The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
PACIFIC COAST.
The Utah Legislature is
Democratic.
ALASKA AND PROHIBITION.
The Wild Man Of Arizona Delivers an
Address to His Fellow Pris-
oners at Tombstone.
ALASKA AND PROHIBITION.

Los Angeles is to have a 100000 ice
plant.
Fine native strawberries haveappeared
in the juneau (Alaska) markets.
The salmon pack in Northern British
Columbia is a failure. 1t will reach
about three-quarter pack.
The next Territorial Legislature of
Utah will be composed of % Democrats,
II Liberals and Republican.
King county, Wash, must pay the ex-
penses OF the militia that was ordered
to the mines to suppress riotous strikers
some weeks ago.
The contractors on the Tintic Range
railroad line in Utah have struck three
bodies of ore in tunneling in the mount
aims at Homansville Pass.
The saloonmen of Spokane have or
ganized a society to protect and uphold
all personal, civil and religious liberties
OF its members and to be known as the
League of Freedom.
A COW boy killed an Indian in dis
pute at the Navajo reservation in New
Mexico, and the Indians are in hot pur-
suit OF the murderer and his compan-
ions. A deadly encounter may result.
AT Silver Bow Basin, three miles from
Juneau, Alaska, the old abandoned
placer mines have again proved their
richness. Hydraulic machinery has been
placed in the old diggings and put to
work, and the first cleanup realized $780,
900.
The steam sealer Eliza Edwards has
returned to Vancouver, b. O., from Behr-
ing Sea. The captain says Gat steam
sealers are no longer an experiment in
the Behring Sea, and predicts that next
season will see a great many more of
them.
The international Company denies
that Mrs. Burton's suit has been decided
in her favor by the Mexican Supreme
Court. The court has decided her ap-
peal was taken in time, and that is all.
The valuable estate in dispute is still in
litigation.
Alaska has rebelled against the LIQUOR
prohibition adopted by the United States
for that Territory. The press and the
citizens urge that prohibition cannot be
enforced with thousands of miles of sea
coast. A stringent license law is advo-
Gated with a severe penalty for selling
liquor to Indians or minors.
The bill to be introduced in Congress
at the instance of the War Department
providing for San Diego's notifications
will cover the expense of five military
establishments at Coronado Heights,
North Island, Point Iona and Ballast
Point. The fifth, which is not located,
will be the military post proper.
News has been received from Omineca
district, B. c., of the death of two vet
eran miners of California and British
Columbia-John Robinson, a native of
Harbor Grace, N. F., and Gideon p.
of Taunton, Mass. Both went
from San Francisco in 1858, and were
characters in Cariboo and
Cassiar.
The California express was ditched
the other evening by running into a
steer at Riordan, seven miles west of
Flagstaff, A. I. The engine, mail and
smoker went down the embankment
twenty feet, causing delay OF fourteen
hours. Fireman Downes was badly
scalded and burned. All OF the passen-
gers escaped injury.
AhO VI ltdllu OOub1lEIu IldllMhN AyQIll-
pany has filed articles of Incorporation
at Portland, Or. The capital stock is
Sl0,000,000, and the objects of the COM
pany are the buying, building, establish
ing and maintaining of all ways and
means of transportation and communi-
cation, both by land and water, and the
producing and dealing in light and
power.
The California claimants under the
will of William Westerfeld, who died at
Mooney Flat, Nevada county, CAL, leav-
ng an estate of $4,000, have defeated
5he Eastern claimants in a trial lust
ended at Nevada City. The heirs are
Mrs. Mary b. Smith and Mrs. Emma
Oanuser of North San Juan, Fred Wes-
erfeld of Marysville and Charles Wes-
erfield of Oakland.
o. Homo, as the wild man of Arizona
igns himself, delivered an address to his
elbow prisoners at Tom mbstone recently. /
His discourse showed the traits of good
scholarship. He walks the corridors of
he Jail in perfectly nude condition.
lis only clothing is his skull cap. He
s great favorite with his fellow prison
RS on account of his ability. His iden-
ity is still surrounded in great mystery.