The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-02-11
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Penuoyer Yetoes the Salute on
Inauguration Day.
EXTENSION OF THE OREGON PACIFIC.
Tray Of Diamonds Stolen From Jevelry
Store In Sacrament0-Narne
Engineer Pardoned.

Engineer Pardoned.
Riverside packers and growers are
holding the orange crop back until the
Florida fruit Is well out OF market.
The contract for the construction OF the
South Gila canal has just been let to
Los Angeles parties. The work when
completed will cost s.,0CO.OO
The wife OF R. 7. Earle, late superin-
tendent Of the stockton com bined har-
vester works, believes he has gone to
Mexico with a married woman.
o. W. Hollenbeck, the Auburn (Cal. }
banker, has been acquitted on an en-
bexziement charge, owing to . variance
between the Indictment and the proof.
The Gage canal, which furnishes the
water supply for the new cable settle
ments of Riverside, is being cemented for
q distance OF six miles, and the work is
nearly completed.
Phoenix, A. T., is apparently in earn
est in an endeavor to do its share toward
building the proposed San Diego and
Phoenix railway. San Diego offers to
build to the Colorado river.
The Los Angeles Board OF Supervisors
favor the passage of State law provid.
Ing that new counties cannot be formed
without the consent OF q majority OF
voters res ding within the area Of the
original county.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports fourteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with thirteen for the
previous week and sixteen for the cor.
responding week Of 1892.
The case Of the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings Bank OF Chicago against .he Los
Angeles cable road has been opened in
the Superior Court at Los Angeles. This
is an effort to iorclose 81 ,644, 900 worth
OF outstanding mortgages.
The Governor OF Washington has par
doned Lucius Gonzales of San Francisco,
marine engineer. Gonzales has served
two years in the penitentiary, but recent
circumstances prove him innocent OF the
crime for which he was committed.
Traces OF strychnins have been found
In the stomach OF the vile OF Henry
Bentley at Los Angeles. Bentley mar
ried the woman, who was quite wealthy,
and it is charged that he had boassed
che would be dead at about the time she
died.
A small bird inhabitants the valleys
and canyons putting into D. ath Valley,
making his home in the mesquit groves
aboundinz there. His principal occupa-
ton seems To be war of determination
against scorpions, which he is very skill
full in Killing.
The Bee Hive, the old residence OF
Brigham Young at Lake and recently
owned and occopied by his con, John W.
Young, has been sold out on Judgment
for s67.4l344. The Bee Hive brought
81, 567.l3 and the other property enough
and more TO satisfy the judgment.
J. A. Plaster Of Los Angeles, who was
thought to have been murdered. has
turned up in San Francisco. faster
disappeared about year ago and much
talk was occasioned over the fact that q
barber Was accused Of killing him and
burying him in the yard, which was
dug over TO end evidence.
A railroad contractor has Just arrived
In Albany, Or, from California, where,
1t Is stated, he gave up a contract to do 30,
and will 20 to work shortly on the ex-
tension OF the Oregon Pacific, which is
to connect with the Chicago, Burlington
and Qlincy railroad. He says it is bust
ness this time and no more foolishness.
Sergeant Levin of Victoria, B. c., who
was suspended owing to his investigation
into the manner oil the death OF A. J.
Davis, the Montana millionaire, has been
reinstated. The Sergeant believed that
the daughter-in-lsw OF Davis pushed him
while he was drunk, and he fell down
stairs and was killed. No criminal in
tention was discovered.
A tray of diamonds was stolen from H.
Wschhorst's jewelry store at Sacramento
the other evening. One man broke the
piate-glass windows and another covered
the clerk with a pistol, while the first
grabbed the tray, when both men
dashed up the street and disappeared in
Chinatown. They had false whiskers
and could not be identified.
The prospects for an early resumption
Of operations at the Temescal tin mines
In San Bernardino county, CAL, are not
very encouraging. During the past week
the Sheriff has sold at auction quantity
OF the movable property of the company
to satisfy the accounts OF parties to whom
the company was indebted when the
mine was closed down some months ago.
The arrest OF Mrs. Yesler at Seattle.
WASH, on the charge OF having DESTROYED
the will OF her husband, lie now believed
TO be part OF a conspiracy to prejudice
the appointment OF Mrs. Yesler's choice
~ administrator Of the estate, and Low.
man, the d sgruntled heir, is the head OF
the conspiracy. There is much feeling
in the city. The Mayor will not involve
the city in the suit.
Wholesale thieving on the Southern
or New Mexico division OF the Santa Fe |
has been unearthed. 'Brakemen and |
conductors for months have robbed the |
cars Of baggage and valuable freight |
aud 1t is estimated that s75, eco worth OF
goods have been taken from the cars.
So far twelve engineers, conductors.
brakemen and firemen are under arrest
and more arrests will follow.
Governor Remover received n Latte,
rom Adjutant-General Mitchell OF the
Oregon National Guard, asking permits
zion to use two brass cannon, belonging
10 the state, for the purpose OF firing
'aiute on Inauguration day. The Gov
'rnor semitic following reply: "No per-
will DO given TO use State con.
non Tor n,lng salute over the inaugura-
ion oil Wall-street plutocrat "a Presi.
lent OF the United States" {
II IL reported that a gold bar valued
i about $500 was given to the skipper !
" the wrecked Queen of the Bsy by a !
nine owner down on the Lower Caliior- |
ia coast, TO be Struggled out of Mexico [
Iithout paying the export duty. The d
Ripper and crew indu ped in q costly
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