Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-18
EASTERN MELANGE.
The Reported Conditions of
the Various Crops.
DESTITUTION IN WEST KANSAS
Outcome of the Weather Bureau
Investigation at Washing
tOn--The Mississippi.

IslIZlt DOTue1 HAS DeeH lIlNlueu ny LIt
Globe-Democrat to lecture.
The work of overhauling the halls OF
Congress is being pushed rapidly.
Toronto is wrestling with the question
of running street cars on Sunday.
Leadville, Col, is filling up with idle
men, owing to the shutting down of the
mines.
Serious charges of discrimination have
been filed against number of roads en-
tering Chicago by local merchants.
By using cotton picking machines a
crop can now be raised in some districts
of the South at cost of % cents a
pound.
Near Valecitos, Tex, the Rangers and
band of Mexican horsethieves had a
fight, and Captain Jones of the Rangers
was killed.
There is restitution in parts OF Kan
sas. The wheat crop 10 failure in large
sections. The Legislature may be called
in extra session.
Guileless immigrants landing in New
York sometimes are bunkoed into the
exchange OF good European money for
Confederate bills.
Secretary of State Lesueur is receiving
complaints from all over Missouri re-
garding combinations of insurance
agents to put up rates.
Governors will be elected next Novem-
Der in Ohio, Iowa, Massachusetts, and
Virginia. The contests in Ohio and Iowa
will be the most interesting of them all.
The other day workmen in an old house
in Philadelphia, at one time occupied by
William Penn, discovered lot of an
cient coin and English bank notes hid
den under the flooring.
The receipts of the government for the
year aggregated 1886, 900, 900, while the
expenditures will foot up 1888, 600, 900,
leaving a surplus of receipts above ex-
penditures of $2,000.000.
The Department of Agriculture is
about to introduce calla-lily roots as a
vegetable. In appearance the root re-
sembles an Irish potato; it is easily
propagated and palatable.
The banks at Independence, Kan,
have arranged series of electrical alarm
bells, which are placed in different por-
tons of the business part OF the city.
The town is now fully prepared for rob-
bers.
A suit has been instituted at New York
against Senator Squire of the State of
Washington to recover ~, DOC, 900, which,
it is claimed the Senator owes the
plaintiffs for lands sold and which be-
longed to them.
The outcome of the weather. bureau
investigation at Washington is the ex-
oneration OF Prof. Harrington and the
dismissal of Mclaughlin, chief of the
executive division, who preferred the
charges on which the investigation was
based.
The new military order signed by the
President abolishes the Department OF
Arizona, and places Arizona, New Mex
leo, Utah and Colorado in the new de-
partment. California is restored to the
Department of California, with head
quarters at San Francisco.
The abolition OF seed distribution
through members of Congress and the
charging of the cost of meat inspection
upon the packers are likely to be two of
the leading recommendations in the an
nual report OF Secretary Morton of the
Department of Agriculture.
Ex-senator Tabor, Thomas NJ. Patter-
Denver have urged Governor West to
call special session OF the Legislature
for the purpose of passing an act stay
debts. The Chamber of Commerce is
to the plan.
The citizens of Chicago have been Of
ficlally warned to keep out OF the United
States government building in that city,
the postotfice, custom-house
and Federal courtrooms. City Building
Commissioner Toolen made personal in
spection of the place, and declared it Ii
able to collapse at any moment.
The wheat crop of the United States
will be much below the average, while
the corn crop will be enormous, and if
the weather conditions continue good,
probably the largest ever raised. The
acreage of oats, barley, rye and similar
grains has been increased, and the crop
will be large. The hay crop is above
the average.
The Mississippi waters passing through
the Rescue crevasse into the New River
basin IN Louisiana have overlooked the
country, doing immense damage. There
are five to ten feet of water in Dutch
own. The Mississippi is now falling,
md it is hoped the back water will inn
feel the effects of the fall. The
water stands seven feet deep in places,
md several lives have been lost.
The United States makes a very dis
,ouraging showing for this years crop of |
'otton. 1t is already certain that the |
'rop has been badly damaged by unfa-
'orable weather during the past six |
weeks; that it has got poor start that
{ is being injured by insects and disease |
md cannot amount to an average yield.
Iore serious still is the prospect that
urther adverse weather. which may
airly be expected at this season, catch
ny the belated crop in its present con-
Iition, will reduce the yield still further.
few sections, rs Florida and Louisiana,
eem to have been exempted to the me-
geological fate that has overtaken the
he cotton crop generally, but they are
lot extensive enough to make any ma
erial difference in the crop as whole
Acting Secretary Hamlin has instruct
Il Collectors of Customs in order that
he department may be fully advised
oncerning the admission of Chinese
ersons into the United States to pre-
are and forward to the department
tatement showing the number of Chi
ese persons admitted by them from
anuary to June 80, 1898, and the rea-
pms; the number to whom admission
as refused and the reasons; the num-
err permitted to land for transit to an
Their port for exit from the United
tates. The Collectors are also directed
} make weekly report OF the Chinese