Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-12-22
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit ofOur Readers.
At Mariposa hay is $25 ton.

larged.
The Dallcs, Or, pays a bounty for
dog scalps.
A turnpike from Chico to OroviIle
is projected.
The sugar refinery at Watsonville
gives SIS ton for beets.
The streets OF Traver, Tulre county,
are to be graded this winter.
A wooden mill is to be started at
Brownsville, Linn county, Or.
The strike on the Montana Union
railroad has forced several mines to
close down.
Hon. Stephen M. White tainted in
the court room at Los Angeles recent
ly, the effect OF overwork.
Two squaws, who were intoxicated,
rolled into a camp fire at Cotton re-
Gently and were badly burned.
The Woodland town authorities
want to drive out the Salvation army
and raise the price Of theatrical Ii
cense.
Senator Stanford will be shown
points for needed legislation on the
southern coast.
The corporation publishing the San
BernardinO Times has taken the name
of The L. M. Holt Publishing Com
pany.
Chinese gamblers have been hiring
substitutes to appear for them in the
Los Angeles courts and have thus es-
capped.
William Wright, 14-year-old col
ored boy, stabbed Franklin McAllen,
aged Ii, with pocket knife at Stock
ton last week.
The Board of Supervisors of Sono-
ma county have let d contract to
build a $4,000 bridge across Russian
river at Cloverdale.
The orchards, vineyards and can
merry connected with General Bid
wells rancho Chico are to be leased
to a San Francisco company.
Diptheria still atflicts Bloomfield,
Sonoma count. Several cases are
yet in danger. The schools have been
closed for SIX weeks.
Four celestials on a hand-car were
badly injured near San Fernando, Los
Angeles county, last week, in collision
with a special train.
Jacob Hodge, a carpenter at the
Coe mine at Grass Valley, had both
arms broken recently in a fall, and it
is believed he is internally injured.
Three deaths so far are reported to
the Portland police as a result OF the
Chinese battle recently. Many are
wounded, but they are keeping quiet.
Revenge and not robbery is de-
cIared to have been he motive that
actuated the saoundrels who attempted
to wreck the Oregon express on Tues
day.
The Salvation army at Petaluma has
won a victory. They have obtained
permission to parade the streets, and
parties molesting them will BE- arrested.
Samuel ShepIar, of Chicago, has pur-
chased $4,000 ranch few miles
west of Santa Rosa, which he intends
converting into stock and breeding
farm.
Railway postofice service has been
established on the line of the North
ern Pacific and Puget Sound Shore
railroads between Seattle and Tacoma.
Alfred Schwartz, of Slaughter, W.
T., mas been swindling the people by
obtaining money on pretended GER
tifcates of deposit on San Francisco
banks.
The first annual promenade con-
cert and ball of the Grand Army of the
Republic was given last week at the
State capital at Sacramento and was
great success.
Rails have been laid on the Feather
river bridge of the Knights Landing
extension of the Northern California
company, and an engine crossed from
Marysville into Sutter county recently.
Oregon's tax levy has been fixed as
follows: State levy for current ex-
penses, three and seven-tenths OF a
mill; militia tax, one-iifth Of a mill;
University, one-tenth of a mill. To
tai, four mills.
Charles Marshall, noted horse
thief, was shot in the leg recently by
Will Roberts, a San BernardinO deputy
sheriff. Marshall was found in the
brush in the mountains. He will
probably die. There are eight charges
Of robbery against him in Los An
geles and San Bernardino counties.
1t is proposed to build a sea-wall
200 feet wide on top around the en-
tire city front of San Diego. The idea
is to furnish terminal facilities, main
tracks, switches-round-ho houses, etc., for
ell railroads entering the city, besides
coal bunkers and warehouses for all
the shipping business of the water
front.
In the trial Of John A. Dimmig, of
San Francisco, a book agent, for the
alleged murder Of Henry Benhayon
in October, 1887, number of wit
nesses were called, but the testimony
variid little if any from that elected
at the former trial. Louis Goldberg,
a cloak dealer and a close associate of
RenhaYon. testified that he didn't