Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-06-16
PACIFIC COAST.
The Carson River Over
flows Its Banks.
TRIAL OF THE DAVIS CASE.
The Southern California Horticultural
Society Endorses Maxwell as
Chief of Bureau.
TRIAL OF THE DAVIS CASE

The Carson river is over its banks.
All the streams and riyulets in Nevada
are booming.
Sacramentos citizens have madea pro-
vision for series Of open-air concerts
this summer.
The San Diego Chamber Of Commerce
indorses j de Barth Shorb for Chief of
the Horticultural Bureau at the World
Fair.
Theexperimental tobacco cropo Of three
acres that was planted in Los Angeles
county this season is said TO be doing
very well.
The courts have decided that San Diego
must pay the Coronado school teachers
their salaries from October p, 1890, up
to the date of the incorporation of Coro
nado City
Owing to overproduction and high
freight rates, forty eight shingle mills
between Portland and British Columbia
have been shut down, throwing 500 men
out Of employment.
cloudburst near Boise City, Idaho,
destroyed tlume that diverted the wa
ter OF Cottonwood creek, which formerly
ran through the city, and the streets
were flooded with several feet Of water
The members OF the Newspaper Press
Association of Nevada have combined to
make the Republican and Democratic
State Committees pay the advertising
bills they incurred during the last can
vass.
Returned prospectors to llaw thome,
New, from the Breyiogle mines say des-
ert turtles are plentiful along the road.
They are exact counterparts of the salt
water turtles, and exist III the scorching
sands of the desert.
j. I. NJ. Phillips OF san Francisco will
probably be given the contract to build
the Sacramento public building. lie is
the lowest bidder for granite, while
Kreuzeberger & llaryie of Sacramento
are the lowest bidders for sandstone.
The Commissioners to the Colville
reservation have succeeded in making
an arrangement with the Indians by
which 900, 900 acres, or little more
than halt of the reservation, are Ia be
sold to the government for 81 per acre
and thrown open to settlement.
The trial Of tie Davis case at Butte,
Mont, has been postponed to June %,
on motion of continuance, on the atllda-
Wit Of Henry A. Root, who claims the
will is a forgery and wants time to take
dispositions OF witnesses az to the hand
writing OF the man who wrote 1t.
There was exhumed in mine near
Railroad Flat, Calaveras county, Cal,
last week at the depth Of nearly 1860 feet
bone OF some animal about six inches
in length. The bone was imbedded in
what is commonly called lava, and was
not petrihed, but in natural condition
and in good state Of preservation.
Aboul 800 Indians Of the Moiaye, Mar
icopa, Coeopah, Yuma and Iualapai
tribes are now assembled ON the CallfOr-
MIA banks OF the Colorado river, iudulg-
ing in their annual cry for the dead, and
up 10 date more than Il dozen horses
have been killed and eaten by these saw
age brutes, who are keeping NJ their
bowling exercises day and night
At a convention of swamp-land owners
at Sacramento the reclamation OF 560,
900 acres Of tule land in the Nolo basin
opposite Sacramento was considered. II
is proposed to cut drainage canal from
few miles above Sacramento, on the
west side OF the river, to Suisun Bay. 1t
is a revival Of the project suggested by
the State Board of Engineers under the
act of 1878.
The two rival Presidents and Boards Of
Directors OF the san Diego Land and
Town Company have fallen ont To such
an extent that q receivership has been
asked Tor by the opponents OF the KIM
ball management. The great SWeetWa-
ter dam and irrigation system, together
with the National City and 0taV railway
and thousands Of acres OF the finest land
in the country, are owned 10y this COM
peny.
The Carson 1ppeai SAYS kanchers in
CaraDv, Va How that thnKr find ! h4r,
to sell their butter here. They accord
ingly send it 70 California, where it finds
ready sale or is shipped back here,
when Nevada consumers pay extra
freight and smack their lips over Cali
fOrnia butter There are more short
sighted fools TO the acre in this State
than in any other State in the American
Union.
The Horticultural Society of Southern
California met at Los Angeles and by
vote OF % to Withdrew the indorse-
ment OF General Chapman. heretofore
given, and indorsed Maxwell as Chief of
the Bureau OF Horticulture and Nitieuit-
ure of the Worlds Fair. The Los An
geles Chamber of Commerce adopted
resolutions claiming that MaXwelPs APP
pointment would be detrimental to Cal
ifornia.
A jury at Spokane after being out
twenty-four hours could not agree, when
the Judge ordered them back into the
jury room to remain until they reached
verdict. He also instructed the bailih
not to give them anything to eat until
they had found a verdict OF guilty or not
guilty in highway-robbery case. In
ten minutes thereafter the jury returned
verdict finding the prisoner guilty as
charged.
In his testimony before the court Of
inquiry into the lynching OF Hunt by
soldiers at Walla Walla Colonel Comp
ton said: 81 have known the army for
thirty years, and the system upon which
its former workings We're based seems to
be changing. Within the last four years
new code of military ethics has been
produced. This code has had a tendency
TO separate a soldier from his officer to a
very wide degree. This new mode OF
government has produced results more
and more apparent every day. The old
unwavering loyalty of the soldier for his
officer is fast disappearing, discipline is
becoming irksome, restraint is beingcon-
sidered an affection, and proper reproof
has in some instances been deemed an
insult and aroused anger"