Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-22
Kansas Farmers Paying
Off Mortgages.
PATRIOTIC SONS OF VETERANS
Have Refused to Expunge the Word
"White" in Their Consti-
tution-Etc.

Chicago lie about 10 erect an apartment
house which will contain 707 rooms.
The Texas Trunk railroad has been
turned over to the Southern Pacific.
The Wilmington (Del.) $250,00O post
Office will probably be built of cut gran
lite.
Baltimore is to have tin-plate factory
in operation in the course of three
months.
Spreckels says he is padding his own
canoe, and has not nor will he Join the
sugar trust.
The officials of the Auburn On. "
prison have set the convicts at work
making pearl buttons.
The sanitary inspectors in Brooklyn
say that eprosy does not exist among
the Chinese residents there.
An effort to combine the various com
mercial organizations of the Kansas
Farmers Alliance has failed.
Eight hundred thousand acres of land
in Eastern Oklahoma recently ceded by
Indians will soon be open to settlement.
The relief fund for the families of
those who persisted in the Park place
disaster at New York has reached 81, 200.
II is said that there are more salmon
in the Merrimac river now than there
has been at any time during the last
forty years.
During the months of May, June and
July OF this year 81 400, 900 Kansas farm
mortgages have been paid Off This is a
very good sign.
The annual report OF the St. Paul road
shows that after paying per cent. div
idend on preferred stock there is a sur
plus Of 5000, 1853.
Petroleum, which actually flows up
unaided through the rocks, has been dis
covered at Crows Nest in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains.
A special from Washington to the New
York Epeaing Post says it is believed
that Ex-Governor Cheney will be Secre-
tary Proctor's successor.
During the past few weeks the exports
of wheat have averaged 5000, 900 bush
els weekly, an increase Of nearly three
quarters over this time last year.
In the 100000 letters that reached
the dead-letter Office last year there was
money amounting to SIS, 6l2 and checks
and notes OF the value OF 81, All ,S7l.
Andrew Senscal, Superintendent of the
Canadian Dominion printing bureau,
has been dismissed. He was implicated
IN the scandal which is being investi-
gated.
Work on the government ietties for
the deepening OF Galveston harbor I'M
der the $6,200,000 appropriation by the
last Congress is now beginning apparent
ly in earnest.
Two-thirds of the applicants for ad-
mission to West Point and Annapolis
according 10 DR.. Cheeseman of Chicago
are rejected because of the cigarette habit
and its results.
The emigration from Germany to
America during the first five months OF
the present year amounted to So, 567, or
nearly 10000 more than the largest total
during any five months OF the last five
years.
The bureau OF American Republics is
informed that the Brazilian Minister
of Finance has ordered the collection
OF all import duties in gold and has for
hidden the sale of gold at the custom
houses.
1t is a great pleasure to learn that
there are to be no expensive side shows
at the Worlds Fair. The directory has
decided that the entrance fee shall en-
title the visitor to see everything within
the Enclosure.
William f. Bear, the English statisti-
clan, writes to BradstreePs that later in
formation leads him to mark up the
European deficiency of wheat from ISL
100000 bushels (hfs first fgures) to 800
000, 900 bushels.
The Patriotic Sons of Veterans in ses-
sion at Philadelphia refused to expunge
the word white in their constitution
where 1t refers to those entitled to mem
bership. Lebanon, Pa has been chosen
as the next place OF meeting.
Ex-Assistant Cashier Lawrence of the
deiunct Keystone Bank at Philadelphia
has made canfession of the manner in
which the books of the concern were
doctored. 1t shows a system of duplic-
ity and thievery almost unparalleled.
James +. Lyon has brought suit against
Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada |
for 81 ,00o, 600 damages. The suit grows
out OF complications over mining deals
among the properties concerned being |
the Emma mine OF Utah. The Senator
charges Lyon with blackmail
Mrs. M. IL. Hotchkiss has presented
10 the Board of Trustees of the Yale |
preparatory school, of which she is the |
founder, the sum of S275, 900 in cash. OF |
this sum s75, 900 is to be expended upon
the buildings and 5000, 900 used in the
endowment fund for professorships, etc.
j. j. Coyle of New York, who served
in the British army in Egypt, saws from
information he received from three
French nuns and from priests he is sat.
Istied General Gordon is still alive and
held as prisoner, and he is determined
to find out whether the report is true or
not by entering Khartoum disguised as
, native.
A dispatch from San Francisco re-
'eived at Washington, d. c., saws that
many sailors of the United States steamer
Pensacola are deserving, because they
ear the vessel is not seaworthy and a
rip to China would be perilous The
Navy Department says that the Pensa-
ola will not so TO China, but only to
Honolulu.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
'ent personally-signed letter to the
at each county-seat through.
tut the United States, asking him for
he public good at his own expense to
make personal visit TO each postoffice
n his county and make detailed report
Upon its condition, the needs of the
service. etc.
A business building $50 feet high is
for Broadway, New York. The
ETHEL tower and Washington monument