Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-19
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
A VALUABLE OPIUM SEIZURE Al
SAN FRANCISCO.
The Effort to Reduce Trancontinentai
Fruit Rates Unsuocessful-Theo Or
Ganization OF a New Steam
ship Company.

tOIt W eooe yAot0oO'
Californians are now utilizing peach
and apricot pits as fuel.
The towboat combination has been
broken in San Francisco.
Washington Territory raised 6,544, 393
pounds OF hops last year.
Governor Swineford has rendered his
resignation to the President.
Safe-crackers are plying their vocation
along the line of the o. and G. road.
Another roorback of fabulous gold dis
coveries in Lower California is reported
1t is thought that the new navy yard
will be established at Lake Washington
Victoria, B. c., has extended its city
limits and absorbed several small towns.
Judge David S. Terry was released
from the Alameda county Jail last Sun
day.
Kirk, the embezzling clerk of the Ma
deau house, Los Angeles, got away with
$4,000.
The Union Pacific, it is reported, will
run trains into Tacoma within few
weeks.
Four witnesses have been arrested for
perjury in the celebrated Wickersham Sc
duction case.
Claus Spreckles has been sued for
SO 900 damages for diverting the waters
of Aptos creek.
A question has been raised as to the
constitutonality OF the new city charter
OF Los Angeles.
George Brown, an inmate of the insane
ASYLUM at Salem, committed suicide last
week by hanging.
Immense quantities of iron for various
motor lines in the vicinity Of Portland
are arriving daily.
Charles E. Rose, formerly of Ogdens-
burg, N. Y, committed suicide at Los
Angeles Thursday.
The selection of the site for the new
postoffice at San Francisco has not yet
been decided upon.
Charles w. Skeels, the Spokane Falls
saloon-keeper who was shot by Bronco
Liz, died Sunday night.
Henry Lewis, convict at San Quen'
tin, was stabbed to death by some I'M
known party last week.
Under the new city charter the salooI
license at Salem has been increased from
$3.50 to $3.50 per annum.
A council was held at Fort Spokane
Tuesday with the view of consolidating
the tribes on the Colville reservation.
Two natural gas explosions occurred
at Pittsburg, Wednesday, wrecking tiv,
buildings and iniuring several persons.
The California legislature, Friday, re
fused to reconsider the vote making it
misdemeanor to publish lottery drawings
N. B. Breckenridge, who victimizeC
several Seattle business men by means
of forged checks, was released last week
, The announcement is made of a reduc
ton from $l.10 to 80 cents per ion
pounds in transcontinental canned frui
rates.
There is less snow ON the mountain
than was ever known at this time c
year. This, it is said, argues very DIR
summer.
Parson McGhee was hanged in effigy a
position to the o. & w. 7. railroad goin
, to that place.
Two thousand dollars worth of gan
} blers' paraphernalia was destroyed by tn
sheriff in front of the courthouse a
Seattle, Saturday.
, Charles w. Skeels, soloon-keeper {
, Spokane Falls, was shot and fatal
! wounded Friday morning by his wifi,
q known as "Bronco Liz"
Daniel Callahan, who, with James {
Flood and others, established the Firs
National Gold bank, of San Francisc,
died at that place last week.
e Captain Paul Boynton passed throug
9 Seattle Friday on his way to the Strait
| of Juan del Fuca, in quest of twelve Sc
lions for Lincoln park, Chicago.
| The collapsed enterprise, known as tn
$ Tenth street hotel, Los Angeles, ha
/ been sold for $4,000. The hotel will b
) completed at cost of 81 100000.
a The West Coast Steamship compan
i filed articles of incorporation at Sa
Francisco Saturday. The line is in oppt
=, sition to Goodall, Perkins & Co.'S line.
The official canvass of Nevada's recer
e election shows the lottery scheme to b
defeated by a majority of S52, and t
} abolish the office of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
} by 1858.
A boy was struck by lightning from
cloudless sky in Los Angeles county, Las
5 week, and killed. THE reporter who col
t ceiyed the above should change his bran
| of liquor.l
: DR.. Edwin w. Fowler, of San Franci,
. co, member of the Bancroft Histor
q company, was knocked down and robbie
by two well-dressed men at Los Angelo,
Sunday night.
: The Southern Pacific company ha
> closed contract with the Pullman con
pany, by which the latter will tax
charge OF all second-class tourist cars run
: ming on that road.
In tearing down an old adobe wall 6
= Lompoc, CAL, recently, an adobe wa
, taken out which had the perfect imprir
4 OF child's foot. The wall was COL
structed about one hundred years ago.
One OF the largest seizures of opiur
on the Pacific Coast was that made i
. San Francisco last week. The drug wa
: concealed in barrels labeled &c sour circuit.
and was detected because of its lightnes,
Inc value OF the seizure was $4,000.
The effort to reduce transcontinel rats
v ennnad moods . N