The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-12-22
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Geographic Re.
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

Interest - Paeias Coast People.
spokane's Mozart Club is rehearsing
Patience"
About 5000 bushels of wheat arc
stored At Helix, Or.
1t costs . sheep pelt to be married be-
fore Judge Goddard Of Talent, Or.
The corporations Of Brownsville and
North Brownsville, Or, are thinking Of
uniting.
NJ. Costello. Tekoa eaddler, has re-.
ceived g. 900 back pension and perma-
nent allowance.
Several well-to-do families, recently
from Nebraska, have bought farms near
McMinnville, Or.
A term OF winter school for farmers
will be given ct the Pullman Agricultural
College, beginning in the latter part of
January.
Mr.. Rasmus, who recently filed pull
pit at Palouse City, has gone into the
show business, and il reheareing some
amateurs in Damon and Pythias."
Last Friday Q deal was closed by which
the Hotel Medford became the property
Of Captain ]. T. C. Nash Of Corvallis,
Or. The consideration was about IS 600.
A wind storm the other night moved
about several of the buildings at the
mission at the Umatilla agency. The
windmill and tower Of the water plant
were wrecked.
The fisheries of San Juan, Wash, are
assuming considerable importance for
the first time this season. The Friday
Harbor cannery, which commenced OPP
erations last spring, has put up nearly
IL 900 cases Of salmon.
Medfoi | school district has an indebt-
ednese OF Is, 500, on which it pays $3.50
interest annually. The directors have
had an offer to take the whole indebted
neee At per cent interest, and are max
ing arrangements to fund it.
A ], loo-Pound horse was sold at auc-
ton by the Corvallis Chief Of Police
no more. The horse has been in the
city pound for FIVE days, and the bill for
his feed Was $3.50, in which sum the city
ie duly horsed."
The Spokane National Banks affairs
are being rapidly wound up, the last
chapter OF the settlement being the sale
at auction Of the various notes, judg-
mente, stocks. furniture, etc The con-
Germ has already paid about 90 cents on
the dollar; 90 depositors will not lose
much.
The Walla Walla farmers made a mess
of their contribution to the Pullman
College tests of sugar beets. Instead Of
sending in those OF average size, as in
etructed, they picked out the largest.
One weighed l36 ounces. The result
Was that their percentage of sugar and
purity Was very low.
The Puget Sound Lumberman for De-
CEN Der says . Washington cedar shingle
company with . capital of $500, goo is be-
ing organiLed to control the shingle trade
OF the State Of Washington. The scheme
includes leasing all of the shingle mills
in the State. numbering 234, the product
to be handled by the company.
Persons arriving in valley towns from
Newport on Yaquina Bay state that
Monday the tide rose to the extraordi-
nary hei hit of twelve feet, sweeping
away several sidewalks and cross walks
along the water front and doing other
damage. The usual tide ie about six
feet and when it touches the eieht-foot
mark the inhabitants in that section be-
gin to think . tidal wave OF no small
proportions is coming.
Mrs. Anna Churchman, aged SO, died
at Ashland few DAYS ago from a pecu-
liar cause. In handling a stick OF stove
wood about Q week before she ran a
small silver into one thumb. Shortly
afterward she washed out a cloth that
had been used in q case OF tonsilitis, and
il lie supposed that come of the poison
found acc ,ss to the blood through this
slight wound on the thumb. She grew
worse and her death resulted.
A first-class 5000 diamond drill with
boiler, engine and Zoo feet of pipe has
arrived at Port Townsend on the Kings
ton for Captain Henry f. Morgan's place
at Scow Bay, where Q bore of $40 feet
through sandstone and shale formation
has already been made with every pros
pect of reaching q superior quality o
coal in 500 to l.000 feet, and perhaps
less. Boring will begin as soon as the
desired bonds are given for leave to mine
the coal if it appears in paving qualities
]. T. Totterdale of Genesee, Idaho
was in Astoria looking for a site for q
brickyard, which he proposes to estab
fish. He has the machinery for turnin.
out &C, 900 per day ready for shipment
He expects to perfect his arrangement
in the course OF q few days and take hi
plant there ae quickly as it can b
shipped. Mr.. Totterdale is . prsctica
brickmaker, having been engaged in tn,
business since boyhood, and it is expect
ed that his venture will prove highl!
successful.
The specifications for bids for openin,
. channel through the North river jan
in Washington call for . channel OF ;
minimum width Of fifty feet. There il
government appropriation of s., 500 fol
this work, Of which 81 200 is available
1t is considered impossible to put any
kind Of Q channel through for that sum
and it lie not expected that any bids will
be made. The river is nsvigable for fit,
miles above the jam, and there is al
immense body OF timber tributary to it
Congress will be asked for an additions
appropriation.
One Joint school district in lobster
Valley, Or, is made up Of territory from
three counties, Benton. Lane and Lin.
coin, and the people Of that section re
siding in the two latter counties ar,
anxious to annex themselves to Benton
They are . community to themselves
shut Off from the outside world b,
mountain barriers, and it would be con
venient for them to be united under on,
county government. Corvallis is tn,
most convenient county seat for this sec
ton, and - il would only require shor
strip two miles wide of Lane county ans
. small piece Of territory from LincolI
70 make them one people they viii
probably petition the Legislature for
change IN the county lines.