Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-03-25
Mining Excitement in
California.
FORGED ORDERS DISCOVERED.
An Escaped Convict From San Quentin
Caught After Being Free for
Several Years.

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The Dayton mine at Silver City, New.
IL being worked under lease.
At Boise, Idaho, one Rumpel 10 suing
the Union Pacific for 420, 900 for the loss
Of q leg 1t Nampa.
San Diego, 1t 10 said, IL to be made the
distributing point Of the st. Paul and
Tacoma Lumber Company.
The British government refuses to rec.
ognixe the claim OF Captain Mclean
seized by the Russians In the Behrinp
Sea, TO the protection OF the British flag
Tobias H. Selling, prominent resi-,
owing to financial Losses and involve.
ments in the expenditure Of the fund.-
OF the knights Of Pythias lodge.
At Victoria, B. O., the eagles have
been sat free from the park, the wolves
shot, and the deer will ke liberated, ow.
ing TO the refusal OF the Council TO ap,
propriate funds for their support.
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports
fourteen failures In the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
against twenty-tbree the previous week
and twenty the same week OF 1891.
The report that the First National
Bank Of Great Falls, Mont, is In the
hands OF q bank receiver is false, and n
reward has been offered for the name OF
the person who originated the report.
A number OF forged orders on various
departments at Sacramento for salaries
are in existence, amounting altogether
TO over 81 700. The forgeries were dis.
covered on presentation OF several to the
City Auditor.
The suit of Mrs. A. J, Fiske against
tiIe Travellers Insurance Company for
10000 on the life Of her husband, J. d.
Fiske, 10 ON trial at Fresno. Fiake, 1t
will be remembered, was shot and killed
by John Stillman.
The residents OF Nogales, A. r., and
settlers in the vicinity have organized a
protective association TO fight the Cam
eron grant title, which embraces about
5000 acres on the American side OF the
line, including the town OF Nogales.
The appearance Of United States troops
ct Ukiah, CAL, seems to have given n
surprise to the people. II liz claimed
there have been gross Misrepresentation
over the occupation Of reservation lands,
and that there 10 no dispute that cannot
be settled by the courts,
A dispatch from Phoenix, A. T., says
An order has been received discontinue
ing all Wells-Fargo agencies on the stage
lines In the Territory. This arrangement
leaves several important towns without
express. Private parties have arranged
70 carry ON the business as before.
General Eli III. Murray OF San Diego.
formerly Governor OF Utah, has been
"a ksS NJ al
ings Bank ut San Diego by the Superior
Court under proceedings instituted by
Attorney General Hart on behalf OF the
Bank Commissioners OF California.
Information has arrived at Holbrook.
A. 4, OF the death or capture Of the
band oil renegade Apache Indians who
have infested the borders OF White
Mountain Indian reservation. The band
numbered five bucks and six women
and children. Three men were killed.
Five vessels OF the Pacific squadron
Will remain at Victoria during the sum
mer and threein southern waters. Those
TO remain ut Victoria are the Warspite,
Champion, Pheasant, Daphne and Mel.
pomene, while the Nymphe and Garnet
will look after British interests In the
south.
Mrs. Mary Sheldon Barnes, wife OF
Prof.. Earl Barnes of the chair of educa-
ton IN the Leland Stanford (Jr.) Uni
versity, has been appointed assistant
professor in modern history in the Lee
land Stanford (Jr.) University. Mrs.
Barnes is widely known both rs teacher |
and writer of historical subjects.
There 10 a big mining excitement on
the South Fork OF Clear creek, known as |
fhaa H.xsAk a trtk -.
west Of Anderson, Shasta county, Cal.
Rich silver ore has been taken from
three uncovered mines lately. The ore
mills FROM $3.50 to $500 ton. Money is
up for the erection of reduction works,
Prospectors are going in squads daily.
Just after the polls closed in the re-
cent municipal election at Sacramento
San Francisco politician named "Bip
Neck" Smith shot and killed Patrick
Il plasterer, during a Quarrel
about the election. Smith shot Branni-
gan twice, and as the latter fell, Smith
placed the pistol to his head and fred
third shot. Brannigan died instantly.
The grip has again reached the In
tiAns in Alaska, and the fatalities are
very severe according to recent arrival
1t Victoria, b. c., from Alaska. The I
Indians around Juneau, Wrangel and
1hilcat, says this authority, are in a
tate of terror. and at all the camps and
villages holes have been dug, into which
he dead Indians are unceremoniously
brown.
At Oreana, 0wyhee county, Idaho,
Deputy Constable Fleming shot and in
family killed Samuel j. fritchard, a ;
Deputy United States Marshal. Fleming
lad warrant for Pritchard's arrest ON \.
imple assault charge, and because the ,
after would not "hold up his hands" at =
he command of Fleming he was shot. !
here is much excitement over the af- =.
air. Pritchard was unarmed.
While the members of the Order of !
)hosen Friends were dropping sprigs OF :
vergreen in the grave Of Colonel John /
]. Brady at Virginia City the other dav, /
father Lynch forbade that ceremony. 1
he order was not obeyed, when the IA
her announced that hereafter no MEM /
'ers OF the Order OF Chosen Friends /
Fould be allowed to enter the conse- i
rated ground OF the Catholic cemetery I
q representative body. He also spoke !
of the custom of placing '
oetly emblematic offerings on the biers c
t deceased persona. The unusual incl |
emit created considerable excitement at q
be graveside, and caused widespread :
omment. 4