Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-04
PACIFIC COAST.


PACIFIC COAST.
from OuP Portland CssFespenAens.
PosTLASD, June 3.-Af the Hillsboro
races today, trotting. 2:5O class, three in
nve, Maggie Arnold's record was 2. 2, L,
IL, and Strangers, l, l, 2, 2. 2; Time,
2:3SA4. 2:3S1<, 2:37. 2:39, 2:4o. Thee-quar-
ter dash. $500; Jim Merritt won, Joe
Howell second, Remrick third: Time.
l:l7, the fastest ever made on the track.
The .. h. & n. directors held their
1rst meeting today, and reelected all
the old officers.
A Cabinet Landing special says the
large through cut, 500 foot long, con.
tanning over 4.0O0 yards of rock and
gravel, commenced May 11th, was fin
ished June 18th. Rails were laid across
Ciark's fork yesterday morning. The
track reached Cabinet Landing in the
evening, and is progressing at the rate
of two miles per day.
Joe LAWS, the boy that was shot
the same time his brother Lee
was killed on the Saturday morning,
June 2ith, died Thursday morning at
Linkville of his injuries. This is the
fifth life lost in the Laws-Col. Avan diff
ficulty, and the feud may not yet be
endei. Low was IS, and Joe IA. They
were at their fathers ranch, Just over
the State line in California together with |
a younger brother and Frank Wilson. |
The cabin stands near a rock, about 30
feet distant, behind which the assassins |
secreted themselves during the night. |
When the boys came out of the cabin |
they commenced firing. Wilson and the |
youngest Laws escaped unhurt, though |
several shots barely missed them.
The thieves who stole the horses from |
J. I. Cochran, of Oregon City, last
week, were tracked to barn near Swartz
Mill, six miles east of Salem. Yesterday |
Deputy Sheriffs of Marion and Clacka-
mas counties, with five men armed with |
shOtguns and rifles, went to the barn
The thieves, two III number, were leaving |
the barn on horses. They were ordered |
to halt. but fired and put their horses to
the full run. The officers were also
mounted, and started in pursuit. firing
rapidly. The foremost thief, after pro-
ceeding about 159 ya:ds, fell dead,
pierced by IL buckshot. The second dis
appeared in q neighboring wheat field,
but soon shouted for aid. He was brought |
to Salem, where an examination showed
he had seven buckshot in the back, two
in the arm and one in the knee. His re-
covery is thought to be impossible. The
name of the dead man is Jack Hite !;
his companion is Micky Chambers.
Both were ex-convicts. This affair is |
an exact duplicate of the one reported |
last night from Linkville.
Yesterday the wharf boat, go feet |
long, and fifty feet wide, formerly used |
at the Dalles, was brought over the Cas- |
oades of the Columbia without accident. !
She drifted down stern foremost, with a |
2-chain cable dropped over the bow.
The large barge Atlas, and the steamer |
Mountain Queen will be brought over on |
Wednesday.
The State of California arrived to- |
night.
In the six months ending June 3Oth |
the U. II. K N. Co.'S steamship brought |
from San Francisco 4,7l6 cabin, and H. |
800 steerage passengers total, 1Cy685.
During the same six months last year
the passengers from San Francisco were
2,197 cabin, and 1866 steerage total s. |
s52. Outgoing passengers during tho
past six months were: cabin, ia steer |
age, 497; total 1,241.
BY the firing of blast ON the o. H. &
N. Road, near Table Rock, j. Hart was
struck in the side by a rock weighing
four pounds, and killed. He leaves a
wife and eight ch ldren who live across
the river from the scene of tho disaster.
John Mead, man aged 65 years, had
leg crushed so that ambutation was
necessary. He is from California. and
has large family.
suicidea.
MARYsvIrLE, (Cal.), July B. Porter
p. Polly, a policemen in Chinatown.
committed suicide yesterday, by shoot
ing himself through the head. Do
mestic troubles are supposed to be the
| caase.