Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-04
Races ut HillsbOrO-Omcers Reelected
Railroad Building in Montana.

PORTLAND, July 3j.-The Hillsboro races
to-day resulted as follows Trotting, $50
class, three in FIVE, Maggie Arnold FIRST
Stranger second. Time, 2:39{-2:S9l
2:39-2:4O. In the three quarter dash for
| $500, Jim Merritt won, Joe Howell second.
Kemrick third. Time, 1:17-the fastest time
ever made on the track.
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com.
| pany Directors held their first meeting to-
day. and reelected all the old officers.
A Cabinet Landing Mont special says :
The large through cut, 500 feet long, contain
ing over "a, 900, 900 yards of rock and gravel,
commenced May 18th, was finished on the
10Th. and rails laid across Clarks Fork yes
terday morning. The track reached Cabinet
Landing in the evening, and is progressing at
the rate of two miles per day.
Fatal Feud-Two Boys Shot.
PORTLAND, July Sd.-Joe Laws, the boy
shot at the same time his brother Lee was
killed, Saturday morning, June 24sh, died
Thursday morning at Linkville, of his inju-
ries. This is the fifth life lost in the Laws
Calavan diffiulty, and the feud may not yet
be ended. Lee was 10 years old, and Joe IA.
They were at their fathers cattle ranch, just
over the State line in California, together
with a younger brother and Frank Wilson.
The cabin stands near Rim Rock, about
thirty feet distant, beyond which the assas-
sins 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.
Horse Thieves Shot by Officers One
Killed and Another BADLY Wounded.
PORTLAND, July 3d.-Tte thieves who
stole two horses from }. S. Cochran. of Ore
gan City, last week, were traced to barn
naar will OIL roiIau of Sa1ar,
yesterday. The Deputy Sheriffs of Marion
and Clackamas counties, with FIVE men armed
with shotguns and rifles, went to the barn.
The thieves, two in number, were leaving the
barn on horses. and were ordered to halt /;
but they fired. and put their horses to full
run. The officers were also mounted, and
started in pursuit, firing rapidly. The FORE
most thief, after proceeding about $50 yards,
fell dead, pierced by seventeen buckshot.
The second disappeared in neighboring
wheat field, but soon shouted for aid. He
was brought to Salem, where an examination
showed that he had seven buckshot in his
back, two in his arm and one in his knee.
His recovery is thought to be impossible
The name of the dead man is Jack Hite. and
his companion is Mickey Chambers. Both
were ex-convicts.
Running the Observation-Disclosures Traffic.
PORTLAND, July 3d.-Yesterdsy wharf
boat $50 feet long and 30 feet wide, formerly
used at The Dalles, was brought over the
Cascades of the Columbia without an acct
dent. She drifted down stern foremost,
with two chain cables dropped over the bow.
The large barge Atlas and the steamer
Mountain Queen will be brought over We'd
nesday.
In the six months ending june 9Osh, the
| Oregon Railway aud Navigation Company
steamships brought from San Francisco 4, 176
cabin and II, 500 steerage passengers. Total,
1858. During the same six months last
year the passengers from San Francisco num-
bered 2.197 cabin and 1866 Storage passen.
gers. Total, 1852. The outgoing passengers
| during the past six months numbered {:
Cabin, IA; steerage, 497. Total 1,241.
Fatal Blast.
PORTLAND, July 3d.-By the firing of a
blast on the o. r. and 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 children, who lived
across the river from the scene of disaster.
John Mead, man aged 60. had leg crushed
so that amputation was necessary. He is
from California, and has large family.