Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-23
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Cases Against Trapmen of the
Columbia River.
OREGON coNyICTs MAKE BRICK.
The Federated Trades at Los Angeles
Fail to Make Out a Case for
Deportati0n--Etc
Salt Lake has voted s25, 900 in school


o"it A-akc Has Noteu *<o,uVU- IN scHOo
bonds.
Nevada farmers are pleased with the
crop outlook in the State.
Another prospector at san Diego
claims 10 have found the Pegleg mine
His name is John Ingram, and his age
is SO. I'LL, F -
There is much sympathy at Spokane
for Mr.. Cannon, whose banking house
has Just failed. The assets will cover all
liabilities. $3.50
A vast deposit Of borate 81 lime has
been discovered in the Caiico Mountains.
The find is thought " be worth millions
of dollars.
The Naval Board at Mare Island in
making their report have pronounced
the Monterey to be all that thee
tract required
The citizens Of falkland are making a
determined effort to raise the sl2, 900
which is required to insure the location
OF branch of the Portland University
there. A * 4
The Los Angeles Times will put IN a
new perfectlng press this week, and
with it introduce seven linotype types
setting machines, the first to appear in
California.
We wonder, says the Yuma Sentinel,
If there is another town outside OF
Yuma in the universe where any OF its
citizens are charged from so cents to 81
for drinking water in saloon or barber
shop? ,..
The Bradstreet agency reports eigh-
teen failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the past week, as
compared with fourteen for the previous
week and ten for the corresponding
week of 1892.
large draft of seamen from the
Mare Island naval rendezvous will be
sent to Honolulu by the next steamer
to reinforce the crews OF the United
States ship Adems and tho cruiser Bos-
ton, now there. se,-sf ,N .s ...-.,
The Federated Trades at Los Angeles
failed to make out Il ease for deportation
in the All Iung arrest, owing to the fact
that the District Attorney did not show
that the Chinaman was unregistered.
The Trades are determined that case
shall be properly brought before the
courts. 4t3TI
Parties who crossed the Cascades Mt
the head OF Rogue river recently report
the snow still from six to eight feet
deep. This will make summer travel to
Crater Lake very late this year. Teams
should be running within a month,
however.
Not since the memorial disaster OF
1886 has there been such Il loss OF life as
during the present year along the Col
umbia river fisheries. Fifteen fisher
men have been drowned since April 10,
and fiity-seyen boats have capsized.
The uncertainty of the tides ever since
the season started has made the river
dangerous for the boats.
Governor Richards of Montana has
issued n proclamation prohibiting the
importation of sheep into Montana from
Oregon, California, Nevada, Washing
ton, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado
or New Mexico, except upon the certih-
cate OF the State Veterinarian that the
sheep have been inspected and found
free OF any infectious or contagious
disease.
Worms have again appeared in the
vineyards west OF Fresno, Call by mil
lions, and in several localities people
are fighting them withretays OF Chinese,
who work night and day. The worms
work night, and in some places several
acres have been stripped Of leaves in
few hours rs il a band of sheep had
gone through the vineyards. 1t is
thought the pest will be cleaned out.
The Mckinney will case at Stockton,
Cal. has been stopped. A motion for
nonsuit was agreed TO by the contestant,
coored woman, who swore she married
Mckinney in 1878, when the records
would prove that she had married a
man named Nicholas in 1879. There
was every evidence of cpnspiring to
n q N MgIA "a 4,
possible conspiracy case may be
formed.
Penitentiary convicts are now making |
about 10000 brick Il day, The Salem |
Statesman says. at is a nifty they |
could not make enough for the soldiers |
home, the branch asylum and all other
prospective buildings now, before the
starting of the proposed juto mill, so as
To keep the idle convicts employed.
They aim to make 5000, 900 this season,
to be used in public buildings and adj
ditons provided for by the last Legis-
lature.
The cases against the trapmen of the
Columbia river have for the second time
i'll two years fallen to the ground and
Hon. q. w. Fulton and his brother won
two cases recently for the defense, one
after the other. The Prosecuting At
torney declared he would never again
bring charge against trapman or
gill-net fisherman. He declared il
utterly useless to try to secure n con-
viction, and stated that il would never
be possible for the State To win case of
the kind when the lawyers so mixed the
jury up with the jurisdiction question
that they were unable To agree on any
thing. Mr.. Fulton produced certificates
held by both defendants, aud argued {
that the laws of Congress giving Oregon [
jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases (,
to the Washington shore OF the Column
bia only applied to the service of pro- !
cesses and TO crimes committed on .
floating boat or other craft and not to j
fixed into the bed of the river I
on the Washington side. He claimed in |
addition that, il Clatsop county Jury /
pronounced jurisdiction over Washing {
on fishtraps, the State OF Washington v
,ould with just as much reason levy dues /
IN and control the Union Pacific wharves l
hat run out toward the middle channel t
rom Astoria. Judge Cleveland, being I 2
'owerless to instruct the juries on the c
uestion of law, was barred from in !
tructing either jury, and the Editions o
ecured acquittal for every one of their G
lients. The question unfortunatesy is I
o nearer settlement than ever. TIE a
beriff of the county and all his dep g
ties are denouncing Fish Commissioner tt
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