Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-09-11
PACIFIC COAST.
Nevada is to Have a
Gold Boom.
DROUGHT IN NEW MEXICO.
San Clemente Island Reported to Be
the Scene of a Land-Claim
Excitement.
DROUGHT In NEW MEXICO.

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The drought in the southern portion
of New Mexico is causing loss to stock.
The biggest run of salmon known for
years has appeared in the Skagit river.
The mackerel along the southern coast
of California are said to be fat, plentiful
and biting freely.
Many witnesses in the Davis will con-
test at Butte, Mont, are now testifying
to the genuineness of the document.
Nevada is to be doomed with gold
taken from the Zirn mine at Pine Nut
Marvellous stories are told of the rich
ness of the quartz in that camp.
The glut of potatoes in Southern Cali
fornia continues. In one section they
are being offered at cents a sack in the
ground, the buyer to dig them.
The schooner Hamilton Lewis, Captain
Alexander Mclean, has been captured
by Russian gunboat while poaching off
Copper Island in Russian waters in the
Behring Sea.
Oliver Roberts, Charles Colburn and
A. S. Barney have incorporated at Car
son, New, the Mountain View, Valley
View and Mascot mines under enc head,
with capital stock of $1,000,000.
The attempt to create rush of land
seekers to the Island of San Clemente,
sixty miles southwest of San Pedro, has
not been successful. The island is said
to be bare of vegetation and not capable
of cultivation with any success.
At Visalia. Cal, an attempt was made
by some unknown party to poison a
number of boarders of Mrs. McDermitt
by introducing into the material with
which the lady made ice cream croton
oil. Eleven persons were made serious
ly i'll.
Bert Fessler of Washington, D. c.,
has been appointed master of the young
mems dormitory at the Leland Stanford
ORR University, and G. H. johnson of
San Francisco has been appointed chief
engineer at the Stanford University, vice
A. II. Fiske resigned.
Within the last few days every foot of
the San Joaquin river from Hampton
vile to point above MillertOn has been
covered with mining claims. 1t is be-
lieved the bed of the river is filled with
gold, and survey has been made with
view, of turning the river from its
Rich iron ore has been struck in 7 the
San Gsidro mine, few miles below En-
senada, Lower California. A letter re-
ceived at San Diego, Cal, says that
vein was just uncovered, 900 feet long
and 60 feet deep, which seems practically
to have no end to it. San Diegans are
going to inspect it.
1t has been decided by a CITY Justice
at Stockton, Cal, that man can work
and yet be vagrant under the new va
grancy law. The court convicted a young
man, although it appeared from the evil
dence that the defendant had worked
during all the time he was alleged to be
dissolute person.
The California Colored Colonization
Society" proposes to bring 5000 negroes
into California this year. The Secretary
of the society at Fresno says: eve
have seven sections of land in Fresno
county and some in Shasta, and these
two counties will receive the bulk of our
people for the present"
The local attorney for the Southern
Pacific railroad has filed demurrer with
the County Clerk in the suit brought by
the county of San Diego for taxes for the
years 1887 and 1888, amounting to $54,-
900. Among other things the demurrer
alleges that the statutes of California in
relation to the collection of taxes are I'M
constitutional and void.
1t is announced that the San Francisco
Produce Exchange and Call Board in
tends doing away with the present sys-
tenn of buying or selling grain contracts
for the year or season and will adopt the
Eastern method of dealing in monthly
options only. The change will be made,
it is said, as soon as the present year
and season contracts expire.
A sequel to the sudden disappearance
from Tacoma Of Secretary Edward AL
bertson with $1,000 of Fidelity Trust
Company's money is the subsequent dis
appearance of John L. Cohoon, his
brother in-law. The two families live in
the same house. 1t is said that Cohoon
has been kidnapped by detectives and is
being subjected to a squeezing process.
In trial at Santa Barbara, CAL, which
has Just ended, of one Roberts, who was
charged with theft, it was shown that
Roberts had entered government land
which had been used by farmers to pas
ture stock. and in order to get rid of him
the owners of the stock combined and
put up job by which they thought
they could send him to the penitentiarv.
The jury was out but nine minutes,
when a verdict of not guilty was rem
dered.
The annual conference of the Norwe-
gian-Danish Church for Washington.
Oregon and Idaho has decided to build
a Danish theological school at Portland
in connection with the denominational
university there. The church has a fund
of Sl00,000 for that purpose, and the
plan is to spend $4,000 for a site and
500 900 for building, retaining $50 900
for the maintenance of the school. Nine
trustees will be appointed to confer with
the trustees of the Portland university
and to proceed with the work if they
consider the plan feasible.
San Clemente Island is now the scene
of a land-claim excitement. The island
is forty miles due south of San Pedro,
and is twenty-nine miles long and from
three to five wide. In the past four
weeks fifteen claims have been settled
on by people from Los Angeles. The
island is as yet unsurveyed, so that the
claims are simply possessory. The island
contains about $4,000 acres, of which
probably $4,000 are composed of very
fine sandy loan soil. The boomers have
discovered good water at depth of eight
feet. Wild plum, wild cherry and mount
ain mahogany trees grow luxuriouslv on
the island, the wild cherry being equal
In size to the large domestic ones.