The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-18
PACIFIC COAST.
A Jewish Rabbi Works
Foreign Masons.
CAUSE OF MOoUI TROUBLES.
The Cultivation of New Zealand Hemp
Being Advocated in South
ern California.

A railroad from Port Ballona to Santa
Monica is contemplated.
mill to grind 800 barrels of -four a
day is projected for Spokane.
The Port Townsend Y. NC. A. has
raised 5000 for their new building.
The Seattle authorities are taking steps
to fence in the Whitechapel district.
The Olympia assessment roll for this
year is 81, 1884, ,662, against 81, S53, ,420 last
year.
The cultivation of New Zealand hemp
is being advocated in Southern Cali
fornia.
Olympia's harbor needs dredging out,
and the Board of Trade is moving to
that end.
James Bell is claimant against Los
Angeles county for the site of the new
court house.
Mayor Hazard of Los Angeles has We
toed the retrenchment ordinance recent
ly passed by the Council
The United States Examiner of Mints
has expressed much qualification at the
condition of the Mint at Carson City.
The schOoners Mascot and Otto have
sailed from Victoria for Behring Sea.
and their captains will run the chances
of capture.
Portland's citizens committee of 100
has. permanently organized to procure.
purification in politics as far as possible
and destroy ring rule.
A petition to the San Jose Council and
Supervisors asks for q franchise. to ex-s
tenathe Baden road tl4fdug4r ostn Jose.
to the line of San Benito. This is be-
leved to be in reality the Santa Fe line.
The steam collier Willamette will take
a cargo of supplies from San Francisco
for the German war ships Leipzig, So
phie and Alexandrine that sailed about
three weeks ago from San Francisco for
Iquique.
G. M. Bradshaw, Collector of Customs
for Puget Sound district, is charged with
borrowing money from the government.
Although he paid it all back, the offense
will probably cost. him the loss of his
position.
The Tacoma (Wash.) Water Company I
has purchased the Maplewood Springs,
which have daily capacity of 14,0O0,-
600 gallons. They are nine miles in an
air line from the city, and water will be
piped by gravity
The Needles Eye says Needles has a
tandem team now. A tiny burro works |
in the shafts, and huge Moiave suuaw
in the lead. They draw well together. |
is, they draw the attention of |
everybody in the neighborhood.
1t is stated at Los Angeles that com |
panies are being formed in Arizona and |
New Mexico who will ship coyote scalps
to friends in California. The County |
Clerk of Los Angeles has nearly 400 |
scalps filed, and from ten to twenty are
daily.
Miners who have crossed the divide
between the Cascade district and the
Okanogan recently pronounce the pass
badly obstructed by snow and very diff
icult of passage. They made some dis
,overies, and are having assays made.
The ore is of the same character as that
ound in Cascade and Silver creek, with
he exception that the percentage of gold
s higher and lead lower.
William G. Graves, one of the Donner
'arty, visited Truckee June "a to make
} formal demand for the money recently
ound by Edward Reynolds and Amos
lane. The coins are recognized by him
70 DCluS Vi tA6 Sdluo CudfdcJ6T as LnOSe
,hried by his mother in March, lS46.
lie went to Donner lake and pointed
ut the spot where his mother and the
econd relief party camped on the night
'efore she concealed the coins. 1t was
cry close to the spot where the money
vas found. Mr.. Graves will consult the
ther member of the family as to the
INSTABILITY of instituting legal proceed
ngs.
The Supreme Court of California has
eeided that corners in commodities are
gainst the public policy, and that con-
racts for supplies to form a corner are
Ot binding. The decision was the re-
llt of suit of the Pacific Factory Com I
any against A. A. Adler for breach of s
0ntract. Adler entered into contract '
, sell to the company all grain bags in I
is control up to a certain date. He
roke his contract, and was sued for 2
amages. He claimed that the company
as endeavoring to secure corner in !
rain bags so as TO increase the price. ,
he lower court decided in his favor, and '
le Supreme Court affirms that decision. +