The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-07-16
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
An Estimate of the Prospective
Wheat Surplus.
THE HARVEST SEASON IN MISSOURI.
Smallpox in Chicago-Keeley Institute
Accomplishing Good in Kansas
Our Gold Exports.

The wheat yield throughout Illinois
will be very large.
Chicaso is threatened with another
smallpox epidemic.
A Garfield monument costing $lO0, 0OC
is proposed in Chicago.
Chicsgo's people drink $1,000 gallons
OF soda water every hot day.
Gas at 81 per 1000 is very acceptable
to the consumers OF Cincinnati.
A bichloride of gold cure has been de-
clared a necessity in Sedalia. Mo.
The Rio Grande Western has been au
thorized to increase its capital 5000,
600.
The Board of Health now estimates
the population Of New York to be $50.
90.
Louisiana's Legislature wants United
States Senators elected by ballot Of the
people.
Thousands OF cattle are being brouxh,
from Mexico into Western Kansas Tor
pasturage.
A shake-up OF officials has taken place
in the freight department Of the Texas
and Pacific.
During the past three months this
country has exported 779, 800 barrels oil
hour to Cuba.
The last census in the State OF New
York develops the fact that II per cent
OF the population are aliens.
No less than thirty sardine factories in
Maine are closed because there is no run
OF suitable-sized 6sh to pack.
The harvest season in Missouri is &C
companied by the usual hailstones, v hich
break through roofs and kill chickens.
A movement has been started in Chi
easo to secure the pardon OF Neebe
Schwab and Fieldsn, the Haymarkei
Anarchists.
Secretary Foster has much hope OF the
beneficial outcome OF the international
monetary conference, which will be held
in Paris or Dresden.
The Kelley Institute at Herington has
already turned out two graduates. Thus
the work OF cheating the devil goes
briskly on in Kansas.
The Superintendent OF the New York
Lunatic Asylum says that the excitement
while engaged in a game OF baseball has
cured several patients.
In all OF the New England States the
smaller industries are beginning to run
tuii time, and a busy summer seems to
be assured on all sides.
Cheyenne and Arapshoe Indians re-
tused to accept 5o0. head OF beeves from
the government agents, who, they claim,
have been robbing them.
The troubles along the Rio Grande
frontier have no political feature. They
are caused by individual acts OF despe-
radoes from both countries.
The bodies OF President and Mrs Polk
will soon be removed from their present
resting place in Polk Place, Nashville,
Tenn, 10 Mount Olive cemetery.
A bill is to be introduced into the next
session oil the Pennsylvania Legislature
TOR the creation OF forest reservations at
the headwaters OF principal rivers.
OF the s45, 600 stolen from the United
Express Company at Pittsburg on June
q by +. J. Ryan the company has re-
covered IA, sl3, Ryan having spent only
slS7.
Three hundred negroes at Haynes, Lee
county, Ark, took one OF their race
named Donnelly from Jail and hanged
him. Donnelly assaulted txelve-year-
old colored girl.
Electricians are very busy designing
new plants for the smaller towns and
cities throughout the West, and quite a
number OF cable and electrical roads are
to be built this fall.
A lottery agent is suing the town Of
Ludlow, KY, for 5000, which he paid for
a license to keep open his office. The
!Ioeoel bill. he says, shut him up, and
he wants his money back.
The net exports of gold for the five
months ending with May were $l6,9,2,-
100, and the net loss TO July will not
exceed s34 ,0O0, 900, as against about $oS,-
OOO, 900 in the first half OF 1891.
Almost a, 900 was realized at an OPEN
air performance Of ''As You Like 1t =" in
Senator Farwell's residence grounds at
! hlcago. Ada Rehan was the Rosalind.
The performance was for charity.
Huffman 4 Hohlers OF Cincinnati for
weeks have been engaged in making
stills and other d stilling machinery os-
.ensibly for gentlemen in Brooklyn, but
t is widely gossiped the stills are really
or the sugar trust, which will distiil
high wines.
Rev. J. s. Ives, pastor Of the Congre-
ration Church at Stratford, a suburb OF
Bridgeport, Conn, was hanged in effi,y
he other day. He was unpopular be-
:ause he had the drug and confectionery
torres closed on Sunday and wanted the
treet cars to stop running on the same
lay.
Bradstrsst's estimates that on the basis |
II the latest government wheat crop this |
ountry will be able TO export go, oD).. !
90 bushels Of wheat in 1923 and leave |
eserves on July |, 1898, equal to those |
arried over year ago. For ten years |
'ast the average annual ~heat exports
II the United States have been less than
%, 900, 900 bushels.
The breaks in the Lower Nis,issinni
evees are effectually closed BY sandbays.
That such a simple, handy and inexpen-
i've stOpgap should avail where the wis
lom OF the best engineers OF the country
las found itself at fault is one more H.
ustration OF the oft-attested truth that
he great discoveries OF the earth after
III lie very close TO hand while inventors
re seeking them in the clouds.
The attempt OF the company which
las secured the privilege OF Transporting
passengers to the Worlds Fair 10 take
OF the portion Of the lake
ront selected for landing place was re-
listed by sailors, who have used that
'articular section for years az a sort Of
eadquarters for pleasure boats. and a
lot ensued. The sailors were wors,ed
mt propose to legally test the matter.
There is an alarming scarcity Of farm =
ands in Kansas. At the stations along ,
he Santa Fe railway the trains are daily =
esieged by farmers trying to .ecnye ,
1en TO work. They offer from 81 10 s3a ,
ay with board-wages which have nsv., =