The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-17

of peace negotiations.
The tariff conferrees at Washington
have adopted the habit of going into Sc
cret session to prevent unfavorable crit.
cism. The members of the body say their
meetings are secret to prevent a deluge
of telegraphic and letter suggestions from
constituents.
The following postmasters have been /
appointed in Washington: J. f. Fordc
Oroville, Okanogan county, vice J. ".
Mcbride, resigned; George Noah, Para
disc, Spokane county, vice X. II. Keeny,
resigned c. \. Gwinn, Garfield, Whit
man county, vice II. b. Erwin, removals
F. f. Knapp, Troy, vice w. b. Cooper, re-
signed; w. S. Wickersham, Wickersham,
vice j. S. Pebley, resigned.
Judge Ong of Cleveland has declared
the Sunday law preventing baseball
games, to be unconstitutional
Phillip T. Ashley, executed at Tucson,
Ariz, for numbering John Sanders,
United States soldier danced jig on the
gallows and said Let her go, Gallagher"
when the lever was pulled.
The navy department has ordered the
Ddttit sup OitSols NHlNi DdlNlClpdltu Ill
the Seattle Fourth of July celebration,
to San Francisco instead of to Hawaii as
previously announced.
BY the arrival of four large pumps for
unwatering mines in the down town dis
trict at Leadville, 800 miners will be Civ
en- employment. The Bimetallic smelter
at the same place has been set to work af
ter nine months idleness and so men were
put to work.
BY the bursting of a reservoir at Ward,
jefferson county, Col, two lives were lost
and property valued at from $4,000 to
100000 was destroyed The break was
caused by 36-hour steady downpour of
rain. John Lowry, who saw the dam
weakening, saved many lives by giving
warning.
fourth appeal has been taken in the
celebrated Miller will contest case at
Pittsburg.
The proposed non-partisan currency
commission was the most important top
ic before the last session of the cabinet
the president strongly urging that the
matter should be taken up and the party
pledges fulfilled.
A telegram from Seattle states that the
Sons of Herman order is again the loser
from dishonest officer, Carl Hamburger
grand secretary of the grand lodge hav
ing absconded with $500 of the order
money and $ll5 belonging TO the Ever
green lodge, order of Foresters, of whicl
he was treasurer.
On Friday, out of respect to the lat
I Senator Harris of Tennessee, the senat
q adjourned. Senator Harris has been Al
, active member of the upper house for ?
= years. The vice president appointed tn
following colleagues of the deceased to al
. tend the remains to Memphis: Senator
J. Bate, Walthill, Berry, Turpie Allen, d,
4 Doe, Pettus, Chiffon and Wetmore.
= The Japanese minister, after duly con
municating with his government, ha
p written a note to the secretary of stat
q celebrating the position taken by Japa
J. against the United States anneXing II:
; waii. He says, however, that the ierc
r. criticism taken from the newspapers
lie his native land come from the oppositio
20 press and must not be needed.
,e The rolling mill of j. Painter & Son
J. the steel mill of Jones & Laughlin an
the Monongahela tin plate works, all
he Pittsburg, the first employing non-mic
N men, the second signing the scale and Il
of third employing 600 men have started L
r. with full crews.
IN John Wiley, president of the board
IN university regents Il great silver advoca
es and one of the best known men in Il
IN state, died at his home in Seattle the l
b. suit of falling from horse and severe
of iniuring his spine some time ago, M
from which a complication of diseases 5
to in.
H. \ telegram from Helena, Mont, a
ne nounces that the highest price paid f
wool this season was recently paid
as Chinook and at Billings, IA cents beil
at received at the former place for clip
lie 10000 pounds and l3S cents at the latt
tx place. Buyers this year estimate the 81
ed to be p per cent greater than last We;
\ letter of c0ngratulatiOn was re
co from President Mckinley to the 10th a
no nual convention of Republican clu
a. which convened in Detroit and the co
m vention sent letter to the president &c
ed graduating him and the republican p.
". ty on the approaching return of prosp
AS ity. Colonel II. NJ. Dullied welcom
Mt the convention on behalf of Detroit a
m Governor Pingree welcomed the convC
ri ton on behalf of the state
.as GENERAL BANDERAS is KlLLE
It, Report of an Engagement Betwe
do WeyIer and the Cubaus