The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-04-16
IDAHO IN BRIEF.

building S2UOto brick block.
y new $1,000 Baptist church is
under construction at Boise City.
The Alliance Ledger, published at
Nollmer, has suspended publication.
The Bunker Hin and sullivan is
working over the tailings of last sum-
mer.
The town hall at Juliaetta was
opened with big celebration Friday
night.
\ consignment of 1900 trees has
been received at Boise City to be ex-
perimeutcd with.
\ gold brick, a product of the Gold
Hill mine at Quartzburg, has been sold
at Boise City for $500
Colonel J. A. Torrance's embezzle-
ment from Boise City and the q. \. r.
post foots up to nearly $500.
The Farmers Alliance Of Ada coun-
ty, of which Boise is the seat, fayors a
third party ticket, state and national.
Moscow Odd Fellows will have a cele-
bration April 18th, Oh the event of the
seyenty-third anniversary of the order.
Mrs. George Inglehart suddenly be-
came insane at Boise, Tuesday, and
beat her husband with a club. lie
may die.
At Moscow $50 acres Of school
lands were sold at an average price of
$40. One Quarter-section sold for
$3.50 per acre.
Angus McIver playf,,lly lassoed Lou
Crockett and pulled him from his horse
at Bald Mountain, Friday. Crockett
was seriously injured.
Large numbers of cattle are reported
as dying in southern Idaho from some
kind OF poison that exudes from the
ground and settles on the grass.
Peter keifer, a rancher near Idaho
Falls, was shot by neighbor named
Phillips by the way of indemnity for a
broken moving machine which Phil
lips had loaned him.
1t has come to light that Torrance,
the absconding deputy internal revenue
collector, was guilty Of black mailing
from whom he extorted
various sums on one pretext OF another.
Sentence was passed Oh Smith who
attempted to throw a Union Pacific
tram off the track in January last. He
gets three years. He denied malice to-
ward the railway, and said that he
could not explain what motive gov
erned him.
Charles Deyiny, city marshal of Poca-
teilp, has abscondeI, taking with him
about $3.50 of the city's money. The
rumor that he was foully dealt with is
without foundation. y warrant is out
for his arrest.
kendrick ranchers have discovered
that the climate there is particularly
adapted to the growing of prunes and
delicate fruit, and thousands of acres
Of wheat ground will be devoted to
fruit growing.
The disputes growing out of the in
yolYed title to the Last Chance and
Tyler mines, reaching to the Colonel
Sellers and Palmer Fraction, and the
lnez and Oakland have been settled
and work will be resumed on
the two last named under management
Of the sierra Nevada.
An Osburn dispatch says that the
labor situation in the
C9ur dAlenes remains practically I'M
changed. Osburn feels the pressure of
the prevailing hard times less than any
Of the camps, as work has never ceased
Oh the mines about Osburn during the
but the entire country is
paralyzed in a business way.
1t is sincerely hoped that June Ist will
see all the mines again in operation.
and this unhappy dispute amicaby
; titled.
The men who robbed the Boise City
postoilice last week have finally been
run down and caught. Postal Inspec-
.or +. e. Clement and Marshal Pink !
!an are positive that they have got the
light persons. Frank Henton. one # |
he men suspected by Marshal Pink
iam early in the evening Of the robbery,
vas arrested bnt for lack Of evidence
Vas turned loose. lie finally left town
md went 10 Pocatello. where he was |
lrrested by Deputy Marshal Dryden.