Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A MONSTER INDIGNA rION MEETING
AT TACOMA.
Out an Officer-Permits Granted
Reward Off1ereo-A Convict Shot
Charged With Insanity
Father and Son Shot.


Reward Of1ereo-A Convict Shot
Charged With Insanity
Father and Son Shot.
Ventura prohibits grocers from selling
liquors.
| Small -pox is prevalent at SocorEo, New
Mexico.
San Jose is to have an overhead cleo
tric railway.
| Santa Cruz has awarded contract to
build new Jail.
The California State Grange will meet
at San Jose next year.
A Masonic Hall was dedicated at Santa
Fe, N. M, on the Sth.
Tacoma, Wash, is full of hard charac-
! ters and street robbers.
Work on the irrigation canal at Hol-
| lister began on the Sth.
/ w. A. Currie, OF Portland, has been
commissioned notary public.
The Fire Department at San Luis
/ Obispo disbanded on the 8th.
Orange county has fixed the tax rate
at 81 65 Los Angeles at $l.8O.
The new Safe Deposit building at Ia
/ coma will be ten stories high.
/ Five attempts were made to start fires
at Helena, Mont, on the 4th.
Another agricultural implement factory
| is about to be erected at Stockton.
Baker City, Or, was filled with visitors
! last week attending the county falr.
A man-eating shark was captured at
Redondo Beach, Cal, on the 9Th inst
Three-fourths OF the inmates OF the
| Oregon State Prison are morphine eaters.
The Southern Baptist Association be-
! gun its session at San Diego on the 9th.
John Branger killed himself at the
! Santa Clara County lntirmary on the Sth.
! A monster mass-meeting OF indignant
citizens was held at Tacoma on the 8th.
Dakota reports that her wheat crop
this year will be over 40, ,000,OOO bushels.
The retail butchers at Vallejo want
meat peddlers to pay tax OF $lOO quar-
| ter.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights OF
Pythias OF Oregon met at Astoria on the
8th.
Mr.. Stevens of Fanny DAvenport's s
! Company died suddenly at San Diego on
/ the 0th.
Some rubies were found in mining
/ claim near Tia Juana, San Diego county,
recently.
The United States Senate Committee,
en- route to the Pacific Coast, will visit
Portland.
San Diego proposes to offer induce
ments to the Union Pacific to build to
that point.
Ellensburg is determined to enter the
/ Capital contest in Washington with re-
newed vigor.
The carpenters and cabinet-makers at
! Victoria, B. c., are on d strike or nne
hours a day.
Mr.. Sterling, editor of the Ellensburg,
! Wash, Register, has been held in 500
bonds for libel.
Reno people have secured D"nner
| Lake and reservoir site at Nener Lake
| for storage purposes.
Work on the railroad extension from
Knights Landing into Sutter county is
making good progress
Locations are being rapidly filed on the
| placer ground near Ellensburg, Wash,
] II, Hal1 10 nj
The result of the legislative contest in
| Montana will not be definitely determ-
! ined until the official count is announced.
The stockholders of the defunct Peta-
luna and Sebastopol railroad are clamor-
| ing for the return of their subscriptions.
From July II to the 5th OF the present
month, permits have been granted at
Seattle for buildings to the value OF ST.
| 900.
Elmer Chamberlain, while drunk at
Helena. Mont, cut Officer Mckenzie
from his ear to his throat with knife.
He may recover.
Judge Snow of Douglas county, Wash.
recently elected State Senator, had his
leg broken at EIlensburg on the 9Th in a
fall from buggy.
Bert Jackson, who murdered William
R. Melvin last May in FL Dorado county
has been found guilty with a penalty OF
life imprisonment.
The G. A. R. General Committee at
Los Angeles insists that change should
he made in the management of the Santa
/ Monica Soldiers Home.
The second trial of Richard Lee for the
murder of William Duncan in the little
town Of Gallatin, near Downey, IN 1871
has begun at Los Angeles
Judge Hanford, of Seattle, on the 10th
inst. sentenced two notorious crooks to
the penitentiary, each receiving fourteen
wears. That is as it should be.
The mysterious murder of Crosby at
Tacoma. Wash, has caused the citizens
in public assemblage to denounce the
! whole police government OF the city
Dan Iilroy of CiiIroy got drunk and
criminally assaulted lady, Mrs Leaves
lev. eighty wears old, who had raised the
fellow from the time he was child.
The Washington republicans have
elected ninety-eight members of the leg
islature. The democrats have seven
members, barely enough for caucus.
The sum of $4,000 has been offered by
the citizens of Tacoma for the arrest and
conviction of the man who shot and
killed young Crosby at that place on the
9th inst.
MANY workingmen have been drawn to