Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-02
The New Pavilion at
Carson, New, Begun.
THE DEEP COUNTRY IN UTAH.
A Pasadenan Patents an Invention for
Propelling Street Cars by Force
of Explosion of Naphtha.
San Diego is to have silk exhibit.


An inexhaustible supply OF cement
rock has been found near Suisun, Cal.
Work has commenced on the break
water at the entrance to humboldt Bay.
The United States gunboat Pinta has
entered the dry dock at Esquimalt for
repairs.
The oil excitementin the southwestern
part of Humboldt county, Cal, still
keeps up.
The canneries in Northern British Co
lumbia are nearly all ready for the
spring catch.
The Deep country in Utah is attract
ing many prospectors. The ore is said
to be very rich.
The building of the new pavilion OF
the Ormsby county agricultural district
No. at Carson has begun.
The defendants in the Kaweah colony
case have been refused a new trial and
ordered to appear for sentence June at
Los Angeles.
The Board of Engineers have selected
five acres of land on Clark's Point for a
lighthouse to replace the one at the en-
trance to Humboldt Bay.
Pasadena man has patented an in
vention for propelling street ears by the
force of the explosion OF naphtha carried
in the caboose OF the car.
The crop outlook in Oregon and Wash
ington was never better. The grain yield
promises to be unprecedented. The late
rains have made everything lovely.
Sheepmen throughout Eastern Oregon
are busily engaged in shearing their
flocks, and the wool clip will be very
abundant and of excellent quality.
Thousands OF fruit trees are being
planted on the islands in Puget Sound,
and when they begin to bear the people
of the Sound cities will revel in cheap
fruit.
Large quantities OF hediondilla or
grease wood are sent from Yuma East
for medical purposes The shrub, which
grows abundantly there, is said to pos
sess valuable medicinal purposes.
The demand for Jamul cement has
been so great that the Directors of the
company fee warranted in erecting five
additional kilns, which will be put up
on the company's works near San Diego.
A number OF Tacoma capitalists have
formed IA company with 500, 900 capital
to manufacture al kinds of paper from
wood pulp. The incorporators are II.
Hewitt, Jr., Walter Oaks and q. S.
Brown.
No successor has been chosen to Hor-
ace Davis as President of the California
University Acting President Kellogg
and Prof. Ira Remson of John Hopkins
University are the most prominent
names mentioned.
The Comm l5sioners of Spokane coun-
ty, Wash, are likely to call special
election to issue $500, 900 of bonds, $780,
600 OF which will eXtinguish the present
debt, and the balance will 90 toward the
erection OF a court house.
The Indians in the Okanogan country
are in a state of CONSERVATION, owing to
the prevalence of la grippe among them.
One hundred or more have died. The
Indians are moving out rapidly for Idaho
and other points, carrying their posses
sions with them.
The Nevada State Board of Trade has
voted to allow half the expense of two
men from Tennessee who are anxious to
secure land in Nevada for fifty families
willing to locate in that State whose
farms have been ruined by excessive
rains in Tennessee.
Judge Mckinley at Los Angeles has
ruled that the bonds recently issued by
the Board of Directors of the Palmdale
irrigation district were illegal, the petit
TONERS for the organization of the dis
trict not yet having secured title to their
property at the time of signing the petit
ton, and therefore were not freeholders.
An illicit opium factory was seized in
San Francisco Chinatown the other day
while in full blast by w. Il. Lambert,
Deputy Revenue Collector for that dis
trict. Under the new law no Chinese
are allowed to manufacture opium.
Opium to the value OF 81 200 and some
costly cooking implements were the re-
suits OF the seizure.
The appropriation for the Nevada In
dian school at Carson is exhausted, and
the teachers were given the alternative
of working till July without salaries
and with their board bills to pay or re-
sign. The princi pal teacher, seamstress,
assistant matron and industrial teacher
passed in their designations.
The Yuma Indians have collected a
much larger amount of mesquite gum
this season than for many years past. 1t
is thought that the overflow caused the
increase in the amount of gum produced
which is valuable to the Yumas for many
purposes, not the least OF which is for
dyeing the hair a dark black.
controversy has arisen between Cal
ifornia Board of Examiners, consisting
of the Governor, Secretary OF State and
Acknowledgement and the Supreme
Court Justices and officers, owing to the
fact the sworn-to bills of the court Off
Gals have been cut down Il few cents in
every case.
The wholesale grocers at Portland, Or,
have effected arrangements with the
Western Sugar Refinery OF San Fran
cisco whereby sugar may be sold at all
Northern and Union Pacific points in east
ern Oregon and Washington and Idaho
at reduction ranging from 4 to = per
cent. per pound on the standard grade,
the reduction to be increased according
to the distance from Portland
Attorney-G General Hart of California
has rendered an opinion to the effect that
a Tax Collector has the power to levy
upon the property of banks for the pay
ment of personal property tax where the
banks have no real estate. He has also
decided that, while Board of Supervs-
ors has the right and power to order an
action instituted, the District Attorney
has the right to commence an action
without the sanction or direction of the
board.