The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-08-13
THE BREEDERS OF GOBLIN MOTH.
Pineapples Planted Near San Diego, Cal,
Give Every Promise OF Sue
cesSful Growth.

emeitlnk anu Ecunlng plant
The Odd Fellows Hall at Fort Bragg
is finished and being occupied.
The Rio Grande Western is laying a
track westward from Salt Lake City.
The blossom of the wild grape has
been adopted as the State flower OF Or
egon.
Portland, Or, is to be supplied with
water from 4 lake on a spur OF the Cas-.
cades.
County Clerk Gassaway has been ac-
quilted at San Diego on the charge OF
misconduct in Office.
Purchasers for walnuts when green are
appearing in the South. The. nuts are
wanted to color cloth.
Santa Monica will probably be the
great naval harbor and port for the COM
merce OF Southern California.
Twenty-nine cases brought under the
EdmundsTucker law against Mormons
were dismissed at Ogden recently.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports ten failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week.
The quicksilver mining industry in
Sonoma is reviving. Several mines have
t0t0ty oSCh iCoRSACds 0ho WI IL
pushed.
Areduction in the force at the mint at
Carson is being made, owing to a de-
crease in the appropriation for running
the mint.
Sheriff Cunningham of shoshone
county, Idaho, has been removed, owing
to his weak and vaciilating policy during
the late riots.
The Truckee Company has reduced the
wages OF its employees at Jacksonville,
Or, and has refused to take any more
logs from the logyers.
The boundary line surveyors have 60
far found no variations OF the line be-
tween Mexico and the United States that
will effect the original survey.
The census shows that Oregon has
fifty-nine tobacco planters and twelve
acres planted in tobacco. The output
was 3,:25 pounds, worth 1866.
The Reno Electric Railway and Land
Company has been Incorporated in Ne
vada. 1t will build railways and pur-
chase land in California and Nevada.
The miners in Idaho contend that
their union was not incorporated in that
State and its mem oeIs therefore are not
within the jurisdiction OF Federal Courts
A nugget OF gold as large az a goose
egg was washed out from under a ledge
OF rock on the slopes OF Old Baldy the
other day and sold in Los Angeles for
1915.
A large number of pineapples brought
from Central American ports were
planted in Mission Valley, just north Of
San Diego, and they give every promise
OF successful growth.
The last carload OF oranges for the
season has left Riverside, Cal. The
shipments OF citrus fruits from that sec
ton were l, 406 carloads, small falling
of from the previous season.
The intermittent boiling geyser at
Amedee, Lassen county, CAL, which
suddenly ceased to flow, has as suddenly
and mysteriously started again, throw
ing the water to greater height than
before.
1t is believed there will be an exodus
OF non-union men from the Ceur d'Alene
country II the troops are withdrawn.
Efforts are being made to have one or
two companies of United States troops
remain.
The value OF beet pulp for fattening
cattle having been demonstrated at
Chino last year, Mr. Grid mas huilt silo
50U feet long, 81 feet wide and feet deep.
in which to preserve for use the pulp
from the factory.
The Canadian Pacific Navigation Com
pany has decided to run the steamer
Yosemite to New Westminster hereafter
instead of Vancouver. Arrangements
have been made with the Canadian Pa
cific Railway Company TO transfer pas
sengers at Mission.
Governor Markham OF California has
been presented by the Miners Associa-
ton with handsome gold match box.
The match box was made from gold
taken from the Gould & DoolittIe mine
near Dutch Flat during the recent visit
OF the Eastern editors there.
The advent Of such large numbers OF
moth millers in Hillsboro and surround !
ing towns in Oregon which use electric /
lights has caused considerable comment
among fruitmen, as they are undou btedly I
the breeders OF the Goblin moth, which |
!. causing such havoc with fruit in the |
Willamette Valley.
Three Chinese merchants have quietly !
slipped into Tacoma to establish a house |
TO trade with China over the new North /
ern Pacific railroad tran.pacitic steam /
ship line. Three years ago all Chinese |
were ordered from the town. The labor |
ing men are showing much excitement. /
and trouble is apprehended notwith-
standing the Mayors promised protec- |
ton.
A messenger from the Buena Vista oil /
regions, thirty-six miles west OF Bakers
field, reports that red oil has been strnck
at depth Of eighty feet. This ia a first
quality OF lubricating oil, and runs like |
water. The black and green oils hereto
fore discovered have an asphaltum base,
This new discovery has parafine base,
~ do all oils from which kerosene il
made. This we'll has capacity Of TWEEN
ty-fve barrels daily, but pumps are nee
essary.
In Southern California apric7ts are
about all gone. Green fruit which
brought from $50 to s25 has been mostly
cold at 10 to IL cents. Early peaches
are ripe. The crop is heavy, but the
size OF the fruit IL smaller than last wear.
Prices open at $25 to $50 per ton. The
prune crop in the San Gabriel Valley is
largely contracted for at 81 81 to- $50
Orange growers report good prospects
n. An average crop and lemons not quite
- good.