The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-12-16

pot. The accident happened at night. |
The victim was probably intoxicated |
when it occurred.
A syndicate of farmers unloaded 90 |
600 bushels of wheat the other day at
Uniontown, Wash, selling it to Mr..
Covert, manager of the Tacoma Grain
company, at SS1a cents per bushel.
There has been shipped to the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington a
large bundle of wheat on the stalk,
which is to form the center piece of the
American grain display at the Paris ex-
position. The grain was raised on the
o. r. & N. experimental farm near Wal
la Walla, under the supervision of the
United States department of agricul-
ture.
In the Walla Walla land Office for the
month of November 100 homestead en-
tries were made covering 1906. rs
acres. In this month more entries were
made than in any one month since the
establishment of the land Office in Wal
la Walla.
The sugar factory at Waverly has
begun work. The enterprise is ready
for business after several years of eff
fort. AS it is well equipped plant,
four hundred acres of beets were raised
and one hundred and fifty men will be
employed.
MONTANA.
1t really looks now as if brand new
smallpox epidemic had started in at
Butte.
A. H. Benkendorf, of Smith Valley,
has lost his residence and household
goods by fire.
John Bigando, an employee of the Bell
mine, at Butte, was painfully injured
while at work in the mine.
A. w. Swaney has been appointed
deputy sheriff at Kalispell to take the
place of Laban Thompson. resigned.
VIII Engle, of the lower valley, lost
his granaries and grain by fire the 9th
er day. About 1900 bushels of wheat
and 1000 bushels of oats were burned
The loss is partly covered by insurance
G. M. Weidemann of Butte has been
arrested for not renting SIP he re
ceived for the Colliery Engineer com
pany of Scranton, Pa. This is a com
pany which teaches engineering by cor
respondence.
This year the payment of tax money
has been heavier than ever before il
Butte. Out of the $4S5,000 due, abou
2 $472,0 900 have so far been collected
leaving less than 100000 to which thu
g 10 per cent penalty must DC added. Yes
terday, the last day to escape the II
r per cent addition, over $4,000 was pai'
: in, keeping the clerks busy.
S Three mining accidents which, Will
h.. not fatal, are very painful, occurred il
: the mines in Butte recently. P. ]. Ho
d land, was thrown backwards against
t timber, injuring his back seriously
:. John Mccarthy, a station tender at tn
0 Bell mine, had a car fall on his lei
leg, crushing it horribly. John Hare
o at the ST. Lawrence, was setting up
5. machine drill when the machine fel
p catching him underneath it. His lei
e leg was broken.
d The police of Butte have receive
n some information which is to them on
% and all disquieting. 1t is stated thu
n Jew Jess, the mistress of Robert Sha
g well at the time he murdered Re
O'Connor, has returned to Butte, an
is in hiding. She was wanted as wi
a ness, but kept away until sentence VIZ
pronounced. And worse still, she
Of accompanied by the equally notoriol
and dangerous Black Pearl, who d
r parted from Butte last spring after no
bling a well known business man
ne $1,000.
Professor Malachy DwytT, an old re
%. ident of Butte, formerly of Ogdensbur
N. Y, during heated religious discu
ut sion with ]. S. Charlebos, the "divin
healer, attempted to strike the latte
TX and Charlebois called on God to pl
n. tect him, and Dwyer dropped dea
la The men were in the public library
rs. the time. Charlebois, who is from II
IL ena, and once lived in Spokane, is
ce religious zealot, with reputation as
divine healer, and is editor of pub
he cation called The Living Truth" d.
sy ing his discussion with Dwyer he ma
the statement that he had read the +
M ures 1866" which were marked on
mt forehead of the pope. Dwyer said tn
had an anti-Christ significance, a
De- called Charlebois liar and made
ac- rush for him with appraised hand
strike him. Charlebois says he sto
ice up and called on God to protect hi
of and before Dwyer could strike he dr.
ped dead. Dwyer was 6S years o
ed The coroner's inquest this evening
re- veloped the fact that death was d