Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-01
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Chinese Highlander Murders a Boy
in Los Angeles.
HORSE THIEVES KILLED In IDAHO
German Shoemaker Breaks Pitcher to
Pieces and Cuts His Throat With
the Fragments.

bonus LOT lcVcc improvements
Daring the year 1891 there were 2,1l0
marriages and 45S divorces In Oregon.
The City and Citizens Water Com
panies at Los Angeles have combined.
The Star group Of mines at HALEY,
Idaho, nave been sold to Salt Lake capt.
talists.
The grain warehouse OF the Pacific
Milling Company At Tucson, A. T., has
been destroyed by fire.
A mountain OF carbonate Of zinc has |
been discovered near Hillsboro, N. M,
the ore Of which 10 worth about $50 per |
ton.
Silver salmon are now very Plentiful
Mt Yaquina Bay, Or, and are being |
caught with trolling lines In great num-
bers.
Dick Horn, alias "Fox," shot Joe
Lynch In the stomach at Wellington,
New. The trouble was over game Of
cards.
The captain OF the clipper sealer Agnes
Macdonald at Victoria, b. O., has ~
sued challenge for race TO the Sand
wich Islands and back for 5000.
Professor barnard at TIE Lick Observ-
Atory has discovered by the aid Of
photography faint comet. This ID the
first discovery Of comet by this means
sontag and Evans are believed TO have
located near Watts Valley, fifteen miles
north Of Sampson Flat, where provisions
Tor the winter have been sent Into them.
The Supreme Court Of Idaho has unan-
imonsiy sustained the constitutionaiity
OF this State test oath law. This will
prevent the MorInons from voting this
year.
Mill owners In Washington andsOre-
gon, outside Of Portland, are organizing
Tor mutual benefit and protection.
They claim they are making Hour with
ont . profit.
Chung Yung, the supposed murderer
oil the spanish hoy, Fernando Quijada,
at Los Angeles, whose body was found
In cesspool, has been captured and
placed In prison.
A. Ruiz, q Mexican rancher at San
Diego, attempted TO get possession oil
his wfie's property by swearing that she
was insane, but he landed In Jail on u
charge OF perjury.
The advance guard OF Chief Engineer
Kennedy's corps has arrived At Palermo,
CAL, and will at once commence the pre-
rufNEl WI WV tpSH AA&hStnSp
and Great Salt Lake railroad.
The chief hop buyers and the brewers
OF the Northwest have formed a combine.
The growers in Washington believe
prices will reach 40 cents, and those who
can are holding for better prices than
they now receive.
About twenty shippers OF Seattle have
organized transportation bureau to pro-
tect each other against unjust discrimi.
nation by transportation companies and
for the protection and development Of
the shipping interests OF the city.
On opening the schoolhouse Of the
Gallagher district, In Mason Valley,
New, after the summer vacation II was
discovered the bees had taken posse ssion
OF the children's decks, and about 300
pounds OF honey were taken from them.
II IL stated at Boise City, Idaho, that
aposse OF citizens exterminated band
OF eight horse thieves in August In
Idaho county, tho particulars OF which
are just becoming known. After the
men were shot, their bodies were hanged
and left for the buxzards TO feast upon.
The California vine disease ID again APP
pearing in some Of the orchards In
Southern California. A few vineyards
In Orange county that show evidence Of
the disease were set out on ground from
which diseased vines had been dug up
but couple OF years before, which
proves that the disease 10 q very con-
tagious one.
The 400 Indians on the Grande Ronde
reservation originally represented the
following tribes: umpquas, Callspooias,
Oregon City, Molallas, Rogue Rivers,
(i<.ps Hsrah. Ahaata. KHak(taVm IT,. Il.
tins and q few Columbia Rivers, but
there Is now no distinct tribe, owing TO
intermarriage. Several Indians claim TO
be centenarlans. The agency 10 we'll
conducted. and Agent Lamson is great
fsvorite with his wards.
Charles r. Blum at Albuquerque, N.
NJ, while suffering from fever got up
from bed and, taking razor from his
trunk, cut his throat, severing the jugu-
lar vein, and then cut \ horrible cash
across the abdomen. He next got a pis-
tol from his trunk, and shot himself
three times, twice in the mouth and
once In the razor wound in his neck.
n. IL. Dodson, a wellknown attorney
OF San Diego, has been horsewhipped
by Jennie Page, q young lady. Miss
Page Is niece OF Dodson, and took
this method OF resenting the insulting
remarks che claims were made by him
concerning her. The horsewhippiug
took place In front of the pfdsiis Of
fee, where Mise Page Is employed as a
compositor. A large crowd Witnessed
the scene, but no one inter cred until
the police arrived. Dodson bears marks
OF severe whipping.
In 1891 there were S97 acres In hops In
Polk county and the yield was 1884 bales.
This year the acreage 10 $50 acres and
the yield $3.50 bales. This incrs Csc in
acreage is nearly 100 per cent. while the
increase In yield is only about 80 per
ceat. Two reasons are given for this
First, the small yield Of many Of the new
yards, aud the shortness OF the crop this
year. In some places this shortage
amounts TO fully SO per cent. less than
last year. The equality OF the crop in the
county lie better than ever before.
A German shoemaker named Ru-
dolph Manx at Phoenix, A, T., during
the night broke pitcher 10 pieces, and
with the jagged fragments cut his throat.
With the blood flowing from him In
streams he walked through the hall to
the porch, and deliberately precipitated
himself 10 the ground, sixteen feet be-
low. In spite OF the added in juries from
striking stump the man must have
been still conscious and intent on self
destruction, for ne reeled of to ditch,
where he was found, in which he seems
to have intentionally thrust and kept
his head until unconscious or dead.