The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-03-15
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.

NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Judge Bellinger at Portland has de-
cided that the steamer Alice Blanchard
is worth $751; 900 and not s., 900 as de-
clared by referee. The Oregon Pacific
has been allowed 50 ,575 and interfering
parties 81, 800 tor saving the vessel when
she became disbled off Yaquina bay
about one year ago.
The new rolling stock of the w. g. o.
railroad was put on a few days ago.
The new stock consists of three combi-
nation passenger coaches, one for the
Pendleton line and two for the Walla
Walla line.
Eleven tramps came near buring to
death in the jail at White River. They
had built a fire in the middle of the
room filled with straw and 1t got be-
yond control before the door was I'M
locked.
Thomas Canboy, the principal wit
ness in the Manville murder case has
been put under 81 600 bonds at Olympia
on the charge of having periured him
self in the testimony at the trial.
John SAKE of Calispell, Stevens coun-
ty, was examined in Spokane by Drs.
Eakin and Smith before Judge Moore
and adjnhged insane. lie was taken to
the Medical Lake asylum.
The trial of Walter j. Thompson,
Henry Drum, Samuel Collyer and R. j.
Davis, officials of the defunct Portland
Merchants National bank, has been set
for next July.
j. M. Turner, Walla Walla money
loaner, Is thought to have absconded,
owing considerable money about town
His effects, what they are, have been
attached.
M e. Mumford, prominent resident
of Olympia, is charged with perjury
and forgery. The matter grows out of
the transfer of real property.
A post mortem on 4 Seattle cow de-
veloped the fact that she had been liv-
ing for some time with 4 steel wire
through her heart.
The will of j. Clute Wilmerding, a
San Francisco pioneer millionaire, has
just been filed. The deceased leaves
$50, 900 to charity.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of Judge Pritchard of Tacoma
that an individual cannot garnishee a
county.
Eugene Dorner, who last December
shot and killed M. L. Johnson at Wal
lula, has pleaded guilty to murder.
Torace Rice, an octogenarian, died at
Jacksonville, Or. He was a Mexican
and Oregon Indian war veteran.
Bishop Paddock, head of the Episco-
pal church in this diocese, is dying of
paralysis in Southern California.
Drouth has transformed the once fer
tile and prosperous Rio Grande Valley
into vale of desolation.
Three men were sentenced to ten
years each at Seattle-two for highway
robbery and one for rape.
The deep water steamship companies
out of San Francisco have cut wages OF
employees five per cent.
The trial of John Sachs of Dayton,
for arson, resulted in his acquittal. He
established an alibi
Everett shipped $4,000 worth of hor
manufactured products to San Francisco
last week.
Four thousand crates of small fruits
are pledged for the rropoted Tacoma
cannery.
Claliam Indians are giving exhibitions
of ghosts and other tribal dances on the
Sound.
Mrs. Lease has written an Ocosta
friend that she will be visiting there
soon.
Daniel Steen has been bound over al
Spokane on the charge of cattle steal
ing.
The whaleback being built at Everett
Wash, is to be completed this summer
]. Hull, the Oregon murderer, has beer
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
A plank road costing Sc, 900 is to be
built across the big Snohomish marsh.