Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-01-08
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters of Local and General import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit of Our Readers.

-
Bakersfield is filled with land spec
ulators.
The bounty law OF Sonoma county
has been repealed.
The Piutes are unlawfully trapping
fish in Walker river.
Twenty-Five pioneers have just or
ganized society at San Diego.
Frozen meat is to be shipped from
Kansas City to Sacramento.
A recount OF the ballots for sheriff
Of Nevada county is to be had.
The building OF a railroad from
Seattle TO the Canada line is assured.
The money in the state treasury
last Saturday amounted to 81, 16l,-
1927.
Otto Schultz slaughter-house and
ice house at Carson, New, we're burned
Sunday
Harvey Fl. Clark has been appoint
ed postmaster at Lodi, San Joaquin
county.
Violations of the fish laws are re-
ported from Taylorville and the mouth
Of Paper Mill creek.
Ulmer, San Bernardino county, and
Emerald Bay, El Doredo county, are
postofiices just established.
Jack Logarbo has been charged by
4 ka a. s1.A
murder OF his stepdaughter.
A strong protest against statehood
for Utah has been signed by the lib
eral territorial committee of Utah.
The governor refuses to pardon Ar
thur d. January, who stole $1,000
while his father was state treasurer.
The course OF the opium seized at
Port Huron, Mich, has been traced to
the shipper, Joselyn, at Victoria, b. G..
A bill will be introduced into the
coming legislature OF California to
make two counties out OF Los Angeles.
A company composed OF leading
men ut San Jose is TO be organized to
bore for oil and gas In Santa Clara
valley,
At El Prso strong effort is being
made 10 create strike on the
Southern Pacific by dissatisfied en-
gireers.
A large meeting of merchants Of
Los Angeles one night last week insti-
tuted move to bring down rents.
Concerted action is TO be secured.
John Wesley Hill, Methodist min.
lister u Or den, is delivering radical
anti Mormon lectures, and has in
Cured great hostility from the Nor
mons.
On the roof beams OF an old out
building at Nevada City was found
Saturday in an old sack MOO in 500
pieces. IL had evidently been there
for years.
At the drawing at Suffer City last
week Oscar Boehp, Of San Francisco,
won tho hotel; II. Best won the 2
story house, and w. Eddington an
other house.
Gases of burglary, highway robbery
and small thefts are plentiful at Los
Angeles. More than the regular win
ter SUPPLY OF rasoals has reached that
city from the east.
William Jones, one of the four men
arrested at Los Angeles for robbing
the railway station Mt Sepulveda and
plunderipg the. guests at the 4mile
l., l.. Il f..h ENa
Gen. Sohn J. Brewster, in the early
days OF California deputy county
clerk of Sonoma county, and subse-
queptly surveyor-general OF the state,
was sent last heck to the county poor
house from the town OF Sonoma.
Rasmus Larsen is fighting the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation company.
The company passes over his home
stead near Willows, Or, and won't
pay him his price for the land, so he
tore up the track and was arrested.
A rich striks is reported in the 4th
of July mine, in the Salmon river
country, Idaho. A large quantity OF
sulphate OF silver, worth $1,000 ton,
has been found. This is said 10 no
the richest mine in Washington terry
tory or Idaho.
The mental condition OF Ellie Ellen,
rich Trucsee lumberman, will be
contested over the effort to get pos
session of the gift to deceased daLgh-
ter, just previous to her death, OF
$4,000. 1t is claimed he wac incom-
petent mentally to make the gift.
At Santa Ana, Los Angeles county,
Monday, the locomotive of the Santa
Fe Short line struck wagon contain
ing William Bentley, ar, aged rs
years, his wife, aged, so years, and his
daughter and daughter-in-law. They
were all four killed outright. They
we're residents OF FL Modena, six milos
from Santa Ana.
George P. Harding, late democratic
candidate for the state senate from
One district composed of Yolo and
Napa counties, has served notice OF
contest ON his republican opponent,
F. s. Sprague, who holds the certif-
icate of election. The illegality OF
votes of the inmates OF the Veterans
home at Townsville is the basis for