Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-02
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE SEATTLE IRON AND srEhh
COMPANY.
Two Chiefs of Police-Olds OonVio GU
Sent to tbs Pen-Board OF Equal
liza ion-Kerosene Done IL
Robbed of $50.

los Gates wants new school building.
Lcorice will be cultivated at biggs TINS !,
fall.
The Napa cannery has packed 7z'ooo
cans OF apricots.
Seattle has twelve miles Of cable road
in operation.
Nine new colleges have just been com
pleted at Petaluma.
The National Grange will meet at Sac
ramento in September next
Colusa has voted to issue $6W,ooo III
bonds for irrigation purposes.
Building mechanics and team hahos
are lust now scarce at Petaluma.
The fruit crop in Oregon, it is reported,
will be the lghtest for some years.
Grading on the Santa Rosa and Sebas-
topool road will begin in lew days.
Settlers in Harvey Valley, Or, re-
pulsed a Federal Marshal with rifles.
The high town tax at Pomona has
forced Chinese laundries out OF business.
Heavy timber fires have been raging
several miles northeast OF Portland, Or.
The San Jose Times has got the city
printiuy contract from the Garden City.
One energetic Pasadena woman is sun
driving and packinga ton OF apricots every
day.
!. w. Woodward drowned himself in
bath tub in the County Hospital at Wis.,
alia, last week.
A. w. Callen. known as "Old Grazly,'
shot and killed two men near Prescott,
A. r., last week.
Nevada and Sierra counties complain
of their mail and passenger service, and
want it improved.
Another convict in the Oregon peniten-
tiary chops his left hand off with an AK
to keep from work.
Mrs. Van Sickle OF Capitola. who has
been missing from her home for some
months, has returned.
Black gopher was caught near .Pasa-
dena last week, and is kept on exhibit
ton at the Town Hail..
The Piutes OF Pizen Switch, New,
. cleaned out the whites on the Fourth o.
July by winning a horse race.
Joe Manuel, Papago Indian, wal
killed while resisting arrest at ella Bend
J He was desperate character.
A woman and her daughter WERE
burned to death at Salt Lake, last week
the result OF lighting fire with coal oil
! In the case OF Frank Toal, tried To-
gashing his wife with knife at Los An
seles, the jury handed in sealed verdict
: Ellensburg, W. T., has received in thu
b, way of relief about $4,000 CONTRACTS
q for new buildings are constantly bein
4 let.
Vt The Arizona Board of Equalization ha
!, assessed the claimants of land grants il
1t Pima county 70 cents per acre on all land
II claimed.
q Chinese gamblers in San Diego clair
a that up to the date OF the recent raid the
had bribed the chief OF police to proven
molestation.
h Judge Deadly, at Portland, Or, has d,
A clared that the Pilotage and Towage Law
I'd passed by the late Oregon Legislature,
TO constitutional.
e. Ching All Sing, wealthy San Fral
VII cisco Chinaman, was shot and seriousl
wounded by Wo Sing, laborer at Sa
a Jose, last week.
gs Ex-senator j. D. Craigton, the Sa
Francisco jury briber, convicted two yea
n ago, has delivered himself to the authC
~ ties for sentence.
I'd Two masked men ''stood up" Hon
en- Smith of Sacramento, while he was dri
r; ing from Forest , ity to Pike City, al
vol robbed him OF $50.
o. Judge w. V. Galley at Watsonvil
nd has fined a Chinaman 500 for attemptil
tn to kiss white girl and offering in col
it. pensation 80 cents.
William Woody, a school-boy, who {
cidentally shot a companion at Garvan
ps while carelessly handling revolver, h
is been placed under arrest.
le- A. c. Williams, who forged the mai
ITS OF Arthur Graham OF Boston on a nc
le- that was cashed at Los Angeles, has be
ior held $500 bonds for trial.
as George Nutting, Sheep Inspector
he Crook county. Or, has been missing
he several weeks and fears are entertain
M that he has been murdered.
The Democrats will take no part in {
use coming Constitutional Convention
err New Next o, either in nominating ca
IN, drates or voting at the polls for /
at. measure.
VI William Moakler has been awarded
70 in suit against the Portland and W
vo annette Railroad ior damages, which /
r,,, court ruled were caused by his own ca
~ lessness.
'tll Joseph n. Bates OF Sacramento. a c
ar penter, has not been heard from sir
the Sth INST, when he started for Seatt
cal and his wife is greatly alarmed and ie,
%; a. foul play.
~, The Seattle Iron and Steel Company
IN ~ new corporation headed by Pittsburg il
ittn men, Will next week begin the erect
, n,e OF foundry and machine shops at s
me mon Bay.
no Lee song, Chinaman, gave ia
ies stab to q. w. Person, livery stable ke
Nm er at Los Angeles, on the 18th, Piers
en- knocked the Chinaman down the d
ant previous.
he
is A cloudburst on the Klamath ri
to above Henley has caused great dam.
ny to the mines. The river was yery Il
es, and the sudden rise was unexpected
hat 1t was without precedent.
ne
ats stockton has two Chiefs of police
nd Il i L