The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-09-19
IDAHO.


from Elk TO Dixie, in Idaho county.
O'Donnell's hall. in Wallace. was des-
troyed by fire on the 18th. Loss $4,000
y muskrat was recently killed on The
Main street. Moscow, and it was a
wild one. too.
A Wallace miner named Mcdonald
fell down a shaft at that place on the
10th, and was killed.
competition war in water melons
at Boise for while gave consumers
two good sized ones for cents.
The SUBMITS Of the peaks around
most Of the Idaho towns are whitening
with the first SHOWS of fall
The Lewiston Tribune says Asotin
fiat is overrun with rabbits. Organized
companies hunt them.
John Broadbent is the heaviest tax
payer in Ada county. His taxes this
Year foot up over $4,000
Grant Shaw, the teamster in Wardncr
who was stabbed by Hank Wilson an
other teamster, is dead.
Hank Wilson, a teamster of Wardner.
on the evening of the 9Th. fatally
stabbed Grant Shaw, another teamster,
Mr. Vaughn. of Leland. Latah coun-
ty,, was bit by rattlesnake last week.
and at last reports was in critical
condition.
The total receipts of the United
States land Office at Boise City for Aug
ust were $2OS "a. the largest for any
month in its history.
For using threatening and insulting
language to a woman Tom Ellis, Of
Occur d'Alene, now languishes in the
Rathdrum Jail
The finest gold received at the y.
5. assay Office at Boise comes from
Cariboo district, in Bingham county
Next finest is from Snake river bars.
A four-horse stage of the old-time
pattern now rattles into Florence twice
a week. carrying the mail between that
place and Grangeville.
1t is still wild country between sal
mon river and Dixie. A photographer
named Hanson wandered in those Willis
nine days before he found his way out
The crops of apples, prunes and
plums about Kendrick never were NOR,
| DOuHlllul, anu the IIull is OF eNcellen
quality.
Operations have been suspended il
the Gilmore mine of Rocky Bar. tn,
rich body of ore found last spring hav
ing been exhausted.
The Idaho Saddlery Company, o
Boise. has been placed under attach
ments. The suits against the concern
aggregate 100000
The farmers about Kendrick are sue
cessfully overcoming the scarcity o
hands by doing their harvesting co
operatively
Horticultural Society. to meet at Cald
A feature of the meeting of the Stat
well on the It'll and 18th inst, will b
a question box.
A recent cloudburst caused a brea
in the Payette valley canal, the result
ing food causing considerable damags
A large force is at work repairing tn
damage.
The state board of pardons has par
doned Frank Reed, sentenced from She
shone county for 10 years for murder
He is fatally affected with Bright
disease.
residents ABOUT the MOSCOW GO
pound petition for it's removal, the In
cessant barking of the CANNES maxim
it impossible for them to sleep.
Several settlers have been damage
by fire about Harpster, Idaho county
Ike Gunter lost his barn, wagon an
bob sleds, and other settlers have los
fences and hay
The lady advocates III Boise of We
men filling school offices have been aC
vised that women are eligible in Idah
to sit on the school boards. but tha
there is some question about the
= right to vote.
Cyrus Roberts, farmer of Lata
county. went out after dark to cove
his grain with boards and lighted
wisp of straw to see, and the fire con
municated to the grain stacks. II
lost his whole crop.
Fire was communicated to the stra
pile from the overheated box Of
threshng machine operating near Mo
COW. There was no water a ham
but span of horses was so quickl
hitched to the separator and drew
away that a configation was pr
vented.
BYNUM CHOOSES LIEUTENA ANT
[ Prominent Men From Different Sc,
, lions on the List.