Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-16
THE PACIFIC COAST.
TO CONNECT BRITISH COLUMBIA
WITH THE PACIFIC COAST
aatudeed Insane-Claims 10 '' ~
yytsa-To Defeat High License
Portland Pos masters ne
port-Earthquake.


port-Earthquake.
prytown, Amador county is having
boom,
The Puebla on her last trip north 'ooh
zoo 80 ~ iruit from San Francisco
cork tree in Visalia is now eighteen
inches in diameter and forty feet high'
stinsaree that weighed 900 POUNDS
NO., L;IIad at Redonda Beach last week.
EARTHQUAKES are still shaking susan
vile Five shocks occurred ON the zo'ii'
fire on the old Croker ranch, near
MERGED recently, destroyed conslderapie
grain.
The old and well-known Cucamonso
hotel. eighteen miles east OF POMONA h"'
been burned.
Frank lankrey's house AT Mist, Or
vas burned for revenge by some enemy
few days ago.
lamp explosion caused the loss OF
the residence OF W. II. So,lle, at WOOD
land on the Goth.
A strike in the Cover mine at Dry,
town. Amador county, shows rock heid
together with gold.
Two Harvey Valley, Or, settlers are
under arrest for resisting eviction py
United States Marshals.
The peach crop of Pomona Valley VIII
amount to $50 tons. Canneries get the
4 fruit at cent per pound.
Il, lta
for the Eureka, Consolidated mine al
Eureka, New, has begun.
! Jack Murphy, known as Jack the
Ripper" killed James Clooney at Sack
I vile, Yolo county, on the 18th.
lose Sauza OF Pomona attempted sui
eide ON the 2Sth because his daughter
had eloped with married man.
George Cornwall, a Jockey, was killed
at San Diego on thu 29th. White jump
ing fence his horse fell upon him.
John D. Spreckels is said to have pur-
chased a one-third interest i'll the Coro-
nado Beach Company, costing him
s5ll 900.
Owen Morgan is under arrest at Sacra-
mento, charged with attempting to
destroy by fire the Western Hotel i'll
that city.
A whole family OF Flathead Indians
has been murdered and burned by rob
, beers in the Sun River country IN
Montana.
/ Sutter county saloonkeepers have com
: bined to defeat high license. Three
+ have been arrested and warrants are out
for seven others.
The taking OF testimony in the case o
II. l.. Gorton ior the Clipper Gap robber,
last December began at Auburn, Placer
| county, on the 9th.
a The fruit cannery at Marysvile 10 fill
:, ing special order for peaches in half
Mound cans to he sold on the railroad
trains TO passengers.
A man named Hayes was given on
e hour to leave Petaluma or five days IL
Il the chain gang for disturbing the Saliva
. ton Army meeting.
4 E. l.. Cartenon, travelling agent Tor
# San Francisco house, has been ad]udge'
n insane at Redding. He is subject durln
n hot weather to mental trouble.
t. L. b. Allen and companion, +. Oh
=. San Diego, who left for Oceanslde to sal
= SllllIi YACHT uOWu lilt tOdSJ, uit iiiiooiii
n and it is feared they are drowned.
Tom Thompson and six other me
l. who tarred and feathered Gus Branna
r, at san Pedro few months ago, hay
IL been found guilty OF simple assault.
IL !, The salmon canneries on the Erase
= liver are each securing from 5000
10 900 salmon daily and the largest pac
! 81. Of Z M 10
N Ambrose Bierce has detective worl
is ing on the Chico tragedy. 1t is believe
r. by some that the bullet wound throug
he the temple of young Bierce was not il
ne tiicted by himself.
10 10 j. r. Griffith, from Fresno, has bee
!; on protracted spree at Traver, al
~ rather than 20 to Jail cut an artery in h
IN arm with a pocket knife. Prompt surg
~ cal aid saved nim.
~ The mats used to form the jetty
ry process OF construction at Eureka Ha
ct hor, Humboldt county, are sixty-tol
feet long, forty feet wide and four fe
NO thick, Each weighs sixty tons wht
he ready for launching.
Us In Committee of the Whole OF Il
90 Montana Convention on the 9th, An
he conda received 81 votes against "A for u
'st location OF the capital. Great excit
lie ment resulted in Helena.
Oh Two cases of death from lighting fir
No with coal oil were reported on the PIT
nj One at Seattle, Mrs Julia Calder, and t
10 other near Clay Statian, in Sacramen
ar. county. Mrs. Arthur Ralphs.
lie, Attorney H. q. Thompson has Just
nd turned to Portland from British Colu
m bia, where he closed deal with the n,
he Westminster Southern Railway Co
'd, pany to connect British Columbia wi
IRE the Pacific Northwest.
AL
oh The Portland Postmaster report
the fiscal year ended June 30th sho
the receipts and payments OF the mon
III order and postal funds to have be
yer :, I27 ,6l3 r., as compared with 81, 40
OF GA 30 last year, an increase of 81 600 ,0
io c, II. Croker has offered to bear I
re- expense OF an expedition from the Ii
WI Observatory to Cave me, South Ameri
in next December, and it is expected
10 that time to confirm and extend some
to the discoveries made at the last eclip
KY Hon Joseph A. Donohoe OF Me-
led Park has offered the Astronomical Soci
oil OF the Pacific to establish medal to
lch given to the first discoverer of every
me expected comet, and to the first pers
act making a precise observation OF a Il
dlo SCOPE periodic comet at any one OF
TO expected returns.
ing -,
ex The woman claiming to be the wife
IN Colonel Ayres of the Los Angeles Hera
1 IL