Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-04-18
IEGRAPHIC NEWS
~ INTERESTING CASE.

w,su1SeToN, April II. The sec
rstsry of the Interior has rendered 1s.a,,
T,s ,oision in the case of the Villa
,otte Valley and Cascade Mountain
,y.aon ,I, road Company of Oregan vs..
NH "a A. Morton. On July 8, 1875,
'O o0gress made grant to this COM
's nv twelve miles in width and ex-
ding across th. state. Soon there
Yaor the Commissioner of the Gen.
..I land Office sent to each local
pa office notice that the lands
itbin the grant were withdrawn
element and entry. The notice
sd-sssed to the land office at La
c.onde district was never received;
.,ber was the fact of its non
..ceipt known at the General Land
ns,cs until June 19, 1888. In the
o,n time q large number Of set
,lors among them Morton, settled
uDon the land.
IN March 3, 1889, Congress passed
,.w directing SUIT to be brought
% forfeit this and certain other
rants. The Wagon Road Com
o.nv PAR held that the jurisdiction of
,bo Interior Department was ousted
hy the act, and also that the land
was actually withdrawn from settle
meut and entry by the act of the
commissioner of the General Land
oRs signing and mailing the no
acp of withdrawal.
The secretary holds to the con-
tay, however, on both points and
directs that no patent be issued to
tbe company pending suit under the
act of March I'd. This decision in
favor of Morton practically decides
large number of similar cases in
tbe La Grande district.
IN WE'D AN ABoLITIoNIsTS' GRAND
son.
NETWORK, April 1.-THE crown
ing event of the great rebellion is
at hand. The engagement is an
nounced of Miss Winnie Davis, the
eldest daughter Of Jefferson Davis,
late President of the Southern Con-
federacv, to Alfred Wilkinson, of
Syracuse, a grandson of Samuel j.
Nav. the great abolitiOnist lender.
The event is of more than ordinary
significance, owing to its bearing on
the outbreak and fall of the rebel
lion. This marriage, when accom-
plished, will unite two families that
have been heretofore the most inn
placable political foes, and to whose
efforts the fierceness and fervor of |
the rebellion was largely due.
THE PLOT THICKENS.
BRANTFORD, Ont, April ia !
discovery which may further COM
plicate the Burchell murder case
has been made. The name F. G.
BeDwell on the hotel register sup
posed to have been written by |
Burchell's victim, it is now learned,
was placed there by another young
Engishman of the same name, who
came to this country II few weeks
before the Princeton tragedy. AS
Burchell has insisted that the sup
posed murderer Benwell is still
alive, an effort will now be made to
identify the murdered man as the
one who registered here.
A STRONG TICKET AND PLATFORM.
ALBANY, Or, April lS.-Prom-
lnent republicans here interviewed
agreed that the ticket nominated is
a strong one, and is composed of
popular men who will command the
respect and support of a good
healthy majority in June. The
platform, it is acknowledge, is a bold,
sensible document, which speaks
out on the questions of Interest to
the state in no uncertain manner.
Several prominent democrats admit
ted that there are some good men on
the ticket whom they do not wish to
see defeated.
COwARDLY MURDERERS.
JACKSON, Miss, April l7.-Gov-
ernOr Stone has been notified Of
horrible assassination in Laurence
county, thirty miles from this city. !
The stable of Jerry Bass, colored |
man, was fired by unknown parties
and when Bass and his son Charles
went 10 eXtinguish the flames,
they were fired on in the dark
ness. The boy was killed and
Bass was badly wounded. Their
dwelling-house was then burned to
the ground. There is no clue to the
A reward has been Of
sered for their capture and convie-
don.
HUNTINGTON HAS A coVETOUS EYE
ON THE OREGON PACIFIC.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1T.-C. p.