Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-19
COAST NEWS.

Tho number of banks which the gov
Emont has deposits is 202.
Nm. Julia, Kane, centenarian, died
. 0ilroy, Cal, aged 1o1 years.
Daniel Hunsaker, editor and proprietor
of tho Wilcox, A. T., Stoclnman, is dead.
Tho first session of the grand lodge Of
Montana Of the A. o. U. w. is in session
q Helena.
M William Avery, son Of u farmer living
I; near Bodega, Cal, while trailing Win
chester along the ground, was killed.
Shipkeeper P. J. Kelley of the Hart
ford It Marc Island was found insensi-
\ BE on tho vessel and died shortly after
ward.
Veterans Of the Rogue river war Of
1ol6-66 met at Eugene, Or, and formu-
latsd plan to petition congress to give
them aid.
Arrangements are being made to open
\ mp tho vast brownstone and gray sand.
STONE deposits Of Ventura, CAL, for build
Ing purposes.
Whittier's birthday was celebrated in
The town Of Whittier, Cal. Great en-
thusiasm prevailed. A letter from the
post was read.
Charles r. Hammond of London Cleve-
Land street notoriety has been convicted
at Seattle Of grand larceny in stealing a
sealslin sacque.
Jerry P. Curren, foreman at the Ia
& Coma coal bunkers, was instantly killed
BY the falling Of frame. His skull was
crushed like nutshell.
Va Tho Spokane Falls National bank has
failed. An effort was made by other
financial concerns of the city to save the
bank, but the effort failed.
i Two big wells have been discovered at
Fullerton, Cal. Both wells are strong.
and before the oil could be caught it had
flowed down the mountain in streams.
John Ryan, the dockmaster at Port
land, has brought suit for SEQ, 1000 dam
ages against tho Oregon Short Line and
Utah Northern for false imprisonment.
What is believed to be the largest sale
Of lumber ever made in one order was
made at Tacoma, a lumber company sell
ing to the Northern Pacific $3.50, 600
fest.
The German schooner Adele has re-
turned to Victoria with catch of about
400 sealskins. The seals were taken at
night on the southern coast of St. Paul's
island.
Kyle McClung of Winfield, Kas., has
obtained possession of his three children
who were accompanying his divorced
wife to Mexico, where she was to join a
FREQ love society.
Professor Roberts musician at Paso
Robles, CAL, has found his mother in the
person of Mrs. Julia A. de Pottere, at
that place. He had been searching for
her for eight years.
Placerville, CAL, wants to become a
city again. Seventeen years ago the
mayor and other city officials resigned to
prevent the city from being taxed $751;
600 for railroad debt.
The work Of reclaiming marsh lands
near Sonoma, Cal, has been progressing
for seven months. In that time seven
miles of levee between thirty and forty
feet high have been built.
Articles of incorporation have been
hled by the Union Oil company of Cali
fornia, with capital stock of So, 900, 900.
Santa Paula, Ventura county, CAL, is
the principal place Of business.
Senator Stewart of Nevada has created
= sensation in Washington by making a
speech in opposition to the federal cleo
tions bill. tits believed that the Nevada
senator's example will be followed by
ether Republicans.
The steamer Ferndale was burned to
the waters edge off the south shore Of
1cpez island in Puget sound. During a
severe gale the great iron chimney was
blown down and the sparks passed into
tho house and set fire to the vessel.
Lefnuel Travis, Tombstone, A. T.,
miner went to New York He says he
took e12, 900 with him. He went to a
saloon with man, and woke up on the
ourbstone some hours afterward, and his
money all gone. The police do not be-
Neve his story.
Fresno, CAL. has another sensation.
DR.. F. O. Vincent brutally murdered his
wife, who had brought suit for divorce
on account of the doctors dissolute hab-
it,. The Jail is strongly guard to pre-
vent lynching. Mrs. Vincent was highly
esteemed by everyone.
A lumber mill in Nevada county, Cal,
has put in plant for the conversion of
sawdust into dry pulp for the use Of
giant powder manufacturers. The saw
dust is ground between millstones and
bolted like -four. Its production is said
to be new industry on this coast.
The tramps who were instrumental in
the death of Brakeman Schullenberger
at Glenn's Ferry, Idaho, have been re-
moved into Owyhee county, the sheriff
being afraid they would be lynched.
6chpllenberger was deliberately thrown
under the moving train by one of these
men.
Work will begin Immediately on the
beet sugar factory at Ontario, Cal. The
plant will cost over $500, 900 and is to be
completed by Aug. 1. The capacity will
be $50 tons of beets daily. Two thousand
acres are to be planted. The plant in
cludes refinery factory, the largest in
the country.
The postmaster at San Francisco has
sent request to Washington asking fol
authority to divert mails from the estab
nshed railroad routes to ocean steamers