Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-23
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE FEARFUL LEAP OF A PORT
LAND LANDLORD.
The Selection of the Site for the New
Navy Yard-A Man and Wife Con-
victed of Murder in Nevada
"A Levee Breaks.

duction of the electric light.
The Brownsville woolen mills will re
move their plant to Albany.
The clock on the dome of the court
house at Redding will cost $1700.
The saloonkeepers of Sacramento hav
organized protective association.
The Oceanic steamers have stopped
running to Samoa and New Zealand.
A man in Linkyille has filed home
stead claim on the courthouse block.
The fall and spring sowing is reported
in excellent condition in all parts of East
ern Oregon.
Great suffering is reported among The
miners who have focked to the Lowe
California gold fields.
Heavy storms, with land slides, inter
fered with travel on the California & Or
egon road last week.
A second attempt to fire the Roth
child building was made at Port Town
send Wednesday night.
The bill introduced in the California
legislature to exempt mortgages from tax
alton has failed to pass.
Four men were arrested at Bakersfield
CAL, Wednesday on suspicion of beinG
the Pixley train robbers.
Mrs. James Bulger, of San Francisco
was horribly burned Thursday by the ex
plosion of coal oil can.
Jennie Hamilton, of Victoria, has be-
come insane through attending the meet
ings of the salvation army.
Near Gilroy, Cal, Friday, two men un
earthed can which contained gold dust
and nuggets valued at $1,000.
A break in the levee at Knights Land
ing, Cal, Friday, and part of the towr
and many farms are inundated.
The sheriff of Malheur county captured
a crazy man with lasso and carried hin
to the insane asylum last week.
George Taylor, of Marysville, Cal, fel
beneath a moving train Thursday and his
head was severed from the body.
John McEhron and wife have been ar.
rested at Port Townsend charged with
the murder of their six children.
Some excitement prevails at Spokane
Falls over the discovery of silver at g
point 20 miles north of that place.
o. P. Beardsley, OF Eola, shot and
killed T. L. Perryman Thursday. The
killing was the result of an old feud.
D. C. Darlington was acquitted at Los
Angeles Friday for the killing of Pat Null
len during an election riot last December
Marvin Craven, bookkeeper for the
Los Angeles Planning Mill company, has
left the city $4,000 short in his accounts
The stone dry dock at Vallejo, CAL, is
to be completed at once. 1t has been
seventeen years in course of construc'
ton.
Cornelius H. Hanford, recently ap
pointed chief justice of Washington terri
tory, has been a resident OF Seattle since
1856.
1t is announced that Mexico will de-
clare martial law in Lower California in
the event of trouble at the Santa Glars
mines.
Paul Schulze land agent of the North.
ern Pacific railroad, had one of his toes
taken off by stray bullet at Tacoma
Sunday night.
w. H. Stone was convicted at Hollis
ter, Cal, Wednesday, of murder in the
second degree for the killing of G. H. Wa
ters last July.
A school-house was blown down dur
ing heavy storm at San Diego, Friday
A teacher and one of the pupils were Sc
riously injured.
The commission appointed to select {
site for the new navy yard has secured
the option on 1000 acres OF land at Port
Orchard, opposite Seattle.
Governor Swineford, just returned
from Alaska, reports the discovery of {
number Of rich gold strikes on Admiralty
island IS miles from Sitka.
Julia Mannix, formerly of Portland
has brought suit in the San Francisco
courts against her brother for $299 fol
services rendered as housekeeper.
Josiah and Elizabeth Potts were founC
guilty of murderin the first degree at Ell
ko, New, Friday, for the killing of Miles
Faucette at Carlin, anuary, 1888.
Frank Avery, chief of the San DiegC
fire department, who was recently ar
rested on the charge of stealing shoes a
fire, was discharged Wednesday.
The man arrested at Nanaimo on sus
picion of being Tascott, the murderer o
millionaire Smell, of Chicago, turns ou
to be a deserter from the British war
ship Icarus.
Several towns on the Northern Pacifi,
have been victimlzed by one Gordon whC
represents himself as agent for the "Wes
Shore" magazine. He is in jail at Bill
lings, Mont.
A thousand citizens of Colusa county
Cal, visited Sacramento Saturday t
urge Governor Waterman to sign the bill
recently passed by the legislature divid
ing the county.
Excitement in Southern California
towns over the alleged gold discoveries il
Lower California is abating. 1t is sale
that the hoax was started by the Inter
national company.
The ordinance making it a misde
meanor for proprietors of public places t.
allow minors under eighteen to pla.
cards or pool, will be strictly enforced b.
the San Francisco police.
Charles G. Scott, one of the proprietor
of the Ebbitt house, Portland, COMMITTEES
suicide Friday night while temporarily
insane, by jumping from a third-story
window to the pavement below, a dis
tance of fifty feet.