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Show Mill -H-H rillllllltHM J On the Pacific Slops. 4tHM)IHMIHHIIIIHIII SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 19. The Japan-cso Japan-cso llnor America sailed today for tho Orient, via Honolulu, with twenty cabin passengers and a full cargo. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 19. The telephone service In this city has so Improved over tho conditions of last week that the belief is giowing that the telephone company has succeeded In greatly adding to Its forco of operators. TACOMA, Wash., OcL 19. James Allen, a rancher of Sumner, was choked to death at tho Pupallup hotel" laat evening by a largo pleco of meat which ho undertook to swallow. SPOKANE, Wash.. Oct 19. Tho sensational sensa-tional trial of Detective Martin Burns ended today, tho police board ordering him suspended for sixty days and reduced to the ranks, PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 19. The lull which has existed in tho local hop markot for tho last three or four days was broken brok-en by tho sales In tho Wlllamotto valley amounting to 1320 bales. Tho hops woro bought for foreign export. Tho prices ranged from 30 to 31H cents. PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 19. One hundred tons of California raisins are to be distributed dis-tributed free at the Lewis and Clark exposition ex-position by growers residing In tho district surrounding Fresno, Cal. SALEM, Or.. Oct. 19. Tho Albany local on tho Southorn Pacific at the crossing of tho old stage road at the outer limit ot this city tonight collided with a horso and buggy drlvon by a young man named Theoron A. Lyons. The horBe was killed, the buggy smashed and Lyons was badly though not fatally Injured. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19-Quartcrmas-ter MaJ. Devol has received Instructions from Washington that hereafter San Francisco will bo tho point from which all Western posts will rccclvo tholr supplies. According to the orders sent out by tho department all depots In the Western third of tho United States are to bo abolished. |