Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-08
A Scheme to Still the
Troubled Waters.
THE GRANGE ON UNCLE SAM
Land Containing Aluminium Does
Not Render it Subject to Entry
Under the Mining Laws.

hcCtCy kOlu euro udb DcCu APPiioA
to the tobacco habit.
RABBITS are so thick at Burleigh, Pa,
that the trains run over them.
An electric road is to be built across
the Potomac at Washington.
Achievement is on foot to organize a
naval battalion at Portsmouth, N. Fl.
Natural gas Is being discovered in
abundance in Western Pennsylvania.
The overhead electric system is to be
used by New Orleans street railways.
The State debt OF Pennsylvania has
been reduced ~, b3s, 351 during the year.
The American District and Mutual
District Telegraph Companies have
been consolidated.
The project OF draining the City and
the Valley of Mexico has been tempo
rarily abandoned.
Iowa State Grange thinks Uncle Sam
should run the liquor business as he
docs the postoffice.
This years hop crop is much larger
than last years, but owing to lower
prices will net less money.
The Illinois State Board Of Agriculture
greatly damaged by drought.
The Grand Army OF the Republic in
Indiana will probably erect monument
to the late Governor Hovey.
A rich vein OF silver and gold ore has
been opened on Monadnock Mountain,
near Colebrook village, N. H.
Ex-Secretary William WINDOWS por-
trait decorates the new 81 note just put
in circulation by the Treasury Depart
ment.
A member Of q commission to ne
gotiate for Indian lands in Wyoming
declares them to be utterly useless for
settlers.
The railroad and express officials are
considering preventative methods to
protect their trains from future at
tempts at robbery.
w. II. Winans, wealthy farmer,
prominent in church, social and poit-
zeal circles at Franklin, Pa, has been
arrested on charge of burglary.
Abour SIT ,000, 900 in gold has been re-
turned to the United States from Eu-
rope since the movement in this direc-
ton set in three months ago.
The Vice Consul from Japan at New
York has made an appeal for the assist
ance OF those who are suffering from the
effects OF the great earthquake.
The Interior Department has decided
to pay Round Valley Settlers whose
land was taken for use as an Indian
reservation about 800, 900 in the aggre-
gate.
Harvard's Committee on Athletics
has entered Princetown on its baseball
and football schedule for next season
Hitherto Yale only has been recognized
by Harvard.
The great bridge in course OF con-
struction over the Mississippi at Mem
phis is to be completed by May I, when
1t will be opened with formal and inn
posing ceremonies.
Millionaire Thomas Cornell, the Hud.
son river steamboat man, left will and
cut off his son-in-law. The legal fight
against the will has begun. The estate
amounts to $5,000,000.
The grip is epidemic in Philadelphia.
Physicians assert that the number of
cases is almost as great as at anv time
last year, but that the disease is of a
much mlder type.
The December report OF the Depart
ment Of Agriculture giving the condi-
tons OF the crops is not flattering to
the growers OF winter wheat. The aver
age cogdition is reported at 1913.
John Hoey, late President of the
Adams Express Company, has made
restitution to the company to the
amount OF about $500, goo. This is not
what Hoey owes, but all the company
could get.
The railroads Of Mexico employ large
number OF Americans in positions of re-
sponsibiiity, and when an accident oc-
ours that results in the loss of life the
government deals hard with the person
or persons in fault.
A scheme is on foot to prevent de-
structlon OF coast lines during storms bv
constructing iron pipes or tubes into the
ocean at frequent intervals and discharp-
ing crude petroleum through them into
the troubled waters.
The recent heavy disbursement for
pensions have reduced the Treasury
cash balance to 1913, l2S, Sl5, of which
amount $l3,364. 49l is on deposit with
the national banks and sl3, 1854, 232 is in
subsidiary coin.
The eating OF dog flesh to cure con-
sumption is quite fad at Shelbvville.
Ind. In one case the diet is said to
have been beneficial, and now several
people who are afflicted with the dis
ease are trying the remedy"
William Peake, ex-City Treasurer of
Kansas City, who was charged with
having embezzled $4,000 OF the city's
money, was acquitted Saturday week.
II was shown that the clerks in the |
office got away with the money.
In a decision rendered by the Com.
missioner OF the General Land Office II |
Is held that deposits of clay valuable for |
or for the manufacture ~ |
pottery ware does not render the land |
such deposits subject to entry
under the mining laws.
A law suit in Chicago has broupbt
,ut the fact that the various middlemen
md promoters OF the syndicate sale Of
The Milwaukee and Chicago breweries
nearly year ago, received no less than
q, 2bo,0uo OF the 81 100000 in stock and
bonds paid by the subscribers.
The Richmond Terminal has ordered
he Wholesale discharge of its employees.
IA Maeon, Ga, over three hundred ma
and shop hands have been sus-
,ended and in Savannah over two hun
ired have gone the same way. En-
,ioys In the ssme proportion have been
nut off all along the line.
Richard Mansfield has issned in.
tructions to his manager to discontinue