Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-01
Telegraphers Strike on
the Southern Pacific.
OSTRICH FARM In ARIZONA.
Seventeen Cinnamon Landed on the
Beach Near Port Townsend
Al NIght-Etc.

AAiitOTuIhs L.
Pinos Altos, N. M, has been nearly
destroyed by fire. The losses will az
gregate 10000.
Albuquerque, N. NJ, is TO have
smelter and reduction works operated
by the new electric process.
strike OF natural gas Mt Lake Shore
station, twelve miles north Of Salt Lake,
has caused considerable excitement.
Borax beds a 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 Mt
Virginia City have been suspended no
ore being found where 1t had been indi-
Gated.
Tacoma merchants profess to have
discovered that the Northern Pacific has
bean 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 public
meeting Is TO be held TO further the OBJ
ject.
A. r. Mcdonald, alias Mckay, the
man who robbed the cathedral at
Los Angeles, has been held in $40, 600
bail. He u an old offender against the
laws.
Seventeen Chinese were landed on the
beach near Port Townsend the other
night from British Columb a. 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, 30 acres
being planted 10 beans. The crop this
year was about 103 carloads.
The Supreme Court Of Idaho has de-
cided that the State y mrd OF Equaliza-
ton had erred In equalizing the assess
ments by classes. This practically rem
ders nugatory oil acts OF the board, and
much litigation will follow.
dispatch from Paso Robes SAYS the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company has
ordered go barrels Of -four sent to Santa
Margarita 10 be used while constructing
tunnel for the completion OF the gap
between that place and EIlwood.
The Los Angeles Chamber OF Com
merce has concluded TO address Congress
asking II 70 devise 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
cuiprits are being prosecuted with vigor.
Harris Bros. clothiers OF Helena,
Mont, have assigned, with preferences
OF 1880, 900, including $4,000 worth OF
notes due local banks and $50, 900 due
dealers In New York. The liabilities are
sdO, 700, and assets are thought to be the
same.
Mayor Mason OF Portland has vetoed
the ordinance passed few days ago by
the Council granting 10 the Pinkertons
the right to maintain police patroln
In Portland. The Thiel detective agency
has had the system in operation there
several weeks.
Estimates by competent persons place
the losses to the orange growers by the
wind storm In the San Gabriel Valley
region at not less than 5000, 900, The
damage TO many Of the trees can scarcely
be estimated in dollars and cents. The
Azusa section suffered almost as much.
Edward Albertson, the defaulting cash
Ter of the Fidelity Trust Company OF /
Tacoma, has been sentenced to ten years |
In the penitentiGry by Superior Judge |
Allyn. Fred N. Chandler, Albertscn's
friend and accomplice, was sentenced TO |
Ave years This embezxlcment case Is
readers.
Authentic reports say that .Bugbee. |
Aiaska's deposed United States District |
Judge, will refuse to vaeate the office. |
Bugbee claims that under q 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 $40 sheep in broad daylight from a
ranch near Las Innas recently, and ran
them of into canyon. Later he held
his cache alone, with the aid of a Win
chester, against dozen armed herders.
The party finally retired and left the
daring thief in possession of the sheen.
Now the officers are after him.
Medicine Lodge, Idaho, was RECENTLY
the scene OF remarkable fatality. Da-
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horseback ride. Golfers horse soon be-
gan bucking, and, getting beyond con-
troll, ran with such force into the bows
horse as TO kill himself, as well as the
other animal. At the same time Collier
was thrown, and had his neck broken.
The boy escaped unhurt.
The captain OF the British ship Karoo.
now loading at Tacoma, is charged with
extreme cruelty to his seamen. They
claim that one man. who suffered with
yellow fever, was logged in his bed for
shamming by order Of the master. The
man died the day following. Another
man. who was victim TO the same dis.
ease. was put ashore without funds or
adequate clothing. The charges will be
investigated. |,
An official no less than Travelling Aud .
ltor w. ii. Moultnrop declared at Tue. !
son that he could obtain nothing to eat /
1t the restaurants at Lordsburg recently. |
War is declared there in behalf of the .
strikers and telegraphers. Three opera [
ors and an agent have gone out st that ,
place, and they have plenty of sympa-
hizers. A welcome is promised the first &
operator to appear here OF tar and feath- ,
re, burro and all the appurtenances
hereto, Vt