The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-15
PACIFIC COAST.
Saloonkeepers Refuse to
Pay High License.
MORMON ELDERS AT POMONA
One Of the Longest and Most Costly
Steel Bridges Being Erected
at Vancouver.
MORMON ELDERS AT POMONA

A water famine exists on the hills
within the city limits of Los Angeles.
The Southern California Editorial AS
sociation proposes to visit Flagstaff, A.
T., in August.
4. The Sacramento Typographical Union
has indorsed the nine-hour system, to go
into effect October /.
The Pine Nut (Nev.) gold discovery is
attracting men from all directions. A
townsite has been laid out.
The Boards of Equalization in South
ern California are making radical reduc-
tions on assessments of orange orchards.
The great herds of cattle in Southern
and Eastern Oregon are being boughtu up.
and there is likely to be an advance in
price.
The disturbances at the mines in
Washington are believed to be at an end.
Many of the worst characters have gone
away.
A project to plant 400 acres of lemon
orchards on some of the best lemon land
in the State is materializing at San Ber-
nardino, Cal.
The British sealing schooner f. r.
Marvin has been seized by the Rush
while entering Behring Sea and turned
ove' to the British war ship Nymphe.
There is some misunderstanding about
the stone to be used in the construction
of the public building at Sacramento.
and work in consequence has been sus-
pended.
The Board of Trustees of the William
cite University at Salem has elected
Rev. George Whitaker, of Marshall
Tex, President 70 aacce5a Thomas yan-l
scoy, res gned.
Local prophets in Southern California
are predicting violent disturbances on
the surface of the earth in the near fu-
ture, owing to the extensive evaporation
of Salton Lake.
Warrants have been issued at Sacra-
mento for the arrest of fifty-seven saloon
keepers who refused to pay the new high
license. Two hundred and sixty-fiye
more arrests are to be made.
The foundation of the big Tenth-street
hotel at Los Angeles, which cost $8O. 900. |
and to complete which many futile eff |
forts have been made, is to be utilized as
a fruit-drying establishment.
The fire on Mount Hamilton has been /
checked, and no further danger is appre-
hended at the observatory. About 2, 500 |
acres have been burned over, and much |
valuable timber and cord wood lost.
Mrs. Mcdonald, the mother of Joseph
Brown, the Charleston sailor killed by
Deputy Marshals, is now at San Diego,
and will push the prosecution of her
sons slayers. He was her only support.
The coyote-bounty law has already had
the effect of increasing the number OF
jack rabbits in some sections of South
ern California, and fruit-growers there
are open in their expressions of indigna-
tion.
Two Mormon Elders are proselyting
near Pomona, Cal. S. Nj. Putney, one
of those who have been converted, seems
glad to think his wife is favorable to a
man having more than one wife, and
proposes to move toward Utah as soon as
possible.
The Southern Pacific Company having
given reduced rate of transportation to
connected with the State Uni
versity at Eugene, Or, the Railroad
Commissioners have decided that the
same privileges are due and must be
granted to all chartered collegiate insti-
tutions.
The Oregon and California Railroad
OOul pauy mas commenced sulI IN the
United States Circuit Court at Portland
against fifty-three landlords, who have
taken up claims within the limits of the
old Oregon Central grant, for compelling
them to quiet title to the lands they have
filed on.
The Columbia River Railway and Nav
igation Company has submitted to the
people of Portland proposal for open
ing the Columbia river to transportation
by completing the portage railway,
which has been begun by the State at
The Dallas, and by putting barges and
on the river.
The Los Angeles Herald publishes
story to the effect that O. p. Huntington
has concluded arrangements to purchase
Jones q Bakers great San Vincente
ranch of 10000 acres, upon which the
town of Santa Monica is located that
the Southern Pacific railroad would be
extended three miles to Santa Monica
Canyon, where great wharf would be
built and that point be made the termi-
nus of the road. This story is not given
much credence.