The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-02-18
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Boomers Along the Cherokee Strip
Suffer From Cold.
CARNEGIE REDUCES WAGES AGAIN.
An Immense Ledge Of uthographic Stone
Discovered Near St. Louis
Sword Of COrtes.

Nebraska will send 800 cowboys to the
Worlds Fair.
In Baltimore the lowest fins for policy
gambling 10 500.
Boeton wants authority TO light the
city with its own plant.
The brass manufacturers Of Canada
have formed . combine.
An anti Pinkerton bill Was introduced
in the Wisconsin Legislature.
Boston is taking subscriptions for q
monument to Phillips Brooks.
Lieutenant Psary will set out on HE
Arctic expedition about July /.
The Western farmers are holding on
to lO4, on, 900 bushels OF wheat.
Half million year is to be spent to
protect New York's water supply.
The sword Of Cortes will be among
Mexico's exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Carnegie has reduced wages at the Ed
gar Thomson Steel Works ct Rraddock,
Pa.
The old New York Hotel in New York
city has been sold to . syndicate Of cap
italists.
Canadian estimates for the ensuing
year contain appropriations Of "A, $50, 40
for canals.
Nebraska's Legislature will probe the
frauds back Of Lincoln's Capital National
Bank failure.
The United States foreign commerce
for the last fiscal year amounted to over
$2,CO0, 0CO, 600.
Through the medium Of q matrimonial
paper Pittsburg man became engaged
to his own daughter.
Oklahoma farmers are iubilant over
the late SHOWS, which will prove very
beneficial to the crop.
The railroads centering in Chicago win
expend at least $50, 900 in prepare
ton for the Worlds Fair.
The Harrison Telephone Company,
with $50 ,NO. 0C0 capital, has been incor
porated under tine laws OF Illinois.
A ledge of photographic stone sufficient
to supply the world for 500 years has
been discovered near st. Louis, Mo.
The boomers camped along the Chero-
kee strip have suffered intensely from
the cold. Several have frozen to death.
Professor W. F. Whitlock has been Sc
leeted Chairman OF the Book Com mittee
of the Methodist Church OF the United
States.
Hanlan and Gaudaur have signed ar
ticles to row for the champioush oil
America and 81 900 side in Toronto on
July %.
st. Louis feels good. Beer is selling at
50 per barrel, 2 cents per schooner. and
her 4-per-cent bonds are nabbed up by
capitalists at 1Ol.
| There will be in the ighborhocd oil
S25 consular positions su bject to point,
ment by President Cleveland and his
Secretary OF State.
For over $1,000, 900 the Weyerhouser
syndicate has bought SOC, OO0, 900 feet OF
Minnesota pine lumber, planning to
control the market.
The Pullman Car Company will have
to pay taxes on property in Nebraska in
future. Judge Dundy OF the Federal
Court has 90 decided.
According to the estimate OF the Post
master General, the receipts OF his de-
partment for the next fiscal year will
exceed the expenditures.
Three of the largest silk mills in the
United States have formed a syndicate
to control the production OF fne-grade
silk goods in the country.
! Government employees of the military
and civil services are com planning bit
terly Of the Losses they sustain through
the depreciation Of silver.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has begun
suit at Scranton, Pa, against eight per.
sons who were instrumental in having
her placed in an insane asylum.
Baggage and transfer com panies along
the New York Central railroad have
com bined as the Consolidated Transfer
Company, with 81, 800, 900 capital.
1t is proposed to levy poll tax OF tlO0
per annum on all Chinese residents Of
Canada. Enough to pay fare by under
ground railroad 10 all parts OF the United
/ States.
| Montreal is now at the beginning oil
the winter carnival, which will last until
the close Of Mardi-Gras. Tobogganing
skating and snow-shoeing will be in
dulged in.
The Department OF Public Works at
| Ottawa will shortly call for designs for
I the erection of q monument on Parlia-
ment Hill to the memory OF the late Sir
John Macdonald.
A movement 10 on foot to form a new
traction company, with q capital OF slO,-
! GOO 600, out Of the street car lines not
now under the control OF the Philsdel-
phia Traction Company.
Enormous shipments of wheat will
take place from Lake Superior in the
early spring; 1900, 900 bushels will be
at Duluth. There will be enough to fill
200 full-sized steamships.
The secret Of the steady gold drain is
now said to be the boarding OF the prec-
ious metal for the purposes OF war, the
magnitude and possibilities OF which
will eclipse all conflicts recorded In his
tory.
The Worlds Fair Committee has in
formed the CiRsrmakers' Union that il
was not advisable to restrict the sale OF
cigare on the grounds TO those manufac.
tured by any particular firm or organi-
ration.
Mrs. Pickett, widow OF the Confeder.
ate General who won lasting fame at
Gettysburg, Is in Washington, endeav.
oring to have her son appointed as Pay
master in the army, with the rank and
pay OF Major Of Cavalry.
German in his argument In the Sem
. On the ca oupler bill sud that an
organization Of employees could accom-
plish more in the way Of improvement
OF railroad management than all the leg
islation that could be piled on the stat
ute book. Tho railroads OF this C COUNTRY
could not submit to further restrictions
while the Canadian lines we're entirely
FREQ from them.
The Senate has ratified the agreement
entered into between the Northern Pa
cific railroad and the Puyallup Indians
Of Washington, whereby the railroad il
given . right ol-way sixty feet vide