Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1901-10-31
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ITEMS OF INTEREST PICKED FROM
THE WEEKS DISPATCHES.
Murder and Suicide In San Francisco.
Dimmiok Sentenced olive-Growers In
California win organiEe--No Bubonic
Plague In San Francisco.

California VIII Organike--No Bubonio
Plague In San Francisco.
The new Raymond hotel at Pasadena,
Gal, will be opened Jan. l.
Peter NJ. Van AIKEN, proprietor of
grocery store on Wesley avenue, Los
Angeles, was instantly killed by coming
into contact with live electric wire in
his stable
William Mcbride. for many years
head of the Washington press bureau of
the Cincinnati Enquirer. has purchased
The Salt Lake Tribune.
The physicians and pharmacists Of |
Los Angeles have organized an associa
ton to protect the public from adulter-
ated drugs and medicines. The object |
Of the association is to establish bu- +,
reau Of materia medica consisting of
physicians. pharmacists and chemists
specially interested in the investigation
and Standardization OF medicines and
chemicals.
The special health commissioners APP
polnteu ny tuo SoNVihpt VI S"iiANANA"
to confer with the federal authorities in
Washington respecting the alleged ex.
istence of bubonic plague in California
have made their report, in which ii is
stated that "San Francisco is and has
been absolutely free from the disease,
and that those who said 1t existed were
either mistaken or deliberately misrep-
resented the facts"
Within year the residents of Shasta
county, CAL, may see tho establishing
of ono of the largest numbering enter
prises on the Pacific coast. Attendant
upon it viii be the constructing of q
railroad line connecting the county seat
with the extreme northwestern section
of the county, with tho possible exten-
sion of tho road into transcontinental
line.
At Ballard, Wash, officers opened fire
on five highwaymen as they were escap-
ing from N. Theissen's saloon with $50
in cash and two gold watches. Bullets
dew in all directions, but the only evil
dence that any one was hit came from
the fact that one highwayman was
helped along by his companionsin flight,
Three blocks from the saloon the des.
poradoes met NJ. j. Davis, local agent
for tho Great Northern, whom they
beat into insensibility and robbed OF
500 in gold and gold watch.
The lumber schooner Ia Girondo,
Captain Grimm, on her way north from
Redondo, struck in q fog on the island
of San Clemente and went to pieces.
The crew of eight escaped in the life
boat and reached San Pedao in an ex-
hausted condition. The schooner was
owned by Clarence A. Thayer. secretary
of the L. X. Wood Lumber company OF
San Francisco, and was built ut Port
Ludlow, Wash, in 1875.
At Seattle, Captain Charles w. Aims
and all other officers of the steamship
Charles d. Lane were exonerated by
tho local board of United States inspoc-
tors for the loss of that vessel by ship
wreck on the rocks Of Nunivak island,
Behring sea, July 13 last. An incorrect
chart is given by tho board as the real
: cause of the wreck.
; Judge De Haven refused TO grant
} Walter n. Dmmick q new trial, do
! MED motion for arrest Of Judgment,
and sentenced the ox-ohief clerk OF the
mint ut San Francisco to imprisonment
ut hard labor for two years III San 9uen
tin. This was for his conviction on the
charge Of having presented to Cashier
Cole u fictitious voucher for Si0S87
I and for having applied tho money to .
J, purpose not contemplated or allowed by
4 law. The remaining minor embez2le
ment charges will come up for trial oil
Nov. 7.
( More than two.thirds Of the olive
( growers Of California were represented
ut meeting in Los Angeles to discus
ways and means Of obtaining bette
prices for their product. 1t is propose,
to organize all the olive.growers of tn
d state, and the following committee ol
v permanent organization was named
u q. A. Washburn, Los Angeles, chair
p. man; r. r. Billings, Corona; Il. X
o Moserve, Los Angeles; A. Il. SpraRuc
+, San Francisco, aud II. Sturdivant, 10
Angeles.
Ed Nolan, who served a torn Of 2
years In San Quentin, was captured noa
Ballard, Wash, aud is now held In jaI
q mt Seattle subject to charges Of pirac
Z and burglary His companion wa
G "Shorty" Wilcox, anotorious San Fran
z cisco wator.iront thief Wilcox made
10 daring escape by piunging into sort O
marsh. In blind garrett. whore Noia
aud Wilcox lived, were found the a,
: cumulations Of several burglarios whic
70 have hitherto baiiled the Seattle polio,
y Nolan is charged with piracy ON PugC
sound.
b" British purchasing agents are buyin
e, large numbers Of horses In Whitman
y Wplu Walla and other stoclcraisin
~ counties Of eastern Washington. ThoI
m sands Of horses have boon offered b
10 farmers in western Canada, but thei
q. arc found too Hight The purchasin
:, agents arc paying $50 to t7j each I,
good horses, as against $3.50 per hea
which tho British army has TO pay
u Caps Town II is said thot 10000 MOI
ie horsos will b. required,
ar X. L. Pitts, alias "Red" Pitts, W.
VI arrested Ia San Francisco by secret Sc
as vice agents. PITS was Que Of the gan
lg Of which Frank Perry, Billy Hagan au
ge T. w. Smith scrc said 10 DO the leader
"a anG which made a speciality of plss.u
4 The notes OF defunct bank of Ne
Brunswick. y. j. 4 1hu plates were "a
destroyed when tho bank went out
exstencs, aud over $4,000 worth
notes were printed before tho irar
"A was discovered. All the members
~ the gang hayo been indicted by q
NJ United States grand jury, and most