Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-15
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit of Our Readers.

| Virginia City has many idle men.
Smallpox at MERGED is disappear.
ing.
Redwood City complains of burg
lars.
Vancouver has limited its saloons
10 six.
There is wood famine at Grass
Valley
Burglaries are still plentiful at Los
Angeles.
San Luis Obispo works its prisoners
in chain-gang.
Salt Lake City has an lSl4-pound
3-year-old Hereford heifer.
Crescent City, Del Norte county,
proposes To establish pork factory.
Phoenix, A. T., has succeeded in it's
efforts to secure the Territorial capital.
The remains OF an unknown man
were found on the tract at Bakers
field.
San Bernardino charges $40 day
for circuses and $40 per day for dance
houses.
Miss Emma Holman was fearfully
injured by neighbours dog at Al
bsny, Or.
A fatal disease has appeared among
the horses on Dry Creek, San Luis
Obispo county.
Salt Lake has risen three inches in
the last go days, after fall last sum-
mer OF 28 inches.
Idaho lawmakers complain of the
tricks by which Mormons evade the
laws denying them vote.
About so passenger and freight con-
ductors on the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad have been discarged.
The Gilroy Advocate intimates that
the reported discovery OF coal near
that city has been exaggerated.
A Chinese gardner applied to the
beet sugar factory at Watsonville for
a contract OH 70 acres OF beets.
The official count in Nevada gives
Bartine (Rep.) for congress. 1921
votes, ann Cassidy, (Dem.) 56S2.
Santa Rosa believes it will, within a
year, be connected by rail with the
western boundary line OF Sonoma.
An artesian we'll at Elsinor, San
Diego county, furnishes bath houses
with water l0S degrees temperature
A seam of bituminous coal, three
feet in width, has been discovered IN
Saamich, b. c., 20 feet from the sur
face.
Thirteen and one-half tons OF bar.
nacles and shell fish were scraped "a
the bottom OF the Olympian at Vic
toria.
A boy tramp, aged about IL years
arrested ut the Suisun depot, was
found to have two loaded revolvers OF
his person.
The jury in the Teller murder case
at Spokane Falls brought in verdict
OF not guilty. Mrs. Teller killed hei
husband in self defense.
Leading lawyers in Nevada believe
the constitutional amendments that
were adopted by the popular vote last
summer, are null and void.
Az an undertaker's shop in San Der
nardino William Graham took drink
OF embalming fluid, thinking IL was
beer. He died In great agony.
Mrs. Alice G. Whitford, wife OF &
Denver banker, has gone hopelessly
insane at Pomona on account OF her
husbands complaint in divorce suit
Sixty acres OF land were purchased
at Seattle for the site of big smelter
TO reduce the ores OF the northwest
! and especially those of the C"ul
d'Alene.
Shipments OF fish from Hanford
and Lemoore, Tulsre county, 6O,62t
pounds from September 18th to De
cember l, 1883. The fish we're taken
from Tulare lake.
A rattlesnake three feet long with
seven rattles was found the other day
on the roof OF the Palace hoto) at Tue
son, A. T. The building has brick
walls and is sixty feet high. 1t is sup
posed the reptile was dropped by
some bird OF prey.
1t has been discovered that over
$6, 900 in coupons OF the funded debt
purchased by the city of Sacramento
is missing and not cancelled. The
coupons are of 1865. 1t is believed
$4,000 Of the issue now in the books
and Cancelled has been paid twice.
A. N. Polymath, the San Diego jew
eler who was arreste,. few days ago
for illegally restraining Mr.. and Mrs,
A, F. Tabor in his shop two or three
hours and subjecting them TO search
to the skin. because they refused to
pay him $45 for three rings alleged to
have been taken by them, has been
held TO answer before the superior
court on Il charge of false imprison.
ment.