Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-28
PACIFIC COAST.
Cocopahs Seeking Work
in California.
A RIOT BREWING AT GALLUP.
Southern Pacific Declines to Accept
the Reduced Freight Rate
Of the Commission.
A RIOT BREWING AT GALLUP

An expert in the Davis will case at
Butte, Mont, holds that the will is of
recent. manufaot-re.
The curing and canning OF Puget
Sound herring is becoming an industry
OF some Importance.
A company to construct a single rail
and saddle-truck railway system has
been incorporated in Oregon.
The creditors of the big cable company
OF Los Angeles are crowding it. A suit for
foreclosure on the second mortgage has
Just been entered.
Portland is thoroughly discussing the
proposition to overcome the Columbia
river distractions by a portage road
around them at The Dalles.
There is trouble threatened at the Gal
lup IN. NJ coal mines. A proposed at
tempt to put in colored workers, it is
thought, will produce a riot.
The Southern Pacific Company will
not accept the reduced freight rate fixed
by the Oregon Railway Commission, and
test case will probably be taken into
the courts.
The Bear Valley Company has COM
menced its work in San Bernardino
county, Cal, of building new and ex-
pensive dam. Two years time will be
required to finish the work.
Artesian water has been struck near
North Yakima, Wash, at depth of 400
feet, and the flow increases as the bore
goes down. The large body of arid land
in that section has consequently assumed
valuable Importance.
Southern California proposes to fur
nlsh the Eastern markets with winter
vegetables. There are three months in
the year when the Southern California
producer will have comparatively no
competition in the Eastern market.
An art picture was ordered from the
show window of a store at Los Angeles.
and the proprietor substituted the por-
trait of Chief Glass, who is the Anthony
Comstock of that city, and by whose or
ders the original picture was removed.
The latest news from La Plata, the
new mining town in Ogden Valley, is to
the effect that the first reports are fully
confirmed. An immense body of ore
has been discovered, which assays up
ward of 20 per cent. of galena and "A to
65 ounces of silver.
All the region neighboring to Ogden,
U. T., is excited over the discovery of
lead deposits about twenty-five miles
northeast of Ogden at the head of Para
disc Canyon. The ore is found in enorr
nous quantities, and a second Leadville
is predicted by the sanguine finders.
At the meeting of the Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors the District Attor-
ney presented an opinion that the avoid
ance of possible litigation is not suffi-
cient ground to authorize the expendi-
ture of county funds for the proposed
purchase of the Bishop hydrocyanic gas
tumlgating process.
The discovery of gold on Soldier creek,
four miles west of Harvey. Or, consist
ing of quartz and placer, bids fair to Gre
ate little fever, for it is now evident
that there is gold to be found in paying
quantities. Miners of experience say
the placers will pay $40 or $12 per day
and expenses to the man by sluicing.
The City Council at Victoria, B. c.,
has decided to submit to the people by
laws apprOpriating nearly $4,000, 900 for
railway subsidies. One million is to the
Victoria and North American Railway,
or Northern Pacific, and the other to
connect the Canadian Pacific at New
Westminster with the roads at Blaine.
Indian Agent Cole has completed the
work of enrolling the Cpur d Alene In
dams entitled to a share in the distribu-
ton of 100000 paid by the government
for the lands recently coded. 1t is found
that 1926 Indians are entitled to a share
of this money, and that each will receive
$l,1OO. Many of the Indians are already
we'll to do.
Considerable stir is being caused in
Wahkiakum county, Wash, over the re-
cent demand of the government for an
additional payment of $1.25 per acre for
patented land within the confines of the
Northern Pacific land grant. The gov
eminent now holds that the lands in
question were double minimum lands,
and that the price should have been
$3.50 per acre to purchasers.
Company (imited) against the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company, which
has been before the courts for several
years, has been finally settled at Port
land in the United States Circuit Court
by the entry of an order made by Judge
Deady approving the report of Master in
Chancerv Durham as to the receivers
accounts and discharging the receiver,
G. N. Scott.
The litigation over the infected Or
ange trees imported from Tahiti and now
at San Pedro, Cal, is likely to be inter
esting. Alvin R, Meserve, who owns
the shipment, has filed a complaint in
the township court charging q. }. Mitch
ell, Secretary of the Board OF Horticult-
ure Commissioners, with having COM
mitted the crime of perjury in swearing
to the affidavit upon which the injunc-
ton was issued.
Two men, who have followed the Col
orado river, report that two or three
miles from the junction OF the New river
and the Colorado a large sandbar has
formed clear across the latter river be-
low where it has cut thro"''' -