The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-24
on THE COAST.

8M -- MNeS4AEE 49,
Burglars at Tacoma are bold in their
operations.
At Prescott, AT, potatoes sell for 6 and
8 cents q pound.
Governor Stanford is to build a winer.f,
30Ox6O feet. at Vina, California.
Suisun shipped nearly 335 900 pounds Of
cherries during the season just closed.
Work has been commenced on the line 81
the North and South Arizona Railroad.
A two-year-old boy at Tacoma was killed
last week by sucking a small button into
his lungs.
An incorporated company is toplant $40
acres to olives near Pasadena, LOs Angeles
county, California.
The office Of Wells, Fargo & Co., at Occi-
dental. CAL, was robbed OF $3.50 last Tues
day night.
Two bald-head eagles were captured last
week on San Miguel island, OIL the Santa
Barbara coast.
A yelled woman passed a counterfeit
dollar on the postmaster at Virginia, New,
last Thursday.
w. w. Williams fell down q mining shaft
at Bernice, Nevada, Wednesday last and
received severe injuries.
An Arizona rancher named Wilson was
killed by a grizzly, after a desperate fight,
near Prescott recently.
The running time on the Northern Pacific
between Portland and Tacoma is to be re
duced to forty minutes.
G. w. Peltier & Co.'s store at TuscarOra
Nevada, was entered last Tuesday night and
several revolvers stolen.
Collector Beecher at Port Townsend il
overrun by applicants for the few subordi
aate positions under him.
Residents on Hill street, Los Angeles, art
| overrun by myriads OF ants, who eat uI
/ everything in the shape of food.
Fines of $50 are considered sufficient
punishment in Salem, Oregon, for persons
| convicted of selling liquor to Indians.
Several thousand acres of land in tn
| Fraser river (B. CO. delta are to be reclaimed
| by a system OF dykes and food-gates.
Frederick Moe, an inmate of the Laramie
| IVY. Ter.) Insane Asylum. committed sui
| eide by cutting his throat last Monday.
Nevada papers speak of the "alleged'
tin mines in Antelope valley. 1t does no
seem to have been settled yet What tn
ore is.
The railroad bridge near Kingman, A
T., wal destroyed by fire last week, blu
little delay was caused to the running Q
trains thereby.
George Heisier killed a mountain lion o.
the Aqua Fria, A. T., last Monday, whicl
measured eleven feet nine and a hall inche
from tip to tip.
Some six hundred and fifty tons of raj
road iron are ON the ground for the ne,
road between Prescott, A. T., and the AT
lantic and Pacific.
BY city ordinance, which has just pee
sustained by a Superior Court Judge, tn
| Chinese l~au1idries in Los Angeles, CAL, ar
obliged to close at 8 p. m.
George w. Chamberlain is missing frOr
Portland, Or. Hehad recently been release
as cured from the insane asylum and wa
well supplied with money.
The Virginia New Fourth Of July Com
mittee are to send a detail OF miners to tn
summit OF Mount Davidson to restore tn
flagstaff on that peak before July 4th.
James Warren, who was sentenced to tn
Nevada State Prison for forty years 10
killing "Rattlesnake Dick" has bee
granted a new trial by the Supreme Court
NJ. T. Donovan of Tombstone, A. T
calls for q company of volunteers whom h
offers to lead against the Apaches. Simila
plans are proposed elsewhere in the Terr
tory.
At Phoenix, A. T., last Wednesday Yne
cente Trujillo killed Lorenzo Compasan'
by chopping him almost to pieces with a
ak. The murderer made his escape, bu
was captured a day or two afterwards.
C. L. Schieffelin, one of the proprietors c
the Pico House, Los Angeles, has bee
arrested for disturbing the peace, on con
plant of a woman who threatens to ST.
him for $50, OOOfor breach of promise.
Judge A. B. Carlton, of the Utah Con
mission, is making memoranda and gathe
ing material for a work on Utah and tt
Mormons. It will be published by a Ne
York house, but not until the authors of
cial labors in the Territory are ended.
A. H. Davis, convicted OF murder {
Tombstone, A.. T. and sentenced to |
hanged, attempted suicide last Wednesda.
by taking poison, but was relieved by
stomach pump before it took effect. T
does nothing but curse the jury and tt
Judge who found him guilty and sentence