The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-19
Kansas Farmers Paying
OFF Mortgages.
PATRIOTIC SONS OFVETERANS
Have Refused to Expunge the Word
white in Their Consti-
tution-Ete.

The fat has gone forth that five-cent
shaves in New York must go.
Chicago is about to erect an apartment
house which will contain 707 rooms.
The Texas Trunk railroad has been
turned over to the Southern Pacific.
The Wilmington (Del.l $3.50, 900 post
Office will probably be built of cut gran
ite.
Baltimore is to have tin-plate factory
in operation in the course of three
months.
Spreckels says he is padding his own
canoe, and has not nor will he join the
sugar trust.
The officials of the Auburn IN. W
prison have set the convicts at work
making pearl buttons.
The sanitary inspectors in Brooklyn
say that leprosy does not exist among
the Chinese residents there.
An effort to combine the various COM
mercial organizations of the Kansas
Farmers Alliance has failed.
| Eight hundred thousand acres of land
in Eastern Oklahoma recently ceded by
Indians will soon be open to settlement.
The relief fund for the families of
those who perished in the Park place
disaster at New York has reached sc, 200.
1t is said that there are more salmon
in the Merrimac river now than there
has been at any time during the last
forty years.
During the months of May, June and
July of this year 81, ,45O, 900 Kansas farm
mortgages have been paid off. This is
very good sign.
! The annual report Of the st. Paul road
91s0 y ? IL. shss ,,os,& div
idend on preferred stock there is a. sur
plus of $699, 1853.
Petroleum, which actually flows up
unaided through the rocks, has been dis
covered at Crows Nest in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains.
A special from Washington to the New
York EUening Post says it is believed
that Ex-Governor Cheney will be Secre-
tary Proctor's successor.
During the past few weeks the exports
of wheat have averaged 100000 BUSH
els weekly, an increase of nearly three
quarters over this time last year.
In the 100000 letters that reached
the dead-letter office last year there was
money amounting to $28, ,6l2 and checks
and notes of the value of 81 All, ,S7l.
Andrew senscal, Superintendent of the
Canadian Dominion printing bureau,
, has been dismissed. He was implicated
in the scandal which is being investi-
: gated.
Work on the government jetties for
. the deepening of Galveston harbor un-
der the 5000, 900 appropriation by the
last Congress is now beginning apparent
ly in earnest.
Two-thirds of the applicants for ad-
mission to West Point and Annapolis
according to DIR. Cheeseman of Chicago
y are rejected because of the cigarette habit
Z. and its results.
d The emigration from Germany to
, America during the first five months oi
the present year amounted to 56,567, OF
Q nearly 1000 more than the largest tota
n during any five months of the last five
years.
- The bureau of American Republics il
, informed that the Brazilian Minister
of Finance has ordered the collection
:. of all import duties in gold and has for
= hidden the sale of gold at the custom
houses.
all IL Is q great pledSuF6 10 ledTn INA
m there are to be no expensive side show
4 at the Worlds Fair. The directory ha
decided that the entrance fee shall en-
* title the visitor to see everything within
y the inclosure.
William E. Bear, the English statisti
d. clan, writes to Bradstreets that later in
e. formation leads him to mark up tn
M European deficiency of wheat from 2Sl,
100000 bushels (his first fgures) to 800,
III 900, 900 bushels.
ty The Patriotic Sons of Veterans in ses
sion at Philadelphia refused to expung
an the word "white " in their constitution
lie where it refers to those entitled to mem
er bership. Lebanon, Pa, has been chose
ne as the next place of meeting.
Ex-Assistant Cashier Lawrence of th
on defunct Keystone Bank at Philadelphia
at has made canfession of the manner i
In which the books of the concern wer
NJ doctored. 1t shows a system of dupli,
ity and thievery almost unparalleled.