Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-03
Vast Beds Of Iron Ore in Hanover
Valley, N. M, Sold.
ARIzoNA's CATTLE PROSPECTS GOOD.
The Washoe Indians to Hold Seven.Day
Fandang)-Mining Trouble In
Idaho--0ther News.


salt deposit.
Arizona's cattle prospects are better
now than for years.
Phoenix. A. T., is putting in sewer
system that will cost $i25, 900.
Oregon's new settlers for the year end
ing May amounted to over 100000.
The Washoe Indians are to hold 3
grand seven-day fandango near Carson
Areligious sect called the River Breth
rem from Pennsylvania have settled neal
Phoenix, A. T.
The trouble between the miners and
mine owners in the Cnur d Alenes seem.
10 be far from the end.
Secretary OF War Elkins has directed
that the new military post at Helena
Mont, be named Fort Harrison.
A. Il. Mcdonald has been sentenced
to ten years at Folsom for robbing tho
cathedrals at Los Angeles OF sacred yes
sells.
Work on the Wolney canal in Gils
Bend, A. t., will begin at once. The
canal will water 100000 acres OF fruit
land.
A force OF men have at last been sci
to work closing the gap in the Southern
Pacific coast line between Elwood and
Templeton.
The Hillside group OF mines in Arizona
has been purchased by an Eastern syn
dictate. The agreement was consum-
mated at Prescott.
The cutter Corwin has returned TO
Port Townsend from Alaska with the
Treasury agent who has been looking up
Information about the seals.
1t is announced that on and after July
/ trains on the Canadian Pacific will
carry all mails and passengers between
Montreal and the Coast in five days.
Nicholas Grosbeak, who was pardoned
by President Harrison, he having been
convicted OF violating the Edmunds law
at Salt Lake, has been convicted OF a
similar offense.
The purchase OF the vast beds OF iron
ore In Hanover Valley, N. NJ, Is an
nounced at Chicago by n company OF
very wealthy men, and the property is
valued Mt nearly 500, 200, 900.
George Burnett, a young man, once q
student at Berkeley, is under arrest at
Chihnahua on charge OF murder, no
having killed the superintendent OF n
mine at that Mexican town.
An investigation into the affairs Of G..
b. Seeley, Trea, urer OF the Napa Insane
Asylum, which was demanded by parties
at Napa, has resulted in placing the gen
tleman in better position before the
people.
Last year two carloads of new potatoes
were shipped from San Jose to Chicago
THE year seven carloads have been al
vaa3u and ..pIapa N .,,n.tn.s l., f,,~
more. Fancy prices are paid for these
potatoes.
The King Egret, or white heron,
known as the "plumed knight" of New
river, whose plumes are worth $24 per
ounce, will soon be extinguished, as the
hunters are Strengthening them in their
nesting time, thus preventing any in
crease.
At Flagstaff, A. T., the residence OF
Mrs. Mary Hoffman caught FIRE while
the lady was visiting neighbor. A
child had been left In The building, and
the mother rushed in to save it, but lost
her life. The bodies of mother and
child were found side by side.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with thirteen for the
previous week and eighteen for the cor
responding week Of 1891.
The Committee of One Hundred at
San Diego has begun war on the Santa
Fe road. Suit is to be brought for
forfeiture of the railroad franchise.
The lands and franchise granted to the
road are estimated to be worth IS 900, 600.
In excavating on the site Of some OF
the ancient Aztec RUNE, in the direction
OF the Chaco canyon, N. NJ, Governor
Prince unearthed some twenty stone
idols of different type from anything
before discovered. They are circular in
shape, forming discs, varying from six |
to fifteen inches in diameter, the upper |
half containing deeply-caived face, |
and the lower half documentary arms in |
relief. In the last eight years Governor
Prince has excayated over 500 stone
dolls. But these are different in form
rom any others, and are believed to be
II least 600 years old.
Wells, Fargo & Co. g detectives have
the identity of the murder
,us stage robbers who held up the Red
ling stage and killed Messenger Mont
yomery. The wounded robber who was
has confessed that he is Charles
Ruggles, son OF l.. b. Ruggles, a wealthy
armer living at Trayer, Tulare county.
The other robber is John ID. Rugges, an
elder brother of Charles. The latter
was sentenced in 1878 TO seven years at
San Quentin Tor robbing man and
woman in San Joaquin county, but was
,ardoned in 1880. In the Redding rob.
1ery he got away with gold valued at
1855.
A meeting of the creditors of f. G.
Walker, charged with an attempt to de-
raud I'll. +. Clinton, was called recently |
It the office of the British Columbia {
land aud Investment Company. IL il
that he has left for the United i
states, having gone TO New Westminster |
md settled Clinton claim for SO, 800. He /
hen wrote letters to friends saving he c
vas going where he could start life over G
gain and repay what he owed. He |
ioped that his partners would forg We c
lin for the wrong he had done them !
| large number OF judgments have been ,
ranted against Walker, and it Is Thought /
lis liabilities will amount to over $40. 900. a
lis assets consist OF property in Port t
.lgeles, Port Crescent and of wi d land A
n the islands. A sequel to Walkers {
ise has been discovered in that OF q I
1ung real estate man named Barnett, t
no is believed to have got away with Y
,out $3.50, 900. c