The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-04-30
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE.
Deeming Said to Have Once Been a
Resident of Los Angeles.
A PosTOFFICE ROB Der CoNFEssES.
The Anaconda Mining and Smelling Works
Receive Order TO Continue Their
0perations-EtC.

Eureka, CAL, is to have free mail.de-
livery service after June l.
The Printers District Convention met
at Whatcom, Wash. last week.
The new mill at Needles has begun
work. The process is the cyanide meth
cd, and is pronounced success.
Taylor, one OF the Boise City idaho
poetoffice robbers, has confessed his guilt
and turned States evidence against his
pal, Hinton.
The two men who kidnapped Norman
st. Claire at the Hsrqua Hala mines in
Arizona recently have been held in 81, =
900 bonds each.
Chinese are being smugyled into the
country at Tia Juana. The border line
to be guarded is very long, and but few
deputies are doing the work.
Operations are being pushed on the
Southern Pacific's new wharf and har-
Dor at Santa Monica Canyon. which, it
is estimated, will cost 81 900, 600.
George Montgomery. rancher and
miner we'll known in Cochise county, A.
T., has been murdered at his camp on
Silver creek in the Chracohua Mount
aims.
The Consolidated Wyoming has begun
suit against the Champion Mining Com
pany at Nevada City. The claim is that
the latter has been working on vein
that belongs to the former.
The new municipal authorities at San
Jose have inausurated vigorous policy
toward the suppression OF dives. gam
bling dens and all places suspected of
entrapping and fleeing the unwary.
1t is believed that Deeming, the Aus
tralian murderer, was in Los Angeles
between 1886 and 1888, where ne mar
ried Mrs. Mamie Catching and made
way with all her money and then disap-
peared.
After issuing orders to close down half
OF the Anaconda Mont. mining and
smelling works another order was re-
ceived to continue operations. The Par
rot works have closed down, affecting
$50 men.
By a decision Of Judge Van DYKE at
Los Angeles nonresident goods are
not liable TO attachment ii such nom
resident at the time OF the issuance OF
the writ is personally within the State
and hence is liable to personal service.
Dick Bender and Captain Jim, both
full blooded Washoe Indians, have lett
Carson. New. for Washington for the
purpose OF interesting the President and
the Indian Commissioners in the estar-
ilshment OF reservation in Carson Val
ley, or il that cannot be obtained. a hons
for the aged and needy Indians.
Millions OF Wild geese, ducks. sand
b II cranes, curlew and snipe still remain
at their fine feeding grounds on the
Lower Colorado and on New river. Par
ties In from that section say that thev
never saw them so plentiful as they are
this spring nor to remain so late before
starting for the North.
California celery company has been
organized in Westminster, Orange
county, for the purpose of growing veg
etables and establishing an extensive
pickle factory. Eighty acres OF peat land
has been rented for the company, and
the land is naturally very moist and
rich. The peat land black berry crop
promises to be very heavy one.
A thriving business is being done by
emuggiers who carry liquor from British
Columbi into Alaska. The liquor il
sold to the Indians in small quantities.
and the white population experience no
inconvenience in consuming W hat is left.
The United States is thus defrauded OF a
vast amount OF lawful revenue. Cap
tain Wallace of the steamship Civ Of
Topeka thinks that the only way this
illicit traffic can be stopped is BY send
ing well-equipped revenue cutter to
Alaska.
Thomas Y. Tallman, the manager Of a
local drug store at Sacramento, applied
to the State Board of Pharmacy for a
certificate Of registration as a practicing
pharmacist, but was refused on the
ground that he was not what he claimed
to be that he was simply conducting a
place for another person. Tallman then
brought suit in the Superior Court for a
writ OF mandate to compel the board to
issue the desired certificate, and the
court has sustained the State Board OF .
Pharmacy in it's refusal.
The steamer Thompson, which met
with slight accident in the Skamokawa
Slough the other day, has arrived at
Portland without trouble, and was at
once put in the boneyard. She will be
hauled on the ways and her hull re-
paired, and in short time will be in
running order again. The report that
the Sound steamers will not be brought
around, as first intended, has been con-
on the Sound for the present, as it is not
decided what to do with them.
The San Francisco Examiner Publishes
an article stating that the Western Mn-
tual Benefit Association has collapsed,
and that W. II. Riddell, who managed
its affairs, has left the city, and with
him has gone, 1t is alleged, some $40, 900
OF the associations funds. II is said
That tho aaanctafint, 10 ha
the Occidental Self-Endowment Associa.
ton, which collapsed three years ago. A
majority OF the members of the Western
company, it is said, reside in Marysyille
Sacramento, Santa Rosa and Vallejo. J,
M. Henderson OF Sacramento, who rep
resents number OF the members. il
about to commence civil and criminal
against the managers of the ,
United States Postal Inspector Sey-
Doldt Is preparing to make trip to ,
Alaska, and will start from San fran .
CISCO on the next regular mail steamer ,
Tor Sitka, where he will remain some
time. From Sitka Seyboldt will make
trip westward along the Alaskan coast
on the little coast steamer Elsie az far i
10 Ounalaska for the purpose of select ,
ing suitable stations for the establish. ,
nent OF United States postoffices. At
he present time Kadiak il the only
west OF Sitka, and the many /
recently esta blished canneries and trad.
nR posts make larger mail facilities i'm
oerative. On the last mail steamer for |
3ttka 726 letters left San Francisco for ,
)unalsska, and many more for other ,
POINTS west Of Sitka. /