Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-02
THE PACIFIC COAST.
INHUMAN TREATMENT OF PRISON
ERS IN A PENITENTIARY.
Mrs LanGtry's Importation of Blooded
Stock-The Lake Washington Ca
nal-Survey of Reservations
A Brute'S Deserts.

be building into San Diego behind the
Ocean Beach and Delmar railroad.
Reports from the Harqua Hala
, mines in Arizona are now discourag-
ing, and many prospectors are return
ing.
Charles Lumsteller was arrested at
Port Townsend last week, charged
with the murder of his wife in Mime
sofa.
An examination of the great regis
ter Of San Diego gives promise of evi
uence of fraud of a sensational char
acter.
The leading men in New Mexico
say that the Territory is more in need
of public schools than State govern
. ment.
Arlee, chief of the Flathead Indians,
proposes to inadgurate important re-
forms on the reservation among the
tribes.
The bill to remove the capital of
Arizona from Prescott to Phoenix
passed the Territorial council Thurs
, day.
w. B. Reynolds, of Healdsburg,
has been appointed inspector of Chi
nese for the Coast, as provided by the
Scott law.
Mrs. Langtry has purchased an i'm
ported thoroughbred stallion and four
imported brood mares, for her Califor-
mia ranch.
The police OF Spokane Falls made a
raid last Thursday on the opium dens
of that city, and captured twenty-five
Cinnamon.
There is great difficulty in landing
provisions on Destruction island to
supply the men building the light
house there.
The mail service on route from
Hillsboro to Portland, commencing
February l, has been increased to six
times a week.
John T. Black, under indictment
for the murder CT his brother last May
died in the county Jail at Virginia
City last week.
Reports from Helena, Montana, say
that indications point to the fact that
there will be no little activity in rail
road enterprises in that vicinity the
coming season.
; The estimated cost of cutting Ca
nal from Lake Washington to the
Sound, so as to admit deep sea ves>els
to the lake, is 81 100000.
; Miss Nellie Reach, who was so
frightfully stabbed by an unknown
man at her home near Cotton, Cali
, fornia, recently, will recover.
William Johnson while trying to
discharge a gun at Hillsboro, Friday,
received the whole charge in the side
OF the head, killing him instantly.
The grand jury OF Elko county, Ne
vada, calls upon the Elko delegation
to the legislature to vote against the
lottery bill contemplated by that body.
Resolutions were adopted at a mass
meeting held at North Yakima, last
week, urging the Governor to call a
constitutional convention to adopt a
State constitution.
The Pullman palace CIR company
has acquired control of all parlor car
companies doing business in this
country, with the exception of the
Wagner, which is used on the Wander
bilt lines.
The badly decomposed body OF a
supposed German, about sixty years
OF age, was found near San Rafael,
California, last week, in tree, about
fifteen feet from the ground. A raised
umbrella was above the body.
About $4,000 Of the $4,000 re-
, quired for the establishment of
watch factory at Otay, San Diego
county, which a company of Illinois
capitalists have been talking of start
ing at that place, has been subscribed.
Surveyor General Green, pursuant
to instructions from the land depart
ment at Washington, has posted no
tices calling for bids for the survey Of
the Blackfoot, Fort Belknap and Fort
Peck Indian reservations in northern
Montana.
The Union of Walla Walla is pub
fishing communications from convicts
in the penitentiary concerning the in
human treatment OF prisoners in that
institution. If the charges are true
r the prison authorities should be re-
moved forthwith.
A requisition has been issued by
the Governor of Oregon to the Gov
ernor of Washington, for the delivery
to the sheriff of Multnomah county OF
Morris Johnson, William Ashton,
! Dick Rogers and Agnes Woodward,
charged with the murder OF Cunning
ham, in Portland, last year.
: Arminta Gardner, of Union county,
t has been placed in the insane asylum
: at Salem. She is but sixteen years
| old, and has been a mother for the
past fifteen months. The author of
her ruin, AMI also of her insanity, is
named Virgins, and is serving a ten
!, years sentence for the outrage.
? Jacob Wilkerson, the colored man
r who was sent to San Quentin in 1872
| for forty-five years, for the murder OF
: a woman in San Francisco, was par
doned in 1876 on the condition that
he would leave the State and never
/, return. He went to Honolulu, but
returned a few days ago, and was
, recognized by the police and warned
5 to leave. He was arrested Thursday