The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-19
PORTLAND ITEMS.

the insane asylum by Judge Stearns.
kSIt is rumored that the work of the Term
inal Company at Albina is practically
stopped.
The wife OF Jailor Dougherty is lying
very i'll at her residence, with infiammatory
rheumatism.
The members of the City Guard, @. S. NJ,
East Portland, organized rife team on
the 10th inst.
Cinnamon are beginning to take posses
sion of the Sherlock block, corner of Sec
ond and Oak streets.
John O'Brien was jailed recently on
charge Of stealing two cooked ducks from
the Capital restaurant
Much complaint is heard of late in re-
gard to the employment of Chinese by con-
tractors having city work.
Al Webster, alias Fried, is accused of
stealing an overc0at from the international
hotel belonging to c. Signor.
The evidence cleaned in the Bloxam-
Fisher homicide, has a tendency to show
that the murder was premeditated.
Murray, the murderer of Yanke, still
retains his self-possession, and appears
cool and Indifferent to his surroundings.
One of Uncle Sans boys in blue, while
in drunken condition, fell through a
plate-glass window at the Esmond Hotel.
1t is understood the saloon keepers will
give up the fight and pay the fines assessed
against them for running without license.
The Northwest News and Daily Standard
are having it hot and heavy. They charge
each other with publishing unreliable
news.
A Chinaman plead guilty in Justice
Greene's court recently to having quail in
his possession out of season. He was
fined $1O
Thomas Brennan, the well known Irish
leader, at present in California, will shortly
visit this and other cities in the Pacific
Northwest.
Elsasser the man who mutilated himself
on the 5th inst, has become paralyzed on
one side and has lost his hearing. He will
probably die.
An emigrant, just from Dakota, while
crossing the ferry at Aibina, made mis-
step and fell into the river. He was
promptly rescued
Mrs. Mulkey, mother of the Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney, is lying quite i'll at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Arm
strong in this city.
Sneak thieves have been doing a great
deal of mischief of late in this city. Mrs.
f. Deas, 231 Sixth street, lost valuable
cloak in that manner on the Sth.
A Chinaman lately arrived here from
New York, bringing with him a white wo-
man as his wife, and is the second one in
this city who has white spouse.
The announcement that Tacoma was to
be the western terminus of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, did not create as much
excitement here as was thought it would.
Mrs. Burtenshaw, suffering from abiect
poverty, died ON the 8th inst, after having
given birth to still-born child. She did
not make known her condition until too
late.
A boy named Raabe, aged ii years, com
plains that Charles Hamlin, an overgrown
brute, had kicked and abused him, on the
10th inst, because he had presented bill
long over due.
The County Court refused to allow ex-
Sheriff Buchtefs claim, of between 81, ,00C
and $3.0O0 for the maintenance of prison.
ers and other expenses incurred by him
while an official.
j. Kohn, an old and well known citizen
of Portland, died at his residence, January
10th, of paralysis of the heart. Deceased
was So years of age and resident of this
city for the last thirty years.
Della Wilson, young woman of ques
tionable character, and young man named
w. III. Mohler, were locked up for quarrel
ing on the streets. Mohler claims the wo
man defrauded him out of some money.
A shooting affray occurred near the Red
house, january 10th, between Thomas Cor
nelius and Edward Lawrence, resulting in
the latter being shot in the neck, inflictine
serious but not necessarily fatal wound
In the County Court recently petition
was presented by d. E. Budd, asking for
permission to constructa street railroad or
tramway on the Macadam road from the
Red house to the city limits The petition
was granted.
The attorneys in the breach of promise
case wherein Clara M. Woods and DIR. G..
HI. Davis are respectively plaintiff and de-
fendant are busy at work preparing the
papers for the defendants appeal to the
Supreme Court.
True bills have been found by the grand
jury against Fred Hoyt, for stealing an
Overcoat from THEODORE Lee; Martin Joyce,
accused of $2.45 from G.. c. Brown, and
Charles Wilson, charged with the larceny
of $344.24.
Charles Christy, clerk to the Chief of Po-
lice, has, in response to an order, just had
a large number of blanks printed, to be
used by physicians in reporting births,
deaths and all contagious diseases within
the corporate limits.
Preston Notte & Co. have applied to the
State Circuit Court for an order to restrain
Hyman Gallick from confessing any more
Judgment, and also that William Gallick,
J. III. Heilbruner and William Friedlander
be restrained from taking any more.
The Gutta Percha Rubber and Manu-
featuring Company have begun suit in the
State Circuit Court, against Sheriff Sears,
to recover their warant from the city of
East Portland, which he holds upon writ
of attachment issued to Joe Buchtel
A suit was begun in the State Circuit
Court recently by B. Sylvester to recover
$3.50, loaned TO Mrs. Katy Wagner, pro-
prietress of the Baldwin lodging house in
this city. Mrs. Wagner denies the claim
and win contest the case in the courts.
On the morning of the 1st, collision
occurred between two hacks driven by
Thomas Fitxgibbon and p. III. Baugher.
Fitzgibbon was thrown violently to the
ground, receiving an ugly cash on the fore
head and rendered insensible for several
hours.
Quan Sue Chung, the Chinaman who was
accused of the larceny of some chickens
belonging to Gustavus Stein, had an ex.
animation in the police court on the 10th.
and was exOnerated from all blame, as the
real culprit was found to be a pressman by
the name of G. ID. GARDENER.
John Mccoy was dangerously stabbed
during a drunken brawl at Westport on
New Years day. He has bad wound be-
low the heart, another below the right lung
and several others in various places. He
Is aG tDe OSs tuCcuO 11GSpttttl, dIil II Is
feared the wounds will prove fatal.
Dornee, the young man who was brought
from Coquille on a charge of robbing the
mail, was not sent home by the State.
He was penniless when he reached this
city, and as his expenses were not allowed
he had no means of getting back United
States Marshal Kearney gave him So and
another man 81, and with this he started
for home on foot, about $50 miles away.
A party of four or five men, drunk and
very hilarinl1S were cnnprepafad ON the