Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-20
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS
EXPLODED.
The United States Grand Jury at Port
Tonnsend, Indict Herbert Beecher,
VIM. Harmed and Quincy A.
Brooks for Malfeasance.

Bees are not permitted in Los An
geles.
At Lodi, Cal. 5000 acres are planted to
watermelons.
The Canyon Diablo train robbers have
been captured.
A large hotel for tourists is to be built
at Santa Rosa.
The police at Los Angeles have closed
all gambling games.
Carson, New, has succeeded in stamp
ing out the smallpox.
An artesian well, 1000 feet deep, is to
be bored at Alila, Cal.
Fully 10000 people are now out OF
work in San Francisco.
Marysville, Cal, is now. making large
shipments OF strawberries.
Ex-senator Vrooman dropped dead at
Oakland, Cal, Wednesday.
Two colored men have been placed on
the Los Angeles police force.
Miss Verona Baldwin has been sent to
the insane asylum at Napa.
Rev. Samuel Miller, OF Scio, dropped
dead OF apoplexy Thursday.
A. Crab fell in a cellar at Wallula,
last week, breaking his neck.
A band of ten Indians are creating ter
ror on the Colville reservation.
Mrs. L. G. Anderson cut her throat
with razor at Spokane Falls Thursday.
The relief station at Point Barrow,
Alaska, will not be established this year.
Ex-Lord High Sheriff Hubbell, OF Lon
don, England, was in san Francisco last
week.
The head of fireman killed in rail
road accident near Reno last week could
not be found.
The old board of directors of the Ore
gon and California Railroad company
have been reelected.
A Chinaman fell on a gang-saw at
Port Discovery, Saturday, and his head
was severed from the body.
The canned fruit organization at San
Francisco is again making an effort to re-
duce transcOntlnental rates.
Absolom Parker, stage driver at Spo-
kone Falls, was Shot and killed last week
by his employer, Frank Martin.
Mrs. A. F. Webber, 81 years old, fell
fifteen feet eff bridge and horse fell
on her at Collegeville, Cal, last week.
John Kelly, of Portland, has been ap-
, pointed by the governor to represent the
state at the Worlds exposition at Paris.
w. Parberry, aged 80, was found dead
on the poarch OF his cabin, five miles
above Volcano. He had been murdered.
The California powder works at Pi-
mule, Cal, exploded Wednesday, Instant
| ly killing S. NJ. Swan, and injuring Z.
Sessing.
The Sacramento Board Of Trade is Sc
riously considering the matter OF the pro-
posed branch railroad to Amador county
direct from that city.
Santa Rosa, Cal, is making prepara-
tions to protect itself against the hood
| lum element which visits that place dur
| ing the picnic season.
Miss May Carroll's eyes, it is feared,
were entirely destroyed by lotion APP
piled to her face for neuralgia by Los
Angeles druggists clerk.
The book-keeper who stole $500 from
| the First National Bank of Butte, Nj. L.
was captured at Helena and taken to
Butte.
! G.. w. Callahan has been arrested at
Los Angeles for passing forged checks.
! He, it is believed, is the same person who
victimized people OF Stockton.
A wharf 2OOO feet long is projected for
Santa Monica. Los Angeles is raising
subscriptions for the work, and Santa
! Monica will give 900 toward 1t.
A judgement was entered at San Diego
+ last week for $S6,36O, with $500 addi-
tional for counsel fees, against the ex-
Mission Land and Water company.
Six men have been arrested at Ban
ming. Cal, for unlawfully seizing and inn
prisoning A. Knight, a rancher, whom
the men had accused of stealing cattle.
A boy by the name Of O'Donnell, alias
A. NJ. Allen, OF Texas, was sent to Jail at
Red Bluff, Wednesday, for one month
for forging a pass on the o. r. q. n. rail-
road.
A sensation has been created at Los
Angeles by the statement that W. n.
Monroe, mayor of Monrovia, has fled to
Mexico to escape prosecution for sharp
practices.
The United States grand jury at Port
Townsend has indicted Herbert Beecher,
William Harmed and Quincy A. Brooks
for malfeasance while in charge OF the
custom house at that place.
Mayor Moran, of Seattle, W. t. has
suspended Chief of Police Mitchell for
malfeasance in office and nominated Cap
tain Willard to act in his stead. The
charge against Mitchell is colluslon with
gamblers.
E.B. Clifford, of San Diago, has match
ed Otto Rex against McCarthy's Lena
Wilkes for $1,000. The trot is to come of
at Los Angeles some time in next Decem-
Der. San Diagans regard Otto Rex as
world-beater.
Pat Bagin, rancher with family,
living five miles from Susanvllle, Cal,
was found near his house Thursday
night in a pond of water dead, with
rope around his neck, the rope being at
tached to stone.
The people of San Luis Obispo propose
to give the Southern PACING railroad,
from Santa Margharita to San Luis, the
right-of-way from the mouth OF the tun,
mel to the city, and also the railroad
grounds for depots, etc.
A decision in the railroad commission
case in Oregon, where appointments were