Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-26
The Libel Suit Against the
ltata Dismissed.
POLITICAL SCANDAL AT YUMA
A win Contest for the Possession OF
a Colored Refuses Estate
In California.

The san Jose Council has passed the |
Sunday -closing ordinance.
Santa Rosa voted 10 bond the city for |
the purchase of water works.
The Reed Hotel at Ogden has closed
it, doors. because the patronage did not
make it pay.
The Directors OF the Bellingham Bay
and British Columbia Railroad ompany
have made arrangements for the sale OF
the road to the Canadian Pacific.
Director Ames OF the Union Pacific
railroad writes tina, the company is max
ing an active inquiry with the view Of
extending its track 10 Astoria, Or.
TIE by law for Vancouver, h. c., to
guarantee the interest on s400, 900 oil
dcbentare bonds 10 be issued by the
street railway company has been de-
feated by 1852 majority.
Health Inspectors visiting Chinatown
at Los Angeles found fifteen buildings
that. in their opinion, cannot be cleaned
or made heaithful, and recommended
their being RACED at once.
Inquiries are now being made into the
practicability OF shipping frozen mutton
by the Australian system to Vancouver.
A company will probably be formed TO
build oold-storage warehouse at the
latter place and 10 into the business.
The dapnning Of the Mojave river at
Victor, creating an artificial lake nine
miles long, three miles wide and 1870
feet In depth, water sufficient to irrigate
100000 acres OF desert land, is project
on foot in San Bernardino county, Cal.
The arrest OF ex-Prison superiptend-
ent NJ. Meinernay Mt Yuma, A. T., on
warrants charging him with embezzling
Territorial property from the peniten-
tiary at funm il the beginning OF one
OF the most sensational political scandals
ever developed in Arizona.
Alderman fowler of Vancouver, b. c.,
refused to apologize for saying the mem
bers OF the City Council went around
with their hands behind their backs
seeking brides. He said he would go
out in the alley and take his coat OFT
with any Alderman that tried to make
him eat his words.
James Reedy, an old miner who il
now janitor OF the City Hall at San
jose, claims to have discovered rich
gravel in Santa Clara county, and in
support OF the claim exhibits small
bottle containing flakes Of gold, which
he claims TO have washed out
No fewer than thirty-two daggers,
butcher-knives, saws, files and slung
shots have been found, beside NOR
phine and other drugs, in the Arizona
Prison at Yuma The former Superin-
tendent, M. Mclnernay, is in arrest for
appropriating Territorial property.
A public meeting was held at Cres-
well, Lane county, Or, q few days ago
10 agitate the question OF removing the
county-seat from Eugene to that place.
Ii was argued that Eugene was only a
temporary county-seat, and that lassd
and money would be donated at Cres-
well for county building, and that the
county property at Eugene could then
he sold for sufficient money TO pay off
the debt OF the county. 1t was charged
that affairs were now in the hands OF u
corrupt and extravagent set OF men,
who used the public offices for private
gain.
David MeDannald. living on Mud
Creek, below Milton. Or, was bothered
with snakes, they would swallow eggs
whole and they would swallow the
young chickens. So great was the an-
noyanee he could not raise any young
fowls. He finally studied up plan TO
rid his premises of the snakes. He
bought big lot of porcelain eggs and laid
them around so the snakes could get
them. They swallowed them the same
az the genuine ones, but they could not
digest them, and death was the ineyita-
BILE result.
A sensation has Just come TO light at
Pacific Grove by the Ascending of f.
NJ. Carver, the cashier of the Bank OF
Pacific Grove, with $4,000 of the de-
positors' money The creditors who
were duped by the willy cashier were
Mrs. Goodrich Of San Jose for 5000 ;
William Harmon, real estate dealer OF
Monterey Rev. DIR. Clark, a Presbyte-
rian minister of Monterey, Of whose
church the missing cashier was devout
member and a number of other we'll
known persons OF Pacific Grove. Be
side these victims there is q further list
Of persons who were inveigied for less
amounts.
United States Judges Mckenna. Nor
row and Hawley, sitting as a Circuit
Court of Appeals az San Francisco, have
affirmed the judgment of the United
States District Court of Southern Cali
forllia, dismissing the libel suit against
the caiiian steamer itsta and releasing
the vessel and 1000 cases Of rifles she
had aboard when seized by the United
States Marshal in San Diego harhor two
years ago. The libel filed in the Itata
case charged deliberate violation of Sec
ton 5,2s3 OF the United States Revised
Statutes, and set forth that the ltata had
been fitted out with the intent 10 cruise
and commit hostilIties against the GOV.
eminent Of Chill, with which the gov
eminent OF the United States was at
peace. The decision of the Circuit
Court is lengthy and reviews the details
OF the late Gillian revolution and over
throw OF President Balmacede. The
Court finds that the state of affairs az
alleged in the libel is not borne out by
the evidence.
The State of Oregon has filed its an
swer 10 the cross bill Of Multnomah
county in the tax suit. The answer admits
several ilnimportsnt charges, and asserts
that the object Vi the equalization wac
to maintain uniform assessment. The
charge that assessment on mortgages in
some OF the counties is lower than that
OF Multnomah county, and other asser-
tions TO the same effect, are denied
The answer also denies that mortgages
were Disseminated against in favor OF
other real estate in Multnomah county,
and also that only 10 per cent was added
to the assessment Of mortgages IN Coos,
Linn and Washington counties; rs pei
cent in Douglas, 80 per cent in Yamhill
and per cent in Marion. The aDswef
asks for the dismissal of the cross bill,