The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-09-03
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Payment Of Interest on Railroad
Bonds to be Enjoined.
THE NATIONAL GUARD OF NEVADA.
A Solder Applicable to Aluminium and
German Silver Discovered by
Mining Engineer.


Yuma is to have an experiments
farm.
Heavy rains ara falling in Southern
Arizona.
Interior counties OF Nevada are very
Lake.
The Colorado river is falling slowly,
but lie still far above the average height
at this season OF the year.
A very large deposit OF kaolin has been
found in the vicinity OF The Dalles on
the Oregon side OF the Columbia.
The NJ. E. Church South proposes to
inaugurate at Phoenix an Arizona dis
trict high school. The buildings will
cost $oo, 900.
All the saloons at Wardner, Idaho
have been closed. Miners have been
holding secret meetings of the union in
some OF them.
The National Guard OF Nevada has
gone into camp for the first time in its
history at Treadway's Meadow with
nearly 400 in the field.
One manufacturing plant at Puyallup,
Wash, has this year made and sold $40, :
900 worth OF tree sprayers, all OF them
having found sale in Oregon and Wash
ington.
A Mexican while prospecting in the
hills north OF Castle Dome in Arizona
found silver bar weighing l04 pounds.
There 10 considerable speculation as to
how the bar got where it was found.
The payment of the interest on the
$200, 900 OF bonds issued in 1885 by Mar
ieopa county, A. T., to the Maricopa and
Phoenix railway is to be enjoined, and
the legality of the bonds issue is to be
tested.
Miraculous cures are reported by Santa
Teresa at Nogales, A. 7. Teresa was or.
dered from Mexico several months ago,
owing to her sympathy with the Ya9ui
Indians and her supposed disloyalty to
Mexico.
A curious fish has been found on the
beach at Port Oxford, Or. II has legs
and toes, a tail and a spiked nose, and
no signs OF scales OF anv kind. II is the
first marine wonder OF the season in tina,
locality.
A colony OF some fifty families o.
Scandinavians from the vicinity OF Spo-
kane and the Palouse country, Wash.
are looking for a location n Lane county,
Or, where they can get several thousand
acres OF land in body.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency
reports twelve failures in the Pacl 6C
Coast States and Territories for the pas,
week, as compared with thirteen for the
previous week and twelve for the cor
responding period OF 1891.
Up to A. NJ on SATURDAY. morning
the Chino San Bernardino county, Cal
beet-sugar factory had turned out this
year $50, n59 pounds OF sugar. OF this
quantity $4,000 pounds were from the
syrups of lsSl, and the balance was from
this years beet CROP, 352, U59 pounds.
W. A. Merralls, mining engineer OF
Los Angeles, claims &c have discovered
q solder Tor aluminium, a process which
has in vain been sought for during the
past thirty years. The invention " Ill
be OF great value in dentistry. alumni
ium being admittedly far superior to
rubber or gold in such work. The solder,
1t is claimed, is also applicable to Ger
man silver.
The Southern Pacific Company at San
Pedro is endeavoring TO shut off the
Terry landing from the boat that is reg
uiarly rowed to Terminal Island, a place
popular on Sundays and holidays, and
the citizens propose to condemn a right
OF way for street across the Southern
Pacihc's track 10 the waters edge, 50
that they can reach the ferry. There is
some bitterness over the matter.
msn found i'll in a shanty on the
outskirts OF Sacramento was taken to
the hospital, and when stripped for
bath each leg was found encircled with
garter made OF canvas, doubled and
the edges sewed together. The garters
had apparently not been off his legs for
many months, if for years. Each con-
tanned fifteen $50 gold pieces, making
1910 in all. He also had 50 in his pockets.
He had every appearance OF being a
tramp.
The sloop Idler, which sailed from
Seattle last June with a party of pros
pectors for Alaska, has returned after an
cruise. The party consists
Of George Fisher. August Anderson. VI.
l.. johnson and Sam Sanner. They
on Sumter and Sheep Islands
and found many good quartz lodges.
All the valuable claims have been 10.
Gated.
Hop picking has commenced in Cali
fornia on some Of the down-river ranches.
and the crop is said to be very salts
factory. There is quite an army OF buy
ers in the market from San Francisco. !
A majority OF the pickers are Chinese,
although number OF Nevada Indians
have already come TO engage in the |
work. While the red -kins are there ior |
the purpose of working, they a-e not
rushing pell neil into the hop fields. |
A weli-known grower says there is a /
prevailing opinion that the Ind ans and |
Chinese have this year pooled their
Issues aud are going to put mp the pric. |
oil picking TO point that almost means /
ruination to the growers. They are now |
paying % cents TO 81 per hundred |
pounds to pickers, and this will prob |
ably be Increased at the rate OF cents |
per hundred.
The total assessed valuation OF all |
railroads in Montana, as fxsd by the
State Board OF Equalization, is ~. 2s7. |
b32. representing twenty nine railroads |
with an aggregate mileage OF 1852. The
Northern Pacific main line has a mile |
age OF 1875 and its rolling stock il val |
ued at 81 ,635 per mile for assessment |
PURPOSES its rails at 400 per mile; the |
roadbed $40 per mile and the roadway
800 per mile. Its main line and |
branches have combined m lesge o.
! ,274. 20. valued at -, rs, 1881. The Great |
Northern and its Branches coun, 1857
miles, valnpd at $',7l2,7Ol. Rolling
stock on the latter road il assessed at
% per mile; rail-. 81 700; roadbed, /
} 200 and roadway 800 per mile. .
There is an increase OF the a.sessahle
islue of the railroads over 1891 OF 81
NJ iA2. due to the construction OF the
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