The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-03-04
Massacre of Seventeen Indians
on Sorrow Island.
ONE YOUNG LADY KILLS ANOTHER
Considerable North Wind Throughout a
Large Section Of Southern Cal.
ifornia Does Good.


lature.
Henry Bentley has been held for tris
Ut Los Angeles on the charge OF poison
ing his wife.
Every town in Eastern Oregon is a.
earnest applicant for the location of thu
branch insane asylum.
Phoenix, A. T.. is much excited owe
the sudden death Of = woman. The in
dications are that she was poisoned.
The Arizona House has passed q bill
to fix the maximum price charged by
canal companies at rs An acre per an
mum.
The Indian agent at Alert Bay ha,
been notified of . reported massacre o
the Kit Katla tribe.
The Bonanza mine at Harqua Hala, A
T., has for some time been systematic
ally robbed by Mexicans, who carried
out nuggets and ore worth s. a pound ir
dinner pals.
Flowing by means OF the huge Traction
engine used last fall for this purpose il
to be- soon begun ON the Umatills reser
walton. Six five-furrow plows will b
operated at once by this means.
There is the prospect OF clash be-
tween the Santa Fe and Southern Pa
cific, and az result the Pacific Coas
public will get cheaper fares. A genera
Decentralization of rates is predicted.
Governor Murphy of Arizona in hi
message advocated the removal Of ths
Territorial penitentiary from Yuma
Benson and Tombstone are among tbs
oarIslo tnn ott NJ for he tra ,.~v,
The Idaho Legislature has passed &
bill eniranchising the Mormons. The
Governor will sign it. This will give thu
elective franchise to about 5000 person:
who were not allowed to vote under the
Law OF 1855.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re
ports eleven aIlures in the Pacific Coas
States and Territories !or the past week
as compared with SIX cen fJr the prev
ious week, and seventeen for the core
spending week OF 1892.
The union sailors who raided the
steamer Bawnmore at Mana mo, B. C.
have been sentenced. McNaliy got three
years in the pen Tertiary, r binson tive
years and Massey and PJitaine one year
each. Hans n was acquitted.
A bill Passed the ARE ma Assem- HI 9
recommeniirg tiovr NOR Murph to FIR
a reward OF s., % for Kid dead or alive.
This. with 81, 5h' already offered by Co
chise, ella and Graham ccunties, places
q value on his head vi $500.
There has been considerable north
wind throughout a large section OF
Southern Cali ornia during the past
week, which has rapidly driei up tn
excess of moisture. No damage OF con-
sequence to the orange crop Is reported.
There mas been incorporated in the
sundry civil service bill paragraph fix.
ing the limit o. cost for the San Fran
cisco public building at $4,000. This
action OF Congress will render available
the $2l 900 rema ming from the purchase
OF the building site.
The Chinese cook of the Chinese crew
oil 100 men at the Palo Alto stables was
bounded and gagged the other morning
by two white men and On naman, and
the rooms in a Chinese boarding hou e
were ransacked and between $4,OO) and
5000 in coin taken.
Superintendent Clark OF the insane
asylum at Stockton, Cal, has permitted
newspaper man to see Sarah Althea
Terry in the madhouse. He found her
a raving maniac and subject to the re-
etraint necessary in such q case, but
otherwise kindly treated.
Eastern capitalists have negotiated
for the purchase of water rights and
right OF way for canal to irrigste 200.
600 acres in the northern part OF San
taken from the Mokelumne river near
VaitaU Snrtro nd ,-tI - -.
sides OF the river.
Quarryipg Of Oregon stone, heretofore
an almost unknown industry, promises
to come prominently to the front during
the coming building season. The Pacific
Stone Company with $4,000 of CAPT
is going to work with zeal and
energy to develop the valuable stone
quarry at Albany.
Miss lnez Estrada, Mexican girl 20
years OF age, was shot and killed almost
instantly by her friend, Miss Christina
Zamorano near San Diego. The girls
were spending the day together, and
CHANGED to pick up loaded gun, which
was accidentally discharged with fatal
results.
The sealing schooner Pioneer has ar
rived at Victoria, B. c., after a very
stormy voyage. She brought iniorma-
ton OF the location OF the wreck OF the
sealing schooner Maggie Mac, the fate Of
which las teen a mystery for over a
year. Two etorekeepers on Q1atsino
Sound report having found fragments Of
the Maggie Mac IN a small cove lust
south OF Cape Scott.
The ManzoBa almond plantation in
Antelope Valley, Los Angeles county.
continues tn expand. Two wears ago
there were perhaps thirty acre. set to
trees. Now there are about thirteen
hundred acres planted, and carload lots
OF trees are arriving every few dave. L.
promises to become, il il il not AREA w. |
the largest almoni plantation in the
world. The trees. il planted in a single
row two feet apart, would reach nearly |
rom Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Two scnooners from San Diego have
been seized by Mexican customs off ers
1t San On ntin, and are held there pend
my Investigation. 1t is ca med tn.
boats were engaged in fishing and ana
one catching in Mexican waters, in
\ hich case they will undou b,edly be
Two more schooners we're
and steps taken Tor their ap-
,rehension. Four schooners are known
o be in those waters. The Mexican Of
lcials have reported to their home gov
that great amount of snug
ling is carried on by means of small
sesels from San Diego, which are al
rays to he seen oil their coast, osten-
bly on fishing trips. Application has
can made for smaller steamer to pa
ol the coast. v