Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-10-22
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Business Circles and Generai
News of the Week.

reorganization cOmmJUee Woulu purchase
the road and combine all branches under
one management.
Sunday was the anniversary of the death
of Charles Stewart Parnell. Five thou
sand nationalists paraded the streets OF
Dublin to the bleak Glasnevin cemetery,
where they heaped high the grave of their
famous and talented leader with flowers
brought from all the counties of Ireland.
General Manager Dickinson of the
Union Pacific says that the reorganization
committee will buy in that road, and that
S. H. H. Clark will be president. He add
ed that the contract which the Oregon
Short Line company submitted for traffic
had been rejected.
Visiting editors to the fruit fair were
given banquet by the Press Club of Spo-
kane Monday night. There were large
number present.
The Inter Mountain fair opened at
Boise, Idaho, Tuesday. There was fair
attendance considering the rainy weather.
Over go grain-laden vessels have left
San Francisco during the last two months
and six more are ready to sail.
The October term of the supreme court
of the United States began at noon Mon
day with Chief Justice Fuller and all the
associate justices in their seats.
The Nicaraguan revolution has been
suppressed.
An immense audience packed the audi
torium at Nashville, Tenn, Monday, to
listen to the speeches attending the pres
entation by citizens of Nashville of the
life-sized statue of Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt to the Vanderbilt university.
Chauncey M. Depew was the orator of
the occasion.
Senator Wilson has recommended Jas.
E. Daniels of Spokane for appointment as
| deputy collector of customs at Northport,
Wash, to succeed Mart j. Maloney, the
present democratic incumbent Collector
Of Customs Heustis is to make the recon-
mendation to the department for the ap-
pointment also, and there seems to be no
doubt that Mr.. Daniels will secure the
plum. The salary of the Office is $500 a
year.
Hon. Charles W. Jones, ex-United
States senator from Florida, is dead.
Wyoming now has fully equipped BIZ
cycle factory, from which the first finish
ed machine was turned out last week. 1t
is said to be Eight, easy running and
handsome"
Thomas Taggart, democrat, defeated
w. N. Harding, republican, for mayor, Of
indianapolis, Ind, by plurality that
will reach 5000. Taggart is freely spoken
| of as the next democratic candidate for
| governor. He was nominated on silver
| platform.
G. j. Smith. receiver of the Oregon
Improvement Company, has filed his re-
port for August, 1897. The report shows
gross earnings of $49l, 1895; expenses,
1927 .427.S5; net earnings, $685. 1850.
This is large increase over the net earn
ings of August, 1896, which were $780,
1928. The report also shows that the
net earnings for the fiscal year ending
August 81, 1897, were $685., 4769S, an in
crease of $345, 900 over the preceding year.
Associate Judge Field of the United
States supreme court has made formal
application to President Mckinley to be
retired from the bench under the law al
lowing members of that court to be re-
tired when 20 years of age. This state
ment is made upon the highest authority,
and also that Attorney General Joseph
McKenna of California will be named to
succeed him on December 6, when con-
gress convenes, five days after the retire
ment of Justice Field takes effect.
The municipal election at Chattanooga,
Tenn, resulted in the overwhelming de-
feat of the republican ticket. Colonel Ed
watkins, democrat, was elected by 995
majority. The democrats elected six
out of eight aldermen. The city is nor
mally republican by from 400 to 500 and
the overwhelming reversal of the condi-
lions is due to the apathy of the republi-
can voters and the disaffection of the ne
groes- There was very light vote.
The Union Pacific has resumed bust
ness with the Oregon Short Line.
In the case of Elmer Clifford, charged
with debauehing a l6-year-old girl, the
jury have rendered a verdict of guilty, ad-
wishing that he be given the full extent of
the law, which is imprisonment for life.
Pittsburg, Pa, reports that $500 miners
OF the river district, who have been idle
for two weeks, owing to dispute over
differentials, have resumed work pending
the settlement by arbitration.
1t is reported in official circles that an
other filibustering expedition has been
landed in the river Animal, province of
Santa Clara, and has succeeded in join
ing the Cuban insurgent forces.
The conference of the four railroad
brotherhoods at Peoria, ILL.,, has agreed
upon plan of federation which will be
submitted to the lodges of the trainmen,
telegnphers, conductors and firemen in
the United States, Canada and Mexico.
and returns will not all be in until the
first of January.
Iowa Hills, a mining town in the noun
tains of Placer countq, CAL, reports fire
loss of $4,000; insurance about $4,000.
Two dodgers persisted in the flames Of a
hotel
Sir Edwin Arnold, the poet and journal
list, has married Japanese lady in Lon
don.
1t is reported that the Texas bot fly has
made its appearance in Contra Costa
county, Cal.
Alderman j. b. Haberkorn was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by George
Jensen in Chicago saloon, in a quarrel