Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-21
Queer Police Judge at Oakland-Shtp
Canal on the Sound-Mrs. Judge
Seneca Smith Killed In
stantly at Portland.

/ DuV the CnerOKee OuIl0G.
Edmund Emmett, a Union soldier,
suicided at San Francisco.
The Y. NJ G. A., of Tacoma, will en-
deavor to build this winter.
The Oregon state immigration board
costs $4,000 monthly to run.
Mitcheli's bill for The Dalles boat rail-
way appropriates 100000.
PortIand's real estate sales for 1889
will foot up about s15, 100000.
WaIla Walla's military band will have
new $4,000 set of instruments.
Portland's schools are in debt $4,000,
against $2l 900 in December, 1888.
Seattle is to have the largest pane OF
glass on the coast, 10xI2 feet in size.
Olympia's new hotel has three stories.
attic and easements, and costs 100000.
Jonathan Young suicided near Los
Angeles. Senile insanity was the cause.
The Norcross sailed from Victoria with
$3.50, 900 worth Of salmon for Liverpool.
Two men were killed and one injured
by a railroad collision near Yreka, Cal.
There is enough struggled opium in
San Francisco to supply the trade for a
year.
The receipts of the county court at
Portland for liquor licenses is 5000 per
month.
Walla Walla is excited over the re-
ported cruel treatment of the Steilacoom
asylum.
The mortgage tax law discussion occu-
pies several columns weekly OF the Ore
CONAN.
1t is stated that the steamers plying
between Portland and the Sound are run
at a loss.
The Portland school board will estab-
fish the free night school on perma-
nent basis.
A canal is being surveyed to run from
Port Townsend to Oak bay and to carry
The largest ships.
1t cost Multnomah county, Or, $254
for it's Intellectual efforts to capture it's re-
cent jail-breakers.
The price maid nv thc Northern Pacific
for the Puget Sound Shore road is said to
be about 81 100000
A number Of delay . aims is the re-
suit OF receI2g she:sls 5n the Southern
Pa,ciic's Shasta fiivision.
1t is estimated that Oregon's popula-
ton has increased 100000 by immigra-
ton during the year 1899.
One hundred acres at Astoria was sold
for 100000 to A W. Berry. The rail-
road fever is booming values.
The Union Pacific people are negotiat-
ing for the Signal, of San Francisco, for
the Sound route from Portland.
The San Francisco grand jury con-
dennis number of city and county
prisons, etc, as unfit for occupancy.
Policeman Whitehead, of Portland, is
defendant to suit for $500 damages.
He arrested the wrong man by mistake.
A young lady telegraph operator at
Sacramento, deliberately jumped from
high bridge into the river and was
drowned.
Cleman has offered bill in the Wash
ington legislature appropriatlng 5000 to
sink four artesian wells in the Horee
Heaven country.
House and senate bills are introduced
in the Washington legislature providing
for the establishment OF the Indiana
public school system.
The batteries of the United States
cruiser Charleston have arrived at Mare
Island The cruiser will be ready for sea
in about two months.
Police Judge Laidlow, of Oakland, ar
raigned himself for drunkenness,
pleaded guilty, fined himself $50, paid it,
and promised reformation.
An escaped Russian exile from Siberia
has landed at Vancouver. Ills eighteen
years of confinement in Siberia have
made him prematurely old.
A very bloody murder was that by
which N. J. Wilson lost his life at Van
couver from a knife in the hands OF
discharged soldier named Moran.
A coroner's verdict at San Francisco
charges the contractors OF a building,
into whose excavations man fell and was
killed, with involuntary manslaughter.
The first bill to pass both branches OF
the legislature was introduced by Judson
of Whatcom, appropriating $l4O, OO9 to
pay the expenses of the legislative
session.
The wife of Judge Seneca Smith, met
a horrible and instant death by being
hurled from carriage by runaway
horse. She struck on some timbers and
was frightfully lacerated.
Horace Gibbs, the colored porter that
shot and killed young McDevitt last
! October, after fair trial at Portland,
was found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree and sentenced to imprlson-
ment for life in the penitentiary.
The Waterloo Mining Company, Of
Milwaukee, has filed a suit in the United
States court, at Los Angeles, against
John s. Doe, wealthy San Francisco
capitalist, asking damages in the sum Of
500, 900, for minerals Doe has taken
from their mines in San Bernardino
county
Marie van Zandt will receive $500 for
each of twelve performances at Barcelona
and Lisbon.
The London press commented at
length on JEFF Davis career, in a variety
of opinions.