Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-04-01

EX-CoMMISsIoNER JOE WILSON,
of the Washington Land Office, arrived in San
Francisco last week and is at present stopping
at the Grand Hotel He comes here to assume
the management of the Europeon and Oregon
Land Company's affairs at a salary of ST, 900 per
annum 1t will be remembered that after hold
ing office for forty-wo years, he fell victim to
VI Garrahans Vaccinations and was summarily
removed by the President. The Association
with which he will in future be connected, is a
company formed 10y leading Californian capital
ISIS associated with others in London, Frankfort
and Amsterdam for the purpose of buying all
the lands included in the grant to the Oregon
Central Railroad (FIolday's) and the Oregon
branch OF the Central Pacific covering altogether
about I $50 900 acres. The purchase amounts
TO 5 900 900. As the bulk of these lands will
be resold at from So to S. per acre, the purchas-
ers will make round profit by the transaction,
For the purpose Of effecting n speedy sale of
their property and quickly enhancing its value,
arrangements have been perfected by the Com
pany with Ben Holiday to transport $4,000 Ger
man imm Migrants from Bremen, to Portland, Ore
gon direct, at n cost OF $40 coin per head.
They will he guaranteed employment on Oregon
railroads, and it is reasonably supposed that the
majority of them will soon settle on the lands of
the Company, all parties will be gamers by the
enterprise. Mr.. Wilson has avoided all publicity
since his arrival 1t is not yet decided whether
Portland or San Francisco will be his headquar-
ters, but he will remain here at least for some
few weeks
SISTER S WRONGS AND A BRoTHER's VENGEANCE.
A murder case has been on trial for the last
two days in the Fourth District Court which,
from the peculiar circumstances connected with
it, has attracted much more than the usual at
tention. The accused-a young man named
Dennis Gunn-s moulder by trade, and on the
3lst of last December, while working in his
shop, he received anonymous letter stating
that one Edward Murphy had seduced his
! (Gunns) sister and had been boaSting of it to
his friends. The young man instantly went
home, saw his sister and asked if the statement
made in the communication was true. After
some hesitation she admitted that it was, adding
| that Murphy had outraged her on two occasions,
and that she had said nothing about it because
she was afraid of her life Gum seized his pis
tol, and without another word ran from the
house in search Of Murphy. Fate ordained that
he should not have to search long. Near the
corner of Pine and Kearney streets he came
across his sisters seducer and in another mo-
ment d bullet had crashed through the williams
brain He then gave himself up to the police.
Many people think that Miss Gum allowed her
self to be " outraged too easily, but however
that may be Murphy, from all that I can learn,
was undoubtedly frst-class scoundrcl and his
fate excited no sympathy. At the time Of the
shooting he had no less than three wives living
in the city, and his character in other respects
almost as bad as it could be. OF course
Mr.. Gum will be acquitted, indeed the Judge
(Morrison) intimnted to-day that he should
charge the jury that when a brother killed
man for committing rape on the slayer's sis
ter such killing was not only justi6able but en-
inently proper-in fact the correct thing to do.
Few will differ from this opinion though it is
not sanctioned by any written law.
ScmBBLER.