The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-03-05
Portuguese Laborers are
Basely Deluded.
SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO STOCK
Petaluma viii Probably Haye a Silk
Factory-Real Indians in
Border Drama.

are toqult towing barges. 1t does not pa
Telephone connection between L.
Angeles and Santa Barbara has bee
made.
Montana mining companies are shu
ting down the mills, owing to the 10
price OF oliver.
Revenue officers at Boise CITY are su
cessfully raiding Chinese shops for co,
traband opium.
The company for building and opera
ing silk factory at Petalums, Cal, hs
been reincorporated.
San Bernardino and Los Angeles a,
made closer neigh bors BY q flier Ia
southern Pacific has put on to run h
tween the cities.
The Southern Pacific is to rebuild abou
eight miles of track on higher level .
Ochoa, east OF Benson, A. T. This
done to avoid washouts.
The United States District Attorney
Boise City, Idaho, has requested the dis
missal Of the indictments against twent
Mormons accused OF polygamy and adui
terry on the ground that the evidence i
insufficient to convict.
A Boise City dispatch says: The re
ports floating through the press of larg,
losses OF stock in Southeastern Idaho
are absolutely without foundation. The
cattiemen have an abundance of hay or
hand to feed the stock till grass appears
The Los Angeles Ere,ing Express will
be twenty-one years old on March p
next, and the event is to be celebrated
with a complete new dress" The E,.
press is the oldest paper in Southern Cal
lorna. with the exception oiH'rde San
Diego Union.
A scheme has developed to control the
water supply of Los Angeles. A secret
meeting OF the Council was held, in
which attorneys addressed it in the al
legged interest OF the public, but evil
IDENTITY to obtain advantages for a newly
organized company.
The Arizona and Sonora Land and Ir
rlgatlon Company owns 800, 900 acres
OF land in Northwestern Sonora and Ar
iona, and canal will be built from a
point twenty-eight miles from Yuma,
running thence into Mexico, where it
will irrigate 900 ,0O acres.
c. P. Huntington has instructed W.
n. Mills, land agent OF the Central Pa
cific, to make some large land purchases
in California. Mr.. Huntington writes
We must break up large land holdings
In California ii we ever expect to make
any great success with our railroads. Ten
thousand acres in Northern California
will soon be purchased and sold in small
lots to farmers. Other large purchases
will follow"
mick OF the Woods" border drama.
was put on the stage at Carson, New.
the other night with local talent. Gen
nd p,Y.ss.
the stake dance, which is graphically
described as 80 realistic that the /" andi-
ence was SPELL bound and timid ladies
trembled as the apparently infuriated
savages swooped their knives and hatch.
cts in the face OF Nick"
One Of the biggest gold nuggets ever
seen at Tucson, A. T., was brought to |
that city recently. A Mexican, while |
walking along the placer diggings at /
@lulJotoa, which had been washed out by |
the late rains, saw the gold, dingy vel |
low lump, sticking out OF the sand. and
kicked 1t loose. The value OF it is about
500. 1t weighs eleven ounces. Smaller
nuggets were also found.
1t is stated at Victoria. B. c., that the
has decided to aid the proi. l
ect OF bringing crofters to that province
by loaning the province el5O.OOO for
thirty years at ! per cent. interest, II
10 further stated that an English com.
pany ls IN course OF organization, with a
'apital oil FL 10000, for the purpose OF
the fish from the boats OF the
'roiters as soon as caught and transport.
ny them through the cold storage sys-
EN- on steamers and cars to every i'm
'ortant market on the continent.
The Fresno Canal and Irrigation Com.
AMY, formerly the Pine Ridge fiume.
lied declaration OF intention to bond
he tiume for $500, 600. the bonds TO run
or twenty years. The purpose is to !
arse money for the construction OF
June from Fresno fifty seven miles to
he tim Der belt OF the Sierras. The pur- {
'ose is to bring lumber down; also TO I
AIRY water for irrigation purposes. By
$4,000 acres OF raisin land will receive
1ater, which now has none. A billion
eet OF lumber is tributary to the flume
Water in the Frazer river above Yale /.
,anyon is lower at present than in the =
memory OF the oldest Indian. The re-
eding water left the sand bar exposed
ast week, which is about two acres in
lie. The bar had no sooner appeared !
han number of Siwashes went over
nd prospected it, with the result that =
ood pay was found. This created some =
xcitement among other Indians. and
ONE hfty Siwashes are now hard at work
n the bar, all making big wages. A
Ugh as $40 day has been washed bv e
,me OF them, and the gravel, it is said n
'ould yield rich returns if means were L
hand to work it scientifically. Z
From present Indications Desert Lake +,
Ill be much larger than last wear. At a
resent the lake is about half a mil. II
ide. and after running along the South. 70
IN Pacific track for about two miles or a.
nds off out OF sight to the south. At az
lis time last year there was not a dron n,
water visible, although there was q ar
iantity few inches below the surface 70
the sink. 1t was not until several
onths later that the floods occurred in m
70 Gila and Colorado rivers, caused Inv an
. melting OF SHOWS, and it was in An- hi
st that the water in Salton Sink began IN
attract attention. Shows in the hr
at present are heavier than hi
; years, and coming, as the water will wi
len they melt, on land already in a an
&c part saturated, a lake of unexam- nj
u extent will probably be created. a.,
! residents believe that about ion %,
les Of track Of the Southern Pacific ma
ich lies In the desert below the sea "a,
81, will b. overfiowed. in