Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-29
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
M.tters of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources Tor
the Benefit of Our Readers.

Wallula and Walla Walla are now
by rail.
John p. st. John will make his resi-
dence in California.
Traver, Tulare county, Cal, now
boasts q cheese factory.
The penitentiary OF Washington
Territory is now heated by steam.
A gang Of hoodlums at Victoria at
tackled the salvation army recently.
North Yakima is soon to have a
system Of waterworks to cost 800 900.
Attempts have been made to rob
people while getting on trains at Col
ton.
]. g. Leisure, of Pendleton, has re-
signed the position Of deputy district
at orney.
An effort is to be made in the Ne
vada legislature to obtain charter
for d lottery.
Many arrests have been made on ac-
count of the recent riot at the New
castle mines.
The sealing schooners are all pre-
pairing to leave British Columbia ports
for the north.
The repairing shops Of the Oregon
and Washington Territory road are to
be located at Walla Walla.
The lone highwsymaD appears to
be busily engaged In holding up stage
coaches in northern California.
The wind from eastern Oregon
blows alkali dust which settles on the
glass OF the Fort Candy lighthouse.
A colored man assaulted a pretty
Pasadena girl last week, and il he
had been caught the mob would have
lynohed him.
Large numbers of miners are flock
ing to the gold mines in the Harqua-
Hala mountains in Yuma and Mari
copa counties, A. Il.
John and Fred Mize, who attempted
to murder their father-in-law, Henry
Gallery, at Santa Rosa, will have to
serve one year in San Quentin.
A Chinaman at Sacramento at
tempted to take n stone from rail
road track, to prevent what he thought
would be an accident, and was killed
by q passing train.
The wife of Charles Allen, OF Grass
Valley, has been sent to the insane
asylum. She fancies she is a bird,
tries to initiate its twitterings and at
tempts to climb trees.
John Barry, drunken scoundrel
at Portland, was arrested recently for
whipping his wife's dead body and
dragging it from the bed to the floor
because it would not rise ut his bid
ding.
At u recent meeting of the Column
bia River Fishermen's Protective
Union at Astoria, the price OF salmon
for the next cannery season was set al
81 per fish if caught in cannery nets
and $125 if caught in private nets.
The colored church in Sacramento
had sensation last week, when the
ianitor found number of loud ciga'
arctic pictures in the seat which has
been occupied the previous evening
by a party of young female members
John Foster, who stole a horse from
the neighborhood of Elk Grove, Sac
ramento county, Cal, last month, ane
who left piece OF doggerel after hin
to induce a believe in the proximity
of Black Bart, has been sentenced tt
ten years at San Quentin,
While passengers were being LANDED
from the steamer Point Arena at Lit
tie River, Mendocino county, las
week in a boat, the latter was capsize
and Mrs. Ktlday and the daughter o
an assistant keeper at the light ous'
at Point Arena were drowned.
Lat week, at Bonita, Graham
county, A.. T., several sheepmen wer
grazing their tlocks near the range o
some Chiricahua cattlemen, wh'
wanted the sheepmen to go elsewhere
A battle ensued and five sheep-herder
were killed and one cattlemai
wounded.
There is trouble over land claims a
Los Olives. Squatters are docking
in from all quarters and takini
possession of land ON the Brinkerhoi
and Laguna extension, near the town
The land in dispute is claimed to b
part os the Bell ranch, between Lo
Olives and Lompoc, Santa Barbar
county.
The little daughter of l.. S. kenne
dy, living at Pilot Rock, had a nal
low escape flom death last week. Tw
school-boys were shooting at mark
and while crossing field on her wa
to school the child WAS struck by
passing bullet, intlictiug painful
though not serious wound above tn
right temple.
Charles Johnson, recently an il
mate of the British Columbia peniter
tiary. and now resident of Portland
was engaged last week in circulating
a paper in Victoria headed, "Priso
reform and hidden secrets, brief AZ
count Of the tyrany, injustice and OF
preston practiced in the British CO
lumbia penitentiary." The charge
made against the officials are very st
rious.
George Vanderbilt, the millionair
son OF the late VIM. II. Vanderbilt