The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-03-26
Petrifled Forest Found
in California
NATURAL GAS NEAR OGDEN,
San Francisco Capitalists Purchase a
Mexican Gold Mine-Rats
War Begun.


the recent drive. Five thousand people
took part.
A petriied forest has been discovered
ranch, about six miles north of the town
of Willets.
The question OF retaliation BY the
United States against Canadian goods 10
causing some excitement among business
men OF Vancouver, B. G.
General Eli H. Murray has begun q
suit at San Diego against the Mexican
Land and Colonization Company for
$lOO,OOO damages for an alleged breach
OF contract.
Ell Promo mine in Sonora, Mexico, an
excellent gold property, has been sold to
San Francisco capitalists for 500. 900.
They will erect . large smelling and mill
ing plant on the property.
Y. A. warren, owner OF the Butte
tMont.) Inter-Mountain, has Just won
his suit in the United States supreme
Court for the possession Of the Comanche
mine in Anaconda, valued at - ,OOO, 900.
Work is going ahead vigorously on the
new road known as the Santa Fe, Pres
colt and Phoenix, which starts from the
little town Of Ashfork on the Atlantic
and Pacific and runs a little west and
south through the best portion OF Ari-
IONA
The transfer of the Seattle, Lake Shore
and Eastern railroad to the Northern
Pacific has been completed. A new
Board OF Directors was chosen, ard Jas.
B. Williams OF New York was elected
President.
Z. Z. Walters, young man from Lou
isville, KY, employed by the Farmers
Manual at Los Angeles as advertising
solicitor, forged contracts and obtained
the commission on them, and when he
was detected he stole the contracts and
left Los Angeles.
The rate war between the Union Pa
citic and the opposition steambo lines
on the Portland and Astoria route has
been formally begun. The reduction OF
the passenger fare by the Union Pacific
water-lines office to 81 was promptly met
by the steamers Telephone and Astorian.
Natural gas has been found near Os-
den. After boring six days and attain
ing 200 feet q six-foot flow OF perfectly
odorless gas was struck. Ogden believes
she is in the center OF a large gas region.
Salt Lake and Ogden will be lighted with
natural gas from the wells south OF Salt
Lake by September /.
Resident sealers at Vancouver, B. c.,
are determined to take advantage OF the
refusal OF the British government to re-
new the modus vivendi, and are fitting
all the available vessels for Behring Sea.
Seven new boats have been purchased
recently, and will be made ready for
service without delay.
The majority OF the inhabitants of
Fallbrook, San Diego county, Cal. have
voted upon II, 500 acres Of land bonded
Indebtedness of 800, 600, which with
the interest will amount in twenty years,
during which full payment has to be
made, to the contiscating sum of $780,
600 or about $64 per acre.
At Boise City, Idaho, in the case of
Rumple vs.. the Union Paci &c railway for
so, 900 damages the jury returned a YER
dict for the plaintiff, fixing the damages
at $lO,215. Rumple was run over by
Union Pacific train, losing his left leg.
The trial was one constant wrangle, and
after the verdict Edgar Wilson, counsel
for the railway, who took exception to
the abusive remarks OF J. W. Badger,
attorney for the plaintiff, gave him a Sc
we're drubbing.
The famous johnson estate case at
stockton, involving half a million dol
win pIoDdDlS Dt COHl DIOml5cO,
This is the estate which was the cause
OF an amendment passed by the last
Legislature, allowing a married woman
to be appointed administra rix. The
adopted daughter Of W. B. johnson, de-
ceased, claimed the estate, but the con-
test was made on the adoption papers,
and the decision was for the blood rela-
tives, and an appeal was taken.
The matter Of the final settlement OF
the accounts OF General Rufus Ingalls, as
executor of the estate of the late Ben
Holladay's wife came up before the ref
cree appointed by the Probate Court at
Portland the other day. General Ingalls,
submitted an offer of $40, 900, good for
six months, for the assignment Of Ben
Holladay's claim Of 500, 900 against the
government for Indian depredations on
his overland mail service, which has been
before Congress for many years.
County division in San Diego, Los An.
geles and San Bernardino counties, Cal,
this fall will be the important factor in
the choice OF legislative candidates.
Riverside and her allies, Banning, Col
ton and Alessandro, will wage a hard
battle for the formation of a new county
there, with Riverside as the county-seat.
The San Jacinto people are red-hot for
new county to he formed from San Diego.
Pomona will ask for division from Los
Angeles for the formation OF new coun-
ty, with Ontario and Aura as allies.
The Kern County (Cal.) Board of Su-
pervisors appointed delegates to the Mic
sragua Canal Convention, and when a
petition came before the board to paw
the expenses OF the delegates it was
found there was no record of the appoint
ment proceedings in the minute book,
the board having ordered the clerk TO
tear the page on which was the order
from the book, disposition to change
the names having taken possession of
the board. The people were indignant,
but the same names were substituted in
another order, and something like calm
followed.
The Los Angeles Terminal Railroad
Company has large force of surveyors
csmped about six miles west Of San Fer |
nando, running surveys from Burbank |
to Simi and Hueneme. 1t is stated on |
good authority that work is TO be com.
menced rs soon as the surveys are CON-
pleted. This will call for some heavy |
work in the Santa Susanna Mountains, |
with tunnel about half mile long.
The road will run through the finest
wheat growing country in Southern Cal
ltornia, and would pay well from tie
start, ss 1t would secure 600 carloads Of