The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-05
PACIFIC COAST.
Cocopahs Seeking Work
in California.
A RIOT BREWING AT GALLUP.
Southern Pacific Declines to Accept
the Reduced Freight Rate
of the Commission.
A RIOT BREWING AT GALLUP.

An expert in the Davis will case at
Butte, Mont, holds that the will is OF
recent manufacture.
The curing and canning OF Puget |
Sound herring is becoming an industry |
of some Importance.
A company to construct single rail
and saddle-truck railway system has |
been incorporated in Oregon.
The creditors of the big cable company
of Los Angeles are crowding it. A suit for |
a foreclosure on the second mortgage has
just been entered.
Portland is thoroughly discussing the
proposition to overcome the Columbia
river distractions by portage road
around them at The Dalles.
There is trouble threatened at the Gal
lup IN. NJ } coal mines. A proposed at
tempt to put in colored workers, it is
thought, will produce riot.
The Southern Pacific Company will
not accept the reduced freight rate fixed
by the Oregon Railway Commission, and
a test case will probably be taken into
the courts.
The Bear Valley Company has COM
county, Cal, OF building a new and ex
pensive dam. Two years time will be
required to finish the work.
Artesian water has been struck near
North Yakima, WASH, at depth Of 400
feet, and the flow increases as the bore
goes down. The large body Of arid land
in thatsection has consequently assumed
valuable Importance.
Southern California proposes 10 fur
nish the Eastern markets with winter
vegetables. There are three months in
the year when the Southern California
producer will have comparatively no
competition in the Eastern market.
An art picture was ordered from the
show window of a store at Los Angeles,
and the proprietor substituted the por-
trait of Chief Glass, who is the Anthony
Comstock of that city, and by whose or
ders the original picture was removed.
The latest news from La Plata, the
new mining town in Ogden Valley, is to
the effect that the first reports are fully
confirmed. An immense body of ore
has been discovered, which assays up
ward of 20 per cent. of galena and Al to
IS ounces of silver.
At the meeting of the Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors the District Attor-
ney presented an opinion that the avoid
ance Of possible litigation is not sutfi-
cient ground to authorize the expendi-
ture of county funds for the proposed
purchase of the Bishop hydrocyanic gas
fumigating process.
All the region neighboring to Ogden
U. T., is excited over the discovery o.
lead deposits about twenty-five miles
northeast of Ogden at the head OF Para
disc Canyon. The ore is found in enor
nous quantities, and second LeadvillC
is predicted by the sanguine finders.
Captain Pasqual and Captain Jose o
the Cocopah tribe Of Coiorado-river In
dians. with forty followers, are a
San Bernardino, CAL, for the purpose 0
getting work for the Indians, who's,
crops and homes had been destroyed b,
. the great earthquake in their country.
The discovery OF gold on Soldier creek
four miles west of Harney, Or, consist
ing of quartz and placer, bids fair to ere
ate little fever, for it is now evlden
that there is gold to be found in payin
quantities. Miners of experience sa.
the placers will pay $40 or Sl2 per da,
and expenses to the man by sluiclng.
The City Council at Victoria, B. O.
has decided to submit to the people by
laws appropriating nearly $S,0OO,0O0 70
railway subsidies. One million is to tn
Victoria and North American Railway
or Northern Pacific, and the other
connect the Canadian Pacific at Ne'
Westminster with the roads at Blaine.
3 Indian Agent Cole has completed tn
work of enrolling the Ceur d'Alene Ii
dians entitled to a share in the distribU
ton of $500 900 paid by the governmer
for the lands recently ceded. 1t is foun
that 426 Indians are entitled to shaI
. of this money, and that each will receiy
81, 100. Many of the Indians are alread
we'll to do.
), Considerable stir is being caused
Wahkiakum county, Wash, over the r.
cent demand of the government for a
additional payment of $l.25 per acre fC
patented land within the confines of ii
4 Northern Pacific land grant. The go
ernment now holds that the lands
question were double minimum land
Il and that the price should have bee
$3.50 per acre to purchasers.