Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-07
Saloonkeepers Refuse to
Pay High License.
MORMON ELDERS AT POMONA
One of the Longest and Most Costly
Steel Bridges Being Erected
at Vancouver.

4 water famine exists on the hills
within the city limits OF Los Angeles.
The Southern California Editorial As
ISOLATION proposes to visit Flagstaff, A.
T., in August.
The Sacramento Typographical Union
has Endorsed the nine-hour system, to 90
into effect October l.
The Pine Nut (Nev.) gold discovery is
attracting men from all directions A
townsite has been laid out.
The Boards of Equalization in South
ern California are making radical reduc-
tions on assessments of orange orchards.
The great herds of cattle in Southern
and Eastern Oregon are being bought up,
and there is likely to be an advance in
price.
The disturbances at the mines in
Washington are believed to be at an end
Many of the worst characters have gone
away.
A project to plant 400 acres of lemon
orchards on some of the best lemon land
in the State is Undertaking. at San Ber-
nardino, Cal.
The British sealing schooner f. B..
Marvin has been seized by the Rush
while entering Behring Sea and turned
over to the British war ship Nymphe.
There is some misunderstanding about
the stone to be used in the construction
of the public building at Sacramento.
and work in consequence has been sus-
pended.
The Board of Trustees of the VILLAIN
cite University at Salem has elected
Rev. George Whitaker of Marshall
Tex, President to succeed Thomas Van
scOy, resigned.
Local prophets in Southern California
are predicting violent disturbances on
the surface OF the earth in the near flu
ture, owing to the extensive evaporation
OF Salton Lake.
Warrants have been issued at Sacra-
mento for the arrest of fiftv-seven saloon
keepers who refused to pay the new high
license. Two hundred and siXty-five
more arrests are to be made.
The foundation of the big Tenth-street
hotel at Los Angeles, which cost $50 900,
and to complete which many futile eff
forts have been made, is to be utilized as
fruit-drying establishment.
The fire on Mount Hamilton has been
checked, and no further danger is appre-
hended at the observatory. About $500
dCECS IlcN6 DSen DuTUbNr)NGE, ana
valuable timber and cord wood lost.
Mrs. Mcdonald, the mother of Joseph
Brown, the Charleston sailor killed by
Deputy Marshals, is now at San Diego,
and will push the prosecution of her
sons slayers. He was her only support
The coyote bounty law has already had
the effect of increasing the number of
jack rabbits in some sections of South
ern California, and fruit-growers there
are open in their expressions of indigna-
ton.
Two Mormon Elders are prosecuting
near Pomona, Cal. S. NJ. Putnev, one
of those who have been converted, seems
glad to think his wife is favorable to a
man having more than one wife, and
proposes to move toward Utah as soon as
possible.
The Southern Pacific Company having
given reduced rate of transportation to
everybody connected with the State Uni
versity at Eugene, Or, the Railroad
Commissioners have decided that the
same privileges are due and must be
granted to all chartered collegiate insti-
buttons.
The Oregon and California Railroad
Company has commenced suit in the
United States Circuit Court at Portland
against fifty-three landlords, who have
taken up claims within the limits of the
old Oregon Central grant, for compelling
them to quiet title to the lands they have
filed on.
The Columbia River Railway and Nay
igation Company has submitted to the
people OF Portland a proposal for open
ing the Columbia river to transportation
by completing the portage railway
which has been begun by the State al
The Dallas, and by putting barges and
steamboats, on the river.
A supposed wild man has been cap
tured near Tombstone, A. T.. He wore
no clothing, and his skin has become
tanned to a very black. He talks "a
tionally, says he is Californian and first
began to discard clothing when he haG
a skin disease. He is about 80 years old
six feet tall, and has blue eyes, high
forehead and high cheek bones. He
seemed to be very intelligent, and uses
good language.
The Los Angeles Herald publishes 6
story to the effect that G.. p. Huntington
has concluded arrangements to purchase
Jones & Bakers great San NIncente
ranch of 10000 acres, upon which the
town of Santa Monica is located; that
the Southern Pacific railroad would be
extended three miles to Santa Monies
CANYON. where a great wharf would be
builf and that point be made the terml-
ms of the road. This story is not given
much credence.
Controller Colgan, who has received
the warrant for the payment OF the REM
due for the occupancy OF rooms ny the
Worlds Fair Commission at San ran
a;soo eavs. "There exists very grave
donbt in nv mind as to the constitution oot1
Civ of this act approved March ., 1871
~ in view of this deem 1t the wlses
az co fest course for me to pursue &c
a a,'b the matter to the Supreme Cour'
s 5oc;sion before drawing the war
ant for any portion of this approprla
ton" =,
The ceremony of driving the last splksis
% the San Francisco and San Mateo rall
=. o , the first electric road runh ~
t w., San Francisco, took place til'
o o4bo day. The road, which starts q
Wnrtot and Steuart streets, less tllan ~
I VA fron, the ferries, runs along th'
ploth portion of the city to Gonna, :
s S;Cna nf 1917 miles, and will ultimate
distance " ld 70 San Jose. To Coins
y p $3.50 as the first section, ana IN !
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San Francisco, san Ma'eo 60
Clara counties.