Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-02
COAST NEWS NOTES.
A NOVEL ESCAPE FROM THE GUS
TOMS AUTHORITIES.
A Convict's ConfeSsion-In Favor of the
Election of q. S. Senators by the
People-Tacoma Merchants
Again Victimized.

II Is now nlgn llCeHSc III OT6SOH.
The Sacramento gambling houses have
| been closed.
Spokane Falls is to have a paid fire
| department.
San Bernardino's citrus fair was
grand success.
James C. Flood, of California, died at
Heidelberg, Germany, Thursday.
The office of Chinese interpreter in the
! Vancouver custom-hOuse is to be abol-
| ished.
The defective ballots cast at the recent
election in Nevada will be counted.
John G.. Crawford, life prisoner at
San Quentin, committed suicide Tuesday
by hanging.
The bodies of three unidentified men
Thursday morning.
A franchise for a motor road from
Fresno to the San Joaquin river, eleven
miles, has been granted.
The case of Judge Wickersham. charged
with seduction, has excited no little in
|
Andrew Obscense struck fat pocket
in the Francis mine, MaripOsa county,
Cal, recently, and panned out 10000.
The California legislature has adopted
resolution in favor of the election of
United States Senators by the people.
1t is believed that Tug Wilson, who is
charged with numbering man near
Walla Walla, recently, is innocent of the
crime.
A system of railroads covering much Of
Oregon and Washington Territory is eX-
pected to cooperate with the Canadian
Pacific.
Leading railroad people declare there
| is no truth in the rumor of a cOnsolida-
ton of the Southern Pacific and Santa
Fe roads.
The Chinatown squad of police Of San
Francisco, have been indicted and ar
rested for taking bribes from Chinese
gamblers.
The white miners in the Union mine
at Comax, B. c., have quit work, owing
to the fact that the company are employ
ing Chinese.
A company has been formed at PomO-
ma which is planting 800 acres of navel
oranges. The orchard will be the largest
in the world.
Fully ten thousand people witnessed
the start of the six-day-go-as-yOu-pl
race in the Mechanics pavilion at San
Francisco, Thursday.
There is unfeigned satisfaction ex-
pressed by the people over the prospect
of the admission of Washington Terri
tory into the Union.
On the preliminary examination OF
Tug Wilson at Walla Walla, charged
with the murder of Tom Davis, the ac-
cused was discharged.
II. L. Andrews member OF the packing
firm of Andrews & Coykendall, San Josa,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head Monday.
The Monongahela steamed out of the
| harbor at Vallejo Thursday, bound Tor
Samoa. She is heavily laden with sup
plies for the fleet at that point.
D. H. Dave, OF Pomona, aged 81, while
sliding 600-pound box down the wagon
on skids, fell, the heavy box falling upon
his head and crushing it into jelly.
Prospere Castara and his wife, French
| Canadians, were arrested at Port Town
send last week with sixteen pounds Of
opium concealed in the woman sbustle.
A bill has passed the California Senate
! to reimburse the O. r. and n. company
for merchandise lost in the bay of San
Francisco by falling through a rotten
wharf.
Emma Bennett, employed as sales
woman in a San Francisco store, shot
| Emanuel Davis twice and then commit
ted suicide by shooting herself through
| the head.
The argument in the case of Fong
Long Dick, ended Thursday morning at
Portland, and in a short time thereafter
the Jury returned verdict of murder III
the second degree. He will get life
sentence.
Ben Lundy, who was held in Seattle on
the charge OF smuggling Chinese and
opium, broke Jail Wednesday, and secret
ing himself in large dry goods box was
put aboard a steamer and safely landed
| ~ NlClOJld.
! Special Agent Saunders was in Pendle-
ton last week investigating the conduct
of Agent Coffey, in his management OF
the reservation. 1t is said that grave
charges will be preferred against him,
| but his friends claim that he will fully
vidicate himself in the matter.
George Kirby, sentenced on the 18th
at Los Angeles to eighteen years in the
penitentiary for robbery, confessed that
Matt Sullivan, who was recently sent up
for three years for robbing a Chinaman,
was innocent, and that he and another
party committed the robbery.
George Smith, foreman OF gang OF la
borers in New York City. While rumaglng
in tool box Thursday afternoon, accl-
dentalIy exploded $50 pounds OF dyna-
mite. The windows for distance OF half
a mile around were shattered and the
BODY Of Smith was literally torn to pieces.
The confding business community
I of Tacoma have again been victimized by
the clever operations of an oily-tongued
young man from San Francisco. Ills
name is n. B. Breckenridge, and his mo-
dus operandi was to ingratiate himself
into the goodfellowship OF his victims by
pretending to make extensive deals IN
real estate.
James Hoag, janitor OF San Francis
co, employed by the Oregon improvement
company, shot at May Wilson on Mont
gomery street, Thursday night. The ire
0uent shooting of women on the Pacific
| Gooc+ of Lotto NV ry1ffianG iS exciting no