Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-23
COAST NEWS ITEMS.
A PEREMPTORY ORDER ISSUED TO
S. P. TIOKET AGENTS.
The Desperate Suicide of Californian
A Probate Judge Indicted-Arrest
ofa Gang of Burglars in the
Woods Near Tacoma.

S0und.
New Mexico protests against the re-
turn Of Geronimo.
Several cases OF smallpox are re-
ported in Carson, Nevada.
The penitentiary of Washington
Territory cleared $3397 last term.
Colfax will be connected by rail with
the Ceur d'Alene mines this summer.
Masters of deep-water vessels at San
Francisco, find it difficult to secure
sailors.
1t is predicted that the new navy
yard will be established on the Colum-
bia river.
Governor Waterman has appointed
John P. Irish commissioner of Yo-
semitic valley.
Mrs. Noon, of Danville, Cal, was
thrown from her buggy last Sunday
and instantly killed.
San Francisco is exercised over the
discovery of diseased meats IN many
of her slaughter houses.
G. w. Davis shot and instantly
killed S. P. Bayler, Friday evening,
near Red Bluff. Whiskey.
The first husband of Bertha NJ.
Stanley, the confidence queen, has
been discovered in Los Angeles.
A shortage OF $4,000 has been dis
covered in the books of w. S. Varnum,
lax collector of San Diego county.
James Wickersham, probate judge
of Pierce county, has been indicted for
the seduction of Sadie Brantner.
The appointment of Judge Wade as
chief justice of Montana IS not salts
factory to the people of the Territory.
Joe McAuliffe, the prize fighter, is
expected to arrive in Portland shortly
to arrange fight with Tim Campbell.
Alice Vincent, of the Carleton
Opera troupe, was thrown from horse
at Los Angeles last week and had her
arm broken.
Nine men were arrested in the
woods near Tacoma, last Wednesday,
for burglaries committed in Puyallup
and Buckley.
The fourth trial cf Charles Cooper
for the murder of Paul Burke at Boul-
der Creek, Cal, last fall, has resulted
in his acqujttal.
Robert Phelan, young San Fran
cisco plumber, shot and instantly
killed Arne Johansen, a saloon keeper,
last Wednesday.
The Southern Pacific company has
issued a peremptory order to ticket
agents to compel passengers to sign
their names to tickets.
A deviEfsh, twenty feet in length,
attacked man off Beacon Hill, b. e.,
last week. 1t almost succeeded IN
upsetting the boat.
George Keller, deaf mute, was run
over and killed by a motor engine at
San Pernardino Friday. He was
frightfully mangled.
Willoughby Clark, a young lawyer
from San Diego, was arrested in San
Francisco last Tuesday, charged with
felouious embezzlem 3nt.
The smooth young man who victim
lied several Portland firms last week
by forged checks, has been working
the same game in Seattle.
G. S. Loucks, a prominent mer-
chant of Chehslis, was arrested last
Tuesday by a Wisconsin sheriff for
| forgery, committed in 1887.
Tug Wilson, recently released from
the penitentiary, was arrested at Seat
tie, Tuesday, for the murder of Thos.
Davis, near Walla Walla, last Novem-
| Der.
The penitentiary commissioners OF
Washington Territory have ordered
new steam brick machine in anticipa-
ton of building boom the coming
season.
Charles F. Lummis, formerly city
editor Of the Los Angeles Times, was
shot in the face at Atlantic and Pa
cific junction Friday by unknown
parties.
James Wiley, San Francisco real
estate agent, shot his wife through the
shoulder and Bert Clark, her para
mour, twice through the arm, last
Tuesday.
The marriage of Wong Wing, a
Chinaman 40 years of age, and Miss
All Chey, 10 years Of age, was cele-
brated at San Francisco Friday. They
Rev. J. d. Flenner, OF Idaho, has
been found guilty of serious charges
by the Episcopal judicial conference
at Portland, and was dismissed from
the ministry last Friday.
Luis Huller, concessionaire OF the
Lower California branch OF the Inter
national company, is accused OF nus
appropriating the funds of the COM
pany. Huller has disappeared.
Joe Hawkins shot and fatally
wounded Jerry Reen, sexton OF the
church at the mission of San Jose,
and severely wounded John O'Connor,
in a San Francisco saloon, Friday.
There is much alarm in Virginia
City over the report that many guests
have secured lodging there who are
directly from the Ormsby house, at
Carson, in which so many cases oil
smallpox have occurred.
The ballots cast in Washoe, Elko
and other eastern counties of Nevada,
against the amendment to the con-
stitution authorizing the Nevada lot
| .o,- ora found tn he two inches short