The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-09-25

or the now famous Kendall mine ana
in line with the trend OF the mammoth
ore body. Mr.. Moore has secured a
diamond drill. He will thoroughly ex
plore the ground.
A mob of II or Is men invaded
Chinatown at TOnopah, New, and at
the point of guns compelled the occu-
pants to dress and ordered them to
leave town at once. A number of
Cinnamon not complying at once were
struck over the head and body and
dragged from their habitations and
forced to accompany the mob to the
outskirts of the town and told to take
the road to Sodaville. Later on all
Chinese but one returned to town and
notified the officers.
The general land Office has sustained
the decision of the Occur d'Alene land
Office classifying a large area of land
in ShOshone county as nonmineral.
About 925,000 acres between Wallace
and the st. Joe river and on the other
side of the river are involved. A num-
Der of Wallace people have prospects
in the district and if the secretary
of the interior upnOlds the commits
sIoner, the locators Of these claims will
be forced to forfeit their rights or to
buy the land from the Northern Pacific
Railroad company.
w. r.. Hales has commenced suit
at Wallace against the st. Joe Basin
Mining company to collect $7S,900 al
legged to be due on agreement of sale.
The complaint recites that the COM
pany agreed to purchase a group Of
placer mining claims in the st. Joe
country from him for $92,150. Of
this amount $13,250 was paid and it
is stated that the balance was to be
paid from the sales of treasury stock.
Hale alleges that treasury stock has
been sold to an amount unknown and
that the money has not been paid i'll.
Harry Miller one of the most widely
known mining men of the northwest,
recently died at his home in COlville,
Wash. after a prolonged illness, of
tuberculosis.
The Crackerjack mine in Buffalo
Hump has just sent out it's first clean
up from it's new 10 stamp mill. The
sum was little over $4,000 for a
"a days run-the best mill record ever
made in the Hump. The Crackerjack
had a five stamp mill and a month
ago finished adding five more stamps
to the mill equipment.
What is believed to be one of the
most important strikes ever chrOnicled
in the history of the Occur d'Alenes
was made recently, when the Snow
storm tapped the ledge in the lowest
tunnel This is at a depth of 1912
feet, and the copper ore is of higher
value than in the upper workings
} Four feet have been cut through, and
some of the ore is said to be wonder
fully high grade. The tunnel was in
1856 feet when the ledge was reached
The strike is especially noteworthy
p copper one.
An Anaconda special says that Ton
Ruddy and Georges Ogilsvie were
caught by w. s. Mahoney and w. R
Allen, officers of the French Gulch GOlC
, Dredging company, in the act of rob
bling the sluice boxes of gold recently
The company officials suspected tina
the boxes were being robbed and watcl
' was set. Ogilsvie later confessed il
Jail that Ruddy and he had been sys
tematically rObbing the boxes Of gol'
for many months and returned to tn
y company over $1,000 worth of gold dus
D. which he had in his possession. Will
= taking Ruddy to Jail he secured a riff
and attempted to kill Roy Davidson
s president of the company. During tn
Z scuffle he fired one shot but MISE
/ Davidson. Before he could fire agai
5 the workmen overpowered him.
. The Belcher mine, near Republic
.. Wash, expects to get into its vel
o this week in the lower tunnel. 1t
a, now in 275 feet, and should be toucl
y, ing the footwall, according to both tn
4 survey and the indications.
The resolutions condemn "the unwa
ID ranted and autocratic action. of Go
% ernor Peabody in turning the militaI
g. arm of the state government over
70 the mineowners for the furtherance
r. their own private interests at the co
Or of the people of the state and again
the interests, welfare and liberty
the citizens"
Drilling Contest.
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