The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-08-27
Portland Brings Suit Against Her
Ex-Chief of Police.
THE PURSUIT OF TRAIN ROBBERS,
The President Of the Miners Union In the
Occur d Alenes Gets Six Months
In the County Jail.
Bodie is rebuilding.

Umatilla, Or, claims to have an In
dian 100 years old.
Electricity will soon run all the street
railways in San Diego.
Work on Portland's magnificent pas
senger depot has been resumed.
Extensive coal fields have just been
discovered near klamath Falls, Or.
The California hop crop promises to
be OF tirst-class quality. Picking is
about to commence.
Ali pursuers of the Coils train rob
bers, the Sheriff and posse and the Arl-
coma trailers have abandoned the search.
The surplus Of wheat in Oregon and
Washington will be about the same a.
last season, but the quality is superior.
A party OF Pimas Indians went into 4
Phoenix A. t. store recently and pur
chased ten parlor chairs and two boxes
Of stove polish.
A. L. Taylor, who dried his own april
cots this season, got $3.50 from las trees
on one and half acres in the south part
OF Pomona, Cal.
Thomas O'Brisn, President of the
Miners Union in the Crlr d'Alenes,
has been sentenced to six months in the
SnOSnone county jail.
Threats to kill Graham sympathizers
are made at Phenlx, A. T., by the
friends, it is supposed, OF Tewksbury.
who is charged with assaulting Graham.
An immense glacial field, covering
nearly as great an area as that of the
Alps, but not 30 thick, has been discov-
cred thirty-ive miles southwest Of
Shoup, Idaho.
A young man named Cooper robbed
the Superintendent OF the Idaho Sam
ping Mill Company at Haley, Idaho,
Of 1900 in county bonds, and left town
with the securities.
A fellow demanded a pass from the
Sou hern Paci tic at Los Angeles, and on
refusal he acted so strangely the police
we're called on to remove lin, but the
fe.low fought like q maniac and was Sc
cured with difficulty.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports fourteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with fourteen for the
previous week and twenty-three for the
corresponding week OF 1891.
Complains have been made at San
Diego before tn Superior Court against
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legged incompet+ncy OF the directors and
citations have been issued for them to
show why they should not be removed.
NJ. J. Williamson attempted to cross
the desert, a distance OF forty-five miles,
with only a bottle OF water. He was
subsequently found lying in the sand, in
q dying condition, twenty-five miles
north of Phoenix, A. T. He was taken
to Phenix, and will recover.
Portland has begun suit against ex-
Chief OF Police :. B. Parrish for $l5,-
9OJ.54, alleged to be due from him on
collections he has been making on the
city's delinquent tax roll. the full amount
OF which, as certified over to him BY
Auditor Branch, was s37 900.
A scheme to pool the lumber trade of
the Coast from Alaska to Southern CALI
fornia under one head has been origi.
mated in San Francisco, says Tacoma
dispatch. The plan OF the proposed
trust has been sent to the Coast mill
owners, and the development OF the
scheme for the past two months has been
carefully kept from the public.
1t is rumored in Salem that hop buy
ers in the vicinity OF Lincoln were offer
ing to contract a prime quality OF hops
at IS cents. 1t is known positively that
% cents has been offered near Salem for
several days, but the 35-cent rumor is an
astonisher. BUYERS concede that the
crop in England will be much shorter
than had been expected, and only
small yield was counted on. Shortages
are also being reported from California,
where picking is already in progress.
A very large deposit Of kaoin has been
found in the near vicinity OF The Dalles
on the Oregon side OF the Columbia.
This alkaline earth, when heated with
pure sand and potash or soda, forms
common glass. AS sand Of the purest
quality is abundant in this vicinity, and
the constituent alkaline earths are also
found in abundance, there is no reason,
says The Dalles Timer Nouatainser, with
the amount OF capital lying dormant in
The Dalles, that a glass factory should
not be inaugurated Immediately.
Arrangements are quietly progressing
which are likely to result in carrying out
the proposed scheme OF building motor
line TO Waterloo from Albany. Several
capitalists Of Portland, as well as Al
bany, are willing to take stock in the
project, and have been looking after the
matter during the past few days. 1t i.
proposed TO run an electric motor line
via Lebanon and Sodaville to Waterloo.
and from the falls there TO transmit
power for electric lights and motive
power for the street-car system of Al
bany.
Settlers who have filed homestead
claims and desire to make proof and pay
for the land must prove at least fourteen
months actual residence since the date
OF the entry to entitle them to commute
and pay cash for the land. The time
they have lived on the land before filing
will not be allowed when they seek to
commute. 1t will be allowed where they
continue residence and make five years
residence on their homesteads. This
statement is made on the authority OF
Captain J. I. Apperson, Register OF the
Oregon City land office.
A report comes from Turner and other
places in the Willamette Valley to the
effect that showers of the queer are work
ing in that neighborhood. In some places
they are using the old dodge by chang
ing a two-dollar to ten by FASTING the
figure ten from cigar stamp on a two
dollar bill And in places they are pass
Ing counterfeit silver dollars. The coun-
terfeit dollar is easily detected by the
sleek feeling, and is lighter in weight
than the genuine half-dollar, but the
tvo-dollar hill ia hard To detect unlass