Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-11-05
THE PACIFIC COAST.
sAoRAMENTo's PACIFIC COAST ia
POSITION IN 1892,
Another stage Robbery-Three oni"e
slers Captured-Horse Tn'eVes
Cap ured-The Boys ana
Girs' Aid Society.

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Eugene City, Or.
Watsonville, Cal, Chinese have iorm'o
4 fire department. d,
Los Angeles now has twenty 'se'0" s
miles of cable roads in operat'oh'
John W. Melcher, Of San jose VA Ca,'
has started pottery near Seattle ""7''
CLAW TAYLOR, the Santa Clara burglar
has been sentenced to prison Tor ten years
JR. Jones was horsewhipped by t~"
Urls at Porterville, Tulare county, re-
Gently.
The Treasurer OF the Arizona Prison
il missing with some OF the
funds.
The customs officers at Port Townsend
cantnred three men with Struggled opium,
The Ellensburg, Or, and Northwestern
Railroad will have cars running III Do'
cember.
The streets given to the Northern IA,
c;6c Terminal Company at Portland, VIII
be reopened.
The Baker City, Or, stage was robbed
of the registered mail on the lo'ii' he"'
Union Creek.
A burning partition fell on Frank Lass
lev at Portland on the 18th, burning nm
30 he may die.
The Elder reached Victoria from Alas,
ka on the Goth with 500 passengers anu
2S. 900 cases of salmon.
The CITY of Pueblo has made the run
from San Francisco to Victoria, b. u, III
fifty hours, beating the record.
Three of bold gang OF horse thieves
have been captured on the Mckenzie
river and taken to Pendleton, Or.
The five prisoners who escaped from
the Lewiston Jail few days ago, have
been captured and are now in jail.
Engineer David Purdvn was lost from
the steamer State of Washington, on the
10Th. between Tacoma ard Seattle.
Fresno. Cal. will vote in November on
the issuance OF 100000 to be used in
grading roads and building bridges.
The Hollister canal and ditch will be
completed by the middle OF November
and 10. 900 acres can then be irrigated.
Lack of iunds has caused the discharge
of many hands in the construction de-
partment of the Mare Island Navy Yard.
Portland, Or, Fire Commissioners
have decided to build fireboat costing
$50, 900, and put in two new engine COM
panies.
James Jones had his leg amputated at
the Seattle Hospital on the 23d, caused
by dry gangreen. 1t is doubtful II he
can recover.
A COW derailed passen .er train OF the
Northern Pacific, near Milton, Or, on the
10th. The engineer and fireman were
seriously injured.
James w. Lawrence, a drunken team
ster, fell under the wheels OF his OWL
wagon at Portland, on tie 2OGh, and was
crushed to death.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company will soon begin the construc
ton OF fine propeller steamer to run OF
the Sound, to cost $250,000.
, The employees of the Los Angeles
Pacific Railroad are expected to go on ;
strike because they have not been pait
their salaries for six months.
/ The anthracite found on Queen Char
: lotte Island is reported to be the best OF
the coast A seam thirty feet in widtl
is said to have been discovered.
b, Mrs Brewster has given 800 900 WORT
a OF property in Paradise Valley, San deg
county, to start a sanitarium for worth,
a poor. The treatment is to be free.
, The Butte, Mont, Board of Trade ha
asked the Secretary of the Interior t
suspend the granting OF patents to ce,
tain lands claimed by the Norther
:, Pacific.
The citizens OF Sacramento have orig
a mated project ior Pacific Coast Expo
n sition in 1892, to be held in their city.
a committee has been appointed to agitat
on the subject.
II Lee Ho, the Chinese actor who con
mltteu Rranu larceny III fOrllanu an
u was escaping to Vancouver, was arreste
in Port Townsend and will be returned t
O Portland for trial.
q Contractors are beginning the wo {
extending the Oregon Pacific from A
hany, Or, TO the summit of the Cascad
Mountains, and expect to complete til
W work this winter.
70 A party of armed men has left Glasgow
y Mont for the Canadian side in search
Charlie Moore, young boy OF that tow
who is supposed TO have been kidnappe
10 by some Cree Indians.
Ii The Boys and Girls Aid Society
At Portland, Or, will create an endowmel
fund OF the $40 900 bequeathed by Mi
Smith. 1t expects gifts OF land upc
r which it will build home.
< Mrs. G. w. Ferry endeavored to b
sc come reconciled to her husband, who
Of suing for divorce at Tacoma, and he r
fused all overtures. 1t is expected tn
the divorce will be granted.
ia An infant child OF Abram Lorona,
r Tombstone, A. t, last week, picked III
~ live scorpin and put it in its mouth. ri
r reptile stung the child's tongue, and
was Il corpse in less than an honr.