The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-11-05
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Ground Broken for an Immense
Irrigation Ditch.
SNOW PL0wS USEFUL In IDAHO.
Reduction In the Price Of Raisins Does
Not Increase the SaleS-Ihe
Condition Of Market.

Not Increase the Sales-Ihe
Condition Of Market.
The Phoenix IA. IT, W. G. T. u. will
erect $4,000 building.
Work has commenced at Salt Lake to
lay the mains through which natural
gas will be supplied to the city.
Snow plovs have already been found
necessary to keep the railroad from Mis-
soula into the Cpur d Alenes open.
A decision in the Oregon supreme
Court, just rendered upholds the anti.
quAckery act, and physicians must OBJ
tain license before they can practice.
The belief il general in Fresno that
that city has An organized band OF muir
derers in its midst. An effort is being
made to ferret them out
G. E. Thurmond, County Superintend-
emit OF Schools at Santa Barbara, has been
held for trial on . charge Of altering the
records of the County Board OF Educa-
ton.
Excellent fruit has been produced in
Murray, Idaho, this season. The success
which has attended this initial venture
has encouraged many, who will plant
orchards in those high attitudes this fall.
The Secretary Of the Sealers' Associa-
ton oil British Columbia estimates tn 1t
the total seal catch Of tho British Co
lumbia sealers will be about q, 900 skins,
which, compared with the catch OF last
year, shows q falling Of of Is per cent.
According to recent estimates the de-
ciduous fruit crop OF Southern California
for this year will reach 10000 carloads,
valued at s., 00O, 900, and that the citrus
fruit will reach 5000 carloads, valued at
50, 5OO, 900.
Referring 10 the finds Of remains of
extinct animals, none 10 more curious
than that Of finding the antlers and
bones OF an elk los fest below the sur
face in a shaft that was being sunk on q
ledge near Newbridee, Or. this season.
They were found imbedded in . stratum
of gravel.
Work has commenced ON another big
irrigating ditch in Ada county. The
ditch starts ten miles above Boise, and
will irrigate land on Willow creek, Dry
creek and near Middleton, on the north
side OF Boise river. The ditch will have
a capacity of $1,000 miners inches, will
irrigate the 100, 900 acres OF land and
will be 80 miles long. 1t will cost about
$500 900, and will b built mostly BY
Eastern capital.
James Campbell, the protector of the
Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad, has
returned to Los Angeles from San Fran
cisco, where he had q conference with
President s. II. II. Clark Of the Union
Pacific, and An agreement was arrived at
regarding traffic arrangements. Mr..
Campbell states that he has almost COM
pleted his arrangements, and that in a
years time Union Pacific trains will be
running into Los Angeles.
At meeting OF the California Raisin
Growers Association at Fresno recently
it was stated that the opinion both in
California and throughout the Eastern
markets is that reduction in the price OF
raisins will not increase sales. The con-
dition OF the market is good. All efforts
to break the market have been headed
OF for the present and perhaps for this
year. The price of raisins will be held
up to the schedule price indefinitely.
Some interesting Indian mummies
are in the possession of DR.. Morrow of
Pendleton, Or. They were discovered
one year ago on Long Island in the Col
umbia river, buried in q mound OF sand.
One OF them is figure OF q full grown
adult. evidently OF great age. The other
is of young child. Both are perfectly
preserved, having hair and teeth intact.
The skull Of the younger one has been
removed, showing the covering Of the
brain. The moccasins are yet on them,
and are hardly changed.
The Delamar Mining Company is
threatened with an apex suit that may
become historical in the history OF min
ing litigation in Idaho. Tim Regain,
owner Of two-fifths Of the Stoddard prop
erty, claims that it holds the apex OF the
Delamar Company's ore bodies. He has
recently been doing some work to prove |
his theory, and expects soon to COM
mence suit for an accounting. A very
The Delamar Company recently pur-
chased the other three-fifths.
Ground has been broken for the i'm
mense ditch to be constructed through
the Columbia delta by the Walla Wsfla
and Columbia Irrigation Company, and
by March !, 1893, the proposed reclaim
ing OF 10000 acres OF as fine land as can
be found in the Pacific North west will
have been made possible by securing for
that land a supply Of water more than
efficient for all purposes Of agriculture.
The water will be taken from the Walla
Walla river at a point about nine miles
above Wallula, and at this point the
work was begun.
The coroner's jury in the case OF the
fireworks explosion at Los Angeles, by
which seven persons were killed and q
arge number injured, gave Q verdict ex. i
>nerating the man in charge OF the fire.
works. The jury express the opipio,
hat the mortars used for the purpose of =
irings bombs had been tempered with, 9
md that II the proper police protection :
lad been furnished by the committee in d
,harge OF the celebration the accident
would not have happened. This verdict q
indicates the jury accepted the theory /
hat boys poured gunpowder into the
nortars before the latter were loaded.
A discovery made at Vancouver, B. c..
~ the legal fraternity has had rather a :,
effect. On October the act of
he Legislature setting apart the new y
vancouver judicial district came into =.
orce. 1t provided that when il came
nto force the Sheriff OF the New West 8
minister district should have the power
o serve the processes then in his hands. Q
nd that his jurisdiction should then +
ease. II was expected that as soon as d
he new act came into force W. s. Pat O
erson, who has been acting a. Sheriff G.
deputy there for four years. b
iould he appointed Sheriff for the new