Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
A VALUABLE OPIUM SEIZURE AT
SAN FRANCISCO.
The Effort to Reduce Trancontinental
Fruit Rates Unsuccessful-The Or
ganization of New Steam
ship Company.

The Front street cable road OF Seattle
has been finished.
Tacoma is soon to erect a mattress tac
tory to cost $4,000.
Californians are now utilizing peacl
and apricot pits as a fuel.
The towboat combination has beer
broken in San Francisco.
Washington Territory raised 6,544, 80;
pounds of hops last year.
Governor Swineford has rendered his
resignation TO the President.
Safe-crackers are nlying their vocation
along the line of the o. and {. road.
Another roorback Of fabulous gold dis
coveries in Lower California is reported
1t is thought that the new navy yard
will be established at Lake Washington
Victoria, B. c., has extended its city
limits and absorbed several small towns
Judge David S. Terry was released
from the Alameda county Jail last Sun
day.
Kirk, the embezzling clerk OF the Ma
deau house, Los Angeles, got away with
$4,000.
The Union Pacific, it is reported, will
run trains into Tacoma within few
weeks.
-Four witnesses have been arrested fol
perjury in the celebrated Wickersham Sc
ductiOn case.
Claus Spreclles has been sued for
$40, 900 damages for diverting the waters
of Aptos creek.
A question has been raised as to the
constitutionality of the new city charter
of Los Angeles.
George Brown, an inmate Of the insane
ASYLUM at Salem, committed suicide last
week by hanging,
Immense quantities OF iron for various
motor lines in the vicinity OF Portland
are arriving daily.
Charles E. Rose, formerly OF Ogdens-
burg, n. Y, committed suicide at Los
Angeles Thursday.
The selection of the site for the new
postotiice at San Francisco has not yet
been decided upon.
Charles w. Skeels, the Spokane Falls
who was shot by Bronco
Liz, died Sunday night.
Henry Lewis, convict at San QUEEN
tin, was stabbed to death by some un-
known party last week.
Under the new city charter the saloon
license at Salem has been increased IRON
$3.50 to $40 per annum.
A council was held at Fort Spokane
Tuesday with the view OF consolidating
the tribes on the Colville reservation.
Two natural gas explosions occurred
at Pittsburg, Wednesday, Wreckng fvt
buildings and injuring several persons.
The California legislature, Friday, re
fused to reconsider the vote making it {
misdemeanOr to publish lottery drawings
Two thousand dollars worth OF gam
blers' paraphernalia was destroyed by the
sheriff in front of the courthouse al
Seattle, Saturday.
Charles w. Skeels, soloon-keeper a
Spokane Falls, was shot and fatally
wounded Friday morning by his wife
known as Bronco Liz"
Daniel Callahan, who, with James G
Flood and others, established the tlrs
National Gold bank, of San Francisco
died at that place last week.
Captain Paul Boynton passed through
Seattle Friday on his way to the Straits
of Juan del Fuca, in quest of twelve SCI
lions for Lincoln park, Chicago.
The collapsed enterprise, known as the
Tenth street hotel, Los Angeles, ha'
been sold for $3.50, 900. The hotel will be
completed at a cost OF 81 100000
The West Coast Steamship company
filed articles of incorporation at Sar
Francisco Saturday. The line is in oppo
sition to Goodall, Perkins q Co.'S line.
The official canvass of Nevada's recen
election shows the lottery scheme to be
defeated by a majority of S52, and Il
abolish the office OF lieutenant-gOverno
by 1858.
A boy was struck by lightning from {
cloudless sky in Los Angeles county, las
week, and Killed. THE reporter who con
ceiyed the above should change his brant
Of liquor.l
DIR. Edwin w. Fowler OF San Francis
co, a member of the Bancroft Hlstor!
company, was knocked down and robbed
bv two well-dressed men at Los Angeles
Sunday night.
The Southern Pacific company hai
closed contract with the Pullman com
panv, by which the latter will TAKE
charge OF all second-class tourist cars run
ming on that road.
In tearing down an old adobe wall a
Iompoc. Cal. recently, an adobe wa'
taken out which had the perfect imprin
of a child's foot. The wall was con
structed about one hundred years ago.
One of the largest seizures OF opium
on the Pacific Coast was that made II
San Francisco last week. The drug wa
concealed in barrels labeled . sour crout,
and was detected because OF Its hghtness
The value of the seizure was $4SOO.
The effort to reduce transcontlnel rate
ON canned goods from 81. 10 to 80 cent
per hundred pounds having 1allel
through at the last moment, local snip
pers of San Francisco have chartered
vessel and will send an amount equal U
800 carloads of canned goods around IN
Horn to New York.
Judge Wickersham, after length,
trial at Seattle, was found guilty OF Sc
duction. Immediately afterward he wa
arrested on an indictment by the Unite
States grand jury charging him with sub
ornation OF perjury, in persuading Mis-
Brantner, the prosecutrlx IN the sed1c
ton case, TO make false entries on publ
lands.