, 1888-10-25

was found to be unarmed after being shot.
| He was picked up as soon as he fell and
neither pistol nor knife was found on his
person. Why he should have advanced to
his death, in the face of warning, is diff
cult to understand. Marion HodRton. the
young brother implicated in the stealing,
is now in Jail at Oregon City.
TACOMA, Oct 18, special to The RE-
w.--The hearing of the cases of the
Chinese coming from Alaska will take
place on Monday.
Judge Allyn to-day dissolved the iniunc-
tion granted two years ago, which re-
strained the Northern Pacific from inter-
fering with the Postal Telegraph Com.
pany's poles and wires along its right of
way. The court holds that the poles must
be removed. The case will be appealed to
the supreme court.
At a meeting of the city council petit
tion from the saloon keepers asked for
the repeal or modification of the Sunday
ordinance passed at the last meeting.
ALBANY. Oregon, Oct. lS, Special to
The REvIEw-The damage suit of DR.. +.
A. McAlister against the City of Albany,
for $l2, 800, will come up next week. The
doctor drove into sewer in the process of
construction at which no light was placed
at night and received bad injuries and pc
cuniary damage for the loss of his team,
for which he demands the above amount.
The city will vigorously defend the case,
setting forth that the doctor was not so
badly Injured "a represented.
HELENA, Oct. 49, Special to THE RE.
vIEw.--F. M. Mathes, late proprietor of
the Cosmopolitan hotel barber-shop in
Helena, con: mitted suicide at Garrison
this morning by shooting himself through
the left temple. Marital troubles are
assigned as one cause. Another is that
ne had recently returned from trip to
Germany and France and a French
woman. who accompanied him, deserted
him at st. Paul on their return. He had
$500 on his person.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20, Special to
The REVIEW. --Stambaul won the grand
national stallion stakes at the Bay Dis
trict Park to-day, taking the second, third
and fourth heats. The first heat was won
by Woodruff. Antevoto was the only other
starter, Time, 2:l7 for each heat. The
event excited deep interest and attracted
crowd of 10 000
NEW COMPANY FORMED.
The sugar pine trust have formed the
Gray's Harbor Commercial Company, to
engage in the shipping and lumbr busi-
ness, towing vessels in and out of this port.
The capital is 100000
TAXING THE EMPLOYEES.
The employees of the postotiice are being
assessed for the democratic campaign
fund. IL is declared that $4,000 have
been raised by these means.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. l9, Special to The
REvIEw.--A partial investigation to-day
n. IL.
gers of the steamer Begic, who obtained
writs of habeas corpus on the ground of
being merchants restrained of their lib
erty contrary to the provisions of the
exclusion act, showed that in a number of
cases the applicants were laborers in the
meaning Of the Scott bill, and that the
writs had been falsely sworn to by a GER
tain Chinese society. AS no description
has been taken of the latter it is impossi-
BILE to identify and arrest them for per-
jury. Put the holders of the writs falsely
sworn to will be examined before Judge
Sawyer tomorrow.
Collector Hagar this afternoon ordered
ninety Chinese laborers from Alaska to be
landed, having received instructions to
that effect from Washington.
The steamer Zealandia sails tomorrow
for Australia with twelve carloads Of Ore
gon apples.
General o. 0. Howard beads the move
ment to raise S75, 900 in this city for the
benefit of the child widows of India.
Fifty thousand dollars has already been
subscribed.
PoRT TOWNSEND, Oct. 20. Special to
| THE REvIEw.--The disclosures made in
the customs house here by Special Agent
| Crawley has caused much uneasiness
among the officials generally. 1t is be-
lieved that some one connected with the
old regime has been giving information
to the department. Wild reports are
flying and lively developments may be
| expected.
PoRr townsend, w. T., Oct. Is, Spe.
cial to The REvIEw.--The steamship
Ancon left for Tacoma tonight with the
| Chinese passengers brought down from
Alaska. Writs of habeas corpus will be
sworn out before Judge Allyn at Tacoma
to test the legality of the collectors deci.
sion. The steamship company will
endeavor to be recompensed for the deten-
| sion here.
SALEM, Ore, Oct 10, Special to The
REVIEW Charles d. Smith. farmer of
Silverton, who assaulted a Chinaman with
q pitch-fork and nearly killed him. was
acquitted to-day. The jury seemed to
think that one Chinaman more or less
made but little difference.
| sMALL-PoX.
A case of smallpox has developed at the
residence of +. X. Matthew, near Butter
vile. The patient is a girl named Baker
and she is from McMinnville. There is
much excitement in the neighborhood.
BIG LAND CLAIM.
Governor Pennoyer has forwarded tc