The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-03
PACIFIC COAST.
An Immense Fire Rages
on Mount Shasta.
GRAY WOLVES In OREGON.
The United States Geological Survey
Locates Storage Reservoirs
in New Mexico

San Diego has organized a company of
naval reserves.
Thirty Mojave Indian polo players
have gone from Needles to Albuquerque,
N. NJ, to play at the fair there.
At the navy yard at Mare Island about
500 applications for work have been filed
with the labor employment bureau.
The perennial fight of the disposition
of the sewage of Los Angeles is about to
break out again with renewed fury.
The eleventh annual exposition of New
Mexico has opened at albuquerque, and
promises to excel all previous meetings.
A syndicate of Cinnamon, with ample
capital backing it, has purchased site
near Victoria for rice mill, and work
on the erection of the mill will begin at
once.
According to the Virginia City Enter
prise disease resembling diphtheria has
broken out among the horses and cattle
on ranch near Steamboat, and num-
Der of animals have died from it.
In the United States Court at Los An
geles the cases against Senator Ricardo
Trumbull, Supercargo Burt and Captain
a
continued until hereafter called"
Coal of good quality has been found
by a surveyor who is mapping out reli-
gious colony on Malcolm Island into Sec
tions. The coal is a mile west OF Rough
Bay and opposite Port Mcneil on Van
couver Island, B. G..
Advices received at Vancouver. b. O..
say that President Harrison has ap-
pointed Frank II. Pierce of New Hamp-
shire, formerly of the Cuban consular
service, as Consular Agent there, vice
Jay Ewing resigned.
At Sacramento gambling is in full
blast everywhere, and players can find
any kind of game they wish close at
hand. Every public house has from four
to five games running, many of them
keeping open day and night.
An immense fire has been raging on
the southern slope of Mount Shasta, a
few miles south of Sisson, vast amount
of wood, ties, logs and standing timber
being destroyed. Every available man
was needed to check the fire.
In the timbered districts of Clatsop and
Tillamook counties, Or, large gray wolves
are becoming more numerous, and are
rapidly destroying the elk, as they kill
the young calves IN the spring and even
the old ones when they catch them alone
The testimony in the Albertson bank
robbing case at Tacoma continues to
show that Albertson was very deliberate
in his work. r. B. Albertson, a cousin,
is charged with writing the guaranty of
immunity and knowing for whom he
worked.
On the Jemes Mountains about sew
enty miles north of Santa Fe, N. NJ,
the United States geological survey has
located five storage reservoirs, from
which water will feed the immense tracts
In the Rio Grande and Rio Perce Val
leys. By this plan fully 100000 acres
OF the greatest grain producing land in
the world are expected to be reclaimed.
The Los Angeles Times prints an inter
view with De Barth Shorb, who has lust
from Chicago, in which he
states that the management of the
Worlds Fair is rotten to the core, and
that he will take steps to have an inves-
tigation at Washington unless Davis is re-
moved as Director General on the ground
of his unfitness for the place. Mr.. Shorb
says Senator Stewart of Nevada has
promised to lead the fight in the Senate.
An idea of the profits that can be de-
rived from lemon orchard with proper
care may be gained by taking an esti-
mate from H. X. Shows six-acre grove
Of eight-year-old trees in Tustin, Orange
county, Cal. Up to the present time he
has picked about 1,200 box, which is
about two-thirds of the present years
crop. At the above estimate an acre
will yield 300 boxes of merchantable
iruit, which will bring this season an
average of $3.50 box-$750 an acre, or
"A 800 for the six acres of lemons.
The fish hatchery is to be built on Me-
how river in Okanogan county, Wash. |
ind Commissioner Crawford has gone
here to ascertain the number of salmon
leld in the rack recently built by him. |
He advises that the site be located with |
'eference to government township lines. |
ind the Commissioner of the general |
and Office will be asked to reserve land |
or the State. Efforts will be made to |
lave saw mill erected in order that
umber may be at hand for the erection |
II the hatchery in the sDrino Sattlars