Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-07-07
PACIFIC COAST.
A Minister Convicted Of
Smuggling Opium.
CHAPMAN APPOINTED CHIEF.
The Anti-Sunday Saloon People at
Tacoma Succeed in Obtaining
Conviction
CHAPMAN APPOINTED CHIEF.

lbi piuilt III Improvements
The Northern Pacific will build coal
bunkers at Tacoma that will cost $780,
600.
Freightmen think the total potato
shipments from Southern California Will
reach $4,000 carloads.
The disalIected Indians on the Ban
ming reservation have chosen William
Williams, a fnll-blooded Indian, as chief.
A Sacramento firm has got the con
tract for the new public building at the
State Capital. 1t will be OF lone sand
stone The bid was $4,000
General Chipman's appointment to
be Chief OF the Horticultural Depart
ment at the Chicago Fair gives great
satisfaction all over Northern California.
The Worlds Fair Committee of the
San Diego County Chamber OF Com
merce has adopted definite plans for
grand exhibit Of growing citrus and de-
ciduous fruit trees Mt Chicago.
The Portland pistillery and Cattle
Feeding Company is building distillery
few miles east of Portland on the line
OF the Union Pacific. 1t will have ca
pacity of 900 bushels of grain day.
The anti-Sunday saloon people at Ia
coma have succeeded in obtaining Il con-
victon and saloons and gambling
houses will hereafter be closed on sun
days. The saloon people have appealed
the case.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ported twenty-five failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with ten for the pre-
vous week and nine for the correspond
ing week OF 1890.
-Four new wells are now being drilled
in the Newhall oil fields in Los Angeles
county, and several more will soon be
commenced The product OF the New
hall section is now 900 barrels day,
and is steadily increasing.
The Los Angeles City Council has
passed a sweeping fetrenchment ordi-
nance, abolishing several Offices and re-
ducing the salaries of many others. The
total annual saving by this ordinance is
estimated at about $4,000
An unusually large amount Of wild
oats is growing in southern Oregon this
year, owing to the late, wet spring, In
consequence the grain crop will not be
as large as nj first expected, while the
yield OF hay viii be correspondingly
heavier.
Elder Gerard, Presbyterian divine,
who was detected at Port Townsend in
smuggling opium in tlower-pOt con
tanning large geranium, has been con
vcted of the oliense by the United
States Court. The tlower-pot held
nineteen cans of prepared opium.
The banks of Los Angeles pay on an
average taxes ON about $500 worth OF
property, and the City Assessor is de
Jermined that they shall pay something
like fair proportion of the laws ex-
actions and has prepared a series OF
questions to be asked the cash ers.
The Sunset Irrigation district has
voted 81 900, 900 of bonds for the con.
struction Of canals 10y which to lead
water to lands ON the west side OF the
San joaquin river. 1t is calculated that
the canal will open up to cultivation
400 900 acres of land, which now is
nearly valueless
The Oregon Board OF Charities has
been in session during the past week.
Rev. Cline, Messrs. Cohen and Straug
have been investigating the prison, and
Rev. White, Drs. Holt and Carrie went
through the asylum, and reported YER
bally. 1t is understood that both visits
were satisfactory
Two members Of the Death Valley sci
enlist expedition report having seen the
trail of man and horse, who seemed t.
he lost. The man was evidently seeking
water, and at one point left the trail
within few hundred yards OF what he
sought There is no doubt that death
overlook the man.
The ornithologist of the Death Valley
expedition has secured some rare speci-
mems of mammals, some Of which are
almost unknown At Pigeon Spring
some fifty specimens of very rare
mouse were taken. OF this peculiar
species, but one imperfect specimen
taken, about forty years ago, is known
to exist.
1t is said at Tacoma that the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company now owns the
Seattle and Northern railway, extend
ing from Hamilton ON the Skagit river
through Sedro to Auacortes, distance
of about thrty-eight miles, the most
productive farming districts in the State
and at Hamilton the road strikes the
rich Skagit river mining district.
4 dispatch from Milton, Cal, says the
damage TO wheat and barley by the
grasshoppers has been considerable, but
SO far not of that amount to shorten the
harvest, which will be an abundant one.
There are millions OF small hoppers
coming down from their Matching
grounds, says the dispatch, but there is
a question whether they will do any fur
ther damage.
5. j. Fleming, the Methodist minister
who was sentenced at Los Angeles to
three years at hard labor for a criminal
assault, and WHO'S confined in the county
Jail awaiting the ruling on the motion
admitting him to bail pending the de
cision OF his appeal to the Supreme
Court, has become a raving maniac, /
having a succession of violent fits /
Doctors say his case is dangerous and /
that the suspense is killing him. Ii is I
generally considered that the sentence +
passed upon Fleming was severe.
Within a month California's much /
talked-of naval reserve will be estab- !
lished. At the last session of the Legis- +
lature bill was passed creating naval T
reserve, an auxiliary to the National I
Guard. 1t has been ascertained that +
Adiutant- General Allen bad received Il /
reply to letter written to the naval au- /
thorties for information concerning the I
plans for its creation. 1t has been de- /
cided to have battalion of four compa- (
MES. Each company will number about +
eighty men, so that the total strength on /
the reserve will be $40 men.