Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-12-29
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit FOUR Readers.

Truckee talks of a toboggan slide.
Five cases OF smallpox at Merced.
Bakersfield is filled with land spec
ulators.
The bounty law of Sonoma county
has been repealed.
The Piutes are unlawfully trapping
fish in Walker river.
Twenty-Five pioneers have just or
ganized society at San Diego.
Frozen meat is to be shipped from
Kansas City to Sacramento.
A recount of the ballots for sheriff
ti Nevada county is to be had.
The building of railroad from
Seattle to the Canada line is assured.
The money in the state treasury
last Saturday amounted to T.l6l,-
5l327.
Otto Schultz slaughter-house and
ice house at Carson, New, were burned
Sunday
Harvey H. Clark has been appoint
ed postmaster at Lodi, San Joaquin
county.
Violations OF the fish laws are re-
ported from Taylorville and the mouth
of Paper Mill creek.
Ulmer, San Bernardino county,'and
Emerald Bay, Ell Doredo county, ale
postoffices just established.
Jack Logarbo has been charged by
the grand jury at San Jose with the
murder of his stepdaughter.
A strong protest against statehood
for Utah has been signed by the lib
eral territorial committee of Utah.
The governor refuses to pardon Ar
thur d. January, who stole $5O,OOO
while his father was state treasurer.
The course OF the opium seizsd at
Port Haron, Mich, has been traced to
the shipper, Joselyn, at Victoria, b. O..
A bill will be introduced into the
coming legislature of California to
make two counties out of Los Angeles.
A company composed of leading
men at San Jose is to be organized to
bore for oil and gas in Santa Clara
valley.
At FL Prso strong effort is being
made to create a strike on the
Southern Pacific by dissatisfied en-
gineers.
A large meeting Of merchants of
Los Angeles one night last week instl-
tuted a move to bring down rents.
Concerted action is TO be- secured.
John Wesley Hill, Methodist min
ister at Ogden, is delivering radical
anti-Mormon lectures, and has in
CURED great hostility from the Nor
mons.
On the roof beams OF an old out
building at Nevada City was found
Saturday in an old sack 500 in $50
pieces. IG had evidently been there
for years.
At the drawing at Suffer City last
week Oscar Boehn, Of San Francisco,
won the hotel; H. Best won the 2
story house, and w. Eddington an
other house.
Gases of burglary, highway robbery
and small thefts are plentiful at Los
Angeles. More than the regular win
ter supply OF rascals has reached that
city from the east.
William Jones, one OF the four men
arrested at Los Angeles for robblng
the railway station at Sepulveda and
plundering the guests at the 4mlle
house, has made a full confession.
Gen. Sohn ]. Brewster, in the early
DAYS of California deputy county
clerk of Sonoma county, and subse-
quently surveyor-general of the state,
was sent last heck to the county poor
house from the town of SonOma.
Rasmus Larsen is fighting the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation company.
The company passes over his home
stead. near Willows, Or, and won't
pay him his price for the land, so he
tore up the track and was arrested.
A rich strike is reported in the 4th
of July mine, in the Salmon river
country, Idaho. A large quantity OF
sulphate of silver, worth $1,000 a ton,
has been found. This is said to be
the richest mine in Washington terri
tory or Idaho.
The mental condition of Ellie Ellen,
a. rich Truckee lumberman, will be
contested over the effort to get pos
session of the gift to deceased dangh.
ter, just previous to her death, OF
Sl5 900. It is claimed he was incom-
petent mentally to make the gift.
At Santa Ana, Los Angeles county,
Monday, the locomotive of the Santa
Fe Short line struck wagon contain
ing William Bentley, sr, aged 76
wears, his wife, aged so years, and his
daughter and daughter-in-law. They
were all four killed outright. They
we're residents Of Ell Modena, six milos
from Santa Ana.
George P. Harding, late democratic
candidate for the state senate from
the district composed OF Yolo and
Napa counties, has served a notice oi
contest on his republican opponent
F. S. Sprague, who holds the certif,
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