The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-22
PACIFIC COAST.
Highbinders Blackmail
Chinese Merchants.
NEW MEXICO NEEDS TUTORS.
Explorers Find Mighty Mass Of
Moving Ice in Deep Canyon
in California.

Stingrays are numerous IN the surf at
Coronado.
Salem has not public drinking fount-
ain or public horse troughs
Bush fires have done Considerable
damage near Victoria, B. G.
The first shad ever found in Fraser
river was captured the otheS day.
The travel to California Ishis fall and
winter promises to be very heavy.
A large bed of meerschaum OF superior
quality has been found on 0rcas Island,
Wash.
The Portland postoffice is now in the
classified postal service and under the
workings of the civil-service law.
The Stockton (Cal.) brewery owned by
K. Schubert was totally DESTROYED by fire
the other night. The loss is $40, 900; in
surance, $4,000.
There are said to be about forty-fve
desperate highbinders at Los Angeles
who, gambling being prohibited, black
mail Chinese merchants.
An outbreak of Indians ia Alaska is
threatened, growing out oS the differ
ences between the natives and the man
ayers of the canneries as to the fishing
grounds and prices of salmon.
1t has been definitely ascertained that
the Southern Pacific is about TO build a
wharf at a point just north of Santa
Monica Canyon and about three and a
half miles from Santa Monica.
!. The trouble between the Oregon Pacific
Railroad Company and its employees on
account of the non-payment Of the men
is assuming a serious aspect. The amount
owing the men is about 10000
The Pacific Mail steamers from San
Francisco to Panama and Valparaiso are
| hereafter to stop at San Diego according
| to instructions from the Postmaster-Gen-
eral. So says San Diego dispatch.
The Carson (Nev.) Tribune says; The
magnified statements being telegraphed
to the Coast papers by the Carson Asso-
ciated Press correspondent about Pine
Nut will do the district more damage
than good.
The steamer Islander has returned t.
Victoria, B. O., from the North, and re.
ports the salmon pack on Mas river and
at Alert Bay total failure. The Skeens
shows up well, but the Northern pack
will only be half its usual size.
A proposition has been made that si1
Southern California counties purchase
the patent for the application of hydro
cyanic gas to trees affected by scale. The
efficacy of the remedy has been success
fully demonstrated at Riverside.
1t is stated now that nearly all of tn,
sixty-fve men who were on the ltat;
when she was brought back to San Dieg'
are political refugees from Chill, wht
were glad for chance to leave Iquique
About one-third have left the ship.
A convention will be held at Salt LAX
CITY on September Is to consider tn
reclamation of arid lands of the Yves
and to petition Congress to cede eacl
State and Territory arid land within il
borders. California is entitled to thirt
delegates.
A Yuma Indian is said to have cure'
himself of rattlesnake bite by apply
to the wound poultice made of tn
common mock orange and by drinking
decoction made from the same plant
Golondrina is the scientific name of tn
mock orange.
1t is stated at Santa Fe, N. NJ, tina
the number OF applicants LOT Ine posi-
ton of teacher in that Territory falls ia
short of the laws requirements, and
is estimated that 300 outside teacher
could find positions by addressing tn
Superintendent of Education at SAINT
Fe.
The difficulty between the Atchiso
, road and its switchmen at Albuquerqu,
N. M has not been remedied, and tn
strike continues. The company assert
that the demands by the switchmen-
that they be allowed twelve hours pa
for ten hours work, or that another ere
be put on-are unjust, and has refuse
. to counsel settlement. New men wi
fill the positions.
Full returns of the election in Uta
> show that the Liberals have twelve men
bers of the Legislature (one-third of I'll
whole), large gain over any previol
Legislature. The Liberals elect thr'
members of the Council and six of IL
I House in Salt Lake by a plurality
l,IOO. The Liberals elect the Count
! Collector, two Selectmen and Coun
Superintendent by pluralities of fro
600 to 5000.