Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-15
The Salton Lake Rapidly
Going Down.
RICH ALUMINIUM DISCOVERY.
Miss Fanny Davenport Purchases $50
Acres Of Land in Orange
County, California.

Portland wants $500. 600 dry dock.
There was ice at Tucson, A. T.. last
week.
Waterfront thieves al Seattle are do
ing good business.
An English syndicate Is buying up all
the breweries in British Columbia.
An effort IL being made to revoke the
extension OF the ioopa reservation.
Los Angeles business this year is a
decided improvement on that OF 1890.
The National California Bank at San
d ego, 1t is thought, will soon resume
business,
Wells, Fargo Il Co.'s express has prac.
tical,y abolished the Denver and Rio
Grande express department.
j. q. Ford, one Of the sheep and wool
barons OF Elko county, New, a few days
ago sold sixty yearling bucks at *20 q
head.
At Blackfoot, Idaho, fire DESTROYED
the United States land office, Union Pa
cihc depot, Pacific express office and the
Commercial Hotei.
There is a rurnor that the Southern
Pacific Company Is going 10 prohibit
liquor selling In houses located on its
right Of way through Nevada.
The Railroad Commission has decided
that the Southern Pacific railroad did
not discriminate in favor OF Tucson, as
was charged by outside towns.
Deposits OF meerschaum have been
found on the Sapello creek, twenty-five
miles north OF Silver City, N. M, and
near the alum deposits Of the Gila river.
Ii has been decided after survey to at
tempt to raise the steamship San Pedro
near Victoria. II Is rumored that the
Captain will be held responsible for her
loss.
W.. Daggctt, the mai clerk who was
Injured In the railroad accident at Port
at stockton in which he asks for $b0, 00t
DAMAGE.
South Sea Island guano is being intro
duced In Riverside this season. Thi,
fertilizer contains 80 per cent, OF phoe
phoric acid, and il especially adapted
Tor orange groves.
The case OF =. w. Sullivan, who was
charged with smuggling arms into San
Quentin prison, has been dismissed by
the court ut San Rafael, the prosecution
claiming there WIS no evidence to con-
Wet.
Portland, having discovered that she
sold her bonds 10 q pool and but for the
combination much less than they were
worth, has rescipded its acceptance oil
the bid, and there Ia u chance for law.
suit.
j. A. Forbes, who made application
to Judge Ross at Los Angeles to compel
the City Clerk to surrender TO him the
old Spanish archives In the City Hall
has been worsted the court refusing Il
do no.
The recently formed Southern Cali
iornla Fruit Growers Union is receiving
much encouragement from hortieultur
lists. The main object Is 10 make orange
growers as far ~ possible independent
OF the middlemen.
The Yuma Sentinel says The greai
taxing exploration and surveying expe-
dition has arrived from the mud volca.
noes. The number Of volcanoes has
been increased to 1000. We await fur
ther particulars with eagerness.
The Canadian Pacific Navigation Com.
pany at Victoria, b. c., has refused to
hereafter carry any malls TO the north,
the government not Offering to pay a
sufficient remuneration. This will much
Inconvenience the people on the north.
ern coast.
A party OF prospectors who have been
operating about forty miles west OF Al
buquerque, n. NJ, brought into that city
sack full OF samples, which on being
assayed were found TO carry aluminium
in large quantities. One assay of sack
taken from the surface shows Is per
cent. OF metal, and il is said there are
hundreds OF acres just the same.
j, q. Wegler OF Brookfeld, Wahkia-
kun county, has been asked TO take up
some work in connection with this
States fishing display at the Worlds
Fair, Mr.. Wegler was chairman OF the
committee on fisheries In the house OF
the first and second legislatures. He is
enthusiastic in all matters pertaining to
Washington fish industry.
The San Bernardino Times Iader SAYS
From gentleman who has Just returned
from Salton we learn that the lake is GO
ing down very rapidly, being only about
three feet In the deepest place. The lake
is divided into two parts, bar having
been formed between the two. The lake
Is now about twenty-five miles long and
seven miles wide. The salt COMPANY
will commence work about December |
Miss Fanny Davenport has purchased
$50 acres OF land In fulton's CANYON, in
Orange county, Cal, eighteen miles from
Pomona. Miss Davenport means TO
build large ranch home on the prop
erty, establish game preserves ami im-
mense poultry yards and barns. The
land Is but seven miles from Nine. Mod
ieska's ranch.
The big tour-masted ship Afghanistan,
the largest ship that ever came into the
Columbia river, crossed in the other ey-
ening after passage OF eighty-nine DAYS
from Ric Janeiro. The Afghanistan reg
listers = ,22! tons, is 2lt feet long, AZ feet
beam and "A feet depth OF hold. She
was built in 1883, and is owned by the
British and Eastern Shipping Company
Of London. She will carry 1850 tons OF
cargo in draft OF twenty-five feet. The
jetty Improvements are showing their
benefits.
Rev. John W. Ellis, the we'll known
defer of synods and ecclesiastical bodies
generally, appeared in court In Los An
geles ON a mortgage suit affecting the
Ellis College. The doctor represented
his own case, and after the complaint
WAS read arose and proceeded TO read a
lengthy document in the nature OF an
answer containing number OF counter
charges. On motion of the counsel for
the pliintiff Judge Wade ordered that
the ayerments objected to be stricken
out, remarking that il was imrossible
for the doctor TO learn the science OF
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