Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-12
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Santa Maria is to have a bank.

Y New grass and wild oats are five inches
high in Sonona county, Cal.
Five persons dug themselves out o.
the Multnonah, Or, county Jail Mon
day.
The Oregon penitentiary has 307 in.
mates, the largest number ever confined
there.
The Americ. n schooner Mollie Adams
is reported at Victoria with the largest
catch of the season, some 1000 skins
The Southern Belle group of mines,
about thirty miles from Tucson, has been
sold to an English syndicate for 10000.
Oroville bas won the fight for the Cit
rus Fair in January. Marysyille made a
| gallant struggle.
Charles Scott shot and killed fellow
workman known as Simon, on ranch
near Rocklin yesterday.
Argument in the Montana election con
asst will begin to-day, the point being the
elleged disqualification OF the judge,
Over two hundrt and fifty varieties of
the erysanthemum are on exhibition at
~
geles.
Mate Lewis, of the steamer Elder testi-
fled at Portland that the employees of the
vessel carried whisky, which was sold to
passengers.
Peter Nerdier storekeeper twenty
five miles from Prescott, A. T. has been
murdt rded by man who afterward
robbed the safe.
Many newspapers in Northern Califor-
mia promise to publish dead beat" list
of their subscribers from ssSd after no
vember !.
The land between Ellensburgh, Wash.
and the recently discovered hemitite iron
mines, has advanced 30 to 100 per cent
in value lately.
Charles Perry, an insane person, tried
TO carry off Miss Knox, teacher ut
Salem. Perry followed Miss Knox from
Minnesota.
John Blair, manager for w. r. Me
Knight K Co., at Sacramento, has been
arrested for having female deerskins in
his possession.
James II. Faulkner retained the light
weight wrestling championship in a
match at Tacoma last week with Charles
r. Eyton, of Australia.
A young man named English has been
swindling Portland merchants. He has
been giving them drafts on San Fran
cisco house that has been dissolved
The State Board OF Agriculture has sus-
laIV. ,ft,~., rs III
cock to look after the Los Angeles Fair.
Southern California wanted person from
its section Of the State.
The story that Mrs. Ferry has been
robbed OF large sum OF money at Port
land Is discredited, owing to the fact that
the LADY has not made the robbery pub
lie.
The San Diego grand jury says that
more than 100000 OF the county funds
have been illegally spent, and recon-
lends the removal OF the county super
visors.
The body of Mr.. Enos. superintendent
OF the San Francisco Copper Company at
Campo Sece, who was drowned on the
10th inst, in one OF the mine shafts, has
been recovered.
Curtis Bond, who claims to have been
n member at one time of the California
Legislature, has served his four years in
the Oregon penttentiary on conviction
for forgery, and was released Monday.
The Los Angeles & Pacific railroad,
from Santa Monica to Los Angeles, has
stopped running trains. The track has
been badly washed by the rain, and the
road is making no effort to repair it.
Judge r. +. Sloan, the newly appoint
ed justice Of Arizona, assumed his duties
yesterday at Tucson, appointed Brewster
Cameron CLERK of court and set the
trial of the Wham robbers for November
llth.
A wrestling match has been arranged
between w. III. Quinn OF Victoria and J.
L. Donovan of Australia. The match is
collar and elbow, best three in five, for
1900, and is TO take place at Seattle with
in twelve days.
q q. Brunger, the purser on the
steamer Cyclone, has been arrested at
Portland Tor perjury. 1t is charged that
he testified falsely during recent exam
nation into collision between the steam
ers Alarm and Cyclone.
Mr.. Grunskv. of the corps of engineers
surveying the boundary line of the state
OF California, has just returned to Sacra-
mento from the final survey, and he
states that California gains ,l76 feet in
width, or nearly three-quarters of mile.
The governor of Sonora, Mexico, in
sists upon proof that the three men ar
rested on his territory, charged with the
murder of Barney Martin, his wife and
three chllren, are American citizens be-
fore he will return them to the Amer- |
can authorities.
Fred and Herbert Rolfe and w. A |
Hill, the three young Williams who dis
placed u switch on the Southern Pacific |
Railroad near Albany, Or, in July, caus-
ing the death of Engineer Jack Miller |
and Fireman Guthrie, have been indicted |
for murder in the second degree.
The cases of the United States against
the Willamette Valley and Cascade Wa
son Road and The Dalles Military Read
Ompanies for forfeiture of land grants
,ame up in the United States circuit
,ourt at Portland last week. for argu-
nent as to the sutficiency of the pl MS
nterpoeed by the defendants.
Patsy Griffin, "Happy Jack" Harring-
on and Charles Reed, who were arrest
ii Sunday at Seattle for swindling Major
". +. Howell out of 81 800 in half
interest game, were given preliminary