Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-05-04
THE PACIFIC COAST.
HACKMEN OF PORTLAND ORGANIZE
AN ASSOCIATION,
Government Land Thro IN Open for Set
tIement-Steamer Sunk-Railway
Notes-Disastrous Collision
Items of Interest.

Petroleum has been struck at Ukiah.
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.
1t has been so far bad year for bar
racouda in southern waters.
The hackmen of Portland are to or
ganize a protective association.
The cutworms has appeared in some
some of the California vineyards.
Many Santa Rosa ladies have been vic
tins of endowment associations.
Konrad Frederick Wiemeyer, editor of
the Sacramento Journal, died last week.
San Diego county bee men say the
prospects were never better than this
year.
There is report that the oil wells at
Sespe are not yielding as much oil as for
merly.
The mayor of Portland and city council
are at outs respecting the location of a
city hall.
William Hamilton, a prominent ranch
er of Grub Gulch, Fresno county, died
recently.
Yosemite was connected by telegraph
with the outside world last week for the
first time.
Santa Cruz has fixed the liquor license
at 5000 per annum, and the circus license
at $3.50 day.
Two female tramps, who carry their
blankets and sleep i'll barns, are doing
Yolo county.
Mulky's Tom DAILY, Little Dock and
Butcher Boy were the winners OF the races
at Fresno on the 18th inst.
FRANKIE Joesink, 10-year-old hoy, fell
under a moving freight train at Sacra-
manto, recently, and was killed.
Los Angeles last year shipped away
SO95 tons of citrus fruits and imported
from the East 702l tons OF beer.
Mrs. George Lovelock was drowned
while fishing in slough near her resi-
dence, on Humboldt river, New, last
week.
The commission to fix a 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
Lieutenant-G Governor Nelson.
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
fight to finish for purse OF $1,000 a
side, Queensberry rules to govern.
disastrous cohesion occurred at
Thompson Falls, on the Northern Pacific,
on Monday last, in which the engineer,
fireman and brakeman were injured.
Charles Mint, an Italian fisherman at
Seattle, W. T., was arrested last Tue 'day
for attempting to rape Mabel Clifford, the
5-year-oJd daughter Of laundryman OF
that city.
Hon. John F. Swift, the newly ap-
pointed minister to Japan, accompanied
bv his wife, left San Francisco on the
steamer Oceanic, last week, for his new
field of labor.
Governor Stevenson's call for a cOnsti-
tutional convention, to be held at Boise
City, July 4, has been unanimously en-
dorsed by the republican territorial cen
tral committee.
Albert ]. Cody, who bit off portion
of Joseph Morin's lower lip, in fight
last month at Portland, has been con-
victed OF mayhem. The penalty is next
to that for murder.
N. Cooper was cut to pieces recently by
a California halfbreed Indian named Ben
Jones. at Colony ranch, Harry county,
Or. They were apparently very friendly
few minutes before the killing.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
company is pushing its line through the
the Ceur d'Alene reservation and C9ur
a Alene IlOlluld1Ao W ilullClI'- ~AbOUS
two thousand men are employed.
The steamer Alliance, owned by the
Portland & Coast Steamship Company,
had a collision with the steamer Danube
on Thursday last, near the Willamette
slough, in which the Alliance was sunk.
Frank Sanford who killed himself at
San Rafael last week, was son OF Hon.
Stephen Sanford, and cousin of Con-
eressman Sanford Of Amsterdam, N. u,
which place he left to avoid divorce pro-
ceedings.
A new railroad company, known as the
Rockford & Spokane Falls, has been or
ganized to build from Rockford, twenty
five miles, to Spokane Falls. When com =.
pleted it will open new line to Portland
via Pennington and Pendleton.
At Seattle. w. T.. on the 23d inst, the
government authorities advertised two
townships of valuable timber land to be
thrown open for settlement. The rush
for the land office almost equalled the
| frantic rush of the land-seekers to Okla
| homa.
The granting of franchise for street
railway lines to the Willard syndicate by
the City Council of Tacoma, w. T., re-
Gently. has created a sensation in that
citv. inasmuuch as it gives the syndicate
practical control Of about twenty miles OF
the public highways and makes the fran
chise exclusive for fifty years.
There is a bitter courthouse war in
Whitman county, w. T. Colfax is the
present county seat and wants to build a
new courthouse. The rest of the county
wants a division of the county. The
county commissioners ordered the county
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