Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-19
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters Of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit of Our Readers.

Fresno tailors are striking for better
wages.
Albuquerque, N. NJ, built 800 houses
last year.
Wallula and Walla Walla are now
connected by rail.
John P. St. John will make his resi-
dence in California.
Traver, Tulare county, Cal, now
boasts a 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 $lOO,OOO.
Attempts have been made to rob
people while getting on trains at Col
ton.
&c. 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 a charter
fer a 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 highwaymaD 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 co,ored man assaulted a pretty
Pasadena girl last week, and if he
had been caught the mob would have
lynched him.
Large numbers of miners are flock
ing to the gold mines in the Harqua-
Hala mountains in Yuma and Mari
copa counties, A. t.
John and Fred Mize, who attempted
to murder their father-in-law, Henry
Caffery, at Santa Rosa, will have to
serve one year in San Quentin.
A Chinaman at Sacramento at
tempted to take a stone from rail
road track, to prevent what he thought
would be an accident, and was killed
by 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 imitate 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 at his bid
ding.
At recent meeting of the Colum-
bia River Fishermen's Protective
Union at Astoria, the price of salmon
for the next cannery season was set at
81 per fish if caught in cannery nets
and $125 if caught in private nets.
The colored church in Sacramento
had a sensation last week, when the
ianitor found a number of loud ciga-
arctic pictures in the seat which has
been occupied the previous evening
by parry of young female members.
John Foster, who stole horse from
the neighborhood of Elk Grove, Sac
ramento county, Cal, last month, and
who left a piece OF doggerel after HIM
to induce believe in the proximity
of Black Bart, has been sentenced to
ten years at San Quentin.
While passengers were being landed
from the steamer Point Arena at Lit
tie River, Mendocino county, last
week in a boat, the latter was capslze
and Mrs. Kilday and the daughter OF
an assistant keeper at the light house
at Point Arena were drowned.
Last week, at Bonita, Graham
county. A. T., several sheepmen were
grazing their focks neal the range OF
some Chiricahua cattlemen, who
wanted the sheepmen to go elsewhere.
A battle ensued and five sheep-herders
we're killed and one cattleman
wounded.
There is trouble over land claims at
Los Olivos. Squatters are docking
in from all quarters and taking
possession of land on the Brinkerhotf
and Laguna extension, near the town.
The land in dispute is claimed 10 be
part os the Bell ranch, between Los
Olivos and Lompoc, Santa Barbara
county.
The little daughter of L. S. Kenne-
DIV. living at Pilot Rock, had a mar
low escape flom death last week. Two
school-boys were shooting at mark,
and while crossing a field on her way
to school the child was struck by a
passing bullet, inficting painful
though not serious wound above the
right temple.
Charles Johnson, recently an in
mate of the British Columbia peniten-
tiarv, and now resident of Portland
was engaged last week in circulating
paper in Victoria headed, "Prison
reform and hidden secrets, brief &C
count of the tyrany, injustice and op-
preston practiced in the British 20