Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
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0' Interesting News.
WIDOW AWARDED 81, 900.

Eureka, Cal, proposes to have an OPP
era house that will seat 800 people.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
ers have just completed their session at
Portland.
1t is reported that an oil we'll at the
West End, Los Angeles, is flowing forty
barrels day.
The birds received from Germany at
Portland have spread all over the Will
annette Valley.
A saw mill, with a capacity of IS 900
feet of lumber per day, will be erected
at Coos Bay this summer.
The truth of the confession of Zwald
at Sacramento that he murdered two
wives in the East has been confirmed
During the current gale at Del Norte
the waves dashed spray over the tower
OF the Seal Rock lighthouse, 100 feet
above the rock.
True bills have been found by the
Walla Walla grand jury against seven
soldiers who were engaged in the Hunt
lynching affair.
The bark Coloma has just reached
Portland from Hongkong with large
number of Chinese birds, which are to
ue turned loose.
The school census of Los Angeles CITY,
just completed, shows an increase of 203
children between 5 and II years of age
over last years report.
Three Superior Judges, sitting in bank,
have practically confirmed the legality
OF the San Diego charter, which has been
IN dispute for some time.
The putting of the Meusdorfer free
bridge bill into effect in Oregon has been
lnaugurated, and Portland people have
now free bridges in sight.
Millions of dead carp line the shores
OF Owens Lake. The Ir15ec says they 90
down from the river and the chemicals
OF the lake s5on kill them.
The Kaweah Colony Trustees, with one
exception, have been fined 1901, so that
they might appeal their case to the Cir
cult Court. They all averred they had
no property, and will go to Jail for thirty
days.
A large number of Indians at the diff
ferent Indian agencies in Arizona have
applied to the Commissioners of the Co
.;lR4biaR Exposition at Chicago for space
in which to exhibit their curios and ar
ticles of their own manufacture.
The extravaganza and corruption of
municipal affairs at Los Angeles have
prompted the taxpayers to appoint COM
mittees to investigate the county and
city offices and to look into the cost of
managing cities of the same class in the
East.
The large pumps of the Yuma CA. t.
irrigating works were started the other
day, running successfully and supplying
an immense amount OF water from the
Colorado river. The Yuma pumping
plant for irrigating is the first ever used
in Arizona.
A three-story, attic and basement con-
crete building for the girls dormitory at
the Stanford University has been con-
tracted for at cost of 500, 900. 1t is to
be completed by next September Work
has been commenced, and 20U men will
be put on Immediately.
Mrs. Augusta Schramm of Los An
geles, who asked $50, 900 from the South
ern Pacific Company for the loss of her
husband in October, 1887, has been
awarded $4,000 by the jury. This is the
second trial of the case, the first trial
being for the defendant.
49, Articles of incorporation of the Pasa-
dena and Mount Wilson Railway Com
pany have been filed at Los Angeles.
The purpose of the company is to con-
struct an electric railway twelve miles
long to the summit of Mount Wilson in
the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Contracts have been let in London for
the construction of railroad from San
Diego to San Quintin, Lower California,
distance of 1872 miles. This road is to
be built as soon as the Mexican govern
ment approves the survey. A subsidy
of $1,000 a mile has been granted.
President Sidney Dillon says that the
Onion Pacific extension from Portland
to Tacoma, on which $4,000, 900 have al
ready been expended, will be built as
soon as the company can conveniently
: get the money, and that the road be-
tween Portland, Tacoma and Seattle will
be used jointly by the Union Pacific and
AGreat Northern railroads.
3 A petition is in circulation at Los An
sgetes 70 secure the pardon of w. F. Ro-
selle, who was convicted in December,
1857, of being the accomplice of his wife
: in the vitriol-throwing episode which
ncreated quite sensation at the time.
The woman who threw the vitriol was
neilowed to go, while her husband was
e etenced to nine years at San Quentin.
The price of coal for household and
am purposes has not been so low in
1 Francisco as it is now for many
,rs. The boycott on Wellington coal
the fact that many cargoes OF 1t
arrived in this port has caused the
to drop to $3.50 ton at wholesale
10 retail. Other British Columbia
foreign Goals are also selling much
lper than at this season last year.
ne water from the break in the
,nrcb canal near Fresno has inundated
e northeastern portion of the city, and
is coming in on several streets. The
people are shut in their houses, and
school children have difficulty in getting
home. Water in the suburbs is four to
six feet deep. The company VIII ~ nave
several damage suits to attend to. There
are fears that the water will reach the
business center of the city.
Labor organizations and the builders
A9S-a manufacturers of Helena, Mont,
NSsse locked horns on the boycott cues
Sa n.., The latter has decided that its
SeAnets have the right to. employ any
sasHardless of organization, on terms
T.g agreeable; denying the right
sanitation to dictate who shah
lstarteod, and declaring that boy
.be river will be met by discharge
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