Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-03
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Cost Of the New Sault Ste. Marie
Canal in Canada.
SWINDLlNG ENDOWMENT CONCERNS.
The Payments Of the Sugar Bounty for the
Present Fiscal Year-I.ouiSiana
Confederate Veterans.

| Present Fiscal Year-Louisiana
Confederate Veterans.
Baron Fava says he is glad to get back
to the United States.
Mrs. Grant has decided not to publish
her memoirs Of the General.
The prospects for crop OF cotton Is
per cent. less than that Of 1912 is
promised.
| The cost OF the new Sault Ste. Marie
canal in Canada has been estimated at
| "a, 100000.
| The annual reunion OF the Army of the
Cumberland will be held at Chicamauga
on September Is.
| Capitalists are said to be arranging to
pipe oil from Portland, Ind, to Chicago
for fuel purposes.
! The Confederate Veterans Of Louisiana
will ask that the Legislature pass PEN
sion bill for them.
| A bill has been passed in the Ken
lucky House making dealers in cigarettes
pay license OF $500.
The Rio Grande and connections will
| fight the Union Pacific by reducing its
running time to the East.
The necessary equipment for six miles
of electric tramway la now on it's way
from this country to Siam.
| A change of venue to St. Charles
county, Mo-, has been granted to Hedges
peth, the noted train robber.
A Boston syndicate has purchased
eighty acres OF land near Chattanooga,
Tenn, and will mine for gold.
Comptrosr OF the Currency Lacey
will soon become President of the Bank
ers' National Bank of Chicago.
| John +. Sullivan after two weeks
theatrical engagement at Brooklyn will
go into training for his match with Cor
bett.
Two thousand PAYERS and stonecut5ers
are idle in Vermont, and the dealers cay
the lockout will last forever, unless the
cutters give in.
The census bulletin giving the statis-
tics OF dwelling houses shows that Phil
adelphia has 1877, 900 dwellings, Chicago
l47 900 and New York 81 1928.
Lieutenant Hetherington's father dis
credits the story sent out from St. Paul
that Mrs. Hetherington returned to
America under an assumed name.
1t is announced that an English syndi-
cate is after the Kentucky distilleries,
with the intention of limiting the pro-
duction and sending up the price.
Senator Cameron has introduced bill
appropriating $685. 900 for the survey OF
the proposed ship canal from Philadel-
phia to New York across New Jersey.
Archbishop Elder OF Cincinnati has
declined to allow the Elks' funeral cere-
monies in Catholic cemetery. The
Cincinnati Elks are making great stir
about it.
Omaha bankers and railroad men have
refused to subscribe money to entertain
the Peoples party National Convention
on the ground that its princi pies are in
imical to their interests.
The payments of the sugar bounty for
the present fiscal year have amounted to
$1,000, 900, and the payment is practi-
cally completed. The estimate for the
ensuing year is $10,000,O 00.
The government having made no eff
fort to remove the cattle that have been
driven into the Cherokee Strip, the cow
boys have esta blished camps, and are
preparing to remain all summer.
According to the New York State
Board of Health there has been in that
State 30, 1913 deaths within the past three
months, and that the present epidemic
OF grippe has already caused 10000
deaths.
The deal for the consolidation of four
teen cotton presses in New Orleans has
again fallen through. fire interfered
with the first option, and in the second
the contract did not receive the sigma
lures in time.
Mortimer F.. Elliott, who was defeated
by only fifty-one votes for Congress in
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania district, has
accepted the position of general solicitor
of the Standard Oil Company at salary
OF $4,000 year.
Swindling endowment" concerns in
Massachusetts seem to have strong DO
litical pulp in the Legislature. The
effort to protect certificate holders by
proper legislative regulations has 80 far
resulted in failure.
The New York World publishes fac
SMILES of, dispatches and checks in sun.
port OF DIR. John Trumbul's charges that
Consul General McCreery speculated in
the CHILEAN markets during the reyolu.
ton, and that his profits were large.
The Court of Claims has dismissed the
petition of Elizabeth Walk, formerly
postmistress at Emporia, Kan. This is
test case, involving the right of post
masters to recover the balances OF salary
ound to be due under the reimbursement
ict.
1t is alleged that number of govern.
nent employees at Ellis Island, together
With the employees If several steamship
ines, are working in collision to defeat
he operations of the contract labor law.
md an investigation into the matter has
)een commenced, which NAV result in | +,
he dismissal OF some OF the government !
employees.
President Harrison will have wire
rom Minneapolis to the White House
Turing the national convention, and it is
bought that he will know the result in
ide OF two minutes from the time the |
domination is made. Similar convent {
noes will be offered to other nominees.
Boycotts have been placed by the =
Knights OF Labor upon the Pabst Brew a
ng Company of Milwaukee and the )
Whitley Reaper Company of Springfield.
}. The Executive Committee OF the
armers' Alliance will be asked to aid
. the boycott against the Whitley con.
ern. 4
Among the many schemes to DISPOSE :
the accumulated Texas school fund is ;,
lat of using it to open a canal from the