Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-12-02
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five, could he accommodated in Texas,
each family with a tive-acre lot. He says
that there would be SO, 600. 900 lots lett
over for parks and public buildings
ERAsrUs WIMAN is reported as saving
in late address that there are $i5J, 600,
600 in the forty-one savings banks of
New York and Brooklyn, held by more
than 1, COO, COO depositors, and the CAPT
tai Of all the National banks in the coun-
try is only 500, 900, 900.
ONE curious result of the hurricane
that struck the Southern coast recently
was the killing Of quantities of fish. For
many days alter the storm the coast
around Savannah and throughout tile
stretch where its force was most vented
was strewn with dc ad fish of all kinds.
The whaling industry has fallen off 40
much as to play but a small part in the
worlds commerce. The latest figures
obtainable show the production to aver
age between Is, 900 and O,O0O tuns of
252 gallons each per year. There are
two kinds of whale oil, the sperm. taken
from the head of the cacholot or sperm
whale. and train oil, which is derived
from the common whale, or as it is more
commonly known, the right whale.
Sperm oil is worth from $3.50 to $500
per tun, and the ordinary train oil about
5000.
WILLIAM ARCHER. of London, thinks
that people have too much trouble kill
ing themselves, and believes that long
felt want would be supplied by the con-
struction of commodious aud scientific
lethal chamber, which shall reduce to a
minimum the physical terrors and incon-
veniences of suicide for the "patient"
and his family and friends. To this
chamber the disconsolate Briton could
retire and be comfortably turned off by
the latest scientific methods.
PRESIDENT PoLK's tomb has been a sub
jcct of official proceedings in Tennessee,
and it has been finally removed to plat
OF ground within the shadow of the Capt.
toll at Nashville. The courts decided
that Mr.. Folks will leaving his estate
ito the worthicst of his name forever"
was void, as constituting a perpetuity,
and the Legislature provided the money
for the removal of the tomb, as the land
on which it stood became liable to divi
sion.
The Chinese in California have
chance to go to warmer climate. They
are offered $25 a head IN British Guiana
to hoe sugar cane and dig for gold. The
colony only wants 5000 of them in the
meantims, but if they behave themselves
and 90 not make their queues stand out
at right angles with pride, there may be
demand for more. The European can
not toll with his hands in Guiana. and
John would have a monopoly of the labor
market. Here he is at disadvantage,
because the white man is able to under.
take great deal more work than there
is in sight.
The discussion concerning the extent
of the supply of natural gas which re-
ccived an impetus from the falling off of
the output of many wells near Pittsburg,
is apt to be renewed by the discovery Of
another tremendous body of gas near
Findlay, Ohio. The capacity of the we'll
struck there is estimated to be equal to a
discharge of so, 600, 900 cubic feet day.
II this enormous quantity of gas can all
be utilized it will, in the opinion of the
San Francisco Chronicle, be a source of
great prosperity to Findlay. which has
profited by the presence of other large
wells, but it is not likely that the supply
will continue indefinitely. Its very i'm
mensity forbids the idea.
UTAH is making great strides in the
development of manufacturing interests,
being in this respect an exception among
territories. This fact is made apparent
in the exhibit in the Utah building at the
Worlds Fair. Referring to the manu-
features of Utah the Chicago Herald
says "The leather made there is said to
be as good as the best in the hide and
leather building. The cotton goods find
a ready market, and only recently, in
competition with eastern factories, "a
Utah WOODEN mill has taken the contract
to supply cloths for new uniforms for
the national guards of California. Ex-
amples of all these manufactures are
shown in this building, and their appear
ance iustities all that is claimed for
them"
To investigate the rapid disappearance
of the Columbia River salmon the United
States Government has sent DIR. c. H.
Gilbert, professor of zoology at Leland
Stanford, Jr., University, and o. p.
Jenkins. professor of physiology at the
same institution, and one or two other
scientific men upon an expedition to that
stream. They have just returned to
San Francisco, and report that the nu-
merous nets, seines, traps and other de-
vices that fill the lower Columbia from
Astoria long distance upward, and the
reckless slaughter of the fish by the can
ners are the cause of the scarcity of sal.
mon. Professor Jenkins said that Major
Marshall Macdonald, United States Fish
Commissioner, would go West this fall
with a view to securing LEGISLATION in
Oregon and Washington to protect the
salmon.
CAPTAIN PARKER, of the Fourth
Cavalry, who is superintendent of the
Sequois and General Grant national
parks in California, has made his annual
report to the secretary of the interior,
and says that during the past year there
has been no trouble with fires or tres
passers. He speaks of the giant forest
as probably the most magnificent body