The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-12
PACIFIC COAST.
Fruit-Growing in Ari-
IONA Territory.
POPULATION OF MINIV0K.
Two Hundred Miners Arrive in One
Day at the New Mining
Camp in Utah.

Strawberries grow in Alaska, and now
is mid season for them.
Arizona hopes soon to be a rival to
California in the fruit-growing line.
1t is again reported that the Dunsmuirs
have sold the Wellington collieries to a
syndicate.
1t is reported that within the last six
months l50 young women have taken up
timber claims in the State OF Washing
ton.
The government steamer *Albatross,
which has been in the service of the
Fish Commission since July 16, is at AS
toria, and will await orders there. The
Commissioners have gone East.
A party of land swindlers have been
arrested at Portland They have been
locating parties on land on the payment
of $50 and claimed that syndicate
they represented would buy the land at
an advance.
The sheep industry in Oregon is
growing one. Oregon is now furnishing
sheep for the Black Hills country. The
other day l45 carloads left Pendeton for
Mandan, N. d., where they win be put
on the range.
Port Townsend according to official re-
turns cleared III more vessels during the
first three months of this year than New
York did. The tonnage of the ships
cleared was third more than that of
those from New York.
The run of salmon has begun in dead
earnest and large catches are reported
all over the Sound. The Myers cannery
at Mukilteo is receiving between 5000
and 6,O00 fish per day, ard aow cam
ming them as fast as received.
Seventeen cases in which the United
States brought suit against the Puget
Sound Mill Company have been decided
by the acting Secretary and the rulings
of the Commissioner in the same re-
versed. This is victory for the COM
pany.
The crew OF the bark Pisagua, which
vessel has Just reached Victoria, b. O.,
complain Of having been fed with rotten
meat, which they could not eat, and they
| had subsisted on bread for weeks. The
captain had the mate and two men in
irons, and charged them with mutiny.
The opening of the terminal road to
Long Beach and San Pedro, which will
] take place within six weeks, will be at
, tended with considerable improvements
at those places. A new hotel will be
erected either at Long Beach or on the
Rattlesnake Island terminus of the line,
which will be renamed and made a sum-
mer resort. The Southern Pacific will
also probably erect a new hotel on the
site of the structure recently burned at
Long Beach.
Nearly two years ago quite stir was
made at Mills College, Cal, about the
| loss of valuable diamond pin belonging
to Miss Maud Sparks of Reno. Servants
and pupils were suspected, and much
notoriety was given to the case in the
| papers. Miss Sparks was removed from
| the school in consequence of the sup
posed theft. Lately, when one of her old
gowns was being ripped, the pin was
found in the drapery of the garment
where it had been safely concealed al
this time.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com.
pany has advanced a claim for all odd.
numbered sections of land in the ceded
portion Of the Coeur d'Alene Indian res
ervation, which falls within the limits
of its grant. The government paid the
Indians $500,000 for these lands and
$3.50, 900 as a quit-claim for all right the
Indians claimed in the lands in Wash.
ington State. Of these latter the rail
road company got every odd-numberec
section. II is not probable that the
claim will be considered, as the terms O.
all grants say that lands in state O
reservation are excepted from the terms
of grant.
At San Francisco the Arbitration Com
mittee of the Water Front Federation
called upon Goodall, Perkins q Co. t.
arrange for settlement of the difficulty
with the striking stevedores. According
to members of the committee the firm
refused to concede the advance in wages
asked, but agreed to take the strikers
back at the old rates OF 80 cents per houl
and 40 cents overtime. This is said tC
have been acceded to by Mr.. Center o
the Pacific Mail Company also. TIL,
Stevedores' Union will meet to conside,
the proposition. The employers, how
ever, assert that they have not agreed tC
discharge the non-union men whom the,
have employed on the dock and will Civ,
the strikers employment only as ther,
may be opening for them.