Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-27
OREGON.
Adviccs from. YertIand.

PORTLAND, April 266h.-It has been rain
ing steadily here for the past eighteen hours.
The Odd Fellows will celebrate the sixty
second anniversary Of the Order at the New
market Theater this evening by o concert
and ball
The preliminary examination of J. G..
Robson, for the murder of J. w. Robb at
Astoria, yesterday, will take place there this
evening. District Attorney j. +. Caples left
here this morning for the purpose OF con-
Quoting the examination on behalf of the
State. The public feeling against Robson,
for what is regarded an saprovoked, cold
0looded murder, is very strong, and the pris-
oner can hardly hope to escape the extreme
penslty of the law.
A gentleman OF this city has received the
following letter from Secretary Window, un-
der date of April 18th, in response to an in
euiry as to whether pleasure boats are re-
quired to carry lights after dark, under the
recent order from the Treasury Department
1.-The Department has received your letter,
in which you inquire what vessels are in
cluded in the provisions Of the regulations of
the Board of Trade Supervising Inspectors
governing lights on small craft. In reply
you are informed that the rule applies to all
yachts and rowboats which may be navigated
in any fair way or harbor open to commerce."
Wheat is quiet. with quotations at 81 2S(G
l 80 per Genital.
Discovery OF Quartz Mines MansIaugh.
fer-SuicIde e Indian Stabbed - High
Water Strike Against Apprentice
Seuryy.
PORTLAND, April 26th-A party of pros
pectors have Just made discovery of some
very rich quartz mines on Birch creek. in
Waseo county. An assay shows yield of
$50 per ton. There is considerable excite
ment over the discovery.
The case Of the State VS.. Dennis Murphy,
charged with murder in the second degree for
killing James Vickers, near Harney, in Grant
county, last September. has been tried at
Canyon City, and verdict Of manslaughter
rendered. Murphy was sentenced yesterday
to the Penitentiary for period of five years.
On the 9th, a farmer living on Cottonwood
creek, Grant county, named Richard Mas
ceall, committed suicide By taking poison.
He swallowed dose of str7chnine and died
in about two hours, after the most horrible
sufferings He assigned no reason. Masceall
has been in very poor health for some time,
and had made several Intellectual attempts
before to take his life. He leaves wife and
two children at Orc Dell, in Eastern Oregon.
An Indian and white man engaged in an
alteration on the 9th about the possession
of pony The white man drew n pistol
and discharged the weapon, hut the ball
then grappled with bis antagonist in des-
perate struggle and being very wiry and
powerful, threw the former down. The
white man drew knife and stabbed the
Indian seven or eight times about the body
and head, when parties interfered and sepa-
rated the belligerents. The Indians injuries
are very serious. No arrests were made.
The Columbia and Willamette rivers are
both very high and rising rapidly. The
lower wbarves in this city are already inun-
dated.
Fifteen molders, employed at the Oregon
stove foundry, have struck, on the ground
that the company has too many apprentice
boys. The molders asked to have one of the
apprentices discharged, which the company
declined, whereupon they took their tools
and left the foundry. Their places have been
filled by other molders.
Five of the crew on the bark County of
Ayr. that arrived here yesterday, are suffer-
ing dreadfully with scurvy. The sailors com.
plain bitterly of cruelty and inhuman treat
ment during the voyage.