Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-17
Wages at the Carson Mint
Will Be Reduced.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL,
Los Angeles Sunday Saloon-Closing
Ordinance Does Not Decrease
Drunkenness.

to shut down the mines at that place.
The Eastern Oregon Cooperative AS
ISOLATION, which lately embarked in bust
ness, has increased its stock to $4,000
1t is said the crew of the Charleston
is much dissatisfied at their treatment,
and that many will desert the first OPP
portunity.
An important railroad deal has been
perfected at Los Angeles, which gives
the Southern Pacific railroad an entry
into San Bernardino.
Prof. Henderson of Olympia, Wash,
has been appointed assistant in charge
of the forestry department. at the Worlds
Fair by Ezra Meeker.
The last of Pomona's orange crop has
been shipped, making a total since New
Years of l27 carloads, valued at sos, 900,
an increase of $50,0 in five years.
The Oakland Gal Common Council
has failed to pass an ordinance licensing
the pool rooms. The measure lacked
one vote of the necessary two thirds.
A railroad company has been organ
lied at Spokane to open line of trans
portation to the rich mines recently dis
covered near the summit of the Cascade
Mountains.
A small red insect is said to be camp
ing on the trail of devastating grasshop-
per in some sections of California, and
under the enemies attacks the hopper
is being wOrsted.
Major Handbury of the United States
engineers expects to have the jetty at
the mouth of the Columbia river run out
as far as ecessary-fOur and half miles
by the end of August.
A contract has been let to the San
Francisco Bridge Company for grading
and bridging fifty miles of the Great
Northern railway from Sand Point,
Idaho, westward down the Pend d'Oreille
river.
1t is reported at Los Angeles that some
ingenious persons are manufacturing
three coyote scalps out of one hide in
such manner as to defy detection. The
S. scalp bounty is likely to prove ex-
pensive.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports ten failures i'll the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week.
as compared with fifteen for the previous
week and seven for the corresponding
week of 1890.
Word has been received from Wash
lngton at Carson that the entire force at
s4he asptssii-i. be r.ssss sins At reduction
of 10 per cent. IN wages, to be replaced
at the old standard when the coinage of
silver dollars is resumed.
w. H. Bartlett, who is well known in
Los Angeles and was married there in
1889, has mysteriously disappeared from
Tacoma, Wash. He dressed and went
to ball on the evening of June Is last,
and has not been seen since.
The belief that the water flowing into
the Colorado desert is from the Gulf is
taking strong hold in the minds of many
people, who have beel watching with
interest the phenomenon. The latest
reports say the waters are receding rap
idly.
1t is now believed that a house-to-
house search for arms in the coal-mining
districts in Kings county, Wash, where
there are strikers, will have to be en-
forced to secure the arms held by the
men. The voluntary disarmament is not
a success.
During the past few months in which
the Sunday saloon-closing ordinance has
been in effect at Los Angeles the police
report that drunkenness has largely in
creased. Last month there were I02
arrests for this cause, a greater number
than in any month during the past three
wears. Most of these arrests were made
on Sunday.
The vicinity of Bellevue, Idaho, was
visited by a hail storm one day last week,
which lasted for thirty minutes, and the
haiIstones came with unusual force
The streets were full of clear ice that
measured four and one-half inches in
circumference. The grass was beaten to
the ground, the fruit stripped from the
trees and the crop of berries destroyed.
Fish Commissioner James Crawford
has gone to Okanogan country to put a
fish rack across the Methow. This rack
is in the form of picket fence stretched
across the river to prevent the salmon
going up. The Commissioner will make
an approximate estimate of the number
of salmon in the river for the purpose OF
deciding whether or not it will pay to
put in hatchery.
One of the Indians killed in Kern
county, Cal, during fight with Con-
stables posse, in which two whites and
two Indians were killed, was Kiowa, the
chief of the band. He was typical,
bloodthirstv savage. The posse in search
81 the Indian band killed one and cap
t,rad a son of Kiowa. The selling of
Eonor to the Indians is said to have orig
mated the trouble.
The salmon fisheries in Alaska have
not been successful this year, as was an
ticinated. The catches, especially dur
mo the last month, have been very light,
and CAPTAIN Hugard, who arrived at San
Eroncisco the other night on the schooner
Erances Alice, says that unless the hsh
;,,crease in large numbers before the sea
snn ends the profits OF the hshermen
Ill NOT trouble them much.
Trdoa Ross of the United States Cir,
Sc Gonrt at Los Angeles has dismissed
~ tta libel of the schooner Robert ana
W MI seized in connection with tne
g Mills. on;sode. Judge Ross says that'
lta;n tbe facts alleged may be gooo
V mnaT for confscating the steamer l'a .I
there is nothing to SHOW tna .no ens
schooner was fitted out lot I'm; Tue P pos dis
81 war. and hence the hoei was W
i M pomona Valley Horticultural go
InT lac : received reports from an lruli
districts south of Tehac Ii ,sS S that
q ore-y one of these is to the e1 tbe state
e eve 9rune crop in that part OF t t,I cron
81 tIg he about one-third OF the iu hat Il
VIII f,lly 20 per cent. less tnan isi" that
ana lu aor Many prune orchards . ni;I
a last ysa,' cron worth $500 an acre W, J
il yieldeol S over $50 an acre this year and
P damp and cool spring "0