The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-11
THE NORTHWEST IN BRIEF
GLANCE OVER THREE STATES
Many of the Heaviest Wool Growers
Are Having Their Crops Secured
Mt Home-shipment of Mules for
the Recommendations Here and
There.

Vineland is to have $4,000 school
building.
Snow is four feet deep in the Mount
Baker district.
nod Ignite coal has been found in the
Klnkitat pass.
Ex-confederates took part in Memorial
services at Colfax.
A company of volunteers has been or
ganized at Goldendae.
Stephen Bloomfield died last week near
Pomeroy, aged 80 years.
McGregor Brothers are taking 10000
sheep from Colfax to the Occur d'Alene
reservation for the summer.
lie Roi stock is offered at $685. and the
minority is trying to unload before the
new managers take charge.
The English syndicate controls more
than half of the lie Roi mining stock, so
the recent sale cannot be defeated.
The young corporal of Company who
refused to enlist at Camp Rogers was
hanged in effigy on his return to Dayton.
Six warrants Just called by the city
treasurer at Cheney have run so long that
the interest amounts to two-thirds OF the
principal.
Grace seminary in Centralia will prob
ably be opened soon. 1t has been closed
two years. The building is owned by the
Baptists and cost $4,000.
Many of the heaviest woolgrowers OF
the state are having their crops secured
at home. They are storing it until the
8. Of hinha1.
The organization of company OF vol
unteers is proceeding rapidly in North
port, under the direction of Capt. A. G.
Ferrandin. The company will be known
as the Stevens county volunteers.
Leonard Gould, l6-year old boy, and
three companions were horse racing
through the streets of Spokane the other
evening, when young Gould was thrown
to the ground. The horse ridden by one
of the others boys stepped on his head,
crushing the life out of him instantly.
, Negotiations, which may in very
; short time lead to the consolidation and
sale of all the street car lines in Seattle,
> are in progress and may be closed up at
any time. The capitalists who are inter
ested in what is known as the Traction
company, of Tacoma, are said to be be-
hind the deal.
y, The formal dedication of the Whitman
J, monument occurred at Wailatpu, Mem
i oral day. Rev f. NJ Condit delivered
the dedicatory address, DIR. Myron Eells
and President Penrose of Whitman col
:. lege made short addresses. Over 200 peo
pie from Walla Walla and vicinity wit
!, messed the ceremonies
The Olympia committee, appointed tC
present flag to the cruiser Olympia, has
5. been advised from Washington that the
r navy department will not object to the
gift. However, it is recommended that
y the presentation be deferred until the
= cruiser visits Olympia, which will be a
b: the close of the war.
1, At Ilwaco joker hoisted the Spanish
flag over the Stars and Stripes on thu
fagpole of a prominent store, and befor
&c the proprietor knew what was going oil
an angry mob entered his place anC
sr threatened all manner of punish ment
The situation was soon explained and tn
d matter adjusted by hauling down the vel
low offender.
l; H. f. Burnett, arrested in Spokane on
,; charge of murder committed in Californi
20 years ago, was well known in ColfaS
ID where he worked two months as brake
y, man on the Colfax- Moscow freight train
Burnett boarded with j. o. Housekeepe
while there. and Mr. Housekeeper speak
in the very highest terms of him. H
e went by the name of Ed Burnett at Co
fax.
40 The last chance for a new trial fo
Id Charles Creams, who was convicted i
n, Tacoma of numbering half-breed woma
"a named Celia Hansen, has expired. Ate
IN being found guilty he was sentenced
Ill twenty years in the penitentiary. 1t wa
k, expected his attorneys would apply for
rehearing within the specified time. whic
t; has now expired. This was not done an
er the prosecution has applied for the con
Is mitment of the prisoner.
Montana.
DC Ranch hands get $50 a month in I'll
IL valleys.
c; The Deer Lodge penitentiary is no
a lighted by electricity.
Only six per cent of Montanas first ca
,er for troops was rejected.
a Sheep owners are confident of ia
a crop of lambs and big yield of wool.
"a William Jackson, one of the survivir
ed scouts connected with Reno's forces {
ie- the massacre of the Little Big Horn
1876, was in Great Falls the other da
from Helena, on his way to the Blackfe'
IL reservation. He is accompanied by Gro
l0 Guns chief Of the Rlackfeet Indian nOlic