The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-07-02
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
ITEMS FROM THREE STATES.
President of the Nez Perez Tribe
Dead-Large Check Closes Fa-
nous Mining Case-New Bonds i'm
Demnnd-scaIe In Fruit Trees.


j. W. Batcheller has named new vari-
ETY. Of strawberries the Admiral Dewey.
On Tuesday the Baker-Boyer bank of
Walla Walla had calls amounting to $780,
900 for war bonds
The ordinance to prohibit cows running
at large in Port Townsend was defeated
in the council by tie vote.
Rev. G. w. Morrison, pastor of the
United Presbyterian church of Oakesdale
will preach his farewell sermon Sunday
morning. He has been transferred to
Northern India.
Fruit Inspector Chew reports finding
many trees infested with the scale in
Walla Walla county
A respectable young woman of Walla
Walla was assaulted on the street at 2
o'clock Tuesday morning. Two men at
tackled her, but she managed to break
away from them She was going to call
a doctor for her sister, who had been
taken ill.,
A Telegram received from Senator Will
son by United States Marshal Ide an
nounces that the general appropriation
bill carries with it an allowance of $4,000
for repairs on the United States peniten-
tiary on McNeil's island.
John Powell, formerly school clerk of
Mount Vernon, has been held for trial in
$500 bail for raising school warrant
from "a 30 to $9i 30. In default OF
bonds he went to Jail. Powell was ar
rested in Michigan.
The long talked-of road from Grants
Pass to the Galice creek mines will prob
ably be an accomplished fact before long.
The citizens of Grants Pass have contrib
uted sufficient funds, so that, with some
assistance from the county court, the
thoroughfare can be constructed. 1t will
prove of much advantage
After the ball game in Seattle Sunday
while standing on a street corner talking
to a friend, Umpire McInerny was as.
saulted by well-dressed man, who had
been drinking, and was evidently angry
over the result of the game. Mr.. Mcln-
.erny defended himself vigorously, and had
a shade the best of the argument. No ar
rests were made.
Phil Dressler and Ray Wheaton were
riding in lumber wagon across the Will
son creek bridge at Willapa one day last
week, when the stringers broke, and the
wagon and horses were precipitated into
the water. One horse escaped, but the
other was drowned. Drissler and Wheat
on escaped with slight bruises The wagon
was not loaded when the accident oc-
CURED.
Contracts are being made for this sea
sons hop crop around North Yakima, ut
81 and 81 cents. Only few in the val
ley have as yet made any contracts Louis
Lachmund has recently contracted with
Perfeld Brothers of Puyallup for 100
bales of '9S hops, and with Swamp Miller
of the same place for 25O bales at 10
cents, it is reported.
Squirrels are bad west of Tekoa. The
farmers are resorting to all kinds of meth
eds TO get rid of them. Summer fallow-
ing drove the little pests into the winter
wheat and they have multiplied rapidly
A safe way to get rid of them is to
poison some wheat in the early spring
and place it at the holes All other meth
DDS appear TO be unsatisfactory as well
as expensive.
Idaho.
One span of the railroad bridge across
the Clearwater at kendricL has heen In ia