The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-04-16
Western Union Will Appeal From
Justice Brewers Decision.
THE SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL LANDS.
Senator FELTON, Introduces a Bill for ENper
imenting With FlbruuS Plants,
Rtmie, Flax, Etc.


New York are on q strike.
The crusade against cigarettes in the
South is progressing actively.
Gold has been discovered in Benton
and Humphrey couties, Tenn.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
fixed the Governors salary At 5000.
fancy county Mo- Jail is without
locks, and SOW and litter Of pigs live
there.
baltimore accuses Philadelphia OF un-
deroidding to secure the tlour and corn
trade.
The salary OF Massachusetts, Supreme
Judges has been increased from IS 900 to
$50.
1t is estimated that the sugar trus.
will earn more than 81, 900 900 the pres
ent year.
The Mutual Bank Surety. Trust and
Safety Deposit at Philadelphia has closed
its doors.
receiver is to be asked for the Du-
buque Ia Electric Railway, Light and
Power Company.
The Pennsylvania railroad will expend
s. 10000 this year and next on i'm
provements west OF Pittsburg.
There has been recent breaking out
of subscriptions in New York for the
finishing OF Grants monument.
In the Texas House of Representatives
a positive determination is shown to pass
the railway bond limitation bill.
Car drivers OF New Orleans have IN
earthed an act Of the Legislature OF 1886
making twelve hours q days work
At last Philadelphia is in position TO
truthtully aver that she is in as good
General health as she was a year ago.
A preliminary step has been taken by
the New York Legislature toward the
establishment Of n hospital for epileptlcs
Secretary Noble has decided not to re-
woke his order for the abandonment OF
Fort Caster, military post in Cali ornia.
Governor Barber OF Wyoming has re-
fused to modify his cattle-QuarantIne de-
cree so as to admit Southern cattle to
Craze.
A new pipe line to the Atlantic Coast
from the Pennsylvania oil tields, in which
the Prince OF Wales owns stock, is TO be
built.
Information has been lodged with the
Governor OF South Dakota that school
/ iands in that State are being fraudulent
" disposed or
IL il estimated that as much a. TO-
10000 bushels OF unthreshed wheat
were DESTROYED in the Red River Valley
by the recent storms.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has secured the William Penn colliery,
which has formerly been operated in the
interest OF the leading road
81,
Court at Denver involving the title OF
ninety persons to l,347 acres OF land in
Fremont county, valued at 1896, 900.
Support for the measure providing for
return to the old method OF execution
in New YORK does not develop. 1t looks
as II electrocution had come to stay.
The Governor OF Georgia has pardoned
negro who was sentenced to fifteen
years in the penitentiary for stealing %
cents. When pardoned he had served
ten years.
The Western Union will appeal from
the recent decision OF Justice Brewer,
which deprived the company OF the
lease OF the Union Pacific telegraph
lines.
The Chicago Trib,sn, declares that the
Black Hills tin mines ia delaying the de-
velopment of their ores simply to benefit
its mines in Wales.
The State OF Pennsylvania has pro-
vided for the payment OF the last dollar
OF Its debt in 1912 through the operation
OF sinking fund, for which provision
was made before the war.
Editor Pulitzer OF the New York World
secured the long-sought Park Row and
Ann streets property, about | 800 square
feet, for 81 5000 at public auction last
week-!ess than he had offered.
Senator FELTON, has introduced bill
apprOpriating 500, coo for experiments
in the raising, decorticating and ingum-
ming OF fbrous plants, ramie, fax,
hemp, Iute, etc, and the manufacture
OF the same into fabrics.
r.. Z. Samuels, who has been giving TO
the Pittsburg newspapers some marvel
Gus accounts OF the Dakota tin mines,
says their speedy development will cave
the United States from sending $50, vOO.-
go annually to Wales for tin.
The cplored military Tennessee rifles
company OF Memphis disbanded as re-
suit Of the action Of Judge Dlbose in
ordering the arms OF the company con-
h-cated during the excitement To- lowing
the lynching OF the three negroes re-
Gently.
Mr.. Caminetti has secured favorable
report from the Mining COMMITTEES on
his bill TO create Department OF Mines
with Cabinet officer at the head If il,
tie IL so confident Of it's passage ut the
next session that he has risked a suit Of
clothes on the outcome.
The annual spring inf Of Canadian
working people into new England has !
begun, the trains arriving in Bangor
rom It. John, y. b., bringing on an
average 100 second-class passengers a
d y. Most OF them are bound for Bos-
ton and other Massachusetts cities.
About &c, 700 600 ounces Of silver. over
1000 tons, in the shape Of bars weigh !
ing from 900 to 200 ounces each. are
at present stored in the basement Of the
Philadelphia mint. This is in addition
~ some 81, OOO, 900 in silver dollars and
s35. 900 in gold.
The electric plant at the Viryinins
mine in Colorado, Il, 800 feet above the
sea level, has reduced the expenses of
mining to wonderful degree. The ex-
peDse for coal formerly averaged 400 a
day. The present power is furnished by
the water obtained at Red Canyon creek,
four miles from the mine.
Representative Warner Of New York. +
Chairman Of the Subcommittee on
Manufactures, appointed 10 make in
vestigation into the so-caIled Sweating
sy-tem." who, in company with Repre-
sentative Hoar Of Massachusetts, went
to Chicago to further pursue their in
yestigation, has returned To Washing.
ton. Mr. Warner said that N. go | ,