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

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The Doomed Indian.
PORTLAND. March 16sh-The County
Court has granted the Oregon Railroad and
Navigati Company right of way through
all county wagon, roads not in the city limits !;
also right of way through Chapman street,
in McMillans 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 bus-
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 or the child, but
be would not consent. aud 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 Prous is an honest, hard-working
German, and got the divorces because she was
confirmed drunkard.
Ka-Ta-Tah, the Alaska Indian under SEN
teuce of death for the murder OF two miners
on Stickesn river, early this morning attempt
ed to commit suicide in his cell in the County
Jail. During the night he tore his shirt in
strips, and was found this morning by the
Jsiior plating them in the form of rope.
He would say nothing about it. He was
taken to gallery, where 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 hanee IS soon as possible.
Advfces from Portland.
PORTLAND, March 16sh.-General Stephen
| Coffin, pioneer Of 1S47, died tonight at his
home in Dayton, Yamhill county, eyed 73.
| 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 di-
vorced husband, tried to commit suicide in
her csll in the City Jail this evening by taking
morphine. She was talking to her former
husband, and fell back ifeless. Upon the
arrival of 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 de-
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
| ouh "a SisNOo LIZ PaAsiSo SVASciACu olO
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 to- 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 a battle with nature. The
| line has eight and quarter miles of bridges,
the cost of which was about 50. 800, 600. 1t
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 it done by September 1st.