The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-05-28
Cost of the New Sault Ste. Marie
Canal in Canada.
SWINDLlNG ENDOWMENT CONCERNS.
The Payments Of the Sugar Bounty for the
Present Fiscal lear-LouiSiana
Confederate Veterans.

to the United States.
Mrs. Grant has decided not to publish
her memoirs OF the General.
The prospects for crop of cotton |;
! per cent. less than that OF 1912 il
promised.
The cost OF the new Sault Ste. Mari,
canal in Canada has been estimated a
100000.
The annual reunion OF the Army OF thu
Cumberland will be held at Chicamaugs
on September Is.
Capitalists are said to be arranging tc
pipe oil from Portland, Ind, to Chicago
for fuel purposes.
The Confederate Veterans OF Louisians
will ask that the Legislature pass pen
sion bill for them.
A bill has been passed in the Ken.
lucky House making dealers in cigarette:
pay license OF 1870.
The Rio G-ande and connections will
fight the Union Pacific by reducing it:
running time to the East.
The necessary equipment for six miles
OF electric tramway is now on its way
from this country to Siam.
A change OF venue to st. Charles
county, No., has been granted to Hedges,
peth, the noted train robber.
A Boston syndicate has purchased
eighty acres OF land near Chattanoopa
Tenn, and will mine for gold.
Comptroller Of the Currency Lacey
will soon become President OF the Bank.
ers' National Bank OF Chicago.
Inhn L S,ll,y,o ,e,..
theatr cal engagement At BROOKLYN will
go into training for his match with Cor
bett.
Two thousand PAYERS and stonecutters
are idle in Vermont, and the dealers saw
the lockout will last forever, unless the
cutters give in.
The census bulletin giving the Stats
ties OF dwelling houses shows that Phil
adel hia has lS7 900 dwellings, Chicago
la 900 and New York 81 ,s2s.
Lieutenant Hetherington's father dis
credits the story sent out from st. Paul
that Mrs. Hetherington returned to
America under an assumed name.
II is announced that an English svndi-
cate Is after the Kentucky distillerles
with the intention OF limiting the pro-
duction and sending up the price.
Senator Cameron has introduced bill
appropriating S25 900 'or the survey of
the proposed ship canal from Philadel-
Phla to New York across New Jersey.
Arch bishop Elder of Cincinnati has
declined TO allow the Elks' funeral cere-
monies in a Catholic cemetery. The
CINCINNATI Elks are making great stir
about it.
Omaha bankers and railroad men have
refused TO subscribe money to entertain
the Peoples party National Convention
on the ground that its princi plies are in
lmical to their interests.
The payments OF the sugar bounty for
the present fiscal year have amounted 10
s. 900, 900, and the payment is practi-
cally completed. The estimate for the
ensuing year is $l0,0Oo,0OO.
The government having made no e.
tort to remove the cattle that have been
1rlven into the Cherokee Strip, the cow
boys have established camps, and are
preparing to remain all summer.
According 10 the New York State
Board OF Health there has been in that
state 30, 1913 deaths within the past three
months, and that the present epidemic
II grippe has already caused 10000
leaths.
The deal for the consolidation OF four
cen cotton presses in New Orleans has
gain fallen through. A fire interfered
With the first option, and in the second
he contract did not receive the sigma
ures in time.
Mortimer F. Elliott, who was defeated
" only ftty-one votes for Congress in
he Sixteenth Pennsylvania district, has
Gee pied the position OF general solicitor
I the Standard Oil Company at a salary
I {25, 900 year.
Swindling endowment" concerns Ia
Massachusetts, seem to have a strong po-
Iflcal pulp in the Legislature. The !
Mort to protect ertiticate holders by |
roper legislative gulations has 80 lar |
esuIted in failure.
The New York W,r'd pub ishe, fac
Irniles Of dispatches and checks in sup.
ort OF DR.. John Trumbul's charges that
onsul General McCreery specialized in
ne CHILEAN markets during the revolu.
on, and that his profits were large.
The Court Of Claims has dismissed the
etltion OF Elizabeth Walk, formerly
ostmistress at Emporia, Kan. This is
test case. involving the right OF post
iasters to recover the balances Of salary
'und to be due under the reimbursement
ct.
President Harrison will have a wire
ON Minneapolis to the White House
uring the national convention, and it i,
lou2ht that he will know the result in
de OF two minutes from the time the
il made. Similar convent
noes will be offered to other nominees.
Boycotts have been placed BY the
nights Of Labor upon the Pabst Brew.
Y Company Of Milwaukee and the
'hitely Reaper Company of Springfield.
/. The Executive Committee OF the
armers' Alliance will be asked to aid
the boycott against the Whitley con.
.rn.
Among the many schemes TO dispose {
the accumulated Texas school fund il
lat OF using it To open a canal from the ,
10 Grande in order to irrigate that part q
the State on the Lower Rio Grande 7
hich is suffering from drought. The g
nd, 1t is argued, would yield a large I
oft in bonds.
1t is alleged that number of govern.
ent employees at Ellis Island, together +
IN the employees several steamship J.
hes, are working in collision to defeat !;
e operations Of the c1ntract labo, Law /.
ID an investigation into the matter has =
'en commenced, which may result in y
e dismissal Of some Of the government .
nployes. e
A. Gilmore, a notorious outlaw Of n
nth Carolina, entered the house of r,
~. William Bruht near Fayetteville. v
e., and finding no one but Miss Brunt h
ere, forced her to prepare dinner for a,
IN ut the point Of a pistol. After eat ii
heartily he leaped out OF the W ndow a,
zen Miss Brunt seized gun and shot II
lmore, thirteen buckshot striking him n,