The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-11-14
PACIFIC COAST.
Electric Power on the
Northern Pacific.
CHINESE GIRLS FOR SALE.
Johnson, Who Was Injured at Lake
Labish, Wins His Suit for
Damage Incurred

Boston capitalists are after the Tenn
escal tin mines.
The trial of the Davis will case at
Butte. Mont, has been fixed for April
Is, 1892.
The Alliance and Industrial organiza-
tions OF Los Angeles are to form Peo-
ple's party.
Two men are in Jail at Red Bluff,
charged with robbing the Redding and
Alturas stage.
The capital stock of the Riverside
Banking Company has been Increased
to $1,O00,00O.
Riverside thinks its orange crop this
season will fill 2,200 cars. The fruit is
unusually fine.
A San Francisco company is contem-
plating the erection of an eleetric-light-
ing plant in Santa Barbara.
The Anaconda Mont mines and
smelter after being shut down for seven
months have resumed operations.
The objections of the savings banks at
Los Angeles to the tax assessments have
been overruled by Judge Wade.
At Victoria, B. O., it has been found
that there are nine girls in Chinatown
waiting to be sold. One girl was sold
last week for 81 300.
The reported brush with the Blood In
dians just across the Canadian border
was exaggerated. One Indian was killed
and one policeman wounded.
A portion Of the walls Of the new CITY
Hall at Port Townsead fell I'M sx.5ng 4
severe STORM and crushed a neiphboring
house, seriously injuring two people.
Colonel William Hyde, for a quarter
OF a century editor of the st. Louis Re-
public, has been engaged as editor of the
Salt Lake Herald, Democratic organ.
The Salton Lake is rapidly disappear
ing. One month more according to par
ties who have returned from there and
no sign of the so-called desert lake will
be seen.
The Pacific Athletic Club of San Fran
cisco has telegraphed Jim CorDett, ask
ing him if he would meet Joe Choynski.
who has returned from Australia, for a
purse of $4,000.
Thousands of bushels of peaches and
apples are being fed to the hogs along
the Snake-river fruit belt in Oregon. and
all because the fruit raisers are not pre-
pared to take care of the crop asst comes
on.
A San Jose jury in the suit of little
Howard Pomeroy against H. II. War
burton of Santa Clara to recover $25. 900
for malpractice in treating broken leg
In such manner that gangrene set in.
necessitating amputation, rendered a
verdict for 500, 900 for plaintiff.
{nprrOoD G0aiatxy Of I &c A ,,,,oloe =.
exercised over the elopement of Mrs.
Jennie Halmer with Oscar Overweh.
Mrs. Halmer shone as an amateur theat-
rical star, being the soubrette of the dra-
matte section of Turn Verein. Overweh
leaves a wife and two young children.
AT San Diego incandescent electric
lights are lowered into the water at
night, and large net is placed below
them. The fish are attracted bv the
glare, and are plainly visible. When
sufficiently full the nets are hauled up.
and the catches are said to be enormous.
The number Of Cinnamon and amount
OF opium smuggled through the Sound
and the woods in Northern Washington
must be considerable. A few weeks aoo
300 Celestials arrived in Victoria from
OAAAAAes3 oh0 A1bCA blCl dll disappeared.
The supposition is that they have been
smuggled into this country.
A San Francisco company has pur-
chased plaster of Paris mine near Rim
con, which it is working with force of
forty men. The deposit is said to be the
finest in the State, and the company pro-
poses to fully develop it. The Santa Ana
will be bridged at once and track laid
from the mine to the Santa Fe.
They have on exhibition at Victoria
teredo about ten or twelve inches long
in glass jar full of alcohol. tits marked
: The Scourge of Puget Sound" AS
there are about four quarts of alcohol to
one teredo, it is a little doubtful, saws
the Westminster Ledger, as to whether
It is the alcohol or the teredo that is re-
ferred to.
In some parts of the Colorado Desert
water boils up from springs, which are
by circular hillocks of car
Donate of lime from four to eight inches
in height, the material of which has
been deposited from the flowing fluid.
the latter is so highly charged with gas
mat it is difficult to keep corks in bottles
illed with it.