The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-06-19

railroad was held In Chicago, on the
when 1851, 900 votes were cast out of total
$4,000. The following Directors we
o." elected: David Bows, R. r. Cable, Hus
-. Riddle, H. R. Bishop and Sidney Dillon. tt
% Directors subsequently elected the followir
70 officers: R. r. Cable President; David Dow
.. Vicc-President; A. Kimball, Second Vic
n. President; w. G. FLrdy, Secretary and Trea
ne erer, vice F. H. Tows resigned on account
m i'll health; j. R. Corning, Assistant Secretar
to and Treasurer. 1t was decided to remove th
lg Office of Secretary and Treasurer from Ne
O. York to Chicago.
e In the United PRESBYTERIAN Assem-
# bly, at Topeka, Kansas on the 3rd, the cues
u ton OF membership in the Grand Army of tn
l. Republic was taken up, and the original re
port of the committee was adopted. The re
! port says the Grand Army is secret organi
a zation in which an oath and obligation is
taken, and 1--WE think it wise and proper tc
, counsel the members of the church to stand
! aloft from this and similar organizations"
In reply to an inquiry regarding the
ravages of the Hessiah fly in Missouri, the
secretary of the state board of agriculture
says il there are any ravages they must be Of
later date than the mail reports.
H. c. VIII & Co., the large coal OPP
orators of the Hooking Valley, assigned to
Z. G. Pickering The firm owns the mines at
Hamlcy Run, Athens county, with an output
OF fifty cars per day. The liabilities are not
known at this time, but will be heavy. A
large portion of the debts was contracted
during the strike, but the immediate cause
OF the failure is dullness in trade
The management of the New Orleans
exposition made proposition to the U. S.
commissioners to retain the exhibits of the
different states for the reopening The expo
sition agrees to pay $4,000 to the state COM
missioners out of the monev subscribed by the
citizens to be paid at the rate of $4,000 per |
month. This proposition was unanimously |
adopted by the commissioners. All exhibits
not perishable will remain in the government
building. These exhibits are the most yalua-
BILE and attractive on the grounds and their
retention Will do much to make ie success
OF the fair next winter.
The Northwestern Associated Press
held its annual meeting in Chicago on the Sd
and the following officers elected: Directors
J. s. Clarkson, H. W. Clendenin, G. D. Per
kins, G. E. Yost, s. Smith, D. N Richardson.
Stone; President, G. E. Yost; Vice-Presi
dent, s. Smith; Treasurer, A. Stone; Secre
tary, w. II. Ciendenin; Executive Commit
tee, d. N. Richardson, Geo. D. Perkins, j. s.
Clarkson.
A Topeka dispatch says: There is no t
1oubt that the Hessian fly is doing much I
damage, and the surplus wheat of Kansas I
will dwindle to small proportions. Fields that C
hree or four weeks ago promised one-half to p
hree-fourths of crop are now ruined and =
viii be turned over and millet put in. The fly !,
not confined to any one section, and If OBJ n
eryable more in one place than another that g,
lace is in the great wheat growing district,
here there is more wheat for the insects to -
nrive upon. Before the ravages of this in r
ect became widespread, some conception OF
our wheat crop could be formed; now no nj
ne, not even the most expert wheat grower, al
IN form any estimate and all guesses are of
I'D ones. No one can say whether four nc
lshels or forty bushels per acre will be the III
ED, and there may be none, or, possibly, ten j,
ishels. One thing is certain, in the great y"
heat valley of Kansas, the Saline country. 81,
here wheat never fails, entire fields are being
owed UP and millet soTn This Is rereated
llparts of the State, and while we viii I'M
ubtedly raise our own bread, we will hardly So
rnish bread to many people outside
Hale, of Massachu-
is, has failed with large liabilities. His ito
Use in Keene and his interest in the Keene ial
air Co., have been attached with claims 70
ounting to over 100000. 1t is reported OF
t the liabilities may reach a million. The
farmer living near Curran, ILL.,, ~ ~.
at TO Springfield with $50 letters which he ~,
nd concealed under hay stack on hi he
n. He has given them to the postmaster. end
, letters bear date of April Sth, and con- lin
a number of money orders and a draft A..
$4,000. Train robbery is the only appar- ,ho
explanation Of the mystery. No Motif not
on of mail having been lost had previ wer
ly been received at the Springfield post wer
e. tion
Iyriads of young grasshoppers, evil , me
tly just Matched out in the warm sand, inst
e made their appearance on the south ard,
of the Arkansas river opposite Canon s Mno
J. There are probably 200 acres literally char
'red with young hoppers. 1t is said, how by St
i, that the insects are not the much DC "
ded locusts, and will be incapable of do of II
much damage. She
eneral Crook telegrapns General mar mar
idan that the Indians passed Duncan on SIZE
light of the 4th inst, going south. They wrou
well mounted and travelling fast. He coul'
s that it looks as II the only chance reare
at the troops at Gaudalou can intercent that
!. Capt. Crawford with so scouts will pur- not |
hem. dispatch from Col. Bradley, of the . .hns
lst, states that the hostiles have left the agar
itains and are moving south. Lieutenant setts
h reports that telegram from Globe in t Moln
es that the Indians are stealing stock in care
vicinity. He will send out at once to as
in, and will order the Indians in for an
count. General Cook states that tho wa
wing number of neonle were killed hv se"'