Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-06
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Deeming Said to Have Once Been a
Resident OF Los Angeles.
A PosToFFIcE RoBsER coNFEssEs.
The Anaconda Mining and Smelling Works
Receive Order to Continue Their
0perations---Etc.

Eureka, Cal, is to have free mail-de-
livery service after June !.
The Printers District Convention met
at Whatcom, WASH, last week.
The new mill at Needles has begun
work. The process il the cyanide meth
cd, and is pronounced success.
TAYLOR, one OF the Boise City (ldahot
poetoffice robbers, has confessed his guilt
and turned States evidence against his
pal, Hinton.
The two men who kidnapped Norman
st. Claire at the Harqna Hala mines In
Arizona recently have been held in 81
600 bonds each.
Chinese are being Struggled into the
country at Tia Juana The border line
to be guarded ID very long, and but few
deputies are doing the work.
Operations are being pushed on the
Dor at Santa Monica Canyon, which, 1t
il estimated, will cost 81 100000.
George Montgomery, rancher and
miner well known in Cochise county, A
T., has been murdered at his camp on
Silver creek in the Chracohua Mount
aims.
The Consolidated Wyoming has begun
suit against the Champion Mining Com
pany at Nevada City. The claim Is that
the latter has been working on vein
that belongs to the former.
The new municipal authorities at San
Jose have inaugurated vigorous policy
toward the suppression OF dives, gam
bling dens and all places suspected OF
entrapping and fleeing the unwary.
II is believed that Deeming, the Aus
traliAn murderer, was in Los Angeles
between 1885 and 1888, where he mar
ried Mrs. Mamie Catching and made
way with all her money and then disap
peared.
After issuing orders to close down half
OF the Anaconda {Mont.) mining and
smelling works another order was re
ceiyed to continue operations. The Par
rot works have closed down, affecting
$50 men.
BY decision of Judge Van Dyke at
Los Angeles nonresident goods are
not liable to attachment II such nom
resident at the time Of the issuance OF
the writ Is personally within the State
and hence is liable to personal service.
The Southern Pacific is running a line
for branch from the Palms OH the Santa
Monica road to Coldwater Canyon, and
work has commenced on the Santa Fe
extension from lugiewood to Santa Mon
lea, where trains will be running by
June /.
Dick Bender and Captain Jim, both
full blooded Washoe Indians, have left
Carson, New, for Washington for the
purpose OF interesting the President and
the Indian Commissioners in the esta b
lishment OF reservation In Carson Val
ley, or il that cannot be obtained, a home
for the aged and needy Indians.
Millions of wild geese, ducks, sand
hill cranes, curlew and snipe still remain
Mt their fine feeding grounds on the
Lower Colorado and on New river. Par
ties in from that section say that they
never saw them so plentiful as they are
this spring nor to remain 80 late before
starting for the North.
A thriving business is being done b,
smugglers who carry liquor from British
Columbia into Alaska. The liquor II
sold to the Indians in small quantities
and the white population experience NJ
inconvenience In consuming what is left
The United States is thus defrauded o.a
vast amount OF lawful revenue. Cap
tain Wallace OF the steamship City O
Topeka thinks that the only way thi
illicit traffic can be stopped is by send
ing wellequipped revenue cutter t.
Alaska.
Thomas Y. Tallman, the manager of |
local drug store at Sacramento, applied
to the State Board of Pharmacy for ,
certificate OF registration as practicinl
pharmacist, but was refused on thu
ground that he was not what he claimed
to be; that he was simply conducting
place for another person. Tallman thel
brought suit in the Superior Court for
writ Of mandate to compel the board t.
issue the desired certificate, and TIN
court has sustained the State Board o
Pharmacy in its refusal.
The steamer Thompson, which me
with a slight accident in the Skamokawi
Slough the other day, has arrived a
Portland without trouble, and was a
once put in the boneyard. She will b.
hauled on the ways and her hull re
paired, and in short time will be il
running order again. The report tina
the Sound steamers will not be brough
around, as first intended, has been con
firmed. The boats will remain tied VI
on the Sound for the present, as 1t is no
decided what to do with them.
The San Francisco Examiner publishe
an article stating that the Western MI
tual Benefit Association has collapsed
and that w. II. Riddell, who manages
its affairs, has left the city, and witt
him has gone, it is alleged, some $40, 90
OF the associations funds. 1t is sal
that the association is the outgrowth @
the Occidental Self-Endowment Associa
ton, which collapsed three years ago.
majority of the members of the Wester
company, it is said, reside in Marysville
Sacramento, Santa Rosa and Vallejo. J
M. Henderson OF Sacramento, who REP
resents a number of the members,
about to commence civil and crimins
proceedings against the managers OF til
concern.
United States Postal Inspector Sey
boldt is preparing to make trip I
Alaska, and will start from San Fran
cisco on the next regular mail steame
for Sitka, where he will remain som
time. From Sitka Sey boldt will make
trip westward along the Alaskan coas
on the little coast steamer Elsie as ia
as Ounalaska for the purpose Of select
ing suitable stations for the establish
ment of United States postofiices.
the present time Kadiak il the onl
postoffice west OF Sitka, and the man
recenty-established canneries and trao
ing posts make larger mail facilities in
perative. On the last mail steamer 4