Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-17
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Situation in the Cpur d'Alene
Mines Unsettled.
IDAHO AND NEVADA RIVERS HIGH.
Small.Sized Mexican Revolution Said to
be Matching In the Neighbor.
hood Of Nogales.


The Cars,n river Ia booming.
The Sacramento river Ia falling slowly.
The Boise river In Idaho lie very high.
Truckee. CAL, is working for high
school,
Los Angeles is systematically worked
by burglars.
Vegetable trains from Southern Cali.
forniA TO Chicago are projected.
Numbers Of prospectors are following
the McCook exploring party into the
Navajo country.
The situation In the Ceur d'Alene
country lie still unsettled. The mines
are closed, and thousands Of men are
idle.
II Ia stated at Nogales, A. T., that q
small sized Mexican revolution is being
Matched In that neighborhood. Horse
stealing on large scale Is said to be one
OF the Indications.
The Southern Pacific Company by the
decision OF referee will now be com
PEELED to accept the freight schedule
adopted by the Oregon Board OF Rail-
road Commissioners.
Southern Pacific surveyors are work
ing their way easterly from Copperopolis,
Gal. II IL believed that this is an effort
70 secure the Big Tree route and head
of the Salt Lake railroad.
The crop outlook In the Salt River
Valley in Arizona is good, and the prices
expected to be realized are satisfactory
to the farmers. The alfalfa crop is one
hall larger than last years.
4. .s.taJ Ia, thn.a 81, -
have etudied the matter that in three
years the production in prunes and rail-
sins In California will be enough to sup
ply America and preclude importations
altogether.
Advices from Apache county, A. T +,
gay the estimated cattle shipment this
season " II not fall short Of $4,000 head
but even this enormous sale will not be
puffic'ent to relieve the ranges unless
more rain falls this summer than has
been ususl for the past five years.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry In growing
worse mentally. physicaily her condi-
ton is improved She talks to herself,
about her appearance. She is not VIC
lent, but noisy, and il permitted liberty
in he asylum grounds at Stockton with
other patients.
Evidence IL accommodating that the Al
gadonas grant, which embraces the
choicest lands along the Colorado river
below Yuma, 10 n forgery, and the prog
pect that The land will before long be
thrown open to settlement Is causing
would be locators to prepare for the
rush.
A highbinders' war broke out at Sac
ramento the other night, and the pistol
shots sounded like rattle OF musketry.
A passing electric car was in the line oil
the bullets, and was quickly vacated by
passengers and abandoned by the con-
ductor and motor man. Two dead Chi
namen and a wounded one were found
after the battle.
The fact ia stated at Fresno that new
route for flume has been surveyed TO
the timber region on the headwaters OF
the San joaquin. The terminus OF the
new flume will be at Pollasky on the
line OF the Mountain railroad at the
rapids In the river. II 10 said extensive
mills and factories are planned for that
place, to be run by water power. The
iiume Is to be forty.five miles long.
A report from Phoenix, A. T., states
that 800 men have been put to work on
the wolfey canal, and it will be COM
pleted rs soon as possible. 1t will be ~
miles In length and the largest irri
eating canal In America, opening to cul
tivation 900 acres OF desert lands,
The water will be supplied from a dam
in the Gila river, and for miles the canal
will run In the bed OF the old Aztec ca.
nal, so much written OF.
General Manager E. Lyons OF the
Northern Terminal Company has had
funds placed at his command and been
ordered TO go ahead with n twenty-stall
roundhouse and freighthouse $40 feet
long for the Northern Pacific on the ter
minal grounds at Portland, Or. The
Bowers dredger is filling the lake for
these grounds at rapid rate, and work
on the grand union passenger station,
the finest west OF Chicago, will be re-
sumed in short time.
Since the decision in the Hale 4 Nor
cross mining suit, finding the Directors
guilty OF conspiracy and fraud, the San
Francisco Stock Association has renewed
its petition TO Congress TO have the
United States mint at Carson, New, in
vestigated. The mint officials are
charged with being in collision with the
positoTy for the stolen bullion OF the
Hale e Norcross mine. The charges
have been forwarded TO Representative
Gesry, who, it is expected, will en-
deavor to have Congress appoint an in
vestigaiing committee.
The killing 81 DIR. Sheldon Jackson is
discredited at Port Townsend. 1t 10 be
lieved that Jackson's name has been sub
stituted for Rev. Charles III. Edwards.
the missionary, who was killed some two
months ago, and the cause OF whose
death lie now being officially investigated,
The reported circumstances leading 10
the death of jackson are almost iden.
tieal with those which surrounded Ed
wards killing. 1t is also stated by par
ties from the far North that jackson
could not have been near the place where
the murder was committed at the date
mentioned.
The Oregon improvement Company IL
making a survey for new branch OF the
Columbia and Puget Sound road TO leav.
the present line at Maple Valley and ex.
tend about six miles east to a section
where valuable mineral discoveries are
reported to have been made. The land
in question 10 said to contain large de-
posits OF coal, fire clay and grindstone.
The Cedar Valley Coal Company has
been organised to work the coal veins,
which are bituminous, OF the same gen
eral character ae that in the Green river
field. and are three in ndmber, ranging
from six feet thick down. The fire ella,
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