Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-27
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Wonderful Strikes in Gold Mining
Up the Yukon River.
THE JURY IN THE MowHIRTER cAsE'
Scab Miners In the Occur d'Alene Want
Damages-California National
Bank Of San Diego.

The Oregon hop yield is about half a
crop.
Sacramento police are raiding the
gamblers.
Carson 10 being terrorixed by burglars
and footpads.
st. Helena has commenced work on a |
system OF sewerage.
Humboldt's County Hospital at Eu-
reka is now lighted with gas.
Extensive forest fires are reported
near Granite Pass, Or, In the mountains.
Sat Lake ID exhibiting a 1850 gold
nugget from the mines NJ Osceo!a, New. |
The Pacific Coast Fire Chiefs Associa-
ton will meet in San Francisco next
year.
More than one-third OF the freshman |
class OF the Stanford University are from
the East.
A trunk with 100 pounds OF opium has
been seized on the City oil Kingston
at Tacoma.
The wrecked whaleback Wetmore on
North Spit, near Marshheld, Or. shows
no aigns Of breaking up.
Charles q. Price, convicted at Butte,
Mont, Of murder. took poison while in
Jail, two hours alter the verdict OF guilty,
and died.
James d. Lacy, who killed Indian Pete
at Maytield last May, has been ac-
Qnitted at San jose. The Indian as
saulted Lacy's mother, and Lacy shot
him.
The non-union miners in the Ceur
d'Alenes, who were injured in the late
outbreak In Idaho, are to sue the com
paaies by which they we're employed
for damages.
The quail In Arizona have entirely de-
stroyed nine acres OF beans for William
Fair near Yuma. The birds appear by
thousands, and eat the plants entirely
off the ground.
The Roseburg and Coos Bay railroad
IL 10 be completed 10 Coquille City this
fall. The roadbed Ia now graded to that
point, and rails are laid TO within ten
miles OF that place.
A new g,001. O0U-gallon pump Mt the
Salem t0f.) water works blew up with
terrific crssh the other day while run
ming at full speed. The house was
flooded before the water could be shut
of.
The north section OF the Gold Hill
(Nev) public school building Was de
slroyed by fire Sunday night. Loss,
t2o,0O0; insured for $500. The fire is
supposed 10 have been OF incendiary
origin.
The Controller OF the Currency has
declared second dividend OF 10 per
cent. in favor OF the creditors OF the
California National Bank OF San Diego,
making in all 20 per cent. on claims
proved, amounting to SIZE, 1913.
The Reno Gazette rays: All eigns
point 10 a hard winter. Pinenuts are
more plentiful than for some years past
chipmunks are storing nuts In great
quantities and yellow-j jackets are thicker
tnan flies In some parts oil the country.
The jury in the McWhirter case at
Fresno has brought In a verdict that de-
ceased came 20 his death from Punshot
wounds inflicted by some person or
persons unknown to ue." The testi-
mony did not favor the suicide theory.
Sacramento girl. Mas Emily A.
Campbell, 10 to wed Mohammed, the
"King OF Tramps" at Ogden, and much
10 do is TO be made over the event, Mo-
hammed's marriage being one OF the
conditions on which he Is to win his
wheslbarr agreement.
Captain Worth OF the Alice Blanch-
ard, jus. arrived at Port Townsend from
Alaska, reports wonderful strikes In gold
mining up the Yukon. Miners are earn.
ing from IS to SIS day. Over 800
whites winter in that country, q thing
never before known In that region.
Three Chinese who reached Tacoma
on the steamship Phra Nang were or
dered deported by Deputy Collector
"a ..sA 80. tk..
steamer. They possessed certificates
issued at San Francisco ten years ago
which described entirely different men,
They cannot answer the questions in
diligently.
A Riverside man has just succeeded
In extracting from ten pounds OF orange
peel oil In the proportion OF fifty pounds
20 one ton OF peel. A ION OF peel will
yield oil to the value Of 1900 and the oil
sells Tor 81 pound, the profits OF such
an industry will doubtless prove satis-
factory 10 It's founder.
The United States Fish Commission
er's car No. has arrived at Pendleton,
Or. IL contains In the twenty lranspor-
tstion tanks some $500 black bass OF
fair sire obtained at Quincy, Ill.,, from
the overflow OF the Mississippi. About
200 bass were put of at Boise, and most
OF the remainder will be placed in Lib
erty. Loon and Deer Lakes. Washington.
A few will be liberated in ponds near
Dayton.
Reports from Washougals, Wash.
state that the fires still rage tiercely In
the timber belt north OF Bear Prairie,
Two women, one with children, have
made their way to Washoug gala and tell
OF the terrible danger TO settlers on tim
ber clairns. They had to leave their
homes and take the quickest way out.
Numerous cabins are scattered all
through the timber for twenty miles
back, and 1t is not known how many
settlers are on their places. Mount
Pleasant 10 all on fire, and all the people
in and around that neighborhood are
fighting to save their homes.
A daring and successful train robbery
occurred on the west bound Union Pa.
cide train recently. Just alter the train
left Sassia, n station on the Short Line
twenty-five miles west OF Caldwell.
Idaho, man in one OF the coaches ap-
preached two OF the passengers and
asked change for IS. The uneuspecting
passengers drew forth their pocketbooks
Tor the money when two confederates of
the man wanting change appeared and
enatched the pocketbooks from their
owners hands. The coach was inn
medistely in an nprosr, but the robbers
cooliy drew sixshooters and pointed
them at the excited passengers, order
ing them to sit down and remain quiet.
The robbers dropped of before the train