Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-12
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Az OPIUM sUGGLER ARRESTED
NEAR TACOMA
A Scandal in CaAfornis-The Sea tss
City Council The Chinese Exo-
dus-A Duel at AEsor1a-A
Big Opium Trust.

I>sIi's watermelon crop il fine
Reno complains OF counterfeit dollars.
santa Ros4s public schools are closed.
| Residing sold her per cent bonds al
par
Grass Valley is to have a brick post
office.
r. II. johnson has purchased the Napa
Reporter.
Heavy timber fires are in progress near
Helena, VI. r.
The losses bv the Guijotoa ere are PIT
down 1T 1890.
| j. C. Kline WAS acquitted Of murder at
Seattle on the 20fb
stocbton's new jail viii cost 10000
and have forty cells.
Tie Masons are 20 build magnificent
temple ST Portland, Or.
| Ii is claimed that young Lady living
near Sacramento In ieper.
| santa Barta DOES not speak enooursg-
ingiy VI it's lirna-isan crop.
Tacoma, w. T., Is To have combined
srrDory aud exposition hall.
The greater number OF the 100 hands
in the Colusa cannery are girls.
Seattle insurance companies lost hut
1900 by the fire at Vancouver.
Teachers IN Butte county don't ike to
work during tlie summer months.
I,r Bowers, the san Francisco wife
murderer, has been granted new trial.
A ,-foot s.an-.ating shark was cap
tured off the wharf al ran Diego recently.
Portland has been restrained from
building City Hall ON one OF the public
plazas.
Newspaper men in Oakland, Cal, seem
10 ts badly tangled up in first-class
.candle
Flossie Lord near Grass Valley is still
unrayeled.
Grounds for an agricultural park have
been laid out between san Bernardino
and Cotton.
The Grand Army posts at Sacramento
are 10 erect a monument in the city ceme-
terry twelve feet high.
A large seetioD Of the roof Of the I'm
perial Mil at Oregon City, Or. blew of
in gale on the 9th.
Charles Hawkins, colored, the old body
servant OF Jefferson Davis, died al Suffer
Creek, g. l., on the 27th.
John Wilson, OF Linn county, Or, has
been sent TO the penitentiary, at Salem,
for two wears for burglary
! A big opium trust has been formed in
| Hong Kong causing considerable rise
ia the drug in this country.
! Increase Of pensions has been granted
to Anderson Il. MoDick and b. j Bondu-
rant, Of Washington Territory.
james Wickersham, the seducer Of
! sadie Brantner, has occurred change Of
| venue from Seattle 10 Tacoma.
| Judge j. r. Sullivan is visiting the
| Catholic institutes in Southern California
and is l.eing 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 of by a
| freight train near Pendlelon, Or, last
| week, from which he died shortly after
!
The Indian Agents efforts To have
'squaw men" indicted for trespassing on
the reservations in Montana has failed.
! Captain Emory has been voted out OF
the colored military company at Sacra-
mento Tor alleged misappropriation Of
| funds.
| John Drouillel, charged with the muir
der OF Pedro Ribcros on board the steam
or Corona in March last, has been ac-
quilted
| II IN reported that j. NJ Donahue and
| other capitalists intend Ia put up a winery
AT i.iiton Springs that will hold 900, 900
gallons.
The Governor has pardoued the Chi
nese leper who WIS placed in the Sacra-
mento county Jail Tor non-payment OF his
poil-,ax,
! The corner stone OF the new st. Mary's
| Catholic Home was laid at Beaverton
near Portland, Or, recently. II will cost
sl25 900,
| Louis Wertheimer in under arrest AT
| Butte, NJ, r., charged with tampering
with a money order. lie il from San
| Francisco.
The metal from burst Jaw in Wala
| Walla saymill struck Grant Copeland in
/ the forehead and nearly severed the top
of his head.
| In u duel al Astoria on the 27th between
John Boldt and John Lucas, the latter
received a pistol shot in the neck. They
| we're both fishermen.
A riot took place ut Il Chinese theater,
San Francisco, last week in which eggs,
cabbage, stools, chairs, etc were used
| No serious damage Was done.
Frank 7. Taylor, a lawyer oi Tulare
county publicly asserts that Governor
| Waterman told him that Oregon Sanders
would bc appointed supreme Judge.
The steamer X. X. Thompson. on her
| trip up from Astoria on the 18th burst
one al her cylinders. The Willamette
Chief lowed the disabled steamer to Port
| land
| \ smnvgler arrested near Tacoma with
a hagful OF opium declars that smuggling
| is extensively carried on and many men
| devote their whole tiine to the unlawful
| traffic.
/ Seattle authorities took charge of the
administration of affairs on the 10Th
One hundred regular and special police
| took the place oi the militia which for
twenty -four hours was held in reserve