Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-19
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE BOY CONVICT DIES IN TIE
OREGON PENITENTiARY.
California Fruit Shipment-kilieo oS
The Cars-A Girl in Male Costume
FRS. Regiment Encamp'
mept-"Black Bart"

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San Leandro is now lighted with gas.
Tacoma is TO have Produce Exchange.
st. Helena is putting down stone side
walks.
Los Gatos has repealed its firecracker
ordinance.
The upper San Joaquin river is almost
too low for navigation.
A. French. wealthy land owner at
San Diego, has become insane.
"Black Bart" the famous California
stage robber, is said to be in China.
Hon. NJ. C. George delivered the
Fourth OF July Grafton at Albany, Or.
Los Angeles has twenty-one school
houses, but they are all oyercrowded.
About three hundred bales OF wool were
sold at Cioverdale on the 18th at Y cents,
The total value OF the assessment on
San Joaquin county property IS 1885,
687 900.
The honey crop of Southern Califor-
MIA will be less than one-seventh OF an
average.
Ex-Judge james W. Bicknell OF San
Mateo has just died near Modesto, aged
10 years.
The Parsonage Extension Society OF
the Pacific Conference met in Santa Rosa
on the 28th.
Peter Barger killed his late mistress
and bit off the ear OF his rival, at Taco
ma, last week.
United States Marshal Hayes OF Los
Angeles, has been arrested Tor oyerdrly'
ing a Fresno team.
Napa is pleased with having secured
the First Regiment encamrment. II
will last eight days.
San Francisco, it is understood, is sooI
to be the terminus OF the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Re road.
The first car for the East from Genera
Bidwel's Ranch Chico, was loaded witt
Bartlett pears and plums.
The sonoma County Agricultural Parl
Association will not hold a fair in con
nection with the fall races.
A movement is on foot at Fresno, Cal.
to get the Board OF Trade OF that city T.
establish free labor agency.
William Dolan, serving life sentenc
in the San Quentin prison for murder
made his escape on the Sd inst.
The Yamhill County Herald says
floating island $40 yards in diameter ma
been found in Honey Lake, Idaho.
David Council, OF Rockford, w. T., wa
struck in the throat by rocket on tin
night OF the 4th. He cannot live.
One man day is nov the killing rec
ord of the Oregon Railway u Navigation
Company when passing Pendledon, Oh
The whereabouts OF G. A. Roberts
Huron, Fresno county, is sought for b
his wife. He left Huron about a mont
ago.
George Brown, brakeman, caught h
foot in Il railroad frog at Carson, la
week, and was run over and fatally il
jured.
Helena, NJ. t., capitalists, disguise
at the water supply, have formed ne
water company and extensive works wi
| be erected.
Almost the entire business portion
/ Ellensburg, w. T., was DESTROYED by fiji
on the 4th. The loss will not fall sho
of 81 100000.
Sarah Hallett, formerly OF Oaklan,
/ killed herself with poison at Tucson c
9th, and Charles Kenyon shot himse
at st. Helena.
I A non-partisan convention has put
strong ticket in the field to be voted /,
in the choice OF officers for the ne
county OF Orange.
Stockton's proposal to secure the spri I
race meetings under the State Agricultr
raj Society, has aroused Sacramento
/ increasing the premium lists.
The prize OF 500 offered by Clal
| Spreckles to farmers producing the lar
est per cent OF sugar per acre OF sug
/ beets. has been awarded TO j. B. Hudson
George n. Miller, an electric belt do
\ tor, well known all over the Pacific Coas
was arrested at Port Townsend on tt
/ Sd, charged with embezzlement at Me
/ ced. Cal.
The trial OF Calvin I. Lewis, the gan
/ bier who shot and killed John Harm,
ton, near the Baldwin Hotel, San Fra
cisco, ended on the 81, the jury returnir
a vardict OF not guilty.
Charles f. Melville, brakeman C
] o., Ii = 4
was run over by car at Kent, w. 7
horribly crushing both legs, from whiC
he died ON the 4th inst.
1 Charles Schmidt was crushed to deaf
at Seattle on the 9th by the falling wal
of building left standing in the recel
fire. John Brewster was seriously il
/ jured ut the same time.
John McAllister, the l6-year old erin
nal, who poisoned his father at Woo
vile, jackson county, Or, about OF
year ago, has just died in the 0regc
| penitentiary from consumption.
Nancy Howard, the girl who recent
worked at Leech's saw-mill i'll Yul
county, in the garb OF man, says she
the sister OF of the wife OF Forepaugh, Il
circus mau, and he ill-treated her.
The remains OF j. c. Flood, the S.
Francisco millionaire, who died in Ge
many several moths ago, has arrived
New York. The remains will be interrt
in Calvary semetery, San Francisco.
Professor Clayton, the mining expe
who was injured at Warlner Junction
Idaho, in the stage accident, June l9t
died ut Spokane Falls on the ith ms
The remains will be taken to Portlar
for iuterment.
w. I'll. Holshumaker, teamster
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