Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-08
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Oregon Takes the Bun in Her
Forestry Exhibit.
BUILDING AT Los ANGELES. CAL.
Prosecution of Work on the Santa
Margarita Extension on the
Southern Pacific.

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OF 36,4S4.
The State Blind Institute at Salem
opcne September IL.
Building ut Los Angeles il reportet
active, with an improving real-estat'
market.
The miners on the Constock refuse Il
accept the proposed reduction Of 70 pei
cent in wages.
Alfred II. Nelson, former manager
81 tile Ogden lUtah) Building and Say
ings Association, IL short 81, 200 in his
accounts.
The Virginia and Truckee Railroad
Company has reduced the pay OF all Its
employees. except locomotive engineers
25 per cent.
II is claimed that extensive frauds
we're perpetrated In connection with the
attempt to raise the San Pedro In Vic
toria harbor.
The depositors OF the suspended saw
ings bank at Portland want the stock
holders 10 guarantee that the bank will
pay all deposisors In full.
Eastern Washington's grain harvest
this season promises to be the best ever
known. The average yield from British
Columbia to the Oregon line will be
thirty bushels 70 the acre.
Scott Morris Of Evans Creek, Jackson
county, Or, who has been collecting and
shipping East the bulbs and seeds OF the
wild flowers OF Southern Oregon, has
built up quite business in that line.
The man arrested in Southern Oregon
Tor robbing the mail In California proved
not 10 be the right man and he WAS dis-
charged. Davidson, the newsman, thus
fails to secure the handsome reward oil
81 500.
Over 100 Spokane Cinnamon are pre-
pairing to start back TO Asia next month,
nearly all OF them to remain. They
tl,o00 to 5000 during their stay in
America.
The Supreme Court OF the State OF
California has decided the Indian bond
case in favor OF the Controller. This Ia
very important case 20 the State, In
volving ms il does the validity OF claims
against the State aggrega,ing between
100000 and s760,0oO.
Adyices from Joseph City In Beaver
county, Utah, tell Of the largest and
most disastrous waterspout that ever
visited Utah. II struck Clear Creek
Canyon, and teamsters escaped with
difficulty and only after fast and furi-
GUS drive for high ground.
Active prosecution Of the work on the
Santa Margarita extension ON the South
efn Pacific has not been discontinued as
report stated, Some 100 men are at
work, 40 per cent OF the force being
taken Oft, and IL IL believed thc tunnels
will be through in the spring OF 1894.
This summer, II Is said, will SEQ the
last Of the famous Harvey Valley OR
crickets. They are dying by millions
FROM some disease, and have not yet de-
posted their eggs. Those who have OBJ
served their habits say the disease which
has caused their destruction In other
places IL the same TO all appearances as
that which ia killing them there. They
have been in the valley in numbers ever
since II was first visited by the whites.
In the forestry building at the Worlds
Fair Oregon takes back seat for no
State or nation, her forestry exhibit be-
ing revelation even to Oregonians who
have spent their lives IN the forests, She
shows the largest block OF wood In the
building. This IL u cross section from
the trunk OF tide-land spruce, and in
ten feet IN diameter. This section was
cut twenty feet above the butt, which
was sixteen feet ia diameter. The tree
OF which IL was part was quite sprout
when Columbus started on his first vow
age, and before II was felled its topmost
branches lowered more than 800 feet
above terra tirma, or high enough to af-
ford ample shade for the monster Ferris
wheels cars ON the upper level. Oregon
shows also beautiful house constructed
wholly OF Oregon woods, 1t In ten feet
square, nineteen feet high, and is sur
mounted by an open cupola, The build.
ing throughout Is finished In hard wood,
all highly polished, elegantly carved and
arranged IN the most attractive fashion
possible TO show the native woods OF the
state. The roof 10 supported by four
nicely carved Doric columns OF maple,
while like number OF similar columns
of oak support the root OF the capola.
Just now the newspapers OF Oregon
sre having great deal TO say about Or |
egon fruit being shipped East, where il |
IL sold as California product. There il |
too much truth in the statement TO make |
the thing funny. But few days ago at |
Chicago some Orgoniaus. DESTROYS of |
learning whether or not there was any
sale Tor Oregon fruits, took occasion 10 |
give the matter fair test, and at the
same time "evened up on California for
having 80 long sailed under false colors
by palming of as her own Oregon choicest
fruits, Just outside the Worlds Fair
grounds some boys were selling Caliior.
ala genuine, not 0regon-grown pears.
peaches, apricots and cherries, and the
little mllows were loudly CRYING their
wares" Fresh California fruitpi Cal
fornia peaches" California pears ~
The oregonians approached the bows
examined their fruits, and told the bows
hat II was not California fruit they we're
selling, and assured them Il was grown
n Oregon. The boys said il might be
rom Oregon for all they knew-they
aid II was from California because thai
made i sell better. Then the wise men
rom Oregon dug down in their leans
md brought up some shining two-bit
'ieces, which they gave TO the bows with
he understanding that they were 10
hout Oregon fruit, 3" Oregon pears y
to-, during the remainder OF that dav
he boys tried their lungs ON the new
'roposition. and the results were aston.
shlng. People who had visited the fair
nd seen Oregon's peerless horticultural
ip,ay opened their eyes. "What." said
hey, Oregon fruit, Well, we must try
onie OF it--it booked 30 beautiful at The
mr.. = And they did try it. SO many
ned II that the boys soon sold out their i
.ecks and had to return 10 headquar-
re again and again for more, and up to ,
Ist accounts these selksame BOYS were /
wing. Right this way for your Oregon 4
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