Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-20
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Great Lack Of Space for Exhibits
in Machinery Hall.
AFTER GuERRILLAs ON THE BORDER
Mineral Productions Of Colorado During
Last Year--Business Suspended
on the Ohio River.


The city Of New York cares for 1900
.unatics at a cost OF 1928, 900 year.
Two companies In opposition to Car
negie are 10 be established at Pittsburg.
Mexico is preparing to receive the i'm
migrants which this country will refuse.
In trying to corner wheat the North
west 10 90, co., 600 short In the Chicago
market,
The United states produced 10, 900, 900
gallons more OF wine last year than Ger
many did.
The total vxlue Of the mineral pro-
auctions for Colorado for 1902 Is $4l,-
S6b, 1lt.23.
The Adams Express has supplanted
the American Express Company on the
Burlington system.
More murders were committed In the
State OF Michigan last year than in any
previous like period.
The boundary line between Nebraska
and South Dakota is to be marked with
blocks OF jasper stone
The Treasury Department IL gradually
IVtONNkh& hhV kOA1 Nv toos W bhQ ACSOhI
heavy shipments abroad.
The cigarette trust has blackliste all
antitrust dealers with the purpose to
drive them out Of the business.
The Order OF Railway Conductors do
not anticipate any trouble with the roads
now or during the Worlds Fair.
II is expected that 1900 carloads OF
exhibits will be received at the grounds
OF the Worlds Fair between now and
May l.
Postmaster Harlow Of st. Joseph, Me-,
has inaugurated system OF electric
street-car mail service to suburban
points.
Thirteen companies OF United States
troops, aggregating 700 men, are now in
the field against guerrillas on the Mex
lean border.
The Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio
rivers are frozen over, and river traffic
is entirely suspended for the first time
IN many years.
A company Is being organized in New
York city, with capital stock OF $685.
10000, to improve the dockage facilities
Of Buffalo harbor.
J. Ii. Wade has presented the city OF
Cleveland, o., his fathei's estate known
AZ Wade Park, containing four acres,
valued at 100000
They are talking in Washington OF
pensioning jefferson Davis widow; not
or his services to the Confederacy, but
n the Mexican war.
The Cincinnati Chamber OF Commerce
has adopted resolutions calling on Con
xrese to provide for the completion oil
The Nicaragua canal.
Negotiations are reported to be under
way in Chicago for the consolidation oil
all the elevated railroads Of that city I'M
der one management.
The railroad construction OF last year
in the United states Ia looted us as 4, 062
miles, which is about 10 per cent. less
han the total for 1891.
The packing houses Of Chicago have
reached stage OF duIness unparalleled
in years. Over 5000 employees have been
discharged recently. The difficulty is
hat the houses lind it impossible to get
hogs.
Elevator people In the Northwest esti-
mate that about 40, 600 00J bushels Of
wheat remain in farmers hands in the
| Dakotas and Minnesota, against so, co.,
| 600 bushels year ago.
One cause Of the sudden influx from
Europe oil home coming Americans If
the current belief abroad that cholera
will break out in devastat ng fashion in
many European cities next spring.
1t is reported that the vernment ha,
discharged DIR. Eastman, the Sioux, and
mis- wife, Elaine Goodale Eastman, the
f.,r nd,
rom Pine Ridge that the Indians were
preparing for an outbreak.
A special from Lexington, KY, says
that the Kendall stable has secured from
the California breeder, Theodore Win
tiers, the refusal OF a sucking stud colt
a iull brother TO the flying flly, 70 Tam.
bien, for the reputed price OF $1,000,
the transfer to take place in the colts
yearling form.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
in an opinion by Commissioner McDnl
has announced its decision in the case
Oh the Minneapolis Chamber OF Com
merce against the Great Northern and
others, involving rates on wheat from
North Dakota and South Dakota points
to Minneapolis and on flour from Min
neapolis To Duluth and other Lake Su-
perior ports. The commission declines
to 20 into the question of the legality oil
the -four rate, and declares that "rates
on wheat from points in North Dakota
and South Dakota to Minneapolis, az
compared with the charges over consid-
erably greater distances from the same
points to Duluth and adjacent Lake Su.
perior ports, subject the Minneapolis
millers to undue aud unreasonable pref
udice and disadvantage. The de,end-
ants are ordered to ad just their rates on
eat from said points to Minneapolis
and Duiutn upon the basis of the dis
lance over the nearest practicable
routes"
When the final permits for exhibit
space in machinery hail at the Worlds
FAIR are issued storm OF protests will
oe heard from every section of the coun-
try. Les than nall the mum Der OF firms
that made demands OF Chief Robinson
Tor room will secure it. More than 200
NJ pi,cations were received, and only 500
can be granted. The 700 disappointed
applicants, some Of them the most ex-
tenslve manu- acturers OF machinery in
the country, will naturally object TO
Chief Roblnson's DISTRIBUTE IN OF floor
area, hut they will not be aole to change
his plans. Machinery hall, at first con-
sidered big enough to accommodate all
worthy exhibitors, has been found to
furnish little more than half the space
the machine builders wanted. That is
why Chief Rob nson was compelled to
decline so many requests Tor space. As
originally designed. the hall was s42x49i