Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-12-11
PACIFIC COAST news.

At Cheney there are no vacant
houses and constant demand for them.
Wheat is worth 65 cents bushel at
Cheney, sacked, at the elevator
The new foundry at Colfax began
work November 10.
Tacoma has new company Of ca.
diets, Is members already, Is to II
years old.
The Tom Paine is turninh out large
quantities of $40 ore.
The Morley mine at Robinsonville
will be operated all winter.
Many new companies will operate
in Baker county next season.
The Pandora at Huntington is Civ.
ing great encouragement to its owners
Miners are happy with the prospects
OF a large water supply the coming
season.
Nose Saxon, OF the Pantheon sa
loon, Colfax, fell off bridge and
broke his left arm.
AT Wa. laval, on Snake river, J
B. Holt grew sweet potato that
weighed IL pounds.
Uniontown is to have distillery
The company is organized and it will
soon be running.
Over fifty men arrived at Farming
ton, w. t., in one day. Hotels
crowded and restaurants.
The Tacoma Jail has thirteen pris
oners in six cells. Criminals increase
as fast as the town.
Stockmen in Umatilla county com
plain Of short grass and hard FROST
make it shorter.
Little George Roder, of Brooktield
Cla,sop county, is in the hospital witt
broken bone.
Charles Cowan has been bound owe
at Salem charged with u bestial crim
and not furnishing 500 bail is in thu
county Jail.
Tacoma is to have street railwa,
of the electric motor sort, run with
wire over the track. They are said t,
work well.
p. j. Smith, one OF the most promi
nent farmers of Squawk, was prob
ably fatally hurt by the breaking O
hay press.
Two new anchors and buoys are o.
the way from San Francisco for TIA
coma harbor. The anchors weig
5000 pounds each.
Several valuable horses have die
near Sherman, Lincoln county, Of
new and unknown disease, whicl
seems to affect the lungs OF mare
only.
The new tug Sea Lion is soon to a.
rive from San Francisco to engage i
the Puget Sound business. She
one of the most powerful tugs on tn
coast.
The Cornwall Company, at Wha
com, will push the railroad over tn
! Cascades also will build to promisin
coal beds on the Nooksack early i
the spring.
The Pennington Register tells no
l.. benson tucked quarrel with on
Barnum, working man, and &C
knocked down. He tried to shoe
Barnum and got into Jail for it.
John Lochfelm fell off a train an
had his fingers crushed so that amp,
tation was necessary. He was
charge of car of stock going frol
Chehalis to Tacoma. He nearly die
from cold and exhaustion before l.
was found.
The new mill of the st. Paul
Tacoma Lumber Company, will be
colossal size, being just twice til
length of the present building, an
will have capacity of 100000 feet
lumber per day, being the largest on
put of any lumber company on tt
coast.
| Messrs. Harris and Young, owne
Of the Tom Paine mine, now ha'
seventeen men on their pay 70
Their Salmon mill has been kept ru
ming on very rich ore for the past Sc
eral weeks until the late cold wealth
froze up their water power, whiC
compelled them to order an engil
and boiler from Portland, which W
arrive in a few days. This will euab
them to keep their mill running 1
winter.
William McCloud, living five mil
west OF Pullman, with his family, g
up at o clock as usual, went out III
did not return. He was found han
ing by the neck to beam in an o
barn mile away. The pains he to,
to splice old ropes and leather stra
to hang himself by, and the fact tn
il broke once and he tried the secoI
time, show it was Il deliberate suieid
He was to move into a new house
Pullman that week. He was We
| dyspeptic and had severe spells
sickness.
| Theresa Barados, of Oakland, Ca
is seeking divorce from Francisco b.
ADDS, on grounds of cruelty. I
latter was married in 1916, and is nj
the father of twenty-five childre
eighteen OF whom are boys and 10
girls. Ho came TO this country al
settled in San Leandro, where t
mother of the twenty-five childr
died He again married, and now |
present wife says it is hard enough