Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-04
Cocopahs Seeking Work
in California.
A RIOT BREWING AT GALLUP,
Southern Pacific Declines TO Accept
the Reduced Freight Rate
OF the Commission.

Sound herring IN becoming an industry
Of some importance.
A company to construct single raj
and sad'ile-truck railway system has
been incorporated in Oregon.
The creditors 81 the big cable company
OF Los Angeles are erowdlng it A suit foI
foreclosure on the second mortgage has
Just been entered.
Portland IL thoroughly discussing the
proposition 70 overcome the Columbia
river distractions by portage road
around them at The Dalles.
There il trouble threatened at the Gal.
lup N. NJ. coal mines. A proposed Mt
tempt TO put In colored workers, it ii
thought, will produce a riot.
The Southern Pacific Company will
not accept the reduced freight rate fixed
by the Oregon Railway Commission, nm,
a tent case will probably be taken into
the courts.
The Bear Valley Company has com.
meneed its work in San Bernardino
county, CAL, OF building new and ex-
pensive dam. Two years time will be
required to finish the work.
Artesian water has been struck near
North Yakima, WASH, at Il depth OF 400
feet, and the flow increases AS the bore
goes down. The large body OF arid land
In that section has consequently assumed
valuable importance.
Southern California proposes to fur
nish the Eastern markets with winter
vegetables. There are three months in
the year when the Southern California
producer will have comparatively no
competition In the Eastern market.
An art picture was ordered from the
show window Of n store at Los Angeles,
and the proprietor substituted the por-
trait OF Chief Glass, who il The Anthony
Comstock Of that city, and by whose or.
ders the original picture was removed.
The latest news from La Plata, the
new mining town In Ogden Valley, in to
the effect that the first reports are fully
confirmed. An immense body OF ore
has been discovered, which ASSAYS up
ward OF 10 per cent. Of galena and "a to
W. ounces OF silver.
All the region neighbaring TO Ogden,
u. T., Ii excited over The discovery OF
lead deposits about twenty-five miles
northeast OF Ogden ut the head OF Para
disc Canyon. The ore is found in enor-
nous quantities. and second Leadvile
Ia pred cted by the sanguine finders.
Captain Pasuual and Captain Jose of
the Cocopah trine OF Colorado river In
dams, with forty seven followers, are at
San Bernardino, Cal, for the purpose of
getting work for the Indians, whose
crops and homes had been destroyed by
the great earthquake in their country.
The discovery OF gold on Soldier creek
four miles west Of Harvey, Or, consist
ing OF quartz and placer, bids lair to ere.
ate little fever, Tor il is now evident
that there IL gold to be found in paying
quantities. Miners of experience say
the placers will pay $40 or $ls per day
and expenses to the man by sluicing.
The City Council at Victoria. b. c.,
has decided TO submit TO the people by.
laws appropriating nearly S3,0O0,0O0 for
railway subsidies. One million is 10 the
Victoria and North American Railway
or Northern Pacific, and the other TO
connect the Canadian Pacific at New
Westminster with the roads at Blaine.
Indian Agent Cole has completed the
work OF enrolling the Ceur d Alene In
dams entitled to share 10 the listrihu-
tion OF 500 900 paid by the government
for the lands recently coded. Ii il found
that 40 Indians are entitled to q share
Of this money, and that each will receive
81 100. Many OF the Indians are already
well TO do.
Considerable stir Ii being caused in
Wahkiakum county, Wash, over the re-
cent demand OF the government Tor an
additional payment OF 81 % per acre for
patented land within the confines OF the
Northern Pacific land grant. The gov.
erpment now holds that the lands in
question were double minimum lands.
and that the price should have been
$3.50 per acre 10 purchasers.
The ease OF the oregonian Railway
Company (limited) against the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company, which
has been before the courts for several
years, has been finally settled at Port.
land IN the United States Circuit Court
by the entry OF an order made by Judge
Deadly approving the report of Master In |
ChRneery Durham M to the receivers |
accounts and discharging the receiver
g, n. Scott.
The litigation over the infected Or |
ange trees imported from Tahiti and now
at San Pedro, Cal, is likely to be inter. |
esting. Alvin T. Maserve, who owns /
the shipment, has filed complaint In
the township court charging q. j Mitch
ell. Secretary OF the Board OF uorticult-
ure Commissioners, with having com
mitted the crime Of perjury in swearin,
TO the affidavit upon which the iniunc-
ton was issued.
Two men, who have followed the Col.
orado river. report that two or three
miles from the junction OF the New river
and the Colorado large sandhar has
formed clear across the latter river be-
low where II has cut through its banks
and AZ the bar is gradually GROWING
larger, unless Il is cut through. allowing
the Colorado 10 resume its old course y
permanent How will be maintained into
the Colorado Desert.
The State Park Commissioner of Min.
nesota ii, report TO Governor Merriam,
shows conclusively that the true souree
81 the Mississippi river is in the great
reservoir nine miles above Lake Itasca
making the longest surface channel nj
he Mississippi river from the Gulf al
Mexico TO the extreme limit Of this res /
.rvoir 2,5a5. p miles. The FIRST surface ,
low in this great reservoir is a tinv
,rook connecting with Whipple Lake h
floating Moss Lake, thence To Nioolle,
Upper Lake, while S20 feet west the
again appears in a eontinnons !
urface howage to Itasca Lake.