Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-10
NEWS OF THE WEST.
ldlho's Mineral Output Elcs.ts Ten
Millions Tor 1895.
HE SPRING RUSH FOR ALASKA.
Taxing b4.tlth Columbia hinss-De'
serted His Chlldrsu--Horse
Swallowed a lille.
HE SPRING RUSH FOR ALASKA.

Farmers In Sherman county, Or, are
saId to he hauling seed wheat from the
tAilfosd 10 their fafmS, they having
sold too much last iAll, not leaving
themselves enough for seed.
solno time ago petition sigued by
the leading citizens Of fHithAVeu,
wMh., was forwarded 10 the treasury
dsrArt ment requesting that that city
DO made a sui. customs port.
III, claimed by the Mexican Author.
tiles that the Apaches, pte'umably
tsuegades from Ban Catlos, Arizona,
have crossed the liue into SONORA anu
are giviuE considsfAbls trouble.
The young people o. Han Diego,
Cal, have tasen up a plan TO establish
permanent Temperance coiieu saloon
i1a central location 10 the city. The
young i0lks are very entuusiAstic over
tue project
A pocket Of rich ore was struck In
the old Tom Payne mine, Ia the Poca.
bontts district, In eastern Oregon, last
Thursday. About ten years ago
pocket was found In tne milne IRON
which 1000 was taken In Que week
While ilins the teeth Of a horse In
Fossil, o., the other day, George Met.
teeT lost his hold on the ME, aud II
went down tue AnimApa thToaI At
last AGO UNITS the horse was getting
along nicely, says the Fossil Journal.
All tho logging camps Of the Grand
IL iude Lumber company up the river
from La GfAnde, Ore, have been
closed down. The ryrt l. gradually
Using, AID II II probable that tue
spring log uivs will be commenced 10
short time.
The Santa AuA Blaze reports
progress In the matter VI feolalming
5000 acre. o god farming lAudS IN
Ouauge county by means ot a drainage
ditch. County surveyor Kellogg has
,stimAled tho cost VI the ditch IN
round numbers at $4,000.
The mineral output Of Idaho fof
1895 10 officially reported as follows
Qq,nuy. y.lgs,
cold, nne Ouuceuss,.... l.a,1lt 4,tNtb
siver. ine ouucoss....-... ttty,lsI g,!latys
Lead, pOunds'.,..,..,...t9"'4's" 4's'i'AA
ToiAl....,......... ......,.......... No,iio.iS
The directors Of the Sacrament,
Cal, Suffer club have discovered thai
tnelr trusted secretary, Frank J. NAL
lory, VINO disappeared low days ego,
In An embeIzltt Tue smuubt OF his
Phorlage 10 81 40. He loit his wife
aud two wssks old baby uuproVided
t0G.
A new fsstuTs In tho -four Industry
mss recently developed IN the SPOKANE,
wAh., trsue with GuAlsmals. Tue
dur 10 packed In l0O.pound ncks,
wrioh, when thus packed, 10 admitted
Tree OF uuty to the ports Of that coun'
Try. The mills Of Spokane have
worked up quite trade with Gusi..
mala And Chile, which IL Increasing
rapidly.
Owing 10 tho cutlery raised against
tue governmsnps proposal ~ impose =
MI OF Q per cent on tho gross output Of
mines n vistoria, II. O., the govern.
mont has decided 20 imposoa TAX on tue
ouipulAnd allow tSlI OF ton on the Gre Tor
sEpsn ~. This d oision was arriyedlat
stsr petitions had been recsiNed iion
KOOlenAi, CATiboS anu ether mining
gsnttrs, as we'll As iTom boaTda OF trade
aud other representative bodies IN
C,tles,
A. b. MoWIlliAmt, OF San Jose, Cal,
las commenced a suit against the A..
Gibson, Topeka aud Santa Fs TO re-.
cover $40, 900 damages, Last Novsm.
Ter New illiAns bought u seoool-olAss
ticket from HI Pato to Ban Joss ana
rode over hull way before objection
was made. lie was elected from the
ttAlu At Blake station, IN tue middle OF
the Colorado desert, and has been III
because Of such treatment nearly ever
tinos,
A new product 10 to DO added 10 the
great variety which now comes out OF
California soil. or late experiments
have been made with Japanese hemp,
with the result OF showing that the soil
Uf California IL better adapted 70 the
crop lbsn even that Of Japan Itself
Cons derabls OF this hemp 10 grow In
Ilnnois, where 1t aItains a height OF
almost siI feet and gives one Drop q
ysaf. In California It grows to height
OF twelve feet anu will give two crops a
year. The market value OF this article
IL now Hbout 8 cents n POUND, and u
goOd California acre will produce two
tons VI TIA year
The third steamer 10 sail from Puget
sound. Wash, within siI days, crowd
ed with passengers bound for the gOlu
helds OF Yukon basin, lett GU Saturday.
III The newly Tsftlsd steamship A.
HI, Captain Patterson, which has just
come n the ways nj San Francisco
and now hAs AcoO mediation for 200 pas
sssRsrs. A large number a slt ds and
outfits were piled up At the whArves
today, awaiting her arrival Many
applications Tor passage arc being 10
fused, As oighiy.bK miners are TO BE-
taken aboard tue steamer al Port
Townsend from tho steamer CITY Of
PusblA, now bringing them up from
San Francisco.
A boy Of 10 years and girl OF were
taken iptO ouaIsdy Ny CiIy Marshal
Hull, nj San Pedro, Cal, ON Saturday,
after being left alone three weeks. The
boy and gifl are the children VI Il. h.
DnnoAnsoD, who psduled anu kept I
poor little store. He went away and
the children had TO chm Tor them
selves The boy msnaged TO soil few
things left In the slvfe aud got vitual'
for himself and sister. There wag,
however, little ia the house to cal
when the Marshal vent there save q
few eggs aud half = Loaf Of bread. The
little ones presented a pitiabls appear
ance, the only bsdding they had con
Hisling OF a few scanty fhga aud
blankets. Tho children were taken Ia