Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-06
Superior Tea Crown and Cured
in South Carolina.
CHIEF OF THE CHICKAsAws ELECTED
Mr.. Blaine's Services as a Speaker In
Great Demand-New Method
Of Settling Damages.

Broom-corn harvest is on in Kansas
now. The crop is large and fine.
Minnesota paid bounties to the amount
OF $5E, 900 last year for wolf scalps.
The Chicago and Erie road is sinking
into marsh near Valparaiso, Ind.
Grasshoppers are doing an immense
amount OF damage to the crops in HUI.
ron, o.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail.
road wants to increase its stock by 3d.
100000.
Kansas City street-car conductors I'M
dertoOk to form q union, and were dis
charged.
Boston's tax rate for 1892 will be $l2 81
on 81 900, an increase Of 80 cents over
last year.
North Carolinians will erect monu.
ment to the memory OF the dead Con
federates from that State.
More building is going on in Chicago
than in New York and Brooklyn to-
gether, says the New York Post.
The Jacinto silver mine at Aspen, Col.
has resumed work after three years idle
ness. The new find is said to be very
rich.
The river coal miners at Pittsburg are
expected to strike against a proposed re-
duction OF 3 cents per bushel in their
wages.
Nebraska farmers are preparing fol
another State-product train to advertise
their agricultural resources throughout
the East.
G. H. Emerson OF Whitehall, N. Y,
has invented new motor p ,wer for air.
ships, based on the principle of the
boomerang"
Wcodvlle, Mich, built over the Stand.
ard mine, which was flooded and desert
ed, l. sinking, and the inhabitants are
greatly alarmed.
The New York Herald claims to have
secured proofs that green goods place
has en- running for years within short
distance Of a police station.
Chambers has broken out among the
no ses in Nashville, Tenn. Stringent
measures are being taken ny the health
derartment to stamp it out.
The pension agency in Topeka is the
largest in The country. 1t pays out an
nually $l5,0OO,000 to the veterans OF
Kansas, Missouri and Colorado.
In drilling gas well for DIR. Preston
in Anderson, Ind, recsntly the drill
went through vein Of IRON at 375 ieel,
tin at 450 Ieet and lead at 500 feet.
A syndicate has secured a controlling
interest in the Lynn and Boston railroad.
the deal represented an outlay of ST.
OO0,0 0, including the Naumkeag line.
Samples OF tea grown and cur d at
Summerviile, S. c.. have been received
IN Bal imore, which expert tea dealers
have pronounced superior to East India
tea.
The city liquor agency in Portland,
Me-, established under the provisions OF
The prohibitory law, sold last year over
$4,000 worth of whisky for medicinal
purposes.
Judge Anthony of Chicago holds that
the title of strip Of land along the lake
shore of Chicago, dedicated to that city
by Elisha Hundley of Virginia, rests
with the city.
Out of total OF 1904 paupers in
almshouses in the United States in the
year covered by the eleventh census
9l.l5 per cent. were white, and S.S5 per
cent. were colored.
According to inside information the
Pullman Palace Car Company is now
earning about 20 per cent. per annum
and carrying more to surplus account
than 1T pays out in dividends.
Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde returned
rom Europe on the steamer La Bretagne.
Willie Wilde remained in London. Mrs.
Leslie says this climate does not agree
with him, being too stimulating"
The windows of the armory of the
Eighteenth Regiment at Pittsburg have
been broken with stone thrown by men
who made their escape. An attempt to
steal the arms had been previously made.
The Chinese in Chicago refuse to take
out certificates, and test of the law
will be made before the courts. Until
the decision on the constitutionality OF
the law is obtained the Chinese will not
register.
Jonas Wolfe, who has been elected
Governor OF the Chickasaw nation, is a
ull- hlooded Indian, and cannot speak
English. He is opposed to any legisla
ton which will tend to advance his peo-
pie in civilization.
Mr.. Blaine's services as a public
speaker are in great demand this wear.
The people of Skowhegan, Me-, have
had the nerve to ask hun to deliver an
grafton upon the occasion of the tenth
anniversary OF the opening of the shoe
actory.
The Treasury officials state that the
department has balance OF $5p, OlO. 900
and the revenues, notwithstanding the
loss OF $50, 0O0, 900 on sugar. are increas.
ing at the rate OF 81 100000 a month
rom the customs alone. This rate Of
increase has been going on since March |.
At Golden, COL, sluice that does tn.
work OF saving fine g Id is in op ration.
1t consists of series OF boxes lined with
strips OF Brussels carpetng and so ar.
ranged as to allow the sand and water I,
he carried from one to the other. and
avery particle OF the impalpable fl ,ur
gold is said to be saved.
The Burlington is furnishing it's road
engines with 200 pounds of coke when
they 20 to the Chicago depot to take ont
4 train, the object being to prevent max
ing smoke within the city limits. The
sn bur han and switch engines have either
cen equipped with smoke consumers or
orders have been issued to tn It effect.
Pres dent Harrison's pr ,clsmation i'm
'osing upon vessels passing through st.
C MAJ wi h cargoes for Canal an
ports toll OF 20 cents per ton in RET al a.
lion for similar toll on cargoes and
in transit for the United
States passing through the Wrllsnd ca
nal was issued recently. The proclama.
ion is to take effect September l.
The Wabash road has adopted a new
method OF settling for damages. In an
ohio wreck the other day five persons
we're killed. the Wabash made out
'hecks of 5000 each to the families OF
he victims, and handel them over