The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-19
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
GENERAL BUSINESS POINTERS.
A Variety of Statistics for the Past
Year-semi-Annua Payment to
Nez Perez Indians VIII Amount
TO S1SO,OOO-Has Been n Good
Winter for stock i'm Montana

Farmers in the vicinity of Goldendale
are doing their spring blowing
The Everett nail works, having been
closed for some time, are again in opera
tion.
The total of county and state school
bonds in Whitman county for the cur
rent year is $2S.759.44.
The treasurer of Thurston county for
the year 1897 collected taxes amounting
10 $75, 500.
A contract has been let for the i'm
mediate construction of the Goldendale-
Lyle county wagon road.
Whitman county commissioners have
made an order authorizing Sheriff Sims
TO eXpend any sum not exceeding $500 to
bring the lynchers of "Blacky" and the
murderer of Dan Calland to justice. and
urged the sheriff to take active steps i'll
each case.
Professor Balmer of the agricultural
college receied 10 dozen dob whites
from Kansas the other day by express
The quail will be turned loose on the ag-
licultural college farm, and will be pro
tected and allowed to propagate, in hopes
that this country may become the home
OF this excellent game bird.
The rates on flour from the Pacific
coast to China and Japan by all steamer
lines have been advanced 33 l-3 per cent.
The new rate is 81, gold, per ton, the
old rate being So, and became effective
February l.
The roadbed of the railway from Aber-
deem to Hoquiam has been completed.
The depot grounds at Aberdeen are pre-
pared and the big buildings on the line
where the bridge viii cross the Wishka
river are being moved
The shipbuilding yards at Point Hud-
son and lower end of Water street. in
Port Townsend, present busy scene
these times. About 100 men are employed
in connection with the building of tug
steam schooner and repairing other YES
sells
Assistant Attorney General Vance
holds that a sheriff is liable to the county
or state on his official bond for failure
TO perform his official duties, the right o.
action being limited to six years, but that
in collateral proceeding by some indi
vidual to punish the sheriff or to recover
damages for an injury, the three years
statute of limitation applies
Salmon are running freely in the Spo
kane river and the streams which afforC
them spawning grounds, and the king o
food fishes is being taken in good guam
titles. This news will be hailed with de
light by the ambitious fishermen of Spo
kane In previous years fish as large a
As pounds have been brought to town, vic
tins of a fight with rod and tackle whicl
lasted frequently over an hour. The hes
catches this year have been made in tn
big pool in the Little Spokane. The sal
mon take a spoon readily. They are ia
and in the best condition both for foo
and fighting qualities. AS the close sea
son begins March 10, the anglers hav
little time to waste if they expect to hav
sport this year.
Idaho.
Fremont county warrants are at pai
The Lewiston city council has passe
on ordinance granting to +. IL. Libby
president of the Vineland company,
street railway franchise for the period G
25 years. Mr.. Libby appeared before tn
council and stated that the purpose c
the company was to connect Lewisto
and Vineland by the line over the pre-
posed Snake river bridge. Speaking c
the plans, he said the company expecte
to soon commence work on the constru'
ton of the bridge, as the bill authorizin
the construction had passed the senat
and house.
In the religious census of Boise. Idaho
taken by the Sunday School Union
that city. the religious preferences of 97
persons are given The list by denominf
tions is as follows: Methodist 2l7, Epi'
eopal l42, Baptist 1873, Presbyterian IL
Catholic rs, Christian 3d. Congregations
50. Hebrew 30, Adventist ID, Luthera
IS. Salvation Army 7, Unitarian 2, Mo-
mon 2, Quaker l, Free Thinker l, no pre-
erence 10; total 97s. There are 1863 II
porting church membership. OF these
the city one-quarter are Methodists.
ice Kaufman lost his life in the sno'
on the summit on the Idaho City road tn
ether night, his body being found tn
following morning. Though he was sti
living, he was so far gone that he die
soon after being taken to place of she
Ter. He was a well known miner. r.
gently. it seems, he has been of unsoun
mind. At Idaho City he was lately hel
in Jail several days, the doctor Stain
that he had softening of the BRAIN Whe
he was released he walked to Boise. Hei
he acted queerly Early in the wee
he disappeared, and the next heard I
him was the news of his being found G
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