Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-02
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE FEARFUL LEAP OF A PORT.
LAND LANDLORD.
The Selection OF the Site for the New
Navy Yard-A Man and Wife Con-
victed OF Murder in Nevada
"A Levee Breaks.


The Brownsville WOODEN mills will re-
move their plant to Albany.
The clock on the dome Of the court
house mt Redding will cost $500.
The saloonkeepers OF Sacramento have
organized protective association.
The Oceanic steamers have stopped
running to Samoa and New Zealand.
A man in Lnkville has filed home-
stead claim on the courthouse block.
The fall and spring sowing is reported
in excellent condition in all parts Of East
ern Oregon.
Great suffering is reported among the
miners who have flocked to the Lower
California gold fields.
Heavy storms, with land slides, inter-
fercd with travel on the California Il Or
cgon road last week.
A second attempt to fire the Roth
child building WAS made at Port Town
send "Wednesday night.
The bill introduced in the California
legislature to exempt mortgages from tax.
alton has failed to pass
-Four men were arrested at Bakersfield,
Cal, Wednesday on suspicion OF being
the Pixley train robbers.
Mrs. James Bulger, of San Francisco,
was horribly burned Thursday by the ex-
plosion OF "A coal oil can.
Jennie Hamilton, OF Victoria, has be-
come insane through attending the meet
ings OF the salvation army.
Near Gilroy, Cal, Friday, two men un-
earthed Il can which contained gold dust
and nuggets valued at 1920.
A break in the levee at Knights Land
ing, Cal, Friday, and a part OF the town
and many farms are inundated.
The sheriff OF Malheur county captured
a crazy man with u lasso and carried him
to the insane asylum last week.
George Taylor, of Marysville, Cal, fell
beneath a moving train Thursday and his
head was severed from the body.
John McEhron and wife have been ar
rested at Port Townsend charged with
the murder OF their six children.
Some excitement prevails at Spokane
Falls over the discovery of silver at a
point 70 miles north of that place.
o. Z. Beardsley, of Eola, shot and
killed Il. l.. Perryman Thursday. The
killing was the result of an old feud.
ID. c. Darlington was acquitted at Los
Angeles Friday for the killing of Pat Null
len during an election riot last December
Marvin Craven, bookkeeper for the
Los Angeles Planning Mill company, has
left the city $1,000 short in his accounts
The stone dry dock at Vallejo, CAL, is
to be completed at once. 1t has been
seventeen years in course of construc-
ton.
Cornelius III. Hanford. recently ap-
pointed chief justice of Washington terri
tory, has been resident of Seattle since
1856.
1t is announced that Mexico will de-
clare martial law in Lower California in
the event of trouble at the Santa Clara
mines.
Paul Schulze land agent of the North
ern Pacific railroad, had one OF his toes
taken off by a stray bullet at Tacoma
Sunday night.
w. II. Stone was convicted at Hollis
ter, Cal, Wednesday, of murder in the
second degree for the killing of @. H. Wa
ters last July.
A school-house was blown down dur
ing u heavy storm at San Diego, Friday.
A teacher and one of the pupils were Sc
riously injured.
The commission appointed to select
site for the new navy yard has secured
the option on 1000 acres of land at Port
Orchard, opposite Seattle.
Governor Swineford, just returned
from Alaska, reports the discovery of
number OF rich gold strikes on Admiralty
island 70 miles from Sitka.
Julia Mannix, formerly of Portland,
has brought suit in the San Francisco
courts against her brother for $299 for
services rendered as housekeeper.
Josiah and Elizabeth Potts were found
guilty OF murder in tho first degree at FL
ko, New, Friday, for the killing of Miles
Faucette at Carlin, January, 1888.
Frank Avery, chief of the San Diego
fire department, who was recently ar
ItEitfl pI NilC NilutEt Vi HltdllIiE HltOeS 1T
a fire, was discharged Wednesday.
The man arrested at Nanaimo on sus-
picion OF being Tascott, the murderer of
Smell, of Chicago, turns out
TO be deserter from the British war
ship learus.
Several towns on the Northern Pacific
have been yictimiZed by one Gordon who
himself as agent for the "West
Shore y magazine. He is in Jail at Bill
lings, Mont.
A thousand citizens of Colusa county,
Cal, visited Sacramento Saturday to
urge Governor Waterman to sign the bill
recently passed by the legislature divid-
ing the county.
Excitement in Southern California
towns over the alleged gold discoveries in
Lower California is abating. 1t is said
that the hoax was started by the Inter
national company.
The ordinance making it INSIDE
neanor for proprietors of public places to
allow minors under eighteen to play
ards or pool, will be strictly enforced by
he San Francisco police.
Charles G. Scott, one of the proprietors
II the Ebbitt house, Portland, committed
suicide Friday night while temporarily
insane, by jumping from third-story
window to the pavement below, dis
ance OF fifty feet.
A committee of the California legisla-
ure has made report favoring the claim
II Captain John Mullane as agent of Cal
fnrni. opd Dra.op ut Washiputop in co1