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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

of $40 cubic feet per second On August
- the flow was sos feet In ordinary |
years the river at extreme low water has
flowed from $50 to 900 cubic feet per
second. The various canals taken from
the stream have total capacity of 1000 |
feet per second. 1t is therefore possible, in |
the event of their being kept running full, |
to divert practically all of the water.
MONTANA.
There are 600 children of all ages in
the Red Lodge district, an increase over
last year of So.
}. Anna Cline has been appointed post
mistress at White Sulphur Springs, vice
G. W. Wallwork, term expired.
The Chalmers artesan well near Che
teau is increasing its flow steadily, says
the Montanian 1t now fills 42-gallon
barrel in p seconds.
The new building at Holy Family mis-
sion at Browning is nearing completion.
1t will be magnificent structure Lum-
Der was issued to the Blackfoot Indians
September 3.
II. f.. Renner, who was principal of the
Highwood school at Great Falls last year,
has accepted similar position at Cas-
cade.
j. H. Conrad has donated land 7Oxl20
feet, on the corner of Franklin and Baker
streets at Fort Benton. to the NJ. +.
church, where the foundation work OF
the new building is already begun.
Advices from Dawson county report
that Joseph Roach has made several cat
tie purchases in that section. The prices
paid are about $50 for stock cattle, S44
for 3-year-old steers, $50 for 2-year-ods
and $40 for yearlings.
The Clark's Fork ranchers at the mouth
of Bear creek near Red Lodge are rapidly
gathering their grain. 1t is not often that
binder is kept moving day anu night
but John Kinnick has one in constant
operation. and the result is that grain
cutting on the Youst and Williams fla
is proceeding apace. The crops We're neve
better than they are this year, the aver
, age estimated yield per acre being A
+ and 60 bushels respectively OF wheat an'
oats
Lieutenant Tiffany, the member o
F. Roosevelt's Rough Riders, whose dealt
; from fever has just occurred in New York
spent some time in this country severa
i years ago as a cowboy, and has some aC
: quaintances in Great Falls yet. AbOu
Il six years ago he was guest of the Clar
). brothers at their ranch near Bynum, be
II inc ordered west for his health. Thos
II who knew him say that he was incline
! to be dudish, but beneath it there was
7 vast amount of pluck.
Ne In lonely spot in Silver Bow canyo
Is was committed on Friday night one
st the most atrocious murders in the histoI
l. of crime in Montana. Patrick Regain.
d we'll known Butte miner, was the victil
Re and robbery was the incentive The II
u fortunate miner was killed by haviI
y his Brains beaten out with rocks and h
/ body was then thrown into Silver DO
~ creek where the body of the murders
III man was found Saturday by secti'
gang of the Butte, Anaconda Pacit
railroad A coroners jury which invest
in gated Regan's death at Gregson Sprin
at decided that he was murdered.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

Superstition is so common in Paris that
cards tastefully embellished and contain
ing list of "hours to be avoided" are ex-
tensively sold.
When English soldiers are on the march
and billeted upon publicans only three
halfpence per man is allowed for their
breakfast.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17

Two British Guiana stamps, dated 1850,
and worth originally one penny each,
were sold in Berlin not long ago for $4,000.
Less than so years ago the offense OF
numbering horse was punished by death
in England.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17
NEWS Of THREE STATES.
NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES
Washington. Idaho and Montana
Happenings Here and There
Crops and Crimes-Nar Bills to
he Paid by State First-The Snake
River Bridge-Tinnny in Mon
tana.

The school board of Franklin county
has made levy OF three mills for teach
ers' salaries and other school expenses
Mr. Diclson's crew of Northern Pacific
surveyors has removed its camp from the
ice cave in the vicinity Of Ives, to the
mouth of the AIethow.
Daily mail stages now connect Chelan
with Wenatchee over the state wagon
road up the west bank of the Columbia
river without the necessity of crossing
and recrossing the river at great expense
and danger, as formerly. Another small
appropriation will put the road in first
class condition. and this will be asked
of the next Legislature.
T. f. Safely of Olympia the other day
killed large coyote at his ranch near
Patterson lake, beyond Chambers prairie.
Mr. Safely was cunning for grouse with
light muzzle loading shotgun when he
espied the coyote. The first shot did not
! take effect, but the second brought down
the game, a kind that is very scarce i'll
that country.
A stocknlan who has been over the
range on Smooth Iron prairie in Asotin
county,. reports that stock of all kinds
are in excellent shape Wild animals
however, are getting bothersome again
and in one place he counted three car
casses of young horses recently killed
evidently by bear or cougar.
County Superintendent Rinehart Of
Clarke county has completed his annua
report to the state superintendent The
total receipts of his office for the yea
from all sources amounted to S32,9O3 "
and total disbursements $40, 4Ol 10, leav
inc "A balance ON hand June 30, Sl2,oO2
II. and a decrease of school indebtedness
in the county amounts to SlO,l49 10
) The report shows 1906 children of schoo
ace in the countN 1928 males and lSS
: females. of whom 3543, 1898 males ant
l7O5 females are enrolled in the schools
Governor Rogers received notice tror
the war department that the bill 10
3 subsistence furnished to the captains
e the national guard prior to their music
+ into the United States service must u
t paid by the state. although these variou
:. items had heretofore been charged again'
+ the federal government. The state WI
t however, lose nothing, as the auditor
the war department promises that I'll
n state shall be reimbursed by the Unite
5 States for this outlay hereafter. The
g amount to $l653 Is, and the parties III
= nishing the same will therefore presel
5. their bills to the state in order to obtal
n their money for supplies furnished.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17
IDAHO.

Heavy forest fires have been raging IN
Custer county and have done great
amount of damage 1t is said most OF
them were caused by the Indians, who
are quite numerous in the mountains
hunting deer.
In the land contest case of Law ".
Well involving 80 acres adjoining Sand
point. which has been pending for nearly
four years before the land department.
a decision has been rendered by the sec
rotary of the Interior reversing all pre-
vious decisions and ruling in favor of the
contestant.
From now on the prune industry must
assume greater proportions year by year.
as there are within radius of seven
miles from Kendrick 2000 acres OF prunes.
/ Next week will find number engaged
in packing prunes for eastern orders, and
by the 25th inst, the drying season will
commence.
Thousands of sheep are ranging IN the
vicinity of Bear creek and Pollock noun
tain in Washington county this season,
and the sheep men report that bear seem
to be more numerous than usual, several
lambs having been stolen from the vari-
Gus flocks.
Parties coming from the Nez Perez res
ervation report an excellent crop being
harvested in that section. and that all
are hopeful and buoyant over the ideal
weather, which is exceedingly favorable
to harvesting. The crop IS taken a.
strongly Indicative of the possibilities Of
that section when once the land is more
generally titled and developed.
[ The annual session of the Idaho State
Medical society closed at Moscow with
, banquet to the visitors. The principa
business of the day was the selection o
: Lewiston as the place for holding tn
r next meeting and the election of the fol
f lowing officers: President. DIR. C. w
) Shaft, Lewiston; vice president, DIR. Guy
! son, Montpelier, and DIR. Ed f. Make
. of Caldwell was continued as secretar.
) and treasurer.
4 1t is definitely announced that tn
n work of construction on the Snake rive
bridge at Lewiston will begin October
The specifications call for bridge los
feet long, 90 feet above high water mar
/ over the navigable channel. This chann
d will be crossed by cantilever span 81
d feet in the clear. There will be II span
t The estimated cost of the bridge is $50
T. 600. The site of the bridge is on Snab
d River avenue, 200 feet north of Mai
e, street.
le CYRUS f. Babb OF the photographic d
l. vision of the United States geologic
r survey, states that measurement of Il
Boise river on August showed a flo
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19
ON THE HoRRoRs OF WAR.
A Veterau'E Vivid Recital FOR the Bencnt or .
New Recruit.
From the Washington Evening Star.

From the Huntington EVenfn0 Star.
This really happened. 1t all occurred in an
electric car on the metropolitan Railroad be-
tween the corner of Fourteenth and II streets
and Dupont Circle. Tho listener and the mar
rator of the following marrow-curdling CONVEX
Sation which he overheard was in the seat in
front of the parties to the terrible affair. The
mar who did the talking is one of tho most wido-
ly known mon In Washington. He has been
noted for the enterprises he has conducted and
made both successful and unfortunate. The
recipient of his recital was a young man whose
style, OF wearing his hair and broad brimmed
SLOUGH hat bespoke a Southerner.
This war makes me mad at the way It's car
low. 'It'g a dogEone shame to see such carry
count anyhow. 'Tain't like tho last war"
Were you in the last warf" inquired tho
Was ! in tho last wari Well should say
So / NJ WeR ut IN when ! WI wSSn.t fThi ir,h fifteen years
HURT There was a World Of meaning In
and my head mashed in, oh. that last war wa;
his subject. as he saw his friends jaw drop in
sixteen times in sixteen minutes and kill six.
teen mon. Amt many of EN- anywhere that
could do that now, reckon"
the victim feebly.
"Excitingl Well, ! should say 80. I neyer
to get word to another General and called for .
volunteer to go around a road that eighty can
non were playing on steady. Every one OF en-
and where they'd hit they'd dig a hole big
enough to bury a mule in. ! volunteered and
away | went. ] tell you II WAS a lively trip"
The other man looked limp.
Did you get through all right"
ments for our General all right, too. You SEQ.
when ] got, ON that road | just, wont out OF one
OF those holes those cannon balls had mado into
another, and kept out Of range OF the shower of
shot that way. got u good deal OF dirt In my
that didn't signify ANYTHING. Going back to
rejoin my company i walked q mile and . half
and stepped on n dead mans body every step.
War; / tell you"
The car by this time had reached Dupont
Circle and the listener weakly got OFF. This
hero and his victim were whirled on toward
Georgetown, and as the car went out OF sight
the tragic recital WAS evidently still in progress.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19

is not tho same assthe bread Of the communion,
After, crossing : themselves repeatedly and
bowling low, the worshipperb kissed the cruoinx
body did rSiS, the mRotSSors even giving some 70
the little babies.
Most OF the congregation went directly out
or SnsIt to SS say psi anal II prayer. Among the lat.
ter was q man who had seemed especially do
yout during the service. He had bought q
sMSSo1m,c ana HSna eIt tS 2. oS M 70 , TOO; cs ana naa us WitS
exceeding great care. Now he knelt, in tho
middle of the room, his arms hanging Imply at
bis sides, his head thrown back and his eyes
then the choir began to sing again and the peo-
pie who were still in the hall came back to sec
what was going on, One Of them explained
Nicholas. the patron saint Of the church.
lie has evidently ordered IL, pointing 10 the
abJoct kneeling figure, He must 90 In some
ness"
The priest came. to the top Of the steps.
holding n. great book covered with rcd
the sinGors sang responsivSiy and then
tho priest beckoned tho mar to approach. He
went up and knott on tho lower stop, cross
The PRIEST touched with the book the head OF
the supplicant, then lot him kiss the pages.
After that the singing died away, the doors
altar. the man left outside threw himself upon
his face in q final abandonment of prayer, then
got up and creaked out.
Robbed OF its priest and people, bereft OF its
element Of human interest, tho whole atmos-
phere changed. Tho old-fGshioned marble
mantel seemed the most conspicuous feature Of
the room, There wasn't an echo, OF tho strange
a fow moments before. And the floor, polished
by tho knees and the hands and the foreheads
and the lips Of the people who had worshipped
the flicker OF the dying candles and the indy
ing flames before the holy pictures.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19

Monday evening the students in Plerson Hall,
on York street, having no college yard IN which
TO throw their surplus cookery, cast ~ into tho
street. As a result, pedestrians and bicy-
clists on Tuesday morning found some dim.
Guilty In making their way through the Uttered
thoroughfare. Several horsos wero slightly In
iured by: the glass, and many bicyolists sue
the residents Of York street viii probably mako
an appeal to tho college authorities to suppress
this annual celebration, at least ne far az tho
authorities do not nut nm end to this annual
shower OF glassware md old china, tho poioo
will probably take the matter In hand. lnas-
much nss.tho faculty Is as hostile to Botto
Night as tho citizens of New Haven thore can
be no doubt that this feature of undergraduate
life Is a thing of the past.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19
BIG MEN OBEY ORDERS.
Gen. shnTter and n. n. Plant Called to AcoOunO
by an Illinois Private.
From the Chicago Daily Hsus.

From the Chicago Daily Estos.
TAMPA. june 14.-That the First Illinois Regia
ment knows how to obey orders to the letter.
despite the fact that they are merely volume
teers. Is a fact which 10 beginning to DO ap.
preciated by the most exalted personnRes In this
section OF the country. Yesterday Private T.
w. Smelling Of Company q was patrolling the
wharf at Port Tampa, on which the big ware
houses stand. doing his part like each of his
comrades in preserving order.
Among other things prohibited Is smoking,
and signs both In English and Spanish warn the
boholders that indulgence in mans faVorite vice
endangers the building. The soldiers generally
OBEY, very promptly. but Mr.. Smelling received q
uniform walking and conversinG In an absorbed
manner With IA fray 'mustached., straight. sol
and wearing a straw hat. Both were smoking
and continued TO do so IN entire forgetiulnesS
till their path was barred by a Springfield rifle.
"Sirs. You will have TO quit smoking" ordered
the Chicsgoan. a tremor o. trepidation creeping
tho man in uniform had ON his shoulders the
tHo.star insignia Of the rank of Major-General.
Yes; certainly" calmly observed tn" smok:
Illinois. | peFceiyc." remarked he Of tho oiti:
and with that they passed on.
Smelling Joined his Lieutenant a minute later
and EAsped; Say, ] Just ran, into q Major
Shalter, wasn't iii"
Yes that was shatter. my boy" said the
gentleman with him wasi"
Great Scott, who WAS hel Anybody big -
Nobody, at all; only Gen. Nelson A. Miles.
whose name 10 sometimes In tho newspAporS.'"
An Incident on he same lines concerns Private
FEE. Wendling OF Company NJ, who was hurtILS6
night, and Henry, Is. Plant. Mr.. Plant 10 very
Oh. He practically owns half of Florida, the
worth having. Incidentally he owns the docks
nnd warehouses ut Port Tampa. Among Inc
%stroliing and contemplating his own magnitude.
aided much, no doubt, by tho cigar he pnfed'
Vending halted him. "YouIl have In throS.
that away" no said. Jaw"
What LOT q inquired the author of tho Plant
h%Don't you know YOU arc liable to burn up
Well, don't know II that concerns you ssa.
ing that l own 1t. My nnmc 10 Plant"
Throw that away Immediately or IN nut Won
uhnSE arrest This was said kternly IN q Tone
no Floridan uses TO Mr.. Plant. and Tie n,SoSSeS
oOhIhuea his WSy an aWOd and wiser mAns
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19
nov FAST THINGS 60.
A Mathematician calculation or tho speed
OF Various objects.

A mathematician has compiled the following
list OF speeds a second: The snail, oIe-half inch;
q man walking, 4 feet; a fast runner. IS feet;
a fly, "a foot; fast skater, SO feet; a carrier
pigeon. 81 feet; locomotive-sixty miles an hour
So feet; swallows. 220 feet; tho worst cyclone
known, $40 feet; the KrakatoA wAve-at the
volcanic catastrophe OF Aug. 81. 1898. in tho
SundG I~slRndg-04O feet; the surface of tho
the moon. 5000 feet; the sun, ol9 miles; tho
earth. 10 miles Holley's comet In the perihellon,
23b miles; electric current on telegraph wires,
1000 miles: Induction current. IL, 040 miles;
electric current In copper wire armAtureS. 2l,-
900 miles; light 5000 miles, discharge of o
Leyden jar through copper wire ono-sixteonth
OF an inch in diameter. 277, 100 miles. which ls
said 10 hare beSAGhO highest velocity measured
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-19
TLs In Aua Out or Hawaii.
From the Washington Post

lin Hawaii they have one very unique custom
In regard to debt" said Mr.. o. w. Sturgis Of
Oregon.
Amy stranger can get credit almost from tho
time he sets foot on tho Islands, but so long as
country. A man who gets hOpelessly involved
in debt down there had as well make up his
mind TO become a citizen for the rest OF his
lifo-he can only escape by liquidNting. This
law has always been strictly enforced, butin the
event OF annexation to the United States the
Islands may get . new system Of laws that will
repeal the existlAS statutes"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-28
HOW THEY DO THINGS IN MEXICO

The bridegroom always furnishes the
trousseau of his bride.
Mines are generally worked as mines,
and not for the stock market.
In every city free night schools are
maintained for the working classes.
Church professions are prohibited.
Even a priest cannot legally walk the
streets in his churchly garments.
There is no hanging in Mexico, and,
outside what concerns the army and
the brigands, no capital punishment
In a Mexican home the sofa is the
seat of honor, and the guest does not
take seat upon 1t until requested to
do SO.
Theatrical companies that do not
present the attraction they have billed
are subject to fine A fine is also placed
on bull-fighters who give poor per-
Torrance or who do not begin on time.
The term of a prisoner in a peniten-
tiary is divided into three periods. The
first is occupied with penal labor. The
second is labor in the training school,
with little play. The third, "prepara-
tory freedom" includes plain work and
many privileges.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-28
SEALED PROPOSALS.

GEALED proposals will be received by the
y Commission to provide Fireman's Home
for the aged, INDECENT and disabled firemen OF
the State of New Jersey. on the 10Th day Of
November, 1898. at Fire Department Head
quarters, Halsey and Academy streets,
Newark, N j., between the hours Of o'clock
D. M. and 30 O'Clock p. M, for doing all the
following work and furnishing the materials
therefor, in making additions to and altera-
tons in the building known as the 'Lathrop
Homestead at BOOnton. New jersey viz:
For all labor and materials required for
mason work.
For all labor and materials required for
carpenter work.
For all labor and materials required for
plumbing work.
For all labor and materials required for
heating work.
For all labor and materials required for
painting work.
For all labor and materials required for
electric work.
Tor all labor and materials required for steel
and iron work.
on all of the above work can do so at his own
discretion.
Said proposals to be separate as above mem
toned in accordance with drawings and spec1-
fc atoms, copies of which may be seen at the
offices of EDWARD A. WURTH. architect, TAB
Broad street. Newark, N. J.
Proposals must be enclosed in envelopes.
sealed and marked: Proposal for all or
any parts of the above work and addressed
Home.''
The amounts of all estimates must be writ
ten in words and figures.
Each bidder shall accompany his bid with a
certified check of 2 per cent. of the amount of
his estimate to guarantee the signing of the
contract if his bid be accepted by the Com
mission; also mention bondsmen for full
amount of contract, as per specification. The
Commission reserves the right to reject any or
all bids If in it's opinion the interests of the
State render it advisable so to do
No bids will be received at any other time or
place than above mentioned.
WILLIAM Fl. BROWN.
1920 Chairman Committee on Site.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-28
Sale Of Real Estate for Unpaid Taxes.

NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of a
IN warrant issued by Jesse w. Forsyth, G.
ID. Willet and II, S. Baldwin, the Township
Committee of Mendham township, in the
county of Morris, to make the unpaid taxes
assessed on lands, tenements, hereditaments
and real estate in said township in the year
1895. the subscriber, Collector of Taxes in said
township, will on
Saturday, November 5. 1898.
between the hours of 2 and O'Clock Cat 2
o'clock p. M, at the Brookside Post Office in
said township, sell the lands. tenements, hered-
itaments and real estate hereinafter described
at public vendue for the shortest term that
any person or persons (not exceeding thirty
years. will agree to take the same and pay
such taxes with interest thereon at the rate of
II per cent. from the 10th day of December,
1896, together with all costs, fees, charges and
expenses:
Mrs. Watson Jackson-House and Lot in
Brookside. adjoining G. j. Morris and E. g.
Comet.
A. P. Soaring House and Lot in Brookside
adjoining John w. Thompson.
j. j. Cutler-Eight acres of land adjoining
David Fairly.
Payment must be made Immediately at close
of sale, otherwise the property will be inn
mediately resold,
Witness my hand this 10th day of septem-
Der, 1898.
JONATHAN PITNEY,
1889 Collector of Taxes.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-28
THE LITTLE ENCYCLOPEDIA.

The Atlantic Ocean is crossed month
ly by 1000 ships
A person walking at the rate of four
miles an hour consumes 1900 cubic
inches of air per minute.
The population of Palestine is in
creasing rapidly. Ten years ago there
were only 5000 residents in Jaffa; to-
day there are nearly 10000
The beautiful colors seen in the soap
bubbles arise from the fact that the bub-
bic, being very thin, reflects light from
both the outer and inner surfaces of
the film.
A process has been recently perfect
ed by which thin sheets of absolutely
transparent celluloid are silvered by a
similar process to that formerly used
on glass.
In the streets and suburbs of London
there are now not only 712 fountains
for human beings, but 2S6 large
troughs for horses and cattle and 470
small troughs for sheep and dogs.
Burglar-pro glass has been invent
ed by smart manufacturer. It is
made by pouring molten glass over a
network of steel wire. It is especially
adapted for skylights and jewelers.
windows.