Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-11

EASTERN ITEMS.
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Camel Coal Struck at
Bath, Maine.
WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS
Ontario Conflscates Short Weight
Bread and Gives II to Chari-
table Institutions.
WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS


Only one Indian left in Illinois says
the census.
A vein of camel coal has been struck
at Bath, Me.
The Peoples party in Kansas invites
penny contributions.
MIR. Blaine thinks OF improving his
property at Bar Harbor.
The Mayor OF Philadelphia cannot be
elected 10 second term.
The owners of apartment houses in
Boston propose to organize.
Separate cars for blacks and whites in
Texas have proven failure.
The assessed valuation of real estate
in Pennsylvania is 1892, 300,S72.
The Wyoming Legislature has passed
law taxing bachelors " year.
General Butler is having some grim
enjoyment in reading his obituaries.
The Alliance speakers who are to
stump Ohio will live on the farmers.
In Ontario short weight bread is con-
fiscated and given to charitable institu-
tons.
Doodle charges are now made in con-
nection with the harbor works at To-
ronto.
Mr.. Wahamaker is thinking of intro
ducing pneumatic postal service in st.
Louis,
The Upper Mississippi is rapidly get
ting into an unsatisfactory low-water
condition.
Guatemala will probably reproduce at
the Chicago Fair one OF the old palaces
in antique.
The Francklyn cottage, where Presi-
dent Garfield died, has been bought by
the Trustees.
The farmers near Terre Haute, Ind,
want the $l05, 900 stallion Axtell assessed
at that figure instead of 5000.
Connecticut is overrun with skunks
they even peregrinate into the cities and
cause many unpleasant incidents.
A cotton trust is forming in the South
the object being to save the present large
crop from being sacrificed to low prices
Canadian authorities have prohibited
the circulation through the mails OF that
country of sixteen papers printed in
this country.
A leading hotel at Asbury Park, y. J.,
has been fined 800 for serving oleomar-
garine to its guests, who did not detect
the imposition.
Following the suggestion of General
Booth in En- 9land, the Salvation Army
in this country is proposing to 90 about
the streets on bicycles.
The Prohibitionists of Nebraska have
placed Mrs. Ida NJ Bittenbender, fe-
male lawyer OF Lincoln, in the field fol
Supreme Judge OF the State.
A new dry dock is proposed for the
Brooklyn navy ward, to be 800 feet long
and 146 feet wide, to be of wood and
concrete and to cost 100000
The New York Press announces that
the old John Roach ship yard has re-
ceived the contract for an 8 600 ton mail
steamer from the Pacific Mail Company.
Premier Abbott says the scandals I'M
earthed by the investigations at Ottawa
are very serious, but he adds the govern
ment proposes to punish the guilty par
ties.
The citizens of Stevens county, Kan.
in which the countyseat question has
caused some bloodshed, want an investi-
CATION OF the finances by State author
tiles.
Boston has good evidence of the large
ness Of the peach crop. The TRANSCRIPT
says that already the Hub has received
more of the fruit than it sometimes gets
in an entire season.
A glut in the New York lemon market
has been brought on by immense impor-
tations. A week ago there were in port
three steamers with $4,000 boxes on
board, with no sale for any OF them.
More than 400 married women have
applied to the Bureau of Charities and
Correction in New York since January /
Tor relief for themselves and children,
having been deserted by their husbands.
The Postofice Department has decided
that postal cards, the edges of which
have been cut and the shape of the card
materially changed for advertising pur-
poses, cannot be sent through the mails
The Morgan line of steamers plying
between Galveston and New York has
been taken off and business concentrated
at New Orleans. The commercial inter
ests OF Galveston will be somewhat in
jured.
1t is estimated by the american .iori-
culfurist that the farm products in the
United States this year will be worth
81 900, 100000 more than they brought
during any of the recent seasons of de-
preston.
General Russell A. Alger SAYS he did
not state that Mr.. Blaine had told him
that he (Blaine) would he candidate
Tor the Presidency. The dispatch giving
General Alger credit for the statement
was untrue.
Judge Seagle of Allegheny, Pa. de-
eides that, although navigable rivers are
in general the property of the Federal
government, city lying along either
bank has police jurisdiction to the cen
ter Of the stream.
1t is said Claus Spreckels is to he pros
ecuted for engaging Austrians to come to
thus country under contract TO work in
his retineries. Two of the men reached
New York last week, and are to be re.
turned 10 their country.
Indian lands in the Indian Territory
purchased during the past year by the
government will be opened TO settlement
by proclamation by the President Sen
tember 10. The knowledge of this fact
has attracted many boomers already.
A New Orleans dispatch says. The
Texas Farmers Alliance is responsible
Tor the injury TO the trade OF Galveston
The Texas Railroad Commission, which
has fixed cotton rates, and the Texas
alien land are both the work Of the ALI
ance, and both are showing their hurtful
effects.
The Kelley cure for drunkenness made
famous by the publicity given il by Ed.
tor Medill Of Chicago IL not an unmixed
blessing. II is claimed that bichloride
II gold, which is the remedy, not onl,