Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-14
THE PACIFIC COAST.
LINKVILLE. OR. DESTROYED BY
FIRE.
Two Suicides at Tacoma-The Blame
Laid to Campers-Noted Outlaw
Captured-Stages Robbed
Postal Appointments.

The 8-hour movement is being agitated
at Portland.
Los Angeles has voted on bonding for
an outfall sewer.
Butte, M. T., is threatened by the in
cendiary's torch.
The Marysvine and Placerville fairs
opened on the 81.
An electric railway is to be built from
Tacoma to Seattle.
The lighthouse tender Manzanita is he
repaired at Astoria.
Postmaster R. 2. Dearborn of Salem,
Or, died on the 18th.
Colusa is arresting and jailing the Sal
vaton Army followers.
Buildings worth $4,000 are in process
of construction at Ukiah.
An ice-house is being built at Boca
that will store 5000 tons.
Chico has ordered large number OF
hard looking cases out OF town.
The Oregon crop yield is not up to that
OF last year, but the quality is superior.
The Odd Fellows OF Ellensburg, W. T.,
have let a contract for 10000 building.
The Victoria, B. c., sealing schooner
Theresa has been wrecked near Cape
Beale.
1t took a Fresno jury just fifteen min
utes to find Walter l.. kldin guilty OF
arson.
Charles P. Boyer has been appointed
postmaster at Porter, Chehalis county,
Was. Ter.
Forest fires are raging in Cottonwood
Valley and on the foothills north OF
Cottonwood.
Davis & Co.'S stable at Butte, NJ. T.,
was burned on the 30tn, with twenty
seven horses.
Pulver, the jockey OF Mark L., who
was injured in Il collision died at Santa
Rosa on the 29th.
An unknown maR jumped from the
eastbound train near Tacoma on the oth
and was instantly killed.
L. T. Barnett, photographer OF Mo
desto, is in a precarious condition, owing
to an overdose OF chlOral.
w. L. Bradshaw of The Dalles, ana
William Halfway of Portland, have been
appointed notaries public
Incindiuries are supposed to be at work
in the ntighborhood of Orland. -Four
fires have occurred recently.
Mary Kesterson has been appointed
! Ftl, Ifnf1i lt
amore, Multnomah county, Ol.
There are 3,l56, 900 acres of arid land
in the Los Angeles land district, 1, 4,0O0,00O
of which are subject to irrigation.
The Washington Territory republicans
have nominated G. p. Ferry for governor
and John l.. Wilson for congress.
John Nelson, a telephone lineman, was
badly burned by electricity at Seattle on
the 9Th inst, while repairing wire.
Adolph Ottinger, well known ticket
broker of San Francisco, has been fined
500 ior selling a worthless scalp ticket.
A slate quarry is being opened three
miles south of Copperpolis. There is
said to be large ledge there OF excellent
quality.
Dave Campbell, of Portland, has been
matched to fight Con Riordan in the Col
den Gate Club, San Francisco, in Novem-
Der next.
The bridge at Lanes crossing on the
San Joaquin river has been accepted.
This will bring large country tributary
to Fresno.
J. G. Tuttle OF Danuba, Fresno county,
has been arrested and charged with per
jury for giving false testimony in horse
stealing case.
August Fischer, born in Berlin August
"a, 1877, an exile from Germany, com
mitted suicide by drowning IN the Will
lamette river, on the Both.
Florence Cross, the notorious prosti-
tute who waa found dead in +. Eugene
Clark's room at Tacoma, on the 8th inst,
is supposed to have committed suicide.
+. Eugene Clark, shipping clerk OF the
Stewart 4 Holmes Drug Company, at Ia
coma, attempted suicide on the Sth, but
physicians brought him around all right.
Sylvestro Morales, the Santa Ana Val
lev outlaw, has been captured. The l6-
year-old girl whom he induced to leave
her home was found with him in the
woods.
The 9-vear-old son OF John Mitchell Tell
down an abandoned shaft in the Jumbo
district, New, and was instantly killed.
Mitchell is a miner in the Consolidated
California.
All the troops and other Government
employees in Yellowstone Park have
been engaged during the last week in
fighting fires. The officers in command
blame campers.
The largest bar of gold ever cast IN the
world was turned out at the Unied States
ASSAY office at Helena, NJ. T., recently.
1t weighed 500 pounds and is worth
little over 100000.
A lone robber captured the south and
northbound stages near Linkville, Or,
last week, and presumably obtained con-
siderable money. He WAS young fellow
and wore no mask.
A vein of camel coal OF superior quail
ity has been discovered within twenty
miles of Ellensburg. The vein is about
nine feet thick, and the first OF the kind
found in Washington.
Asa sample of the yield of grapes in
Fresno county, Mr.. VieU picked from
vineyard near Malaga, eighty pounds to
the vine. This will give yield OF more
than twenty tons to the acre.
Bert Snow. General Agent at Fresno of
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