The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-01-23
PACIFIC COAST.
Indictments Dismissed
Against Mormons.
HIGHWAYMEN ROB A STAGE.
0regon's Board of Equalization Raises
the Total of Taxable Prop
erty-0ther News.

The grip has firm hold at Sacramento
and Los Angeles.
All danger of floods in Oregon from
the Willamette is now passed.
The icemen at Truckee have been
fighting hard to keep their ponds clear
of snow.
Duties collected at Victoria the past
year amounted to 81 900, 900, the highest
figure yet reached.
Frank E. Hill, young druggist, will
have to answer at San Bernardino 70 the
charge of bigamy.
The Oregon Board of Equalization has
raised the total of taxable property of
the State $50, 100000.
Anaheim is satisfied its sugar-factory
project is a success, and the factory will
be in operation next fall.
Stockton has now four Touring mills
running, they having a combined capac-
ity of 5000 barrels per day.
The position of the wrecked steamer
San Pedro in front of Victoria has been
unchanged by recent storms.
Three creameries are to be established
in Mason Valley, Lyon county, New.
The milk of 5000 cows will be used
daily.
Chinese fishermen are charged with
peddling in the streets of Sacramento
fish caught in the foul waters OF Sutter-
vile Lake.
Annie Campbell, who passed counter
felt money at Boise City has been found
guilty by jury. Her male acdDmplices
made their escape.
The certainty of the com aletiom Of the
gap in the coast road by the Southern
Pacific is causing the pulse of the land
owners to beat stronger.
w. A. Arlington of East Portland
while hunting attempted to climb over
log, and in doing so the load in the
gun was discharged and the top Of the
head of the young man was blown off.
The Sheriff of Los Angeles complains
that he is unable to reach parties who
have been indicted by the grand jury,
owing to the publicity given the proceed
iRgs. The parties in interest avoid the
serving of writs.
Highwaymen held up the stage near
the Idaho and Montana line the other
night, and collected $4,000 in iewery
and 500 in cash from the passengers.
The jewelry is the property of Chicago
wholesale house.
Indictments against nearly 100 Nor
mons in Idaho have been dismissed at
Boise City. The accused we're charged
with violating the election laws, and the
case involved the construction of the
Idaho test oath.
Michael Flynn of Virginia, Nev., has
applied for letters patent on an air ship,
which he claims he can hold stationary
in space while the earth revolves be-
meath him, thus enabling him to circum-
navigate in twenty-four hours.
Only seven of the lady bugs sent from
Australia by Mr.. Rochelle are alive. 1t
has not yet been proved that the insect
multiplies rapidly enough to be of early
service so horticulturists in the south
are advised to continue fumigation.
E. B. Campbell, we'll known in the
Sidney E. BellJacobson case at San
Francisco, has made an affidavit at
Truckee, in which he swears he was
bribed by the prosecution, and will tell
different story if a new trial is granted
Bell.
Jesus Arviso, charged with robbing
the mails last April between Bowie and
Solomonville, A. T., has been sentenced
to ten years in San Quentin, CAL Ar
viso is the last of a gang who monthly
robbed stages and the mail in Southern
Arizona.
Bishop Hoge of Bear Lake county,
Idaho, prominent in the Mormon Church,
is on trial before the United States Court
for unlawfully cutting timber on public
lands. Mr.. Hawley, his attorney, SAYS
if he is cleared at all it will be on tech
nicality.
Reliable information from the Temes-
cal tin mine, now being operated by the
San Jacinto estate, is to the effect that
there have lately been opened up large
bodies of low-grade ore. The mine is
working with full force, and is produc-
ing about two tons of metallic tin per
day.
The report of the Health Officer of
Astoria, Or, shows that forty-five deep
water vessels entered that port during
the three months ended December 81.
OF this number forty sailed under the
British flag, while only one few the
American flag.