The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-10
PACIFIC COAST.
Huge Cave Discovered
Near Shasta.
1T IS LINED WITH RICH ORE.
Southern California Citrus Exhibit
Will be Continued at Chicago
Until the Fair
1T is LINED WITH RICH ORE.

Spokane is to have medical college
The raisin crop of California will be
the finest ever produced.
The verdict on the railroad accident,
in which Mail Agent Quimby was killed
was that the road was not to blame. The
intense heat had spread the rails.
At citizens meeting at Needles it
was decided to prohibit the erection and
future maintenance in the town limits
of Chinese laundries and opium joints.
The Oregon and Washington Railway
Company failed to file statement at
Salem as required by law, and the Cow
ernor has been asked to have the law
enforced.
1t is reported at Shasta that in run
ming tunnel at Iron Mountain a man.
moth cave was discovered in the bowels
of the earth, lined with an exceedingly
rich body of ore.
Asspeeial committee for the purpose
OF drafting an ordinance for the planting
of trees and parking of streets has been
appointed in Tacoma.
Graders are at work on the eastern
end of the Lake Washington branch OF
the James street electric and.Eable line
street railway at Seattle. :.
Circuit Judge Boise at Salem has de-
cided the suit brought by the Union Pa
cific against the Oregon State Board of
Railroad Commissioners for fixing rate
for grain charges against the Board.
The Southern California ci exhibit
will be continued at Chicago until the
Worlds Fair in 1898. Many people have
already been drawn to the southern part
of that State through the influence of
The exhibit.
1t now looks as though the shipments
of oranges and lemons from Riverside
would foot up for the season very nearly
800 carloads. Already about l, ,425 car
loads have gone, and there is still quite
an amount to go forward.
New Mexico has dedicated her first
public schoolhouse. 1t is located at Las
Vegas. Prize fights are, however, ad-
vertised with the information portrayed
in glaring letters that "ladies with es-
corts will be admitted Free"
Spokane is to have a regularly organ
lied and regularly equipped medical col
lege a maternity hospital and clinical
lectures three times a week with free
prescriptions to all who wish to avail
themselves of the benefits of the treat
ment.
In the book-bribery case in Washing
ton Judge Calkins held that the mem
bers of the State Board of Education
were not executive officers within the
meaning of the law, and hence could not
be bribed in constitutional sense. An
appeal has been taken to the Supreme
Court.
Robert Evans, an experienced pros
pector, has just returned to San Diego
from the Colorado Desert. He was
nearly all around the Salton Sea, and
says that the water is about holding its
own in spite of the enormous evapora-
ton. He does not believe there is any
likelihood of the sea drying up, but that
it will be largely augmented during the
coming winter and be permanent body
of water.
A remarkable juvenile offender has
come to light in the person of Lewis
Case, a fifteen-year-old boy of Los An
geles. He confessed recently to setting
fire to the Figueroa Hotel. He now adj
mits having set fire to the Methodist
Church on Fifteenth street, a Chinese
laundry, stable, grocery store and a
fire-engine house, which he first bur-
glarized while the force were away fight
ing one of his conhagrations He says
he set fire to the church because his
Sunday-school teacher was inconsiderate
to him.
A horrible murder has been un-
earthed, committed at the eastern corner
of San Luis Obispo county, Cal. On
June last Martin Heines disappeared,
leaving no trace behind him. Within
the last few days his blanket and clothes
were found sunk in well, filled up with
stones and fragments of bones and flesh,
showing that he had been hacked to
pieces with an ak, which was found
buried in hog wallow near the shanty
of John Silvia Gularte, a pre-emptor, for
whom the man worked. A Coroner's
jury found Heines was murdered by Gu
larte. The evidence tends to show that
Gularte had killed Heines by shooting
him in the back, and that he then
chopped him up and fed the pieces to