Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-04-29
Fleming to be Released From the
California Penitentiay.
PORTLAND AND ASTORIA RAILROAD.
Governor Markham Expresses Himself
Well Satisfied With Calitornias
Institutions-Etc.

WQfk on the caUta Fts lttrtott uitu
Phoenix road is being pushed, and real
estate along the line Is booming.
William G. Ralston OF Oakland will
be appointed chief appraiser at the port
Of San Francisco, vice Charles M. i.eavy
removed.
The Indian Agent at Seven Palms is
creating trouble by removing ditch that
has been used Tor six years by Indians
and whites.
Work on the new stage road from
Reno to Lake Tahoe is progressing favor
ably, and the road 10 now completed to
Whites Canyon.
The recent storms in Montana have
caused much loss to cows and young
calves on the ranges. Stock generally
is In good condition.
The Salt and ella rivers in Arizona
are rising rapidly, This la caused by
the melting OF the unusually heavy
SHOWS in the mountains.
The Los Angeles Times has raised the
price oil composition 10 Al cents per 600
ems. This Ia one cent higher than the
regular rate for morning papers.
The Governor OF California intimates
that he will not now call an election for
successor to Mckenna, and will wait
until the November elections.
The notorious stage robber, King Us
sery, has been captured in the Torto
Basin, A. T. Portions Of the gold and
silver bullion he secured were recovered.
The contract for grading eighty Eve
miles Of the Astoria and Portland rail-
road lie gned. This road will connect
Astoria with the transcontinental rail-
way systems.
Permission 10 use the name OF the
State in suit to Gust Chief OF Police
Rodgers Mt Sacramento has been denied
to ex-Chief OF Police Drew by Attorney
General Hart.
The Butte and Boston Mining Com
pany's new smelter at East Butte,
Mont, has been destroyed by fire.
About 500 men are thrown out OF en-
ployment in consequence.
A feud has been naugurated for the
possession Of dam site ON the Rio
Verde, near Phoenix, A. I. Captain
King, the original locator has been seri-
ously wounded in a fight for possession.
Thieves have taken the assessment
roll for 1901 and 1892 of the city Of Paso
Roblcs, and also the ordinance book.
These thefts have stirred up the people
somew hat, who are at loss as to the
object OF the thieves.
A special TO the Phoenix GA. IT, Rspub-
iicaa from Nogales announces the find.
ing OF i4i9 pound gold nugget in the
Planchas Places, Sonora, Mexico. This
IL the largest nugget OF gold on record,
The percentage OF pure gold is reported
10 be 81.
The cattlemen in the Wind river coun-
try, Montana, who organized bands to
run down horse thieves, have had con-
test with the latter, and the former we're
routed, having eight killed and many
wounded. The robbers are supposed Ia
have lost heavily.
The Santa Cruz Water Storage Com
pany at Tucson, A. T., has closed con-
tract with s. 5. Watson OF Los Angeles
to construct an irrigating canal and res
ervoirs In Santa Cruz Valley. This is
the largest irrigation project yet inaug-
urated in Arizona.
The Nelson and Fort Sheppard railway
land subsidy bill passed its third reading
by unanimous vote of the British Co
lnm bia Legislature, and was assented to
by the Lieutenant Governor. The bill
gives the railroad company land grant
OF about 700, 900 acres.
A suit has been entered at Los Angeles
against the Paramount Land and Water
Company to prevent it from distributing
1900 peach, plum and apricot trees,
which are now deposited on their land
near Lancaster. These trees are alleged
TO be infected with fruit pests.
Alexander NJ Mott and George +.
Wilcox, two capitalists from Cincinnati,
are in Southern California as represen-
tatives of syndicate OF Eastern CAPT
talists, TO learn what the outlook Is for
establishing two or three more beet-su-
gar factories in that part OF California.
Superintendent Giltillin of the Hum
boldt Land Company, who is sinking the
Pioneer oil we'll near Garberville, Hum
boldt county, CAL, announces that q dow
OF oil and gas was struck at a depth of
400 feet, and that when a match was APP
piled to the gas an explosion followed
which greatly startled the workmen in
the shaft, but caused no injury.
Items for the survey of the Golden
Gate, OF the San joaquin river from
Hills Ferry 10 Firebaugh's Ferry and
the closure OF the sloughs above Stock
ton, a survey OF the old river branch OF
the San joaquin river and survey OF
the nRvigable portions OF the Stanislaus,
MERGED and Tuolumne rivers will be in
serted in the river and harbor bill.
Governor Markham expresses himself
as being well pleased with the manner
in which the California Institutions are
conducted, and suggests methods by
which aa interchange OF the over prod.
ucts OF food supplies at the asylums
could be- exchanged and prove advanta-
geous 10 the State and the institutions
themselves.
Samuel ]. Fleming. preacher and at
one time Chautauqua leader at Re.
dondo, CAL, who Was convicted last iall
of An assault on his servant girl and sem
fenced TO three years in prison, will OBJ
tain his freedom through the decision Of
the Supreme Court, TO which his case
was appealed. The court held the testi-
mony Of the woman, upon which he was
convicted. was not Prio,afaeie evidence.
News OF big gold discoveries is piiug
in at Phoebe, New, from Ferguson dis
trict, forty-nine miles south. Ii is
claimed that immense bodies OF gold ore
have been and are being daily discovered
there. The quartz assays from s75 TO
81 900 per ton, and people are flocking
1, the rich finds from all directions. The
whole town is in an uproar. and every
available conveyance at Phoebe has either
gone or is engaged TO convey people to
the scene Of action.