Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-05-18
THE PACIFIC COAST.
sEATTLES RAILWAY CONNECTION
WITH BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Stage Robber Captured-Murder and
Suicides-Criminal Libel Suit
New York Capitalists at
Ellensburg, w. T.


Visalia will soon be lit by electricity.
Watsonvill has decided to rein corpor-
ate.
The cherry crop around Vacaville is
light
The 'lovers" have been driven out OF
Oroville.
San Leandro elected the peoples ticket
last week.
PortIand's exports for April amounted
to $l60,7O5.
May Sth was pardon day at the Califor-
mia capitol.
Petaluma has raised its liquor license
from 81 to 500 quarter.
Roxburg has signed as catcher Of the
Sacramento baseball club.
The Portland & Clackamas Railway
Company has incorporated.
Work was begun recently on the water
works for Umpqua City, Or.
There are some prospects of establish
ing a military post on Brakes Bay.
At Ellensburg, w. T., 400 houses, it is
estimated, will be built this season.
On the 7th inst, the first train ran
over the line between Paso and Selma.
The San Pedro, N. NJ, carbonate strike
promises to be big thing for the territory.
Fishing for perch in Clear Lake is now
all the rage. They take the hood freely.
1t is now decided that the Pacific Meth
odist College will remain IN Santa Rosa.
The Washington Territorial Dental AS
sociation was held last week at Spokane
Falls.
The woman sufragists are making a
vigorous campaign in Washington Terri
tory.
The hot springs at Temicula, San Diego
county, are said to be equal to those IN
Arkansas.
James Hutchinson, a logger at Brad
bury, Or, was killed recently by log
crushing him.
The Tehema county clerk says the di-
vorces are about equal to the marriages
III IIldG COuHty'
Seattle is to have railroad connection
with the Canadian Pacific at New West
minister within year.
Work has been begun on the life-sav-
ing station at Point Reys, which is to be
completed by August 10.
The Young vineyards at Woodbridge,
San JOAQUIN county, have been ruined
this spring by cutworms.
Nineteen thousand sheep and 133, 1895
pounds of wool were shipped from Huron,
Fresno county, in March.
A large deposit OF asbestos has been
found near the line OF the Cuyamaca rail
road, in San Diago county.
Emil Weber, a well-known sporting
man of Portland, Or, was shot and In
stantly killed on the 10th inst.
New York capitalists have purchased
1870 lots near Ellensburg w. T., and will
make substantial Improvements.
Bill Keogh OF Chicago knocked out Phi
Duncan, colored, OF California, IN three
rounds at Virginia City, last week.
The committee on Commercial Rela
tions with Canada stopped over at Reno
last week and attended the theater.
The excitement over the gold find il
Douglas county, New, has died out. Ii
is intimated the claims were salted.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holser, OF San
Buenaventura, charged with the murder
of Daniel Sheldon, have been discharged
A chrome mine has been discovered OF
facilities creek, in the Coast Range
twenty miles west OF Huron, Fresno
county.
Prisoners in the Spokane Falls jail at
tempted an outbreak recently, but mur
deress in the woman's cell betrayed them
to the guard.
On the 9th inst, Fred Simmons, agec
l3 wears. accidentally shot and killed
Avalardo Aradaco while hunting neal
Halfmoon Bay.
The city clerk of Stockton says with {
tax levy of 81 .83 on the 500, this year
the city viii run short SAC, 900 before the
end of the fiscal year.
Walter 7. Logan, an Arizona cattle
man, died at the Lake Erie Ranch, neal
St. Johns, A. T., on the 9th inst, iron
an overdose of morphine.
Whale-oil soap is being extensively
used in the orchards in the vicinity o.
Santa Rosa for eYterminating the codlr
moth and other insect pests.
Harry Bethune, the famous sprinter
and Frank Lewis, Pacific Coast runnel
of more than local note, are matched To-
$3.50 a side at Seattle, w. t., May 26.
The Los Angeles Herald says: All th'
emploves of the Southern Pacific livin!
in the desert will be supplied with ice b.
the company during the coming summer
VII. Pain, Victoria, B. c., sculler
saws he will accept the challenge 0
Henceman and row for from $500 to $150t
in October, at Stockton or San Francisco
The notorious dance house at Fresno
which was closed by the vigilance com
mittee last year, has been granted ;
LIQUOR license by the Trustees, and tn
papers predict trouble.
Detective Stone, of Fresno, has cap
| tured Robert Stewart, coiored, and mos
OF the bullion stolen from the Hildretl
stage last July. 1t is said to have beel
concealed in hollow stump.
G. Anderson and D. D. Lynch, VIII
published the Portland Electric Light
, have been indicted for criminal libel ol
John Sullivan and H. Brandt, employe
OF the Southern Pacific machine shops.
A writ of habeas corpus has been grant
ed by the Supreme Court in the case
the twenty Chinese hydraulickers LII
,, prisoned in the Yuba county jail for con
tempt Of court in violating anti-debris II