Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-10
THE PACIFIC COAST.
TO CONNECT BRITISH COLUMBIA
WITH THE PACIFIC COAST.

| Ad1udg6d lnSane-CiHin5 TO De Hls
Wife-To Defeat High License
Portland Pos masters Re-
Earthquake.
Drytown, Amador county, is having !
! boom.
The Puebla on her last trip north took
800 tons OF fruit from San Francisco
A cork tree in Visalia is now eighteen
inches in diameter and forty feet high.
A stingaree that weighed 900 pounds
! was killed at RedOnda Beach last week
Earthquakes are still shaking Susan
Vile. Five shocks occurred on the 18th
A fire on the old CrCcker ranch, neal
Merced recently, destroyed considerable
grain.
The old and well-knOwn Cucamongo
hotel, eighteen miles east OF Pomona, has
been burned.
Frank Lankrey's house at Mist. Or.
was burned for revenge by some enemy a
few days ago.
A lamp explosion caused the loss OF
the residence OF W. II. Soule, at Wood
/ land on the 29th.
4 strike in the Cover mine at Dry
town, Amador county, shows rock held
together with gold.
Two Harney Valley, Or, settlers are
under arrest for resisting eviction by
/ United States Marshals.
;
The peach crop OF Pomona Valley will
amount to $50 tons. Canneries get the
fruit at l cent per pound.
The work of rebuilding the smelters
I for the Eureka, Consolidated mine at
Eureka, New, has begun.
Jack Murphy, known as "Jack the
Ripper" ," killed James CloOney ut Sack
! vile, Yolo county, on the 29th.
Jose Sauza OF Pomona attempted sui
/ eide on the 2Sth because his daughter
/ had eloped with married man.
I George Cornwall, Jockey, was killed
at San Diego on tht 10Th. While Jump
ing fence his horse fell upon him.
+ John b. Spreckels is said to have pur-
/ chased one-third interest i'll the COro-
nado Beach Company, costing him
+ SOL 900.
/ Owen Morgan is under arrest at Sacra-
mento, charged with attempting to
destroy by fire the Western Hotel i'll
| that city.
/ A whole family OF Flathead Indians
| has been murdered and burned by rob-
/ bers in the Sun River country in
! Montana.
! Sutter county saloonkeepers have com
bined to defeat high license. Three
| have been arrested and warrants are out
/ for seven others.
! The taking OF testimony in the case OF
H. l.. Gorton for the Clipper Gap robbery
/ last December began at Auburn, Placer
county, on the 9th.
The fruit cannery at Marysville ia fill
/ ing a special order for peaches in halt
/ pound cans to be sold on the railroad
trains to passengers.
4 man named Hayes was given one
/ hour to leave Petaluma or five days IN
/ the chain gang for disturbing the Saliva
/ ton Army meeting.
f. l.. Cartenon, travelling agent for Il
/ San Francisco house, has been adJudged
insane at Redding. He is subject during
hot weather to mental trouble.
L. B. Allen and companion, f.om
/ San Diego, who left for Oceanside to sail
a small Yacht down the coast, are missing
and it is feared they are drowned.
Tom Thompson and six other men
who tarred and feathered Gus Brannan
at San Pedro few months ago, have
been found guilty of simple assault.
The salmon canneries on the Fraser
liver are each securing from 5000 tO
$1,000 salmon daily, and the largest pack
in the history OF the industry is assured.
Ambrose Berce has detective work
ing on the Chico tragedy. 1t is believed
bv some that the bullet wound through
! the temple OF young Bierce was not in
tiicted by himself.
J. r. Griffith, from Fresno, has been
on a protracted spree at Traver, and
rather than 20 to Jail cut an artery IN his
arm with a pocket knife. Prompt surgl'
cal aid saved nim.
The mats used to form the jetty il
process of construction at Eureka Har'
4 hor, Humboldt county, are sixty-tOul
feet long, forty feet wide and four feet
thick Each weighs sixty tons when
ready for launching.
In Committee OF the Whole Of the
Montana Convention on the 9th, Ana
conda received 81 votes against "a for the
location of the capital. Great excite
nlent resulted in Helena.
Two cases of death from lighting fires
with coal oil were reported on the 9th
One at Seattle, Mrs Julia Calder, and tlt
/ other near Clay Statian, in Sacramento
county. Mrs Arthur Ralphs.
Attorney II. G Thompson has just re-
turned to Portland from British Column
Dia, where he closed deal with the new
Westminster Southern Railway Com
. panv to connect British Columbia Will
the Pacific Northwest.
The Portland Postmaster's report TO
the fiscal year ended June Both shows
the receipts and payments OF the money
order and postal funds to have peer
+, ,427 ,6l3 ~, as compared with $4,4O3,
: 074 80 last year, an increase OF ,WJ,o0O
/ G. II. Crocker has offered to bear th'
expense OF an expedition from the Llcl
Observatory to Cayt nne, South America
next December, and it is expected a
/ shat time to confirm and extend some o
the
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