs were attacked with
the smallpox. One buck and one squaw died.
The coyotes, crows and jackdaws ate of their
uiihuried Ixulies and died. The rest of the
camp, a squaw and some children, were at
lost accounts on tho island, sick aud without
food, their relatives being afraid to tako them
auy.
eral land office of tho duplicato or triplicate
vuniuvabi;o ui ufiusil, lieill uy linn.
Senate Bill 53 for the relief of Alonzo Ges
ner for the sum of $2,180. tho amount duo for
surveys in certain townships in Eastern Ore
gon, approved by tho Surveyor General of
Uregon, lice. 1 1877. As the government is
reaping tho benefit of the lands surveyed bv
disposing of them under tho land laws of th"n
United States, it is nothing but justice, that
Mr. Gesner should bo paid for his work,
Senato Bill 122 niacins J. H. Smith nf
lewisviuo, rolk county, upon tho pension
rolls, on account of disability incur rod in Co.
A., Col. Gillam's company, Oregon volunteers
in tho Cayuse war of 1848.
Senate Bill 123 placing William Shaw of
Howell Prairie, upon the pension roll on ac
count of his services in the war ot 1812.
Senato Bill 124 for the relief of Uadley Hob
son of Marion county, for 13,7334 pounds of
beef furnished tho public authorities in the
Oregon and Washington Indiaa waraf 1 855-6,
Mr. Hobson failed to present his claim to- the
board of commissioners, who audited the
claims growing out of that war, henco his ap
plication for relief through Congress.
Senate Bill 125 to pay B. Jennings of Ore
gon City, $2,448 to reimburse him tor money
exhausted as Register of the land office be
tween June 1, 1859, and Dec. 31, 1860, for
additional clerical services and extraordinary
expenses during said period, not heretofore
allowed and paid, growing out of tho adjust
ment of tho claims under the Donation law.
Senate Bill 49. to nay Thomas J. Miller
of Washington Territory the sum of $500, or
so much thereof as ia necessary, to reimburse
him for the seizure and sinking of his ferry
boat on the Columbia river, by tho armed
forces of the United States, for the purrose of
preventing the same being used by tho hostile
Indians, about July 1, 1878, during the lata
Bannock war in said Territory.
xne case oi me united states against It. P.
Earhart, administrator of tho estate J, V. P.
Huntington, lato Superintendent of Indian
Affairs in Oregon, and others, decided in favot
of Earhart by Judge Deady, and appealed to.
tho Supreme Court by the United States, has.
been dismissed at the cost of the Unitod States.
It was an action on the first bond of Mr.
Huntington for delinquencies during his in
cumbency in ollico during his first term as
Superintendent, who also hold a second ap
pointment. The court held that tho suit wan
improperly brought ou thojirst bond, whereas
tho United States, if suinir at all. should have
sued on tho second bond, unlesa it could have
been shown that tho deficiency comp'ained of
and set out in tho record, if tho cose took
place and actually existed under the Jirst bond.
which the United States failed to show The
U. S. Attornoy General having bcon convinced
that tho United States had no proper case and
being requested by Capt. Mullan, attorney for
Earhart aud Huntington's liondsnicii, that tho
decision of Ji.dgo Deady be atlirmod, tho case
was dismissed by the United States.
BOAKD OF 1BADK MtXTI.Yt:.
A special meeting nf tho Board of Trade
was hold at their chambers yesterday after
noon, President Donald Maclcay presiding, foi:
tho purpose of considering means for tlto re
covery of tho Idaho tradu.
Col. Wheat, who has just returned from an
extended trip to that section in tliu interest
of the merchants of this city and for the pur
pnso of making arrangements for having tho
supplies for that country shipped via Portland"
and the O. R. A. N. Co.'s routes, addressed
tho meeting at some length,
Brief speeches were also made by Mayor
Thompson, Col. McCraken, M. P, ilurrell, C.
II. Dodd and others, all of whom concurred
in the importance of making an effort tn secure
tho reversion of this trade to its old channels.
Secretarv Arnold was called to the chair and
President Donald Aiacleayaddrcsacd the meet
ing and showed by his remarks that ho thor
oughly understood and appreciated tho im
portance of the subject.
Mr. Sol. Hirsch stated that this trade was
a most valuablo ono, and that the merchants
of that section were all reliable and good for
all they ordered.
Messrs. Arnold, McCrackeu and Hirsch
wero appointed a committee and endowed
with full power to tako such action as tlity
deemed best to secure the object sought to bo
obtained by the meeting.
The Standard has long seen tho impor
tance of this trade and advocated, editorially
and locally, the propriety of somo steps be
ing taken to again secure it to our merchants.
We regret to learn that there is soma prob
ability of tho united action of our business
ment meeting with frilure, as would seem tn
lie indicated by tho following from tho last
number of tho Idaho Democrat:
"Tho Portland Ktanhaiiu hns been misin
formed. The merchants of Boise City wilt
not have their goods shipped by way of tho
Columbia river.
Dkowkki!. Eugene Laflaichv, while work
ing on a log boom at Leonard Bros,' camp, on
the Skagit river, on December 10th, says the?
Seattle Chronicle, fell into the river and waa
drowned. Deceased was a French Canadian
by birth, a very picture of manly strength..
He was six feet tall, sandy complexion, 23
years ot age, and is supposed to have relatives
in California. His remains wero recovered.,
and given a Christian burial by his friemls alt
Mount Vernon, Should this item reach any
of his friends or relatives, they can obtain fulL
Particulars of the sad affair by addreaaiasf
conard Brothers, Skagit river. Washington
Territory!
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