The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-02-25
The Mining Fever Breaks Out at
MedfOrd, Oregon.
CRATER LAKE A SUMNER RESORT.
Mine Owners Of Northern Idaho Threaten
to Close Down on Account Of
High Freight Rates.

A burglar in one night at Phoenix, 4
T., entered four offices. . bank and
stable, and was cap; utd on the foil "
ing morning.
The Navaloes are Assu ming q threaten
ing disposition. Bad whisky 10 though
to have much to do with the continue
troubles on the reservation.
Salt Lake has completed the raising q
$loO. 900 in money and 100 acres of Ian,
~ bonus for the copper refinery ORC
posed to be erected by Messre. Posey 4
Green.
The State and Southern Calisorni
Beekeepers' Association will petition Ii,
Legislature for An appropriation, to b,
used for the publication OF convent o,
proceedings and to issue bulletins OF in
formation to honey-producers.
The sensation at Los, Angeles il tn,
resignation OF J. F. Crank, n 9 ,iyer o
the Pacific Cable Railroad Company
Rumor couples the circumstance vii
the probability Of q consolidation of tha'
company with the Electric Railroad
Company.
In accordance with . jury verdict a,
San Jose on the violation OF the LIQUOR
ordinance it is now considered estab-
lished that person can order q plate oil
crackers and drink liquor to his hearts
content at any hour Of the night and on
any day Of the week, providing it is done
In restaurant and not in . saloon.
An irrigation company proposes to
dam the Monave at Victor Narrows,
where the river passes through q granite
gorge l7o feet in height and not over 100
feet across at the widest point of the
proposed dam. A lake viii be formed
nine miles long, three to FIVE miles wide
and OF an average depth of thirty feet,
with sufficient water to irrigate $50 900
acres OF government land, now unoccu-
pied Tor the most part.
Indian cay u.es are dying BY hundreds
on the Umatills reservation. TIE snow
is reported to be three feet deep. and
the eayuses are unable to reach the grass.
Their owners. true to Indian tradition.
neglected TO provide last summer for a
possible cold winter. Many who were
rieh in ponies when tie winter began
will come out in the spring on an equal.
ity With their 20 rest neigh bors, so far
as wealth is concerned.
Petitions are now being circulated in
all the labor csnters in Montana for the
enactment o. bill. an i'm portant section
OF which is as follow: THAT il will he
unlawful for any officer of the state of
Montana or any officer of any town or
city thereof to issue q license to engage
In any kind OF business within this State
to any person or persons not citizens or
not having declared their intentions To
become citizens of the United States. +"
This is sweeping blow at the Chinese
and will, il it becomes q law, shut M |
every store, restaurant and laundry run |
BY Chinese in the State.
The mining fever has broken ont in
Medford, Or, and professional. tu,iness
md la boring men are looking toward the
hills and anxiously awaiting q settle
nent Of the weather with q view of tax.
ng prospecting tour. New impetus In
'iven to the excitement each day bv the
eturn OF ,prospectors with specimens OF
ich gol i-bearing quartz and glowing &C
cunts OF the Possibilities OF the mineral
'eit OF Southern Oregon. But ali pre-
nous returns were totally eclipse when
II. Horn came to town with q pock.
'tiul OF quartz. Many Of the specimens
obtained almost an equal amount of
old and quartz, some of the particles of
oid oeing a. large as q pea. Five
'ounds OF this rock, when pounded out
y hand mortar, produced over $40,
'hich would run the percentage up To -,
he modest sum Of $4O,f 90 to the ton.
1t is reported from Central Point a
tation on the Southern Psci6c fonr c
lilies west OF Medford, Or, that the a
abroad company has entered into an
greement with F. T. Fraden burgh 10 Z
airy passengers between that point and ..
ra.er Lake in the Cascade Mountains
he distance from the railroad TO the =
Ike 10 eighty miles, and stage line IL
be esta blishe 4 between the two points !.
lr. Frade n burgh says the railroad has :.
1arantee ed him 1.C00 passengers at az :.
'ch. He has already purchased suffi. 3
ent stage coaches to accom- mo Hate this :
I'M Der OF tourists, and it is his purpose a
erect q summer hotel at the lake, In :.
'od weather the road TO the lake il ali ~
snt Tor driving, aud the round trip can a,
made In i've dsya without q change ~
horses. 1t 10 thought that Crater !,
IKE will be popular resort for tourists -.
81 pleasure seekers this summer. The -
stbility OF the reservation of this land ~
Inc government for . national park as
obably accounts for the action taken al
the railroad. ee
John Hayes Hammond. GensvaI Man.
er Oh the Bunker Hill and Sullivan sill. IN
mine at Wardner, Idaho, has re- a,
we'd word from Northern railroads tic
!ich has about convinced him that he AN
II ciose down the mine. Nearly all of Wa
other great mines will also cloze be
wn. For come months mast Mr. 10
mmond and others Of the Mine Own. vi
Association have been endeayoring tn,
get reduction of freights from the So
rthern Pacific and Union Pacific rail. he
de, which carry their ores and con. co,
Itrates to Tacoma, Denver and Omahs i'm
elters. Mine owners have gone 40 fsr ii,
70 oner sliding scale Of coin ensation elf
carrying, 90 that when silver and f.v
come up again the railroads will re- he
7e more than they did before. To 4I9
Sc overtures, however, the railroads am
. been deaf, and as (so Mr.. Ham, nal
nd tells) 1t is costing them nearly cha
bic TO work their mines than Il does AZ
Hagzin and other mine owners At NJ,
to and Anaconda, near at hand tbev AZ;
not continue and must close down tb;,
1t March l. Mr.. Hammond said vn,
ont zee any ether way TO do. We m =
either got 10 cut on the expenses mr. n
lining or in freights. We cannot ~
ever, cut enough to enable ne to mer
;. Any cut then would not make con,
Oh difference II We got no reduction tina,
eight. The outlook 10 not encour- the
Tor silver mine owners and 1t seems ATE
the only thing for mining in gen. doul
TO repeal the Sherman act,n tor.