The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-06-11

Snow is four feet deep in the Noun
Baker district.
God Ignite coal has been found in tn
KlNkitat pass.
Ex-eonfederates took part in Memoria
services at Colfax.
A company of volunteers has been or
ganized at Goldendale.
Stephen Bloomfield died last week neal
Pomeroy, aged IS years
MeGregor Brothers are taking 1900
sheep from Colfax to the Occur d'Alent
reservation for the summer.
lie Roi stock is offered at $5.s5 and the
minority is trying to unload before the
new managers take charge.
The English syndicate controls more
than half of the lie Roi mining stock, SC
the recent sale cannot be defeated.
The young corporal of Company F who
refused to enlist at Camp Rogers was
hanged in effigy on his return to Dayton.
Six warrants just called by the city
treasurer at Cheney have run so long that
the interest amounts to two-thirds of the
principal.
Grace seminary in Centralia will prob
ably be opened soon. 1t has been closed
two years The building is owned by the
Baptists and cost $4,000.
Many OF the heaviest woolgrowers OF
the state are having their crops secured
at home They are storing it until the
fall, in anticipation OF higher prices.
The organization of a company Of vol
unteers is proceeding rapidly in North
port, under the direction of Capt. A. G..
Ferrandini. The company will be known
as the Stevens county volunteers
Leonard Gould, l6-year old boy, and
three companions were horse racing
through the streets of Spokane the other
evening, when young Gould was thrown
to the ground. The horse ridden by one
Of the Others boys stepped on his head,
crushing the life out Of him instantly.
Negotiations, which may in a very
short time lead to the consolidation and
sale of all the street car lines in Seattle,
are in progress and may be closed up at
any time. The capitalists who are inter
ested in what is known as the Traction
company, of Tacoma, are said to be be-
hind the deal.
The formal dedication of the Whitman
monument occurred at Wailatpu, Mem
orial day. Rev. F. NJ. COndit delivered
the dedieatory address. Dr. Myron Eells
and President Penrose of Whitman col
lege made short addresses. Over 200 PEG
pie from Walla Walla and vicinity wit
messed the ceremonies.
The Olympia committee, appointed to
present flag to the cruiser Olympia, has
been advised from Washington that the
navy department will not object to the
gift. However, it is recommended that
the presentation be deferred until the
cruiser visits Olympia, which will be at
the close Of the war.
At nwaeo, a joker hoisted the Spanish
nag over the Stars and Stripes on the
AagpOle of a prominent store, and before
the proprietor knew what was going on
an angry mob entered his place and
threatened all manner of punish ment.
The situation was soon explained and the
matter adjusted by hauling down the yell
low offender.
H. E Burnett, arrested in Spokane on a
charge Of murder committed in California
20 years ago, was well known in COlfax,
where he worked two months as brake
man on the Colfax- Moscow freight train.
Burnett boarded with ]. o. Housekeeper
while there, and Mr.. Housekeeper speaks
in the very highest terms of him. He
went by the name Of Ed Burnett at Col
fax.
The last chance for a new trial for
Charles Creams, who was convicted in
Tacoma of numbering haf-breed woman
named Celia Hansen, has expired. After
being found guilty he was sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. 1t was
expected his attorneys would apply for a
rehearing within the specified time, which
has now expired. This was not done and
the prosecution has applied for the com
mitment Of the prisoner.
Montana.
Ranch hands get $35 a month in the
valleys.
The Deer Lodge penitentiary is now
lighted by electricity.
Only six per cent of Montana's first call
for troops was rejected.
Sheep owners are confident Of q fair
crop Of lambs and big yield Of wool
William jackson, one of the surviving
scouts connected with Reno's forces at
the massacre of the Little Big Horn in
1876, was in Great Falls the other day
from Helena, on his way to the Blackfeet
reservation. He is accompanied by Cross
Guns, chief of the Blackfeet Indian police.
dutch Harry" one Of the best known
old timers in western Montana, has joined
the outfit Of packers that is preparing TO
leave for st. Louis. There are several
others whose applications have been ac-
eepted. Fred Morrill, has been offered q
position by wire and will probably ae-
cept the offer II satisfactory arrangements
can be made.
The lambing season in northern Mon
tana is practically over, and it Is nearly
time for the shearing to begin. The wool
growers have saved from 90 to 100 per
cent Of the lambs cast.
John s. WARP Of Alpine, eontempIates
building q fat boat about September
at Judith landing and sailing down the
old Missouri river TO Omaha 10 attend the
great fair; he will take eight tons Of
rich ore from the Blue Jay, Copper Crown
Dixon and Ella. These leads are his prop
erty and Of his own discovery; he mill
take the ore to the Omaha smelter for
fair test and then try to interest cap
itaL
A deed has been filed in the county
clerks Office at Red Lodge conveying all
the property Of the Rocky Fork 4 Cooke
City railway TO the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company. The Northern Pacific has
been operating the property under lease