Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-16
OREGON.
OREGON.
Mortgages Can Be Taxed-New Trial Or

Mortgages Can Be Taxed-New Trial Or
dered.
| PORTLAND, May 15sh.-The Supreme
| Court has rendered a decision affirming the
! decision of the State Circuit Court ia the
case of Henrietta S. Msnford vs. W. R.
Jewell, Clerk of Multnomah county. This
sastains the law passed by the last Lsgis-
lature authorizing mortgages to be taxed in
| the county where they are recorded.
In the Gaze of the State vs. Tom Gil.
bert, thu Indian under q death sentence for
the murder of Wapoto Dave, the judgment
was reversed and g new trial ordered.
The Charges Against Chief Lappeus-wys-
tericus Epidemic-Raiiroad Matters.
PORTLAND, May 15sh.-The Council COM
mittee of investigation went to Salem this
afternoon to take the testimony Of Carrie
| Bradley, the murderess, on tho charges
against Chief cffPclice Lappsus. The gen.
eral opinion is that the charges are frivolous,
and have no foundation. Lsppeus continues
in oitica, the Council having refused TO con-
| firm his suspension.
A reliable report reached this city tonight
| that twenty or twenty-five Chirameu, at
work beyond Glendale, on the o. and G. ex-
tension, bad died from eating fat pork. The
hogs had been fattened on the earcasses of
horses which had died during the winter of
| cola ana exposure. Inc ul6u IGll as II IN
epileptic fiss, and died within a few hours.
Il has been decided that the Oregon and
California Railroad Company viii build their
California extension to within two miles
south of the California boundary, the exact
point Of junction to be determined at con-
| ference between Chief Eagin ser Morris, of
the o. and c., and Chief Engineer Mon
tsguo, of the Central Pacific Railroad, late
this month. The o. and G. Company ad.
! vertise this morning for bids for the tunnel
through the Siskiyou mountain. 1t will be
aeIs Immediately north, the longest !. 760, the
shortest $50 feet. The prospects are fstter-
| ing for the completion of the line to the Cal
iforn;a boundary by October. 1884.
Grand Ledge, 4. o. o. F.-Defauiting Elk.
press Agent.
| PORTLAND, May 15th.-The Grand Lodge,
| l, o. O. f., this afternoon elected the follow
| ing officers: R, w. G. NJ, Charles e. ST.
| ton r. w. d. G. M, J. J. Walton r. w.
G. M, W. y. Twedale; Grand Secretary,
| J, NJ. Bacon Grand Treasurer /. r. Mores !;
Grand Representative, S. E. Jorephi. The
Grand Lodge will have charge of laying the
corner stone of the Orphans Home Thursday.
J. F. McCarty, Wells, Fargo & Co. 9 agent
and Justice of the Peace at Sprsgue, w. T.,
has left the country, and is supposed to have
CONS East to Montana. His accounts with
,hs company are $500 short.
The Astoria stabbing Affair-Bropped
Dead.
ASTORIA, May 15th.-Richard Baker, the
sailor runner stabbed by Joseph Hayes in
Hills Varieties Sunday morning last, died
today. A verdict of murder was rendered
| against Hayes by the Coroner's jury.
Charles Bochan, assistant ightkeeper at
Caps Hancock, and brother Of Captain Bo-
chan. the well-known bar pilot, dropped dead
this noon while ascending the hatchway lead
ING from the keepers residence to the light
house, He had but Just returned on the tug
CANDY from visit to Astoria.