Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-24
Wages at the Carson Mint
Will Be Reduced.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL.
Los Angeles Sunday Saloon-Closing
Ordinance Does Not Decrease
Drunkenness.

A strike at Gallup, N. M, threatens
to shut down the mines at that place.
The Eastern Oregon Co operative As
sociation, which lately embarked in bust
ness, has increased its stock to $4,000.
1t is said the crew of the Charleston
is much dissatisfied at their treatment,
and that many will desert the first OPP
portunity.
An important railroad deal has been
perfected at Los Angeles which lives
the Southern Pacific railroad an entry
into San Bernardino.
Prof Henderson of Olympia, Wash,
has been appointed assistant i'm charge
of the forestry department at the Worlds
Fair by Ezra Meeker.
The last OF Pomona's orange crop has
been shipped, making total since New
Years OF l27 carloads, valued at sos 900,
an increase Of $4,000 in FIVE years.
The Oakland (Cal.) Common Council
has failed to pass an ordinance licensing
the pool rooms. The measure lacked
one vote OF the necessary two thirds,
A railroad company has been organ
lied at Spokane to open line of trans
portation to the rich mines recently dis
covered near the summit OF the Cascade
Mountains.
A small red insect is said to be camp
ing on the trail OF devastating grasshop-
per in some sections of California, and
under the enemies attacks the hopper
is being worsted.
Major Handbury of the United States
engineers expects to have the jetty at
the mouth of the Columbia river run out
as far as necessary-foGr and a half miles
by the end OF August.
A contract has been let to tbs san
Francisco Bridge Company for grading
and bridging fifty miles of the Great
Northern railway from Sand Point,
Idaho, westward down the Pend d 'Oreille
river.
1t is reported at Los Angeles that some
ingenious persons are manufacturing
three coyote scalp9 out Of one hide in
such n manner as to defy detection. The
50 scalp bounty is likely to prove ex-
pensive.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports ten failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with fifteen for the previous
week and seven Tor the corresponding
week of 1890.
Word has been received from Wash
ington at Carson that the entire force at
the mint VIII be retained at 4 reduction
OF 10 per cent. in wages, to be replaced
at the old standard when the coinage of
silver dollars is resumed.
w. II. Bartlett, who is well known in
Los Angeles and was married there in
1889, has nystcriou-ly disappeared from
Tacoma, Wash. He dressed and went
to ball ON the evening OF June Is last,
and has not been seen since.
The belief that the water flowing into
the Colorado desert is from the Gulf is
taking strong hold i'm the minds of many
people, who have beeu watching with
interest the phenomenon. The latest
reports say the waters are reeeding rap
idly.
1t is now believed that house-to-
house search for arms in the coal-mining
districts in Kings county, Wash, where
there are strikers, VIII have to be en-
forced to secure the arms held by the
men. The voluntary disarmament is not
a success.
The wheat crop in Eastern Washing
ton Is in danger Of partial destruction
by gophers and squirrels. In two prin-
cipal wheat-groWing districts it is re-
ported that in the last five days 10 per
cent. OF the fields have been devastated
and the evil is daily growing worse.
During the past few months in which
the Sunday saloou-ciosing ordinance has
been in effect at Los Angeles the police
report that drunkenness has largely in
creased. Last month there were lO2
arrests for this cause, greater number
than in any month during the past three
years. Most OF these arrests were made
on Sunday.
Fish Commissioner James Crawford
has gone to Okanogn country to put
fish rack across the MethoW This rack
is in the form of picket fence stretched
across the river to prevent the salmon
going up. The Commissioner viii make
an approximate estimate of the number
of salmon in the river for the purpose OF
deciding whether or not it will pay to
put in hatchery.
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county, Cal, during Hght with Con.
stables posse. i'm which Two whites ana /
two Indians were killed. was Kiowo The
chief Of The band. He was a tyniraI
bloodthirsty savage. The Posse in search
of the Indian band killed one and ran-
tured son of kiowa. The selling If
liquor TO the Indians is said 10 have orig- /
mated the trouble.
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