The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-26
EASTERN ITEMS.
Coinage for the Month
of August.
THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND.
Valentine Scrip Cannot Be Used in the
Location Of Tide Lands on
Puget Sound.

Indiana saloonkeepers are forming a
State union.
Chicago unveils her Grant monument
on October z.
The Vermont Legislature voted sic, 900
to the Worlds Fair.
Old Crow, a Cheyenne chief, is trying
to set up Messiah craze.
Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton's theatrical
venture has gone to pieces.
The North German LLOYD COMPANY
Will run line of steamers between New
York and Genoa.
The Cincinnati tax commission is nm
earthing millions of securities not placed
ON the tax duplicate.
Typhoid fever has broken out in the
State idiot asylum at Syracuse. Impure
water is the cause for it.
Only 8 per cent, or is, ,270, of the total
Immigration to this country during the
last fiscal year settled in the South.
1t is estimated that 20, 600 horse power
Will be required for the electric-lighting
plant OF the Columbian Exposition.
The Delaware fish commission has
placed 100000 shad in the Delaware
river at Bull Island during the present
year.
Additional instructions concerning the
smuggling of lottery tickets into the
United States from Mexico have been
issued.
The substitution of the cable for
horses on the Broadway and Third-ave-
nue. lines will throw 5000 horses out Of
employment
! The Navy Department will at once
issue orders concerning the survey of
the Pacific-cable route. The Thetis will
probably do the work.
Some of the roads in the Northwestern
blind passenger pool have been furnish
ing erroneous statements Of the business
to the Advisory Board.
An electrically illuminated cross is to
be placed on the spire of a Methodist
church in Minneapolis. Fifty-two in
candescent lamps will be used.
The South Dakota people are so iubi-
liant over their big crops that they have
set about the work of raising a huge
grain palace " in celebration thereof.
The land Office refuses to restore San
Clemente Island on the southwest coast
OF California to the public domain, ow-
ing to its future availability as a naval
station.
The Secretary of the Interior decides
that Valentine scrip cannot be used in
the location of lands lying between the
high and low-water mark in Puget Sound
district, Wash.
Already apprehensions are beginning
to be expressed at the possible fate Of
Peary In his Greenland explorations.
There are fears that ne and his party will
meet the fate of the Greely party.
The Boston Aduerti8er gives the partic-
uiars involving 81 100000 worth of stock
OF the big Quincy copper mine in Mich
lgan and serious allegations rejecting
upon the honesty of the managers.
The census returns for PENNSYLVANIA
show that the unfortunate city of Johns
town has increased in population since
1850 from $3.50 to p, ,805, a growth which
makes II now the thirteenth city in the
State.
Conservative estimates place the yield
OF Minnesota and the Dakotas at 1875
UOO,OOO bushels of wheat, against 80, ,OOO.-
700 last year. 1t is asserted that the
wheat crop of the three States would fill
a train 250 miles long.
Black ants threaten to take possession
OF Boston, and State street, the citadel
OF Boston's moneyed men, is literally
swarming with them. They are on the
streets, on the sidewalks and crawling
up the side of buildings.
A rumor has been published at Win
nipeg that the Grand Trunk is about to
extend its line to Winnipeg via Sault
Ste. Marie and Duluth, and that when
the former city is reached the line will
be extended to the Pacific Coast.
The coinage of the United States mints
during the month of August was: Double
eagles, 81 900, 900; eagles, $l2O,00O; half
eagles, $50, 900; standard dollars, 81 $780,
600; dimes, 1854, 900; cents, $74,2OO; 1
cent, $4,000. Total coinage, $S, ,7l8, 400.
The Tennessee Legislature has decided
that it is unable to abrogate the present
lease OF convicts. The session was called
for the purpose of breaking the lease,
and the call was necessitated by riots at
the place where convicts were employed
in the mines.