The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-07-30
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Rubies Worthy Of Mention Found
Near Baker City, Or.
A MAP OF OAKLAND. CAL, MISSING
Number Of Sealskins Already Landed at
Victoria-Fruit and Nursery
Firm Quits Business.

Duval & Son OF Chenille, France, pro-
pose to erect brewery at Phoenix, A. 7.
Horse thieves operating in Southern
Arizona have robbed over twenty ranch
ers.
A swindler with g bills raised to $40
IL working Pusel Sound towns with
some success.
There have been landed in Victoria
already 0,6S5 sealskine. The animals
were caught between California and
Alaska.
San Diego has decided to celebrate the
35Oth anniversary Of the discovery OF
San Diego Bay, which occurs Septem Der
. next.
An outbreak Of anthrax has occurred
six miles south Of Los Angeles on a dairy
where forty cows are kept. Fourteen
have already died.
Additional pumps will At once be used
on the San Pedro wreck in front Of Vic.
toria, B. c., and it is believed the YES
se, will soon be of the rocks.
There are ffty.6ve hop houses in
Polk county, Or. Each house is good
for handling nine acres OF hops. At this
rate the total acreage would be 1875 acres.
Saint Teresa is still at Nogales, A. T.,
performing miraculous cures The
Governor OF Sonora never had any ioun-
dation.
The Bradstreet Commercial Agency
reports IL failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week
as compared with Il for the correspond.
ing week OF 1891.
1t is stated at San Diego that ]. Nal.
com Forbes, the Boston capitalist who
was recently married and took up his
residence at Coronado, is the purchaser
OF the Pacific Beach railroad.
William B. Fleming, who shot and
killed Samuel Pritchard at Silver CITY,
Idaho, last April, and who was acquitted
by the Coroner's jury, has bean indicted
by the grand jury. 1t is Supposed
there was malice in the killing.
A thorough search OF the public rec
oris Ut Sacramento has failed to reveal
the presence OF a map Of the town OF
Oakland, which was made in 1852 by a
French engineer and was accepted as a
State record. 1t is believed the map has
been abstractei.
1t is now asserted that the man killed
by lightning in Montana, and who was
said to have been the Napa county
Greenwood murderer, was not the cui.
prit. Sheriff Mckenzie says the photo.
graph does not show the man he wants
for the crime.
An analysis of bottle OF whisky
brought to Portland from the Warm
Springs Indian reservation has been
made and found to contain a lot of fusel
oil, chloroform and ether. A half-bree,i
took two bottles OF this stuff to the reser.
walton. The contents of one OF them
was drunk by three Indians, all OF
whom died.
The W. r. Strong Company, the lary-
est fruit and nursery firm in California,
has decided to wind up its business.
The assets are ample to meet all de-
mands. The company has branches In
Los Angeles, Riverside, Fresno, ard
agencies in all the principal Eastern
cities, some sixty in number, besides a
large nursery interest in Florida.
A gentleman just in from the b.
zanza mine at Greenhorn Mountain, /
near Baker City, Or, says that rubies ,
have been discovered near there which I
are worthy of mention. They have the /
appearance OF the genuine article in .
color. and to all appearance are rubies. /
He said they were about the size Of .
peas and have the octangular shape of
that stone. He has secured over 100 of
the gems.
There is a bit OF history connected
with the postotfice OF Rickreall, Or,
commonly known as Dixie BY the older
Inhabitants Of Polk county. The post.
Office was established back in the six
ties. The first name suggested was
Dixie" But at that time the war feel
ing was at a high pitch, and Colonel
Sesmith, as godfather OF the new Office.
dropping of the "South-down"-
sounding title and substituting the /.
name la Creole" after the beautiful
stream on which it lies. An error was 4
made IN spelling the word by its sound {
N Washington, and the office went
upon record as "Rickreall" and :
has remained that way ever since.
James G. Mason, formerly postmaster .
y Iillamook, who was indicted by the /
I nited States grand jury for having o
orged the name OF johnson Erickson To g
money order and collected *l3 thereon,
vas arraigned in the United States Dis ;,
riot Cour. at Portland the other day. y
md entered plea of guilty. United a.
states Attorney Mays recommended T.
hat . fine OF 500 be imposed, in de :.
ault thereof the criminal TO be sentenced !,
Q term OF imprisonment. Counsel for -
Mason said the money could be raised
70 sentence was deferred and prisoner u
emanded TO jail. Mason stood we'll in a
he community until this crime was
charged against him. and some now n
hink that he pleaded guilty TO screen z
ome OF his family who com mitted the Ia
rime. He made good the amount OF
he order some time ago. il
The report that the Great Northern IT
abroad has let contract to D. C. u
shepard Tor the construction OF a rail u
pad from Butte through Boise to San al
francisco is untounded. II. C.. Henry, n
y Shepard, Henry & Co., said the other To
Iay that he was sure there was no ,ru.h
1t, Tor the Great Northern had not ii
ven made q accomplishing. murb Iess te
survey, over the route in question. 81
he Union Pacific made a survey come Ar
ears ago, but has done nothing further, h,
uch road would run through a min "
ng district in Montana, and R3od iT. o
igable country in Southern Idaho.
hough but slightly developed. Blu, on p,
triking Eastern Oregon it would enter h,
desert ne hopeless as Sahara. 1t would ci
inter- good country again around Klam. II
tn Lake, in Southwestern Oregon. and de
ON there would run through good IA
onntry in California. Itwould be go m
lilies or more long, and would be az great d.
undertaking as the present Pacific ar