Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-12
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
M.tiers of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit of Our Readers.
Firewood is scarce at Fresno.

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CoIusa has four and half miles of
graded streets.
Newcastle's fruit shipment this year
was 5000 tons.
The county hospital at Visalia was
burned recently.
The population of Washington ter
ritory is 24O, 14O.
The penitentiary at Walla Walla is
lighted by electricity.
An olive tree in Tnlare has grown
eight feet since last August.
Timber claims are being rapidly
taken up in Mariposa county.
An apple orchard in Lassen cleared
5000 the past year from 1900 trees.
Packers are offering at Riverside So
q box for navel oranges on the trees.
There were erected at Tacoma last
year 10I4 houses, valued at 81, ,4S9,-
572.
The windstorm last week brought
down a good many trees in the Men
docino woods.
Yuba county is shipping apples to
southern California and sending orang-
es to the north.
A flume 35 miles long will bring
lumber to Selma, Fresno county, from
the Giant forest.
The output of gold, silver and cop
per in Montana the past year Is put
down at $50, ,4S7 900.
At Walla Walla a dense fog pre-
vailed during the eclipse and at z
o'clock lamps were lighted.
The police of San Diego is con-
demned by a committee of the city
council as corrupt and inefficient.
S. w. Reed, of Fresno, picked 30
pounds of Flaming Tokay and En-.
peror grapes from his vine the lst OF
January.
Delegates met at Ellensburg, w. T.,
on the Sd of January and began the
work of securing statehood to the
territory.
Large paintings of shad and speck-
led catfish will be made in the streams
of Utah next June by the U. 5. fish
commissioner.
The first carload of Oroville oranges
was received in Sacramento last week,
and two carloads were being packed
at Oroville for shipment east.
N. J. Mcconnell. chief justice OF
Montana, has forwarded his resigna-
ton to the President, finding the du-
ties of the office too burdensome.
The Teachers convention which
closed at Sacramento recently, recon-
mended kindergarten instruction and
the admittance OF children four years
of age.
The new Brotherhood of Railway
Conductors, organized at Los Ange-
les some weeks ago, is said to have IN
special view revenge on the Burllng-
ton Railroad company
San Bernardino's grand jury report
condemns the county courthouse as
inadequate and the jail as disgrace
to decency. Slack business manage
ment of county officials Is also con-
demned.
The approach of the Southern Pa
cific railroad toward San Luis Obispo,
is giving quite an impetus to travel.
The road was completed to Santa
Margarita, ten miles distant, and
trains running on the 9th OF January.
At Bakersfield there is field OF
alfalfa from which five cuttings were
obtained the first year, and "the
ground was so thoroughly impreg-
mated with alkali that the surface is
white with the salt"
A flock OF nine mountain sheep has
recently been seen among the cllf1s
of Stein mountain, Elko county, New.
A patriarch of the flock is reported to
be as large as a Spanish mule and his
horns resemble the gnarled roots OF an
old cedar.
The lumber cut of Washington Ter
ritory the past year was 7OO,OOo,OOo
feet, valued at 100000. OF this
amount, Puget sound cut 45OOOO,OOO
feet and shipped by ocean 34O,OOoOoO
feet, valued at $3,7OOO,OOO The for
eign lumber shipments were $l,2Oo,-
OOO.
Richard Hall, of Dixon, we'll
known citizen, early Tuesday morning
of last week, while going home from
Sacramento, heard the whistle for his
station, rushed while nalf asleep from
the car, and stepped off while the
train was ia motion. He was seriously
injured.
Portland shows great progress. Her
wholesale and retail trade in 1888
foots up between $90,000,000 and
ST 600 O0O, 900, compared with $75,-
GOO 900 in 1887 and 42,OOO,OOO IN
1888. The manufactures OF the city
and vicinity aggregate nearly $l4,oo
600. and the value of buildings erected
SO, 100000.
David Hart, blacksmith and train
ing with the Salvation army at Port
land, took morphine and told the sum-
moned physician that he had had the
drug for two years, but had not had
the courage to use it before. He sad
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