Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-17

PACIFIC COAST.
A Jewish Rabbi Works
Foreign Masons.
CAUSE OF M0QUI TROUBLES.
The Cultivation of New Zealand Hemp
Being Advocated in South
ern California.
CAUSE OF MOQUI TROUBLES.

The Port townsend !. NJ. &. A. has
raised 1900 for their new building.
The Seattle authorities are taking steps
to fence in the Whilechapel district.
The Olympia assessment roll for this
year is So, 1854 ,662, against 81, 500, APO last
year.
The cultivation of New Zealand hemp
is being advocated in Southern Cali
fornia.
Olympia's harbor needs dredging out,
and the Board of Trade is moving to
that end.
James Bell is claimant against Los
Angeles county for the site of the new
court house.
Mayor Hazard of Los Angeles has We
toed the retrenchment ordinance recent
ly passed by the Council.
The United States Examiner of MINIS
has expressed much qualification at the
condition OF the Mint at Carson City.
The schooners Mascot and Otto have
sailed from Victoria for Behring Sea,
and their captains will run the chances
OF capture.
Portland's citizens committee of 100
has permanently organized to procure
publication in politics as far as possible
and destroy ring rule.
The Italian strikers on the Great
Northern Railroad line in Idaho have
given up their arms, and it is now be-
Iieved the trouble will be easily settled.
The ceremony attending the burial of
nineteen victims of the Samoan disaster
at Mare Island was very impressive.
The caisson carrying the remains was
buried in flowers.
A petition to the San Jose Council and
Supervisors asks for franchise to ex-
tend the Baden road through San Jose
to the line of San Benito. This is be-
lieved to be in reality the Santa Fe line.
The steam collier Willamette will take
a cargo Of supplies from San Francisco
for the German war ships Leipzig, So
phie and Alexandrine that sailed about
three weeks ago from San Francisco for
Iquique.
G. M. Bradshaw, Collector of Customs
for Puget Sound district, is charged with
borrowing money from the government.
Although he paid it all back, the otfense
will probably cost him the loss OF his
position.
TIE Tacoma wash Water Company
has puTchas d the Maplewood Springs,
which have daily capacity of l4,0O0,-
600 gallons. They are nine miles in an
air line from the city, and water will be
piped by gravity.
The Needles Eye says: Needles has a
tandem team now. A tiny burro works
in the shafts, and huge Mojave squaw
in the lead. They draw we'll together,
too-that is, they draw the attention OF
everybody in the neighborhood.
1t is stated at Los Angeles that com
panies are being formed in Arizona and
New Mexico who will ship coyote scalps
to friends in California. The County
Clerk of Los Angeles has nearly 400
scalps filed, and from ten to twenty are
received daily.
United States Surveyor Royal A. |
johnson, now at Phoenix, A. r., states |
that the real cause of the Moqu Indian
troubles is over the survey of Indian
lands recently begun to establish the
Indians on land in severalty. The tribe
is divided in favor OF the proposition.
The Masonic lodge of Portland, Or, !
has been called upon by lodges at sew |
eral points in Europe, Asia, Africa and
South America to pay debts contracted |
by Alexander Rosenpitz, a Jewish rabbi,
formerly of Portland, who represents
himself as thirty-second degree Mason
in good standing.
Four arrests have just been made for
trespass ON the Yosemite Park. They
are all sheepmen and had moved off the
ground when ordered, but they moved
back again when they thought the patrol
would not return. In this they were at
fault, and they will have to pay for their
lodging of the law.
Ex-Justice James II. Wright of Pres
colt, A. T., attempted to shoot Adiutant-
General Gill of Phoenix, against whom
Wright had secured an Indictment for
libel when Gill was editing Phoenix
paper. Bystauders prevented any shoot
ing, but so boisterous did the Judge be-
come that he was taken to jail. He was
fined $40 for carrying concealed weapons. {
Miners who have crossed the divide
between the Cascade district and the
Okanogan recently pronounce the pass
badly obstructed by snow and very diff
ticult OF passage. They made some dis
coveries, and are having assays made,
The ore is of the same character as that ,
found in Cascade and Silver creek, with
the exception that the percentage of gold ,
is higher and lead lower.
William c. Graves, one Of the Bonner j
party, visited lruckee June "A to make [
a formal demand for the money recently
found by Edward Reynolds and Amos ,
Lane. The coins are recognized by him ,
as being of the same character as those .
buried by his mother in March, 1916. I
He went TO Bonner lake and pointed :
out the spot where his mother and the !
second relief party camped on the night /
before she concealed the coins. 1t was
very close TO the spot where the money
was found. Mr.. Graves will consult the
other members Of the family as TO the 2
ldvisability Of instituting legal proceed !
ngs. l
The Supreme Court of California has q
decided that corners in commodities are |,
lgainst the public policy, and that CON |
racts for supplies TO form corner are e
lot binding. The decision was the re- I
ult OF suit of the Pacific Factory Com
,any against A. A. Adler for breach of l
ontract. Adler entered into contract t,
0 sell to the company all grain bags in s.
lis control up to a certain date. He &
roke his contract, and was sued for t
amages. He claimed that the company c.
las endeayoring 10 secure a corner in Il
rain bags so as to increase the price. d
he lower court decided in his favor, and V
be Supreme Court aftirms that decision. s