Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-12


anti-tights bill passed by the Legislature
1t is reported that many nationa
banks in Kansas will surrender THEN
charters and reorganize under the State
system.
The Exposition Committee of the
Board OF Lady Managers of the World
Fair says Miss Couzins' removal was inn
perative.
Secretary Noble says that he will lay
on the Indian reservations, soon to be
opened, in counties containing 700 square
miles EACH
The President of the whisky trust does
not believe Secretary Gibson guilty of
the charge of conspiring to destroy Il
distillery at Chicago.
Major ID. p. Heath of the Engineer
Corps, U. S. A., is endeavoring to have
Llberty's torch in New York harbor
famed with the colors of the flag of the
country.
Friends OF the late General Sherman
have quietly subscribed $40 900 to fund
Tor the children, who have heretofore in
sisted on their ability to take care OF
themselves.
The corner stone of the new building
of the great Carmelite Convent in New
Orleans was laid with imposing ceremo-
MES. Archbishop Janssens conducted
the ceremonies.
The President of the Inman line is
authority for the statement that a sturdy
American line for thirty Atlantic steam
ships is to be built, to be manned by
American sailors.
The Anticipators is the name of a
new religious sect just sprung up in Pike
county Pa. They believe the world will
end before this century closes. The MEM
bership is increasing.
Now that New Hampshire has enacted
ballot-reform bill, the Senate having
passed without amendment the bill pre-
vlously adopted by the House, New Eng
and Is solid for the secret ballot.
The American Consul at Kingston. On
tario, reports that the amount of fees
collected at his office for exports was
smaller last quarter than it ever was be-
lore since he was stationed there.
There will be thirty-six new vessels in
New York harbor in 1898 to participate
IN what Secretary Tracy says will be the
grandest naval demonstration ever wit
messed in the western hemisphere.
The negro colonization of Oklahoma
seems to be going on with considerable
system and persistence. The new "city"
OF Langston is exclusively negro city.
The climate seems suited to the colored
people.
Negotiations are going on for the pur-
chase of l00, 600 acres of pine timber
land in Southeastern Arkansas bv an
English syndicate. The deal is made
through Chicago parties. The price
agreed on is So an acre.
A highly desirable site has been Sc
lected by the Kansas committee which
recently went to Chicago to secure space
for an exhibit at the Worlds Fair. The
lot decided upon is l20x17O feet, and has
frontage on two streets.
As a result of the war talk the manu-
facturers at Pittsburg who have contracts
with the government for the manufacture
OF IRON and steel, to be used in the CON
struction of naval vessels, have been or
dered to hurry along the work.
An official at Castle Garden, who in
spects immigrants, is authority for the
statement that nine-tenths of the Ital-
lans who come to this country expect to
return to their peninsuar home as soon
as they gather tidy sum here.
The Kentucky Constitutional Conyen-
tlon has finished its work after session
81 I99 days. The proposed changes will |
he voted upon next August. There are
about Il 900 words in the new Constitu- |
,lon. The old one contained L., $50 words. |
1t is stated at Minneapolis that the
lanadian Pacific railroad intends to com
llete the western extension of the 500
quite and make il the main line between
ioston, Montreal and the Pacific Coast,
making il transcontinental short line.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
ready to commence the CON
truction Of its new bridge across the
Niagara river. The bridge will cost the
ompany over $4,000 900, but it will be
ne OF the most substantial structures in
Smerica
st. Paul, Mimi, reports corner on
Jay, the result OF hay famine in Iowa,
Nebraska and Missouri. The stock in
he Northwest has been bought up at 81
. $50, and commands $l7 per ton in
.. Louis. In st. Joseph and Kansas
'lty there is howl for hay at any price.
The census officers statement of the l
creage and yield of tobacco for 1889
hows an increase over the last census of I
>, 233 acres and 10, 502, $40 pounds. Ken
lcky shows the greatest increase There r
rs been a substantial increase in North -,
arollna, Tennessee, Ohio, New York and |
'isconsin. ;
William J. Florence, a talented fisher
IAN, had five boxes of fine flies con- c
gned to him from England by mail, and
TINS line OF goods is not mailable, he .
IN only get the flies by paying a fine =
lual to the duty on them and they are !
lied for 500. He may prefer to content !
lmselt with flies from some theater -
age.
The Treasury Department is consider G
Z the advisability of disseminating the
Sc OF the distinctive papers upon which .
'yernment notes and securities have :
zen printed. The movement for :
lange arises from the fact that the coun- :
rielts OF the latest two-dollar silver GER :,
hcates are printed upon paper not dis !
nguishable from the genuine =
Mayor Ashley of New Bedford will di-
de the city deposits between the five
INKS in town, believing this to be the :
lsest course, rather than award the :.
me to the highest bidder, as has been u
e custom. In a short time there will :.
some interesting financial news from !,
ew Bedford. l,
Rev. j. W. Mendenhall whom a Chi
90 dispatch announced few DAYS ago n
the self-confessed author of 1.-The ii
'ead Winners, " has written 10 a New a