The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
PACIFIC COAST.
Nevada is to Have a
Gold Boom.
DROUGHT In NEW MEXICO.
San Clemente Island Reported to Be
the Scene Of a Land-Claim
Excitement.

Sand for making glass has been found
near Spokane.
Vancouver, B. c., has population of
1855, and Victoria, h. c., 16,949.
The drought in the southern portion
of New Mexico is causing loss to stock.
The biggest run Of salmon known for
years has appeared ID the Skagit river.
The mackerel along the southern coast
of California are said to be fat, plentiful
and biting freely.
Many witnesses in the Davis will con-
test at Butte, Mont, are now testifying
to the genuineness Of the document.
Nevada is to be doomed with gold
taken from the Zirn mine at Pine Nut
Marvellous stories are told of the rich
ness Of the quartz in that camp.
The glut of potatoes in Southern Cali
fornia continues. In one section they
are being offered at cents sack in the
ground, the buyer to dig them.
The schooner Hamilton Lewis, Captain
Alexander Mclean, has been captured
by Russian gunboat while poaching off
Copper Island in Russian waters in the
Behring Sea.
Oliver Roberts, Charles Colburn and
A. S. Barney have incorporated at Car
son, New, the Mountain View, Valley
View and Mascot mines under one head,
with capital stock of 100000.
At Visalia. CAL, an attempt was made
by some unknown party to poison a
number of boarders of Mrs. McDermitt
by introducing into the material with
which the lady made ice cream croton
oil. Eleven persons were made serious
/ ly i'll. -
Bert FessIer of WashiRs<o2., IA Gs
has been appointed master of the young
mems dormitory at the Leland Stanford
(Jr.) University, and O. III. johnson of
San Francisco has been appointed chief
engineer at the Stanford University, vice
A. H. Fiske resigned.
Within the last few days every foot of
the San Joaquin river from Hampton
Vile to point above Millerton has been
covered with mining claims. 1t is be-
lieved the bed of the river is filled with
gold, and survey has been made with
view of turning the river from its
channel.
Rich iron ore has been struck in the
San Ysidro mine, few miles below En-
senada, Lower California. A letter re-
ceived at San Diego, Cal, says that a
vein was just uncovered, 1000 feet long
and so feet deep, which seems practically
to have no end to it. San Diegans are
going to inspect it.
1t has been decided by City Justice
at Stockton, Cal, that man can work
and yet be a vagrant under the new va
grancy law. The court convicted young
man, although it tappeared from the evi
dence that the defendant had worked
during all the time he was alleged to b'
dissolute person.
The California Colored Colonization
Society" proposes to bring 5000 negroe
into California this year. The Secretar,
of the society at Fresno says; "W,
have seven sections of land in Fresn
county and some in Shasta, and thes
two counties will receive the bulk of ou
people for the present"
1t is announced that the San Francisc
Produce Exchange and Call Board in
tends doing away with the present sys
tenn of buying or selling grain contract
for the year or season and will adopt I'll
Eastern method of dealing in MONTH
options only. The change will be made
it is said, as soon as the present yea
and season contracts expire.
A sequel to the sudden disappearanC
from Tacoma OF Secretary Edward A
bertson with $4,000 of Fidelity Trui
Company's money is the subsequent di
appearance of John L. Cohoon, h
brother in-law. The two families live
the same house. 1t is said that Cohoo
= has been kidnapped by detectives and
being subjected to a squeezing process.
San Clemente Island is now the seer
of land-claim excitement. The islam
is forty miles due south of San Pedr
and is twenty-nine miles long and fro
three to five wide. In the past fol
weeks fifteen claims have been settle
on by people from Los Angeles. III
island is as yet unsurveyed, so that I'll
claims are simply possessory. The islar
contains about $4,000 acres, of whiC
probably 10000 are composed of We
fine sandy loan soil. The boomers ha'
discovered good water at depth of eig
feet. Wild plum, wild cherry and noun
ain mahogany trees grow luxuriously
the island, the wild cherry being equ
in size to the large domestic ones.