Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-17
say the wheat AMI farley crops indicate .
moe than average yield.
OREGON.
Right of Way Granted Attempt TO XIII
The Doomed Indian.

Right of Way Grantcd-Atfcnspt TO Aili
The Doomed Indian.
PORTLAND, March 16ah.-The County
Court has granted the Oregon Railroad and
Navig alton Company a right of way through
all county wagon.rosds not in the city limits j;
also right of way through Chapman street,
in McMillan's addition, East Portland, and
right of way through Albina.
Mrs, Prout, the divorced wife of William
Prout, was arrested last evening by an officer
while attempting to shoot her divorced hus-
band. She was locked up in jail, where she
said the divorce granted her husband gave
him charge of their child. girl 6 years old.
She tried to gain possession OF the child, tut
be would rot consent, and finding that she
could not get it by begging, or even threaten.
ing, she determined to kill him, and started
out with that intention, after having made
her will. She states that if she is again set
at liberty she will kill him if she hangs for it.
William Prout is an honest, hard-working
German, and got the divorce because she was
a confirmed drunkard.
Ka-Ta-Tab, the Alaska Indian under sem
teuce of death for the murder of two miners
on Stickeen river, early this morning attempt
ed to commit suicide in his cell in the County
Jail. During the hight he tore bis shirt in
strips, and was found this morning By the
Tailor plating them in the form of rope.
fl9 Wuuia AOIuluS dDOOt IL. LAG ." -
taken to o gallery, where a picture OF him
was made. He seemed pleased with it, and
said he believed in Supreme Being, who
would, take care of him after death. He
wants to be hangel SIS soon as possible.
Advlces from Portland.
PORTLAND, March 16sh.-General Stephen
Cofiu, pioneer Of 1S47, died tonight at bis
home in Dayton, Ysmhill county, eyed 70.
| He was once owner of one-third of the ground
on which Portland now stands, and was we'll
known throughout the State.
Mrs Mary Prout, who last night was
| arrested while attempting to shoot her d.
vorced husband. tried to commit suicide in
he, cell in the City Jail this evening by taking
| morphine. She was talking to her former
husband, and fell back hfeless. Upon the
arrival of a physician she was given strong
emetics, with proper restoratives, and in time
to save her life. After being brought to con-
seriousness she said the morphine had been
concealed in her hair when arrested, and she
took it with suicidal intent; that she wanted
| to die.
William Hess was to-day brought TO the
| city in charge of an officer, on complaint of
| John Fuller, who charges Hess with rape,
committed on his daughter. Hess was ar
| raigned in the Justices Court, and held to
| await the action of the Grand Jury in the
| sum OF 81 CUO Inc parties concerned are
| all residents of Yamhill county.
Seven hundred and fifty dollars have been
| sent from this city to Governor Churchill, Of
Arkansas, for the relief of sufferers by the
| food in that State.
Frank White, porter in J. R. Gill & Co. s
| book store, was arrested this evening for en-
bezzling money which he had collected. The
| firm has missed several small sums between
| night and morning, and have proof that
| White tapped the till. He obtained entrance
| to the store by means of an extra key. Satur-
day morning he was discharged, but effected
an entrance to the store by means of key
| this morning. He was discovered as he ap
preached the till
The Oregon Railroad and Navigs ton Com
pany toll night finished the track-laying be-
| tween the Cascades and The Dalles, aud the
| first construction train will run over the road
tomorrow. This branch is forty six miles
| long. and was begun just one year ago.
| Nearly every foot of the grade is through
solid basalt rock, and the construction at
every point was battle with nature. The
| line has eight and quarter miles of bridges,
the cost of which was about 81. 800, 000 It
| will require about two weeks to ballast the
road, when regular trains will be put on. As
last years wheat crop has been moved, the
company will not hurry the construction be-
tween Portland and the Cascades, but will
| have il done by September 1st.