Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-20
EASTERN MELANGE.
Colorado Miners UnfavOrable to
a Sliding Wage Scale.
THE POPULATION OF OKLAHOMA.
immigration Into Cansda-ChOice
Lands in the Red River VAL
ley of North Dakota.

s The harvest of the Florida orange GRO
has commenced.
A dispatch from Fall River says tina
D all the mills are running.
Horses and cattle are dying OF droutl
in various parts of Texas.
The Indians are costing the govern
ment about 81 ,0O0, 600 per year.
Mob law was strongly condemned b,
the Knoxville (Tenn.) Presbytery.
James A. Garfield is to have a monu
ment in Paramount Park, Philadelphia
, Congressman de Almond proposes
tax on all incomes in excess OF $4,000
: The report of the Utah Commission
says that polygamous marriages are
thing OF the past.
Over one-fifth of the whole number o
people in the United States have visited
the Worlds Fair.
4 Georgia negroes will form an associa.
ton to prevent lynchings and other out
RACES upon the race.
Secretary Lamont has appointed a
board to appraise Fort Bliss in Texas
with view to its sale.
i Ex-President Harrison Ia said to have
received 81 500 for q recent magazine ar
ticle on the Worlds Fair.
More than 1900, 900 words have been
used in Congressional debate since the
silver repeal question came up.
Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang
ing from to IL years old, have been ar
rested for carrying revolvers to school.
More than one-half of the Cherokee
Strip boomers have already left their
claims and gone back to their old homes.
Virginia comes up smiling with the
largest peanut crop for years Norfolk
reports 500,0 900 bushels more than last
year.
The Missouri State Board of Railroad
Commissioners and the express compa-
MES are preparing new schedule of
rates.
Railroad trains will shortly be lit by
electricity. The New York Central rail.
road is probably the first to use that
system.
Representative Cooper of Texas has
introduced resolutions in the House re-
ferring the question of silver to vote
Of the people.
immigration into Canada has proven
failure the past year, a decrease of %
per cent compared with the previous
year being shown.
Kansas farmers have been taken in by
swindlers, who sell compound alleged
to double the amount OF butter from a
given amount Of cream.
A Kentucky Congressman wants the
government to pay rent for the school
houses and churches used as hospitals
by the armies during the war.
The canal between Georgia Bay and
Lake Ontario, which will shorten the
Chicago route to the seaboard by over
1000 miles, is nearing completion.
In Maryland the finest varieties of
peaches are selling in the orchards at 20
cents bushel. Prices are so low that it
does not pay to ship them to market.
The Chicago grand jury has found in
dictments against twelve men. who are
charged with arson. They were COM
bined to insure houses and then burn
them.
A whistle that will make itself heard
for twenty-five miles has Just been fin
ished by John Bowman, and it will adorn
the car shops at Third and Berks street,
Philadelphia.
The Indebtedness per head in Colorado
Is x2O6. Even Kansas, which has ALWAYS
been an insatiate borrower, has only
succeeded in running up mortgage debt |
OF $40 per head.
A Rochester man has devised plan |
by which trolley street car can be
stopped almost instantaneously, or with |
in a space of three feet, while the car is
going at full speed.
Barthodi's magnificent statuary group
winch rs at present on exhibition at the |
Wo"lh's Fair will be kept at Chicago.
The work is of bronze, and is composed
OF heroic figures of Washington and La
fayette.
The silver-mine overs at Aspen, Col.
have proposed sliding scale of wages
to the men, but the latter are not dis
posed to accept it, and work will not be
resumed until the price of silver iustifies
the old wages.
The New York World boasts of having
given away i'll charity on recent Sun
day morning a pile Of bread "2O feet
long, feet high and feet wide" and
- did not have enough TO give each hun
cry man loaf"
A bill appropriating So, 447 ,945 for the
payment OF damages sustained by citi-
,ens OF Pennsylvania from Union and
confederate troops during the late war
was reported iavorably in the House by
he Committee on War Claims.
Sensational newspaper writer's are at
ribuung TO New York bankers and to
he United States Treasury officials
hreats TO turn the screws" and bring
IN another financial convulsion if the
senate does not soon pass the repeal
ill. !
During the month of October the State +.
i North Dakota will offer for sale nearly !
uO,oOO acres OF the choicest lands. ali
coated III the famous Red River Valley.
tate owns 3,bOO,000 acres, being a mart '
II the grant OF land donated by Con- a
ress. q
Oklahoma had population in 1890 q
anger than wyoming when admitted as a
state, and with the increase since and r
he sudden addition of fully 60, 900 more
n the opening OF the Cherokee Strip il /
must have now population of over I
&c, 900.
Elder Roberts of the Mormon Church u
omplains that he was barred from par o
in the proceedings of the Par. n
OF Religions at the Worlds Fair.
otwli hstanding the belief was enter d
lined that all religions could have the s
ght and privilege to be heard. o
1t is reported that the cropo of peaches p
nd grapes in Michigan this wear are te.o q
reat to be moved. The various trans Il
ortation companies that are engaged in Y
lrrVlnr thA Nro.i,,,r - | II