The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-11-07
PACIFIC COAST.
A Huge Block OF Pure
Asphaltum.
GOLD HILLS CINNABAR VEIN.
Heavy Business Done Along TIE Rio
Grande in Smuggling in
Horses and Cattla
GOLD HILLS CINNABAR VEIN.

Fresno is considerably agitated over
the disposal of its mummy.
One day last week sixty tramps were
put off the train between Yuma and
Cotton.
Oregon's State funds are all Exhausted.
The last legislative levy has proved in
sufficient.
j. T. Hayne of Portland has been
elected Grand Chancellor of the Knights
of Pythias of Oregon.
A cinnabar vein, sixty feet jn width,
has been discovered near Gold Hill, Or.
The ore is immensely rich
The Chino sugar beet factory will run
until December. So far S25 tons Of gran
ulated sugar have been turned'out.
In Nevada the total tax levy through
out the State is over $3,000,000. The
total levy on railroads is nearly $1,000
600.
1t is believed the property involved in
the Davis will case at Butte, Mont, will
be divided among the claimants and fur
ther litigation will be suspended.
The tailors of Vancouver, B. C., are on
a strike because the bosses have refused
to pay extra for all pockets over four in
coats. The bosses want five pockets al
lowed.
The British sealers Otto and f. B.
Marvin, seized in Behring Sea, have been
released at Vancouver, B. O., by direc-
tion of the Lord COMMISSIONS of the
Admiralty.
The Oregon Grand Lodge 81 the
Knights of Pythias voted that hereafter
no saloonmen shall be admitted to mem
bership in the subordinate lodges OF the
order in the State.
A Fresno physician is recommending
eucalyptus tea, made by boiling the
leaves, to all his patients suffering from
malarial troubles, and the discovery is
thought to be quite an important one.
The Goblin moth has done great in
jury to the Oregon apple crop. How to
force orchardists to spray their trees to
check the spread of disease is a serious
question with the State Board of Horti-
culture.
A block of pure asphaltum, weighing
two and half tons, was recently taken
from the asphaltum mine near Santa
Bar bara, Cal. 1t is believed to be the
largest piece of asphaltum ever mined
in one block.
"Jack the Squeezer" is again fright
ening women at Pomona, Cal. His mode
of operation is to lie in wait in seclud-
ed spot on residence street and sud-
denly rush out on a woman and squeeze
her about the waist.
From observations made by Prof. Is
rael @. Russell, who was sent out by the
United States government and the Ma
tional Geographic Society to explore the
region about Mount St. Elias the
mountain is between $4,000 and $4,000
feet high.
Walter Law of the firm of w. 81.
Sloane of New York city has presented
81 900 to the Lick Observatory for the
purpose of publishing a series of en-
larged heliogravure plates of the moon
made from the photographs taken with
the great telescope.
Reports from the gold regions of the
Upper Yukon are very promising. Six
teen men reached Juneau before the To
peka's departure with large quantity
of gold dust and nuggets from the Yukon
mines. The least any of the party had
was $4,000. One nugget weighed 1896
and several from $40 to $50. The gold
excitement is increasing, and prospects
are good for big mining boom.
A smugglers' headquarters has been
discovered on Lopez Island, small un-
island in Puget Sound. A yes
sci recently landed fifty Cinnamon on
the island. From there they were taken
TO the United States by twos and threes
in small boats, being put ashore in the
woods and guided in by white men un-
der cover of darkness. From $50 to 800
is paid for each Chinaman successfully
landed.
The United States revenue cutter
Richard Rush has left San Francisco for
Ounalaska. The vessel is ordered back
to the sealing grounds, as it is reported
that number of sealers, who were not
satisfied with their small catches, are
waiting to make a descent on the rook-
cries when the revenue vessels shall have
left Behring Sea. 1t is expected the
Rush viii remain in the vicinity of the
seal islands until the middle of Decem-
Der.