Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-10-09
Dog Census to be Taken
in New York.
A FAT MANS ASSOCIATION,
oklahoma Territory Yearns for State
hcod-Missouri Corn Sells
for $40 Per Acre.

&c NSt0AttiRk tAb"tstco.
Jay Gould is said to be after the Den
yer and Rio Grande road.
Sixty-two convic,s are awaiting death
in various United States prisons.
Corn in the field is selling as high as
$40 an acre in Platte county, Mo.
The story that the Atchison has con-
troll of the RE 6rande is denied.
Oklahoma yearns to be invested with
the dienities and attributes OF Statehood.
The New England tobacco crop is big
ger and better this year than ever before.
The Methodist Michigan Conference
hss voted 10 admit women as lay dele
gates.
A census OF New York dogs will he
taken, as Mayor Grant wants every one
licensed.
A little over sI4,ooo.oJ0 OF Az per
cent. bonds remain to be extended or
redeemed.
The State National Bank at Boston
has had SIS, $50 returned to its conscl-
ence money.
Thirty sod growers from different parts
Of the country have put in bids for dec
Grating the Worlds Fair.
A Baltimore grand jury has declared
that the prevalence of gambling there is
due TO negligent city officials.
Chicago traffic officials are grumbling
because the bulk OF the wheat traffic
from Kansas and Nebraska is going to
st. Louis.
Secretary Tracy awarded the contract
for building torpedo boat No. 2 to the
Iowa Iron Works OF Dubuque, Ia, the
lowest bidder, at Sill 500.
Texas has fat mans association, the
initiation fee OF which is cent pound.
Men who weigh less than 225 pounds
are ineligible to membership.
The death OF large number OF Indians
in Oklahoma as the result of eating wa
lermeIons emphasizes the great dissimi-
larity between the red man and the
negro.
United States 2 per cent. bonds are
quoted at 99,s and British per cent.
consols at only 95. We certainly have
right to boast OF the splendid credit OF
our government.
The opening OF the Monterey and Gull
l..flroad to Tampico, Mexico, has pro-
duced wonderful activity in trade. The
exports at Tampion, 1t is predicted, will
exceed those of Vera Cruz by January.
Ii is probable that. as soon as new
system OF inspecting cattle has been
thoroughly tested, American cattle will
he allowed TO enter British ports free
| from the ten days quarantine now i'm
posed.
( Commissioner Owen OF Washington,
4 d. c., has directed that fifteen Russian
/ Hebrews, who entered the United States
at Suspension Bridge, \. Y, be returned
to Canada. They were in an utterly des-
titute condition.
The arrest OF Manuel Seona. attache
of the Spanish legation, for overdriving
horse at Cape May is likely to cause
serious trouble, as it is claimed there was
no cause OF action, and the Spanish Min
lister has taken up the case.
small oblong steel box passed through
the Chicago Cusioms-house a while ago.
1t didn't look like much of a box, but it
contained $4,000 worth OF diamonds
and rubies for an Illinois watch com
pany, and the duty was small fortune.
In the treaty with the Sac and Fox
Indians the words open to white set
/ Element" occur. These words are apt
TO cause some trouble The Indians say
/ they will insist on their stipulations and
will not permit negroes to take land in
their country.
| Cinnamon are making great efforts TO
enter the country at Richiord, VT, and
| the customs officials are on the alert.
Quite colony has been at Sutton Que
| bee, for two weeks, awaiting favorable
4 opportunity to smuggle themselves into
I the United States.
The american 1gficullurisi declares
l that the half has not been told about
the European shortage in breadstutis,
which not even a bountitul crop thi
year would have relieved The CONT
mental powers, especially Russia, have
suppressed the facts.
| The wealthiest insane ASYLUM in Amer
( lea is said TO be the Sheppard Asylum
/ in Baltimore. Ii was endowed in 1857
with s56O,OOO. Since that time the trus
tees, using the interest alone, have ex-
pended ssS0,030 in buildings and land,
and still have capital OF s60l,0
! 1t is reported that Miss Vera Ava, who
has created SO much noise in the East
over her mysterious disappearance from
Chicago and final temperance at Gin
cinnati, lived at Pomona. Cal, at one
/ time, and that her brother was the au-
/ thor OF the celebrated Murchison letter.
The proclamation of Garcia, the Mex.
lean freebooter. calling upon the people
10 assist his revolutionary project, con
eludes by charging President Diaz with
being "the arch traitor, assassin and
criminal of the nineteenth century. "
and that he has praeticed great despot-
ism aimee his election as President.
| A special TO the New York Rrenino
Posf from Washington says: New York
may get another Cabinet portfolio out oil
the present shifting OF things prepare
tory To the great campaign. ID has de-
yeloped that Platt and Hiscock have
agreed 10 join their forces 10 put Belsden
in. and il Is believed Just now that the
scheme will succeed. Belsden, IL ap-
pointed, will probably be given the War
Department.
Irving NJ. Scott Of the Union Works.
San Francisco, WIS at the Navy Depart
uent the other day, arranging matters
connected with work now being done by
HE firm for the government. lie stated
that the coast defense vessel Monterey
was 50 near completion that it would
probably he ready for the CONTRACTOR
trial in October and thus be available for
the official trial early in the winter and
undoubtedly be commissioned In thr
spring.
Governor Buchanan Of Tennessee
wired Governor Brown Of Kentucky
that he had reliable information that
Kentucky miners we're preparing 10 re