The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-12
PACIFIC COAST.
The Salton Lake Rapidly
Going Down.
RICH ALUMINIUM DISCOVERY.
Miss Fanny Davenport Purchases $50
Acres Of Land in Orange
County, California.
RICH ALUMINIUM DISCOVERY.
Portland wants a s5oo,ooo dry dock

IorJlanu wants S0UU,UUO dry Dock.
There was ice at Tucson, A. r., last
week.
Waterfront thieves at Seattle are do
ing good business.
An English syndicate is buying up all
the breweries in British Columbia
An effort is being made to revoke the
extension OF the Hoopa reservation.
Los Angeles business this year is a
decided improvement on that of 1890.
The National California Bank at San
Diego, it is thought, will soon resume
business.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express has prac-
tically abolished the Denver and Rio
Grande express department.
J. G. Ford, one of the sheep and wool
barons of Elko county, New, few days
ago sold sixty yearling bucks at $20 a
head.
At Blackfoot, Idaho, fire DESTROYED
the United States land office, Union Pa
cifc depot, Pacific express office and the
Commercial Hotel.
There is a rumor that the Southern
Pacific Company is going to prohibit
liquor selling in houses located on its
right of way through Nevada.
The Railroad Commission has decided
that the Southern Pacific railroaa did
not discriminate in favor Of Tucson, as
was charged by outside towns.
Deposits of meerschaum have been
found on the Sapello creek, twenv-five
miles north Of silver City. ~ 49, .sssssal
near the alum deposits Of the Gila river.
1t has been decided after survey to at
tempt to raise the steamship San Pedro
near Victoria. 1t is rumored that the
Captain will be held responsible for her
loss.
w. A. Daggett, the mail clerk who was
injured in the railroad accident at Port
Costa some months ago, has filed suit
at Stockton in which he asks for $50, 600
damages.
South Sea Island guano is being intro
duced in Riverside this season. This
fertilizer contains 80 per cent. of phos-
phoric acid, and is especially adapted
for orange groves.
The case of S. w. Sullivan, who was
charged with smuggling arms into San
Quentin prison, has been dismissed bv
the court at San Rafael, the prosecution
claiming there was no evidence to con-
vict.
Portland, having discovered that she
sold her bonds to pool and but for the
mbination much less than they were
worth, has rescipded its acceptance of
the bid, and there is chance for law
suit.
The recently formed Southern Cali
fornia Fruit Growers Union is receiving
much encouragement from horticultur-
lists. The main object is to make orange
growers as far as possible independent
of the middlemen.
The Yuma Sentinel SAYS: The great
taking exploration and surveying expe-
dition has arrived from the mud volca
noes. The number OF volcanoes has
been increased to 1000. We await fur
ther particulars with eagerness.
The Canadian Pacific Navigation Com
pany at Victoria, b. c., has refused to
hereafter carry any mails to the north
the government not offering to nav a
sufficient remuneration. This will much
inconvenience the people on the north
ern coast.
A party of prospectors who have been
operating about forty miles west OF AL
buquerque, N. NJ. brought into that city
sack full of samples, which on being
assayed were found TO carry aluminium
in large quantities One assay of a sack
taken from the surface shows 25 per
cent. of metal, and it is said there are
hundreds of acres just the same.
J. G. Wegler of Brookfeld, Wahkia-
kun county, has been asked TO take up
some work in connection with this
States fishing display at the Worlds
Fair. Mr.. Wegler was chairman of the
committee on fisheries in the house of
the first and second legislatures. He is
enthusiastic in all matters pertaining to
Washington's fish industry.
The San Bernardino Times TRder saws;
From gentleman who has just returned
from Salton we learn that the lake is go
ing down very rapidly, being only about
three feet in the deepest place. The lake
is divided into two parts, bar having
been formed between the two. The lake
is now about twenty-five miles long and
seven miles wide. The salt company
will commence work about December i.