The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1894-03-24
NORTHWEST NEWS.



county 5000.
The Everett paper mill will ship 100
tons Of paper TO Australia.
Bids for the Great Northern tunnel 1t
Everett will soon he called for.
A Ritxviile man has q curiosity In the
shape Of . squirrel with eleven legs and
four heads.
There 10 some talk Of closing the Day.
ton public schools ON account Of lack Of
funds. The district has floating debt
Of about tl2,00O.
The Hsyton ditch. which cost SIS, 900,
and which 10 designed 10 drain m ares
Of low land extending from Mount Yer
non TO Fir, IL completed and in use.
Thirteen teams and sixteen men are
~ work upon the track 1t the State Fair
cost 1890. Something like II, 100 yards
Of earth have to be moved.
The Snake river fruit crop for the
coming season promises TO be the largest
and finest ever grown in the valley The
yield will be extra heavy, and the spray
ing will insure = crop free from blight.
The question OF building Q county
poorhouse Is being discussed in WallA
Walia. The county already owns land
purchased for that purpose. The poor
are now cared Tor by contract 1t st.
Mays Hospital.
Anew form OF faith cure administered
by the " Come cutters 10 monopolixing
the entire attention Of Tennessee Flat,
Whitman county. Hands are laid upon
the MANNED, halt and blind with TO-
pu,ed wonderful effect.
The Spokane peoples tabernacle has
given out y, $50 meals, furnished lodg-
ings 1850 times, allowed 1892 men tie
privilege OF bathing and washing, and
dispensed ?, i55 garments. This has been
done at small expense TO the city and
county.
The foreign commerce for Puget Sound
.or February, rs reported by the customs
department, shows . total valuation OF
exports amounting 10 &6i7 $50, includ-
ing 6s5.sl0 bushels Of wheat, worth
1854. 90; $40 barrels Of -four, worth
tIs9, Cos; l,4l3.635 feet of lumber,
valued nj ia ,6si, and 81. 600 lath, valued
At Gao. The imports Of dutiable goods
were Isl ga; free OF duty, 81. o97. Value
Of merchandise imported in the district
and transported to interior ports with
out appraiseBent, dutiable, $l2,272;
free Of duty, tl7s, 296; total value, $780,
ass.
Shrewd detective work has led to the
arrest Of Indian Charley Waterman Of
the skookum reservation, charged with
numbering Joseph Nader, the Syrian
peddler, November s, 1888, near Hoods
port, Mason county, on Hoods canal.
That day Nader and . companion, X.
Cafuri, q Syrian peddler, stopped At In
dian Charley'e house, and exhibited
goods 10 the squaw, during which Char
ley took q rife and slipped out OF the
house. Hall an hour later the two ped
oilers walked the trail along Skokomish
river, cafuri fifteen feet ahead. when q
shot fired from the denee forest passed
through the body OF Nader from side to
eide, killing him instantly. Cafuri. fear
ing ambush. returned to Hoodsport and
gave the alarm. Indian Charley gave
the first information OF the shooting 10
the neiehbo but At the inquest claimed
he Was drunk at Union City al the time
oi the killing. The Turkish Minister at
Washington, n. c., ordered George Hall.
the Turkish Consul At san Francisco, to
make a searching investigation, and
aided by J. A. Mcdonald, the Prosecut-
ing Attorney of Mason county, and
shrewd detectives. evidence was secured
10 prove the guilt Of Indian Charley and
threats he made to Indians to whom he
confessed the murder. The arrest was
made the other day, and conviction is
deemed certain. Nader was % years
old a native OF Syria, Turkey in Asia,
o! good family, and leaves a child widow
with his mother in Syria.