The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-05-14
Steamer San Pedro Will be Raised
and Repaired.
SEATTLE, LAKE SHORE AND EASTERN
Nearly SI+, 900 Head Money Received From
Chinese Immigrants in One
Month al Victoria.


the police for the laxity with which they
perform their duties.
1t is stated that the San Pedro on the
rocks opposite Victoria, & C, will b
raised and repaired without doubt.
The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern
railroad is now merged into the Paci liz
division OF the Northern Pacific system
Ogden's City Council will use only
Utah stone for paving material, and al
contracts will specify tina, Ogden work.
men will do the paving.
Nearly $4,000 head money was re.
ceived at the custom-house at Victoria,
b. C., during the month OF April as rev
enue from Chinese immigrants.
Richard Grid Of Chino shipped over a
ton OF sugar beet seed the other day to
the Alvarado Sugar Company. This is
the first shipment of beet seed from
Southern California.
There is fear that the flow OF gas at
Ogden when the boring passes throug h
the quicksand will be 80 strong that il
will be beyond control OF the present IA
cilities provided to keep it in check.
Captain c. II. r. Fitzgerald, an Eng.
lishman who has had the handling OF
large sums OF money in connection with
the Santa Cruz Storage Water Company
at Tucson, has been arrested and charged
with embezzlement.
Irrigation through the immense ditch
OF the Mokelumne Canal and Irrigation
Company in the northern part OF san
Joaquin county, Cal, has commenced.
and there is great rejoicing among the
people OF that section.
The San Francisco coast defenses are
TO be strengthened by the addition OF
Twelve OF the latest pattern reinforced
nfteen-inch gun carriages. Orders have
been given TO have these carriages
shipped Immediately to the Pacific
Coast.
District Judge Sloan at Tucson has de-
cided that the Tucson and Narrow Gauge
railroad bonds are i'll gal on the ground
that the organic act creating the Terri
toTlal government OF Arizona prohibits
the Legislature from granting special
privileges or franchises.
The Yuma Times saws: The colored
mems colony purposes 10 plant large
area OF cotton. tobacco, sugar bets
ramie, and also To set out orange, lemon.
lime and tig trees, bananas and pineap-
PtNSI ~ o'-'Atki'tA ~ ~ III anu Dl1nLlDy
all kinds OF grain on its lands, twenty
miles southwest ri Yuma
Joseph Alexander and four others.
bondsmen OF Isaac W. Hibbs. the post
master at Lewiston, Idaho, have ap-
pealed from the decision OF the District
Court Ct Idaho, which sompels them 10
pay tire amount on a bond for $1,000.
Hibbs failed TO account for $50, 6iS. %. [
and the government sued his bond get
ting the full amount and costs.
The reports from the interior OF Cali
fornia on the grain and fruit prospects
are very good. The rains and frosts
have done but little damage, the great
est loss being TO grapes, and principally
In Napa Valley, but the injury il far
from severe. Wheat is looking well, .
and the outlook is excellent. Rains in
the south recently have improved the 1
conditions in that section.
The Cocopahs and Yumas mad bio
pow-wow recently west Of the town OF
una. The two t-ibes were drawn up
On opposite sides OF the irrigation ditch .
and talked Tor some time. 1t is sul-
posed the iumas were trying to induce
The Cocopahs TO return TO their own
as they interfere with the labor
4NesA ~ al AAIoA vicinity. Inc j QIDaE
think that all the work there riyhtfullv
belongs TO them.
A dispatch just received at Eugene.
d., by J. F. Robinson, Grand Recorder
)t the Knights Templar Of Oregon, state.
That man was recently committed TO
he insane asylum at Stockto Cal, by
The name OF B. K. Luckey. The friends .
Of +. X. Luckey, who mysteriousv dis.
from Eugene, think it probable .
hat he is the man. +. r. Luckey was
4 Sir Knight, and it is probable that the .
,lew is good one and will clear away
The mystery that surrounds the disap-
pearance. The matter will be looked /
into at once.
Major w. II. Williams, special United .
States Treasury agent, who has been on .
this Coast for several months on a tour
d investigation into matters connected /
with the Behrlng Sea sealing question,
will leave for the seal islands IN Alaska
on the steamer Bertha. Major Williams
will proceed direct to Ounalaska and
from there visit all the points where in.
formation can be secured. His INQUIRIES
are Tor the purpose of 81 discriminating the
claim OF the United States that the ex-
termination OF seals is unavoidable IL
pelagic sealing is allowed to continue.
The United States Circuit Court of An
peals OF San Francisco has reversed the
decision OF Judge Hanford in the Dis
trict Court 10 the cases OF the British
tugs Lorne and Pilot, which were fined
Tor towing American vessels in Ameri
ian waters. The defense OF the tuys
was that as the towing was partly done
On the British side OF the boundary run
ming through the Straits of Fuca. they
anne within the exception in the law in
svor OF tugs towing partly in Ameri-
IAN and partly in foreign waters. judge
held that the Straits OF Fuca 1
ire common to both nations, and that
40 part OF them can be described az ior. 4
,ign waters. The Court Of Appeals held
hat the waters north Of the center line |
II the Straits are foreign waters within I
he meaning OF the statute and that, il a :
oreign tug towing an American vessel
n from the ocean tows it partly north of /
u that line, 1t comes within the excep-
ion made in the law forbiddiny the '
owing OF American vessels in American /
'aters by foreign tugs. Foreign tugs I
an claim the benefit OF this execution ,
nless 1t can be shown that the partial /
owing In foreign waters is done in bad /
Attn, but in these cases no claim of bad v
aith was set up. The question is to I've q
nally decided bv the United States Sn. .
rene Court, United States District !
Ittorney Winston having asked for a h
lay OF proceedings until he can sue for n
writ Of error in that court .