Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
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! Portion Of Fresno City,
CAL, Inundated.
WIDOW AWARDED 81, 900.
Fhe Legality of the San Diego Charter
Practically Confrmed-0ther
Interesting News.

begin the latter part of this month.
Eureka, Cal, proposes to have an OPP
era house that will seat 800 people.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
ers have just completed their session at
Portland.
1t is reported that an oil well at the
West End, Los Angeles, is flowing forty
barrels day.
The birds received from Germany at
Portland have spread all over the Will
annette Valley.
A saw mill, with a capacity of 1000
feet of lumber per day, will be erected
at Coos Bay this summer.
The truth of the confession of Zwald
at Sacramento that he murdered two
wives in the East has been confirmed.
During the current gale at Del Norte
the waves dashed spray over the tower
of the Seal Rock lighthouse, 100 feet
above the rock.
True bills have been found by the
Walla Walla grand jury against seven
soldiers who were engaged in the Hunt
lynching affair.
The bark Coloma has Just reached
Portland from HongkOng with a large
be turned loose.
The school census of Los Angeles city,
Just completed, shows an increase of 203
children between and II years of age
over last years report.
Three Superior Judges, sitting in bank,
have practically confirmed the legality
OF the San Diego charter, which has been
In dispute for some time.
The putting of the Meusdorfer free
bridge bill into effect in Oregon has been
lnaugurated, and Portland people have
now free bridges in sight.
Millions of dead carp line the shores
OF owens Lake. The Lllder says they go
down from the river and the chemicals
OF the lake soon kill them.
The-Kaweah Colony Trustees, with one
exception, have been fined 1901, so that
they might appeal their case to the Cir
cult Court. They all averred they had
no property, and will go to Jail for thirty
days.
A large number of Indians at the diff
ferent Indian agencies in Arizona have
applied to the Commissioners of the Co
NsaH@93ian Exposition at Chicago for space
in which to exhibit their curios and ar
The extravaganza and corruption of
municipal affairs at Los Angeles have
prompted the taxpayers to appoint COM
mittees to investigate the county and
city offices and to look into the cost of
managing cities of the same class in the
East.
The large pumps of the Yuma CA. T.
irrigating works were started the other
day, running successfully and supplying
an immense amount OF water from the
Colorado river. The Yuma pumping
plant for irrigating is the first ever used
in Arizona.
- A three-story, attic and basement con-
crete building for the girls dormitory at
the Stanford University has been con-
tracted for at cost of $4,000. 1t is to
be completed by next September. Work
has been commenced, and 20U men will
be put on Immediately.
Mrs. Augusta Schramm of Los An
geles, who asked $4,000 from the South
ern Pacific Company for the loss of her
husband in October, 1887, has been
awarded $4,000 by the jury. This is the
second trial of the case, the first trial
being for the defendant.
Articles of incorporation of the Pasa-
dena and Mount Wilson Railway Com
pany have been filed at Los Angeles.
The purpose of the company is to con-
struct an electric railway twelve miles
long to the summit of Mount Wilson in
the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Contracts have been let in London for
the construction of railroad from San
Diego to San Quintin, Lower California,
a distance of 1872 miles. This road is to
be built as soon as the Mexican govern
ment approves the survey. A subsidy
8of $1,000 mile has been granted.
President Sidney Dillon SAYS that the
Union Pacific extension from Portland
TO Tacoma, on which $4,000, 900 have al
ready been expended, will be built as
soon as the company can conveniently
5 get the money, and that the road be
tween Portland, Tacoma and Seattle will
be used jointly by the Union Pacific and
&Great Northern railroads.
A petition is in circulation at Los An
Vefes 20 secure the pardon of w. F. Ro-
selle, who was convicted in December,
! 1887, of being the accomplice of his wife
in the vitriol-throwing episode which
created quite a sensation at the time.
The woman who threw the vitriol was
flowed to go, while her husband was
,tenced to nine years at San Quentin.
xhe price of coal for household and
eam purposes has not been SO low in
\ Francisco as it is now for many
YRS. The boycott on Wellington coal
the fact-that many cargoes of it
arrived in this port has caused the
to drop to $3.50 ton at wholesale
10 retail. Other British Columbia
Foreign Goals are also selling much
lper than at this season last year.
ne water from the break in the
,nrcb canal near Fresno has inundated
su5rrtneastern portion of the city, and
is coming in on several streets. The
people are shut in their houses, and
school children have difficulty In getting
home. Water in the suburbs is four to
six feet deep. The company. Will have
several damage suits to attend to. There
:. are fears that the water will reach the
business center of the city.
Labor organizations and the builders
Aysnd manufacturers of Helena, Mont,
Nave locled horns on the boycott ques-
DION. The latter has decided that It's
Members have the right to employ any
he, reardless of organization, on terms
"tpaIy agreeable; denying the righII
sanitation to dictate who shali
i, and declaring that boy
= will be met by discharge
@AH,o,,, bo,c IF any organ