The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-31

PACIFIC COAST.
Wright Irrigation Law
Favored for Nevada.
THE ALASKAN EXPEDITION.
The Sacramento Board Of Supervisors
Are Charged With Being
Boodlers-Ete
THE ALASKAN EXPEDITION.

Riverside is to have a free postal de-
livery.
The municipal affairs of Victoria, B.
O., are to be investigated.
The only female convict inlhe Arizona
prison has been pardoned.
The plum crop at Carson il rotting on
the trees. The market is overstocked.
The sale of wild-hower seed at San
Diego is becoming a profitable business.
The Nevada State Board 81 Equaliza-
tion promises to raise the assessments
all round
The jury in the case of John IIagger-
ty, who killed his son last April at Sac
ramento, has been unable to agree.
John Il. Berry, Collector Of the Port
OF San. Diego, has sued the Union News
paper Company for $25,000 for alleged
libel.
Since January over 1890 vessels
have crossed Humboldt bar, and the
shipments OF lumber have been over
100000, 900 feet.
An order for 800 combination and cat
tie cars is now being filed at the ma
chine shops of the Southern Pacific
Company in Sacramento.
William Reed of Florin charged three
members of the Sacramento Board of
Supervisors with being boodlers, and he
has been arrested for criminal libel.
Samuel ] Brun of San Jose, late in
structor of French at Cornell University.
has been appointed instructor ts French
at the Leland Stanford Or Cnsgersity.
An effort is being made to resume
work In Sacramento on the oil well,
which has been abandoned at 92O feet in
depth. owing to the piping becoming
wedged.
1t now seems that a railroad will be
built around the falls at The Dalles. Or.
on the Washington side and line of
boats put on by the Columbia River
Nav CATION Company.
The newspaper men of San Diego are
all being involved in libel suits. So far
the Union and the Sun have had suits
entered against them, but other COM
plants are looked for every moment.
There was an enthusiastic BODY of
men gathered at Carson recently to dis
ouss the subject of irrigation. The ap-
plication of the principles of the Wright
aW OF California was favored for Ne
7ada.
The largest land fur shipment of the
year was made from Victoria, B. c., the
1ther day by the Hudson Bay Company.
destined for London. 1t includes $25.-
100 worth of beaver and $4,000 worth
If bear skins.
William II. G. Brotherton, the wheel
barrow man, who left San Francisco
April last to make the trip on foot to
New York city, passed through Flagstaff.
l., the other day He has been laid
Up for five months in the hospital at Los
Angeles. He seems to be in good health
low.
The Los Angeles Farming and MILLING
has commenced eiectment pro-
eedings against 14l settlers, who have
quatted on a portion of the Lanker-
helm ranch, which the settlers claim To
'e government land fraudulently in
luded by the owners of the ranch when
he survey was made.
The schooner Lizzie Crosby has re-
urned to Port Townsend from the Ko-
lax fishing grounds with a catch of 90
90 Goldfish consigned to Anacortes own
RS, who intend to establish a drier at
hat place to dispose OF the catch of the
'olby and other vessels, which are ex-
ected to arrive soon.
The Schwatka scientific expedition has
eturned from Alaska. A large collec- |
on OF botanical specimens was made !
nd photographs of everything of inter,
st were taken. The most successful
'ature of the whole trip was the break
lg through the Mount st. Elias Range
feat never before accomplished by man
The Arrowhead Reservoir Company.
aving in charge the construction Of
rge storage reservoirs in the mountains
Orth of San Bernardino on the head
aters of the Mojave river and its trib-
taries, has advertised for the construc-
on OF three large tunnels-one 4. 800
ct in length, one 5000 feet and one
600 feet, making total of IL 500 feet
tunnel.
They offer bounty for the ears Of rab-
is in Idaho. The discovery recently
several live Dummies " minus their
lrs has developed the fact that active
ounty workers are trapping the Jacks.
lpping their ears and then turning
Iem loose to breed future crop, from
hleh bounties can be obtained till the
I'd of time.