Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-08
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Ground Broken for an Immense
Irrigation Ditch.
SNOW FLOWS USEFUL IN IDAHO.
Reduction In The Price Of Raisins Does
Not Increase the Sales--The
Condition Of Market.

AdN 1ttutk n III w ~. u. -. Will
erect $40, 900 building.
Work has commenced 1t Salt Lake ia
lay the mains through which natural
ga will be supplied 10 the city.
Snow plows have already been found
necessary TO keep the railroad from Mis-
SCUBA into the Cseur d'Alenes open.
A decision In the Oregon Supreme
Court, inst rendered upholds the anti
quackery act, and physicians must OBJ
tain license before they can practice.
: The belief IL general in Fresno that
that city has an organised hand oil muir
derers in its midst An effort IL being
made TO ferret them out
Q. II. Thurmond, County Superintend-
ent OF Schools at Santa Barbara, has been
held for trial on charge Of altering the
records OF the County Board OF Educa-
ton.
Excellent irui. has been. produced in
Murray, Idaho, this season. The success
has encouraged many, who will plant
orchards in those high attitudes this fall.
The Secretary Of the SeaIers' Associa-
ton OF British Columbia estimates tn At
the total seal catch OF the British Co
iumbia sealers will be about ~, 900 skins,
which, compared with the catch OF last
year. shows q falling of OF Is per cent.
According 10 recent estimates the de-
ciduous fruit crop oil Southern California
for this year will reach 10000 carloads,
valued At ~, OK, 600. and that the citrus
fruit will reach 5000 carloads, valued at
$500, 900.
This census bureau has made public
the statistics Of thc manufacturing and
mechanical industries OF Los Angeles,
which Tor 1850 are 40 follows: Number
Of industries, So: number OF establish
ments, 747; capital invested, ~, s07 ,0ss
hands employed, 1850; wages paid, 20,
474,6IS; cost OF materials used, 81, zoos,
ld2; value OF product, 1857 eo5.
Work has commenced on another big
isrigating ditch In Ada county. The
ditch starts ten miles above Boise, and
viii irrigate land on Willow creek, Dry
creek and near Middleton, on the north
side OF Boise river. The ditch will have
capacity Of 5000 miners inches, will
irrigate the 100, 900 acres OF land and
will be 90 miles long. II will cost about
f4O0, 900, and will DO built mostly by
Eastern capital.
James Campbell, the protector OF the
Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad, has
returned 10 Los Angeles from San Fran
cisco, where he had q conference with
President y. III. Ill. Clark OF the Union
racine, and an agreement was arrived at
regarding traffic arrangements. Mr..
Campbell states that be has almost com.
pieted bis arrangements, and that in a
years time Union Pacific trains will be
running into Los Angeles.
II A ~.
Growers Association At Fresno recently
y Was stated that the opinion both in
California and throughout the Eastern
markets il tina. reduction in the price OF
raisins will not increase safes. The con-
dition OF the market is good. All efforts
TO break the market have been headed
on for the present and perhaps Tor this
year. The price Of raisins will be held
up 70 tiic schedule price indefinitely.
Some interesting Indian mummies
Pendleton, Or. They were discovered
ons year ago on Long Island In the Col
umbia river, buried In mound OF sand.
One OF them Is figure OF full grown
adult, evidently OF great age. The other
10 Of young child. Both are perfectly
preserved, having hair and teeth intact.
The skull OF the younger one has been
removed, showing the covering OF the
brain. The moccasins are yet on them.
and are hardly changed.
The Delamar Mining Company Il
threatened with an apex suit that NAV
become historical In the history OF min
ing litigation in Idaho. Tim Regain.
owner OF two-fifths Of the Stoddard prop.
erty, claims that u holds the apex OF the |
Delamar Company's ore bodies. He has
recently been doing some work to prove |
HIS theory, and expects soon 10 com
iaence suit Tor an accounting. very |
large amount Of money will be involved. |
The uelamsr Company recently pur- /
chased the other three tifths.
Ground has been broken for the i'm
mense ditch 10 be constructed through
The Columbia delta by the Walla walia
and Columbia Irrigation Company, and
by March !, 1888, the proposed reclaim.
ing OF 1000 acres OF as fine land as can
be found in the Pacific Northwest will
have been made possible by securing for
that land q supply OF water more than
.uticient Tor all purposes OF agriculture.
The water will be taken from the Walla
v ala river at a point about nine miles
stoyc Walluls, and at this point the ,
work was begun. /,
The coroner's Jury In the case OF the
fireworks explosion at Los Angeles. by | I
which seven personn were killed and a |
arge number injured, gave q verdict ex.
InerasinE the man In charge OF the fire. 1
sorks. The Jury express the opinion 4
hat the mortars used for the purpose of | /
irings bombs had been tempered with. i
md that II the propsr police protection /
lad been furnished by the committees In i
'hAfge OF the celebration the accident | d
would not have happened. This verdict :
indicates the jury accepted the theory
hat boys poured gunpoxder into the 7
nor'ars betore the latter we're loaded.
A discovery made at Vancouver. b. G. I
y the legal fraternity has had rather a q
tzrtiing effect On October the act Of 1
ns Legislature setting apart the new J
'Anoouyer judicial district came into Il
orcr. IL provided that when il came Il
nto ioree the Sheriff Of the New West
Minister district should have the power b
. serve ths processes then in his hands. r,
nd that his jurisdiction should then q
ssse. IL Was expected that As soon A, 4
re new act came into force w. s. Pat a
srson, who has been acting ms Sheriff v
deputy there for four years. A.
ould be appointed Sheriff for the pes n
istrict, but no appointment was made.
nd now, by the declaration OF the act O
i work done within the confines OF the A,
sw Vancouver district since October W
7 Sheriff Armstrong Of tho old West al
mister district, which embraced Van a,
'uyer, lie illegal. The effect OF this will q
, far-reaching, and no end Of legal ID
uddle will be the inevitable result. n