The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1878-12-14
PACIFIC COAST.
Hung for Murder.

SAN FRANcIsco, Dec CA Bodie dispatch
says that Chon Vow, chinaman, was hanged
at Bridgeport to-day for the murder of All
Pow in Benton county last May.
On the Table.
The constitutional convention tabled res
olution requesting California senators and
representatives to support Congressman
Stephens bill granting a subsidy to the
Texas Pacific.
Umatilla Reservation.
SAN Francisco, Dec. THE annual re-
port OF the Indian Commissioner proposes
that the Umatilla Indian reservation be aban-
doned and the lands sold. This reservation
Is now surrounded by white farming
population and is crossed by a telegraph lie
and several roads. The commissioner says
this valuable tract is occupied by only 1000
Indians who cultivate their 1900 or 5000
acres, and use it to range their 2 1000 head of
stock. For several years the citizens of Or
egon have made persistent effort to have
these lands opened to settlement. In view
of the pressure on all sides for the removal
of this tribe, the increasing travel across the
reservation, the expiration of their treaty be-
fore they have reached point where govern
ment aid can be dispensed with, the expense
of maintaining an agency for so small num-
| bcr of Indians, and the fact that upon the
| Yakima reservation there is q sufficient guam
| tity of equally valuable land which can be
allotted them, it is deemed expedient that
| the tribes occupying the Umatilla reserya-
ton be removed to Yakima, and that the
lands thus vacated be sold and the pro-
ceeds of such sale used to defray the expense
of the removal and to make reimbursement
| for all improvements relinquished. and to
provide ample facilities for such eiviliZing
work as well bring them to self support.
Fire.
San JOSE, Dec. 8.--The large warehouse OF
Couzzins and Wing, burned this evening.
Loss, about $18, 600; insurance, $500.
Instantly Killed.
! VIRGINIA, Dec. 81. Fl. Torp, county
! commissioner, and one of the oldest and
stantly killed this afternoon by his team run.
ming away. His wife was with him in the
buggy and had her left thumb and wrist and
her nose broken, but will recover.
Teachers Examinations.
SAN FRANcIsco, Dec 8.-A member of the
board of education of this city has been in.
| formed by the former school superintendent
of Sonoma county that during his superin.
tendency, on two occasions, questions of ex.
animation, addressed to him, were broken
open in the post office or somewhere in tran.
sition before reaching his hands. 1t is re.
ported that questions to be used in the ex
! animation to come off on the 18th inst,
have already been received by some of the
county superintendents. 1t is understood
that they were obtained by the superintend
ent of San joaquin county on the 5th inst
Earthquake.
SAN FRANcIsco, Dec. 10.--A heavy shocl
of earthquake was felt at Chico and REQ
! Bluff this morning.
Attempted SuicIde.
Wm. Church, prisoner in the county
Jail, charged with the murder of the clerk o
the Coos Lodging House, attempted suicide
by cutting his throat and arm with pocket
knife. The wounds will likely prove fatal
For - Modification.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 9.-The constitutions
convention to-day adopted resolution
requesting the chair to appoint com
mittee to draft petition to the governors oi
1 Oregon and Nevada soliciting them to me-
rnoralize the president and Congress, on be-
half of their respective States. for q modif.
cation of the Burlingane treaty.