Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-05
PACIFIC COAST NOTES.
Matters of Local and General Import
Gathered from All Sources for
the Benefit of Our Readers.

ing.
Redwood City complains of burg
lars.
Vancouver has limited its saloons
TO six.
There is wood famine at Grass
Valley.
Burglaries are still plentiful at Los
Angeles.
San Luis Obispo works its prisoners
in chain-gang.
Salt Lake City has an 1S14-pound
3-year-old Hereford heifer.
Crescent City, Del Norte county,
proposes to establish pork factory.
Phoenix, A. T., has succeeded in its
eff, ,rts to secure the Territorial capital.
The remains of an unknown man
were found on the tract at Bakers
field.
San Bernardino charges $40 day
for circuses and $40 per day for dance
houses.
Miss Emma Holman was fearfully
injured by a neighbor's dog at Al
bany, Or.
A fatal disease has appeared among
the horses on Dry Greek, San Luis
Obispo county.
Salt Lake has risen three inches in
the last 60 days, after a fall last sum-
mer of 26 inches.
Idaho lawmakers complain OF the
tricks by which Mormons evade the
laws denying them vote.
About so passenger and freight con
ductors On the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad have been discarged.
The Gilroy Advocate intimates that
the reported discovery Of coal near
that city has been exaggerated.
A Chinese gardner applied to the
beet sugar factory at Watsonvllle Tor
a contract OH 70 acres of beets.
The official count in Nevada gives
Bartine (Rep) for congress, 692l
votes, ann Cassidy, (Dem.) 56o2.
Santa Rosa believes it will, within
wear, be connected by rail with the
western boundary line OF Sonoma.
An artesian we'll at Elsinor, San
Diego county, furnishes bath houses
with water 108 degrees temperature.
A seam Of bituminous coal, three
feet IN width, has been discovered IN
saamich, B. c., 30 feet from the sur
face.
Thirteen and one-half tons OF bar
nacles and shell fish were scraped OIL
the bottom of the Olympian at VIC
toria.
A boy tramp, aged about 13 years,
arrested at the Suisun depot, was
found to have two loaded revolvers on
his person.
The Jury in the Teller murder case
at Spokane Falls brought i'll verdict
of not guilty. Mrs. Teller killed her
husband in self defense.
Leading lawyers in Nevada believe
the constitutional amendments that
were adopted by the popular vote last
summer, are null and void.
At an undertaker's shop in San Ber-
nardino William Graham took drink
Of embalming fluid, thinking 1t was
beer. He died IN great agony.
Mrs. Alice C. Whitford, wife of a
Denver banker, has gone hopelessly
insane at Pomona on account OF her
husbands complaint in divorce suit.
Sixty acres of land were purchased
at Seattle for the site of big smelter
to reduce the ores CT the northwest,
and especially those of the C@ur
d'Alene.
Shipments of fish from Hanford
and Lemoore, Tulare county, 6O6z0
pounds from September 10Th to De
cember /, 1888. The fish were taken
from Tulare lake.
Several companies nave been Or
ganized to develop the oil fields IN
New Mexico, and considerable excite
ment exists at Gallup, where oil Is In
such quantities that in many lacail-
ties it runs in rivulets."
A rattlesnake three feet long with
seven rattles was found the other day
on the roof Of the Palace hoto) at Tue
son, A. I. The building has brick
walls and is sixty feet high. 1t is sup
posed the reptile was dropped by
some bird of prey.
It has been discovered that over
$75 900 in coupons of the funded debt
purchased by the city of Sacrament"
is missing and not Cancelled. The
coupons are of 1865. 1t is believed
$4,000 of the issue now in the books
and Cancelled has been paid twice.
Robert Evans and Walter, Isaac
and Frank Cannon, living on the road
between Grass Valley and Nevads
CITY, have been arrested and charged
with selling bogus gold nuggets anC
quartz specimens to Cinnamon. They
have carried on their swindllng opera
tions for some time.
A. n. Polymath, the San Diego Jew
eler who was arrested few days agt
for illegally restraining Mr.. and Mrs
AT. Tabor in his shop two or three
hours and subjecting them to search