Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-06-16
Astoria Gamers Preparing for
a Big Salmon Catch.
SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIALS.
Burns Beats the Record for High
Jumping Sontag and Evans
Again Heard From.

at the Carson mint throws thirty-nne
employees out OF work.
concession is being sought at the
City Of Mexico for lottery at Ensen-
yada, Lower California.
Astoria Gamers are preparing for Tho
biggest salmon catch OF the year. The
present run In very heavy.
A monster iur-bearng seal, weighing
l,bo0 pounds. was caught at Elk Creek,
at hilamook, Or, recently.
Philip koonce and Walter I. Dough-
erty have been arrested Mt HALEY,
Idaho. and charged with stealing letters.
The fourth crop Of green peas is now
ready Tor the table at Yuma. Green
corn has been in the market since May
Id.
The Colorado, New and Carter rivers
in Arizona are higher than has been
known in years. The latter two are out
OF their banks.
Work on the construction OF the tele-
phone limo from Pendleton to CANYON
City has begun. The line will be COM
pleted TO Pilot Rock in two weeks.
The Good and McWhirter murder
cases at Fresno are becoming very much
entangled with contradictions and plots
and counter-plots OF % sensational char
acter,
Judge Ross OF the Unites States Dis
trIct Court at Los Angeles has ruled in
water case that new constitution can
not abrogate contracts made previous to
Its passage.
Donborger 4 CO., contractors and
builders at Los Angeles, consisting OF q
ID ~ A
denly departed from Los Angeles, leav-
ing lumber bills and mechanics unpaid.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with fifteen for the
previous week and fifteen for the CORE
spending week of 1892.
Eleven Denver young men danced
seventeen hours and thirty minutes.
and only stopped when the Humane
Society and the police interlered. The
men were allowed six lady partners
apiece, who relieved each other at stated
intervals. The prize contested for was a
$40 medal.
The man Burns, who was with Black,
the detective, mt the time Sontag and
Evans fired on them, said to reporter:
You may say, il you like, that was
scared cut OF my wits. There was one
obstruction in my way as | ran that
must have been sixteen feet high, but !
cleared it at a leap"
A petition is to be forwarded to OF
tnwa from the white fishermen of the
Fraser river in British Columbia pro-
testing against the present law, which
enables the Japs and ALIENS to get natur-
allied and then procure fishing licenses.
The Asiatics are taking the oath of al
legiance by the score.
The boys in the State Reform school
near Salem are kept at work clearing
land. About ten acres will be cleared
for the pillow this season, making little
more than 100 tillable of the total estate
oil 317 acres. The school uses between
400 and 300 cords OF wood year. and
the cutting OF IL removes most of the
timber from the tracts 10 be cleared.
Health Officer Keeney aud Or. Regen-
burger OF the San Francisco Board OF
Health have sent TO the pesthouse Rob
ert jackson, a 4l-year-old cook, whom |
they decided was fuli-hedged leper. |
jackson said he was a native OF England, |
and that he had been in Honolulu for |
some time. Then he went 10 Victoria, |
and three months ago came to San Fran |
cisco. He thought he was only suffering
from slight skin disease.
Clark +. Royce, a we'll known LAWYER
OF San Francisco, has been indicted by |
the grand jury for embezzlement of $iq,- |
600, the funds Of the Yountyille Veter-
ans Home, while acting AS Treasurer of |
tina; institution. Royce was found in
his room about a month ago suffering
from a bullet wound in the head, but
how he came by 1t has since remained
mystery, although generally believed it
WAS case OF attempted suicide. The
fact that he was a deiaulter Was discov-
cred soon after this.
The managers of the Eugene cannery
are now planting corn at the rate OF
about fifteen acres day ON the Bush
nell farm north OF that town. They
will plant about seyenty-tiye acres.
They have fourteen horses and eight =,
men at work and are running two roll +.
ing cultivators and have three men run =,
ming the corn troopers. The ground is /, /,
thoroughly cultivated before planting,
and great pains are being taken 10 have !,
everything just right to insure good /,
crop.
The result OF the investigation by the a
government inspectors OF the recent {
between the steamers State of I
California and Whitesboro is made Il
public. The inspectors find that Cap q
tain Liebeg OF the Whtesboro went !
below on the night of the accident. r
leaving the second mate, an unlicensed d
officer, in charge, and it was due 10 his "
want OF knowledge that the collision h
.ook place. Captain Liebeg Is found p
-ulpable for having placed such an off. RI
,er in charge, and his license ~ mas Il
er and pilot is suspended Tor thirty q
lays. Captain Ackley of the State OF "a
california Is exonerated from all blame. q
David Starr Jordan has resigned the -
Presidency of the Leland Stanford DR. =
University. The resignation is said 10 n
ave been made to Senator Stanford ,,
ersonaliy and supplemented by n ~
'ritten communication, which the +
,under Of the institution has accepted. y,
/ lie understood that at the end OF the :,
.hoiastie year President Jordan's con n
ection with the college will cease. The "a
JASON given for the resignation is that A.
snator Stanford has for some time been =,
Ither dissatisfied with the manner in i,
hich Jordan has managed the uhiver- 4,
ty affairs. When he returned from Il
broad six weeks ago he summoned the II
resident to a conference at his Palo a,
Ito residence. He indicated the | =
anges he desired, but Jordan resented -
Q Senatorial interference with the a,