Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-12-14
NEWS OF THE WEST .
p,oDOsItIon 10 Redeem 100000 Acres
Of Land Ia Idaho.
,xNrER.srAIE WATER QUESTION
Washington Flax for Irsland-fl0s'
Apple Culture in California
Progress on the COnsL

smelt are beginning TO run In ne
rainmbia river. Tnis IL is tho earliest
arrival Of the spscles known
william Curtis, aged so year,, Of
aan Befnardino, Cal, was gorei BY
buil on Wednesday evening" anu may
die.
s.n River valley, Arizona, has
.sisnsd .ince June $4,000 head Of oal-
,is besides supplying the home de.
mand.
rhe tanning extract company OF
nsmlpr, NM, has recently added
sbout $4,000 In improvements to lite
large plant there.
Leo Gotlborge, Of Los Olives, Cal,
drank quantity OF pure alcohol on
wednesday evening. His funeral was
tst TOT Saturday
California produced 22s, $50 pounds
a, oiromArgafine during tue nscsl year
s,ding June 30, 1895. OF this amount
MI but 70, $50 pounds was consumed in
ibis state
The pastor OF church at Fillmore,
Ventura county, Cal, has been Ia
vited TO rusign by his dock because he
accepted aims from sports anu saloon.
leepou.
The coroner Of San Bernsrdino c3un-
is, Cal, viii hereafter take photo
graphs Vi oil tue unidentified dta1 In
efdsr 10 assist 10 potsible Identification
aitet burial.
It's reported that tho output OF legs
from Sells, Cowhtz county, WAIST,
VIII .ho 100000 feet this year md
that owing to increased facilities fgf
The wufks, these figures viii be b..
creased 10 about l2,OO6,OOO feet usSt
year
Pineapple culture In San Diego
county, Cal, Ia NJ successful that enc
% tho state Horticultural oOmmissiouUis
says plants will 10 furnished ~ fAnch-
rfs Tor tho costs OF freight, providing a
certain number OF growers Will under.
take the cultivation OF this luscious
ifulL
The site upOn which the new uni
vefslty Of Washington state IL located
contains 1855 Acrss between Lake Wash.
Ineton aud Lake Uuion, within the
CITY limits OF Seattle, but about i've
miles from the business center. There
T. about d mile Of frontage on Lake
Washington and half that amount ON
Lake Union.
There IL a movement on foot TO tond
ton Of hax OF State Of Washington
growth to the Barbour Works In Ire
and aud the manufacturers have said
they would haokle u and Otherwise
prepare II and Tttutn IL 10 show just
wnAt can be done with 1t ana show liz
relative value in comparison with
,lher fax.
The rescue party at the franklin
mine, Washington, Wednesday recov.
ered tho bodies Of George w. Smalloy,
John Adams, James stafford and John
a, Glover, the four men who descend
ID TO close a door during the IRE ON
October 18th last, but never returned.
Nothing was found but blackened
bones, and the remains were Identified
by articles known TO be on the bodies,
such a. watches and keys.
The American Land, Irrigation and
Power company, through lite president,
Charles r. Palmer, OF Chicago, has
applied 10 tho Idaho state board OF land
commissioners TO have 100, $50 acres Of
land In the vicinity OF American Falls
and Minidoka Withdrawn from settle
nent for tho purpose OF retaining II
Iudsf the Carey act. The application
Will DO referred to Slate Engineer
Mills, and n he approves OF tue plane
II the company AMI tho scheme IN
thought 10 be feasible, tho state will
enter into a contract with the com.
Iauy. The land will then DO sold ~
telllsrs for iiity cents an acre, plus tho
water right, the payments being rsgu-
lated by the state board; A. soon bs
tho settlers have paid for the water
rights aud the lands the ditch company
will have no farther control Of tue
ditch, II being left entirely In tue hands
Of tho settlers.
ST. Anthony, Idaho, Silver Ham.
men CleTk Bramwell informs us that
pretty Interstate water question has
aTlsen over In Teton basin, over which
there Ia always bad blood, and the
touble II far from being settled yet IL
appears one ditch company Appropri-
alud water from an interstate stream,
licking water from the Wyoming side Of
the line and bringing II over land both
Ia that state anu In ldaho,duly having
1hetlmo record In Wyoming. Another
uileh company appropriated water
iiom tho same htrgnm on the ldaho
side Of the bAelu, and the question in-
y0yed Ia which OF the two bitches has
the right Of the water, as there IL not
enough water for both bitches. Prao'
lioally all the land watoTed by both
bitches Is located In Idaho aud many
ate Inclined to the opinion, this being
tho case, that tho Idaho water Apprs-
prlator takes the precedence. There ID
room for considerable litigation over
The question ana u sensible way would
leem, being Rs tho land Is all located IN
Teton basin, that oompromiss NIGH
be effected with mutual pront TO oil