Show BY TELEGRAPH 3 etoy LUM A AMERICAN X F R I 1 C A N CHICAGO ll 11 president villiard 1 or of the oregon railway and navigation company has just issued ills bis annual report to the stockholders jt it la Is shown in his report the company has during the past year constructed ted miles of standard etan etau dard gauge road and before january lat next mr villard expects that fully miles of new road will be completed and in active operation there has haa been constructed 1461 1464 fiset feet of howe ho we truss and feet of trestle and the large bridge over 0 ver per snake river biver two miles below tex tecsi ferry pe ppe benting renting an aggregate length ot of 1415 feet deet and is now in process of con eit fit ruction all ali questions of right of way have been settled at comparatively small cost ao to the company and with scarcely any litigation right bight of way across the umatilla indian reservation Be on the baker city line vi was as amicably settled at a council by an agreement on the part of the company to baythe in deans per acre for all wild lands and per acre for all cultivated bands land necessary for the roadway and depot grounds located within the Te xe the whole cost of which will be about 13 when all oe e li verles veries behall i 1 ave been made under existing contracts the railroad equipment of the company will consist of 51 locomotives IS 18 passenger cars four pullman sleeping cars awo iwo baggage cars two combined mail and express cars oc covered freight cars care flat cars 1100 HOO blick avick cars 40 hand cars care there was expended doirin during 9 the year ifor railroad const 4 3 for other construction for railroad equipment for other equipments the various lines op crated ly by this company re represent resent a tolaf total of 1591 miles total receipts from all sources during the year were 0 total traffic gross grose earnings S operating exit expenses rises including nud taxes showing a met tiet earning of for 1879 80 luor responding corresponding results were gross earning operating expenses 1 pen ses net earnings A against gerand mer ger merand 4 and tons of freight car ried in 1879 80 thelio thuie were carried in 1880 81 passengers and 1025 tons of freight showing an increase crease crewe of passengers and tons of freight the report enlarges so 21 ebbat on the cons consolidation ollda Te recently cantly effected with the northern pacific railroad Bail road rond and the of the contracting power over ix b th carp corporations orations to a third corporation po ration the oregon and trans continental railroad Bail road having an authorized zed capital of mr air villard expresses the conviction that the large properties interest of this company in the other companies nies is the best guarantee gua kua antee to the latter that its power will be exercised to promote their legitimate develop anent to tho the fullest extent or in in other ether words that the new company can only promote its own interest as a great holder of oregon railroad and navigation c and northern pad tie stocks by taking the iest test I 1 esl est care of every ethen ether other othen stockholder in both companies the tribunes trl Tri bunga bunea washington specia this morning says grants overshadowing influence in we the new administration is 18 generally regarded here as the first gun in the dwar fare lare which blaine and the anti stalwarts intend opening on the president your adent has been grant with reference to these several allegations gat ions and as its a matter of i interest not less than of justice to himself and the president it may be said he be denounces them as false and malicious he says he has not sought in any way to influence the eres Tres president ident in the manner imputed to him bim attorney general macveagh came on from philadelphia ins las last t night might to see the tho president and returned as soon as the interview which was a pio puo tract d one was over the talk is that the foresight of the president in insisting that macveagh shall not retire from the cabinet until there was a finality of these prosecutions has been abundantly vindicated there where is a conference of trades unions held here to for the purpose of taking steps to issue an address to the trades union of england france germany and the un united I 1 states calling attention to the condition of the laborers in ireland A mass meeting to further the project will be bg called soon WASH washington ll 11 Gen genc Gent bumont dumont inspector general of fu alsing steamboats ts in his bis annual report recommends that the board of supervising per ging inspectors be abolished instead of which the secretary of the treasury will be empowered to convene a mixed committee composed ot of supervising local and assistant inspectors to examine and report to him upon the efficiency of anything to be used upon steamships which requires his approval general du mont suggests the advisability of appointing supervising local and asi sostant sis tant inspectors by the secretary of cf the treasury and nomination each case cate of an immediate superior officer of each grade thereby properly holding each superior officer responsible for general finish and ef nici fici ency ot of his immediate subordinates also alao giving a superior officer power to suspend any subordinate pending investigation of charges by the secretary of the treasury for incompetency incompetence neglect of duty or misbehavior of a subordinate As u upon the faithful performance of the zoy duty by officers of this service depend the ilves livet i of millions of people and the safety of an incalculable amount of property the necessities of dealing promptly and summarily ith any to whomever suspicion at baches of neglect of duty must be conceded A file of the office records one experience exper ienco when 15 valuable human lives livis were the penalty n ty paid for continuing the duties of one negligent officer pending examination of the charges of remissness of duty in a case where lives were lost MERIDEN mass lithe II 11 the correct story of the shooting at the polls is that while the state slate elec lion was progressing at marion iu in this coun county ty joseph barrett an aged white having J just voted was in suited by a negro at the polls barrett raised his arm to resent it with a blow some say he drew a stick on t e negro but before he could strike frank johnson shot him in the neck severing the jugular vein and killing him instantly geo johnson an colored f a of barrett ran up to defend his old master masters and was shot by a negro and he died today to day general shooting among the negroes commenced the whites being all unarmed jeff jen segars a white was killed by a negro named sam gillespie vance riegers was wounded and is expected to die alex aiex A lex lez harve harveya harveys va democratic candidate for county assessor while 60 50 yards from the scene was rushed upon by the negroes and killed being shot through the head he was shot shob in the face by frank johnson atter after he wa i dead jame james Q hodges white was wounded in the hand band the negroes doing the shooting were gillespie prank frank johnson joh Job alien allen brown and martin malone they were from another precinct will vine white republican is said to have given the order to the thene ne groes to begin bring firing As soon as the news reached meriden six miles distant great excitement was manifested the sherif sheriffs ts experience with them has been detailed already several rioters have been captured and jailed A circus is in town today and the streets a are crowden crow erow deti deil with peaceable negroes the rhefus fus ionis ion lon fats fals ts doctrine for the negroes to carry pistols at the polls was the cause of this disturbance vances house was the headquarters of the white republicans 12 the Commer commercial ciar bulletin says the shipments of california wheat which have been so J large arge this season are attracting much attention at ahe the produce exchange it is said by a p prominent prominent romi nent wheat dealer that the increase is due in part to the fact that while eastern speculators have been holding wheat at high prices the californians fonn forn ians lans have been quietly dispensing of their wheat and while exportation in the ati antio is very dull at ban baja francisco vessels are crowding for freights and yet berth room is in demand said a prominent a ship 11 ip owners owner sailing vessels finding no grain charters here and few at other atlantic parts and unwilling to change into oil carriers have bee been n turning their attention to san fran eran francisco cisco business the recent hotel botel elevator accident here creates a genera general feeling of uneasiness it is estimated that three hundred thousand people ride daily sundays excepted in our elevators the sun says there are about boo passenger pas elevators in new york and that among all the passenger end and nd freight elevators eleva tors tora in the city and neigh one wire rope break on an average each week and the car is caught by the safety break without any accident it is many years since a car ciar missed its ita hold and fell to tb the a bottom the tribune says the history la Is published of an attempt by our government to get possess possession loti of the assets belonging to botho tho the confederate government abroad these assets are the same as those on which the recent speculation in confederate bonds was based various contracts appear to have been made at wash ington within the past 20 years to pay liberally Hber ally alJy for any such property reserved and turned over to the united states but as the net result tile the government has only thus far applicable to the payment of the bonds can hardly be a very larger one the recovery of even required a gigantic effort a 60 50 per cent contract and the services of a commissioner and a treasury agent who between them collected confederate property which brought in lo oooo from this they were obliged to deduct for expenses of the collections and a rival contractor Is said to claim that this recovery was made on evidence for which he la is entitled to be paid so that it Is too early yet to feel sure how government Is going to come comer out in the end an inventory of the assets shows that there are in europe and in the united states or oooo in all of this in good hard money is deposited to the credit of the rebel government in vienna berlin frankfort on the main ams amsterdam ter dam paris earis and london but cannot be reached trains were delayed by a snow storm for nearly thirty six hours it has ha been snowing hard in western ka sas colorado and new mex mexico fco ico from laken west to pue jo io etere sire are from six to eight inches of snow while from lajunta west there are from IS 18 to 20 inches the cuts are full and a strong wind drifting it bad badly y this is the heaviest snow storm in ih new mexico and colorado that the santa fe road has ever encountered CHICAGO 12 neil nell N ell eli gue of minnesota an explorer w who ba has spent several y aars ars in the pine pint and mineral region of north wis conlin conon and michigan some time ago discovered a vein of mineral in Onto co county t on th the e survey of the milwaukee 1 lake shore and western railway which assays essays 60 per cent lead and 15 ounces of silver to the ton he and his associates embracing pro eminent capitalists of Minne minnesota bota eota and wisconsin have purchased 40 nere acre from the government and have also purchased two adjoining forties at arrangements are pending for the formation of a syndicate in which milwaukee capitalists and everal several heavy capitalists of boston and stillwater still water will be represented for the purpose of purchasing between and sections of land in the vicinity all of it supposed to be rich in mineral mr gilles esti estl mates the value af the first 40 located at fayette PAYETTE vini VILI IV va 11 henry jenkins was hanged at I 1 today to day for the murder of winfield win nield field saunders Ba at Nutt on now river may 16 ih last his supposed motive being robbery both were miners and worked together A large crowd was in town all night to witness the execution t the 0 ga gallows aws being ng located ted to give a 9 good vie view to 2000 spectators the hawks a ka nest est rifles were brought out but no disturbance occurred the prisoner was baptized and made a partial confession he was composed on the scaffold and died without a struggle SAN FRANCISCO 11 ll at modesto a fire this afternoon destroyed the modesto hotel and a number of stores and manufacturing establishments the loss will aggregate about the remains of A H R chapman a sheep herder were found in the ruins of the modesto hotel the explosion of a quantity of powder in one of the stores and of cartridges in the shooting gallery in which the fire originated scattered the crowd and checked the efforts to extinguish the flames no one was injured by the explosion insurance light II 11 about three weeks ago three men representing themselves to be kentucky meers officers off appeared appeared here purporting ur porting to be after harvex harvey arvey purnell Pur purnell neil nerl a barn in kentucky they reported they had come upon purnell Pur neil pell and after affer firing some shots had hut captured him am slightly wounded they re crossed the river and as purnell was missing the story was waa believed it now appears purnell was murdered and by this ruse the murderers es galveston 11 the pews austin special says the old state house was di covered on fire and in an hour and a half the building was completely gutted the walls are standing apparently uninjured the fire originated in the basement back baek acom used for storing reports of the supreme court in the north side of the building the fire when discovered had been eating its way above and through the 8 speaker ake st room the amke from the burning rnino books had been observed fourr pouring out of the chimney in denso dense volu volumes long before it was supposed that the building was on fire the records of the different offices were generally saved but much scattered and damaged by the rain falling at the time seme ten thousand dollars worth of revised statutes the state library worth woith forty thousand and the furniture of the legislative chambers portraits and paintings on the wall altogether worth twenty thousand with building worth perhaps a hundred and fifty thousand the total loss NEW YORK 12 the suns troy dispatch at about 6 this ev evening en says saja A large skiff owned by glies uiles leroy of port fort Bc Sc huylo drew near on this side of the river to take residents of west troy employed at burden mills to their homes the night was dark and owing to a strong south wind antl and recent rains the waves were of unusual height and the river very high As near as can be learned the were in the skiff skin giles lemoy leroy his son henry francis riley biley and his son garrett thomas mayon and his son thomas john lever thomas fox john stevenson john keys milo hatch george hay fleming trimble imbie Tr james D amond win oneil oneill michael michaei mc ale ibi INI alion mabon and three others names not ascertained when the boat had almost reached the middle of the river thomas fox who was sitting in the stern saw three propeller rapidly approaching n g from the south he called to the oarsmen oarsman to stop but they failed to do so the propeller aeller nearest to the west shore passed d by within a few feet of the bow ot of the skiff the latter which all agree was overloaded having the gunwales gunzales gun wales nearly even with the water passed the first swell in safety but in reaching the second shipped considerable water the third almost filled the boat and the mccu pants became greatly alarmed the tiie men aware the boat would sink cal eal ed for assistance and one of th the propellers the cora |