Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-21
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE WILLAMETTE COLLEGE GETS
A $40 600 LEGABY.
A Collision in the Bay at San FRANCISCO
Fishermen Drowned-HeaVy
Rains In the Northwest
-Newsy Items.


Real estate prices are improving in
Santa Rosa
Santa Ana's Flower Festival ended on
the 18th inst.
The next q. A. r. reunion will be held
at Red Bluff.
The salmon pack on the Columbia is
declared unsatisfactory.
D.L. Hackett of the Napa Reporter, Is
still reported to be missing.
susanville, Cal, experienced a sharp
earthquake shock last week.
-Four fishermen were drowned in the
Cascade Falls, Or, last week.
A Philadelphia firm will put up glace
fruit at Santa Cruz this season.
The terracotta works at Elsinore are
daily turning out 1900 feet OF pipe.
Work on the Monterey and Pacific
Grove Railway is to begin at once.
Woodland has organized "a Business
Mems Association and Board OF Trade.
On the 2Sth inst, Benicia honored
Minister MlHIleI Will u Pup.N "N
In five wears the Fresno raisin-growers
expect to harvest yearly l,5OO,0o0 boxes.
Her Majesty's ship Espiegel, sailed
last week from Victoria, B. G., Tor Homo
lulu.
San Bernardino county employs four
teen more school teachers this than last
year.
Tacoma is making great preparations
for the rowing matches, to come OIL TINS
month.
Elsinor claims to be Matching chickens
by aid OF the hot water of the sulphur
springs.
David G. Harky was run over by a
street car last week at San Jose, and died
the next day.
Seven men have been arrested for
tarring Gus Brannan, a Swedish Latharlo
of San Pedro.
A lodgin-house and a cottage adjoining,
were destroyed by fire, in San Bernar-
dino, the Both inst.
b Hailstone, engineer at the Agnews
insane asylum, dropped dead on the 18th
from heart disease.
George Walty, Il Norwegian, committed
suicide Il few days ago at San Diego by
blowing his brains out.
Willamette College will get $4,000
legacy from the late Father Wilbur, a
noted Methodist missionary.
Two tramps broke into the station
house at Fountain, Col, killed the oper-
ator and robbed him of 500.
IL. l.. Storey denies publicly that he
has sold his interest In the Coronado
Beach Hotel to the Spreckels.
Francisco Martina, a cook at Gallup, N.
NJ, attacked his his employer last week
and was shot, probably fatally.
Rose Bennett has been sentenced to
twelve months Imprisonment for killing
Frank Graves at Anaconda, M. I.
The Mount Shasta District Society will
hold fair in Yreka, commencing Octo-
Der I'd and continuing four days.
Caterpillars are infesting fruit trees in
the vicinity of Santa Rosa. 1t is feared
| that they will ravage the orchards.
Archbishop Goss, head of the Catholic
church OF Oregon, has gone to Rome tc
confer with Pope Leo on church business.
A sandstone blew along the river be-
tween Arlington, Or, and The Dalles
last week, blocking the railroad track
near Wallace.
August Dietrich tried to sell beer at the
Odd Fellows picnic at Lakeside, Sar
Diego county, last week, but was driver
away by force.
The Canadian Pacific steamer Sar
donyk, loaded with cannery supplies, was
beached in the Skeena river, having
struck rock.
At Seattle, w. T., last week, VIM. D.
Kelly was shot and MORALLY wounded
while attempting to rob the cabin of two
saloon keepers
The recent heavy rains all through the
Northwest give promise OF the larges
crops ever raised in Oregon and Wash
ington Territory.
The band of hostile Indians that was
reported few days ago as having killet
a rancher at Deer Creek, near Deming
n. NJ, is without foundation.
William Wohlfrom killed Matt Fiegle
near Blacks Staten, Cal, on the 2Sth
The quarrel originated in the smashin!
OF buggy and the payment of damages
Charles Schmidt, editor of Nord Cali
tornia Herald, in Sacramento, while run
ming in the fat mems race at picnic, OF
the 18th inst, had one of his legs broken
At San Francisco on the 2Sth a COLI
sion occurred in the bay between tn,
British ships Dunfallan and Queen Vic
toria. in which both were considerabl,
damaged.
The new temperance temple of tn,
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
recently erected at the corner of Fort an,
Temple streets, Los Angeles, at cost o
$4,000, was dedicated recently.
Governor Waterman saws he thorouphl
concurs in the views taken by Genera
Nandever as to the acquisition of Lave
California, and in fact is more fayorabl,
impressed with the country than he is.
Luois Beer got drunk, wrote lette
telling his wife to take his property an,
so TO thunder, and then drowned him
self IN a reservoir at Los Angeles, las
week. He was Swiss, 80 years of age
Mrs. Mildred Cowan, living on DIVA
mash river, near Seattle, w. T., was ser
iously wounded in an arm by a glancin
ball from rifle, which was held by he
husband, on the 2Sth. The bail strucI
the floor first.
Mrs, Marette shot and killed 'profes
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