The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-11
PACIFIC COAST.
Frost Lays Low Potato
Vines in Nevada.
THE ARID LAND CONVENTION.
Southern California Countis Adopt a
Graduated Schedule 1o' AS
sessing Fruit Trees


A ten-mile pipe line to SstE Monica
from the oil wells near Los 9geles is
proposed.
The attendance Of school enlldren at
Spokane this year is S,72l. last year it
was 2,764.
IIorsethieves are again mmitting
depredations in the eastern part OF
Washington.
More than / 600 netaries public have
been appointed since Was gton be-
came State.
The Ashland Tidiags says that 10000
boxes of peaches will be ship ed from
that thriving locality this seaspn.
Frost in the upper valleys / Mason,
Jacks and Carson districts. ev., has
completely laid the potato wins low.
Various counties in Oregon issuing
bonds for required improve nts, and
these in every instance are sos At a pre-
MUM.
The schooner Premier has arrived at
! San Francisco from Pirate Cove. The
4 vessel was reported wrecked, ith total
loss Of the cargo.
j. M. Burke has won mis- against
the Bunker Hill and Sulliyh Mining
Company OF Wardner, Idaho, Il involved
title to property valued at s. sra mills
ion dollars.
Governor Toole oi Neva has apr
pointed thirty delegat TO tht Arid Land
Convention, which meets ir salt Lake
(N;A.v c,, ~ f,s,,. E, m 3iiqrFt irTlp9-
tion question.
\ ginia and Truckes railroad shops night
and day on machinery for river mills
which are now running at full blast on
Comstock ores.
+ Sixty men are at work on the Heme
reservoir in the San Jacinto Mountains
When completed it will create lake 0
three square miles, with an average
: depth Of thirty-tive feet.
! The Indians at Arriba, N. NJ, defy th'
:. United States authorities, and stroni
force with Hotchkiss guns will probabl,
be sent to make arrests OF Indians VIII
have been doing damage and threaten
: ing lives.
! Warrants have been issued at San Di
: ego for the members of the Seamen'
: Union who assaulted the captain Of tn
steamer Hounslow and cruelty beat tw
others who had assisted the captain i
] securing a crew.
: President Woodruff and George c
4 Cannon of the Mormon Church III a
\ interview have defined the position
the church in regard to politics, whic
they say will no longer attempt to see
: power in that way.
y San Diego is delighted over the fac
; that Prof. Eames of Pittsburg, the wei
; known iron manufacturer. is prospectin
, at the former place with the view OF ei
tablishing an iron plant there OF IL
tons daily capacity.
y The Bradstreet mercantile agency n
= ports twenty-seven failures in the Paclf
Z Coast States and Territories for the pal
4 week, as compared with fifteen for I'll
\ previous week and sixteen for the co
4 responding week OF 1880.
The proposition for an outfall to tt
ocean Of the sewerage Of Los Angeles
y being discussed in the City Council
y that city. 1t is believed that the prop
y sition, although twice defeated at Il
- polls, will eventually be carried.
1O a HlUU.UUU 6luOWlu6Hb lulu - B6ii
if raised for the Pacific Methodist Colleg
0. DR.. Kelly of Nashville, the newly electC
President, will take charge of the schoC
~ provided the endowment is raised. Sc
I y eral Eastern professors have also bee
y engaged.
"a Three Piute Indians-one buck al
" two squaws-convicted in the Distri
a Court at Winnemucca, New, of KILN
n the Indian witch, have been sentenc
to ten years each in the State prison.
ne is the first conviction in Nevada for SUI
tn an ofense.
~ Southern California counties ha
~ adopted a graduated schedule Of rat
et for assessing fruit trees, which they W
ils recommend to the Assessors of the Stat
with the request that prior to the ne
n | assessment the Assessors Of fruit-pl
at ducing counties meet in convention
al discuss the same.
W. The San Antonio Electric Light q
up Power Company has been formed to 81
M ply Pomona with power for lighting a
sir manufacturing. Water wheels and g
orators viii be put in at the mouth
to San Antonio canyon, thirteen miles frt
be Pomona, whence power will be convey
over heavy copper wire.