The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-10-07

Snow is visible on the high mountains
along the Columbia river and Koctenai
lake.
! The superior court docket in Clark
county is ornamented with seventeen
! divorce cases.
The steam wood-saw Is driving the
Cinnamon ont of employment At the
Dalles. The machine works faster and
cheaper than muscle.
| J. W. and W. L. Miller, bachelor
/ farmers renting land near Colfax, sold
their wheat for 81, 200 and disappeared,
leaving many creditors.
Minor Harold u years old, under is
81, 900 bond 1t Ellensburgh for criminal
ly assaultiug George Wheeler's little
daughter, 10 years old.
Vegetables are so plentiful in okano-
gan county that S. will buy supply suf
tcient to last an ordinary family through
the winter, says the Outlook.
Surveyors on the Colville Indian res
ervation report the discovery of both
gold and silver lodges in the course OF
their work. The survey is nearly com
ple,ed
The Tacoma Ministerial alliance has
passed resolution fayoring the aboli-
ton OF burial services al the grave.
The principal reason is that lOurneyinS
to cemeteries takes too much time.
Judge Hanford, OF the United States
court AT Seattle, refused TO admit 10
citizenship Chinaman named L. King.
The case will be appealed to the So
preme coult of the United States.
j. W Macy OF Chclan recently grub.
staked prospector to 60 into the Meth
owacountry. He made several good
looking locations, one of which he
chIlstened the Macy, showing 4 rich
lead of free.nilling gold ore.
William f. Weeks, one of the original
owners of the Everett towusite, is in
Costa Rica, fugitive from Justice, on
account of the embezzlement of enor-
nous sums of money from his clients
while practiciEg law In New York.
Heavy snowstorms have occurred in
the Cascade mountains. 1t is believed
the Baldwin survey party, which left
Coaconully about three weeks ago to
locate the state wagou-road has been
One can partly imagine, after reading
OF the mad rush for the worthless lands
on the Cherokee strip, what is likely 10
happen when the hundreds OF thousands
of rich acres OF the Nez Perez are opened
for settlement next spring, says the Ju
lietta Advance.
John Hansen. of Astoria, mas been
e found guilty Of beating his aged wife to
death with billet OF wood. He way.
laid her while she was picking raspber
: ries and after the tragedy gave the
. alarm and claimed that she had been
killed for her money The defense Sc.
/ up was " chronic alcoholism"
The Montana College of Agriculture
, and Mechanic Arts At Bozeman opens
with sixty students. The faculty expect
the number will be doubled bv the mid
, die of November OF those now en-
, rolled fifteen, with an average of IL
years, and forty-six with an average Of
lsll years, are college students
= The Seattle Telegraph submits tn.
t sensible plea for better country roads
; The cities of Washington will never
: reach full measure of prosperity unit
. the country surrounding them Is grid
ironed with a complete System Of high
ways. Give Washington that and Il
r will receive an impetus greater than II
can receive from any other source
: G.. ". Dickinson, of the Northern IA
cihc railroad, who recently returned t
}. Tacoma from the east, predicts tha
e Washington will feel the effects of tbs
r approaching revival in business soonal
{ than the eastern or middle states; thai
= money is easier in New York, and thai
:, there is better feeling and 4 restored
confidence throughout the commercial
r world.
The following officers were elected b.
the Washington State Press association
=. in session at Seattle last week Presi
dent, Homer Hill Of Seattle; vice pres
: idents, J. VI. Vernon of Everett, j. II
Jones of Nooksak and f.. y. Fuller o.
Tacoma secretary and treasurer, o. NJ
= Moore, Of Hoquiam; orator, Marion D
Egbert, of South Bend; poet Miss F'a,