The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-10-29
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Chinese Highlander Murders a Boy
in Los Angeles.
HORSE THIEVES KILLED In IDAHO
German Shoemaker Breaks a Pitcher 10
Pieces and Cuts His Throat With
the Fragments.

Sacramento has voted 100000 il
bonds for levee Improvements.
During the year 1891 there we're 2,ll(
marriages and 45s divorces in Oregon.
The City and Citizens Water Com.
panies at Los Angeles have combined.
The Star group OF mines at HALEY,
Idaho, have been sold to Salt Lake CAPT
talists.
The grain warehouse of the Pacific
Milling Company at Tucson, A. T., has
been destroyed by fire.
A mountain of carbonate of zinc has
been discovered near Hillsboro, n. NJ,
the ore OF which is worth about $S5 per
ton.
Silver salmon are now very p entiful
at laquina Bay, Or, and are being
caught with trolling lines in great num-
bers.
Dick Horn, alias Fox" shot Joe
Lynch in the stomach at wellington.
New. The trouble Was over Q game Of
cards.
The captain Of the clipper sealer Agnes
Macdonald at Victoria. B. G.. has i,-
sued a challenge for . race to the sand
Professor Barnard at the Lick Observ-
atory has discovered by the aid OF
photography a faint comet. This is the
first discovery OF = comet by this means.
Sontag and Evans are believed to have
located near Watts Valley. fifteen miles
north OF sampson Flat, where provisions
Tor the winter have been sent into them.
The Supreme Court Of Idaho has unan.
imously sustained the constitutionality
OF the State test oath law. This will
prevent the Mormons from voting this
year.
Mill owners in Washington and Ore
gon, outside Of Portland, are ORGANIZING
for mutual benefit and protection.
They cain they are making -four with
out profit.
Chung Jung, the supposed murderer
OF the Spanish boy, Fernando Quiiads.
at Los Angeles, whose body was found
in a cesspool, has been captured and
placed in prison.
A. Ruiz, a Mexican rancher at San
Diego, attempted to get possession of
his wiie's property by swearing that she
was insane, bat he landed in iai! on a
charge OF perjury.
The advance guard of Chief Engineer
kennedy's corps has arrived at Palermo,
Gal, and will at once commence the pre-
hminary survey for the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake railroad.
The chief hop buyers and the brewers
oil the Northwest have formed a combine.
The growers in Washington believe
prices will reach - cents, and those who
can are holding for better prices than
they now receive.
About twenty shippers of Seattle have
organized transportation bureau to pro-
tect each other against unjust discrimi.
nation by transportation com panies and
Tor the protection and development of
the shipping interests of the city.
On opening the schoolhouse of the
gallagher district, in Mason Valley.
New, after the summer vacation it was
discovered the bees had taken posse scion
OF the children's desks, and about 800 |
pounds OF honey were taken from them. |
Northern Pacific railway officials an
nounce that arrangements have been eff !
fected whereby the Atlantic steamers |
Alaska and Arizona will be brought to |
Tacoma for service next season on the |
Northern Pacific and Oriental steamship |
line.
1t is stated at Boise City, Idaho. that
q posse OF citizens exterminated q band
OF eight horse thieves in August in
Idaho county, the particulars OF which
are just becoming known. After the
men were shot, their bodies were hanged
and left for the buzzards to feast upon,
Charles F. Blum at Albuquerque, y.
~, while suffering from fever got M
rom oed and, taking a razor from his
trunk. cut his throat, severing the jugu-
ar VEN, and then cut a horrible cash
across the abdomen. He next got pis-
.ol from his trunk, and shot himself
'hree times, twice in the mouth and
'nce In the razor wound in his neck.
The 400 Indians on the Grande Ronde
reservation originally represented the
oi!owingt tribes: Umpquas, Callapooias
oregon City, Molallas, Rogue Rivers
Cow Greeks, Shastas, Klickitats. Tuala, n
ins and a few Columb ia Rivers bn,
here is now no distinct tribe, owing 10
Several Indians claim IN |
% centenarians. The agency il well 8
onducted, and Agent Lamson is a great .
'vorite with his wards. q
y. IL. Dodson, a well.known attorney ~
San Diego, has been horsewhipped 3
Jennie Page, a young lady. Miss
age 10 a niece OF Dodson, and tool
lis method OF resenting the insulting 81
'marke she claims were made by him go
'ncerning her. The horsewhipping AZ
ok place in front OF the Tidettr OF Ia
&C. where Miss Page is employed as a IA
'mpositor. A large crowd Witnessed 10
ie scene, but no one interfered until ~
re police arrived. Dodson bears marks
u severe whipping. ur
In 1891 there were 397 acreo in hons in d
Dix county and the yield was 2, 334 bales o.. o.
MS year the acreage is $50 acres and ~
Ie yield $3.50 bales. This incres,e in sel
teage IS nearly 100 per cent. while the ".
crease in yield is only about so Der az
NJ. Two reasons are given for this: p"
rst, the small yield OF many of the new
'rds, and the shor.ness of the CROP this Ur
ar. In some places this shortage va
MOUNTS to fully 50 per cent. less than 80:
81 year. Inequality of the crop in the pu
unity Is better than ever before. en-,
A German shoemaker named Rp. "a
iph MANI at Phoenix, A. r.. during ~
night broke pitcher TO pieces. and 's'
IN the Jagged fragments cut his throat 7
TN the blood flowing from him in tw,
'eams he walked through the hall IN EN-
poich, and deliberately precipitated Tn
mself to the ground, sixteen feet be. era
=: In spite OF the added in iuries from tea
liking stump the man must have Su,
ON still conscious and intent on self. an
structiou, for he reeled of TO a ditch tea
'ere he was found, in which he seem, fen
have Intentionally thrust and Kent era
head until unconscious or dead. fem