The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-10-28

States marshal and taken to Moscow to
answer charge of larceny.
DR.. Frank Buckner dropped dead in
the street at Prosser, Wash, caused by
an overdose of choral, taken to relieve
the effect of a protracted spree.
George Anderson, of Chehalis, Wash,
who shot and killed his neighbor,
Hardy, for making insulting proposals
to his wife, was promptly acquitted by
the jury.
Charles Meyers, who is confined in
the Dayton Jail pending new trial for
murder and arson, had secreted a piece
of rope, with which he contemplated
hanging himself.
r. S. Apologize, pioneer of Oregon,
was found dead in the mountains be-
tween Drain and Elkton. He was
son of Jesse Apologize, one of the first
settlers of the Umpqua valley.
Two masked men entered o. c. Otter
sons store at Wallace and covered him
with revolvers, securing about ST 900
from the safe. OF this $500 belonged to
him and the remainder to the city, fire
department and knights of Pythias.
The snow in the higher attitudes of
| the Cascades is gradually driving pros
pectors into the foothills, and shortly
their camp fires will cease to glisten
even there and the eventful campaign
of '93 will be thing of the past.
In a runaway at Walla Walla Mrs.
Harper, aged so years; and Mrs Yeend,
young woman, and a child were
thrown out of the wagon. The former
had her left thigh broken and was in
ternally. The latter two were badly
bruised.
William Varker, a pioneer mining
man, lost his left hand and was other
wise injured by blast in the Nickel
Plate mine on Trail creek, British Co.
lumbia. His home was at Spokane, where
he formerly kept the Falls View and
Columbia hotels. He died Monday.
Colonel Patrick Henry Winston of
Spokane advocates the purchase of the
Northern Pacific railroad by the gov
eminent. He argues this is favorable
opportunity to test the feasibility of
government ownership of railroads and
that it would restore to the public do
main vast areas of land.
The rainy wether has seriously inter.
fered with fall threshing in the fiat.
head valley. While a large number
were fortunate in having their grain
threshed or stacked, large quantity
still remains in the field. The farmers
are separating the sheaves continually
so it will dry out. This has been one
of the wettest seasons known in that
section.
Gradually the authorities of Dougla!
county, Wash, are obtaining evidence
calculated to break up the gang o
cattle thieves, SO long a curse to thu
farmers of that portion of the Big Bend
The Pearson brothers, in jail at Water
Vile, have lately implicated Bud Robin:
of Noses lake and Foster creek resi-
dent named O'Donell.
The sheriff's sale of property in Port
land for delinquent taxes was supende
by temporary injunction granted b
the United States district court to out
side mortgage holders, who claim tn
assessment was unconstitutional, as tn
real estate was assessed at so per cen
of the actual value, while mortgage
were assessed at their face value.
State Land Commission,
OLYMPIA, Oct. 21.-The state Ian
t commissioners rejected many apple;
S tions for leases of school lands in warrior
parts of the state owing to informal
ties in the descriptions. Plans fc