Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-16
Vera Ava a Spiritualist
in California.
TEACHERS UNION In NEVADA
The Leaders Of the Military Mob at
Walla Walla Arrive Safely
at Aleatraz Prison.

teachers union is being organized
in Virginia City, New.
The examination Of Frank Heney for
the murder of DR.. Handy is going on at
Tucson.
The Indian scare in Idaho is not caus-
ing apprehension to army officials at
Spokane.
The Juanita is the only sealer not re-
turned to Victoria, B. c., and fears are
expressed for her safety.
The semi-annual session of the South
ern California Pathological Society is
being held at Pasadena.
The work on the jetties at the mouth
of the Columbia is progressing. Rock is
carried four miles out to sea and
dumped.
Thomas II. Horn, Pinkerton detec-
tive, charged with robbing a faro bank
at Reno last April, has been acquitted
by a jury.
The Los Angeles Consolidated Elec-
trio Railway has commenced running
electric cars on the road to Vernon, a
distance of about three miles.
There are reports that the Stonewall
mine in San Diego county has struck a
bonanza, and that an option has been
taken on it in Chicago for 81 5000
An investigation into the difficulty
with the Clalispie Indians in Idaho
shows it originated in greedy whites
trying to dispossess Indians of their
lands and to brighten the Indians away
threatened to bring in troops.
The sixty-second semi-annual confer
ence of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints convened in the Tab
ernacle at Salt Lake Sunday, over 1O, 900
of the faithful being in attendance.
There was a choir Of 600 voices present.
A printer who is III the state prison at
Carson, New, for buying bottle of
whiskey for an Indian, has appealed to
the typos of Virginia City to keep him
supplied with tobacco, reading matter,
etc., while he is holding down his pres
ent "sit."
At San Francisco the public admin
istrator has asked Judge Cof'ey to settle
his final account as special administra-
tor of the estate of Mrs. Hopkins
Searles. He states that the estate in
California is valued at $2,O60, 900, and
the rents amount to So 900 per month.
The Alaska Packers Association, com
prising the controlling interests in the
thirty-three salmon canneries OF Alaska.
has been formed at San Francisco. The
association is controlled by the follow
ing trustees: S. NJ. Smith, G. w. Hume,
J. n. Knowles, Charles Hirsh and Z. B.
Beckwith, with D. B. Bradford as Secre-
tary.
The big suit of Alexander Badlam.
Isaac Trumbo and other San Francisco
stockholders of the Bullion Beck Mining
Company against the directors OF that
company, in which plaintiffs sue to re-
cover $3.50, 900 damages, was dismissed
in Judge Lanes court at Salt Lake re-
Gently on plaintiffs motion. The attor-
neys refused to give any information as
to the terms of settlement, but it is said
the directors are entirely satisfied with
the terms.
The chief OF police of San Francisco
has written Chief Dietzch OF Cincinnati
a letter concerning the Vera Ava mvs-
terry. He has seen her picture and saws
she is the woman who has worked the
Western coast as a spiritualist and mas
sage doctor, under the name of Madame
Isabel. She left Los Angeles last June.
at which time she was so destitute that
a collection was raised for her bene-
fit among the spiritualists Of that city.
The chief says she is good talker,
but somewhat erratic and incoherent
at times.
Corporal Clarence Arnold and Private
Charles Z. Trumpower of Troop D.
Fourth cavalry, have been taken to the
military prison on Alcatraz island.
They were implicated in the killing OF
A J. Hunt, who shot member of the
troop over a gambling table in Walla
Walla. Corporal Arnold was in charge
of the carbines, and the charge against
him was allowing the men to take the
guns, and further, for going out to
the Jail and helping to take Hunt out
with the intent to kill him. Trumpower
was recognized as one of the iail-break-
ers. The sentence of Arnold was that
he be dishonorably discharged and be
confined at such place as the reviewing
authority may direct for eight years.
Trumpower received the same sentence.
except that his term was for five years.
William G Johnson of the United
States geological survey, who discovered
remarkable glacier in the Big Horn
Mountains, Wyoming, is in San Fran
cisco with Prof. Thompson, director OF
map-making in the Western States,
Johnson is to have charge OF some man
work in California. He saws. that the
region in the Big Horn into which he
penetrated had never before been visited
bv scientific man. Very rarely is il
visited at all, and then only by prospect
ors and hunters, who go everywhere in
the mountain country. johnson related
how he climbed to the top of mount
ain Is. 500 feet high, which he calls Cloud
Peak. On reaching the very highest
ninnacle he saw great glacier stretched
ont before him. The mass of ice was
not less than five miles long, and at the
bottom extended out into a lake about
three-fourths of mile. The lake is q
small but very picturesque sheet of wa.
ter In it the explorer saw icebergs
which had broken off the glacier. The
Glacier in every way resembled those Of
the Alps. and was moving constantly
Int nv infinitesimal degrees. The great
Quantity of ice in the lake, too, seemed
to lower the temperature considerably
and at the time Johnson was there
tbraa weeks aga portion OF the body
" H,oter was covered with ice three OF
fonr inches thick. Another mountain
ioomed up less than two miles iron
Cloud peak. and from distance 1t looked
Is Il would be impossible for any mar
a. a. ai;,nh Il without cutting stairway IL
H. ~ ei rock There were precipices thou
e enu of feet high, and even on the GA
e;ar there was one place where mar
olo, stand and drop stones down INC
tbe water, distance OF l,OOO ieet.