Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-07
THE PACIFIC COAST.
SALMON BOATS ON THE COLUMBIA
RIVER.
The New System of Balloting in Call
fornia-One of the Canon Diablo
Robbers Escape-State Fruit
Growers Convention

Fresno Will have swimming Datn.
Sacramento bias the pugilistic craze.
San Diego is to have pickle factory.
Bees are not permitted in Los Angeles.
Shasta is to have military company.
Kittitas county, w. t., has 10000 pop
ulaton.
Santa Rosa will have a fire tournament
May STU.
At Lodi, 5000 acres are planted to
watermellons.
Salmon boats on the Columbia river
are catching few fish.
Butte county n has planted 100000
orange trees this year.
The East Oregonian, at Pendleton, was
burned out last week.
DR.. Gray of Colusa, has thrifty olive
orchard of 500 trees.
The Knights of Pythas finished it's la
bors at Fresno last week.
A large hotel to accommodate tourists
is to be built at Santa Rosa.
Briggs orchard at Marysville.
Chinatown, at Borden, Fresno county,
was destroyed by fire recently.
The State Fruit-growers' convention
began at San Diego last week.
The criminal charge against Borchers,
at Stockton, has been dismissed.
Sonoma has taken the preliminary
steps toward establishing cannery.
The sleeping Swiss at Santa Maria
shows unmistakable signs of insanity.
The Navajo Indians raise about one
million pounds of wool yearly for market.
A new railroad is soon to be built from
Helena, M. T., to the Canadian Pacific.
Hundreds of jelly-iish of new species
have been driven ashore on the Oregon
coast.
The San Francisco baseball players has
lost but one game since the season
opened.
John Bronkee was shot dead in bed in
Grant county, Or, last week, by Peter
Sullivan.
Montana will hold special election for
of the Constitutional Conven-
ton May 14th.
The new system of ballot counting, re-
Gently adopted in California, proves to be
a dismal failure.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company will run boats from Portland
to Puget Sound Ports.
The Santa Rosa ranch in San Diego
is said to have been sold to an
for $4,000.
The acreage sown to wheat this year ID
San Benito county is $4,000. The acre
age to barley is about $4,000.
Severe earthquakes are reported to have
occurred at Guaymus, Mexico, on the 9TH,
but no damage is mentioned.
Jacob Hommel, aged IS years, at Los
Angeles, took a dose of poison and then
shot himself through the heart.
Butte, M. r., has elected its municipal
officers. The democrats carried all the
offices by from 100 to 400 majority.
The trial of John Oaks for the murder
of Cashier +. II. Morse, at San Bernar-
dino, last December, began last week.
A. G. Hamilton has brought suit in
New, against the Southern
Pacific Company for 100000 damages.
Thirty thousand orange trees have
been planted in San Diego county this
season. Most of them came from Florida.
J. J. Smith, one of the Canon Diablo
escaped by jumping through a
iar window with his shackles on, near
Ration, N. Nj.
Two coaches filled with negro emigrants
rom the Carolinas, passed Cotton on the
overland train last week, bound for North
1rn California.
Details of the investigation in the Port
Townsend custom house, show that fraud
las been practiced very extensively for a
number of years.
The defeated candidates at the Fresno
election talk of contesting the result, on
he ground of the illegality of the procla-
nation calling the election.
Leslie Cullom, acting collector of GUS
oms at Port Townsend, has telegraphed |
lis resignation to the treasury depart |
nent, to take effect May 10.
A suit to set asid the deeds made by |
lanes b. Stephens, of East Portland, |
ately deceased, has been brought by his |
laughter, Mrs Lizzie McCalla.
Captain John Mullan left Portland, Or,
or Washington last week. He has been |
evidence to establish the claims |
# Oregon against the government.
The rumor is again current that the
southern Pacific has purchased the At
lntic road in Pasadena, with view to |
Xtending it to IA Junction. with the line
I Alhambra.
G. p. Huntington, the railroad mag
ate, entertained sixty-eight railroad Of
cials OF the Southern and Central Pa
Itic system, at the Palace hotel, San
rancisco, last week.
All the freight brakemen on $50 mile
vision of the Atlantic 4 Pacific, be-
yeen Winslow and Mojave, went out on
streke because the company refuse to
low three men to train.
Sheriff Mcfarland and Constable
Iorse, in pursuit of two men charged
it'll burglary at Prescott, w. T., We're
red upon by the burglars. The sheriff
turned the fire, killing Tom Williams
hey arrested the other maintained
ave Murphy.
The Spokane, Post Falls and Eastern
ailway and Navigation Company has
zen organized in Washington territory,
it'll capital of 5000, 900, to build from
,okane east to Post Falls and Lake Pen
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