The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-10-07

Vegetables are so plentiful in Okano-
gan county that So will buy supply suf-
hcient to last an ordinary family through
the winter, says the Outlook.
Surveyors on the Colville Indian res
ervation report the discovery of both
gold and silver lodges in the course of
their work. The survey is nearly COM
pleted.
The Tacoma Ministerial alliance has
passed resolution favoring the aboli-
tion of burial services at the grave.
The principal reason is that journeying |
to cemeteries takes too much time.
Judge Hanford, of the United States
court at Seattle, refused 10 admit TO
citizenship a Chinaman named L. King
The case will be appealed to the SUI
preme court of the United States.
j. w. Macy of Chelan recently grub
staked prospector to go into the Meth
owucountry. He made several good
looking locations, one of which he
christened the Macy, showing rich
lead of free.milling gold ore. ~.
William F. Weeks, one of the original
owners of the Everett townsite, is in
Costa Rica a fugitive from Justice, on
account of the ENLIGHTENMENT of enor-
of h Ill
while practicing law in New York.
Heavy snowstorms have occurred in
the Cascade mountains. 1t is believed
the Baldwin survey party, which left
| Conconully about three weeks ago TO
locate the state wagon-road has been
showed in on the west side of the range.
One can partly imagine, after reading
of the mad rush for the worthless lands
on the Cherokee strip, what is likely to
happen when the hundreds of thousands
of rich acres of the NezPerce are opened
for settlement next spring, says the Ju-
lietta Advance.
John Hansen. of Astoria, has been
found guilty of beating his aged wife to
death with a billet of wood. He way
laid her while she was picking raspber-
ries and after the tragedy gave the
alarm and claimed that she had been
killed for her money. The defense set
up was " chronic alcoholism"
The Montana College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts at Bozeman opens
with sixty students. The faculty expect
the number will be doubled by the mid
die of November. OF those now en-.
rolled fifteen, with an average of 1616
years, and forty-six with an average Of
1917 years, are college students.
The Seattle Telegraph submits thu:
sensible plea for better country roads
1.-The cities of Washington will never
reach a full measure of prosperity unit
the country surrounding them is grid
ironed with complete system of high
ways. Give Washington that and i
VIII ASSSANS al LII PObuS SlSdlCA ludn 4
can receive from any other source"
: G. w. Dickinson, of the Northern Pa
, cifc railroad, who recently returned t,
Tacoma from the east, predicts tina
t Washington win feel the effects of tn,
approaching revival in business soone
4 than the eastern or middle states tina
S money is easier in New York, and tina
, there is better feeling and a restoret
l confidence throughout the Commercial
: world.
> The following officers were elected b.
the Washington State Press association
in session at Seattle last week: Presi
!, dent, Homer Hill of Seattle; vice pres
idents, j. M. Vernon of Everett, j. H
: Jones of Nooksak and E. N. Fuller @
Tacoma; secretary and treasurer, o. N
Moore, of Hoquiam; orator, Marion I
Egbert, of South Bend; poet, Miss Fa
Fuller, of Tacoma; historian, Charlie
Prosch of Seattle. Olympia was cho,
en- as the next place Of meeting.
e Belts is Receiver.
) SPOKANE, Oct. 3.-Chauncey G. Bett
L was appointed receiver OF the Spokan