The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-01-13
EASTERN NEWS.
Receipts of Land Department
Of the Northern Pacific.
WANT BONDS DECLARED VOID
The Issue Of the First Number OF 9
Pilot Chart for the North Pa.
eiiic Ocean-Ete.

Pilot Chart for the North Pa.
cihc Ocean-Etc.
Chicago has = deficit oil over q. 00O..
Pittsburg's relief fund amounts TO
90, 600.
Chicago is now claiming population
Of 100000.
Philadelphia IL to try wster-gas max
ing on its own account.
The Indians are costing the govern.
,nent 81 ,0oo, 600 per year.
Reports from the winter wheat sections
show q much smaller average than last
year.
Another wonderfully rich streak OF
gold quartz has been struck At Cripple
Creek. Col.
The health department Of New York
proposes 10 make war against the use Of
bituminous coal.
Speaker Crisp says that the Wilson
bill will pass the House Of REPRESENTS
tiSes by January 81.
The Colorado Farmers Alliance wants
Congress 10 Issue legal-tender notes 10
the amount Of 600 600 600.
Bishop Coke At BIiialo has again de-
nonno.d the position Of the Catholic
Church on the public-school question in
this country.
Ohio, Indiana. Illinois. Michigan.
81 Mf.s..set
smaller acreage sown to winter wheat
this season than in ls.i2.
Tie financial and. commercial depres.
sion existing in Canada AT the present
time il being more severely felt than
any depression since lS1.
There is considerable force in the as
ser,.,n Of Governor Fishbark Of Arkan-
sas that the Indian Territory is being
rapis.iy converted into school oil crime.
II iss good sign Of Mexico's credit in
I ,ise markets OF the world that Finance
Minister Limsn,our has completed ne
| co,ia,ions with Berlin house Tor loan
/ of SIS, 600 600 upon favorable terms.
The Iron Age thinks that the extreme
/ |, easy money market and low cost oi
material will induce very considerable
extension Of electric railways In various
pAr,s Of the country during this year.
Many people living in Rochester, \.
! \. who would and could work, are de-
barred from 10 doing because oil insult
Glen, clothing. Children. too. are unable
10 ~ 10 school because they have NJ
shoes.
The state Department IL dissAiisfies
with the reports ii Minister Thompson
a, RIO. 1, 10 thought he il ENJOYING him
sclt in the nei,hborhood and is not keep
ing himself well posted as 10 the condi
ton n Rio. His reports are directly tn
opposite Of Captain Picking, and 'avo
the insurgents.
The Sioux City, o'Neil and westerl
Railway Company in its answer 10 IN
foreclosure suit oi the Manhattan True
Company, trustee Tor the funds, declare
: thu, its total capitalization WAS placed
nearly 81, o0o. 600 on $50 miles oil roeh. g
,hre. times its cost. This being contrar
, 30 the constitution and lawsoi Neorask'
' the directors ask that all the stock an
bonds be declared void and the roa
turned over TO the assignee oil the Unio
Loan and Trur, Company Tor the eenet
OF the compsny's creditors, who q
vanced the money to build the road.
!, The photographic Office Of the Nav
: nepastmeni has started the new ye'
:, with the issue Of the first number oil
y milo, chart Of the North Pacific oces
!, Tor January, 1884. Its purpose is to !
:. lus,rate the character OF the month
. publication which has been planned
:, The photographic office for the benefit
y the maritime people Of the Pacific CoAi
4 The estimates OF the Secretary OF
Navy for the next fiscal year contain
!, item Of Slb 600 for the publication OF =
' chart, and IL Congress should grant u
!. sum. il il proposed TO issue the first d
= of each month an edition showing CRAP
:. icaily such information OF timely int
est and warning TO mariners as can
' collected from reports OF incoming ma
N gators.
OF the 4, 900 900 acres Of land grant
10 the Northern Pacific railroad by
o. ar, Of Congress July 2, 1854. only b,S
y Ies acres had been patented to the CO
IS pany at the close Of the last fiscal We
y. The records of the general land Oh
Ia also show that SPAS. 400 acres OF indie
he nity lands located in Wisconsin, Mini
d, sofa, Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washil
ton and Oregon have been restored
N the pub,ic domain. Ry a decision OF
'm Commissioner in 1886 %. 400 acres OF
lr- grant located in Washington have
ne Secn restored. Over 100000 &C
he more Of government land have been
Ter tilted TO the company, and 1t has sold
on cash since the grant was first made &c
~ 10 the present time s, $50. SSS acres.
~. total cash receipts from all GALES h
'ev amounted to $S2.7la,97i. and there
ed mains outstanding on account OF u
an sales sb. O7a. 65l. principal and inter
,ce The receipts OF the land department
The The Northern Pacific Company for
Jay mast wear were 81, csc, 22+.66 and its
'o'' penses &577 ,8lS.ss.
Tho indications are that the etc
the lhoiders of the Columbian Expoei'
w Company will coon receive ~ pc,
sky dix;dend on their stock. Accordin
ep- ,h. rsnort Of Auditor Harrington Il
ork was December $lo,oN,WW IN &C, CAT
'ky stock. OF this amount !S,Wv,vU
ars. a.. other IN. on, 600 by individuals.
me the December reports there WAS an
i mate that the net assets OF tne %. en-
per- ton company would I've ABOUT ti,.o,
IN. Allowing for the closing up Q, u,e g
hut sition affairs, 1t would appear un"t
900 nnre than 10 cents on the dollar Q
ttee i,o ,eturncd to the stockholders. VI
rom Tho considerations which deferred
ions FINANCE Committee from making .
aise nmmrndation was the fact that, Ia
nom ;Jard Of any amount were paid no
ndi- wnnli interfere with the donation
tax, s,ock to the Columbian Museum;
onal .ccordance with the conditions Of
In. shall Fields gift Of 81 .0OO. 600 to the
uced s s"nm there should be donated e
dual trustees Of that institution Sx,WV,W
ecss- exposition stock and e5oO,VVO can
.cripdOn'. The condition i' not 'a'f