The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-04-09
NEWS OF THREE STATES
ARE PAYING OFF MORTGAGES
Sales Of Railroad Lands In MSntaaa
-Fifty-Ftve Of the $50 Names ON
the Fremont County, Idaho, gury
List Are Those OF women.

CosmOpolis reports that the fishing bus
mess lie almost a failure, many GsheEInea
taking their meta out Of the water.
The superintendent Of the jetty work at
Grays haTbor entrance says that fully
1000 feet Of work viii be built this year.
Governor Rogers has appointed PROBES
sof l.. ID. Goshan Of Everett q member Of
the board Of regents Of the state univer-
sity for the term ending March. 1904.
vice b. y. Houston. Of Tacoma. term ex.
pired.
| Auditor Mann Of Douglas county has
figured up the amount Of debt cancelled
BY paying of mortgages in Douglas cOun-
~ from January !, 1897 TO March 5,
1893, and finds it as follows: Real estate
mortgages, &53, Ola; chattel mortgages,
81 ,l39; total, S8O,243.
William Rice Dunbar, who has been APP
pointed register Of the land Office at Van
couVer, Wash. was born in Schuyler
county, Ill. April Z, 1889. He crossed the
plains with his parents in 1886 10 Oregon.
His father. Rice Dunbar. was one Of the
/ first pioneers TO file on a donation claim
in the Waldo hills, near Salem, Ore.
During the IL months ending March 81
there were 334 deaths in Spokane and 5l3
births While all deaths are reported and
included in this statement, a large Dor.
ton Of the births are not On these fig
ures IL viii be seen that Spokane, ealcu.
lating on a basis Of population Of 10000,
has death nate Of S.35 and a birth nate
of 1882 in 1000.
The postofiee reports for the fiscal year
ending last night show a wonderful in
crease in business at Colfax, and receipts
are now large enough TO advance the of
ice from third 10 second class The re-
| ceipts for the year were $S025. This will
affect the change in the class and increase
the PostnRster's salary from $500 10
ssOO0 per year. beside increasing the al
loWance for clerk hire, rent, etc, about
$500 per annum.
Pierce county has begun a suit against
Sheriff Mills and 400 other defendants
who occupy or claim some title or inter
est in oS acres OF land comprising part Of
the Tacoma Niger tract" The county
seeks TO establish lie right 10 an undivided
One-sixth interest in such IS acres by
operation Of the law of cscheat II al
leees that in 1873 one George Luviney
! who owned such ones sixth interest. died
leaving no heirs; that ID. b. Hannah was
appointed administrator of such estate
In 1889. and in 1855 the probate court
decreed that Luv-iney's interest escheated.
from which no appeal was made.
Out Of a total Of 1859 foreign born in
Tacoma but one first saw the light Of day
in Spain. .-.
The Vancouver saw mills have secured
a contract for 100000 feet of lumber.
which will be used in the construction of
wharf at Fishers rock quarry
Wheat receipts at Tacoma for March
have amounted to $50 cars, according TO
inspector Wrights repert for the month
The total receipts to date, since Septem.
Der !. amount to 96l6 cars, or 1859 y6as
bushels Il is estimated that about 2.
100000 bushels will yet hes hipPed before
the season closes
Word has been received at Vancouver
Of the death at Dyea of Sergeant Major
Kelly of the 18th infantry. He died on
the evening Of March 10, of cerebro spinal
meningitis, after an illness Of only three
days. A letter from Dyea saws that he
vas strong, robust and healthy up to the
hour Of being taken with the disease,
and his unexpected and untimely death
has plunged the regiment into grief and
alarm.
John p. Anderson, more familiarity
Pete Anderson, one Of the Puget sound
pioneers. died the other day at the home
Of his daughter. Mrs Lee Rogers, after
q few days Of intense suffering with
pneumonia. Mr.. Anderson was an old
steamboat captain on the sound. and serv.
ed a term several years ago as surveyor
Of SnohOmish county. He was one Of
the Pathhndcrs of this country, being ia,
miliar with every square mile Of its terri.
tory, and for several years has followed
timber cruising and private surveying.
He leaves quite . large family of chill,
dren, all grown, his wife having died
several years ago. He was about 81
years old.
The lists Of County Assessor Daniel
show that the sales Of railroad lands in
Park County during the past year amount
to nearly 1000 acres,
The city council Of KAlispen has re-
duced salaries. That Of the police Judge
was cut form SIS TO SIS, and the mar.
shall from SIS to SIS.
Complaint comes from Havre that the
poison scattered over the prairies for the
purpose of destroying wolves is playing
havoc with the hounds used for the same
purpose.
The longest telephone communication
in the world will be established this sum.
mer, when Livingston, on the extreme
east, and Portland, on the west. will be
connected by wire.
A large force Of men will soon be at
work on the Big Horn tunnel Erom the
fact that there are q number Of springs
inside the tunnel which keep the roadbed