The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-10-01

battle ship Illinois shall be christened
according 10 the time honored custom,
with champagne.
dened bees that she may die from her
injuries.
1t is reported at Seoul, Corea. that a
high official of the palace ordered the
royal cook to poison the food of the king
and crown prince.
New York city council has formally
thanked Miss Helen Gould for her gener-
Gus and charitable interest in the sick
soldiers and sailors.
William Mcdonald, prosperous ranch
man near FL Reno, Okla, was assassin
ated by claim jumpers, who were jealous
of his prosperity.
Great alarm is felt in Naples and the
surrounding country over the action of
Mount Vesuvius. which hourly becomes
more threatening. M
A Hungarian invested $500 with two
green goods" men at New York and sue
ceeded in beating them at their own
game, securing $1,000.
Two difficult tasks before the Ameri-
can commission in Cuba are the disarma-
ment of the volunteers and the disband-
ment of the Cuban army.
w. w. Stephens, a farmer near Salem,
Ind, threshed 5000 bushels of wheat off
80 acres, an average yield OF Al bushels
per acre.
Wabash, Ind, is being flooded with
spurious silver dollars. Many have
found their way to the banks and many
have been passed upon merchants.
The attempt on the part of Japan to
extend her authority over the savage
tribes in the interior of Formosa has
caused another rebellion in the island.
Bones of long deceased Indians have
been eXhumed near Providence, r. l.,
and it is now recalled that the place was
an Indian burial ground over 100 years
ago.
The war department has decided that
the remains of BTigadier General Haskell,
who died suddenly at Columbus, o., shall
be inferred in the national cemetery at
Arlington.
The British ship Loanada and the
American bark Gray Lynwood were
blown out to sea from the port of Bar
BADGES, and are supposed to have been
lost in the recent hurricane.
An audience in a theater in Havana
Missed play on the Dreyfus case, and
forcibly elected four Frenchmen from the
building The repetition of the play has
been forbidden.
In ba T-u,4oI l,rt ,-o.,. a.
number of milk cows increased about %
per cent, and the number of other cattle
over 30 per cent, while the number of
sheep and swine slightly decreased.
A farmer near Richmond, Va, has a rat
dog which he has trained to worm the
tobacco plants in the field The dog
does his work as well as a labOrer and
the owner saves the wages OF farm
hand.
The dense smoke, coupled with fog,
which now hangs over Lake Michigan
and Lake Superior, is causing numerous
accidents to vessels The cause of the
smoke is unknown. Four vessels are re-
ported stranded.
The pioneer plainsman Alfred Fenton
died a. his home in Rushville, Mo-, where
he resided 80 years. In early days he
engaged in freighting across the plains
of Kansas and Colorado, and amassed
fortune, now valued at 100000.
An Italian English syndicate has Sc
cured the first concession ever granted
by the Chinese government to foreign
corporation, acquiring a right to open
and work mines and operate railways en-
tirely free from Chinese control.
The emperor of Austria has founded the
order of st. Elizabeth in memory of the
late empress. Medals will be conferred on
women and girls meriting distinction in
the various vacations of life. or for spe-
cial religious, humanitarian and philan-
thropic work.
The government lands in California
the best settled of the far western
sta tes-constitute 5s per cent of the to-
tai area of that commonwealth. In Ari-
iona they are 76 per cent, in Montana
IS per cent, in Utah 80 per cent, and in
So per cent, in Idaho 80 per
cent, and in Nevada 90 per cent. Uncle
sam is still the largest land holder in
the west.
Dawson May Need Troops.