The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-09-25
COMMENT OF TIE PRESS.

tor tHc oHCe " usSOtlatc Justice OF the [
supreme bench. As an incumbent Of |
that office does not have much to say, it /
seems odd that she should have such an
ambition Chronicle.
The girl who tiirts with a whiskerless I
gosling till he doesn't know whether he |
is floating in the sea of champagne to |
the sound OF celestial music, sliding
down creased rainbow, or riding on
ridge pole OF an aurora borealis, then
tells him she can only be Christmas
gift. opera ticket or ice cream sister to
him; who steals his unripe affections
and allows them TO get frost btten-car-
ries him into the empyrean and happy
love only to drop him with a kerplunk
that Ais his callow heart with COM
pound fracture-well, she cannot be
prosecuted for larceny nor indicted for
malicious mischief, but the unfortunate
fellow who finally gets her will be glad
to 60 to heaven-where there is neither
marrying nor giving in marriage.-Ex.
j. D. Gibbons OF San Francisco is on
the Snake river, where he has a new
machine for saving fine gold. The ma
chine is operated by electricity furnish
ell from dyLomo which charges a
powerful magnet This magnet will lift
body Of iron weighing 250 pounds ii
placed within eighteen inches Of it. By
the use of this machine its inventor
claims all the gold will lie saved, as wei!
rs the iron sands i'll which the gold is
found on the Snake river. lie claim 8
that this iron sand makes the finest OF
razor steel, and the gold is not only sep
arated from this and saved, but the SAL d
is melted by electricity into pig iron.
lie claims the iron alone will pay all OPP
Grating expenses of the machine, leav-
ing the gnld as clear profit. The ma
chine costs about 500 besides the Tn.
CINE and dynamo, and has capacity OF
forty tons OF sand per dav. Tao men
besides the shovelers will he required TO
operate the machine. The first test will
he made at Lewiston.-Mining and Sci
entitic Press.
at looks" says the New York Trib-
me, ''as ii Sheriff Iartin and his depu-
ties lost their heads and thought their
business was to exterminate band OF
disorder'y persons, instead of restrain
ing them from violence Moreover, the
sherifHs own contradictory accounts OF
his action tend to discredit his mango
meut Of the affair. He says lie ordered
the shooting, and he says he did not or
der the shooting; he says he was tramp
lei under foot and severely beaten, but
those who saw him soon afterward saw
he showed no signs OF ilt.treatment. lie
may have acted with the best OF mo-
tives, and thought himself in imminent
danger from a mob which he knew to be I
composed Of ignorant and violent per
sons who refused to listen to his com (
mands. We may assume that he has (
no intention OF disappearing an I'M
pleasant situation. but the very confu /
sion OF his stories makes it hard to be |
lieve that he performed his duties with I
lie good sense and calmness necessary /
for public officer charged With his re.
sPonsibilities."
News from Ross Fork saws that there
came near being pitched battle there
between the Indians Saturday after
moor. During the day the Indian police
had been out rounding up the children
on the reservation, preparatory to start
ing them into school. This is the usual
proceeding. As soon as the youngsters
get out OF school. they drift back to the
tepee life and by fall become as wild a.
young cartridges and have to lie run
down and carried back to school. In
their catch Saturday, however, the In.
iian police had gathered in a fourteen
year old girl who had been married dur.
ing the summer. The bride very natur.
ally objected to bling torn from the
arms Of her husband and the husband
objected just al strongly to losing his ,
Young wife. The police refused to give :
Ier up, but the husbands friends rallied
% his support and they took he young
from the hands Of her captors )
BY force. Knives and guns were freely I
iourished and for little while it looked {
Is II there would be a general fight, hut I,
he timely arrival OF the agent prevent. .
ii bloodshed. The bride will not 20 To J
chool this year.-Pocatello Tribune. y
Poultry farmers anxious to discover J
he laying capacity of their hens NAV J
arm by using the X rays. One large !
aIser OF poultry was able to weed out !
he non-producers at the rate OF thirty q
'er hour. The mon -efficients" were z
0 Plucked and sent to market. ,
sJentgen rays are said to have an ex- .,
injurious influence on the ac- y
ION OF tue heart, causing violent palpi. 4
alton. In Paris medical students and y
thers have been wa-ned to exercise =
reat caution in examining the action =
the heart by the rays. III effects n
ave followed their use after operations, y
hen II was considered deslra bic to oh \
rye the process Of healing OF the tis -
leg, knitting OF the bones. and re-crea-
on Of parts. The effects usually re-
'mbIe burns and are caused by placing y
Ie exciting tube too near the part un. p
r inspection or making the exposure u
% long. 4 tube Ehould never Ia tass =.