Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-07-03
COAST CULLINGS.
devoted Principally TO Washington
Territory and California

hotel In EllenSburg, w. L., Is one
that is much talked OF lately.
Some fine nuggets were brought in
to Ellensburg, w. T., the past week
from the placers of the Swauk.
The Olympia CIV IT, board of trade
is prt pairing circular to advertise the
city. 1t is to be done by private en-
terprise.
A brakeman named A. A. Martin
was crushed to death by the Santa
Fe train near Santa Ana, Cal. He re-
sided in Los Angeles, and leaves a
wife.
which was blown up near Vallejo,
Cal, several months since, was sold by
United States Marshal Franks, as
trustee, for $6l5.
Richard Van Staden was killed at
Mountain View, Cal, by jumping, it
is supposed, from the Monterey ex-
press train, and his body Was horribly
mangled.
| A man with bullet hole near his
heart Was found in Columbia square,
San Francisco. 1t is thought the
man was murdered, but it is strange no
one heard the shots in the neighbor-
.iood.
| John Walton, waiter in a restau-
rant at Los Angeles, Cal, was acct
dentally shot by the proprietor, James
Wilson, while the latter was cleaning
revolver. The ball passed through
Walton's abdomen. The wound is
probably fatal.
Five young men OF San Francisco,
whose ages range from IL to ~, hired
IL yawl 10 take row on the bay.
| When near Government island the
boat capsized and one man, George
Flannery, was drowned. The body
has not been recovered.
Deputy Sheriff Alverd, Of Cochiz
county, Ariz., had fight with three |
Sonora train robbers in the MILESTONE
mountains, sixty miles north of this
place. The Off ers succeeded in kill |
ing two and mortally wounding the
other one.
ice Wallace, young man, met
with fatal accident on freight train
No. ID, between Hot Springs and
Eagle Gorge, w. T. He fell between
the moving cars and was horribly
mutilated. He was brought to the
Fanny Paddock hospital, where he
died
AT the Coyote ranch near Spring
vile, Ariz, shooting affair occurred
between William Magee and Henry
jenkins. The latter WAS fatally
wound d, Robert Thomas, q locker
on, was shot in the leg, SCATTERING the
bone and amputation was necessary
Jenkins lived twenty-four hours. He
leaves wife and three children
Magee was arrested, examined and
discharged on q verdict of justifable
homicide.
) Bertha Schaefeld, girl 10 years of
) age, residing with her widowed mother
in San Francisco, was sitting on u
stairway on the street, when the boom
Of blast in the vicinity was heard,
and jagged bit Of rock came whz-
: zing through the air, striking the
child ON the head The unconscious
} child was conveyed to her home, and
, medical attendance was summoned.
} Her skull Was found to be fractured,
and the physicians state there is No
hope for her recovery.
DR.. E. G. Thatcher, prominent
,, physician of San Diego, Cal, com
mitted suicide at Ramona by piercing
his jugular vein with a lancet and
bleeding to death. He was commits
stoned surgeon in the navy by Presi-
dent Johnson in 1865, and served till
1878. He was native of Pennsyl-
vania. Lately he was addicted to the
use of morphine.
! James Ahern, sewer contractor
! paraded in the democratic demonstra-
. lion at San Francisco, and returned
;, home at late hour. He became i'll
: at about B o'clock in the morning and
: starting for another room mistook an
. open window for door and walked
4 through it. A moment later police
> man found him lying on the sidewalk
with his skull fractured and covered
a with blood. He died an hour later
= He leaves widow and five daughters.
! Harvey Weiss, one of the best
), known statesmen travelling out of Chi
;; cago, was found dead in Golden Gate
!, Park, in San Francisco, with bullet
/ hole through his head and revolver
by his SIDE with two chambers empty.
Developments proved that it was II
. case of suicide, and letters found on
. his person showed the cause was loss
:, from gambling. He wrote pi,iful let
= tiers to his wife and children. Among
q his other papers was contract en-
tered into with his firm, Kuhn, Nathan
j, & Fisher, pr 'minent clothing firm
:; OF Chicago, da cd D cember |, 1887.
. 1t shows that Weisss salary was 81 600
4 year on condition that he made
= sales amounting to $4,000.
A singular shooting ARRAY occurred
vt Mount Pleasant, Utah, the sequel
, to which was marriage. Andrew
. Romarro had called on young lady
TO whom he had been paying atten.
- ton, Miss Mortensen. While engaged
: in a slight scuffle she drew revolver
from his pocket, and, pointing it at
. him, said in joking manner, SHE
would shoot him if he did not let her
. done. "Look out! it's loaded" said
!, Romarro. Just then Miss Mortenscn
: pulled the trigger when bullet en-
tered the left side of Romarro's face