Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-11-10
Flood Predicted i'm the POtlatch
Country Next Spring.
THE CURRENT OF THE sANTIAM
Prescott and Arizona Central Rail-
road Withdraws It's Trains
A Partisan Removed.
An effort Ia being made to organize q
union OF spalarH at Victoria II q

hsfcii W It1fri5 nv lttOIId, ID. VI
Captain Cochrane at Vallejo, recent,
court .martialed, has been restored I,
duty by Secretary Herbert.
survey OF the Boston's bottom a
Mare Island finds it remarkably wei
preserved, Notwithstanding the vessel.
long exposure at Hawaii.
Many of the delegates TO the Irriga.
ton Congress. recently in session at Los
Angeles, are studying the irrigation sys-
TENS oil that section of the State.
Warburton Pike, the English explorer,
has returned TO Nanaimo, b. c., from
the interior OF Alaska by the steamer
Bertha, having made u journey OF over
4,O00 miles in q small Peterborough
canoe.
The Prescott and Arizona Central
railroad has withdrawn its trains. The
road lie seventy-two miles long, but since
the building OF the Santa Fe, Prescott
and Phoenix road the latter has all the
business.
Mrs. Rocks in the Evans murder case
at jackson, Amador county, Cal, testified
that Sheriff Thorn offered her 1900 il she
would swear that Evans was not at
home on the 10Th OF June, the day Mes
rSbkci ioNtf Nhh tnDt.
Chris Evans, the train robber and
murderer, has been removed from his
cell into one more secure, owing to
rumofs which reached the Sheriff that
an effort to release the prisoner was be-
ing made. Evans says there was no
plot to release him; that the story was
originated by "cowardly detectives
The settlers in Mesa Grande, San
Diego county. CAL, are excited over the
result oil the recent survey OF Indian
lands IN that section. MANY ranchers
md they are not on their own property
and that their hard work for years has
been practically worthless to them.
For being an offensive partisan J. w.
kayanagli, a writer in the steam engi.
neering department at the Mare Island
navy yard, has been dismissed by Secre-
tary Herbert, and T.. j. Stoddard of San
Francisco appointed in his stead. This
" the third removal during the present
administration.
Some sensational evidence was pro-
duccd at the trial OF the libel suit against
the Bee at Sacramento instituted by
George T.. Royster. The deposition OF
ex-Connty Clerk Reynolds OF San Fran
cisco was read, showing some of the
methods he had employed to defeat the
ENDS OF justice on his second and last
trial Tor being short IN his accounts with
the State.
Old settlers in Idaho State predict
flood in the Potlatch country pext
spring. Fourteen years ago the ground
was soaked with rain before the SHOWS
came and when the snow melted il filled
the rivers 10 overlooking. At Kendrick |
The Ice was piled fifteen feet high after |
the waters subsidized. Eight years ago Il |
WAS impossible to travel from Juliaetfa |
10 Lewiston on account of tho food.
At a meeting held at Stockton, Cal.
by the local real estate men and prop |
erty owners committee was appointed
TO draft petition asking the Sinner.
yiisors and City Council to call II bond
election to vote 1850, 900 bonds 10 build
= an canal through the tule land from
the stockton channel TO point on the
San Joaquin river, twelve miles below
stockton. The canal would drain large
area OF valuable land.
Nothing new has occurred in con-
nection with the robbery of Treasurer
slulli9an at Healdsburg. Cal. A senti-
ment prevails that Mulligan knows more
han he has told, and he has told many
Ihlngs that will not bear comparison.
strong hints are made that he was in.
crested IN the theft. His friends, who
ire numerous, scout the idea OF his dis
,onestty, and his past life fully justifies
hem IN so doing. His bond, which had
ieen, reported rs miesing, has been
ound. '
Five tnembars - .ho p..,I,
'amhtor and Mining Company started
e'ently VIA the Union Pacific for the I
eat oil present operations on Snake q
liver, near Parma, Idaho. The bars If c
his river have been worked in a small |
eny during many years. The gold Is u
cry abundant, but rs 80 fine that il is
itiicult to save IL, new machine has g
cen put in by this company which ia Il
believed will save this gold A
he patentee, n. L. Raber, has gone 10 o
make river to start the. work. +
The attorneys for Sidney Bell. the l
lehwayman, now serving sixty-year 81
rm at the State prison at Folsom, have n
Cd brief IN the Supreme Court D
hlch is the first step toward securing
els release. The grounds taken arr n,
~ tue indictments ON which Bell was al
l'ity were not good, having been al to
wed 10 lapse and the cases to dron at
pm the calendar. This WAS due to n in
urder charge which was hanging over OF
9 prlsoner, on which il was EXPECTED Ia
secure Sonyiction. The prosecution bu
As disappointed in this, and then go
argos oil robbery were taken up and
essed. 1t is believed among lawyers an
at the conviction of Bell on q charge O.
murder would be extremely difficult IN,
mat II the technical point is sustained be
lootpad will be at liberty in the near of
lure. " " ~,
here viii be great many DAYS AZ be-
. Aidwinier Fair, but not the least ri una
amwill be San Francisco day. This be-
! be March 10. All San Francisco /
! that day turn out 10 do honor 10 ,be tn,
: OF the city, and while the thrae- C
irters-of' q. million mark of Chicago ito
viii not tie strivsn for, the managers tur
'e the attendance at the park will lett
SIX all records for Pacific Coast gath. hu,
lgs. San Francisco day there will he wit
CD to attract, but the most attractive mis-
be the Mardi Gras festival. which hat
be held there. A company has been at {
ned in San Francisco to provide n
stival of the Msrdi Gras class. n tho
at first thought that something of nrs,
Character could be secured. but rail
y TO the shortness of the time al tim,
d ii was decided to take advantage New
e W irk already done on the New She
ans festival and bring IL hither Will
". Il will be brought. All it's pa gold
try and its mirth- provoking features age.
0 be shown, just as they havs for with
IN the Crescent City. 10 a,