The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-02-27
Suits Against the Hunt
System.
TIMBER SWINDLE AT TU SON.
Western Stack h.:>--1. 70 Hold . Con-
vention Al 0gdsn-A High :
Aluminium Assay.

f1lieu Near 70 &a9-oto-
Utah stock raisers have called for a
convention OF the eattlemen of the West
TO be held At Ogden on April % and 81
Work OF construction on the Oregon
Pacific railroad in the direction of East
ern Oregon il to begin az soon as spring
opens
All cattle have been ordered of the
White Mountain Indian reservation in
New Mexico, owing to disputes with
cowboys-
The Gov boys have had no fight with
the Navaioe In the vicinity OF Coolridge,
y. N, and nothing OF a serious charae-
ter is likely to occur between them.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports twelve failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories during the past
week, compared with eleven the pre-
vious week.
The Poetoffce Department has made
An order for two more carriers for the
Salem postoffice, making five in all
The territory will be extended to include
all inside and corporate limits OF the
city.
Felix McClelland has been arrested a,
Stockton aud charged with robbing the
Mokelumne Hill and Valley Springs
s:sxe. He vas once a trusted railroad
employe, but drink has caused his down
fall.
For some time past there has been a
settlers war brewing in the Little Te-
jun2a Canyon, Just north OF Los Angeles,
and it looks as If the Coroner would soon
have work TO do, az everybody is carry
ing Winchester.
Advices from Alaska concerning the
fate of Morri. Orion and a party OF ten
miners indicate that the men were muir
dered by Indians or were lost in trying
TO cross the stormy waters from the
sound to Yukitka.
The Transcontinental Association, il is
said, has agreed upon q one and one fifth
rate certificate plan for the delegates 10
the National Methodist camp meeting TO
he held At Ogden, Utah, reg nning May
q and running one week.
The Farmers Loan and Trust Com
pany OF Boston has begun suit in the
United States Circuit Court az Portland
TO foreclose three mortgages on the Ore
gon and Washington Territory -ailroad.
commonly known as the Hunt system.
The high assay OF 80 per cent. alumni
mum has been obtained from a stone
ledge in the Sierra Nadre. fifty miles
from Los A geles, which has furnished
material for many Of the best buildings
in that city. A company will develop
the find.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has filed number OF com plants
in the United States Circuit Court at
Los Angeles against various parsons in
Tdiare county TO recover lands occup pied
by them, alleged 10 be the property OF
the company.
Haggin x Carr, who own 100, 90 acres
OF land and claim the majority Of the
water in Kern county. Cal, have con-
sented 70 permit a branch 70 be con-
structed from the Kern Island canal.
which will irrigate about -, 90 acres OF
land next to Bakersfield that have here
tofore been held as desert.
The tin Der swindle has been worked
in Tucson. Men pay s25 10 show they
are in earnest in their determination TO
enter land in some Northern Pacific
State, which il 10 be purchased for a.
coo in sixty days By the shArpers, who
keep the $25 and skip.
In Septem Der last at Bedford. Mont,
Peter Woods, a railroad man, killed a
man who was recognized as II. 4 Short
OF Butte. Woods was convicted, and is
serving life sentence in the peniteL-
tiary. The Public Administrator tOos
charge Of the estate Of the deceasei. -.
A. Short has now appeared in Butte,
proved that he is still alive and taken
charge Of his own estate.
J. c. Reed OF Astoria, President Of
the npos,Cp E1ah (far,. sz ,Fz~.-l
with the law allowing none but citizens
OF the United states TO fi.h for salmon
in the waters Of Oregon. More citizen
ship papers have been taken out at As
to-ia the past year than during any pre-
vious five years President Reed thinks
there will be between 1900 and 5000
fishermen on the river this year.
Governor Markham Of California has
tayorably reported on a number Of appli-
cations for pardons. They will be sub
mitted To the Prison Directors for final
action at the next meeting Of the board.
Seneca Swain, who systematically Sc
cured possession Of Clara Belle Mellon
AIDS jewelry, is making a strong eTor.
70 secure his release from San Quentin,
and the Governor is reported To have ia
yorably considered his appeal for elem
ency.
Feeling il running high at San Diego
against the Paci tic Mail Com pany. and
it is openly charged tina, Captain Friele
oil the City Of sydney made four posi-
lively faise statements a. 10 the draught
OF his vessel, the depth OF water on the
bar at the mouth Of he hartor. the
depth OF water in the channel and his
delay there, with the object Of aiding
the company 70 avoid the clause in it,
contract forcing vessels 10 .tOp al San
Diego.
The sealing schooner Eliza Edwards
has returned ~ Vancouver, y. C., from
her third halibut fishing trip on the
north coast with iU,OvJ pounds Of splen-
did halibut. Captain Mckenzie thinks
he has found the winter feeling grounds
withor. a doubt, and that the fisherie.
will grow 10 immense proportions. 50
far the location OF the haiibut banks il a
secret with the discOyerers. The steamer
charges her cargo.
The Friends Polytechnic Institute Of
Oregon has filed articles OF Incorporation
at Salem with the County Clerk. The
object oil the corporation is 10 establish
q Friends Quaker school at Salem. II
In the intention to have the school es-
tablished by June. The capital stock il
1900, and the incorporators are II. J.
Mintnorn, w. J. Hadiey, J. w. Wins
low and B. r. Hinshaw Shares OF
stock are s25 each. The buildings will
BE- located in Highland addition.