The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-10-22
Merchant Certificates of Entry
Being Sold to Chinese.
A TRUCK FARMER is HELD UP.
Fined for Eyading Customs Officers
Poisonous Weed Causes Death
Among Utah Sheep.


Sacramento is to spend tl0o, 900 in en-
larging and strengthening her levee sys
tenn.
The owners OF the Halcyon have been
fined $500 At Victoria, b. c., for evadins
the customs officers.
Hans Nelson and Juan Alvarez have
been captured At Phoenix. A. T., while
passing counterfeit money.
The Neg Perez reservation in Idaho
very rich land section. will be open fol-
settlemen: in . few months.
The cattlemen in Southern New Mex.
leo are moving off the ranges, the
drought having made them barren.
Silver salmon are now very plentiful
at Yaquina Bay, and are being caught
with trolling lines in great numbers.
The vintage is fully on in Napa Valley.
The wine-grape crop is two-thirds short,
and many large wineries are not crush
ing.
There are thirty-seven pupils in at
tendance At the Oregon Deaf Mute
School this year. the highest number
ever present.
The High Court of California Foresters
concluded its work at Bakersfield the
other day. Monterey was selected as
the next annual meeting place.
Another murder is reported by kid"
the Apache, in the Swisehelm Mount
aims. A woodchopper was shot and his
head beaten of with stones.
The opal fields on the Snake river near
Caldwell, about thirty miles from Boise,
Idaho, are the cause of considerable ex-
citement among mining men.
General McCook says the conditions
surrounding the Navajo reservation are
constant source of anxiety. There are
5000 Indians living beyond the limits OF
the reservation.
By. ruling from Washington the
Nogsles "A. t. custom authorities are
authorized to permit the free entry into
the United States OF calves that were
born to cattle that had strayed into Mex.
lean soil.
The contract for new county all has
been let at San Diego by the "Solid
Three" OF tha five Supervisors who re-
fused to submit the proposition to vote
OF the people, on the ground that thsv
did not know what was good for them.
The British Pacific Construction Com.
pany, with a capital OF 5000, 900, has
been incorporated at Victoria, B. c.,
for the purpose OF laying out, building
and equipping the Canada Western rail-
way from Victoria to Yellowhead Pass.
Matt Hindenter, who owns over $780,
OOo worth OF real estate in Los Angeles,
fas been detected stealing walnnts on
the Briswalter place. His coat and
trousers had their pockets extended for
the work. He pleaded guilty, and was
fined $50.
Los Angeles thinks the reported mis-
nap to the Charleston at Ballast Point
should have been thoroughly investi-
gated, and that grave responsibility will
rest on some one il the vessel meets with
bad weather and is injured. 1t is stated
the propeller blades were bent.
A card in the clothing of James W.
Conrad Cox OF New York, whose BODY
was found in the woods near Victoria,
b. C., in decomposed condition, stated
that Cox was Translator of twenty. five
languages and interpreter of nine. He
was also an expert accountant.
The steam combined harvester which
has been employed in Umatilla county
during the present season will be used
in blowing this fall. /. lie thought that
the machine can pull 30 plows with ease.
IL has harvested the grain on 5000 acres /
this iaii at the rate Of about sixty acres /
per day.
In Ogden Valley and the South Fork
country, U. T., q poisonous weed has
found prolific growth, and when
sheep pasture in that section they die
very quickly. The South Fork and its
banks contain many carcasses OF dead
animals, and the stencil in places where
Z ha Gh hal lsn.l =,
Samuel McFadden, truck farmer liy-
ing near Los Angeles, while driving
home was robbed by man who slipped
into the rear Of the wagon, placed a pis-
tol to his head and told him to drive slow
and not open his mouth or he would
blow his brains out. With his other
hand the stranger went through the {
armer's pockets and secured 1905.
Evans and Sontag when last heard g
rom were in Sq1aw Valley, and were
'een the day after the alleged interview
With them which was printed in a San :,
francisco sensational newspaper. The y
distance between the place where seen .
md where the interviewer" talked with a
hem would require four days travel to .
'vercome.
There Is company with headquarters o
n Portland, Or. which furnishes China Il
nen with merchant certificates Of entry A
nto the United States, properly signed a
nd sealed, bearing photograph of the v
'arty desiring to enter at a cost of fdO :
ead. These certificates are cent from
'ortland to agents at Vancouver, B. C..
rho have no difficulty in disposing Oh. t.
hem at the price stated. ,e
The San Francisco lumbermen inter r.
sted in controlling the cargo output of al
he Pacific Coast have prepared a sched- v,
lie oil the amount of lum Der each mill m
lsy cut under the pool arrangements.
he schedule is based upon the OUTPUT of !
S9l and Is unsatisfactory TO most OF the ~
mall mill owners on Puget Sound. who ~
nay be subsidized, although it is saio II ~
not the plan now to subsidize mills. o.,
Jack Henderson from the Limestone 81
aves on the head of Sucker creek re re
orts that Mr.. Nickerson and himself in st
recent exploration discovered cham
Or which excels anything yet found in "
lese immense caves. This chamber il On
lily 600 yards from the entrance. and tr
very difficult to approach, owing 10 90
he small and crooked pass age that leads b,
, 1t. 1t is fully 100 feet in length by in
|ty in width, and has a roof or ceiling A
ON sixty to eighty feet in height. II hi
full OF the most grotesqne forms, which fe,
. beautiful In the extreme. W