Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-08

Advices from Portland.
PORTLAND, June 7th.JThere are fifteen
horses now in training at the Hillsboro fail
grounds, Washington county. Most of these
animals will take part in the races at the
State Fair, to open July 4th.
The Grangers Of Linn county will hold
their annual picnic tomorrow at Lebanon.
Special rates have been secured over the rail.
way lines, and an immense crowd is antici.
pated.
D. d. Gray, aged 70 years, died yesterday
at his home in Albany. Deceased came to
the State thirty years ago, and was one of
the honored pioneers of Oregon.
Colonel Hulburts party of railroad sur.
veyors in Southern Oregon, having succeeded
in establishing practicable line for the road
bed north, are now surveying south of Sum-
NIT canyon. 1t is said the surveyors will
fud less difficulty in establishing grade On
the south than on the north side of the sum.
nit.
To-day the Board Of Directors of the Ore
gon Railroad and Navigation Company ap-
proved the location from Portland to The
Dalles. and from Umatilla to Baker City,
made BY the Chief Engineer. Duplicate
copies Of all maps and surveys will be for
warded by mail to the Interior Department
for approval.
A private telegram iAs been received here
from Samuel Wilkesen, Secretary Of the
Northern Pacific, stating that the Directors
of the company will hold meeting on
Thursday, the 9th instant and that the indi-
cations pointed to the election of H. B.
Ledyard, of Detroit, General Manager of the
Michigan Central, as President. and I. T..
Oakes as First Vice-President This informa-
tion is construed to mean that the manage
ment of the eastern divisions of tie road will
be under Ledyard, and the western divisions
under Oakes.
Hon. -Elwood Evans. of Tacoma, has ac-
cepted sn invitation to deliver an Grafton in
this city on the Fourth of July.
N. Dickson, indicted for uttering forged
gold note, entered plea of guilty this after
noon in the State Circuit Court, and was sen.
The City Republican Central Committee
has issued call for primaries to be held on
the 18th instant.
The City Convention is called to meet on
the 10th instant.
Rev. C. G. Stratton, President of the Ubi.
versity of the Pacific, will arrive on the next
| steamer from California. He will deliver an
address to the graduating class at Umpqua
| Academy on the 10th, and also deliver the
| Baccalaureate address at the commencement
| exercises of the Willamette University.
| w HiAo oaIAcS l.. DoOSCs WiiC duu sOii WcIt
on the way to camp-meeting near Wilbur
Douglas county, yesterday, their team rar
away and upset the wagon. Dodge and wifi,
were thrown ont and run over, both being
| very seriously hurt, the woman's injuries
| being considered fatal. The son escaped with
very slight injuries.
Frank Mayer, deserter from Camp Bid
well, in Grant county, was drowned on the
9Th. He was fording the north fork of the
John Day river, when his horse stumbled
and fell. Mayer was caught under the ami.
NAL and drowned.
General Joel Palmer. an old pioneer of the
State, is reported dying at his home in Day
ton, Yamhill county. General Palmer came
to Oregon in 1877. He was General of the
Territorial militia at the time of the mas.
sacre of DIR. Whitman and family near
Walla Walla, in 1S49, and also filled the po-
sition Of Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
PORTLAND, June 7th.-A. NJ. Anatoni, OF
Columbia county, w. T., had twenty five
acres of grain swept off in few days by an
army of hungry crickets. The insects moved
in straight column, turning neither to the
right nor left for rivers, grain fields or noun
tains, devouring every vestige of vegetation.
A logger named Smith fell from boom OF
logs on the upper Willamette yesterday, and
was drowned.
The wool clip of Umatilla county is ex-
pected to exceed by 200, 900 pounds that OF
last year.
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