The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-06-18
NEWS o. THREE SIAIES
Faeena CoieFea Men OFganIsfng q
Company OF voIsnteers--slonseI
ian PheasaBts for hontana-En-
eourasing Crop Prospects FFem
AN Around.


log driving Is in progress
Tacoma coIored men viii organize
company Of volunteers At least 30 viii
Join. John Gonna, prominent colored
republican, and a veteran Of the rebellion,
heads the movement.
Seattle women have taken steps TO or
game a rescue home.
A Catholic church Is being built at
RitxyiIIe.
New Whateom has passed an ordinance
prohibiting horses running at large.
Tacoma yheelmen may soon have a b.
cycle path 10 Puyallup. The county com
missioners have ordered the route sur
yeyed.
ii. w. CastIeman. a well-known busi.
ness man, has been elected a member Of
the Tacoma city council TO I'll the VA
eaney caused by the death Of r. J. Dodds.
There has never been q more favorable
season for crops in Stevens county. The
farmers are all jubilant. and predict
great yield, not only of cereals. but of
fruit.
Four new companies Of the Fourteenth
infantry are soon 10 be organized at Van.
eOmver, and recruits are now being en-.
listed for the same.
l. II. Northey, well known in western
Washington during boom days as real
estate specuIator. and who operated ex.
tensiyely In Centralia, died IN Victoria
recently. lie laid out several additions
70 this city, and secured large immigra.
ton by extensive advertising.
George Stevenson, the Seattle man. who
is accused Of swindling various people
out Of sums Of money aggregafing over
5000, and whose case has excited con.
siderable comment, has decided to sue
three local gambling houses for a return
OF S0SUO' which he gambled away in THEN
P1aSsS % business
DAD'a sHni McDonaid VAL not have
- slAnn ltlsi ON the charge Oh murder
oH u'"l,on % Prosecuting Attorney Mat
news :" nhiunah county the superior
e"u's ., "Alheid county mas made an or
oer aiSehaT2ing the prisoner, who at once
'ooA mas departure from fomeroy
ine 4-yeAf "id giri OF .. T. Nandertord'
oi AINAhsa" creek IosttZ county, re
ceiSed a very ugly cut on the forehead
=! an axe IN tne hands oil her little
oto'her' IL Is presumed the boy was
en"Pping "lth The axe and his sister
sDePPeu an uhe way and was cut aeci
aentaiy.
Inc rniinan volunteers have great
n"pes Oh oeing called INTO active service,
no" 'nAt second can ior volunteers has
oeen made and are drilling hard and get
ung INTO gooa trlm m case they are called.
me statement OF Adlntant-General Can
Ton thAt whitman county will be allowed
Out one ompany, the officers declare, viii
not anect thefn' as they do not claim TO
DC whitman county company at all.
Idahs.
The comfort cases made by Boise ladies
for the Idaho volunteers have been
Skinned by express TO San Francisco.
Crop prospects never looked better on
Occur d'AIene reservation than at the
present time. The late rain lust came
in time and all the late sown grain has
taken hold. There is no reported dam.
age TO any Of the fall wheat that has been
sown.
Lieutenant Walsh saws he believes the
men Of Idaho are much above the average
sire. A large majority of those who have
applied for enlistment in Tropp + since
recruiting began have been rejected be-
cause Of size. The maximums for the
cavalry service are feet 10 inches in
height and los pounds in weight.
The work of grading still continues
on the Lewiston extension being directed
along the south side of the river, which
includes some high precipices of rock,
besides a tough dirt. The men are di.
vided in gangs, and even at the present
rate Of building it Is said that it will be
the latter part of July before the road
viii be in condition for running trains
over. Between Juliaetta and Lewiston
only two miles Of the track has been sur.
faced. The surveys have been made up
the Clearwater as far as Big canyon. and
the work indicates the immediate build.
ing Of the road up the river.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company Is extending its Occur d'Alene
system, At present its lines run from
Spokane via Occur d'Alene City and
through the Fourth Of July canyon to
Wallace, with branches from Wallace to
Burke, Murray and Mullan. Work is
now in progress to connect us with Mis-
sonla. For 10 days or two weeks gang
Of men have been setting the poles for
the new line. having commenced at Mis-