Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-26
Good Rains in Arizona Improve
the Stock Industry.
GRASS FIRES CAUSE MUCH LOSS
Editor Visits the Top Of Mount Shasta
Result Of Ant.Debris Conven-
ton at Sacramento.

at santa Cruz, and VIII aterWard sail
for Honolulu.
The hop vines in twenty-aere tract
near Sacramento were laid fiat by q
heavy south wind.
Charles Grew, OF Port Oxford, killed a
fine sea otter last week. lie was offered
and received $3.50 for the skin.
Good rains In Maricopa county, A. T.,
have improved the stock industry. A
rain famine has been threatened.
The Progresso, the first oil the Atlantic
and Pacific steamship Company'a line
from New York, has arrived al Redondo.
Cal.
The Siusaw Railroad Company sent
out engineers last week TO cross section
and set grade stakes on the first fifteen
mics OF the survey.
The seal hunters killed In the neigh
horhood Of 100 sealions at Blanco reel
dining the season, and made very
good seasons work OF 1t.
The remains OF a man, about fifty
years old, were found between Old Sau-
saiito aud Lime Point. The large toe
on the right foot had been cut off,
A considerable quantity OF Salmon
Mountain quartz wa. shipped by the
last steamer TO San Francisco for assay.
An extensive ledge has been discovered.
Considerable alarm exists at San
Diego over the smallpox cases at Chula
. Vista, rs proper measures to prevent
the spread OF the disease have not been
taken.
Benton county (Or.l househoders and
others aie In despair over the growth
and rapid spread oi the thistle. It's
purple bioss ms are 10 DO seen every
where.
Extensive grass fires near Fresno
have caused much loss to hay, grass,
fencing AMI exposed houses The lire
Will make iced scarce in that immediate
section.
The bounty upon coyote and squirrel
scalps In Polk county, Or, expired sat
ufday. During the term OF Its validity,
from February |, there was paid out in
scrip upon the county the sum OF ST.
1885,
A dog owned by w. II. lIaight, near
Tfavef, Cal, waa bitten by rattlesnake
aud the wound was bathed with coal
oil, Mr.. llaight not having any known
remedy on hand. In about two hours
the dog was out OF danger.
Recently Victoria sloop landed
dozen Chinese near Point Wilson, Wash, |
and hastily sailed away. The customs
officers captured four OF the Chinese In
the woods near Port Townsend and are
on the trail Of the others.
Tue farmers OF Crook county, Or, are
fast getting In their hay harvest, and al!
report good yield. Hay on the wild
meadows is not AZ tall as usual, but IL is
much thicker on the ground, which |
more than makes mp for its lack OF
height.
Game is seen quite plentifully, accord
Ing 10 reports. up Ashland creek canyon.
Two cinnamon bears came close to the
camp the other day while only the
ladies' aud children were there, and
panther was seen at distance by some
OF the campers.
The Sisson Mascot editor has been at
the top OF Mount Shasta lately. lie
says the government monument 10 out
OF plumb, leaning TO the southeast on
an angle OF 80 degrees. The force OF the
severe winter storms In probably the
cause oil its ting out OF perpendicular
line.
Fifteen Thousand sacks OF wheat have
been threshed at the Reservation ranch,
near Csyuse, Or, and the grain in the
surrounding district is yielding about
twenty bushels to the acre, and il
OF fine quality. Eleven acres OF the
California Golden" variety averaged
forty six bushels, Il heavy yield for this
season,
Fred W. Young and G. 4. Hinkley, Of
HMM a Ia,
q fishing, hunting and prospecting trip
10 the brand Roude lakes. They found
two promising quartz lodges, an anti.
mony lodge, and meadow OF about
sixty acres that prospects well in gold
Much OF the evidence taken at Boise
CITY has been direct against the Cmar
q Atene miners. Charles A. String,
ailss Allison, the Pinkerton spy, gave
his story, much OF which consisted OF
speculauuns upon what was To be done
by the strikers, but which were never
carried out.
The result OF the Anti Debris Ctnven
ton at Sacramento was the urgAnizA
tion OF nm association to taSe the plat-.
OF the ola Ant Dehris Asspciation, TO bt
composei OF one Supervisor each iron,
luba, Sutter, sacramento, Culusa. Glenn
anil folo caupte-, with an advisory
body o one citizen each from the same
cdunties.
When John Grouse, engineer at the
electric lighthouse In Pendleton, Or.
became thirsty the other evening and
turnet on the water, he was surprised
To see Issuing from the faucet a horse
hair SUI Ike, and 1t was followed by two
others, zach nearly a foot long. Whether