Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-09
THE PACIFIC COAST.
uoeasowgRs. MUTUAL PRoTEc-
TIVE FIRE ASSOCIATION.
That Kerosene Can Again. u1 -
by Hoodlums-O. g. C. Passenger
Train Wrecked-Tvo Soys
DroEned-News Notes.


( Train Wrecked-Two Boys
Droxned-News Notes
/ Seattle lars claim to a WhitechappeI
district.
I The hotel on Mt. Hood is nearing com
pletion.
/ waIIa walla lad a 1900 fire on the
18th inst.
Forest fires are raging near Philips
burg, Mont.
The reports from growing crops in Ore
! gon are favorable.
! Walla walla is overrun with sneak
I thieves and fire-bugs.
( Some Of the vineyards in sonoma
county show the mildew.
< Cases OF diphtheria arc reported at bos
ton Ravine, Nevada county.
! 1t is proposed at Red BLUFF to purchase
I the opera-house for town hall.
/ Seattle is to erect large wooden hotel,
/ to be known as the Rainier Hotel.
Los Angeles has secured deeds to the
entire right Of way for its outfal sewer.
/ Charles Paul, a desperate convict, made
| bic escape from San Quentin on the 18Th.
The Bear River Canal Company now
4 has control OF the water supply OF Ogden.
Andrew Goodrich OF Rincon, near Po-
/ mona, wealthy man, has become IN
sane.
/ Montana Indians on the Cheyenne
Agency take occasional shots at white
men.
( The wooi-growers OF Baker CITY, Or,
have been paid more than 100000 since
June lat.
4 very rich strike at San Pedro, in
Santa Fe county, y. NJ, is creating great
excitement.
A little son OF Paul Saaich drank cup
Of boiling water at Victoria and died in
great agony.
A man named Coulson, at Spring Hill,
! Montana, accidentally shot his fiancee,
on the 18th.
The San Francisco chronicles" new
building has reached the eighth story in
the steel work.
John Smith, an old resident OF Tehach-
pie, was thrown from his horse and killed
on the 24tn inst.
The proposed $40 900 race at Fresno
did not fill, the big horses being engaged
on Eastern tracks.
The San Diego Land and Town Com
pany has obtained a verdict against Neal
ct al, for sl22,675.
A factory to manufacture cream of tar
tar from grape pumice, is to I've estab-
hshed at Santa Rosa.
Day Bros sawmill on the Seattle,
Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, has been
burned loss, $4,000.
The surveying party OF the Astoria rail
road passed Independence, Or, on the
26th, headed for Sheridan.
Republicans at Pasadena have recon-
mended Il. J. VAIL editor oil the Star, fol-
the postmastership of that city.
Damages in the sum Of $4,000 agaist
the Santa Fe New Mexican are sought by
Ii. Z. Mckevitt on libel charge.
Jones & Son g sawmill, two miles south
OF Portland, was burned ON the Doth, to-
gether with 1900, 900 feet of lumber.
In nearly every instance where life
has been lost in the Colorado river, the
victim has been an expert swimmer.
The site just selected for the life-savins
station at Garquina is on South beach, al
a point near the present ferry landing.
; A school OF black bass was run into
{ ipa tasI la l.. Nnl, II. ~.
, other day and quite number captured
A grain fire near MERGED, Oh the Crock
er-Huffman Land and Water Company
fields, did considerable damage last week
The proprietor OF Sacramento saloor
: will be prosecuted by the Law and Orde
League for allowing boys to drink in hi:
: saloon.
, The Constitutional Convention o
Idaho has declared against the ntroduc
ton OF religious books or papers into tn,
, schools.
At Portland, on the 18th, Ieopol,
knopke was instantly killed by sewe
caving in on him. Deceased is a nativ,
OF st. Cloud, Mimi.
Willie johnson, the MaripOsa lS.vear
old murderer, killed his stepmother Will,
she Slept because she had threatene,
hun with whipping.
The house OF Frank Lonkev, youn,
rancher living near Mist, Columbi
county, was set on fire and burned by
: masked man, last week.
Two boys. George and Albert Weed
were drowned in the Willamette river a
: Portland, Saturday 18th, while bathin
| near the old water works.
Captain Henry j. Peppepy, a wei
known junk dealer, WAS killed by hood
lums on the 2Sth, while trying TO shiel
= Il Chinaman from their blows.
Tue hop-growers OF the Willamette val
/, ley met at Salem last week and organize,
what is known as the Hop-G lowers Mu
tual Protective Fire Association.
e Allen Van Fleet, the son OF an orchard
list near Saratoga, is reported to have de
t serted his young wife and ran away Will
= a notorious woman OF san Jose.
W, Bruce, the miner who was suppose,
. to have been lost while photographing
mirage in Glacier Bay, Alaska. student
, reappeared on the l4th at Juneau.
r Tacoma is troubled with fiend VIII
makes business of assulting little girl
, when he can find them out on the street
A neck-tie party would be in order.
At Portland, on the Goth, little Nol
Joplin, during the absence OF her parents
while trying to start fire with kerosene
, the can exploded, burning her to dealt
/ in few minutes.