Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-12-22
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Beach-C 0mbers in Old Tacoma
Raise Their Shacks.
PORTLAND oPIuM-sEIzURE CASES
Much Discussion and Alarm Among
Southern California Beemen
Over . Bee Disease.


Astoria capital win erect salmol
csnnery at Point Roberts in time 70
next seasons run.
No damage was done to the govern
meat ictty at the mouth of the Column
bia by the recent storm.
The work OF raising the San Pedro
wrecked oil Victoria three years ago
has been definitely abandoned,
Operations IN the Yves, Consolidated
Virginia and California mine wer,
begun RECENTLY through the Consoli.
daiesi Virginia shaft.
There il only one woman among the
sssS eonvicts at the Orrgon penitentiary.
She was srnl from Morrow county for
cutting harness 10 pieces.
Az focateilo. Idaho. an edict has gone
iprta that hen,esorth no married woman
or unmarried man shall he employed in
The pubic schoo.s as teacher.
A man named Agilsr deliberately
threw blazing kerosene on his vile at
Los Angeles. She was frishtfully
burned. aud is not expected to hive.
A test is To he made OF the legality Of
sacramenio's new charter. Ii is be-
lieved u decision can be secured from
the supreme Court by the first Of the
year.
The party in search OF Mr.. Winston,
who In thought 10 be lost in the Sierra
Madfe, has returned 20 Pasadena. A
search OF the Arroyo Seco Canyon is
now 10 be made.
The statement OF the Southern Pa
cite railroad freight Office shows that
the total fruit shipments ~ the East
from san Jose Tor the season up to
December Was %, 1872 200 pounds.
An active volcano on the American
side OF tho straits was one OF the scenes
witnessed by the passengers on the
steamer Maud, which returned from Al
bcrni 10 Victoria. II. g., recently.
A break in the main water pipe in
street in Tombstone, A. T., last week
was found TO have been caused by the
roots oil n tree, which had grown around
the pipe and crushed il 40 that ii burst.
IL IL understood the government in
tends to return another Indictment con-
tanning more specific charges against the
defendants in the opium seizure cases at
nj Portland, and also that several other
persons will be included.
The Canadian Pacific railroad will
take the business OF the Canadian Nayi-
CATION Company the first Of the year,
aud VIII place new side-wheeler with
speed OF eighteen knots an hour On the
route between Victoria and Vancouver.
woman ut Spokane, Wash. was
fined s2O lew days ago for practical
joking, She perpetrated the exceed
ingiy humorous, though not exactly
new, Joke of mixing the sugar and salt
on the table OF q public dining room. |
The court called Il disorderly conduct |
President Dwight Braman OF the San |
Diego Land and Town Company has |
announced that the company has de- |
cided 10 extend the National City and |
Quay railroad from La Presa into the
Upper Sweet = alter through the Jamacha
country into the eastern end oi Cajon
Valley.
III. T., Connen has been appointed
general agent for the Puget Sound and
British Columbia for the Oceanic Steam
ship Company OF San Francisco. 1t is
said that vigorous competition will be
inaugurated with the Canadian Austral-
ian Steamship Company.
The Dvtrick Steamship Company,
which proposes running the new whales
back steamer Everett between Puget
Sound aud San Francisco, announces
that II has closed contract with the
American Steel Barge Company Tor two
more whalebacks to run between Port.
land and san Francisco.
There ~ much discussion and alarm I
among bcemen oi different localities in /
Los Angeles county, Cal, over disease. {
'oniinoniy called the "namelcss dis |
sase, that has played havoc among G
bees Ia the East and has crossed the I
Rockies into southern California. Some i
'piarists have lost as many as fifty and
'eventy-ive stands. Its ravages have y
uined one or two apiafies in Ontario, q
ma the beemen are puzzled 10 know n
iow 10 check IT,
Since thr waters Of the Coquille have +
eeeded u Is learned that the damage n
o tue Zoos Bay and Roseburg railroad
: found 10 have been overvsfimatad.
'st as il Was nearly all backwater with 2
10 current, the resssiing floods leave the !.
rack only slightly damaged. There
ms heavy wash at Cedar Point, a
fhleh twisted and shifted two small U
pan bridges, which were only temporary =.
lruciures. No rails or ties were dam
eed, and there was not a particle OF
ainage 10 any OF the bridges built on Il
ling The greatest damage was done s.
} the baiiAsting, which had Just been Il
'n pivied before the rainy season M
penei The total damage will not ex- 4,
ed 50 600. n,
Samuel 4. Morse, formerly a wealthy Nh
efchant OF Omaha, came 10 San Fran nc
$50 last September with high indorss- 81
ents. While al the Palace he pre-
'ntcd several checks to different people .,
r various sums Of money, the checks =.
.ing drawn ON Omaha banks. These -.
iecks were sent back for collection. II
NJ have been returned rs worthless m,
I'm the additional information that the 90
10 them are iorgeries. The H.,
eelcy Company denies that Morse ~,
BIDS any stock Ia that corporation, and 81,
e Omaha banks state that the s. p n
oyse Company has been out OF exist N
ce fur two wears. Meanwhile Morse
= left the Palace Hotel. Parties who I'm
we lost by him are OF the opinion that Is
Is mentally unbalanced. po
Prof. Wickson OF the California STATE 49,; na
diversity recently made an examine ~,
IA OF reclaimed tale lands near the -
nth Of the san Joaquin river. with ~.
) vie. OF selecting site for the sugar -. -
ture experiment station. This Was ~.
accordance with an appropriation ~.
de hv the last Congress. The pro- N's
soy does not feel at liberty 10 make l
Bile his selection. He has report.d ior
the proper officials at Washington VII
the selection be approved by the Wh
ellington authorities, the experi- WIN
ltai enlture OF sugar. cane under lie
direction will probably the
In in California during the coming W.T.
on. IL H. probable that the station ne
ia eat a al. hal an, mn. n a. a. pert