The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-03-18
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Warm Contest in Arizona'S Legis.
lature Over Irrigation.
A MOTHER KILLS HER INFANT BABE.
Shipments Of Winter Vegetables From
Southern California to the East
In Carload Lots.

The Southern Pacific is to have a new
depot at Grants Pass, Or.
Phoenix, A. T., reports that rain i
falling, the first in nearly one year.
Fresno voted against the issue OF SIS,
600 bonds to complete its sewerage SIS
tenn.
British Columbia has imposed dis
count Of y per cent on American silve
coin.
Portland's fine passenger station viii
be completed by August, 1894. 1t is I,
cost $4OO, 900.
The Bunker HUI and Sullivan mines
the largest silver producers in the Cen
d'Alenes, have shut down.
A travelling insurance agent hiss don,
up the farmers Of Bingham county
Idaho, BY issuing spurious policies.
The majority OF the Indians on tn,
Neg Perces reservation have signed ar
agreement for the opening of the reser
walton.
Some OF the people OF Boise CITY,
Idaho, are opposed to the railroad enter
ing that town on account of the smoke
killing the trees.
In Lower California enough rain has
fallen to insure good crops, though the
drought was beginning to be severely
felt all over the peninsula.
In the United States District Court a,
Portland Peter Grant, a sailors board.
iug-house runner, was convicted of har-
boring deserving seamen, and was fined
$3.50.
There is q warm contest in the Arizons
Legislature over the passage OF an irri-
CATION bill, whose features are somew hal
similar TO the California laws on the
same subject.
1t is thought that the bed o. the Fraser
river in British Columbia is rich with
deposits OF gold, and an attempt will be
made during the coming summer to Sc
cure portion of this wealth.
Governor Mcconnell OF Idaho openly
stated in letter to the District Attorney
that members of the legislature OF tina,
State were bribed, and tina. information
will be furnished to secure convictions.
Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency reports
twenty-one failures in the Pacific Coas
States and Territories for the past week
as compared with twelve for the previous
week and fourteen for the corresponding
period OF 1892.
Utah's total gold output for 1891 was
$3l ga; for 1892, $3l 1926; showing an
increase OF 1882 The silver output for
1891 was $3.50, 1872 ounces: for 1892 it
was 1876, 259; showing an decrease OF
9SS. O95 ounces.
W. III. VIM, who went to Phoenix, A.
T., some time ago and took lodging with
furn xx-tI
since Friday last. The ladies' gave him
$llO to pay his furniture bill. He failed
to return. VIM was a contractor form
erly of Los Angeles.
The Nevada Legislature has adjourned,
and bill reducing the salaries of State
officers is found to be missing. The
State Controller says the journals show
1t passed and be thinks it will hold good.
1t will be entered in the statute book,
with certiication that the original was
lost.
Captain Hackett. the well-known
sealer, at Victoria, B. c., saws that Brit
ish Columbia vessels will give Behring
Sea very wide berth, not because they
are AFRAID OF the United States govern
ment, but because they agree with what
the home government is doing.
Chas. F. Kidd, alias Frank NJ Rogers.
who, while express agent at Collinston,
Utah, under an assumed name ordered
over 500 worth ofdiamonds from Den
yer firm TO be sent by express c. o. D., !
and when the jewels arrived opened the
package and, taking the gems, departed
Tor other parts, has been captured ct
Lansing, Mich.
One OF Portland's wealthy business
men, who owns an acre above the Will
annette Falls on the west side, is con-
templating building upon it a veritable
castle OF delight. One Of the mos. i'm.
portant features is to be a huge dancing
hall, out OF which wide glass doors will
open upon broad piazza.
The shipments of winter vegetables
from Southern California 10 the East in
carload lots is assuming large propor- |
tons. The Southern California railway
reports shipments for January, 1893, at |
100000 pounds more than for January,
1892, an increase of 100 per cent. The |
principal vegetables shipped are cab
bage, cauliflower and celery.
A. G. Cleveland OF Nevada, one of the
original promoters Of the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake road, has great faith
in the enterprise, and secured five years.
extension OF the right OF way across Ne
vada and Utah to Salt Lake and Ogden.
and also the same extension on the bonus
offered by the State OF Nevada of s3.EO
for everv mile Of road completed. He ia
now in Utah.
In December last Mary Pushman. an
eighteen yesr-old mother, was arrested
at Butte, Mont, for killing her baby by
putting pins down its throat, breaking
the arms and starving it. The de'ense
was insanity. The State proved to the
satisfaction Of the jury that insanity was
feigned. and after being out eigh cen
hours the jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter.
The railroad freight agents in session
at Santa Barbara, CAL, have agreed to
form an as ociation, 10 be called the
Transcontinental Freight Rate Commit
tee, in which all transcontinentaI lines
except the Great Northern, the North.
ern Pacific and Canadian Pacific will be
parties. A resolution TO that effect was
passed, but no written agreement has !;
yet been drawn.
The Grand Orange Lodge OF British
Columbia has adopted strong resolutions {
Dalton Mccarthy. @. G MP.
Ind condemning Sir John Thorn peon and I
his )vernment for using public funds 10 d
assist the Premier's core ligionists 10 ?
light the people OF Manitoba in their eff Z
orts 70 throw off the separate school O
ystem, and urging upon the British Co .
umbis members OF Parl ament at OF a
ava 70 support Mr.. McCsrthv's resolu. Q
lo n 10 abolish French as an official Ian y
uage and do away with separate schools n