Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-02-28
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.

/ Garfield couutys new court house, a
Pomeroy, W.T.. will soon becompleted
The Tacoma Odd Fellows have new
, hall, with all the modern conveniences
There are 22,l7l more adult males
than adult females in Washington
Territory.
The total output OF coal from the
mines of Washington Territory has
been nearly 2,5O0,oO tons.
There are but eleven United States
prisoners in the Idaho penitentiary
The rest are territorial prisoners.
The body of well dressed woman
was found floating in the bay at San
Francisco. She was not identified.
The Masons Of Ellensburgh, w. T.,
have under consideration the building
of temple TO cost about $1,000.
| @. G. Sands, who drove stage be-
tween Ferndale and Petrolia, Cal, was
killed by the overturning OF the We
hicle.
Leon Gerardot, a janitor, was found
dead in bed at San Francisco. He had
been asphyxiated by gas. Deceased
was GO years Old.
A logger named George Frank was
crushed between two logs by the train
running inio an open switch on the
Gray's Harbor railroad.
Six men were crushed to death by an
avalanche on the Canadian Pacific,
near Pallasor, "A point in the mountains
some distance west of the Columbia
| river.
Milton Santee WAS robbed of a satchel
containing $4,000 in bonds and a
number of valuable papers, in sleeper
running between Los Angeles and San
Bernardino, Cal.
The postofiice salaries of the four
leading offices in Washington Territory
are as follows Seattle, $24OO Tacoma,
$4,000; Walla Walla, $2lOO; Spokane
Falls, $1,000.
The contract for the fret five miles
of the Vancouver, Klckitat & Yakima
railroad has been let to Malone & Co.,
of Butte City, Montana, and work has
commenced.
Six OF the stone class buildings at
Leland Stanford, Jr., university are to
be up and ro,fed in by May LIST, and
nine of the buildings are to be finished
by July LIST. There are 1875 workmen
now employed, 60 being stone cutters.
Big Bend correspondent of Walla
Walla Union: Two young men named
Osbourn and Watson fired five shots
apiece at one another at short range
the other day, but no one except a
horse was hurt. The shooting was
over an old saddle ont worth six bits.
John Turner, aged II, was acciden-
tally shot by Clarence Cope, at Wood
bridge, Cal. They were hunting in the
tules, and jokingly pointing their guns
at each other. Cope's was accidentally
discharged, the shot taking effect in
Turner's face. The latter lived only
few hours.
Porter Ashes celebrated racer, Ed
Corrigan, ran away on The street at
MERGED, Cal, with two men in trot-
ing wagon. One man jumped out un-
injured, but the other caught his foot
in the wagon and was dragged one mile.
When picked up he was dead. The
dead man was a native of California,
about 25 years old, named John Kelly,
and brother of Mike Kelly, fhe cele-
brated jockey.
At Seattle the piling of trestle gave
way under locomotive, and it was
thrown into the water, which at that
point is twenty feet deep at low tide.
The coupling broke, and the cars in
front OF the engine remained on the
track. The engineer and the fireman
escaped, the former leaping out of the
cab window. Both swan about till
they were picked up by small boat
The locomotive disappeared entirely.
The piles were driven only four months
ago, and it is thought that their giving
way could not have been the work of
the teredo. They were driven in loose
earth, which had been dumped at that
point by vessels carrying earth ballast,
and as a vessel had been fastened to
the trestle for some time, it is believed
the piles had been loosened.
A special dispatch from Carson,
Nevada, says Some two months ago
the contractors in boring an artesian
we'll for Mrs. Langtry, the actress, near
the foot of the mountain where the |
North Carson mine is situated, came
on formation of rock which Law be-
tween the clay wallis. This formation
was so hard that the drill bounced up.
and it required seven feet of drilling to
penetrate and reach the under clay
wall. When the debIis of the rock
same out 1t attracted the attention of |
the borers. A few ounces of the rock
were. taken to the Bullion and Elk
change bank, where it was assayed |
The essay was 500 a ton of rich silver |
ore. Since then experts have been
an examination seeking to |
trace the ledge to it's groupings and
determine the character of the enclos.
ing walls. Discoveries last week seem
to show that the ledge runs all the
way from seven feet to 100 feet thick
The excitement over the discovery il
now great. and is probable much of the
ledge runs through Mrs. Langtrys land
She bored for water and struck silver"
Here Is an actual case OF n person |
who either did not clearly mderstan,
the meaning of the word "politeness.
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