The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-17
PACIFIC COAST.
Oregon Naval Reserve
Incorporated.
WASHINGTON IRON INDUSTRY
Deadly Decides in Favor of Chinese
Merchants Wife Without a
CertiGcate-Etc
WASHINGTON IRON INDUSTRY

The pine-nut crop is short N Nevada.
The iron industry in Washington gives
great promise.
A copper-smelting furnace at San Di-
ego is being discussed.
The Oregon naval reserve has been in
corporated at Portland.
Riverside is talking of cooperative
kitchen on the Bellamy plan.
Nevada people want the Governor to
call an irrigation convention at Reno.
Ogden's street-car system has been
changed from steam motor toelectricity.
J. de Barth Shorb is to represent Los
Angeles county in the California Board
of Trade.
All the railroad washouts in New Mex
leo have been repaired, and trains are
moving regularly.
Two hundred Tucson ladies have signed
petition asking the Constitutional Con-
vention not to discriminate against wom-
ems civil rights in the constitution.
The work OF construction on the Santa
Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railroad, which
will connect Phoenix, A. T., and the Salt
River Valley with the Santa Fe system,
has begun.
The grand jury at Reno is unable to
find the slightest evidence upon which
to indict any one for the hanging of the
rutfian Ortig by vigilantes, and asks to
be discharged.
Los Angeles complains that the Chino
beet-sqgar factory has NOT made sugar
cheaper there, owing to the fact that
only three firms handle the sugar and
no one else can get it in carload lots.
Mrs Maillard, who disaf ged from
her home near San Rafael. Gal, several
weeks ago, was found at Fortuna, Cal,
where she has been living with w. HI.
Ingram, a hired man formerly employed
! by her husband.
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports
twenty-seven failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with twenty-five for the
previous week and ten for the corre-
spending week Of 1890.
The San Diego Sun says: They are
having daily showers OF rain at San Ja-
cinto, which come from the evaporation
of the Salton Lake. Their origin and
drift have been watched from the sum-
NIT of San Jacinto Peak, and there is no
! further room for doubt as to the effect
the lake is having upon the rainfall.
The Itata's officers testify that the YES
sci when she came to San Diego had no
sailors, soldiers or arms on board. The
vessel changed captains three times be-
fore leaving Chill, and four breech-load-
ers that she carried were put off at Arigo.
The arms were taken on board at San
Clemente.
A bill has been filed in equity in the
United States Court at Los Angeles
against the Southern Pacific railroad and
2l8 other defendants to quiet title and
forfeit to the government $4,000 acres
of land in Los Angeles, San Bernardinc
and Ventura counties, Cal. The land is
overlapping grants to the Atlantic and
Pacific Company of 1886 and 1871.
The Iowa Hill hydraulic miners have
asked for removal or modification Of
the injunctions which will permit them
to clean up the bedrock. The miners are
operating in gravel which is not washed
into the river. The Sacramento Super
visors will take the matter under consid
Grafton Of permitting the miners to worh
the lower gravel beds.
1t is reported on what seems to be gooC
authority that large plant for the man
| ulACJufe OF Jlu pldbe Will SOOu DS lOcaI6N
in San Francisco by wealthy manufact
urer, resident Of that city. 1t is ex
pected that 900 hands will be at worl
manufacturing tin plate before the enc
of the year. The material will come
from Australia, San Bernardino and the
Black Hills.
Archbishop Gross has called a provin
cial council of the prelates Of the Cath
olic Church to meet in Portland October
Is. The preates who will attend ar,
Bishop Junger of Washington, Bishol
Glorieux of Idaho, Bishop Brondel o
Montana and Bishop Lemens of Van
couver Island. The object is TO take ac
tion'looking to the unifcation of Catho
licity in the Northwest.
The new building Of the Concord;
Club, the leading Hebrew institution 0
San Francisco, was thrown open for in
spection the other night, and was visiteC
by fully 5000 people, who were hospita
bly, entertained in the luxurious quar-
ters. The building has heen erected an,
furnished at a cost of about $500, 900
and is beyond doubt the handsomest an,
most elegantly equipped house in Sal
Francisco.