Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-14
THE PACIFIC COAST.
HACKMEN OF PORTLAND ORGANIZE
AN ASSOCIATION.
Government Land Thro IN Open tor 0e'-
tlement-Steamer Sunk-RaliWay
Notes-Disastrous Collision
Items of Interest.

Frasno has organized Tally-ho club
San Diego complains OF the price paid
for ice.
Pneumonia is plentiful in Hawthorne
Nevada.
The plant for the creosote works at san
Pedro has arrived.
II has been 50 far bad year Tor bar
racouda in southern waters.
The hackmen of Portland are 10 Or
ganize a protective association.
The cutworms has appeared IN soihe
some of the California vineyards.
MANY Santa Rosa ladies have been We
tins of endowment associations.
Konrad Frederick Wiemeyer, editor OF
the Sacramento Journal, died last week.
San Diego county bee men say the
nrosnects were never better than thls
year.
There is a report that the oil wells at
Sespe are not yielding as much OH as lor-
merly.
The mayor of Portland and city council
are at outs respecting the location ol
city hall.
William Hamilton, prominent ranch,
er of Grub Gulch, Fresno county, oieo
recently.
Yosemite was connected by telegraph
with the outside world last week Tor the
first time.
Santa Cruz has fixed the liquor license
at 5000 per annum, and the circus license
at $3.50 a day.
Two female tramps, who carry their
blankets and sleep in barns, are doing
Yolo county.
Mulkv's Tom DAILY Little Dock and
Butcher Boy were the winners OF the races
at Fresno on the 18th inst.
FRANKIE Joesink, 1O-year-old boy, fell
under a moving freight tram at Sacra-
mento. recently, and was killed.
Los Angeles last year shipped away
SOo5 tons of citrus fruits and imported
from the East 1921 tons OF beer.
Mrs. George Lovelock was drowned
while fishing in a slough near her resi-
dence. on Humboldt river, New, last
week.
The commission to fix site for the
insane ASYLUM for Southern California
voted for a locality last week, but as each
voted for his own county, no result was
obtained.
At Victoria, B. c., on the 23d, the cor
ner stone of the Provincial Royal Jubilee
hospital was laid by Mrs. Nelson, wife OF
| | ;o,,tapopt- { NplgOu
Austin A. Bell, prominent and very
wealthy citizen OF Seattle, W. T., com
mitted suicide on the oath inst, by shoot
ing himself through the head.
Corbett and Choynski, San Francisco
pugilsts, have signed articles to meet in
a fight to finish for purse OF $1,000 {
side, Queensberry rules to govern.
A disastrous cohesion occurred al
| Thompson Falls on the Northern Pacific
on Monday last, in which the engineer,
fireman and brakeman were injured.
Charles Mint, an Italian fisherman a
Seattle, w. T., was arrested last Tue sday
for attempting to rape Mabel Clifford, thu
5-year-old daughter OF Il laundryman o
that city.
Hon. John f. Swift, the newly APP
pointed minister to Japan, accompanied
bv his wife, left San Francisco on tn
steamer Oceanic, last week, for his ney
field of labor.
Governor Stevenson's call for cOnsti
tutionai convention, to be held at Bots
City, July /, has been unanimously en-
dorsed by the republican territorial cen
trail committee.
Albert J Cody, who bit off portio
of Joseph Morin's lower lip, in a figh
last month at Portland, has been con
victed OF mayhem. The penalty is mex
to that for murder.
= n. Cooper was cut to pieces recently b
California halfbreed Indian named Be
Jones, at Colony ranch, Harry county
Or. They were apparently very frendl
Il few minutes before the killing.
> The Oregon Railway & Navigatio
/ company is pushing its line through tn
/ the Cnur d'Alene reservation and Cmu
) d'Alene mountains to Mullen. Abor
two thousand men are employed.
, The steamer Alliance, owned bv til
Portland 4 Coast Steamship Compan,
= had Il collision with the steamer Danub
l on Thursday last, near the Willamett
= slough, in which the Alliance was SUM
Frank Sanford who killed himself
: San Rafael last week, was son of Hor
. Stephen SANFORD and cousin of Cor
e gresham Sanford of Amsterdam, n. y
t which place he left to avoid divorce Or,
$ ceedings.
4 new railroad company, known as til
( Rockford x Spokane Falls, has been o
5 gained to build from Rockford, twent,
, five miles, to Spokane Falls. When con
i pleted it will open new line to Portlau
: via Pennington and Pendleton.
AT Seattle, w. T.. on the 23d inst, IL
: government authorities advertised tw
/ townships OF valuable timber land to |
= thrown open for settlement The rus
q for the land office almost equalled tt
4 frantic rush OF the land-seekers to Ok
/ homa.
The granting of franchise for sire
II railway lines to the Willard syndicate |
# the City Council OF Tacoma, w. T., r
n Gently, has created Il sensation in tn
Y city, inasmuuch as it gives the syndica
r practical control of about twenty miles
If the public highways and makes the ira
n chise exclusive for fifty years.
There is a bitter courthouse war
It Whitman county, w. T. Colfax is Il
: present county seat and wants to build
. new courthouse. The rest of the coun
= wants division OF the county. T.
IS county commissioners ordered the coun
:. / IN I've bonded for SiiS Dln apI o,,,,,.,;+;