The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-08-19

FACTORY at Cotton.
All the gambling houses in Tacoma
have been closed again.
A small run of salmon is reported
from the Skeena river, Alaska.
The fall term at the state university
at Seattle begins next Monday.
Thirty-two ships are en- route to Port
land to carry away the grain crop.
Billy O'Connell of Seattle has made
application for admission to the bar
According to the Rosebug Review the
well-laden orchards in the Umpqua val
ley this year will do much to dispel the
cry of hard times.
Tuesday night the Seattle police ar
rested drunken man in the slums and
when they searched him at the station
over 1000 was found upon him.
Salmon are coming in through the
straights of Fuca and the Georgian gulf
and are going up the Fraser river 10
British Columbia in great schools.
] G. White will c >mplete at once the
survey of the Idaho state wagon road,
Surveyor Trask having resigned because
the commissioners cut down his bills.
Work is being pushed on the Oregon
agricultural college buildings at Cor
wallis. They will be completed before
the opening of the school September %.
Parties who have been fishing in the
Wood river and elsewhere in south
Idaho report more mountain trout in all
the streams this season than there ever
has been in any year in the past.
The island of Oahu, the chief of the
Hawaiian group, will be almost encir-
cled by a railroad. A. Leek, a Seattle
man, has secured the contract for its
construction, which will cost over
81, 600, 900.
The rawhide used by young lady in
The Dalles, Ore, on Rev. o. d. TAYLOR,
who had swindled a friend of hers, a
teacher in Taylor's academy, out of her
wages, was recently sold at auction,
bringing $3.50.
Marshal McGrath of Ellensburg has
been busy conducting the hobos to the
utmost limits of the city. The Register
reports that forty of these Migrants
were given tie passes down the road
one day last week.
Cle-Elum is considerably excited over
the news of the discovery of native COP
per on the Upper Teanaway and in the
Peshastin and Trout lake mineral belt.
There is said to be considerable silver
in the copper ore.
The assessment rolls of Yakima coun.
ty show an increase this year of $685.
$50 in real estate and S114 925 personal
property. Central Washington is one
of the few sections of the world that
can show prosperity in these times of
general depression.
The school board of Great Falls,
Mont, has reconsidered the action of
postponing the opening of the public
schools till November /. 1t is believed
that the merchants will take at least a
| portion of the warrants at par until the
new taxes become available.
Tacoma estimates that the proposed
canal from Cases inlet to the head OF
Hood canal can be built for $500, 900.
il. Mcdowell Of Ellensburg is ship
ping red raspberries to Spokane, where
his product is in greater demand than
he can satisfy. He is shipping from six
to ten crates day, and would send
more if he could get them picked.
Two pretty but foolish girls ran away
from their homes and music lessons in
Snohomish, the intention being to take
in the worlds fair. Their baggage con
sisted Of curling iron, and they got as
far as Seattle, when they were over
hauled and taken home.
The city council of Great Falls have
passed resolution pledging themselves
To donate n the