The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-01-02
Telegraphers Strike on
the Southern Pacific.
OSTRICH FARM In ARIZONA.
Seventeen Cinnamon Landed on the
Beach Near Port Townsend
at Night-Etc.

The Southern California hotels are
pretty well filled with Eastern strangers.
The Australian grasshopper parasite
is to be permitted to roam throughout
California.
Pinos Altos, N NJ, hae been nearly
destroyed by fire. The losses will ag-
gregate 100000.
Albuquerque, N. NJ, is to have a
smelter and reduction works operated
by the new electric process.
A strike of natural gas at Lake Shore
station, twelve miles north of Salt Lake.
has caused considerable excitement.
Borax beds mile in length, half
mile in width and eight feet thick have
been discovered near Ellensburg, Wash.
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports
twenty-one failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past
week.
Operations on the Kenosha tunnel at
Virginia City have been suspended, no
ore being found where it had been indi-
Gated.
j, Tacoma merchants profess to have
discovered that the Northern Pacific has
been discriminating against their city in
favor of Portland and San Francisco.
Riverside proposes to build the Rubi-
doux Hotel, the foundation for which
was laid four years ago, and a public
meeting is to be held to further the OBJ
ject.
A. E. Mcdonald, alias Mckay, the
man who robbed the cathedral at
Los Angeles, has been held in $4,000
bail. He is an old offents7 against the
laws.
Seventeen Chinese we're landed on the
beach near Port Townsend the other
night from British Columbia. Customs
officers arrested ten of them, but the
others escaped.
The lima bean ranch of Dixie Thomp-
son in Ventura county, Cal, is said to
be the largest in the world, 400 acres
being planted to beans. The crop this
year was about 103 carloads.
The Supreme Court of Idaho has de-
cided that the State Board of Equaliza-
ton had erred in equalizing the assess
ments by classes. This practically rem
ders nugatory all acts of the board, and
much litigation will follow.
A dispatch from Paso Robles saws the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company has
ordered 500 barrels of -four sent to Santa
Margarita to be used while constructing
tunnel for the completion OF the gap
between that place and Ellwood.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce has concluded to address Congress
asking 1T to devise a uniform money
system with the gold dollar as the stand
ard or unit of value, using gold, silver
and currency for circulating medium.
Portland sea captains are waging war
on solicitors who board ships without
the permission of the masters and per-
suade sailors to leave their vessels. Sew
eral arrests have been made, and the
culprlts are being prosecuted with vigor.
Harris Bros, clothiers of Helena.
Mont, have assigned, with preferences
OF $3.50 900, including $4,000 worth of
notes due local banks and $4,000 due
dealers in New York. The liabilities are
$50, 900, and assets are thought to be the
same.
Mayor Mason of Portland has vetoed
the ordinance passed a few days ago bv
the Council granting to the Pinkertons
the right to maintain police patrol"
in Portland. The Thiel detective agency
has had the system in operation there
several weeks.
Edward Albertson, the defaulting cash
Ter of the Fidelity Trust Company of
Tacoma, has been sentented to ten years
in the penitentiary by Superior Judge
Allyn. Fred N. Chandler, Albertson's
friend and accomplice, was sentenced to
five years. This embezzlement case is
of recent occurrence and familiar to
readers.
| Authentic reports cay that Bugbee.
Alaska's deposed United States District
Judge, will refuse to vacate the office.
Bugbee claims that under a recent act OF
Congress he cannot be removed without
Impeachment. He and his friends pro-
pose to insist upon his holding the office.
and say he will not resign under any
circumstances.
An Arizona man named Frank Blake
stole 900 sheep in broad daylight from a
ranch near Las Lunas recently, and ran
them off into canyon. Later he held
his cache alone, with the aid of a Win
chester, against a dozen armed herders.
The party finally retired and left the
daring thief in possession of the sheep.
Now the officers are after him.