Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-18
COAST CUCLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California.

A six-pound shad was caught at Ii
waco, at the mouth OF the Columbia
Gavin Duncan, a young sailor on the
British ship Bhotan, fell from the rig
ging to the deck, distance OF thirty
feet, at San Francisco, and was killed
P.B. Barrett, of Falls City, Cal, be-
came insane and got away from friends
and drowned himself in his own we'll
He leaves wife and four children.
Charles E. Bevan, young mer.
chant of Wheatland, Cal, shot and
killed himself. Business troubles
were the cause OF the suicide.
Henry Fl. Lindenburger, "a years
of age, and salesman in San Fran
cisco, Cal, took poison and died. He
had been sick and respondent.
The great Montezuma, Col, irriga-
ting tunnel, which will reclaim 200 0OO
acres of land, is completed. 1t is over
mile long, running under one OF the
ranges Of the Rocky mountains. The
tunnel and fifty miles of canal will tap
the waters OF the Dolores river
Peter Burke was seriously wounded
at Sentinel, A. r., bya Mexican named
Bastillo Ortega. During a quarrel
both drew revolvers. each shooting the
other Ortega, it is supposed, is but
slightly hurt, and it is thought thlt
Burke will recover.
Domingo Solar was shot and killed
by James MacCarthy at a wood ranch
in the southeastern part OF Virginia
SOLAR refused to sell or lend a pony
which MacCarthy wanted. The latter
is but II, but has served two years III
state prison for arson.
A horrible accident occurred neal
Bodega, Cal. John II. Miller was en-
gagged in moving hay, and had eau
toned his children against running
through the clover in front OF the
mower. Liter in the day his three
year old child playfully attempted tc
run in front OF the machine, when it
was caught by the knife, and both
legs were instantly severed from the
body.
A wagon and team containing NJ
Fay, his wife, daughter and baby, Mrs
J. Sissell and Mrs. f. Roche, broke
through II bridge over the Hume of the
Montezuma Mining Company, neal
Galatians, Cal. The hume was run
ming full of water, and the current was
very swift. Mr.. Fay and Mrs. Roche
fell outside the hume and were unin
jured. Mrs. Fay, Mrs. Sissell and the
baby, together with the horses anc
wagon, went through the hume about
a third of a mile. The baby WA,
drowned. Mrs. Fay and Mrs. Sissel
were both rescued, though they are
badly bruised.
The Yaqui Indians are now at wa
with the Mexi;an federal forces ii
Sonora. They are fortifying different
places and making determined
stand against the troops. A few days
ago Maj. Enciso and Lieut.. Villareal
with two columns of iederals, attacked
the Indians in Il strongly fortified posi-
ton in the Amalaguaca mountains
near the town of Aguaverde. A DIES
perate fight ensued, but the federals
after number of charges, routed the
Indians from their fertilization, KILN.
seventeen and wounding a large mum
Der. The federal forces had one MAJ
killed and several wounded.
VIM. Holmes, son of A. T. Holmes
of Eberton, met with an unfortunate
and painful accident, which, while no
necessarily fatal, will cripple him io
life. He was out hunting in the
mountains near Palouse, w. T., witt
a rifle, when by some means no
learned here, his gun was discharged
the bullet passing through both leg
at the knees, and blowing one of tn,
knee-caps off. He was brought to hi
home and everything possible don,
Tor him, but the nature of the wound
renders it certain that it will be i'm
possible to do more than preserve tn,
use OF one leg.
Thomas trieste, of Chico, Cal, age(
Y years, some five weeks ago having
buried his wife, married Mollie Swof
fed, who has just served five years il
San Quentin. trieste is possessed o
some property, which the woman
wanted. She got d revolver and at
tempted to take the old mans life
She told him she intended to kill hin
and burn his body with the house
trieste made his escape and had the
woman arrested, charged with an at
tempt to commit murder.
The practice of thawing the outsid,
coverings of dynamite cartridges ovel
fires is largely prevalent among the
miners employed in the cement quar-
ries at Roudout, Cal. John Lynch
was engaged in the thawing process
Four cartridges which he held in Tin
pan over the fire exploded. Strange
AS it may seem, when the smokv
cleared away, Lynch was not onl,
alive, but perfectly conscious, but he
presented terrible appearance. Hi.
hands had been blown away as clean
as though they had been cut off with
Il knife. The larynx, vocal and some
of the othor organs in the throat were
exposed to view. His limbs were
broken in many places. His whole
body presented an appearance az
though he had been cut and slashed
by bowie knife, yet, in that horribl,