Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-08-23
THE PACIFIC COAST.
CHINESE HIGHBINDER HANGED AT
PORTLAND.
The Idaho Convention-Escape FROM
Folsom Prison-Eloped With
Married Mantle "ool lat
Truckee in Earnest.

Truckee in Earnest
Portland is to have fire-boat.
Eastern Nevada is purchasing Califor-
mia hay.
Portland is urging the construction oil
fire-boat
Harvest hands in Oregon demand 81 a
day and board.
/ Seattle intends to have tire-boat to
protect its wharves.
I A lieutenant and twelve men will re-
main at Fort Klamath.
I Every salmon cannery on the Column
! bia river has shut down.
Santa Rosa declines to suspend the u
/ o'clock saloon ordinance.
( Washington will vote on the selection
I ton of city for its Capital.
Many swarms OF bees are found by the
| lumbermen up in the Sierras.
The Indians are focking to the hop
| fields of Washington Territory.
An immense deposit OF mineral soap
/ has been found near San Diego.
w. A. Smiths dry goods store at Napa
! has been attached by creditors.
Ten thousand dollars will be given in
purses at the Santa Rosa races.
Geroge Gray, OF Susanville, CAL, has
gone insane from disappointment in love.
! Mr.. Finle, of Arroyo Grande, has wal
nut trees that bring him in $40 for each
/ tree.
] San Diego and San Bernardino coun-
ties are going to law about the county
line.
Salt Lake City has been carried by the
Gentiles in popular vote by forty ma
iority.
Orange county has adopted as its Off
cial seal an orange with stem and three
leaves.
In Tehama county the assessor levies
upon alfalfa patches, and the farmers are
furious.
The Lima bean crop OF Ventura county
this year will amount to 5000 tons, worth
100000.
A sawmill costing $500, 900 will be built
at Tacoma this year by some Michigan
capitalists.
The value of the Columbia river sal
mon catch for this season is estimated at
81, 10000
A flow of gas has been struck at a
depth OF 10 feet near Tulara Lake, south
OF Hanford.
Field fires are doing considerable dam
age to small holdings in the neighborhood
OF Portland.
A. j. Elliott, San Diego banker, has
disappeared and foul play is feared, as he
carried 800.
Three men have died in Tucson within
few days from drinking ice water in
large quantities.
Two toughs have been arrested at
Baker City, Or and charged with passing
counterfeit money.
The forest fires in Montana which have
been prevailing for some time, show no
signs of abatement.
Another little diphtheria patient-the
fifth--has been sacrificed under the faith
cure at Los Angeles.
Petaluma is worked up over the elope-
ment OF foolish girl with painter who
has wife and child.
Fish Commissioner Mcdonald thinks
salmon can be made as plentiful as ever
in the Columbia river.
John Miller, a plasterer, was shot,
probably fatally, in bar-room quarrel at
Portland, Oh the 4th inst.
The Republicans of Washington will
meet at Walla Walla on September 4th
to nominate State officers.
Laborers have reached Santa Rosa to
begin grading work on the Santa Rosa
and Sebastopool Railroad.
The Nevada County Fair commences
August 10Th and will last five DAYS. The
racing events are well filled.
The San Diego Cable Company is a
new incorporation, with a capital of So,
000, 900, to work at San Diego.
, A San Jose man offers to lease Alum
Rock Park from the City Trustees and
to spend 800 in making improve
ments.
, Jewett r, Rowland has escaped from
iciScih' iiC 10 ~ StdiS Olu anu Was
sent from Sacramento for two years for
burglary.
The Sutro Tunnel property has been
conveyed to the Union Trust Company
of New York, which succeeds to all the
property and franchises.
Emanuel Yerdugo, who murdered
Louis Cohn, prominent citizen and
. 7 mi .ban MT pf loo A
rested in Mexico and taken to Tucson.
The Starting of the extensive lumbe,
yard at Moss Landing by the Pacific
Lumber Company OF San Francisco, has
created a lumber war in Salinas Valley
Mrs Lizzie Grant, wife of ]. D. Grant
Jr., OF the firm of Murphy, Grant & Co.
died on the sth inst. at San Mateo, Of
heart disease. She was q years of ge
Three Superior Court Judges sitting in
| bank have decided that all contracts
made by the Coronado Beach Company
for the sale of lands there and at South
San Diego are valid.
The Idaho Constitutional Convention
in its framed provisions, excludes polyg
amists and those who believe in polyp.
amy and plural marriages, and disfran
chises all mormons.
Washington has agreed upon the rep
resentation in its Legislature. The Sen
ate will be composed OF thirty-fve mem
bers and the House of seventy. The lat
ter is never to be less than sxty-thret
nor more than ninetv-nine.
The ''60l' at Truckee are in earnest
and nearly 100 disreprtable people have