Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-07
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE FATHER OF YOUNG GIBBS
IN PORTLAND.
Swindled Out of $4,000 by a Conf
dence Man-Cyclone in California.
Republican Convention at
Juneau, Alaska.


Juneau. Alaska.
The Union Pacific will build into Los
Angeles.
A Tacoma hospital has a new $500
ambulance.
McMinnville's electric light plant is
ready for work.
The orange crop promises to be light
bgt of first quality.
IL. w. Quimby has brought $4,000
stallion to Portland.
Sonoma county, Cal, has Deen visit
ed by disastrous cyclone.
W.P. Roster, of Seattle, suicided.
He was small cigar dealer.
The Boston mine near Fairhaven
promises to pay $1,000 day.
Two American seamen were drowned
in a squat at Por: Townsend.
The mileage of the Washington legs-
lators will foot up about 5000.
Cortland is trying to arrange for a
tactic coast militia tournament.
British firms will contest the present
foreign pilotage charges at San Francisco.
The Pacific coast chamber OF com
merce recommends national bankrupt
law
Two persons lost their lives and many
more were injured in fire at Arcata,
Cal.
II. H. Boyce, of the Los Angeles
Tribune, has been indicted for black
mail.
Lalpande has raised the subsidy requi'
site to tie building OF its railroad to
Elgin.
The Puget Sound university at Tacoma
has borrowed $4,000 for building pur-
poses.
The Portland laundry, the largest
north OF San Francisco, burned. Loss,
$4,000.
Barney Heller and J. Forbes, railroad
EMPLOYEES, were killed in an accident at
Oswego.
Blackfoot, Idaho, lost the insane asy-
lum by fire, Loss, three lives and
$4,000.
Tacoma is preparing statistics to in
duce the department to increase its pos
tai facilities.
Philip En.le, of Pasadena, shot and
killed his brother-in-law w. Il. Curtis,
in quarrel.
The first term of court ever held in
Franklin county, Washington, is IN SEES
sion at Pasco.
The National Grange favors the cleo
ton of United States senators by direct
vote of the people.
Five thousand miners are ont of en-
ployment as result Of the great mine
fires at Anaconda.
Colonel Parker, Of Walla Walla, esti-
mates the cost OF a lutte mill in the penl-
Tertiary at $4,000
Middleton and Georgetown, Mime
sofa, are quarantined on account OF cpl
demic dyphthetia.
Robert Forsyth was killed at Portland
by the discharge of a revolver, accident
ally dropped by Frank Lester.
An Intellectual effort at jailbreak was
made last week at Walla Walla by two
prisoners with long sentences.
A. F. Hofeditz murdered his aged
father at Anaconda. Temporary incan-
ity is thought to have been the cause.
Mayor DeLashmutt, OF Portland, has
realized $l43,000 in cash from a recent
sale of Cpur d'Alene mining property.
Search is still being made, and re-
wards vet open, for the arrest OF those
who robbed the Linkville stage OF 1870.
Suits aggregating $4,000, for damages
sustained by burned grain, were filed In
one day at Salem against the Southern
Pacific.
A steamship brought last week S.
600 600 in gold from Australia to San
Francisco. 1t was all in English SOW
ereigns.
NJ. Collins, a bungling amateur at
Chico, stabbed l.. }. Damn IN duel
scere. The wound was severe but not
dangerous.
]. ]. Smith, OF Baker CITY, has a
beautiful gold brick worth $1,000, the re-
suit of five days run of the Golden
Monarch mill.
The new electric street railway COM
panv at Seattle, with a capital stock OF
$1,000, 900, guarantees to run cars into
Ballard by next May.
The father OF Gibbs, the murderer,
has arrived in Portland. He is Il lawyer
and federal office-holdcr OF high standing
in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The last act of Governor Moore was the
pardon of William Murphy, imprisoned
for manslaughter, after serving eleven
wears in the Walla Walla penitentlary.
The 0. r. & n. will hereafter be man
aoed from Omaha. Several departments
will be transferred from Portland,
though nominal heads of departments
will be retained.
The Canadian Pacific has patched up
its differences with the shipowner Sir
William Pierce, and will continue to use
his ships for the China trade OF Portland
and the Sound.
The Pacific coast chamber OF commerce
elected for president, Samuel Collyer, oil
Tacoma: secretary, 7. G. Friedlander
fnonce committee, Mr., Hubbard, Chico
NJ Smell. Tacoma, Mr.. Baldwin, San
Francisco.
Tho hoard of regents of the Washing
.on State university will ask the leglsia.
tnre to provide for the erection ano
,1aint enance of two reformatory lnstitu'
.;o,,s one in the eastern ana the Other
w the western portion OF the state.
co,,or nersons lost their lives at the