Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-17
THE PACIFIC COAST.
CHINESE HIGHBINDER HANGED AT
PORTLAND.
The Idaho Convention-Escape From
Folsom Prison-Eloped With
Married Mantle "6O1" at
Truckee In Earnest.
Portland is to have a fIe-boat.

Portland is to have a fiIe-boat.
Eastern Nevada is purchasing Califor-
MIA hay.
Portland is urging the construction OF
a fre-boat.
Harvest hands in Oregon demand $3 g
day and board.
Seattle intends to have a fre-boat tc
protect its wharves.
A lieutenant and twelve men will re,
main at Fort Klamath.
Every salmon cannery on the Colum.
bia river has shut down.
Santa Rosa declines TO suspend the l2-
O'Clock saloon ordinance.
Washington will vote on the selection
tion of a city for its Capital.
Many swarms of bees are found by the
lumbermen up in the Sierras.
The Indians are flocking to the hop
fields of Washington Territory.
An immense deposit of mineral soap
has been found near San Diego.
w. A. Smiths dry goods store at Napa
has been attached by creditors.
Ten thousand dollars will be given in
purses at the Santa Rosa races.
Geroge Gray, OF Susanville, Cal, has
gone insane from disappointment in love.
Mr.. Finley, of Arroyo Grande has wal
nut trees that bring him in $40 for each
tree.
San Diego and San Bernardino coun-
ties are going to law about the county
line.
Salt Lake City has been carried by the
Gentiles in popular vote by forty ma
jority.
Orange county has adopted as its off
cial seal an orange with stem and three
leaves.
In Tehama county the assessor levies
upon alfalfa patches, and the farmers are
urious.
The Lima bean crop of Ventura county
this year will amount to 5000 tons, worth
100000
A sawmill costing $500, 900 will be built
at Tacoma this year by some Michigan
capitalists.
The value of the Columbia river sal
mon catch for this season is estimated at
81, 100000.
| A flow of gas has been struck at a
depth OF 70 feet near Tulara Lake, south
OF Hanford. --.
Field fires are doing considerable dam
age to small holdings in the neighborhood
of Portland.
A. ]. Elliott, San Diego banker, has
disappeared and foul play is feared, as he
carried 500.
Three men have died in Tucson within
large quantities.
Two toughs have been arrested at
Baker City, Or and charged with passin :
counterfeit money.
The forest fires in Montana which have
been prevailing for some time, show no
signs of abatement.
Another little diphtheria patient-the
ffth-has been sacrificed under the faith
cure at Los Angeles.
Petaluma is worked up over the elope-
ment of foolish girl with painter who
has a wife and child.
Fish Commissioner Mcdonald thinks
salmon can be made as plentiful as ever
in the Columbia river.
John Miller, a plasterer, was shot,
probably fatally, in bar-room quarrel at
Portland, On the 4th inst.
The Republicans OF Washington will
meet at Walla Walla on September 4th
to nominate State officers.
Laborers have reached Santa Rosa to
begin grading work on the Santa Rosa
J and Sebastopool Railroad.
, The Nevada County Fair commences
August Goth and will last five days. The
racing events are well filled.
The San Diego Gable Company is a
new incorporation, with capital OF $5,-
100000, to work at San Diego.
A San Jose man offers to lease Alum
Rock Park from the City Trustees and
to spend $28,500 in making improve
ments.
Jewett R. Rowland has escaped from
Folsom. He is 20 years old and was
sent from Sacramento for two years for
burglary.
The Sutro Tunnel property has been
conveyed to the Union Trust Company
of New York, which succeeds to all the
property and franchises.
Emanuel Verdugo, who murdered
Louis Cohn, prominent citizen and
merchant of Nogales, A. T., has been ar
rested in Mexico and taken to Tucson.
The Starting of the extensive lumber
ward at Moss Landing by the Pacific
Lumber Company of San Francisco, has
created lumber war in Salinas Valley.
Mrs. Lizzie Grant, wife OF J. D. Grant,
Jr.. of the firm of Murphy, Grant & Co.,
died on the 8th inst. at San Mateo, OF
heart disease. She was q years OF 9ge.
Three Superior Court Judges sitting in
bank have decided that all contracts
made by the Coronado Beach Company
for the sale of lands there and at South
San Diego are valid.
The Idaho Constitutional Convention,
in its framed provisions, excludes polyg-
amists and those who believe in polyg-
amy and plural marriages, and dlstran-
clIises all mormons.
Washington has agreed upon the rep
rasentation in its Legislature. The SEN
ate will be composed of thirty-fve mem
hers and the House of seventy. The lat
fer is never to be less than sixty-three
nor more than ninetv-nine.
The "6O1" at Truckee are in earnest
and nearly $50 disreprtable people have
pone within two days. During the past
two weeks over forty persons have been