Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-09-07
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A PUBLIC INDIGNATION MEETING
AT VICTORIA, B. C.
The Willamette Valley Railroad Sued
The Oregon Press Association
Prisoners Attempt to Break
Jail at Tacoma.

Work on Fresnos sewer system has
begun.
Seattle is soon to have a paid fire de-
partment.
Fresno, Cal, is trying to establish a
rasin exchange.
Modesto, Cal, has refused to issue i'm
provement bonds.
The Klamath river is lower than was
ever known before.
Fresno County's tax levy is % cents
more than las. year.
The Austin, New, Reveille has $lO,-
900 libel suit on its hands.
The new Masonic Hall at Napa was
dedicated on the 10Th inst.
Ellensburg is to make a great fight for
the capital of Washington.
The Ninth District Fair opens at Rohn-
erville, Cal, September %.
The chrome mine, in Tehama county,
is to be worked under contract.
Rains have s1bdued the forest fires in
the neighborhood of EllensDurg.
The wharf at Oceanside will be finished
in October 1t is to be lo05 feet long.
One of the Portland street railways is
to be transformed into an electric road.
A match factory and furniture factory
was destroyed in Portland on the 29tn.
Ellensburg, w. T., is talking of estab-
! IL 10 n EG
Southern California experienced a
severe shock of earthquake on the 9th.
Oceanside, San Diego, has voted bonds
to purchase its waterwOrks and to en-
large 1t.
President Charles Francis Adams OF
the Union Pacific, was in Portland on
the 23d.
A l4-year-old boy at Santa Rose ''held
up" parties late one night recently ''iust
for fun"
Since August 8, 1888, ten residents OF
Eugene City, Or, have met death by
drowning.
Pc:aluma has forbidden the Salvation
Army to beat drums or hold meetings on
the street.
4 commission is negotiating for the
purchase OF lands on the Cueur d'Alene
mountains.
The Placervile Fair will distribute over
$1,000 in premiums. The Fair opened
September Sd.
The Ryan smelter at Tacoma, will soon
be completed and will begin operations
in about two weeks.
A sulphur spring has has been found
in Hope Valley New, that flows a large
stream OF ice-cold water.
Ten-dollar counterfeit gree nhacks are
in circulation at New York. They are
said to be well executed.
The Calispel Indians at the Coleville
Agency, w. T., are being crowded out Of
the valley by the whites.
The Tacoma Hotel at Tacoma, was filled
last week with delegates en- route to the
Walla Walla convention.
Miss Ida Pratt, living near Modesto,
Cal, committed suicide on the 18th, be-
cause she was tired living.
The First National Bank Of Whatcom,
w. r., has been authorized to commence
business with a capital OF $4,000.
Albert Gree, a San Francisco barber,
whose wife has mourned him as dead,
was seen in Sacramento recently.
The machinery and materials for gov
ernment work at Yaquina bay, Or, were
shipped over the Canadian Pacific.
Hop-growers in the Willamette Valley
are anxious to get their hops off the vines,
fearing the rainy season will begin early.
The search for the desperate Morales,
in the Santa Ana Valley has not abated.
1t is believed he will be captured in
few days.
The Oregon Press Association has sub
mitteG to it's members scale OF adver-
tising prices, a violation of which causes
expulsion.
On the 29th inst, Tacoma had fire
that came near proving disastrous to that
thriving little city. The total loss will be
about $4,000.
Three men have died from thirst AMI
starvation on the Colorado Desert during
the mouth OF August, and within radi-
ous OF fifty miles.
An unknown man was found perishing
on the desert near Indio, with nearly 500
in his pockets. He died shortly after he
was taken to Indio.
The little fishing schooner Rowena, OF
Tillamook, went ashore near Newport, on
the 29th inst, and is total wreck. All
the crew were saved.
Olson and Drager, the Ell Dorado mur-
derers, to be executed October IL, are
building miniature ship for keepsake
| for Sheriff Anderson.
Twenty-Five prisoners in the county
Jail attempted to make their escape on
Both inst, but the jailOr appeared on the
scene in time to prevent 1t.
A physician named Miller, formerly a
resident of Sacramento, and now OF Free
mont, a suburb near Seattle, attempted
to commit suicide three times ON the 2Zd.
A plotIto empty the Washington Ter
ritory renitentiary at Walla Walla has
been discovered. Keys were being made
to fit the doors which trusty was TO use
On the arrival of the steamer Santa
Maria on her first trip to San Diego IN
the new opposition line of coast steamers
her colored cook, James Lewis, dropped
dead.
An old man named Oyers; wealthy
bachelor living about five miles from
Tacoma. committed suicide on the 10Th
by blowing the top OF his head off with
shotgun.
A public indignation meeting was held