Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-20
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Steamer San Pedro viii be Raised
and Repaired.
SEATTLE, LAKE SHORE AND EASTERN
Nearly $4,000 Head Money Received From
Chinese Immigrants In One
Month at Victoria.

Arizona opposes the closing Of the
Worlds Fair on Sundays.
The grand jury at Portland Is after
the police for the laxity with which they
perform their duties.
II 10 stated that the San Pedro on the
rocks opposite Victoria, b O.. Will be
raised and repaired without donbt.
The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern
railroad 10 now merged into the Pacific
division Of the Northern Pacific system.
Orden's City Council will use only
Utah stone for paving material, and ali
contracts will specify that Ogden work.
men will do the paving.
Nearly $4,000 bead money was re-
ceived at the custom-house at Victoria,
b. c., during the month OF April AZ rev
enue from Chinese immigrants.
Richard Grid Of Chino shipped over a
ton Of sugar beet coed the other day to
the AIvarsdo Sugar Company. This Is
the first shipment OF beet seed from
Southern California.
There Is fear that the flow OF gas at
Ogden when the boring passes through
the auckland will be 80 strong that 1t
will DO beyond control OF the present ia
cilities provided TO keep 1t in check.
Captain q. II. X. Fitzgerald, an Eng
lishman who has had the handling Of
large sums OF money in connection with
the Santa Cruz Storage Water Company
at Tucson, has been arrested and charged
with embexxlement.
Irrigation through the immense ditch
OF the Mokelumne Canal and Irrigation
Company in the northern part Of San
joaquin county, CAL, has commenced,
and there lie great rejoicing among the
people Of that section.
The San Francisco coast defenses are
to be strengthened by the addition OF
twelve Of the latest pattern reinforced
fifteen-inch gun carriages. Orders have
been given TO have these carriages
shipped Immediately to the Pacific
Coast.
District Judge Sloan at Tucson has de-
cided that the Tucson and Narrow Gauge
railroad bonds are Illegal on the ground
that the organic act creating the Terri
torial government Of Arizona prohibits
the Legislature from granting special
privileges or franchises.
Contractor Page, who is leveling the
Heceta Head promontory near Florence,
preparatory TO building the new light
house, recently discharged blast which
lifted 600 cubic yards of rock and earth
and hurled 1t Down the precipice 200 feet
into the ocean. II was charged with
1,6O0 pounds OF black powder and Coz
pounds Of dynamite.
Joseph Alexander and four others
bondsmen OF Isaac w. Hibbs, the post
master ut Lewiston, Idaho, have ap.
pealed from the decision OF the District
Court Of Idaho, which sompels them Il
pay the amount on bond for $4,000
lIibbs failed To account for SIC, GAS %
and the government sued his bond, get
ting the full amount and costs.
The reports from the interior OF Cali
fornia on the grain and fruit prospects
are very good. The rairs and frost.
have done but little damage, the great
est loss being to grapes, and principally
in Napa Valley, but the injury is fai
from severe. Wheat is looking well
and the outlook 10 excellent. Rains IL
the south recently have improved the
conditions In that section.
The Cocopahs and Yumas had bis
pow-wow recently west OF the town Of
Yuma, The two tribes were drawn up
on opposite sides OF the irrigation ditch
and talked for some time. 1t Is sup
posed the Yumas were trying to induce
the Cocopahs to return to their own
country, as they interfere with the labor
market in that vicinity. The Yumas
think that all the work there rghtfully
belongs TO them.
A dispatch just received at Eugene
Or, by J. +. Robinson, Grand Recorder
OF the Knights Templar of Oregon, state
that man was recently committed to
the insane asylum at Stockton, Cal, by
the name Of b. X. Luckey, The friends
OF 4. X. Luckey, who mysteriously dis.
appeared from Eugene, think II probable
that he Is the man. Il. r.. Luckey was
Sir Knight, aud 1t is probable that the
clew is n good one and will clear away
the mystery that surrounds the disap-
pearance. The matter will be looked
into at once.
Major w. III. Williams, special United
States Treasury agent, who has been on
this Coast for several months on tour
OF investigation into matters connected
with the Behring Sea sealing question,
will leave for the seal islands in Alaska
on the steamer Bertha. Major Williams
will proceed direct to Ounalaska and
from there visit all the points where in
formation can be secured. His inquiries
are for the purpose OF su disseminating the
claim Of the United States that the ex-
termination OF seals is unavoidable ii
pelagic sealing Is allowed to continue.
The United States Circuit Court of APP
peals OF San Francisco has reversed the
decision Of Judge Hanford in the Dis.
trict Court in the cases OF the British
tugs I.orne and Pilot. which were fined
for towing American vessels in Ameri-
can waters. The defense OF the tugs
was that as the towing was partly done
on the British side Of the boundary run
ming through the Straits of Fuca, they
came within the exception in the law in
favor OF tugs towing partly in Ameri-
can and partly In foreign waters. Judge
Hanford held that the Straits of Fuca
are common to both nations, and that
no part OF them can be described as for
eign waters. The Court OF Appeals held
that the waters north Of the center line
of the Straits are foreign waters within
the meaning OF the statute and that, II a
foreign tug towing an American vessel
in from the ocean to~s it partly north OF
of that line, it comes within the excep-
ton made in the law forbidding the
towing of American vessels in American
waters by foreign tugs. Foreign tugs
can claim the benefit Of this exception
unless il can be shown that the partial
towing in foreign waters is done in bad
faith, but in these cases no claim OF bad
faith was set up. The question is TO be
finally decided by the United States Su-
preme Court, United States District
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