The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-04-16
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Landslides in Tehachapi Mount
aims Delay Trains.
DAYTON, NEW, WANTS FREE COINAGE.
The Miners Charged With Assassinating
Editor Penrose at Butte City
Are Discharged.

A new gold find near Yuma is re
ported.
Mexican money is selling at 20 cents
on the dollar in Nogales, A. T.
On April - a monster cattlemen's
convention will be held at Ogden.
Nevada Democrats will hold the State
convention at Winnemucca on May %.
The Printers District Convention will
meet at Whatcom, WASH, on the 2lsi
inst.
Phoenix "a. IT, citizens will soon Be
able to sit under the umbrella trees in
the courthouse grounds.
The Albatross and Corwin will make
. thorough and scientific investigation
OF the seal and its habits.
Five OF the prisoners who made their
escape from the Tombstone "A. T.
prieon have been recaptured.
The Queen of the Hills mine near
Bellevue, Idaho, has been sold to an
English syndicate for saOo,OoO.
In the Silver Belt mine in Maricopa
county, A. T., two-foot vein OF *6.lOC
silver ore has just been struck.
Judge Gooding has decided in a case
at Phoenix that gambling debts canno:
be collected by an action at law.
The Douglass mill at Dayton, New,
and the Ophir mill are to shut down,
owing to the low price OF silver.
The people of Dayton. New, are pledg-
ing themselves to vote for men only who
favor free coinage and irrigation projects.
The San Dimas Canyon silver mine
excitement near Lordsburg, Cal, has COL
lapsed. The camp is now almost de-
serted.
The total salmon pack this season will
not be above l,0oO,OO cases. This is
owing to a combination of Gamers to cut
down production.
A mica mine in Mojave county, A. T.,
with remarkably clear and beautiful
sheets, lie attracting the attention OF
Chicago capitalists.
A decree OF divorce in the case OF
Ewing vs.. Ewing at Lo- Angeles has
been annulled by Judge Shaw on the
ground that the husband secured the
decree through fraud.
There is a struggle at Virginia CITY
over the insurance on the life OF Colonel
John I. Brady, who recently died there.
Miss Jennie Brophy and a brother OF
Brady are the claimants.
Ten prisoners cut their way out through
the wall of the prison at Tom bstone, A.
T., the other night. A common table
spoon and piece of wire were all the
men had to do the work with.
The mine owners in the Cnur d'Alene
section threaten to bring in men who
will work for smaller wages than de-
manded by the union, and trouble is
looked for if an attempt to execute the
threat is made.
The committee appointed by the Ore
gon State Board Of Commerce to secure
contributions to a fund to be raised for
the purpose OF providing a creditable
exhibit at the Worlds Fair have aban-
doned the work.
The new police regime at Sacramento
Is creating q panic among dive habitues,
opium fends, Migrants, lewd women and
other ritf-raff that have flourished in
that city. Squads have left the city for
San Francisco and other places.
Trains on the Los Angeles division are
through the Tehachapi Pass. A constant
stream Of mud and rocks is falling at
tunnel IL, and at tunnel slide fifty
feet wide covers the track six feet deep.
The Ministers Association at Salt Lake
in q resolution passed by that BODY
strongly censures President Eliot for the
language he used in his address at the
Tabernacle on the 18th OF last month, az
giving false impression of civil and re-
ligious liberty.
The Acknowledgement OF Arizona has
decided that mining claims like other
property must be valued by the Assessor.
County Assessors have no alternative
but to include mining claims in their as
sessment returns to the Supervisors Of
their respective counties.
The three miners in Butte, Mont.
who were charged with disseminating
Editor Penrose, who had waeed a bitter
personal war in his paper against the
Miners Union, were discharged from
custody, the States attorney declaring
he could not secure testimony that would
convict.
The introduction Of bill in Congress
by Senator Stewart providing for estab-
fishing United States military post at
Keno 10 viewed with marked disfavor BY
members Of the Nevada miners unions.
They claim to see in it an attempt to
cheaper labor at the mines, as there are
no hostile Indians in the State.
At San Francisco Judge Hunt rendered
. decision everything the demurrer of
the Southern Pacific to the complaint of
W. II. Robinson, in his suit for damages
for refusing to sell him a ticket from
San Francisco to Alameda, emitting him
TO stop over at Oakland. The court held
that the passenger was entitled to stop
at any intermediate station and resume
his journey within six months.
The friends at Fresno OF Griffith, the
man who made confession at Honolulu
in which he claimed TO be one of the
Pixley train robbers, declare that he il
OF unsound mind, and did not tell the
truth. He was not implicated in any
way in that crime, and he knows moth
ing about it. The Dalton brothers com
mitted the deed, and Bill Dalton ac-
knowledged that he and his two
brothers were the only ones concerned
in the affair.
The negotiations for the sale of Ell.
wood Cooper's ranch to an English com.
pany, which have been pending since
January, have been perfected. Forfeit
money has been paid and the ranch will,
be known as the Ellwood
Syndicate Qimitedl Dr.. Harold Side
is the agent for the syndicate,
and will move on the ranch at once
This IL the famous olive oil property
thirteen miles up the coast from Santa
Barbara. The purchase price is said 70 |
DO t20O, 900. The sale was reported to
aave been consummated some weeks
Igo, but that statement was incorrect.