, 1889-03-28
= FROM THE WEST.
The Affairs of the OregOnian
Railway TO Be Settled.
A Magnificent Reception to
Governor Moore.
Beardsley Bound Over In $4,000 At Dallas
--Other News and Notes
From the Slope. D.

From tue oEopo'
PORTLAND, March 22.--David Miles Of
Dundee. Scotland, appointed by the courts
there as Official liquidator of the Oregonian
Railway Company, cabled to-day that he
will arrive here in twenty-one days to
wind up rh the soo,hh AFFAIRS s,ooGbodar Gt ths
will reorganize the company and
will have nothing more to do with Oregon
securities since the supreme court of the
United States declared the lease of their
road to the Oregon Railway Il Navigation
Company invalid, but the roads will be
sold for cash paid down, 1t is supposed
some railway company, propably the
Southern Pacific or Oregon Pacific will buy
the road. Three gentlemen have for some
days been walking over the lines of the
Oregonian railway, inspecting condition of
bridges and road bed, out on whose ac.
count or for what purpose cannot be
learned. Receiver q. N Scott will hold
the railway till the United States court
dismisses him. and has made arrangement
with the Portland 4 Willamette railway,
with which the line connects, for a tenn
porary traffic arrangement by which all
freight and fares collected till arrival of
the liquidator, shall be- paid to the em-
ployes of the Oregonian Railway Company.
Receivers certificates and other indebted
ness against the lines amount to 1923 900
which will have to he paid before the
holders of the first mortgage bonds. which
amount to over ii ,0O0, 900, can get any
anything,
PORTLAND, March 81. Special. The
naval commission left to night for Astoria,
where they will board the light tender
Manzinita. now due from the Sound, and
cruise up the Columbia river from its
mouth to Vancouver. They will make a
thorough examination of oil poi nts which
have put in a bid for the naval sta
ton. "a delegation of Vancouver citizens
ed on the commission 10 day and set
forth the advantages of their town as a
site for q naval station.
Mrs. James Hamberton WAS assaulted
and robbed of $500 by a Chinaman on Sew
enth and Harrison streets vt 2 clock this
afternoon. The Chinaman had been fol-
lowing Mrs. Hamberton for some time,
and when she noticed 1t she asked Gim
what he meant, and when she told him to
quit following her he grabbed her purse
and Disappeared.
Mayor DeLashmutt and the city council
are at outs and last night the council
granted the Willamette Falls Electric
Company the contract for lighting the city
tor two years, at rate of Sl5
a month for thlrty-one arc lights and 730
incandescent lights at gross sum of 81.
1892 month. George b. Markle put
in bid for much lower figures so that
the city would save over $4,000
year, but his proposition was ig-
nored To-day Mayor DeLashmutt
vetoed the ordinance, and in his message
treats of the efforts of the council to
reduce municipal expenditures by abolish
ing street cleaning and sprinkling depart
monts. Spasmodic outbursts of economy
and propositions TO reduce expenditures by
the discharge of few laboring men will
be received by the public with gain of al
lowance when bona fde propositions to
save the city large sums of money are
passed lightly by. 1t seems probable that
the ordinance will be passed over the veto.
IL has long been said that X L Morey,
manager of the company, could get any
kind Of legislation he wanted from the
city council and last nights action is not
very strong evidence to the contrary.