Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-02
THE PACIFIC COAST.
sACRANENTo's PACIFIC COAST Ex-
POSITION IN 1892.
Another Stage Robbery-Three Snug
glers Captured-Horse Thieves
Cap ured-The Boys and
Girs' Aid Society.

The Santa Barbara mustard crop Is
short.
Sonoma county raised $3.50 bales of
hops this season.
A $3.50, 900 paper mill is being built at
Eugene City, Or.
Watsonville, CAL, Chinese have formed
fire department.
Los Angeles now has twenty-seven
miles of cable roads in operation.
John w. Melcher, of San Jose, CAL,
has started pottery near Seattle, Wash.
CLAY Taylor, the Santa Clara burglar,
has been sentenced to prison for ten years.
J.R. Jones was horsewhipped by two
girls at Porterville, Tulare county, re-
Gently.
The Treasurer of the Arizona Prison
Commission is missing with some OF the
funds.
The customs officers at Port Townsend
captured three men with smuggled opium,
recently.
The ElIensburg, Or, and Northwestern
Railroad will have cars running in De-
cember.
The streets given to the Northern Pa
cific Terminal Company at Portland, will
be reopened.
The Baker City, Or, stage was robbed
of the registered mail on the 18th, near
Union Creek.
A burning partition fell on Frank Lass
| l. On tho 9th bupniOO him
so he nay die.
The Elder reached Victoria from Alas
ka on the 2Oth with 500 passengers and
| 28, 900 cases of salmon.
The City of Pueblo has male the run
| from San Francisco to Victoria, B. c., in
fifty hours, beating the recott.
Three of bold gang of horse-thieves
have been captured on the Mckenzie
river and taken to PendletoD, Or.
The five prisoners who escaped from
the Lewiston jail few days ago, have
| been captured and are now III jail.
Engineer David Purdun was lost from
the steamer State of Washington, on the
2Oth, between Tacoma ard Seattle.
Fresno, Cal, will vote in November on
the issuance Of 100000 to he used in
grading roads and building bridges.
The Hollister e:s7.al anGsalt1l, T,ill be
completed by the middle ot<November
and 900 acres can then be irrigated.
Lack of lunds has caused the discharge
of many hands in the construction de-
partment of the Mare Island Navy Yard.
Portland, Or, Fire Commissioners
have decided to build a fireboat costing
$50 900, and put in two new engine COM
panies.
James Jones had his leg amputated at
the Seattle Hospital on the 23d, caused
by dry gangreen. 1t is doubtful if he
can recover.
A COW derailed passen er train OF the
Northern Pacific, near Milton, Or, on the
18TH The engineer and fireman were
seriously injured.
James w. Lawrence, drunken team
ster, fell under the wheels OF his own
wagon at Portland, on tie 2OIh, and was
! crushed to death.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company will soon begin the construc-
ton Of fine propeller steamer to run on
the Sound, to cost $25O,O 900.
The employees of the Los Angeles &
Pacific Railroad are expected to go on
strike because they have not been PAID
! their salaries for six months.
The anthracite found on Queen Char
| lotte Island is reported to be the best on
the coast. A seam thirty feet in width
is said to have been discovered.
Mrs. Brewster has given $40, 900 worth
of property in Paradise Valley, San Diego
county, to start a sanitarlum ior worthy
poor. The treatment is to be free.
The Butte, Mont, Board of Trade has
asked the Secretary of the Interior to
suspend the granting OF patents to GER
tain lands claimed by the Northern
Pacific.
The citizens of Sacramento have origi-
mated project for Pacific Coast Expo
sition in 1892, to be held in their city. A
committee has been appointed to agitate
on the subject.
Lee Ho. the Chinese actor who conf
mitted grand larceny in Portland and
was escaping to Vancouver, was arrested
in Port Townsend and will be returned to
Portland for trial.
Contractors are beginning the wo k Of
extending the Oregon Pacltc from Al
bany. Or, to the summit of the Cascade
Mountains, and expect to complete the
work this winter.
A eartv of armed men has left Glasgow,
Mont for the Canadian side in search OF
Charlie Moore, young boy OF that town,
who is supposed TO have been kidnapped
bv some Cree Indians.
The Bows and Girls Aid Society at
Portland, Or, will create an endowment
fund of the $4,000 bequeathed by Miss
Smith. 1t expects gifts OF land upon
which it will build home.
Mrs. G.. w. Ferry endeavored to be-
come recopciled to her husband, who is
s,1ing for divorce at Tacoma, and he re-
fused all oyertures. 1t is expected that
the divorce will be granted.
An infant child of Abram Lorona, OF
Tombstone, A. T., last weeK, picked up
live scorpin and put it in its mouth. The
reptile stung the child's tongue, and he
was q corpse in less than an hor
Ellensburg, Wash, views with extreme
satisfaction the fact that new IRON iur-
mace and rolling mills are to be built
within its corporate limlIs. Large ron