Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-11-17
Chinese Are Coming in
From Mexico.
A MULATTO TURNING PINK.
New York's Chief Justice Decides That
Buying Of Poker Chips is
Legal Transaction.
Chicago proposes a floating hotel.


France will buy $40, 900, 900 worth Of
our wheat.
New York Socialists have nominated
an Alderman.
Minnesota's new law provides for pri-
vate executions at night.
Detroit conductors are attempting to
enforce no-smoking order.
There is less railroad building than at
any former period for many years.
Four dramatic companies in New York
are composed Of labor-union talent.
The constitution OF the United States
has been published in Hebrew for New
Workers.
Compulsory life insurance is the order
of a New York heating company to its
employees.
Timothy Hopkins counsel says there
Is no thought OF compromise in the
Searles will case.
Many Chinese are reported crossing
from Mexico into the United States near
Brownsville, Tex.
The Transmississippi Congress at
Omaha has adjourned. and will meet in
New Orleans in February.
The United States grand jury at Sioux
Falls has found eighteen indictments
against the Louisiana Lottery Company.
The defaulting ex-paying teller Garcia
Of the Louisiana National Bank at New
Orleans has been released on bonds of
$4,000.
Total exports OF breadstutI's in Septem-
Der aggregated in value $3l ,462, 021 ),
against ~, 100 ,348 in them same month
last year.
The Southern Pacific train robbers
were run down in Texas and captured,
all but one, who killed himself after be-
ing wounded.
Forest fires in Oklahoma have COM
pletely wiped out Cimarron City, small
town. the residents escaping by jumping
into the river.
The new bounty and the necessary
regulations to enforce the law have
caused deadlock at New Orleans in the
shipment of sugar.
OF the Al $40 seal skins caught in the
Behring Sea this season 24,OJO were
taken by sixteen Nova Scotia schooners
fishing in that water.
Chancellor Snow of the Kansas Uni
versity proposes to kill the chinch bug
with deadly parasite. Experiments
have been very successful.
Census returns show that Montana has
one liquor saloon to every sixty inhabi-
tants. Kansas one % every 1913 popula-
ton, Iowa one to 465 and Maine one to
ZOE.
Camden's undertakers have combined
against those who refuse or neglect to
pay funeral expenses, and black list is
being prepared for their future guild
ance.
A gun is being constructed at the Beth
lehem (Pa.) works for the United States
ship Destroyer, which will send 400
pounds of nitro-glycerine 900 feet I'M
der water.
Eugene +. Garcia, the paying teller of
the Louisiana National Bank at New Or
leans, has been declared defaulter in
the sum OF $4,000. The banks capital
has been unimpaired.
The Boston Business Mems Executive
Association will request the Legislature
to prevent the issuing of passes to legs-
lators, executive officers and the Judi
ciary of Massachusetts.
The owners of one of the finest bust
ness corners in Chicago have decided to
erect ! ,001, 900 sixteen-story building,
to be called "The Columbus " in honor
of Americas discoverer.
The Presby terian Synod at Watertown.
N. V, adopted a resolution urging Con-
gress not to lend s5,000,0 600 for Worlds
FAR purposes, unless it was agreed that
the fair be closed Sundays.
The Blood Indians and the Canadian
police have had fight near the bound
airy. The Bloods stole the horses of the
police, and the conflict was occasioned
in the pursuit of the thieves.
Eight thousand acres of pine land in
sawyer county, Wis, were recently sold
TO the Mississippi River Logging Com
pany for 5000 900. The 5000 acres will
cut 100000, 900 feet of timber.
Judge Barrett Of New York has granted
an attachment against the property in
New York belonging to the Columbus
Borax Company of California for $20, 1925
in favor of Marcus A. Joseph.
James Budden, representing himself
to be wealthy Californian with large
account in some San Francisco bank, has
been placed in the detention hospital at
New York. He is pronounced insane.
Since the Blaine cottage ut Bar Uar-
Dor was closed few weeks ago, the flow
ers and shrubbery around it have suffered
At the hands OF relic hunters to such an
extent that there will be a big Job far
the gardener next spring.
At length it begins to look as though
elevated railroads would be an accom- |
plished fact in Philadelphia within a
reasonably near future. Three ordi- |
nances passed Councils last winter grant |
ing privileges for such roads.
There are l42,5l9 children under r |
years OF age living in the tenement |
houses of New York city. Over 100 900 |
children under school age are still in the |
period and surrounded by |
any influence for good.
The latest Washington crop estimate
alaees the wheat yield OF the United |
states this year at fifteen bushels per |
.cre, which will give total OF about |
')o,oJ0,oO0 boshels, or per cent. more
han previous estimates in the trade.
Chief Justice Ehrlich of the New York
City Court has decided that the buyinr
II chips at game of poker is a legal |
and that person buvinv
he same could not avoid payment on
he ground that it was gam bling debt
Rev. G. Z. Reilly of Marion, Ind. il
member OF the q. A. X. and also of the
National Conference Of the WESLEYAN
Convention at Grand Rapids
Che conference opposes secret orders
md he will have to quit it or the Grand |
Army.