Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-28
THE PACIFIC COAST.
GINA rrrE,s RAILWAY CONNECTION
WITH BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Stage Robber Captured-Murder Ano
Suicides-Criminal Libel suit
New York Capitalists at
Ellensburg, w. L.

Santa Cruz Is 10 nave f-o,Voo J"iA
Ellensburg, w. t., has 1000 people.
Visalia will soon be lit by electricity.
Watsonyill has decided to reincorpor-
ate.
The cherry crop around Vacavllle IS
light
The 'lovers" have been driven out Oh
Oroville.
San Leandro elected the peoples ticket
last week.
Portland's exports for April amounted
to $3.50, 705.
NAV sth was pardon day at the Caifor-
MIA capitol.
Petaluma has raised its liquor license
from $1l to 500 a quarter.
Roxburg has signed as catcher OF the
baseball club.
The Portland x Clackamas Railway
Company has incorporated.
Work was begun recently on the water
works for Umpqua CITY, Or.
There are some prospects OF establish-
ing military post on brakes Bay.
At Elensburg, w. T., 400 houses, it is
estimated, will be built this season.
On the 7th inst, the first train ran
over the line between Paso and Selma.
The San Pedro, N. NJ, carbonate strike
promises to be a big thing for the territory
Fishing for perch in Clear Lake is no"
all the rage. They take the hood freely
It is now decided that the Pacific Meth
odist College will remain In Santa Rosa
The Washington Territorial Dental AS
sociation was held last week at Spokane
Falls.
The woman suffragists are making ,
vigorous campaign in Washington Terri
tory.
The hot springs at Temicula, San deg
county, are said to be equal to those II
Arkansas.
James Hutchinson, logger at Brad
bury, Or, was killed recently by To-
crushing him.
The Tehema county clerk says the oil
yorces are about equal to the marriages
in that county.
Seattle is to have railroad connection
with the Canadian Pacific at New West
minister within a year.
Work has been begun on the life-sav
ing station at Point Reys, which is to b
completed by August Is.
The young vineyards at Woodbridge
San Joaquin county, have been rune'
this spring by cutworms.
Nineteen thousand sheep and 1885
pounds of wool were shipped from Huron
Fresno county, i'll March.
A large deposit of asbestos has bee
found near the line of the Cuyamaca raj
road, in San Diago county.
Emil Weber, a well-known sportin
man of Portland, Or, was shot and il
stantly killed on the 10th inst.
New York capitalists have purchase
1870 lots near Ellensburg, w. T., and wi
make substantial improvements.
Bill Keogh of Chicago knocked out Phi
Duncan, colored, of California, in thre
rounds at Virginia City, last week.
The committee on Commercial Rel
tons with Canada stopped over at Ren
last week and attended the theater.
The excitement over the gold find
Douglas county, New, has died out.
is intimated the claims were salted.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holser, of Sc
Buenaventura, charged with the murd
OF Daniel Sheldon, have been discharge
A chrome mine has been discovered {
facilities creek, in the Coast Rang
twenty miles west OF Huron, FresI
county.
Prisoners in the Spokane Falls Jail a
tempted an outbreak recently, but mu
deress in the woman cell betrayed thel
to the guard.
On the 9th inst, Fred Simmons, age
IL years, accidentally shot and kille
Avalardo Aradaco while hunting me-
Halfmoon Bay.
The city clerk of Stockton says with
tax levy of $1.S3 on the 800, this yea
the city viii run short $40, 900 before Il
end OF the fiscal year.
Walter 7. Logan, an Arizona cattl
man, died at the Lake Erie Ranch ne
st. Johns, A. T., on the 9th inst, fro
an overdose of morphine,
Whale-oil soap is being extensive
used in the orchards in the vicinity
IL
| moth and other insect pests.
Harry Bethune, the famous sprinte
and Frank Lewis, Pacific Coast rum
| of more than local note, are matched
$3.50 a side ut Seattle, w. T., May 26.
The Los Angeles Herald says: All Il
employees of the Southern Pacific livil
in the desert will be supplied with ice
the company during the coming summt
w. II. Pain, Victoria, B. c., scull,
says he will accept the challenge
Henceman and row for from $500 to $l5
in October, at Stockton or San Francist
The notorious dance house at Fresr
which was closed by the vigilance COZ
mittee last year, has been granted
| liquor license by the Trustees, and t
papers predict trouble.
Detective Stone, of Fresno, has ca
tured Robert Stewart, colored, and mt
OF the bullion stolen from the Hildre
stage last July. 1t is said to have be
concealed in a hollow stump.
c. Anderson and d. d. Lynch, W
published the Portland Electric Ligl
have been indicted for criminal libel
John Sullivan and H. Brandt, employ
of the Southern Pacific machine shops.
A writ OF habeas corpus has been gra