The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-09-24
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Wonderful Strikes in Gold Mining
Up the Yukon River.
THE JURY IN THE MewHIRrER CASE

THE JURY In THE MeWHIRTER CASE
Scab Miners In the Occur d'Alene Want
Damages-California National
Bank Of San Diego.
The Oregon hop yield il about half q
crop.
Sacramento police are raiding the
gamblers.
Carson is being terrori1ei by burglars
and footpads.
st. Helena has commenced work on .
system OF sewerage.
Humboldt's County Hospital at Eu-
reka 10 now lighted with gas
Extensive forest free are reported
near Grants Pass, Or, in the mountains.
Salt Lake 10 exhibiting . 1850 gold
nugget from the mines At Osceo,a, New.
The Pacific Coast Fire Chiefs Associs-
ton will meet in San Francisco next
year.
More than one third of the freshman
class OF the Stanford University are from
the East.
A trunk with 100 pounds of opium has
been seized on the City of Kingston
at Tacoma.
The wrecked whaleback Wetmore ON
North Spit, near Marsh6eld, Or, shows
no signs OF breaking up.
Charles G. Price, convicted At Butte.
Mont, of murder, took poison while in
Jail, two hours after the verdict of guilty,
and died.
James d. Lacy, who killed Indian Pete
At Mayfeld last May, has been &C.
quilted at San Jose. The Indian as
saulted Lacy's mother, and Lacy shot
him.
The non-union miners in the Gear
d'Alenes, who were injured in the late
outbreak in Idaho, are to sue the com.
panies by which they we're employed
for damages.
The quail in Arizona have entirely de-
etroyed nine acres OF beans for William
Fair near Yuma. The birds appear by
thousands, and eat the plants entirely
of the ground.
The Roseburg and Coos Bay railroad
IL to be completed to Coquille CITY this
fall. The roadbed is now graded TO that
point, and rails are laid to within ten
miles OF that place.
new 6,OOO, OOO-gallon pump at the
Salem tOr.) water works blew mp with a
terrific crash the other day while run
ming at full speed. The house was
Hooded before the water could be shu,
of.
The north section Of the Gold Hill
(Sev.j public school building as de-
stroyed by fire Sunday night. Loss.
$4,000; insured for 1880. The fire is
supposed to have been OF incendiary
origin.
The Controller OF the Currency has
declared Q second dividend of 10 per
cent. in favor of the creditors of the
Caiitornis National Bank OF San Diego,
making in all 20 per cent. on claims
proved, amounting to $7ls,S3s.
The Reno Gazette Gays: All signs
point to hard winter. Pinenuts are
more plentiful than for some years past;
chipmunks are storing nuts in great
quantities and yellow jackets are thicker
than flies in some parts of the country.
The jury in the McWhirter case at
Fresno has brought in a verdict that de-
ceased came TO his death from gunshot
wounds inflicted by some person or
persons unknown to u.s." The testi-
mony did not favor the suicide theory.
A Sacramento girl, Miss Emily A.
Campbell, is to wed Mohammed. the
king OF Tramps" at Ogden, and much
to do is to be made over the event. Mo-
marriage being one OF the
conditions on which he is to win his
wheel barrow agreement.
Captain Worth OF the Alice BIanch- |
ard, just arrived at Port Townsend from
Alaska, reports wonderful strikes in cold /
mining up the Yukon. Miners are earn.
ing from IS to $lS q day. Over 800
whites winter in that country, q thing
never before known in that region.
Three Chinese who reached Tacoma
IN the steamship Phrs Nang we're or.
Tered deported by Deputy Collector
Berry, and will return on the same
teamer. They pc ,seesed certificates
ssued at San Francisco ten years ago
= hich described entirely different men.
They. cannot answer the questions in.
A Riverside man has lust succeeded
n extracting from ten pounds of orange
'eel oil in the proportion Of fifty pounds
0 one ton of peel. As q ton OF peel will
'ield oil to the value OF 1900 and the oil
ellis for 81 pound, the profits of such ,
N industry will doubtless prove satis.
actory to its founder. ,
The United States Fish Commission.
RS car No. has arrived at Pendleton, Z
'r. II contains in the twenty transpor- q
alton tanks some $500 black bass of
air size obtained at Quincy, ILL.,, from +,
ne overflow OF the Mississippi. About =
10 bass were put of at Boise, and most =
the remainder will be placed in Lib .
rty, Loon and Deer Lakes, Washington
few will be liberated in ponds near
layton. \
Reports from Washouyala. Wash
late that the fires still rage ferceIv in
ne timber belt north OF Bear Prairie o
wo women, one with children. have "
iade their way TO Washou,ala and tell
the terrible danger to settlers on tim. h
er claims. They had TO leave their II
ONES and take the quickest way ont. c
numerous cabins are scattered ali IN
trough the timber for twenty miles fo
ack, and 1t is not known how many 81
'ttlers are on their places. Mount
ieasant Is all on fire, and all the people ia
! and around that neigh borhood ave a,
ghting to save their homes. a,
A daring and successful train robbery b
'curred on the west bound Union Pa. IN
tic train recently. Just after the train b
1t Nsssis, station on the Short Line
fenty.tve miles west OF Caldwell. G,
laho, man in one OF the coaches an, dc
cached two of the passengers and se
ked change for IS. The unsuspectipg CT
Issengers drew forth their nocks booLs ds