Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-25
OREGON.
kdvices from Portland.

PORTLAND, July 231.--Last night burglar
named Barthold EDgler was captured while
going through the room of George Slimater.
Engler, when discovered, leaped through an
open window, but was caught by Siimater
and another man and overpowered after a
most desperate struggle.
Rev. J James Worth, a minister of the United
Presbyterian Church. died at his home in
Halsey. Linn county, on the 21st inst at
the advanced age of so years. The deceased
came to Oregon in 1852.
A dispatch has been received here from
New York which states that three steamers
had left Cardiff bound for Yaquina Bay, with
1000 tons of steel rails for the Oregon Pacific
Railway.
Two engineering parties, under charge Of
E. Phil and Tilley Browne, are now in the
field, locating a line between Corvallis and
Yaquina Bay. The road will lie sixty-two
miles long, of standard gauge, and laid with
fifty pound steel rails. The service of 1000
Cinnamon has been secured, and they will be
put to work at grading within three weeks.
Offers have been made by 200 men with
teams to go to work Immediately after
harvest. The road will have three tunnels,
| the greatest 240 feet long. Perforations will
have to be made through soft sandstone, and
it is estimated by the engineers in charge
| that progress will be made at the rate of
eighteen feet per day. Bids have been re-
| ceived for 10 000 hewn and sawed fir ties.
The heaviest grade eastward will not exceed
| 100 feet to the mile, and westward there will
probably be none half SO heavy. Ten miles
CT the read is already graded. The Chief
| Engineer and Superintendent OF Construc-
ito, selected by the New York Boa d. ere
en- route to Oregon and their arrival here s
expected by next steamer. Under resolu-
ton passed By the Directors, the Corvallis
Division must be completed by January 1,
| 1882. The money necessary to carry on tie
| enterprise has been raised in England and
| America.
SECOND DISPATcH.I
PORTLAND. July 23i.-Mrs. J. C. Laran-
sisur, a spiritualist who had trouble in San
| Francisco about q diamond ring which she
got from J. Z. Clark, who fell dead while
| playing cards with her, she claiming that he
gave it to her, insists that she has received
| spiritual letters and dispatches to the effect
| that her husband, who keeps little shooting
gallery, will die before August LIST. She has
| so worked upon him that in fright he has be-
come sick. She has ordered her mourning
clothes, and made preparations to sell the
house and furniture. Mira. L4ransieur is sc
assured of his death that she has even pre-
pared to take third husband. She is a tine
! looking English woman, and was O widow
when Laransieur married her. San Francisco
| piritualists assure her that Laransieur vii
| die on or before August 1st.
Edward Harne came TO live several year.
ago with Mr.. Harne in East Portland
Noticing that Mr.. Harne, whom the younl
man supposed to be his father, received cor
siderable sums Of money at stated periods, ht
| asked where the money came from, but
never got satisfactory answer. a shor
I time since young Harne was attacked a
night and beaten nearly to death. Suspect.
ing his supposed father, Harne left fol
Walla Walla, and now comes back witt
positive proof that his father now lives al
Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Harne here il
his uncle, who has appropriated, since th'
victims babyhood all the money sent by hi
father for his support. Edward Harne hes
brought suit against his uncle for the recoy
cry of the money advanced by his father fol
him.
THIRD DIsPATCH.f
| PORTLAND. July 24th.-Last evening
new &. A. r. Post was organized in thi
city, called the General Reynolds il honor o
that gallant officer, who was killed at tn
battle Of Gettysburg.
An exciting game of base ball came off TO
day at Vancouver between the Stars of Port
land and the Buffsticks of Vancouver. Tn
score stood Stars 9, Buffsticks 6.
4 While in bathing at Salem last evening,
Young man named Adolph Ambussel 60
beyond his depth and was drowned befor
assistance could reach him. His body ha
not been recovered.
Judge W. p. Lord, Chief Justice of tn
State Supreme Court, has positively declinet
to decide the question as to the validity c
the ballots cast for Simon at the recent cit,
election His refusal to dec;oe brings tn
question before the City Council again.