The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-03-11
Fears of a DR. 'ught in the Salt
River Valley, A. 7.
Puyallup Indians Commence the Construc
ton Of the First Railroad Built
by Indians In America.


woman.suffrage bill by vote OF II to Z.
Trouble is repnrted at the placers in
the Henry Mountains, Utah, and an or
ganized warfare for the possession OF
land has begun.
Two schoonere from San Diego havs
been seized by Mexican customs officers
at San Quint,n and are held there pend
ing Investigation.
The report that DR.. Perry OF the Perris
Irrigation Company, San Diego county,
had disappeared is denied ny bis friends.
The report was started by the doctors
enemies.
First Lieutenant Brumback OF tn ,
First Infantry, U. 8. A., has lost his rea-
son, and has isolated himself in the
snowy wilds OF koo.ensi county in
Northern Idaho.
w. s. Hale of Haystack, Grant county,
Or, contemplates experimenting with a
number of semi-tropicsl crops during
the coming season, including cotton, to-
bacco, broom corn and sorghum.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
ports twelve failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
rs compared with eleven for the previous
week and twelve for the corresponding
week of 1892.
The mill at the Virtue mine in East
ern Oregon is running night and day on
ore taken from the upper level. The
new pump is fast clearing the mine OF
water, and the prospects Of the company
are very fatteripg.
The great high power pumping plant
which will supply Yuma and Yuma
Heights with water, and hich will irri.
gate 10000 acres of land on the mesa
near Yuma, has started up, and that
section is correspondingly happy.
The Puyallup Indians have commenced
the construction OF the first railroad
built by Indians in this country The
road will run through Their reservation,
and is believed to he part OF the Great
Northern aud Union Pacific systems.
The Salt river in Arizona rose four feet
in two hours rec nifty, showing that the
enow in the mountains is melting rapid
ly. As vet no rain b Is fallen in the val
ley, though 1t is time for the rainy sea-
son to close, and old timers lear drought.
Apache Indian counterfeiters have
been discovered in the Mogollon Mount
aims. A. T. The coin they made was a
counterfeit silver dollar. l. was CON-
posed OF lead washed tn LIVER, but 20
imperfect that it could easily be de-
iec'ed.
Loe Angeles complains tina. the South
ern Worlds FAR Lady Commissioner,
have been snubhed by the Nor hero
Comm issicners. They have been told
that they will have to nay their own way
to Chicago, while the Northern Commits
sioners secure passage free.
Ms. R. CIR fifth and her daughter
Minnie at Portland, o.. were impris-
oned in folding ned, and were nearly
emothered before they were extrlrated.
A projection crushed Mrs. Griffith's
chest. The two were in the trap an
hour before assistance came.
A fabulously rich strike of ore is re.
ported from Aqua Fria, about thirty
miles from Prescott, A. T. The location
is near the famous Big Bug district,
which has been producing rich ore for q
year or more. The ore from the new
ind is reported to assay 81 900 per ton,
Or 81 q pound.
A report from the Northwest says work
will begin on an extension Of the Bur-
ington route from the present terminus
of lis grade at the Eastern Idaho line to
Portland within three months at the
urthest, aud a branch of the Great
Northern will be run down to connect
With the Burlington at or near Boise, |
Idaho, thence running to San Francisco,
md each line will be used by the other |
road.
A mining and development company
has been incorporated with a capital |
.tock Of *l0,0)0,0OO. The directors, and
heir 81 oscriptlons to the stock are
Iohn W; Msckay, ,s2,oW,UO; James l..
tlood, s2,49),UO; James +. Walsh. &c.
w. Inc other directors are William
Lyle and george Il. Wells. 1t 10 stated
me purpose OF the corporation is to own
1ntroi ana oes! IN mines, lands and
water righ's, and 1t 10 generally under
;tood the company 10 formed TO further
1eveiop the Comstock mines.
Edwards Lopez, one Of the most noted
on the border, having served
.wo terms in the peni'entiary at Yuma
and similar time n Hermosillo, has for
'ome time been confined in Jail awaiting
,xtradito on papers to take him to From
reras, Mexico, where he was wanted for
he murder OF a prominent citizen. Re
emily six officers arrived TO take charge
If the prisoner, and he was turned over
% them. When a few hundred wards
lcross the Mexican border the prisoner
vas tied to post and riddled with bnl.
e'e. A brother If the dead desperate
IA. gone TO bring the body to Bisbee, A.
for burial.
The Great Northern railroad ba. ia
,ued i,s new fraigh, tar # on lumbar and