The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-05-21
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Books Of the Kaweah Colony Show
Many Discrepancies.
FATHER CHER0USE IS SENTENCED.
The Edmunds. Tucker Law Accomplishing
Its Purpose In utah-0iher
Coast News.

An electric road from Truckee to LAX
Tahoe is talked of.
San Diego's street car system is to b.
turned into an electric one.
Niolators of the Edmunds- Tucker Law
in Utah are on the decrease.
c. l.. Blazier has been arrested at On
den, U. T., on the charge of forgery.
The North and South railroad will b,
completed to Prescott by September /.
Deputy Coroner J. A. Buck at Sar
Diego is charged With robbing the dead
King ussery, the notorious Arizons
stage robber, has been bound over a,
Globe in 5000.
Liquor dealers and other business
men at Sacramento have organized tc
fight the anti-license ordinance.
The war chip Iroquois hauled down
her flag at Vallejo the other day and
went out OF commission, and is likely
never to be used again.
Kid, the notorious Apache renessde.
made his appearance in the San Carlos
reservation and as suddenly disa D peared.
The people in that section are alarmed.
A letter from Alaska contains account
OF several projects for the DEVELOPMENT
oil the Alaskan coal mines, and it also
says that gold mining will be actively
prosecuted there this sumner.
The Hidden Hill, twenty-four miles
southwest from Fenner. q station on the
Atlantic and Pacific road, and about
Twenty-Five miles west OF Needles, is the
latest big gold mining find in Arizona.
The Klamath Indians have caught
great quantities OF mule. this season.
They dry them, pile them as high a.
cord wood and haul them to their homes
on the reservation for summer eating.
Three masked men entered the rooms
OF two ladies at Salt Lake, who had inst
returned from ball. and with pistols
forced them to give up their Jewels. The
ladies lost something over 81, 900 in dia-
monds.
4 dispatch from Virginia, New, saws
Charles Fair, a son OF ex-United States
Senator James Il. Fair, has been offered
the nomination as the Democratic can
didate TO represent the Lower House of
Congress.
The State Board OF Equalization of
California declines to rescind it's action
In directing County Assessors to add SIS
per acre u the assessments on hop and /
alfalfa lands. These lands are TO be
classed separately.
The books OF the Kaweah COLONY. I
which are being investigated in the EN-.
bezzlement trial at Los Angeles show
many discrepancies and the absence OF /
many needed vouchers TO explain init (
mated expenditures.
Great excitement prevails among the
catholic population Of British Columbia
over the sentence of Father Cherouse to
one years i'm prisonment for ordering an
indian woman on the La Fontaine res
ervation TO be logged.
British Columbia sealers are BEGIN
ming to realize that the United States ia
in earnest, and they count on the British
Minister OF Marine TO see that vessels
are duly notified and not summarily
dealt with as by instructions given by
Secretary Tracy.
County Court Judge Cornwall OF Lii
ioiet, b. c., has sentenced Father Cher.
ouse to one years imprisonment, Chief
e-Poot- Kin 10 six months and four
Indians to two months each for cruelty
whipping an Indian girl, who was caught
with her paramour.
|. J. Buttle Of Kingsley, Wasco county. :
Or, reports singularly fatal disease
that has attacked young pigs. causing (
the death Of eight head. The animals
swell at the knees and ankle Joints, and
these when opened after death exude a
large quantity of yellow matter.
Lively times in Northern Wyoming
are predicted. The rustlers have begun
their roupd-ups earlier than the law pro-
Vides, and when the cattlemen come to-
kether to brand their increase it is be-
ieved they will find none, for the rustlers
viii have appropriated all that to them.
'elves. Then trouble will begin.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports eighty-two failures in the Pacific
coast states and Territories for the
month oil April, with assets $3O6. $40 and
iaoiiities $ooO,l75 az compared with i
sixty five Tor the previous month. with G
assets s. 40, S39 and liabilities $2s7, sos
md eighty-one fer the CORRESPONDING =
month OF 1891, with assets spa, 1893 and q
liabilities *5l4,523. :
The river and harbor bill as it passed
he committee OF the whole in the Honse O
authorizes preliminary SURVEYS at the /
following named localities in Califarnia a
Did river, branch of the San JOAQUIN: {
san joaquin river from Hill's Ferry TO
re6augh's Ferry. including the closing y
d the sloughs on the river above Stock. I
ton; Navigable Slough, the BAY of San &.
francisco, MERGED river, mouth of Ma. :
varro river, Tuolumne river, harbor of
Crescent, Stanislaus river, Alviso Slough
and the entrance to the harbor of San '
francisco Golden Gate. r
The rumors which have been rife for
some time in regard TO the questionable
bnanciering OF Fred c. Walker cuImi.
mated the other morning in his appear
ance in the Police Court on a charge of h
5000 committed To v
his care for investment by II. +. Gin b
on OF New Westminster, b. C. Walker t.
9 one OF the most prominent LAWYERS in n
he province, and a son in law of Hon
ustice Crease Of the Supreme Bench N
'or years past he has been a leader in CT
ociety and entertained like a prince in tr
Palatiai home. 1t now appears that NJ
ther peoples money paid for many nj b.
he handsome entertainments for which II
- has been famous. 1t is estimated al
hat his shortage will reach fully 500 nj
oo. Whether Walker will be able 10
lear his skirts OF the faint OF criminal. q
y is doubtful. Judge Crease and his G,
'mily, who are among the most hon. f.
red and esteemed residents OF the prov. hi
ice, feel Walkers position keenIy' and ID,
icy have the sympathy Of the COM ne
unity. The name of the Judge and re
on: Z. Policy appear on the bail Hi
'nd On which Walker secured his re. wi
~se' tn