The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-06-10
Astoria Gamers Preparing for
a Big Salmon Catch.
SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIALS.
Burns Beats the Record for High
Jumping-SOntag and Evans
Again Heard From.


City OF Mexico for lottery at Ensen.
yada, Lower California.
Astoria Gamers are preparing for the
biggest salmon catch ot the year. The
present run is very heavy.
A monster iur-bearing seal, weighing
l.oUO pounds, was caught at Elk Creek
a. TIliamook, Or, recently.
Philip koonce and Walter I. Dough.
erty have been arrested at HALEY,
Idaho, and charged with stealing letters.
The fourth crop OF green peas is now
ready for the table at Yuma. tiree,l
corn has been in the market since MAY
10.
The Colorado, New and Carter rivers
in Arizona are higher than has been
known in years. The latter two are out
OF their banks.
Work on the construction OF the tele-
phone line from Pendleton TO CANYON
City has begun. The line viii be COM
pieted TO Plot Rock in two weeks.
The Good and McWhirter murder
cases at Fresno are becoming very much
entsngled with contradictions and plot,
and counter-plots Of sensational char
acter.
Judge Ross OF the Unites States Dis
trlct Court at Los Angeles has ruled in a
water case that new constitution can
not aorosate contracts made previous to
its Passage.
ponborger 4 Co, contractors and
builders at Los Angeles, consisting OF Il
u. Donborger and K. y. Rogers, sud
denly departed from Los Angeles, leav-
ing lumber bills and mechanics unpaid.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agencv re-
ports Thirteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, a compared with fifteen for the
previous week and fifteen for the CORE
spending week oi lSj'2.
Eleven Denver youn. men danced
seventeen hours and thirty minutes.
and only stopped when the Humane
Society and the police ln,erfered The
men were allowed six lady partner,
apiece, who relieved each other at stated
Intervals. The prize contested ior W.. /,
500 medal.
The man Burns. who was with Black.
the detective, az the time Sontay ana
Evans Tired on them, said 10 a r. porter:
You may say, ii YOU ike, that wa
scared out vi my wits. There wa- one
obstruction in my way a. | ran that
must have been sixteen feet high. but |
Cleared 1t at leap
A petition i to be forwarded 10 OF
tawa from the white fishermen OF tn,
Fraser river in British Columbia pro-
testing against the present law, which
enables the Jap- ami aieIn- to get naLur-
allied anu then procure fishing license.
The Aslatlcs are taking the oath vi a.
legiance by the score.
The boys in the State Reform school
near Salem are kept ~ work clearing
land. About ten acres will be cleared
Tor the piow this season, making = little
more than 100 tlllaUIe vi the total estate.
OF 81 acres. The school Uses between
iOO and 500 cords oi wood wear, and
the cutting OF it removes most OF thu.
timber IRON the tracts to be cleared.
Health Officer keenev and Or. Reyen.
burger OF the san Francisco Boarti OF
Health have sent to the pe-thouse Rob
ert jackson, a 4l-year-old cook, whom
they decided was a fuil-teiyed leDer
Jackson said he was q native OF England
and that he had been in Honolulu tor
some time. Then he went to Victoria.
and three months ago came 10 san Fran
cisco. He thought he wa- only suffering
from slight skin disease.
Clark +. Royce, a weli-known LAWYER
OF san Francisco, has been indicted b.
the grand jury Tor eIa tezzlement OF 49,
coo, the funds OF the Tountyile Eeter-
ans Home, while acting u Treasurer Of
that Institution. Royce pas found in
MS room about month ago suffering
from bullet wound in the heal, hut
hf,ts- ~. - az.
mystery, although generally believed /,
was case Of attempted suicide. The
TACT that he wa A deiauter was d-cDv-
cred soon after this.
The managers Of the Eugene cannerv
are now planting corn Mt the rate Oi |
about fifteen acres dly on the Bush /
nell farm north OF that town. They /
Will plant about sevcntv-tiye acre..
They have fourteen horses and eight
men At work and are running two roll.
ing cultiyatOr- and have three men run
niny tue corn dropper-. The ground j.
thoroughly cultivated bciore planting
and grea; pains are being taken t. hay,.
everything Just right 10 insure a good
crop.
The result Of the investigation by The
government inspectors OF the rsl,eu,
collision between the steamers State Of
California and White-poro i. mai.
pubic. The inspectors lind that tan
tam LlcbFg Of the Whlte-uorp wen.
below on the night Of the accident
leaving the second mate, an unlicensed
ofhcer, IN charge, and II was due 10 hi,
want Of knowledge that the collision
took place. Captain Llebcg il found
cu!pabIe tor having placed such an Off
Ger in charge, and hi license a. a mas
ter and pilot Is suspended for thirty
days. captain ACkley OF the Stale OF
california II exoneratei from all blaJp.
David Starr Jordan has resigned tn.
Presidency OF the Leland STANFORD lJr.
University. The resignation is said 10
nave been made to senator Stanford
personally and supplemented by a
written communication, which the
founder OF the institution has accented
1t is understood that at the end OF IT,.
scholastic year President Jordan's con-
nection with the college will cease. The
reason given for the resignation is that
Senator Stanford has for some time. been
rather dissatisfied with the manner in ,
which jordan has managed the univer- ,
sity affairs. When he returned from ,
abroad six weeks ago he summoned the ,
President TO conference at his palo
Alto residence. He indicated the
changes he desired, but Jordan resented
he Senatorial interference with the ,
Ultimate result as stated.