The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-10-26
STATE NOTES.

Gilmore 10 organizing an atheletic club.
A lodge Of Knights of Pythias has been
instituted At Caldwell.
There was four days racing meeting
at Caldwell, commencing October o..
Purses of 81 100 were offered.
The Nsz Perez county commissioner
have appropriated $50 for the benefit
OF Company d, Idaho National Guard.
r. A. Pierce of Challis and E. s.
Whittier, Of Focatello, have been APP
pointed organizers OF lodges Of Silver
knights Of America for Idaho.
]. B. Wood, the well known Boise Val
lev farmer, has shipped = carload Of
onions, $4,000 pounds, to Butte. He sold
the onions for IL cents q hundred.
The mill of the Amarican Developing
and Mining Company at Gibbonsville,
10 said to be the most complete mill in
the state. 1t has = capacity OF 100 tons
= day and is running steadily. The
company employs $50 men.
The county commissioners did not &C.
cept any OF the bids for the issue Of
Idaho county bonds, there being 90
many inquiries from eastern pzrti0
they believed the best interests of the
county would be conserved BY postpon-
ing the sale until December, to allow
time for all who desired to put in q bid.
10 admas.er Pat Gorman has q large
force of men at work on the road in
the vicinity Of Bonner's Ferry. About
IS men are on the payroll at present.
The main feature Of the work is to tx
hx up the curves in the track, they be-
ing out of tangent considerably in many
places. The hotels and boarding houses
are doing . rushing business.
Upon favorable report OF the road
viewers appointed to view the wagon
road lately constructed between Fourth
Of July creek and Yellow Jacket, the
Lemhi county commissioners have Or
iered the clerk to issue warrant on
the general road fund in favor OF the
Idaho yellow Jacket Gold Mining Co.
or the sum OF 1890, As per contract ON
lie.
A new strike OF free milling ore is
from the Alpine district on
Wilson creek, a tributary OF the middle
lork Of Salmon river. Tho district is
from three to FIVE miles in width and 10
miles long. The lodges are from four
inches to four feet in width and carry
free gold. About 80 locations were
made up two weeks ago. The tests 50
far made show the ore to contain from
a6o to $40 per ton, with a trace OF silver
and lead, which is richer than the aver
age gold rock OF the country.
Grand Army hall at Murray 10 being
rsmodeled. Candy post will have very
quarters when the work is
finished, says the Cpur d'Alene Sun.
The Woman.s Relief Corps has prom
ised to assist the post in fixing up the
The post owns the building
and 10 free from debt. Formerly the
post was kept poor paying rent. Two
years ago it bought the building from
Christ Niedenthal with scarcely q dol !
lar in the treasury. Since then every
dollar on the property has been paid: |
the post has its own headquarters and |
ia in Nauri h ipD I;t;oo
The Lewiston Teller says: "Mrs.
Katharine Prinsle OF Pennington, and |
Mrs. Delaney, of Spokane, are visiting
n the city, the guests of Mrs. z. b.
Whitman. These ladies arc pioneers Of
Oregon, and were present At the cele-
'rated Whitman massacre on Novem-
Der %, 1864. They were but children
hen, aged and Is years, but their
memory is fresh with interesting remin-
sciences leading up to the tragic death
If Or. Whitman. MIR. p. B. Whitman
II this city is nephew Of the martyr,
Ind was acquainted with the ladies' 80
'ears ago, who are now visiting him, re-
'allins instances of their life in the
pioneer days Of Oregon.
The Blue Bird Mining Company, it,
orporated Jew days ago, was organ.
zed to work some free milling gold rock
n the Blackfoot mining district in La
an county, Idaho. Hanson Carlsrud,
ne OF the incorporator., says: But
title development has been done on the
property. The vein 10 from four to five
.et wide and can Be traced the length
four claims. The Early Bird recent
'cation in the same district, is said to
BOX promising. One man who has seen
says he would drive tunnell 200 feet
nd put in l0-stsnp mill on the prop
rty for a half interest" Mr. Carlsrud
'ys the district is an ideal one for min
i.. 1t is easy Of access, lumber and
alter are in abundance and being near
n excellent farming district all farm
roducts are necessarily cheap.
There IL one medicine which every
ypIiv shnntl no |