Idaho semi-weekly world., 1891-11-06
A Huge Block Of Pure
Asphaltum.
GOLD HILLS CINNABAR VEIN
Heavy Business Done Along the Kio
Grande in Smuggling in
Horses and Cattle.

Organs State funds are all exhausted.
The last legislative levy has proved IN
sufficient.
!. r. Hayne of Portland has been |
elected Grand Chancellor OF the Knights
OF Pythias OF Oregon.
A cinnabar vein, sixty feet in width,
has been discovered near Gold Hill, Or.
The ore is immensely rich.
The Chino sugar beet factory will run
until December. SO far s25 tons OF gran
uiated sugar have been turned out.
In Nevada the total tax levy through
ont the State il over s3,000,000. The
total levy on railroads is nearly $2,ooo,-
600.
II il believed the property involved in
the Davis will case at Butte, Mont, VIII
be divided among the claimants and fur-
ther litigation will be suspended.
The tailors OF Vancouver, Il. c., are on
strike because the bosses have refused
To nav extra for all pockets over four in
coats. Tho bosses want five pockets al
lowed,
The British sealers Otto and Il. Il.
Marvin. seized in Behring Sea, have been
released Mt Vancouver, y. G., by direc-
tion OF the Lord Commissioner oil the
Admiralty.
The Oregon Grand Lodge OF the
Knights OF Pythias voted that hereafter
no saloonmen shall be admitted to mem
bership in the subordinate lodges oil the
order in the State.
A Fresno physician is recommending
eucalyptus tea, made by boiling the
leaves, TO all his patients suffering from
maiarial troubles, and the discovery II
thought 10 be quite an important one.
The Goblin moth has done great in
Jury TO the Oregon apple crop. How te
force orchardists 10 spray their trees tc
check the spread OF disease is serious
question with the State Board OF Horti'
culture.
A block OF pure asphaltum, weighing
two and half tons, was recently taker
from the asphaltum mine near Santf
Barbara, Gal II il believed to be thu
largest piece of asphaitum ever mine'
In one block.
Jack the Squeezer" is again fright
euing women at Pomona, Cal. Ills mod
Of operation is to lie in wait In seclud
ed spot on reaidence street and sud
denly rush out ON a woman and squeez
her about the waist.
From observations made by Proi. IL
rael g. Russell, who was sent out 10y th
United States government and the M
tional Geographic Society to explore tl'
region about Mount st. Elias, tn
mountain il between $4,000 and iD,U
feet high.
The case OF G. w. johnson against III
Southern Pacific railroad for damage
received in the Lake Labish disaster
before the court at Salem, and is attrac
ing interest, owing TO the fact that JOIN
son WAS travelling on pass ut the tin
he was injured.
Walter Law OF the firm OF W. Il
Sloane of New York city has presentt
81 600 10 the Lick Observatory for Il
purpose OF publishing a series OF ei
larged heliogravure plates of the moe
made from the photographs taken wit
the great telescope
NJ. Il. Wisdom and J. w. Bailey
Portland have purchased the Poi
Breeze stock farm in Baker county, &
There are about fifty fine brood mar
on the place, and the celebrated stalli,
Challenger Is at the head OF the stu
The price was sl50,0o0,
Santa Barbara Is to have q bouleva
100 feet wide ON the beach in front
the city just above high-water mark al
protected from the sea by Il heavy bul
head. The sidewalks and roadway W
be paved with bitulninous rock and lin
with double rows OF trees.
The Nevada State Board OF Assessed
aud EQUALIZATION made individual rais
in Elko county TO the amount OF $50
600, besides horizontal raise of ~ /
cent. The board reduced the Cent
Pacific railroad appraisement. A ho
of indignation is the result.
A strange disease has broken c
among the horses ON the Dufour ran
near Cameron, Kern county, CAL, ans
number Of animals are afflicted. I
disease is said TO resemble diphther
but the remedies known TO be efiicacic
in that malady are without avail in th
The strike in the Gilman coal mli
in King county, Wash which was
angurated last March, has been declai
off at meeting OF the strikers.
company has announced that all n
who gave satisfaction before the str
will be taken back The agitators, ht
ever, will be barred.
Reports from the gold regions OF
Upper Yukon are very promising.
teen men reached Juneau before the
peka's departure with large quaint
of gold dust and nuggets from the ful
mines. The least any Of the party
was 5000. One nugget weighed s
aud several from 80 10 $50. The Z
excitement is increasing, and prosps
are good for big mining boom.
A smugglers' headquarters has h
discovered ON Lopez Island, small
inhabited island in Pnget Sound. A
sci recently landed fifty Cinnamon
the island. From there they were Ia
20 the United States by twos and thi
in small boats, being put ashore in
woods and guided in by white men
der cover OF darkness. From $50 To
is paid for each Chinaman successfi
landed.
The United States revenue cui
Richard Rush has left San Francisco
0unalaska. The vessel 10 ordered
TO the sealing grounds. as it Is repoi
that q number Of sealers, who were
satisfied with their small catches,
waiting 70 make descent on the rc
cries when the revenue yesselssh b
left Behring Sea. II is expected
Rush will remain in the vicinity OF
seal islands until the middle OF Dec
Der.