Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1878-12-21

tendent Lamb, of Portland, is to be trans
ferred to the charge of the San francisco
district, and Dan F. Leahy, present mama
ger of the Portland Office will succeed Mr.
Lamb.
Pimney's Misdoinss. Il
In the o. S. circuit court the case of the
United States against II. B. Ramsdell is on
trial. The case is to recover an amount al
legged to be due the government in coal
| contrace for the mint. It is alleged and
shown by the testimony of G. G. Loring.
| clerk fof RamsbeM. that George NJ. Pinney,
while clerk to the superintendent of the
mint, drew and cashed check for So, 200
I for 200 tons of coal at $16 per ton; but that
/ Pinney only called for IS TONS and on its
| i'deliverypaid Lofing $1,000. Witness as
sumed that Pinney kept the balance, $4,000,
for mis- q a lIse.
More Ros tenness.
/ SAN FRASclsco, Dec. 12.-There is more
rottenness developing in the school frauds.
| The sllperYisions have decided to take the
Investigation in hand. The school board
will bring charges against the implicated
teacherss The questions by the State hoard
for the postponed examination were resumed
yesterday. They are Very easy, and will let
in as many candidates as usual.
i Killed himself.
NoIDett Aanury, U pfOmlAlent real estate
agent, shot himself through the head yester-
A pistol was found and note as follows:
81 have decided that you might as well blow
out your brains your money, for you can
live as well without the first as without the
81 latter; and that this earth will revolve here
after as heretofore Two safes were in the
room with the key and combination written
ont. He was aged 5S, and was widower
with married children. The cause of his
suicide was the publication of his name as
having improper relations with the child of
Rose Mcfarland, tor whom a guardian was
recently appointed by the Probate Court.
Landry has shown considerable depression
of spirits since the case came up in court.
He returned home earlier than usual yester-
day afternoon and shot himself in his room.
He was found by his son-in-law and his
housekeeper about 8 o'clock in the after
noon.
: 4 Confession of Murder.
RED BLUFF, Dec. 12.-In April last A. D.
; Buck of this county was found dead on his
, ranch with bullet hole through his body.
! The officers have never relaxed their efforts
to find the murderers. Suspicion was fas
tened upon the following individuals w. T.
Donaldson, John Cluckey and John F. Mar
: tin. The district attorney has succeeded il
: getting a full confession out of them all
Donnalson did the shooting and the other.
: were accessories. The confession develops ,
n plot which has never been equaled in this
$ county, and is scarcely excelled by the fend
1 ish wcrEssof Troy Dye and his assuciute-
: They accused the deceased of poisoning
some horses belonging to them and agreed
that the first one OF the three who saw hin
It was to shoot the ''old badger" as they callet
2 him.
q Best Time Yet.
:. STOCKTON, Dec. 12.-At the Agriculture
Society track to-day trial of speed occurre.
between Rarus and Sweetzer. The tracl
!, was in splendid condition. A strong nortl
e wind prevailed all the afternoon. The purs
= was $780, and in case either horse sheul
- beat Goldsmith Maids time in this Stat
u (2:1411), $500 added. Rarus made the frs
!, heat in 2:l51a, and the second heat. with
- running horse, in 2:14Z, the fastest tim
y ever made in the State. After this hea
Shippee, the president, announced tha
Rarus having beaten the fastest time eve
made in the State, would not trot thir
n heat Sweetzer made the first heat in 2: 161.
10 second, with running horse, 2:161a; thire
at 2:171a.
10 Electric Light.
10 SAN Francisco, Dec. 13.-Ex-Governc
" Latham, the owner of the French patent.
er proposes to take measures to immediatel
er =, test the practicability of lighting San Fral
SioSo Dy OAcSeAASAcys LAO SldlL1o u0 Cdu SlN
Il. a better light at one-third the present cost.
Hung Himself.
Carmstadt Wamshultz, painter a natl,
of Germany, committed suicide yesterde
TX by hanging himself to the rafter of chicke
ed house at his residence on Harrison stree
near Sixteenth He was 81 years of ag
He has been drinking very heavily latel
ty and is supposed to have been intoxicated
of the time of his death.
ne Skeleton Found.
et The skeleton of a man with a rope aroun
a. his neck was unearthed on the levee by SON
workmen at Sacramento yesterday. I'll
al man had red hair and very large bones, an
On was dressed in the uniform of United Stat,
n soldier. He is supposed to have lain the
of - years, and is evidently the finale of su
e- eide.
,e- Mining Accident.
f. The cage in the shaft of the Guadalur
Mine, near San Jose, fell a distance of II
feet yesterday. There were nine Een c
u the cage at the time of the accident. Tho
,e, j. Crocker instantly killed and tt
in others were fearfully mangled, but it
rd thought they will recover.
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lar The Electric Light in Mines.