The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-12-02

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Buckley banker who left shortage of
100000 when he disappeared.
A.. B. Stahl, James O'Brien and j.
Lands were sentenced to the peniten.
tiary by Judge Upton at Walla Walla for
arson, burglary and forgery.
The recent storm greatly damaged
the jetty at the mouth of Columbia
river and 600 feet Of piling supporting
the railway track was carried away.
An issue of $50, 600 funding bonds for
Douglas county, Washington, have been
hoated. This will take up all outstand-
ing warrants and put the county on
cash basis.
e. Brighton, under sentence to six
months Imprisonment for smuggling
opium, committed suicide in the Port
land Jail by cutting his throat with a
razor procured to shave himself with.
Salaries of Northern Pacific employees
receiving between $50 and SIS a month
have been reduced per cent and be-
tween S75 and 500 10 per cent. Those
in excess of 800 mad been previously
cut.
Great Northern passenger train ran
into a rock slide near Leavenworth, at
the foot of the Cascade mountains. The
engine rolled down the embankment
into the Wenatchee river. The fireman
was severely injured.
q. j. Mulkey, formerly special agent
of the treasury department nnder the
Chinese exclusion act, has been indicted
on seventeen counts by the Portland
grand jury for smuggling opium. Sew
eral other members Of the ring are
under arrest.
Princess Louise of Tahiti, who was
rescued at Port Townsend from a sea
captain who had abducted her, was
sent home, her uncle, the reigning
king, having forwarded money to pay
her passage. The captain was infat
uated and wanted her to marry him.
The citizens of Ellensburgh have con-
tributed a fund and have just had print
ed $4,000 illustrated circulars, intended
to assist fasteners who contemplate
coming west. One has been mailed to
every visitor who registered at the
Washington building at the worlds
fair.
William King and wife and three chill
dren were taken charge Of by the Port
land authorities for purifying the
body" by fasting 40 days, according to
the teaching of Mrs. Williams, Chris
tian Science advocate. They called the
fasting sacrifice going through the
wilderness" The children were turned
over to the humane society.
John Dryden, under sentence to five
years in the penitentiarY and one of the
most notorious criminals in the north
west, escaped from the Seattle jail.
Three street preachers held services at
the jail and when they left he went out
with them, wearing a clean white shirt
and leaving dummy to represent him
in his cell.
A freight wagon load of liquors be-
longing to d. D. McLaren, was seized
by United States customs officers on the
road from Pendleton TO Grand Prairie,
B. G. The road begins and ends in Brit
ish Columbia but crosses the line sew
| eral times. AS there was no custom
house where McLaren could give bond
he will ask the courts to restore the
confscated property.
The British ship Audria sailed for
Liverpool with 26,664 cases of salmon,
worth $1O6,65S; 25, 1925 sacks of Walla
Walla wheat and 23,s5s sacks of blue
stem, valued at about $50, 11O, or $751;
776 for the whole cargo. The British
ship BIodich cleared the same day for
Dunkirk, carrying cargo of Washing
ton wheat valued at $4,000. The Mo-
gul took out -four and merchandise worth
| 300, 600, for Yokohama Wheat re-