The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-10-14
DOIIGs THROUGH THE Week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF


no ofsr has been made by Canada %
send troops 70 South Africa.
Colonel Harry C. Ksssler, Of the First
Montana volunteers, win come home q
brigadier general.
The Mallory steamer Leona was burn.
Cd and sunk at her wharf In East river
Saturday. The cargo consisted OF 10.
baco and 5000 bales OF cotton, and val.
ued a. $4,000 70 $500. 900, IL q total
loss. and the boat 10 little better than
q wreck.
The Croker Estate Company. which
is composed Of the heirs OF the late
chas. croeksr. has made q gift to the
employees Of the Southern Pacific rail.
road OF the Croker homestead at Sac
ramento. TO be used as q hospital.
Gen. Otis has informed the war de-
partment Of the arrival at Manila OF the
transport Athenian with 4 detachment
OF the Third Cavalry and horses. There
were no casualties on the voyage.
Forty men employed at Cramps. rep
resenting various trades, today jolned
the striking employees OF that company
There IL LIKELIHOOD OF q serious vat
o. famine in Honolulu IL rains do not
come soon. The water In the NaunA.
M reservoirs IL lower than Il has been
for yeaFM
II 10 announced In st. Paul hat the
Great Northern IL figuring on the build.
Ing OF its air line between St Paul and
the Canadian boundary II once. The
Information comes from contractors
Who have been asked TO furnish est.
mates.
An epidemic Of small pox has brok.
en- out on orcAs island 70 the terror OF
the inhabitants. and with the result Of
completely stopping communication
herewith
Orders have been issued sending the
Forty @lxth and ThIrty-ninth regiments
Of volunteers 70 Vancouver barracks a.
quickly e. possible. The Forty -slxth
was recruited a. Fort Crook, Neb., and
the Thirty-ninth ii South birmingham.
Mass.
The United States CONSUL At Daw-
son City has reported 10 the department
Of state that W. II. Sutton. who died At
Dawson City last spring. hAa been iden.
tined by . photograph furnished by the
attorneys OF the young mans family.
who live In Minnesota.
The transports City OF Para. Zealan.
dla. and Valencia have sailed for Man.
liza with the Twenty ninth regiment
and q large number OF recruits from
San Francisco.
The war department has written 70
the governor Of Idaho Informing him
that the state authorities must make
arrangements TO control the Couef
d'Alsne mining situation. a. IL is desir.
ed 10 withdraw the United States troope
~ soon ~ possible.
Captain Bodf6h. OF the steam whaler
Beluga. who has Just returned 10 San
Francisco from the Attic, reports that
some kind Of consumption 10 epidemic
among the Indians.
The big steel ship. Edward Sewell.
just launched from the yard OF Ter
builders. Arthur Sewell 4 Company.
Bath. Ne. IL the ninth one OF the feet
built by the Sewells and 10 the fourth
steel vessel constructed by the Arm.
A logger going up TO camp on the
Shelton Southwestern railroad one day
last week. threw his blankets on and
they rolled under the wheels. ditching
. number OF cars. Now Superinten.
dent Kneeiands fat has gone forth
stopping everybody from riding on the
train. even 70 the ioggingcamp mogula.
The immense log raft which left Sc
attic q few weeks ago In tow Of the
steamer CGArinA, and which was lost
OF the coast and found few days ago
on Port Hartford. was towed into San.
Francisco not much the worst for wear
and practically intact
Visitors to the Spokane Exposition
this year are moro than pleased with
the entire AFFAIR. Il is an exposition In
every sense OF the word and no longer
could be called fruit fair. All the de-
partments are well represented. and
there 10 no room 10 spare anywhere.
The music and the vaudeville attract,
ions make the program very nne. Nv.
cry one IL pleased with the treatment
given visitors by the people Of Spokane.
and by the management Of the exposi'
tiou.
when the transport Pennsylvania
arrives with the First Warrington.
volunteers they will be given q royal
reception by the Red Cross association
assisted by the citisen's executive COM
mittee. Through the generosity Of The
executive committee the steamer Caro-.
line haa been placed at the disposal Of
a.. ma N.o.a ejaculation ana vvlll Ia
kept In readiness for duty at Jackson
street wharf.
II is thought that the construction Of
the proposed hotel for women in New
York will be begun in January. The
amount Of the capital stock Is TO be $780,
600.
Admiral Dewey Is home at Shelburne
VI, at last and Ia happy to be within the
shadow Of the Green mountains and be-
Hidc the waters Of Lake Champlain, away
from the noise and hustle that have Allied
his ears since his flagship came In sight
Of Sandy Hook.
Fire has totally destroyed the business
portion Of Mojave, CAL One store TO
mains, but not saloOn or lodging house
except one, run by Frederick Harvey at
the depot.
AT the Lenox Athletic Club Eddie San.
try Of Chicago knocked out Ben Jordan,
featherweight champion Of England, after
a little lesa than two minutes In the ak.
tenth round Of q very brisk tight
Marcus DAILY Of Montana has taken q