Chinaman Lynched

—Mangled by a Bear—Portland’s Mayor.

PORTLAND, October 3d.—News of the lynching of a Chinaman near the town of Weatherby, Baker county, is received. A Chinese cook, employed in a white family named Jessop, made a criminal assault on a little seven-year-old daughter of his employer. The screams of the child brought assistance, when the Chinaman fled and took refuge in a thicket. He was pursued by crowds of excited men, who set fire to the woods. The flames drove the Celestial out, when he was captured. A rope was procured, and the Chinaman was lynched. The whole affair did not occupy twenty minutes. The Sheriff was sent for after the Celestial was dead, but deemed it prudent to make no arrests. The action of the citizens is generally sanctioned.

Albert Baker, living near Astoria, shot and wounded a large black bear yesterday. The enraged animal attacked him, and before another hunter could dispatch it Baker was fearfully mangled by the claws and teeth. It is doubtful if he survives his injuries.

Mayor Chapman has been interviewed at length regarding the charges of corruption and bribery preferred against him. He frankly acknowledges having signed the contract between himself and ex-Chief-of-Police Besser, but says he was guilty of no breach of the public trust, and boldly declares that there was nothing in the transaction which he is ashamed of. The Council will investigate the charges.