The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-03-25
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Bella Bella and Kitkalia Indians
Commence H0stilities.
FREE G0LD-BEARING ROCK FOUND.
The Governor Of Montana Signs the Bill
Making 1t Unlawful for Scalpsrs
to Sell Tickets.

Tombstone, A. T, has become the sea
Of q United States District Court.
Idaho pupils in the public schools ar,
to be furnished textbooks without cost
Cyrus Shsffer, the muir ierer OF jacob
Moll in Jefferson county, Or, has beer
denied new trial.
Vancouver, B. c., has discovered thai
its Chinatown is ovetcIuw led unhealthy
and disease br ct ding.
Fish and game dealers in Oregon are
to test the legality OF the fish Law
adopted by the last Legislature.
A suit has been instituted at San Di
ego against the Bear Valley Irrigation
Company. Waste OF funds is charged
The Bella Bella and Kitkalia Indians
in North British Columbia have com
menced hostiiities as a resu of the re-
cent massacre on Sorrow Island.
The trial OF the bigamy charge agains
George B. Jefferis, whose connection
with the Ayres Brighton murder case is
well known, has been set for April % a!
Sacramento.
The Provisional government il going
to assist the Fra er river bridge project
to the extent OF So, 500, payable in i've
equal annual installments. This will
materially help the Northern Pacific rail-
road extension project.
The Mining and Developing Company
has purchased the Gold Bar mines anu
Gold Bar west extension in the Wander
pilt mining district in San Bernard no
county for $4,000. The same mines
were recently sold for 10000.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with thirty one for
the previous week and fourteen for the
corresponding week Of 1892.
Char es F. Olsen, an ex-member OF
the Utah Legislature and ex-Assessor
and Collector OF Cache county, Utah,
has been sentencs d to one year in Il e
penitentiary for embezzl,ng So, 900 while
occupying the position OF Collector.
Deep snow in the Blue Mountains in
Oregon have driven large numbers O.
elk to the lower levels to the great de-
light OF hunters in that rekion who have
killed q greater number OF these ami
mals this season than for years previous.
A resolution has been introduced into
the British Col Imb;a Legislature pray
ing the L'eute mantle overnor to move
the Dominion govern IN mt to prohibit ali
immigrat on from AsIat'c Countries for
period o. me rear from the first day OF
April next.
A farmer living Eve miles from Sacra-
mento has inf5l I'd the police OF that
city that a few days sgo three swindIers
buncoed him out OF $1,000 by the gold
brick trick. When he drew the monev
for them and got home he found instead
of gold brick box of scrap iron.
Governor Richards OF Montana has
signed the bill making it unlawful for a
zeal per TO sell for any consideration the
whole or part o. any ticket on any rail-
road or steam boat, whether tse line be |
operated or owned within or without the |
State. The punishment is a fne OF !
800 and one years imprisonment.
The Phoenix A. t. City Council |
passed an ordinance raising the saloon |
tax to $iCO per annum, raising gamb bling |
taxes in accordance and orbidding mu-
BIC in rooms where liquor is sold. 1t also |
put tax OF $40 day upon street fakirs, |
and the Salvation Army by a similar |
'laose lie for hidden to parade the streets. |
The agents OF Californ'a railroad lines
n session at Santa Barbara have agreed |
10 adopt to California terminal points
only practically the same rates as have
been put in force to North Pacific Coast
points by the northern lines from chi
ago and points West. The new tariff is
10 go into effect about April l.
Gillian county, Or, citizens have pc
.itioned the County Court to grant a
bounty on dead sand rats. The little
7erm,n have had good winter and will
'oon come out OF their holes in the pink
u cond ton to ravage the growing grain.
The farmers cay. unless something is
lone soon to check this pest, they will
De run ont.
The United States Com nissioners are
n camp twenty-five miles north OF Cou-
10, Mendocino county, Cal, in what ia
'nown a. Kit Carson's cabin, which wac
'uilt IN 1853 by Frank Asbell, iamou.
rapper OF those days. The report il
urrent that the Commiss oners will
,lace on the market half OF the Round :
Valley Indian reservation, 66. 100 acres.
It from $l.25 to "a an acre.
A prospector has reached Phoenix, A.
=, from the desert beyond Haraua Hals.
ringing specimens OF free gold hearing
ock that runs $50 to the pound. He
NIL say little except that, finding water
ienty on the desert by reason OF the re. I.
emit storms, he penetrated a hitherto
nexp,ored country and di covered the
uartz IN large bodies. Sc ersl heavy :
capitalists started off with the miner
'ithin Few no re- for the mines. which 7
re about one hundred nj es from
hRnix. r
During the past two years s3s OOo :
'orth OF gold has been taken ont of the |
nnie mine in the Bohemia district.
he mine has b.en worke., at short in :
'rvsls during tn time, and most OF the
old has been taken out the past wear. 2
points to a lively mining
'ason In tina, reg on this sun mer. One Q
MI 10 now running, and another will ne n
arted as soon "a possible in the spring.
now has not stopped work in the mines z
lls winter, and number of men have ~
cen working there al winter. q
|. W. Miller, the Union county child IT
inter, has at last abandoned his search. o,
Id 10 returning to his home in Summer. Il
lie. He has travelled 800 miles br n
ilroad and long distances on horseback oi
Oregon, Washington and Idaho in II
arch OF his lost daughter He is now Il
ady to pay ransom OF 81 200 TO the d,
psies, II they have her, for the return II
the girl to his home in Summeryille. vi
r. Miller lately visited the Yakima OF
untry to see the child living with the "
dams there on Sells creek, but found 10
1T she is not his daughter. The little n,
u resembles pure blood white child ar
~ much in appearance, but has some brr
dian blood in her veins and evidently er
longs to the tribe with whom she 10 ct
Ing. ~