Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-14
Highbinders Blackmail
Chinese Merchants.
NEW MEXICO NEEDS TUTORS.
Explorers Find Mighty Mass o
Moving Ice in Deep Canyon
in California.

ain or public horse trough.
Bush fires have done considerable
damage near Victoria, B. c.
The first shad ever found in Fraser
river was captured the other day.
The travel to California this fall and
winter promises to be very heavy.
A large bed of meerschaum of superior
quality has been found on Orcas Island
Wash.
The Portland postoffice is now in the
classified postal service and under the
workings of the civil-service law.
The Stockton Gal. brewery owned by
f. Schubert was totally destroyed by fire
the other night. The loss is 5000; in
surance, $4,000.
There are said to be about forty-live
desperate highbinders at Los Angeles
who, gambling being prohibited, black
mail Chinese merchants.
An outbreak of Indians in Alaska is
threatened, growing out of the differ
ences between the natives and the man
ayers Of the canneries as to the fishing
grounds and prices OF salmon.
1t has been definitely ascertained that
the Southern Pacific is about to build a
wharf at point just north of Santa
Monica Canyon and about three and a
half miles from Santa Monica.
The trouble between the Oregon Pacific
Railroad Company and its employees on
account of the nOn-payment of the men
is assuming serious aspect. The amount
owing the men is about S75, 900.
The Pacific Mail steamers from San
Epa11 aIS tn NolY
hereafter to stop at San Diego according
to instructions from the Postmaster-Gen-
eral. So says San Diego dispatch.
The Carson New Tribune says: The
magnified statements being telegraphed
to the Coast papers by the Carson Asso-
ciated Press correspondent about Pine
Nut will do the district more damage
than good.
The steamer Islander has returned to
Victoria, B. c., from the North, and re-
ports the salmon pack OH Mas river and
at Alert Bay total failure. The Skeena
shows up well, but the Northern pack
will only be half its usual size.
A proposition has been made that six
Southern California counties purchase
the patent for the application of hydro
cyanic gas to trees affected by scale. The
efficacy of the remedy has been success
fully demonstrated at Riverside.
1t is stated now that nearly all of the
siXty-fve men who were on the Itata
when she was brought back to San Diego
are political refugees from Chill, who
were glad for chance to leave IquiQue
About one-third have left the ship.
A convention will be held at Salt Lake
City on September Is to consider the
reclamation OF arid lands of the West
and to petition Congress to cede each
State and Territory arid land within lis
borders. California is entitled to thirty
delegates.
A Yuma Indian is said to have cured
himself of a rattlesnake bite by apply
to the wound a poultice made of the
common mock orange and by drinking a
decoction made from the same plant.
Golondrina is the scientific name of the
mock orange.
An agent has been appointed by the
Agricultural Department at Washington
to travel over the sections in California
where the grasshoppers OF locusts are
with view to ascertain their natural
breeding grounds and to, if possible
suggest new remedies.
In Washington this year the grain
yield per acre will be almost if not quite
equal to that of 1890 and the acreage
sufficiently increased to make the aggre-
gate much greater, and the demand fel
harvesting machinery has been at least
20 per cent. greater this year than evel
before.
1t is stated at Santa Fe, n. NJ, that
the number of applicants for the posi-
ton of teacher in that Territory falls fan
short of the laws requirements, and il
is estimated that 800 outside teachers
could find positions by addressing the
Superintendent of Education at Santa
Fe.
Explorers have found a mighty mass
of moving ice in deep canyon on Gray.
back Mountain, Southern California
The formation is about twenty-five feet
thick and sixty feet wide. Immense
rocks have been pushed from their beds
by the moving of the great ice and lie
upon top of it. Sun does not reach the
ice more than one hour day.
The Yuma Sentinel says: There is nc
doubt but that the famous talked-o
t"Lost Pegleg" gold mine can now be
found. There will be water for some
time 10 come, anu leSu IOI dHlIlldlS VII
line the banks of the present lakes anG
streams in the SaltOn Desert, and parties
will thoroughly prospect that section ly
ing between Indian wells and Indio.
Mrs. George Roberts, Spiritualist o
San Jose, has converted the parlors O
her residence into what she terms " the
temple of purity and truth" The fur
niture and every article of the temple
are pure white, and no one will be al
lowed to enter unless clad in robes of the
same color. The temple is for angels tC
come and hold communion with man.
The difficulty between the Atchisor
road and its switchmen at Albuquerque
NJ has not been remedied, and the
striLe continues. The company asserts
that the demands by the swltchmen-
that thew be allowed twelve hours pay
for ten hours work, or that another crew
he mt on-are unjust, and has refused
n counsel a settlement. New men VIII
fill the positions.
Fnll returns of the election IN tan
show that the Liberals have twelve mem ~
hers of the Legislature tone-third OF ene
whole1. a large gain over any previous previous
Tan;sIature. The Liberals elect thret
members of the Council and SIX OF tnt
Honse in Salt Lake by a pluranty o.
100, The Liberals elect the County
Collector. two Selectmen ana Go fa,s
SUPERINTENDENT by plurallties Oh i'oN
Con tn 900,