Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-24
PACIFIC COAST.
The Strike in the Wash
ington Coal Mines.
BIG MECHANICS LIEN FILED
The Troops Sent After the Arizon;
Indians Return Because They
Had No Trailer.


an increase of ~, 1870.
During an electrical storm at Salem
trees were shattered by lightning.
There is a strong probability of the
Reno reduction works being rebuilt.
Washoe farmers are cutting the first
crop OF hay, the season being q month
late.
1t is reported at San Diego that the
Rock Island has purchased the Cuya-
maca railroad.
The women employed in the Sacra-
mento canneries earn on an average 81
to $3.50 per day.
The saw mills between Truckee and
Reno are not cutting one-half the guam
tity OF lumber cut last wear
The strike in the Washington coal
mines appears TO be broken, the ship
ments of coal being on the increase.
mechanics lien for sos, 900 has been
filed at Boise City on the property OF the
Idaho Mining and Irrigation Company
S. NJ. Perry, principal stakeholder in
the plumbing company at Los Angeles
which bears'his name, is insolvent. Ii
abilities, $44, 79l; assets, 500, 6j2 in real
estate and personal property.
The troops sent in search Of the In
dams who attacked the mining camp in
the Huachuca Mountains in Arizona had
to return because they could not follow
the Indians, having no trailer.
A number of farmers around Love
locks, New, have combined to build an
irrigation canal to Big Meadows. The
canal will tap the bed of Humboldt river
near Orena and do away with dams alto
gether.
The representatives of the two great
railroad systems in Southern California
the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific
are making mysterious movements,
which strengthen the impression of an
impending war.
DIR. Crossman, who went away several
weeks ago from his wife at Brownsville,
4uba county, Cal, but returned and Of
fered excuses, which were accepted, is
again missing. and it is thought he has
committed suicide.
The sloop Flora of Seattle las been
seized near Victoria, B. c., with sixteen
Cinnamon on board, who were TO be
Struggled into the United States. The
vessel neglected to report inward and a
fiue of 300 was ihnQseA ----.-
me Ifxpdyers Union at Los Angeles
has passed a resolution demanding that
the Supervisors hold their meetings at
specified times; that they speak in a
voice audible in the lobby, and that they
invite and make provision for neTspa-
per reporters.
Captain A. n. Thornton, who was last
month appointed special Deputy Col
lectOr of Customs by Collector Osborne
at Wilmington, has been offered and has
accepted the position OF Treasurer. at the
Soldiers Home at Santa Monica, vice
Major Erdman.
A company has been formally organ
lied at Pasadena, Cal, to build an cleo
trio road up Mount Wilson, 5000 feet
high, and the most famous peak in that
section. The survey has already been
made, and the distance covered will be
about nine miles.
The examination OF applicants for fore
manships at the navy yard at Mare Isl
and, which has been in progress during
the past three weeks, has been conclud-
ed, and the Board is now preparing its
report, which will be forwarded to Sec
rotary Tracy soon.
The city assessment at Los Angeles
shows total assessment OF 40, $50 439
as against f4S, 6S4, 1873 last wear. The as
sessment of lands shows a fallingoff oil
over 81. 900, 900, improvements decrease
OF 100000, while the personal property
assessment is 100000.
The San J use Board of Trade has re.
fused to indorse the action Of a former
meeting, which passed a resolution de-
nouncing the editor OF the Better Times
who was charged with supporting Chi
nese hightinders. The resolution, IJwas
decided, was uncalled for and unjust.
1t is stated that ranch near Seattle
rs visited almost daily by large black
bear from the woods near by He min
giles with the stock on the place, and
makes himself quite at home. The Wis
its have continued for a long time, and
the rancher will not permit Bruin" tc
be molested.
It is runored at San Diego that the
Canadian Pacific has made proposition
to the Santa Fe Railroad Company tc
mt on a steamer from its Pacific Coast
terminus to Honolulu, stopping at San
Francisco for the Southern and Central
Pacific business and at San Diego for the
Santa Fe traffic.
Derius Norris, a well-known water
front character at Astoria, it is believed
has been defrauded out of large and
valuable piece of property and frightened
into q sudden departure by the parties
Who swindled him. His friends have
undertaken to unravel what now appears
to be crooked work.
Chief Buchanan OF the Department o.
Agriculture and in charge of the Depart
,a1nt Of Forestry of the Worlds Fail
hos asked the California Commissioner:
80 furnish three California trees, eacE
twentv-five feet in height and not les;
+han sixteen nor more than twenty
;.,nbae in diameter, to he used as pillars
- the forestry building. All OF th'
-, have heen asked to contribute the
oe.aVe The trees coming from the diff
ssrant States will each have a tablet at
tonLad TO them, giving the necessar!
data concerning them.
The carpenters trade is said to be over
1nG Gan Francisco at present. OWNS
done ~ i, Jfi in building operations a
to tne uu Salt Lake and other points nea
Denver, n,ber of idle carpenters hav'
by, noi lat CITY, and about 200 mem
ari..5 of that craft are thougle ~ ~ 90
ofi EMPLOYMENT now me me Of If thh e
tnas .oo,n.iributing to the nailo n and wi; ii
ere mbich is rapidly crowns b zee eioht
iund, for the general strike. n ne; Tis ne
be useo 10; I'm in force there, so II VIII ny no
hour RUE e Esr 81 but outside o. zen zen
affect san Gno : the building opei;adtI un
yer and sea- w tarn cities will be tled up