Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-19
Mexicans Arrested for Robbing
Cinnamon.
OLD HARTFORD TO BE REFlrrED.
The Santa Fe Company Has No Intention
Of Extending Its Lines From Los
Angeles to Frisco.
Nevada's militia will camp near

pere in proportion to it's p )pulation than
any other section OF the Union.
A large number Of men have been dis
charged from the navy yard at Mare
Island, and more discharges are ex-
pected.
inspectors from Washington have
been looking through the Carson mint,
and they declare everything in excellent
condition.
The officers and men on the cruiser
Boston have raised over 81 900 to place
. monument over their dead shipmates
at the Mare Island cemetery.
Mrs. Woodworth, the doom-seaing
evangelist who created so much exclte-
ment at Oakland, CAL, last year, has
begun a series Of meetings at Salem, Or.
There is some talk at Vallejo OF refit-
ting the old Hartford, on rumor that
the Chief Of the bureau OF construction
will make recommendation to that
effect.
Reports from the southeastern part OF
Arizons Territory are to the effect that
unless rain falls In q few weeks cattle
will die by the thousands. Already
they are dropping off.
Electricians from the East are now at
Sutro, New, figuring on the cost Of put
ting up an electric plant near Sntro to
run the mill on quartz brought through
Sutro tunnel from the Comstock.
The government exploring party, in
charge OF Prof. Reed Cleveland, has
lett Tacoma for Alaska on the City Of
Topeka to measure the movement Of
Muir's glacier and to examiAe the sur
rounding tountry.
The chief OF the bureau of Yards and
docks at Mare Island Is strongly in IA
vor Of having q bridge built from Val
leio to the navy yard for the greater
facility OF travel and convenience to en-
ployes and others.
Notwithstanding the decision OF the
Superior Court at Sacramento that
Rodgers, the recently elected Chief OF
Police, is ineligible to the Office, he re-
fuses to vacate only on special order Of
the court that he must do 30.
Sydenham Mills, while on his way to
Murray, Idaho, with 70 600 worth Of
gold dust which he had cleaned up
In Fancy Gulch, was way laid and robbed
by two ghwaymen. Rewards to the
amount OF 1859 have been offered for
their arrest.
The schooner Halcyon has been seized
at Victoria, b. O., by the customs au-
thorities for an alleged infraction OF the
custom laws OF Canada. The offense
charged was that OF lying In the har Dor
on the west coast OF Vancouver Island
without entering at the customs.
In an interview President MARVEL OF
the Santa Fe At San Diego is reported to
t.n Id
ton OF extending it's lines from Los An
geles to San Francisco. don't know
why they didn't do it in the first place,
but 1t is out Of the question now"
Three Mexicans have been arrested at
Tia Juana who were making a profita-
bic business of robbing Chinese. The
Mexicans would agree 10 pilot the Mon
golians across the line, and after safe
distance from Mexican authority they
were stood up and robbed OF every cent
they had.
The killing Of Police Officer William
+. Jordan at Butte, Mont, by burglars
has aroused the people. Frequent hold
ups, burglaries and robberies have
tended to intensity the feeling, and a
vigilance committee will probably be or
ganized. Over 100 men are engaged in
the search for the numbering burglars.
The Phoenix (Ariz. Chamber OF Com.
merce has published u pamphlet of about
fifty pages on the resources OF the Salt
River Valley. The illustrations of farm,
field and town life are many, and the
homeseeker is introduced to section of
the Territory which is very fertile, but
whose agricultural resources have not
been generally known.
For six weeks force OF men has been
engaged at San Diego in moving the
large frame hotel Punta Banda to En-
senada, Lower California, by water.
The building was successfully loaded on
huge lighter to be lowed TO its desti.
nation, but the other night the house
collapsed and fell into the ocean. II
was valued at $l4, 900, and is total loss.
The lighter drlfted out to sea.
An enormous school of fish known as
barracuda was sporting in Monterey
Bay of the bath-house wharf the other
day, when with sudden turn they
headed straight for the beach without
diminution in their speed and were soon
landed high and dry upon the shore.
Many parties who were fortunate enough
TO be in the vicinity gathered baskets OF
the squirming fish before they could re-
gain the water. The belief is that the
fish were driven ashore by school OF
whales that has been sporting about the
bay.
Owing TO the nom answering of the
labor cards sent out by the Board of La
Dor Elm ployment either in person or by
letter, to come to work or reason of not
being able to, more than fifty names
within the last few days have, in com.
pliance with the regulations, beer
stricken from the rolls OF those eligible
for employment. The names erased are
from those residing in all parts OF the
State, who doubtless are unaware OF the
law now governing employees at the navy
yard.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Portland the injunction suit brought by
the Oregon Short Line and the Utah
Northern Railway Companies against the
Northern Pacific railway was decided In
favor OF the defendant. Judge Fiel,
dissolved the injunction on the ground
that plaintiffs cannot compel defendant
TO let it's own cars stand idle and use
p aintiffs' cars at mileage rates, and tina,
in the matter of passengers there is No
obligation on the part OF either company
in the absence OF specific agreement
to honor tickets issued by the other
company.