Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-11-24
Fine Lithograpic Stone
Found in Utah.
FRESNO RAIsIN SHIPMENTS.
Claus Spreckels' Son Purchases the
Entire Street Railway Sys-
tenn at San Diego.
Scarlet fever is at EIko, New.

Sunday law.
In Willard county. Utah. fine litho-
graphic stone has been found.
Los Angeles IL being flooded by green
goods circulars from New York.
The wreck OF the bark Charles Devens
at Coos Bay Ia 10 be removed at once.
Ranchcrs around Idaho Falls, Idaho,
are offering potatoes in the field at 10
cents per 100 ponnds
Raisin shipments from Fresno are now
averaging twenty carloads day. The
total shipments will reach 900 carloads.
The prospects for the completion Of a
railroad from Salt Lake TO Los Angeles
are lair according 10 report that reaches
Los Angeles.
A. Il. Spreckels. son OF Clans Spreck-
els, has purchased the entire system OF
streetcar lines at San Diego, and will
apply electricity In operating them.
George ~. Holden, q Chicago sporting
man, was robbed OF nearly 5000 be-
tween Albuquerque and Pomona. He
carried the money in small handbag.
George Clark, who 10 charged with the
killing OF Superintendent Galavotti
while the latter was taking q bar OF gold
10 Nevada City, has surrendered TO the
authorities.
Prof, Martin w. Sampson. professor OF
English in the State University oil Iowa,
has been appointed assistant professor
Of English In the Leland Stanford (Jr.)
University.
Two well-known gumblers at Portland
charge that there IL gambling trust In
that city, and that from $1,000 TO "a 900
Is collected monthly and given TO officials
10 insure the gamblers from being inter
iered with.
II Ia just announced that three East
ern parties, whose names are withheld,
have donated $50, 600 to the endowment
fund OF the Pomona College and $25 600
for building TO be erected during the
coming spring.
The United States government has sent
a gold watch and chain 10 be presented
TO Captain u. ID. Roop OF the British
bark Noreroes at Victoria, y. O., for the
rescue oil the crew OF the American ship
William McGilvray in August, 1880.
While the penitentiary commission.
ers were In session at the Santa Fe
prison, three prisoners, with wooden
revolycrs," wrapped with tin foil, held
up the guard, and two escaped in ear
riage which was In front Of the building.
From reports gathered from fruit grow.
ers in all parts OF California south Of
Fresno II IL found that the total prune
crop In that region this season has been
one-eighth OF full crop. In Pomona
Valley It has been even smaller than
that.
John Moran. section boss on the
Atlantic and Pacific ut Needlee, has b, Oh
arrested at Albuquerque, aud property
which WAS stolen IRON Pullman sleeper
on the 10th ult and belonging 10 Mrs.
McClernand OF Fort Wingatc was found
on his person.
Specimens OF ore which assays Sl4,6b
in silver, with traces OF gold lead and
arsenic, have been taken 10 San Jose by
Charles Schaeifer, who has located the
mine In the Liagas, near New Almedan,
In santa Clara county. The ledge Ia
twenty feet thick.
The uprising oil the Yaauis in Sonora
was caused by the settlement OF lands
outside their reservation, but to which
they lay claim, OF Mexican families. The
properties OF these families have been
destroyed by fire, and the Yaquis have
retreated to the mountains.
The Union Pacific has decided not 10
follow the example of the Northern Pa.
eiiic by Withdrawing one of it's trans
continental trains during the winter.
The officials of the company at Portland
say that the line IL doing big business
and can afford two trains daily.
The West Coast Fire and Marine In
surance Company at Tacoma has been
declared insolvent, and it's officers win
be eriminally indicted, the company
appearing to have been run in their
interest. The concern ran bahind si4,-
600 last year, but paid dividends every
three months.
The Santa Fe Company IL making
preparations to thoroughly develop the
business OF raising early vegetables In
Southern California for the Chicago
market. IL Is expected shortly 10 send
solid vegetable trains through on the |
same time as passenger trains, the esti- |
mate being that Chicago can consume |
and distribute 100 cars of vegetables q |
day
+. j. Livernash, the Livermore editor
who created sensation in San Fran
cisco by incorporating episode, went |
to Cloverdale Wednesday night and |
shot four times at an old man seventy
years Of age, named Etheridge. whom |
he imaged to be Judge Joaehimsen OF |
San Francisco. The wounds are flesh |
wounds. Liyernash is pronounced in
sane, and will be taken to Napa.
II Is confidently stated that the iron
moiders' strike at San Francisco, which |
has been going on over twenty months,
is soon 10 be declared of by the men. |
The terms upon which this will be
brought about are not as vet known in |
detail. The molders win make large
the principal of which is
that in the future all foundries will be
shat are called open" shops, the
union allowing its members 10 work In
shops where non-union men are emf
ployed.
The principal receivers OF quicksilver
In San Francisco have formed y combi-
nation TO control the market price for
that metal. Formerly quicksilver was
sold In open market, and competition
among the sellers caused heavy shrink
age in prices. All receipts OF the com
bination members will now be stored.
The price will he regulated by daily
quotations from England with the rs
Der cent. ad yalorem duty imposed by
he Mckinley bill added. Before the
,ool was formed quicksilver sold as low
q si0.50 per flask. Ithas now advanced
o sfs per flask, on a parity with the
English price, duty added. !,