Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-08-28
The Utah Legislature is
Democratic.
ALASKA AND PROHIBITION.
The Wild Man of Arizona Delivers an
Address to His Fellow Pris-
oners at Tombstone

Los Angeles is to bave 100000 ic'
plant.
Fine native straw berries have appeared
In the juneau (Alaska) markets.
The salmon pack in Northern British
Columbia is failure. Ii will reach
about three quarter pack.
Tic next Territorial Legislature Of
Utah will be composed Of 23 Democrats
IL Liberals and Republican.
King county, Wash, must pay the ex.
penses OF the militia that was ordered
TO the mines to suppress riotous strikers
some weeks ago.
The contractors on the Tintic Range
railroad line in Utah have struck three
bodies Of ore in tunneling in the mount
aims at Homansville Pass.
The saloonmen OF Spokane have or
ganized society to protect and uphold
all personal, civil and religious liberties
OF its members and to be known as the
League OF Freedom.
A cowboy killed an Indian in dis
pute at the Navajo reservation in New
Mexico, and the Indians are In hot pur-
suit OF The murderer and his compan-
ions. deadly encounter may result.
After working for some months and
expanding several thousand dollars the
Worlds Fair Commission from the State
OF Washington discovered that its mem
beers were irregularly appointed. They
will reorganize at once.
At Silver Bow Basin, three miles from
juneau, Alaska, the old abandoned
placer mines have again proved their
richness. Hydraulic machinery has been
placed in the old diggings and put to
work, and the first cleanup realized $780,
600.
The steam sealer Eliza Edwards has
returned to Vancouver, b. G., from Behr-
ing Sea. The captain says that steam
sealers are no longer an experiment in
the Behring Sea, and predicts that next
season will see great many more of
them.
The International Company denies
that Mrs. Burton's suit has been decided
in her favor by the Mexican Supreme
Court. The court has decided her an
peal was taken in time, and that is all.
The valuable estate in dispute is still in
litigation.
Alaska has rebelled against the liquor
prohibitlon adopted by the United States
Tor that Territory. The press and the
citizens urge that prohibition cannot be
enforced with thousands Of miles of sea
coast. stringent license law is advo-
Gated with a severe penalty for selling
liquor 20 Indians or minors.
The bill o be introduced in Congress
at the instance OF the War Department
providing for San Diego's Notifications
VIII cover the expense of five military
establishments at Coronado Heights.
North Island, Point Iona and Ballast
Point. The tlfth, which is not located.
viii be the military post proper.
News has been received from Omineca
district, u. g., of the death of two vet
eran miners OF California and British |
bia-~John Robinson, II native of |
liarbor Grace, N, f., and Gideon z.
hathaway OF Taunton, Mass Both went
from San Francisco in 1858, and we're
weli-known characters in Cariboo and |
Cassiar
The California express was ditched
the other evening by running into n
steer at Riordan, seven miles west of
Flagstaff, A. 7. The engine, mail and
smoker went down the embankinent
twenty feet, causing delay of fourteen
hours. Fireman Downes was badly /
scalded and burned. All of the passen-
gers escaped injury.
The Portland Southern Railway Com.
pany has filed articles of incorporation
at Portland, Or. The capital stock il
Sl0, 000, 900, and the objects of the COM
pany are the buying, building, establish
ing and maintaining of all WAYS and
means OF transportation and communi-
cation, both by land and water, and the
producing and dealing in ight and
power.
The California claimants under the
will OF William Westerteld, who died Mt
Mooney Flat, Nevada county, Cal. leay. s
my an estate OF $4,000, have defeated
the Eastern claimants in a trial inst
ended at Nevada City. The heirs are
Mrs. Mary b. Smith and Mrs. Emma
Danuser of North San Juan. Fred Wes- q
ertield of Marysville and Charles Wes-
erfeld of Oakland. c
.. Homo, rs the wild man of Arizona F.
igns himself, delivered an address To his
elbow prisoners at Tombstone recently
lis discourse showed the traits of good
scholarship. lie walks the corridors of
he Jail In perfectly nude condition
lis only clothing is his skull can. He p
great favorite with his fellow prison Il
rs ON account of his ability. His iden. /
lily Is still surrounded in great mystery. Il
The government suit against the y
'agon-road company IN Oregon has be- Il
un at Portland. There are lour grants II
. wagon roads, comprising several hum
fed thousand acres, which the govern ci
hent seeks to recover on the ground that &
ne roads were not constructed and that Il
ne certificates OF such construction is. Il
ned by the government were fraudulent ST
X Mayor Pond of San Francisco is pres. 81
Mt as an interested party. la
Inc dropping OF twenty-one teachers IA
rom the pay roll Of the public schools
Los Angeles III order to replace them OF
nth others has given rise To nerfac, G,
form OF opposition among the teachers AZ
l question and their friends. The RoarS tn
self has been divided ON the ouestion 81,
anding to 4, and to further comnT' la
lte matters President Shafer has re. VI
gned, having become dissatisfied with
he manner in which affairs had been B,
'nducted. wv" NJ
Indians continue to reach Yuma and &c
II awful stories of their experiences al
irlng the earthquake in the Coconah m
gion. They say they were thrown iat ce
! the ground and threatened with burial as
i've IN the erevices, while sand and
avel rained down upon them. VoIca Sc
'es and geysers were started into nm it,
uai activity, throwing mud and water Of
great distances. The Indians are 10 eic
dly, frightened by the river running Fla
20 the desert and the earthquake that tn
IS doubtful if they will ever return. ha
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