Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-21
PACIFIC COAST.
The Utah Legislature is
Democratic.
ALASKA AND PROHIBITION.
The Wild Man of Arizona Delivers an
Address to His Fellow Pris-
oners at Tombstone.

plant.
Fine native strawber have appeared
in the Juneau (Alaska) markets.
The salmon pack in Northern British
Columbia is a failure. 1t will reach
about a three-quarter pack.
The next Territorial Legislature of
Utah will be composed of % Democrats,
II Liberals and l Republican.
King county, Wash, must pay the ex-
penses OF the militia that was ordered
to the mines to suppress riotous strikers
some weeks ago.
The contractors on the Tintic Range
railroad line in Utah have struck three
bodies of ore in tunneling in the mount
aims at Homansville Pass.
The saloonmen of Spokane have or
ganized a society to protect and uphold
all personal, civil and religious liberties
of its members and to be known as the
League of Freedom.
A hoy killed an Indian in dis
pute at the Navajo reservation in New
Mexico, and the Indians are in hot pur-
suit OF the murderer and his compan-
ions. A deadly encounter may result.
After working for some months and
expanding several thousand dollars the
Worlds Fair Commission from the State
OF Washington discovered that its mem
bers were irregularly appointed. They
will reorganize at once.
At Silver Bow Basin, three miles from
juneau, Alaska, the old abandoned
placer mines have again proved their
richness. Hydraulic machinery has been
placed in the old diggings and put to
work, and the first cleanup realized $780,
600.
The steam sealer Eliza Edwards has
returned to Vancouver, B. c., from Behr-
ing Sea. The captain says that steam
sealers are no longer an experiment in
the Behring Sea, and predicts that next
season will see a great many more OF
them.
The international Company denies
that Mrs. BurtOn's suit has been decided
in her favor by the Mexican Supreme
Court. The court has decided her ap-
peal was taken in time, and that is all.
The valuable estate in dispute is still in
litigation.
Alaska has rebelled against the liquor
prohibition adopted by the United States
for that Territory. The press and the
citizens urge that prohibition cannot be
enforced with thousands of miles of sea
coast. A stringent license law is advo-
Gated with a severe penalty for selling
liquor to Indians or minors.
The bill to be introduced in Congress
at the instance of the War Department
providing for San Diego's Notifications
will cover the expense of five military
establishments at Coronado Heights,
North Island, Point Iona and Ballast
Point. The fifth, which is not located,
will be the military post proper.
News has been received from Omineca
district, B. c., of the death of two vet
eran miners of California and British
bia-John Robinson, a native OF
Harbor Grace, n. F., and Gideon P.
Hathaway of Taunton, Mass. Both went
from San Francisco in 1858, and were
well-known characters in Cariboo and
Cassiar.
The California express was ditched
the other evening by running into a
steer at Riordan, seven miles west OF
Flagstaff, A. T. The engine, mail and
smoker went down the embankment
twenty feet, causing delay OF fourteen
hours. Fireman Downes was badly
scalded and burned. All of the passen-
gers escaped injury.
The Portland Southern Railway Com
pany has filed articles of incorporation
at Portland, Or. The capital stock is
$4,000, 900, and the objects OF the com.
pany are the buying, building, establish
ing and maintaining of all ways anC
means of transportation and commune
cation, both by land and water, and the
producing and dealing in light anC
power.
The California claimants under the
will of William Westerfield, who died a
Mooney Flat, Nevada county, Cal, leav
ing an estate of $4,000, have defeated
the Eastern claimants in a trial JUS
ended at Nevada City. The heirs are
Mrs. Mary B. Smith and Mrs. Emm;
Danuser of North San Juan, Fred Yves
terfeld of Marysville and Charles Yves
terrified of Oakland.
O. Homo, as the wild man of Arizon;
signs himself, delivered an address to hi
fellow prisoners at Tombstone recently
His discourse showed the traits OF goot
scholarship. He walks the corridors o
the Jail in a perfectly nude condition
His only clothing is his skull cap. liz
is a great favorite with his fellow prison
prs on account of his ability. His iden
titv is still surrounded in great mystery
The government suit against tn
wagon-road company in Oregon has be
gnn at Portland. There are four grant
70 wagon roads, comprising several hun
dred thousand acres, which the govern
ment seeks to recover on the grouna ira
the roads were not constructed ana ina
the certificates of such construction is
sned bv the government were fraudulent
Fx-Mavor Pond of San Francisco is pres
emf as an interested party.
The dropping of twenty-one teacher ceT
-, +ba nav roll of the public school
81 Los Angeles in order to replace th ts
% otbers has given rise TO perlec
w. w. Of opposition among the teaeher
eOo - and their friends. Inc boar
IN Y hos been divided on the question:
ltsem to 4, and to further compll
sIallu tors President Shater mas re
cave having become dissatlshed WIZ
s,enu annar in which affairs had pee
conducted. ~,
continue to reach Yuma an
1nolaE f,7l stories of their experience
tell awe tha earthquake in the CocoPaa %,
during VI Thev say they were throw ~, Il
region. md and threatened with 9u dIa
on the gio he crevices, while san9 Va, dm
a o rained down upon storted into ur
snes and geysers were 80 s' m, I'd and waite
,,sual activity, throW The Indians are :
~ GREAT distances: IN tho river runnin
70 SssIy frightened 6y w. an earthquake tina
i pa1 The desert and the ; G1l aver return.
= Is doubtful If they WIZ