Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-01-20
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Warrington
Territory and California.

A furniture factory at Los Angeies
was DESTROYED by fire, loss $l25,oOO
Martin Hanson, living near Mos
COW, Idaho, committed suicide with
rifle.
AT San Francisco Thomas Adams,
a waiter, was shot and MORALLY woun-
ded by Martin ]. Calvin.
A bill has been introduced in the
Washington Territory Legislature to
abolish the use OF seals on legal doc
uments.
A hotel barn at Milford, Cal, was
burned, with one man and twenty-one
horses. The loss is $4,000. The fire
was the work OF on incendiary.
Fuller, who killed Archbishop Seq
hers in Alaska, has been found guilty
of granddaughter and sentenced to i'm
prisonment in the United States peni.
Tertiary for ten years and to pay
fine of $1,000. The court has re-
quest. d that an order be issued by the
department of justice to have Fuller
confined in the prison on McNeiPs
island.
Adam Routh, who lives on the
Weippe, near Lewiston, Idaho, went
hunting and succeeded in killing a
large bear and deer. He left them
in the woods until next morning. On
his arrival where he had left them, he
found three large cougars in possession
of the bear and deer, devouring the
same. This made the little Frenchman
angry, and with his Winchester rifle
he commenced firing at them and
killed all three and took them home
with him.
A very sad incident occurred at
Juneau, Alaska, recently. Mrs. Har-
ding, an elderly lady re~ining at that
place, was taken SICK with pneumonia,
and went to Port Townsend, w. t.,
for treatment. She improved and
start, d home. and on the way up had
relapse. Shortly after her arrival
at Juneau she died. In due time the
funeral occurrt d, the body being fol-
lowed to the grave by a number Of
friends on foot. Miss Harding, the
deceased's twenty-one year-old daugh-
ter led the procession, and Just as the
graveyard WAS reached she fell dead
upon the coffin containing the remains
OF her mother. Heart disease Was the
cause.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred
at Seattle. A force of men were en-
g .yed driving line of ri es south of
the Oregon improvement Company
mills, and were at work about 400
yards south of the mill when the boiler
suddenly exploded blowing the house,
engine and boiler into ten thousand
pieces, and covering the bay with de-
bris for 100 yards in all directions. OF
the hall dozen or more men at work
On the driver, not one was instantly
t'l'ed, though one WAS blown $50 yard
int the water, and Was rescued by
ooals. James Livingstone died from
his injuries three hours after the ex-
plosion. II. Wyman, VIM. Drlscoll
and f. Mcpherson we're injured.
Juneau, Alaska, is on the mainland
lou miles north OF Sitka, and is the
distributing point for the Yukon and
o her mining districts of the interior.
1t has a foatlng population from 800
To l,600. 1t has now SIN Ill church,
u hospital and a school, conducted by
the sisters of St Ann, who went there
III October, 1886. The new hospital
is fine structure, 40x40 and two sto
rles high. and will accommodate TWEEN
ly-hve patients. The old hospital
building is used for a school. The
chapel is small building. 22x4O, with
apartments in the rear for the priest
Douglas island, on which is located
the great Treadwell mine and stamp
mills, lies off the coast about three
miles. The hospital at Juneau is a
great boon to the poor miners in tina,
isolated region.