Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-30
THE PACIFIC COAST.
MAN AND WIFE TO SUFFER DEATH
ON THE GALLOWS.
Public Sentiment Regarding the Wan
ton Killing of Old Man Sprague
at Garvanza - The Ubiqui-
tous Tascott Again.

| STOCKTON, Oal., VdSTduUS, on COnNlc-
Ion, get fifty days in Jail.
Three hundred men are now employed
at the Vallejo navy yard.
A one-eyed Mexican is the sheriff OF
Los Angeles county, Cal.
Bronco Liz, the Spokane Falls murder
ess, has been held without bail.
Joaquin Miller has been appointed a
member of the California forestry COM
mission.
Mr.. Moody has been practicing on the
adamantine souls OF San Diegans the
past week.
EN-. L. Patterson was arrested at Oro-
vile, Cal, last week.. for passing coun-
terfeit notes.
John A. Dimmig, of Benhayon mys-
terry fame, is engaged in selling fruit trees
in California.
Another attempt was made by rob
bers to wreck passenger train near Yu-
ma Friday night,
C. P. Huntington says the Southern
Pacific will not at present build north
| OF Jne COlumDld.
Right-of-way for the Puyallup Valley
railroad has been refused by the Indians
on the reservation.
Joseph Vivian, fugitive Leadville,
| Col, murderer, was arrested at AmadOr
City, Cal, last week.
A man named G. f. Crookshank, of
Clackamas, was found dead in a hotel at
Redding, CAL, Thursday.
The body of female child was found
packed in a valise and floating in the
bay at San Diego, Friday.
Charles Willard, burglar at Santa
Barbara, is held on sixteen charges. His
wife is also held for burglary.
Ly Fung Su, a giant Chinaman, ar
rived in San Francisco Friday. His
height is seven feet four inches.
The widow of Cyrus W. Field, so years
of age, fell and broke her shoulder blade
at National City, Cal, Thursday.
The new gold fields near Holbrook,
Arizona, turns out to be as much of a
fraud as those of Lower California.
The two men, Cuff and Stutzman, who
robbed the San Luis Obispo stage re-
Gently, have acknowledged their guilt.
Albert Fostrom was acquitted at Ia
coma last week on the charge of having
murdered one Carlson last September.
Two Japanese girls are reported to
have fought desperate and bloody duel
with swords at Los Angeles last week.
Higway robbers earn precarious liv-
ing by preying upon returning Lower
California gold miners near Tia Juana.
A commercial drummer declares that
grass and jack-rabbits grow luxuriantly
on the principal streets of Los Angeles.
A full list of immigrants to the Pacific
Coast, of the vintage of 40, is being COM
piled by G. W. Haskins, of Oakland, Cal.
The California legislature appropriated
$30, 900 for creosoting works at San Fran
cisco for the protection of piles in wharf
building.
John D. James, a San Diego private
detective, has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment for attempting to
levy blackmail.
1t is estimated that over 100000 cases
of Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska
salmon, of the pack of 1889, have been
sold in advance.
Gov. Waterman has signed the bill
prohibiting the sale of liquors in Califor-
MIA to persons addicted to the inordinate
use of the same.
Last week five bars of gold and silver
bullion, weighing 512 pounds, were
shipped to San Francisco from the Pal
isade mine, near CahstOga.
A whale and it's calf were thrown
on the beach at Santa Rosa during a
storm last week. The mother whale
measured sixty feet in length.
A shoemaker by the name of John
Cramer was murdered and his body
thrown in the river by unknown parties,
near Spokane Falls, Tuesday.
James Dealy, Napa county, CAL,
farmer has been sued by Mr.. Ruther-
ford for SIC, 900 damages for having
caused the death of the latter's child.
The mayor of Los Angeles has vacated
the Office and given way to his successor
under the new city charter, but the audi
tor refuses to let go, and will appeal to
the courts.
Malarkey, the young man who swim
died several Portland merchants by means
of forged checks recently, was arrested at
San Francisco Tuesday while working the
same game.
A man answering the description of
TascOtt is said to have been working in
Senator Stanford's vineyard, near Vina,
Gal. Officers left from Sacramento and
San Francisco to arrest him, but the
bird had flown.
A large mass-meeting was held at Med
ical Lake, w. T., last week, and resolu-
tons were adopted and committees ap-
pointed to notify the Chinese in that Vi
cinity to leave.
There are now at the Santa Clara
mines in Lower California, 1000 men,
the majority of whom have as much
knowledge of practical mining as hog
has of homeopathy.
An early meeting of the Transconti-
mental association is announced, and the
railway managers will probaly accede to
| the demands of Pacific Coast Gamers in
a reduction of Eastern freight rates.
Claus Spreckles proposes to erect beet
SUGAR factories in every community
where 5000 acres are devoted to beats.
II will take twelve factories alone to sup
! Div Los Angeles. The town claims pop
ulation or $4,000.
Josiah and Elizabeth Potts, found
guilty of murder in the first degree in
| killing Miles lancet at Carlin, New,
| January, IS, were sentenced to death by
banoinp, The date of the execution was