Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-13
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A PUBLIC INDIGNATION MEETING
AT VICTORIA. B. G.
The Willamette Valley Railroad sued
The oregon Press Association
Prisoners Attempt to Break
Jail at Tacoma.

Prisoners Attempt to Break
Jail at Tacoma.
Work on Fresno's sewer system has
begun.
Seattle is soon to have paid fire de-
partment.
Fresno, CAL, is trying to establish
rasin exchange.
Modesto, Cal, has refused to issue i'm
provement bonds.
The Klamath river is lower than was
ever known before.
Fresno oounty's tax levy is % cents
more than las. year.
The Austin, New, Reveille has $lO,-
600 libel suit on it's hands.
The new Masonic Hall at Napa was
dedicated on the 10Th inst.
Elensburg is to make great fight for
the capital of Washington.
The Ninth District Fair opens at Rohn-
erville, CAL, September %.
The chrome mine, in Tehama county,
is to be worked under contract.
J Rains nave SIDuueu lllc tOIeSt iVS III
the neighborhood of EllensDurg.
The wharf at Oceanside will be finished
in October. 1t is to he 1905 feet long.
One of the Portland street railways is
to be transformed into an electric road.
A match factory and furniture factory
was destroyed in Portland on the 29th.
Ellensburg, W. T., is talking of estab-
fishing the Holly system OF water works.
Southern California experienced
severe shock of earthquake on the 9th.
Oceanside, San Diego, has voted bonds
to purchase its waterworks and to en-
large 1t.
President Charles Francis Adams of
the Union Pacific, was in POI tland on
the 23d.
A l4-year-old boy at Santa Rosa "held
up" parties late one night recently Gus t
! for fun"
Eugene City, Or, have met death by
drowning.
Petauma has forbidden the Salvation
| Army to beat drums or hold meetings on
/ the street.
! A commission is negotiating for the
purchase OF lands on the Ceur d'Alene
mountains.
I The Placerville Fair will distribute over
/ $4,000 in premiums. The Fair opened
! September 3D..
The Ryan smelter at Tacoma will soon
be completed and will begin operations
in about two weeks.
/ A sulphur spring has has been found
in Hope Valley, New, that flows large
stream of ice-cold water.
Ten-dollar counterfeit gree nbacks are
in circulation at New York. They are
said to be well executed.
/ The Calispel Indians at the Coleville
( Agency, w. T., are being crowded out Of
the valley by the whites.
The Tacoma Hotel at Tacoma, was filed
last week with delegates en- route to the
Walla Walla convention.
Miss Ida Pratt, living near Modesto,
Cal, committed suicide on the 18th, be-
cause she was tired living.
The First National Bank of Whatcom,
w. t., has been authorized to commence
business with capital OF $4,000.
hlpelt breZ, oan francisco barber,
whose wife has mourned him as dead
was seen in Sacramento recently,
/ The machinery and materials for gov
eminent work at Yaquina bay, Or, were
shipped over the Canadian Pacific.
/ Hop-growers in the Willamette Valley
are anxious to get their hops off the vines,
fearing the rainy season will begin early.
The search for the desperate Morales.
/ in the Santa Ana Valley has not abated.
II is believed he will be captured in a
few days.
| The Oregon Press Association has sub
mitted to its members scale OF adver-
Using prices, violation OF which causes
expulsion.
/ On the 10Th inst, Tacoma had fire
that came near proving disastrous to that
thriving little city. The total loss will be
about $4,000
+ Three men have died from thirst and
starvation on the Colorado Desert during
the mouth of August, and within radi-
GUS OF fifty miles.
An unknown man was found perishing
on the desert near Iudio, with nearly 500
IN his pockets. He died shortly alter he
was taken to lndio.
The little fishing schooner Rowena. of
/ llllamook, went ashore near Newport, on
the 18th inst, and is a total wreck, All
/ tile crew were saved.
Olson and Drager, the FL Dorado muir
derers, to be executed October is. are
building miniature ship for u keepsake
+ Tor Sheriff Anderson.
Twenty-Five prisoners in the county
lail attempted to make their escape on
Both inst, but the jailor appeared on the
scene IN time TO prevent it.
A physician named Miller, formerly a
resident OF Sacramento, and now OF Free
mont, su burb near Seattle, ATTEMPTED
to commit suicide three times on the I'D.
/ A plot to empty the Washington Ter
rltory fenitentiary at Walla WalIa has
been discovered. Keys were being made
to tit the doors which trusty was to use
On the arrival of the steamer Santa
Maria on her first trip to San Diego in
the new opposition line of coast steamers
her colored cook, James Lewis, dropped
dead.
An old man named Overs, a wealthy
bachelor living about five miles from
Tacoma, committed suicide on the 2oth
by blowing the top of his head Off with
shotgun.