Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-27
OREGON.
Adylees from Portland.

PORTLAND, June 25th.-A call has been
| issued to the French residents Of Portland 30
meet for the purpose of making arrangements
to celebrate the French national holiday
! July 18th.
| Joseph Simon, through his attorney, Judge
| Ballipger, has fled an answer to Mayor
| Thompson's reply TO the man6amus. SO
| great, however, is the press of other impor-
tant matters. that Judge Stott will not be
| able to hear the case argued until next week.
Simon has expressed determination to fur
| ther contest the election, and sooner or later
the case viii come before the City Council
| for final adjudication.
| Colonel Hurlburt'srailroad surveying party
are engaged in surveying around Big Bend,
| Cow creek, Jackson county. The best grade
that could be found through the canon was 10
| feet to the mile, and one bridge to be built
on the route will have to be 6l5 feet high. or,
to save that, it will be necessary to make
number of tunnels
To-day the Northern Pacific Railroad was
completed to Spokane Falls. w. T. Mayor
Thompson, of this city, received dispatch.
signed by number OF prominent citizens of
that place, who sent congratulations to Port
land The Mayor responed by congratnlatirg
Spokane Falls on the completion Of the road
to that place.
The first crib in the harbor work at
Yaquina Bay has been iioated to its place and
sunk. It was small one, and viii, from
this time on, progress rapidly, as all the pre-
| liminaries are now completed.
William Griffith, Of Lost Valley, Lane
county, was arrested yesterday, charged with
attempt to commit felonious assault on a
young lady named Mary Lackey, several
weeks since. The woman is 81 years of age,
| and is said to be half idiotie. Griffith is over
| 60 years old, and has large family of grown
| up sons an ] daughters.
| James M. Ofield, who shot and killed Mat
thew Montgomery, near Almota, in Columbia
some land troubles, was, on preliminary ex-
animation at Pomeroy, acquitted, having
clearly shown that the killing was done in
self.defense.
SECOND DIsPATCH.J
PORTLAND, June 26th.-Yesterday mo-
tion was made for nonsnit in the case of /.
G. Smith vs. the Oregon and California Rail-
road Company, for damages in the sum of
s25, 600. The motion was allowed by Judge
r. p Boise, on the ground of insuffciency Of
testimony.
Governor Newell, of Washington Territory,
has appointed Joseph nj. Bloomfield, of Van
couver, member Of the Board Of Pilot Com
missioners of that Territory. vice J. B.
Knapp, resigned.
This morning, from sunrise until about
o'clock, succession of plainly visible belts
encircled the sun, presenting dimly all in
rainbow, the atmosphere being quite hazy.
The phenomena was doubtless cau.ed by the
rays of tie sun penetrating the mist in their
rapid fight to the earth. Many attribute the
strange sight to the periheion of the planets,
the approach of the comet or some other oc-
currence among the spheres.
Judge Stott sentenced Thomas Kelly to
the Penitentiary for five years, j. Kelley to
| two years and VIM. Bennett to FIVE years.
These persons were convicted of larceny.
| Two hundred men and forty teams are an
gagged in grading on the narrow gauge rail-
| road south Of Brownsville. A party Of en-.
gineers are now locating the road south
toward Coburg.