Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-25
Oregon's Worlds Fair Exhibit
Attracts Attention.
HER BIG FRUIT AND FINE WOODS
Judge Bellinger Refuses to Issue
Writs of Habeas Corpus In
the Chinese Cases.

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Sacramento.
Weiser, Idaho, claims the largest flour
mills In the State.
Counterfeiters are reported to be oper-
ating in the suburban districts OF Port
land.
Oscar f. Hill, cashier OF the Com
mercial National Bank OF Ogden, is a
defaulter for $50 900.
A branch Of the Theosophical Society
OF the Pacific Coast has been formed at
Port Townsend, Wash.
The Nevada State Board OF Pardons
has refused to grant any Of the many
applications presented to it.
A wooden ware manufacturing com
pany OF Michigan is guaranteed s25, 900
bonds in lands and money II it will
erect mandatory in Whatcom,
WASH, and employ 100 men.
The owners OF the East Wellington
Oh. % collier.es have telegraphed their
unwillingness TO agree to terms with
their employees on the compromise offer
ed by the latter; 80 the mines have shut
down.
The capture OF woman named Nc
Daggett ut Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, who
was engaged in smuggling opium from
British Columbia, is reported. 1t was
found in her berth, and amounted in all
to sixty cans.
Schultz, the self-confcssed shooter OF
George Abranasin, a wayside saloon
keeper near Stockton, was confronted
by his late employer, ID. w. McCarty,
who described him as being an easy liar
who likes To pose as a hero.
A deck hand on the Australian
steamer Warrimoo at Vancouver, y. G.,
was bitten by a tarantula ON the breast
The poisonous insect dropped from
bale OF bananas into his open shirt
bosom. Asufgeon cut the flesh out all
around The bite,
The Southern Pacific Company struck
big flow i'll an artesian well at Indio
Cal, near the hotel The capacity OF
the well is 1900 gallons per hour, and
the water rises ten feet above the sur
face Of the ground. The water was
found at depth OF 500 feet. The well
can irrigate quite large tract of land.
Mariana Gearman, alias BartoIo Gar
ella, was arrested nc Tuscon, A. IT., and
charged with the murder OF Pedro
Lopez in Tres Pinos, San Benito county,
CAL, on September 20, 1879. For over
twelve years .Gearnan has lived in
Tuscon and vicinity, working in the
mines and ireighting. He has been
known as Bartola Garcia, and bore the
reputation OF peaceable and indus
trious man and cared well for his wife
and little daughter.
Harry Bentley, once convicted at Los
Angeles ioi poisoning his wife by arsenic
and thus causing her death, has been
discharged by Judge Smith. The Dis
trict Attorney asked that he be dis
charged, saying that the Nordholdt
heirs OF Mrs. Bentley and Bentley had
compromised their troubles over the
property and il would be impossible to
convict Bentley, the heirs being in his
favor. The Judge intimsted that things
looked queer all around.
A paper was read at meeting of
raisin growers at Fresno Saturday, pur-
porting To an agreement between the
growers, packers and the association in
effect as follows: The growers are to
pay the packers 40 cents per box for
layers and ~ 90 per ton for loose raisins,
per cent commission and ~ per cent
brokerage and rs cents per ton to the
association to be- collected by the packer,
the packer TO be liable TO the association
at the rate OF 400 cur for all raisins
packed.
Judge Bellingcr in the United States
District Court ut Portland refuses to
issue writs OF habeas corpus in Chinese
cases until the customs officers have
decided on their rights to enter the
country lie added. f" The govern
ment has appointed qualified officers to
take care OF Cinnamon, and it is not
presumed the courts are to take the
matter out OF their hands. Cinnamon
are not imprisoned in the usual sense of
the word. They voluntarily placed
themselves in this position and knew
perfectly well they would be subject to
examination on reaching United States
ports"
Those who are skeptical rs to the
worth of Oregon's exhibit at the
Worlds Fair will find in the following
clippings abundant evidence that her
big fruit and fine woods are attracting
no small amount OF favorable comment
Chicago Evening journal: "A repre-
sentative collection of fruits from
the growers of Oregon is arranged
on the east side OF the north
hall in n glittering array Of glass jars.
Oregon prides herself ON her prunes.
Her soil produces with utmost inn
Partially Italian, German. French, !
Hungarian and her own silver prunes.
When il comes 10 Il matter OF size the |
State is also well TO the fore. There is |
pear in her exhibit which measures |
8 inches and weighs ~ pounds; a |
Gloria MundP apple weighing pounds,
q cherry 3s4 inches in diameter, and |
peaches TN inches in circumference -
Chicago Tribune: sin the hortieu-
tural building, Oregon, which was the
first Nfutp IN ss,Aft fslatfA faaItnasa