The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
PACIFIC COAST.
Portland Catholics Will
Build a Cathedral.
WELLINGTON MINE STRIKE.
The Chinese on the Empress Of Japan
Roughly Handle Customs
Colleetor-Etc.

Tucson is to have 100000 santa
rum. {
Austin, New, has just shipped 100 !
tons of antimony. !
Los Angeles is making a move to own
her own water works.
Horse car lines at San Diego are being /
changed into electric power.
The Catholics of Portland propose to ]
build a magnificent cathedral.
Sacramento Trustees have decided to
vote pay for an extra fire company.
Charles Brooks, wife murderer, is to
be hanged December q at Spokane.
Excursion trains from the East are
beginning to arrive in southern CAN
fornia.
Portlands saloons will all have to close
/ at midnight from the beginning OF the
new year.
A ledge Of iron over twenty feet wide
and 5000 feet long has been tound south |
east of Portland.
Arthur Leonard OF Carson, clerk for
Wells, Fargo & Co. s express, ischarged
with embezzling $1,000
AT cents pound many Of the raisin
growers OIL OdlllOIllld SAkAlAt ~ bAcho -
their crops Of $3.50 an acre.
The Wellington mine strikers after
year and a half of enforced idleness
have declared the strike off. The mine
owners were victorious.
Portland authorities promise sensa-
ton soon in the arrest OF opium SNUG
glers. Railroad employees are said to be
connected with the work.
The Bradstraet Meraant II 4eucse re-
! ports seventeen failures IN the racine
Coast States and Territories for the past
week. as compared with seventeen for
the previous week and thirteen tor the
corresponding week Of 1890.
. The Chinese on the Empress Of Japan
roughly handled a Customs Collector at
Vancouver, B. c., and tossed him over
the ship's side to the dock. When he
recovered he made complaint, and Off
GERS who went to make an arrest were
defed and had to take the word OF the
officers of the vessel that the offenders
B, would appear. The Chinese are largely
in the majority on the ship, and the OF.
q iicers begin to realize the danger II
: which they have voluntarily placec
" themselves.
Robert Joseph, a sailor, brought sui
: in the United States Court at Seattle
the other day to libel the British shil
Fred B. TAYLOR, claiming $1,000 damage
for brutal treatment by the master, Cap
tain Hurlburt. Joseph, who IS negro
claims to be citizen OF the Unite'
States. He shipped at Rio, Brazil, bu
alleges that his treatment was so bruta
that he was forced to leave the vesse! a
Seattle. He claims that he was fire
a ~. tn thn CfoCr
bv having an iron Delaying pin jamme
down his throat and unmercifully tloggec
He also claims that $3.50 is due him fo
wages. Captain Hurlburt denies j
seph's charges, and says that Instead {
49, there being wages due him he is in del
to the vessel.
Charles w Stuart, young blacl
= smith from Tacoma, has mgsteriousl
disappeared, and the auth0rities al
Len searching for him. A week ago he a
rived al San Francisco on the steamt
Walla Walla from TacomaI He ha
written to his uncle and sisters, who r.
side Al 1921 Franklin street, San Fra
cisco. that he would be there at thi
time. He gave his check To the agel
= az the California Transfer Company, b.
- has not vet called for his Baggage, III
have his relatives heard anything abO
him. He is % years Of age, five fe
nine or ten inches in height. with da
brown hair and mustache, and weigh,
about 1870 pounds. He was steady, sob
and industrious, and his disappearan
is inexplicable.
San Francisco Bay is fillet with "
= sells. While freights are exceeding
low and still falling, arrivals are We
heavy. A large percentage OF ihe arrivi
are colliers from Australia, the resi-
4 being that coal is plentiful Ind chee
VI At the beginning of the seasda the pr
poets were for big crops ant a scare
of tonnage, and shippers negotiat
charters at high figures. The pri
caused ship-owners to rush their V
sells to San Francisco from sll mann
Of unexpected quarters, and wheat
ing held firmly, there is noy an ov
plus of tonnage and scarcely of av'
able grain. Ships charteredsome ii
ago were at 40 to 40 shillings Freig
are now at 80 shillings, andEessels
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