The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-10-05
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Geographic Re.
ports OF Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES

Happenings Of Intsrsst In the Towns and
Cities Of Oregon. Washington
aud Idaho.
Blk schooners were loading lumber
on Coquille. Or. last week.
Edwin Eels has been agent for the
ruyaliup Indians for nearly twenty.
four years.
The Herrick cannery at The Dalles.
or., has put up about 5000 cases Of
salmon 81 far.
Governor McGraw and the military
board favor. for military reasons. Civ.
ing Spokane the new artillery com
pany.
FAIR catches Of salmon are being
stiil made Oh Coos river, Or, although
the run Of fish is Stacking up some
what
The Burns, Or, town council has
contracted for the purchase of fire en-.
CINE 70 cost tl.275. delivered at Hunt.
,ngton, or Ontario.
A row among the gamblers in Pa.
iouse, Wash. led the city council to
conclude that gambling should be
broken up. II will act upon the con-
clusiun.
Spokane has organized u new infan.
try company and elected these officers:
Captain. Emery =. Gilbert; first lieu.
tenant. Joseph NJ. Moore. second lieu.
tenant. X. A. koontx
The contract Of the city Of New
Whsicom. Wash. with the Bellingham
Bay Improvement Company for light.
ing the city for one year at the rate of
900 q month has been ratified by the
council.
Dog tennel dust interfered with the
harsesters about the machines in Sher-
man county, Or, this season. The
clothes Of the workers would become
filled with II, and the wrist, neck and
body were badly blisiered.
The debt Of Curry county, Or, is
about $40, GOO, and draws per cent
interest The debt was incurred In
building n good road from one end of
the county Ia the other. The rate of
TAXATION Ia 81. 30 ON 800 Of the asses
scd valuation.
A saving plant has been fitted up in
TacumA for cutting lunt-r into blocks
10 he used in paving Pacific avenue.
The block cutting machine can cut
seven blocks at Il stroke. 8. 200 All hour.
I SO. 900 a day. OF enough 90 lay 400 lin.
cal fcr, II paving On one side Of the
avenue.
/ The other day fully 100 people wit.
pcssod an exhibition of Cunningham
q HAr,er's horseshoeing machine. in
Hcppner. or. The machine is made
to hold the wildcs, csyusc without in
/ jury Ia him OF those shocing the horse.
/ The TRIAL was fully satisfactory TO all.
says the Heppner Gazette.
settlers in the Lake country. Or. are
anxiously awaiting the survey Of that
country. which will be made this fall
Work IN that section may then he look
ed for. as people are adverse to putting
substantial Improvements ON unsurvey-
I'd land. A townsite will he laid of
al the NaTruws in the near future.
The Astoria News says that il may
10 au,horitstively stated that the firm
Of Dickson & Co. has been awarded the
contract for building the drawhridge
pier and trcstlework from Young
hay to Astoria. and that Corey Bros. &
Co. will do the first ten miles Of
grading and tunpeling work east of
| Tongue point.
| The total valuation by the assessor
Of the property Of Mslbeur county il
fl.l3s,196 OF this. tli2.343 is ex-
empt. leaving the taxable property
o. ,o2s. 3aS. The grand jury of Curry
county, or. has recommended the ap.
pointment Of three capable persons to
expert the records and accounts Of the
different county offices.
job Considine. Of Spokane, has los,
the first point in his fight to maintain
his right to employ females in his the
alter The case came up on defendant,
motion for writ Of habeas corpus,
and was heard by Judge Buck. After
the argument Of counsel on each side
he court held that Considine was lie
vally held, and denied the writ Of hab
cas- corpus.
Yakima. Wash. people hope to oh
tain a pardon for Frank Lavigne, wh'
was sentenced to thirty years for kill
ing Tex Bagwell. The effort is baset
on a recent decision Of the supreme
court that II a person is arrested TO
murder he must he either convicted o.
acquitted Of that charge, and If he i
convicted Of murder the sentence can
not be for granddaughter.
q. +. Billings has on exhibition a
his Office in insurance block, Ashland
Or, the peach the surpasscs the recor'
for sire. II is Of the twenty.ounc
cling variety, and lacks but g..
ounces Of weighing twenty ounces
The big peach WAS grown by b. Beach
Of Ashland. 1t has been preserved Il
a glass jar for exhibition, with sewers
other smaller ones Zone OF the latte
weighing 10 "a ounces), and they vii
probably I've sent to the fairs.
The earnings Of the ladies OF tn
First Methodist church in Spokane fo
the year ending August 81, 1895, AZ
gregated 81. 90S.9a. For six month
/ continually the ladies served meals i
the rear Of the old church to workme
, engaged on the new church. Five hun
, dred dollars worth Of meals were ful
. nished. Another important feature {
| their work was the lecture courss
. which put nearly $500 into the trea'