Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-21
The Cherokee Strip Will Not be
Opened Before July.
THE WRECK OF A GUNBoAT.
Wheat Crop Prospects in Southern
Illinois-Grave Of General
Hancock Unmarked.

make an exhibition OF its newspapers.
The grave of General Winfield Scot
Hancock in Norristown, Pa, is yet un
marked.
The building of electric roads in Obi,
y said to be developing the proportion
OF q craze"
The Colorado Senate has passed tn
Railroad Commission bill over the Gov
ernor's veto.
1t will require forty cars to carr,
krnpp's exhibit for the Worlds Fai
from Baltimore to Chicago.
A great flow Of natural gas has beer
struck at Cherryvale, Kan, and the cit
liens are expecting boom.
Secretary Of the Interior Smith doe,
not expect the Cherokee Strip to be oper
to settlement before July next.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst OF New York has
organized corps whose business it will
be TO see that all local laws are obeyed
| The Legislatures OF New York, Con.
nccticnt and several Western States are
making efforts to suppress the poo
rooms.
Reports from Southern Illinois an
| nounce that the prospects for a good
wheat crop this season are most promis-
ing.
Lands which were selling two years
| ago in the Red River Valley, N. D., for
FLO to xl2 an acre now bring double those
| figures.
The capital OF the lumber trust, which
seems destined to control the lumber
business of this country, is understood
to be s32, 900, 900.
Jay Gould's children are about to
build church to their fathers memory
at Roxbury, Delaware county, N. Y, the
place where he was born.
Mrs. Jane l.. Fowle of Dedham, Mass,
has been awarded $3.50 by Boston jury
against dentist who extracted sound
tooth instead of a decayed one.
The new regulations for the govern
ment OF the navy provide, among other
things, that naval officers shall not act
rs correspondents for newspapers.
The Chicago packing firm, which
started thirty years ago in little BUTCH
er-shop with one wagon, increased its
capital stock last week to $15,000,0 00
Evidence has been secured of whole
sale registration frauds in Chicago. OF
$4,000 NAMES added to the list 5000 and
possibly 5000 are said to be fraudulent.
1t il reported from Guthrie, 0. r..
that hundreds of Texas cattle are being
unloaded at Ponca in the Cherokee Strip
to Craze, and waiting settlers are ndig-
nant.
The Massachusetts Senate has-24 to 8
passed bill providing for the submits
sion to the people OF constitutional
amendment establishing biennial cleo
tons.
According to the report OF the Auditor
OF Virginia the negroes of that State pay
taxes on real estate valued at 50, ABE, 1886
and on personal property valued at 3d.
342, 800.
The wreck of gunboat which was
sunk during the late war, and which lies
in the regular channel near the Cape
Fear bar in North Carolina, will soon be
The large petrified snake, claimed to
have been unearthed in Colorado some
time ago, turns out to be fossilzed |
palm tree which grew in that State be-
lore the climate changed.
The three vessels of the United States
and Brazil Steamship Company were
sold ut auction at New York. The Alli- |
ance sold for $4,000; Virginia, $9I, 900. |
and the Advance, S9i, 900.
The petition for the rehearing of the
celebrated Chicago lake-front cases was
,verruled by the Supreme Court OF the
United States, but second petition will
DC filed II opportunity offers.
Philadelphia members of the Sons of
he Revolution are about to tart a move
nent against the removal of Liberty
Bell and the original Declaration of In
dependence to the Worlds Fair.
A brakeman on the Central Railroad
II New Jersey has obtained verdict
gainst the company for $25, 900 for the
oss OF leg which was crushed by some
airs "cut loose in violation of the rules"
The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted
memorial to Congress asking a sub
lission of an amendment to the Federal ,
constitution providing for the election {
the United States Senators by popu- {
lr vote.
AT West Union, Ia, there was a battle c
etween the farmers and railroad men
YER the erection of warehouse. Seven |
eight were severely injured, and one :
Ill die. The railroad won the point in I
According to the Baltimore News the :
ew city directors indicates an increase /
population for Baltimore during the ;
,st year of $4,000. The gain is attrib- I
ed largely to the growth OF manufac-
ring interests in the city and suburbs.
Senator Roach of North Dakota, q
hose record Mr.. IIoar wants to have q
yestigated, is accused of embezzlinu u
large amount of money from a national
NIX in Washington, of which he was an
icer nearly ii not quite twenty wears VI
o, n
The Houston and Texas Central rail -
", which has been in the hands of l"
,eiver since 1885, and about which
ere has been considerable scandal y
rough the message of Governor Hogg +.
the Legislature, has been turned over OF
the Huntington syndicate.
At meeting OF the Missouri Pacific
llroad Directors several days ago, a q,
ector moved TINT the ticket agent at 81 -,
ierson City, Mo-, be recalled and the w.
&c closed until the passes now in the 10
nds OF legislators families and the =;
tie employees and their friends shall VI
We been exhausted.
The Supreme Court of the United tn
ties has decided that fugitive from ye
tlee removed under extradition pro- -
dings from one State to another NAV Oh
constitutionally tried in the latter Oh
tie upon warrant charging another te'
'nse than the one set forth in the war re-
Il OF eNtradition, without being first Sly