The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-25
Wages at the Carson Mint
Will Be Reduced.
IMPORTANT RAILWAY DEAL.
Los Angeles Sunday Saloon-Closing
Ordinance Does Not Decrease
Drunkenness.

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to shut down the mines at that place.
The Eastern Oregon Cooperative As
sociation, which lately embarked in busi-
ness, has increased its stock to 500, 900.
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 gives
the Southern Pacific railroad an entry
into San Bernardino.
Prof. Henderson of Olympia, Wash,
has been appointed assistant in charge
of the forestry department at the Worlds
Fair by Ezra Meeker.
The last of Pomona's orange crop has
been shipped, making a 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 a.
the mouth of the Columbia river run out
as far as necessary-four and half miles
by the end of August.
A contract has been let to the San
Francisco Bridge Company for grading
and bridging fifty miles of the Great
Northern railway from Sand Point,
Idaho, westward down the Pend d d'Oreille
river.
1t is reported at Los Angeles that some
ingenious persons are manufacturing
three coyote scalps out of one hide in
such manner as to defy detection. The
So 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 for the corresponding
week of 1890.
Word has been received from Wash |
the mint will be retained at a reduction
of 10 per cent. in wages, to be replaced !
at the old standard when the coinage of
silver dollars is resumed.
The belief that the water flowing into |
the Colorado desert is from the Gulf is
taking strong hold in the minds of many |
people, who have been watching with |
interest the phenomenon. The latest |
Orfc h0 for
idly.
1t is now believed that a house-to- |
house search for arms in the coal-mining |
districts in Kings county, Wash, where |
there are strikers, will 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 saloon-closing ordinance has
been in effect at Los Angeles the police
report that drunkenness has largely in
creased. Last month there were IO2
arrests for this cause, greater number
han in any month during the past three
years. Most of these arrests were made
IN Sunday.
Fish Commissioner James Crawford
las gone to Okanogan country to put a
ish rack across the Methow. This rack
s in the form of picket fence stretched
lcross the river to prevent the salmon
soing up. The Commissioner will make
IN approximate estimate of the number
# salmon in the river for the purpose of
leciding whether or not it will pay to
'ut in hatchery.
One of the Indians killed in Kern
county, CAL, during fight with Con-
tables posse, in which two whites and
wo Indians were killed, was Kiowa, the
hief of the band. He was a typical.
savage. The posse in search
f the Indian band killed one and cap
ured son of Kiowa. The selling of
lquor to the Indians is said to have orig
mated the trouble,