Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-26
Irish Heirs After A. T
Stewards Millions.
LAND COMMISSIONER CARTER
Surprised That Surveyor-Generals o
the Coast Are Not Rushing the
Work of State Surveys.

$40 are still needed to complete the work
by the voluntary act of the officials Q
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad all tn
trackmen on the line have been given al
increase Of wages.
G.. =. Huntington is charged with dis
obeying subpoena in New York court
and may be placed in arrest when h,
returns to that city.
Notwithstanding the Mckinley bill
the exports from the Dominion OF Can
ada for the past nine months show al
increase of over 100000.
The reported discovery of twenty
acre gold field on Sage creek in the Bac
Lands near Rapid City, S. D., is not be
lieved 10y the Black Hills miners.
Secretary Foster has fixed the maxi
mum number of seals which the Com
mercial Company will be allowed to tax,
during TIE coming season at 10000.
A Washington correspondent says tn,
President will probably give three o.
four of the nine Judges to be appointed
to the new Circuit Courts to the Demo
Gratis.
About 100 society women Of Memphis
have organized Il company, and will buiC
a free hospital for women and children
to he known as the Women's Hospital Of
Memphis.
Kansas authority says the totaI
amount OF farm mortgage indebtedness
in Kansas does not exceed $50, 000, 900
and it is being paid off at the rate of 81 ;
900, 900 month.
Owing to the action of the Legislature
in cutting down the State Worlds Fair
appropriation to $65, 900, all the Wiscon-
sin Commissioners and the Board OF
Women Managers will resign.
A disastrous split in the ranks of the
Farmers Alliance organization in Mis-
sissippi is reported. Within the last few
months the membership in that State
has shrunk from 5000 to 10 900.
After three successive failures at farm
ing the Winnebago Indians made up
their minds to abandon farming, and
Will make no further effort to raise any,
thing this year on their reservation.
The contest for the A. 4. Stewart mill
ions is being renewed. Many heirs of
! Stewart are reported to have turned up
IN Belfast Notwithstanding IliIton's dep
osltiOn that the deceased had no living
relatives.
The Chicago and Erie railroad refuses
to permit the Standard Oil Company to
| parallel its pipe from Lima, o., to Chi
cago, and the Standard has been put to
enormous expense securing right of way
Off railroad territory.
Statistics furnished by the Iowa Board
OF Health show that insanity is increas-
ing In that prohibition State at an alarm
ing rate, especially i'll the rural districts
The total number of cases increased
from |, 323 in 1889 to $40 in 1890
The census bureau has issued bnlle-
TIN on the subject of Horticulture through
out the country. California stands third
IN the list of States in the total value of
plant sales, New York and PENNSYLVANIA
alone eXcelling her in that particular.
Under the provisions of the Mckinley
tariff act all special taxes imposed upon
dealers in leaf tobacco, dealers in manu-
iactured tobacco, manufacturers of To-
bacco and peddlers are repealed. The
Ia" went INTO effect on the LIST instant.
Acting Secretary Chandler has certi-
led to the Secretary of the Treasury
that in compliance with the act of Con-
gress of August 30, 1890, $4,000 is due
to the State of Oregon, to be used in the
maintenance of an agricultural college.
AT the Agricultural Department at
Washington there has been received
collection OF animals, such as rats, liz
ards and the like, found by the agents
Oh me government sent to explore Death
Valley, Gal. 1t will be properly arranged
for exhibition.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding of the
Treasury Department has written to the
collector OF Customs at San Francisco.
requesting at the instance o. the Mica |
raguan government that w. L. Merry be !
recognized there As Consul-General of
that government.
The members Of the Italian COLONY ut |
New Orleans have quit quarreling With |
the American population, and having in |
a measure recovered from the effect |
caused by the summary action of the |
OF that city, they have begun TO
quarrel among themselves.
The architect of New York's Grant
monument will be John II. Duncan of
that city, who designed the soldiers and
sailors memorial arch in BROOKLYN. The
Grant memorial will cost $500, 900. and
me mausoleum up to the first story NAV
be finished for half the sum.
There is talk in government circles
hat Secretary Proctor seriously coutem-
dates abolishing the division headouar-
ers and have the entire army divided
nto departments, each in charge of
rlgadIer-Genersl, who will transact ali
I'll business directly with Headquarters
The two latest electrical wonders that
re assuming shape are writing by tele-
,raph and the production of phonogranhs
i a distance by means Of electricity.
he former is more advanced OF the two
'ut the latter will undoubtedly be sue,
essful, Judging from the experiments So
ar made.
rather extraordinary bill became
iw at the last session of the New Jersey
1t is called the parole law
nj provides for the release Of prisoners !
n certain conditions on sort of ticket J
leave. The singular reason is assigned
)r tins experiment that the Legislature /
anxious to save the expense of erect I
lg new State prison. \
The Senate Committee of the New t
ork Legislature in its report on the su- I
ar trust says: " 1t was plainly one of
ne chief purposes of the trust to pro
lde Tor the issue of certificates afford I
~ an opportunity for great speculation q
ovlously to the advantage of the per- r
ms managing the trust and to the dis i
vantage OF the general public. who /
ere ignorant of the secrets OF the trust >, i
Land Commissioner Carter il very
uch surprised that the Suryevor-G ION. .
ais OF the Coast States are NOT rushing Il
he work of State SURVEYS, The genera r.
md appropriated to be used for making /
lie various surveys, setting aside scbonl =
nds and sect nuizi,,., ~, l. - L.. - -