The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-02-18
Crur d'Alene Press.
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CGUR DALENE.. IDAHO
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
A Tacoma Man Falls Heir to a
Fortune in Texas.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORANGES.
Analyses Of the Body Of Los Angeles
Married Woman Prove That
She Was Poisoned.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORANGES


She Was Poisoned.
Idaho has appropriated 80. 600 for the
Worlds Fair.
Southern California il shipping but
few oranges. 1t 10 waiting for the Flor
ida crop TO become exhausted.
J. D. Rainey. sx.Chief of the Fire De-
partment OF Tacoma, has fallen heir to
. fortune in Texas estimated at $4CO. 900.
In Eastern Oregon the intense cold,
together with the heavy snowfalls, 10
causing great suffering among the stock
on the ranges.
Five women were arrested and each
fined 81 and costs at Phoenix, A. T., for
riding astride on horseback, dressed in
Mother Hubbards.
Dolores Ochoa, . Mexican resident of
Phoenix, A. T., and one OF the oldest
men in the country. IL dead, having
reached the age Of lis years.
The Stockton Association says there 10
nothing in the story that Stamboul's rec
ord Of 2 :07k Was obtained by fraud. The
whole matter 10 to be thoroughly inves-
tigated.
The large irrigation ditch to b con-
structed in Owyhee county, Idaho, will
be $50 milee long, and will irrigate $780,
600 acres OF desert lands. Water will
be taken from the Snake.
The analyses % far Of the body Of Mrs.
Nordholt- Bentley ut Los Angeles show
that she WAS poisoned. Bentley, it il
believed, had accom- plices, and . sensa-
tional trial il anticipated.
The court at Phoenix, A. T., has de-
cided that hall where drinks were sold
and music played by three women on .
etage, one OF whom was dressed in male
attire, 10 not variety show.
Sacramento Chinatown il in . fever
Of excitement over the shoot ing BY high
binders OF . Chinaman while coming
out OF the Mission School and the stab
bling Of All Wing on the streets.
The Oregon State Democratic Commit
tee regrets the attitude Of Governor
Pennoyer toward Mr.. Cleveland, and
considers his utterancss against the
President elect - unwarranted and cen
eational.
The Southern Californian Smelling
and Refining Company at Los Angeles
has begun the work OF preparing ground
for smelter, and expects to have the
machinery in place and ready for opera
ton early in April.
The owners of sealers and masters at
Victoria, B. c., have been notified that
they must ! ave the names OF vessels
painted on both sides Of the bow and at
the stern. On the latter there must also
be the home port or port OF register.
The Ballona Harbor and improvement
Company, Los Angeles county, CAL, is
suing the Santa Fe for the recovery OF
the road to Los Angeles and terminal
privileges, which had been granted on
conditions that the road has not COM
piled with.
The Nevada Legislature has before it
an irrigation proposition, and an extra
ordinary effort win be made to pass it,
for many believe the salvation of the
State depends upon colonization and the
bringing under cultivation Of much of
the now barron land.
Several Umatilla county farmers are
still holding grain harvested in 1901.
One has 5000 bushels on hand. An Of
fer Of 81 cents per bushel was made for
the wheat after the harvest of that year,
and was declined by the farmer, who
believed that the price would reach 81.
The acts of the Board of Directors OF
the Fallbrook tSan Diego county, Cal.
irrigation district, providing for issuing
and selling bonds Of the district, have
been Endorsed by the Superior Court, and
the friends of irrigation in that section
celebrated the victory with cannons and
bon6res.
Despite the snow Thompson i Camp
bell, sheep men OF Pendleton, have lost
but three head out OF their band Of Zoo
since leaving the mountains. One oil
these was choked to death, and . dog
killed another. Part Of the Thompson
4 Campbell sheep are on Birch creek
and part on Coombe' canyon. They
have been fed ever since snow fell about
five tons, daily and are in superb condi-
ton.
The Lake Helmet Water Company in
San Bernardino county, CAL, has at an
enormous expenditure erected at their
reservoir site in Helmet Valley q colossal
masonry dam, which in point Of size and
durability 10 not equaled on the Ameri-
Gan Continent. The future development
OF the San Jacinto Valley in the direc.
ton OF agriculture will be dependent on
this water supply which IL not controlled
by the caprices OF the season.
The Lewiston udaho) Tribune learns
that the prospect for extensive devel-
opment work being done in the Elk City
mining district this summer is exceed
ingly good. 1t states that three claims
have been recently sold for $4,000,
$4,000 and 1850 respectively, These
sales have aroused the greatest excite
ment in the camp, and everything bear
ing mineral OF the remotest value 10 be-
ing located in the hope Of sharing in the
general favor with which that country 10
now regarded.
Klamath county 10 the latest seat Of
gold excitement. A settler named Took,
on the south eide OF the Klamath river
about one and one half miles from Keno,
was digging . well, and at q depth OF
sixty feet he struck a formation from
which he PANIED out $3.50 in gold with
an ordinary skillet. The gold was prob
ably from the stratum OF blue gravel,
which underlies . large portion OF the
lake and klamath river country, and il
may lead to the development OF some
good drift mines there.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
ports fourteen failures in the. Pacific
Coast States and Territories for The past
week, as compared with fourteen for the
previous week and eleven for the corre-
spending week OF 1892. There were sew.
enty failures in the Pacific Coast States
aud Territories for the month OF Janu-
ary, with Assets of $269, $40 and liabili.
ties Of SAT- SO ;, as compared with eighty.