The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-01-09
A Scheme to Still the
Troubled Waters.
THE GRANGE ON UNCLE SAM.
Land Containing Aluminium Does
Not Render it Subject to Entry
Under the Mining Laws.

Keeleys gold cure has been applied
to the tobacco habit.
RABBITS are 80 thick at Burleigh, Pa,
that the trains run over them.
An electric road is to be built across
the Potomac at Washington.
A movement is on foot to organize
naval battalion at Portsmouth, N. IL.
Natural gas is being discovered in
abundance in Western Pennsylvania.
The overhead electric system is to be
used by New Orleans street railways.
The State debt of Pennsylvania has
been reduced $2,53S, ,35a during the year.
The American District and Mutual
District Telegraph Companies have
been consolidated.
The project of draining the City and
the Valley of Mexico has been tempo
rarily abandoned.
Iowa State Grange thinks Uncle Sam
should run the liquor business as he
does the postoffice.
This years hop crop is much larger
than last years, but owing to lower
prices will net less money.
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture
reports that winter wheat has been
greatly damaged by drought.
The Grand Army Of the Republic in
Indiana will probably erect a monument
to the late Governor Hovey.
A rich vein Of silver and gold ore has
been opened on Monadnock Mountain.
near Colebrook village, N. I'll,
Ex-Secretary William Windom's por-
trait decorates the new 50 note just put
in circulation by the Treasury Depart
ment
A member of commission to me-
gotiate for Indian lands in Wyoming
declares them TO be utterly useless for
settlers.
The railroad and express officials are
considering preventative methods to
protect their trains from future at
tempts at robbery.
w. II. Winans, a wealthy farmer.
prominent in church, social and polit-
ical circles at Franklin, Pa, has been
arrested on charge Of burglary.
Abour $27, ,OOO. 900 in gold has been re-
turned to the United States from Eu-
rope since the movement in this direc-
ton set in three months ago.
The Vice Consul from Japan at New
York has made an appeal for the assist
ance OF those who are suffering from the
effects of the great earthquake.
The Interior Department has decided
| to pay Round Valley Settlers whose
land was taken for use as an Indian
reservation aboutl$90, 900 in the aggre-
gate.
Harvard's Committee on Athletics
has entered Princetown on its baseball
and football schedule for next season.
! Hitherto Yale only has been recognized
by Harvard.
The great bridge in course ot con-
struction over the Mississippi at Mem
phis is TO be completed by May /, when
it will be opened with formal and inn
posing ceremonies.
Millionaire Thomas Cornell, the Hud-
son river steamboat man, left will and
cut off his son-in-law. The legal fight
against the will has begun. The estate
amounts to $5,00O,OOO
The grip is epidemic in Philadelphia.
Physicians assert that the number Of
cases is almost as great as at anv time
last year, but that the disease is of a
much milder type.
The December report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture giving the condi-
tions of the crops is not fattering to
the growers of winter wheat. The aver
age cogdition is reported at 853.
John Hoey, late President of the
Adams Express Company, has made
restitution to the company to the
amount of about $500. 600. This is not
what Hoey owes, but all the company
could get.
The railroads of Mexico employ a large
number of Americans in positions of re-
sponsibility, and when an accident oc-
ours that results in the loss of life the
Government deals hard with the person
or persons in fault.
A scheme is on foot to prevent de-
struction of coast lines during storms by
constructing iron pipes or tubes into the
ocean at frequent intervals and discharg-
ing crude petroleum through them into
the trOublad watera