Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-02
PACIFIC COAST. |
uge Cave Discovered
Near Shasta.
{ is LINED WITH RICH ORE,
outhern California Citrus Exhibi
Will be Continued at Chicago
Until the Fair.
{ IS LINED WITH RICH ORE.

The verdict on the railroad accident,
which Mail Agent Quimby was killed,
1as that the road was not to blame. The
intense heat had spread the rails.
At a citizens meeting at Needles it
7as decided to prohibit the erection and
uture maintenance in the town limits
# Chinese laundries and opium joints.
The Oregon and Washington Railway
Company failed to file a statement at
salem as required by law, and the Gov
,rnor has been asked to have the law
enforced.
1t is reported at Shasta that in run
ling tunnel at Iron Mountain a NAM
moth cave was discovered in the bowels
If the earth, lined with an exceedingly
,ich body of ore.
A special committee for the purpose
IF drafting an ordinance for the planting
Of trees and parking of streets has been
appointed in Tacoma.
Graders are at work on the eastern
end Of the Lake Washington branch OF
he James-street electric and cable line
street railway at Seattle.
The government architect, who has
been looking at the sites selected for the
public building intended for Stockton, is
not satisfied with either of them, and
will receive more proposals.
Circuit Judge Boise at Salem has de-
cided the suit brought by the Union Pa
cific against the Oregon State Board of
Railroad Commissioners for fixing a rate
for grain charges against the Board.
The Southern California citrus exhibit
will be continued at Chicago until the
Worlds Fair in 1898. Many people have
already been drawn to the southern part
Of that State through the influence of
the exhibit.
1t now looks as though the shipments
Of oranges and lemons from Riverside
would foot up for the season very nearly
1900 carloads. Already about l, 425 car
loads have gone, and there is still quite
an amount to 60 forward.
New Mexico has dedicated her first
public schoolhouse. 1t is located at Las
Vegas. Prize fights are, however, ad-
vertised with the information portrayed
in glaring letters that "ladies with es-
corts will be admitted free"
In the book-bribery case in Washing
ton Judge Calkins held that the mem
bers of the State Board of Education
were not executive officers within the
meaning of the law, and hence could not
be bribed in constitutional sense. An
appeal has been taken to the Supreme
Court.
Henry T. Oxnard, President OF the
Chino sugar factory, has made state
ment showing that the actual cost OF
making sugar at Chino is fraction over
cents per pound, not reckoning inter
est on the plant, and that the sugar sells
at cents net, so that but for the bounty
the factory would be operating at loss.
Los Angeles is indignant at the man
ner in which the statistics for that sec
ton are given in the DIRECTORY of Grape
Growers" just issued by the Board Of
Viticultural Commissioners. 1t is claimed
the figures for Los Angeles and San Ber-
nardino are incorrect and absurdly be-
low the acreage under cultivation.
Robert Evans, an experienced pros
pector, has just returned to San Diego
from the Colorado Desert. He was
nearly all around the Salton Sea, and
says that the water is about holding its
own in spite of the enormous evapora-
ton. He does not believe there is any
likelihood of the sea drying up, but that
it will be largely augmented during the
coming winter and be permanent body
of water.
A remarkable juvenile offender has
come to light in the person of Lewis
Case, fifteen-year-old boy of Los An
geles. He confessed recently to setting
fire to the Figueroa Hotel. He now ad-
units having set fire to the Methodist
Church on Fifteenth street, Chinese
laundry, a stable, grocery store and a
ffire-engine house, which he first bur-
,glarized while the force were away fight
ing one of his CONGREGATIONS. He says
Ehe set fire to the church because his
1Sunday-school teacher was inconsiderate
ito him.
A horrible murder has been I'M
oearthed, committed at the eastern corner
sof San Luis Obispo county, Cal On
June last Martin Heines disappeared,
leaving no trace behind him. Within
othe last few days his blanket and clothes
pwere found sunk in well, filled up with
sstones and fragments of bones and flesh,
Showing that he had been hacked to
Spices with an ak, which was found
IS hurried in hog wallow near the shanty
of John Silvia Gularte, pre- emptor, for
WnOn GLlS u SOIOIcI
biury found Heines was murdered by Gu
,.iarte. The evidence tends to show that
o'Gularte had killed Heines by shooting
h,him in the back, and that he then
.,chopped him up and fed the pieces to
This hogs.
The Coast Labor Convention, just held
toat San Francisco, has adopted resolu-
favoring one or more competing
;, railroads into that State; instructing its
InExecutive Committee to keep the gen.
in eral labor press of the East well advised
~, as to the true state of the labor market
No on this Coast; favoring high taxation
th'upon all land held for speculation, and
the government owner
ship of railroads and telegraph lines. A
resolution indorsing the boycott on the
ntDunsmuir Wellington Coal Company
ha was passed, asking all subordinate coun-
c ellis and unions to take active steps in
the matter. Armstrong presented res
!. .olution warmly sustaining the striking
miners of Washington in their fight, land
calling upon organized labor to render
them financial and moral support, which
riwas adopted also resolution indorsing
the fight of the printers against the Los
Z Angeles Times also indorsing the boy
no colt of the Weinhard brewery. of Port
a land and calling on all of the Northern
unions to push it. After deciding that
the next annual session should be held
in Seattle the convention adjourned for
one year.