Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-07-06
THE PACIFIC COAST.
AN OPIUM SUGGLER ARRESTED
NEAR TACOMA.
A Scandal in Caifornia-The Sea tie
City Council-The Chinese Exo-
dus-A Duel at Astoria-A
Big Opium Trust.

Santa Rosas public schools are closed.
Redding sold her per cent bonds al
par.
Grass Valley is to have brick post
office.
f. z. Johnson has purchased the Napa
Reporter.
Heavy timber fires are in progress near
Helena, NJ. T.
The losses bv the Quijotoa fire are PM
down at $4,000.
&c. Kline was acquitted of murder al
Seattle on the 20th.
Stockton's new Jail will cost 1000
and have forty cells.
The Masons are to build magnificent
temple at Portland, Or.
1t is claimed that young lady living
near Sacramento is leper
Santa Barba does not speak encourag-
ingly OF its lima-bean crop.
Tacoma, W. T., is TO have a combined
armory and exposition hall.
The greater number of the 100 hands
in the Colusa cannery are girls.
Seattle insurance companies lost hui
$1,000 by the fire at Vancouver.
Teachers in Butte county don't like tC
work during the summer months.
DIR. Bowers, the San Francisco wife
murderer, has been granted new trial
A 9-foot man-eating shark was cap
tured off the wharf at San Diego recently
Portland has been restrained from
building City Hall on one OF the public
plazas.
Newspaper men in Oakland. Cal, seen
to be badly tangled up in first class
scandle.
The mystery attending the death o
Flossie Lord near Grass Valley is still
unraVeled.
Grounds for an agricultural park have
been laid out between san BernardlnC
and Cotton.
The Grand Army posts at Sacramento
/ terv twelve feet high.
A large section OF the roof of the I'm
/ perai Mill at Oregon City, Or, blew OF
in a gale on the 9th.
Charles Hawkins, colored, the old body
servant of Jefferson Davis, died at Suttel
Greek, c. l., on the 9th.
John Wilson, OF Linn county, Or, har
/ been sent to the penitentlary, at Salem
! ior two wears for burglary.
| A big opium trust has been formed il
! Hong Kong, causing considerable rlst
in the drug in this country.
Increase OF pensions has been granted
to Anderson B. Monick and B. }. Bondu
rant, OF Washington Territory.
James Wickersham, the seducer o
| Sadie Brantner, has secured a change o
venue from Seattle TO Tacoma.
Judge j. +. Sullivan is visiting th'
Catholic institutes in Southern California
and is being loyalty entertained.
There is nothing new in the situation
at Seattle. The police have full control
and rebuilding is going on rapidly.
A tramp had his foot cut off by
! freight train near PendledOn, Or, las
week, from which he died shortly after
The Indian Agents efforts to have
"suuaw men" indicted for trespasslng OF
the reservations in Montana has tailed
CAPTAIN Emory has been voted ont
the colored military company at Sacra
mento for alleged misappropriation o
funds.
John Drouilled, charged with the muir
der of Pedro Riberos on board the steam
/ er Corona in March last, has been ac
quilted.
If is reported that j. NJ. Donahue an(
other capitalists intend toput up wlner.
at Litton Springs that will hold 100000
gallons.
The Governor has pardoned the Chi
nese leper who was placed i'll the Sacra
mento county Jail for non-payment OF hi
poll-tax.
The corner stone OF the new st. Mary
Catholic Home was laid at Beaverton
near Portland, Or, recently. 1t will COS
| 1925, 600.
louis Wertheimer is under arrest a
Rutte NJ. T., charged with tamperln!
with money order. He is from Sal
| Francisco.
The metal from burst saw in Wall'
WaIIa sawmill struck Grant Copeland II
tha forehead and nearly severed the toI
of his head.
In aduel at Astoria on the 9th betweeI
Iohn Boldt and John Lucas, the latte
received pistol shot IN the neck. Inc.
were both fishermen.
A riot took place at a Chinese theater
San Francisco, last week. IN which eggs
cabbage. stools, chairs, etc, were used
No serious damage was done.
Frank P. Taylor, a lawyer OF Tular
oonntv nublicly asserts that Governo
Waterman told him that Oregon Sander
would be appointed Supreme Judge
The steamer r. R. Thompson, on he
| trim nm from Astoria on the 2Ith. ours
"na a of her cylinders. The Willamett
Chief towed the disabled steamer TO Fort
land.
A smuggler arrested near Tacoma Wit
a bagful OF opium declars that smugghn
is extensively carried on and many mel
devote their whole time to the unlaWiu
traffic.
The Chinese Consul at San Franclsc
saws that in ten years, judging from tn
nresent exodus Of Chinese, there Will no
be 10 900 Cinnamon left in the unite'
States.