The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-06-17
Cases Against Trapmen Of the
Columbia River.
OREGON CONvICTS MAKE BRICK.
The Federated Trades at Los Angeles
Fail to Make Out . Case for
Dep0rtation-Etc.
Salt Lake has voted 81, 900 in school


Another prospector at san Diego
claims TO have found the Pegley mine.
His name is John Ingram, and his age
is IS.
There is much sympathy at Spokane
for Mr.. Cannon, whose banking house
has just failed. The assets will cover all
liabilities.
A vast deposit of borate OF lime has
been discovered in the Calico Mountains.
The lind il thought to be worth millions
of dollars.
The Naval Board at Mare Island in
making their report have pronounced
the Monterey to be ali that the con-
tract required.
The citizens OF Ashland are making a
determined effort to raise the $4,000
which is required to insure the location
Of branch of the Portland University
there.
The Los Angeles Times will put in q
new periecting press this week. and
with 1t Introduce seven linotype type
setting machines, the first to appear in
California.
We wonder, says the Yuma Sentinel,
If there is another town outside OF
Yuma In the universe where anv OF its
citizens are charged from 80 cents TO 81
for drinking water in q saloon or barber
shop?
The Bradstreet agency reports eigh-
teen failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the past week, as
compared with fourteen Tor the previous
week and ten for the CORRESPONDING
week OF 1892.
A large draft OF seamen from the
Mare Island naval rendezvous will be
sent to Honolulu by the next steamer
to reinforce the crews of the United
States ship Adams and the cruiser Bos-
ton, now there.
The Federated Trades at Los Angeles
failed to make out case for deportation
IN the All Gung arrest, owing to the fact
that the District Attorney did not show
that the Chlnaman was unregistered
The Trades are determined that case
shall be properly brought before the
courts.
Parties who crossed the Cascades at
the head OF Rogue river recently report
the snow still from six to eight feet
deep. This Will make summer travel to
Crater Lake very late this year. Teams
should be running within a month,
however.
Twenty-Five leading fruitgrowers of
the Mud creek neighborhood. in the
eastern end OF Umatilla county, have
organized company for the better dis
posal OF their products, to be known as
the Fruitvale Fruit Co. They have
engaged the services OF an agent, J. Z.
Hodgen, who will establish an office at
Spokane.
Governor Richards OF Montana has
issued proclamation prohibiting the
importation OF sheep into Montana from
Oregon, California, Nevada, Washing
ton, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Colorado
or New Mexico, except upon the certiti-
cate of the State Veterinarian that the
sheep have been inspected and found
free OF any infectious or contagious
disease.
Worms have again appeared in the
vineyards west OF Fresno, Cal, by mil
lions, and in several localities people
are fighting them with reiays OF Chinese,
who work night and day. The worms
work night, and in some places several
acres have been stripped OF leaves in a
few hours as ii band of sheep had
gone through the vineyards. II is
thought the pest will be cleaned out.
The Mckinney will case at Stockton.
Cal, has been stopped. A motion for
nonsuit was agreed to by the contestant.
coiored woman, who swore she married
Mckinney in 1873, when the records
would prove that she had married a
man named Nicholas in 1879. There
was every evidence of conspiring to
obtain the Mckinney money, and il il
possible a conspiracy case may be
formed.
Penitentiary convicts are now making
about 40 coo brick a dav. The Salem
Statesman says: at is a pity they
could not make enough for the soldiers
home, the branch asylum and all other
prospective buildings now, before the
starting OF the proposed iIte mill. so a
to keep the idle convicts employed. !
They aim to make 5000, 600 this season.
to be used in public buildings and ad- !
ditions provided for by the last Legis-
lature.
The cases against the trapmen OF the |
Columbia river have for the second time |
in two years fallen to the ground. and |
Hon. c. W. Fulton and his brother won |
two cases recently for the defense. one
after the other. The Prosecuting A.
torney declared he would never again
bring charge against a trapman or a
gill-net fisherman. He declared il
utterly useless to try to secure a con-
yiction, and stated that il would never
be possible for the State TO win a case of
the kind when the lawyers so mixed the
jury up with the jurisdiction question
that they were unable To agree on any,
thing. Mr.. Fulton produced certificates
held by both defendants, and ARMED
that the laws Of Congress giving Oregon
jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases
To the Washington shore Of the Column
bia only applied to the service Of pro-
cesseS and To crimes committed on
Hosting boat or other craft and not 10
anything fixed into the bed of the river
on the Washington side. He claimed in
addition that II a Clatsop county inry
pronounced jurisdiction over Washing
ton tishtraps, the State Of Washington {
could with just as much reason levy due.
on and control the Union Pacific wharyes
that run out toward the middle channel
from Astoria. Judge Cleveland, being
powerless to instruct the juries on the
question oi law, was barred from in
either jury, and the Fulton, ,
secured acquittal for every one Of ,n.ir
The question unfortunate,r j.
no nearer settlement than ever. m ;
Sheriff of the county and all his caD- ,
mites are denouncing Fish Commission
Crawford of Washington for what the, .
lain is fragrant dereliction of duty IN !
Avor Of the trspowneu.