Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-03
Frost Lays Low Potato
Vines in Nevada.
THE ARID LAND CONVENTION.
Southern California Counties Adopt a
Graduated Schedule for As
sessing Fruit Trees.

from the oil wells near Los Angeles is
proposed.
The attendance of school children at
Spokane this year is 1921. Last year it
was 2,764.
Horsethieves are again committing
depredations in the eastern part OF
Washington.
More than 900 notaries public have
been appointed since Washington be-
came State.
The Ashland Tidings says that 1000
boxes of peaches will be shipped from
that thriving locality this season.
Frost in the upper valleys of Mason,
Jacks and Carson districts, New, has
completely laid the potato vines low.
Various counties in Oregon are issuing
bonds for required improvements, and
these in every instance are sold at pre-
MUM.
The schooner Premier has arrived at
San Francisco from Pirate Cove. The
vessel was reported wrecked, with total
loss of the cargo.
]. M. Burke has won mis- suit against
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining
Company of Wardner, Idaho. 1t involved
title to property valued at several mill
ion dollars.
Governor Toole of Nevada has APP
pointed thirty delegates to the Arid Land
Convention, which meets in Salt Lake
City September Is to discuss the irriga-
ton question.
Workmen are employed in the Vir-
ginia and Truckee railroad shops night
and day on machinery for river mills,
which are now running at full blast on
Comstock ores.
Sixty men are at work on the Hemet
reservoir in the San Jacinto Mountains.
When completed it will create lake of
three square miles, with an average
depth of thirty-tive feet.
The Indians at Arriba, N NJ, defy the
United States authorities, and a strong
force with Hotchkiss guns will probably
be sent to make arrests of Indians who
have been doing damage and threaten
ing lives.
Warrants have been issued at San Di-
ego for the members of the Seamen's
Union who assaulted the captain of the
steamer Hounslow and cruelty beat two
others who had assist the captain in
securing crew.
President Mgur<e- sss--1ruti. g
Cannon of the Mormon Church in an
interview have defined the position of
the church in regard to politics, which
thew say will no longer attempt to seek
power in that way.
San Diego is delighted over the fact
that Prof Eames of Pittsburg, the we'll
known iron manufacturer is prospecting
at the former place with the view of es
tablishing an iron plant there OF 100
tons daily capacity.
The Brad street mercantile agency re-
ports twenty-seven failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with fifteen for the
previous week and sixteen for the cor
responding week OF 1890.
The proposition for an outfall to the
ocean of the sewerage of Los Angeles IS
being discussed in the City Council OF
that city. 1t is believed that the propo-
sition. although twice defeated at the
polls, will eventually be carried.
A $lOO. 900 endowment fund is being
raised for the Pacific Methodist College:
DIR. Kelly of Nashville, the newly elected
President, will take charge of the school,
provided the endowment is raised. Sew
eral Eastern professors have also been
engaged.
Three Piute Indians-one buck and
two souaws-conyicted in the District
Court at Winnemucca, New, OF killing
the Indian witch, . have been sentenced
to ten wears each in the State prison. 1t
is the first conviction in Nevada Tor such
an offense.
Southern California counties have
adopted a graduated schedule OF rates
for assessing fruit trees, which they VIII
recommend to the Assessors of the State,
hot n the next
aeeessment the Assessors OF frult-pro-
ducing counties meet IN convention TO
discuss the same.
Tn the United States Circuit Court at
los Angeles Judge Ross in the two cases
g tba limited States against the South
On Company. being suits to set aside
ronte Of land, has dismissed both bills
s:.Lo,t costs. On motion of counsel for
W. Government an appeal was allowed
" t6e limited States Supreme Court
The crop of monster turtles at Magda-
,ona Raw Lower California, has induced
nomnanv to experiment with canning
tbe extract for expectation The tlrst
Lot has gone to England through La faz.
T6e Loager Californian OF Ensenada re-
norts also that fishing Tor haIr seas is IS a a
Growing industry at the heao Of 1ne GniI
Of California, miners buying Tue output
of ~ Genus SaliOii'
az Manager NJ B. I. Rogers OF the Vancou,
~ g. sugar refinery has declared
ver nm Spreckels. The cause OF the
wal @srJeclared to be the action OF Spreck-
war - sending sugar into the British CO.
els ~ ~ market at prices not only way
iullol@t those at which sugar is sold to
Delom States points, but actually below
IN. onis cost OF production; the object being
tne swamp the Canadian refinery and
close lose = b;lt section of Los Angeles sup
me bn the Citizens Water Company,
plled " re located most of the city's
IN "residences, is suffering from water ";
fine re the main being too small to
famlnet the reservoirs. Some houses only
supply or during six hours. out of the
get waef four There is much alarm in
twenty ance. and the grass on the hills
conseq It,,rned in order to lessen the
has n 0esH for cOnaag 7ati. cnh Is n
The la Il wishes to incorporate, but
quandahhyy lawyers that no organization
is told py ,nt without having some
can inco,Poctt to accomplish. This ques-
specifc opleo many local organizations,
ton courts viii probably De da asked to
and the The athletic tba fg its o assres w t.
incorpora.se; ble only to the amount Of
be respoan1ssi;puis signing contracts to pay
1nuQV.