The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-12-17
COAST NEWS.

William Garfield, who was shot by
Deputy Constable Lane of Sanger, Cal,
is dead.
the new court house at Whatcom.
Wash, which cost $4,000 is now ready
for occupancy.
Frank d. Lewis. Government agent,
was held up and robbed by n highway
man near Redding, Cal
There was jail delivery at Whatcom,
Wash, recently. The prisoners bored
hole in the Jail floor and escaped.
The city council of Los Angeles has
refused to accede to the mayors propo-
sition to reduce the saloon license.
BY reason of the census Sacramento
county, Cal, is now rated in the third
class. Her civil list will be increased by
$4,000
No commissions whatever will be paid
on the sale OF railroad tickets from Cali
forliia, Arizona and Nevada to Missouri
river points,
A Portland woman is charged with
poisoning her mother and sister in order
to obtain possession of all the property
in the family.
Govcrnor-elect Markham has APP
pointed NJ. r. Higgins of Los Angeles,
his Private Secretary. Mr.. Higgins is
native of Ohio.
The Grand Jury of Phoenix, A. T.,
has indicted L. F. Sill editor of The
Republican, for crnninnally libeling ex-
Chief Justice j. Ii. Wright.
John G. Kemble, an editor on the Sc
attic Journal, died in thlt city. His
father L. G. Kemble, was the founder OF
the San Francisco Alta.
Millions of fish are lapdlocked in
Washoe lake and are rapidly being de-
stroyed by cranes and pelicans. They
are mostly perch and viii, .,sh.
Butte City, Mont, is 10 have water
works capable of supplying 1O,O00,G 600
gallons daily. Eastern capitalists have
put So, 900, 900 in the undertaking.
Eugene Hugenin, well-known citizen
of East Portland, suddenly disappeared
from his home and nothing has been
heard of him Foul play is suspected.
Paul Shuezer. the right-hand man of
Henry Willard in Washington. says the
Oregon Improvement Company was
ruined by the ambition of its president.
Alexander Schlussel, the New York
representative of the dry goods firm of
Fleishman, Mayer & Co. in Portland,
Or, died suddenly from heart failure in
New York.
1t is said that a company has secured
the use of water power in the San Ga-
briel canon and proposes to furnish
cheap electric light to Los Angeles, Pas
adena and other cities.
Never before in the history of Wash
ington was there such a wheat crop as
there was this year east of the Cascade
mountains. 1t is estimated that the pro-
duct is over 100000 bushels.
Seattle is working hard for sugar re-
fnery The capital stock of the pro-
posed corporation is 100000, of which
Seattle is to raise 100000 and the peo-
pie of Honolulu the remainder.
The directors of the Keweah Common
wealth Cooperative Colony We're ares
ted at Visilia, Cal, by United States
Deputy Marshal for tresspassing ON the
government park lately reserved.
The Portland grand jury has been in
vestigating tine Women's Refuge Home
in that city and its report charges the
management with gross and in some
cases thurman treatment of its inmates.
A. d. Darling of Fresno, Cal, who
packed 50, 600 boxes of raisins with the
assistance of white labor, has decided
never to employ ChiIese labor again.
He says that white labor is cheaper in
the long run.
Great excitement prevails in the Coeur
d'Alene mining district over a recent
gold discovery. A tramp walked into
the gulch, made the discovery and sold
ont for 100000. Samples of ore assay
$25, 600 ton.
The Supreme Court at Sacramento
last week affirmed the Judgment of the
court below in the case of Hurting, de-
PENDANT, VS.. Abbott ct al. appellants.
The action was to quit title to timber
lands in Plumas county valued a 5000,
600.
The total area of Nevada is generally
given as 100 1918, $50 but the last report
of the General Land Office stated that
the state contained 72,027,613 acres of
surveyed and 2S, 965, 027 acres of nnsur-
veyed land, making in all 100 1892, SAC
| acres.
r. McKittrick, at one time priest OF
Burlington, Ia, committed suicide near
Seattle. Seven years ago he gave up his
holy calling without offering any reason
and became recluse, never leaving his
place and avoiding his neighbors. He
took morphine.
Senator-elect Charles L. Pond of Butte
county, Cal, died at his home in Nord
of pneumonia. His sudden demise has
proved great shock to the entire com
munity. He was native of Jefferson
county, N. Y, aged 80 years, and {
brother of Mayor Pond of San Francisco
He was Republican.
The workmen who took the places o.
the strikers on the exposition building
at Seattle in September, and who hav,
not received their pay went to the big
building, tore up the floors and carried
away the lumber. The city officials
have received notice from the mel
that they will burn the building if the,
are not paid at once.
The operations of Stone and Hyde +,
timber land swindlers now in Jail a
Portland, in locating settlers on timbe
lands by means of fraudulent oaths
are believed to have been very extensiv
throughout the Pacific coast. Both mel