The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-10-14
OOIAGS THROUGH THE week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review OF the Events for
the Past Week in This and Ferei ga
Lands-sum zn a rfzea From tis.. Lat
est Dispatches

Laurier states positively that so far
no offer has been made by Canada to
send troops to South Africa.
Colonel Harry c. Kessler, of the First
Montana volunteers, will come home a
brigadier general.
The Mallory steamer Leona was burn
ed and sunk at her wharf in East river
Saturday. The cargo consisted of to-
baco and 5000 bales of cotton, and val
ued at $250,000 to 100000, Is total
loss, and the boat is little better than
a wreck.
The Croker Estate Company, which
is composed of the heirs of the late
Chas. Croker, has made gift to the
road of the Croker homestead at Sac
ramento, to be used as a hospital.
Gen. Otis has informed the war de-
partment of the arrival at Manila of the
transport Athenian with a detachment
of the Third Cavalry and horses. There
were no casualties on the voyage.
Forty men employed at Cramps, rep
resenting various trades, today joined
the striking employees of that company
There Is LIKELIHOOD of a serious wat
er famine in Honolulu If rains do not
come soon. The water In the Nauna-
nu reservoirs is lower than 1t has been
for years.
1t Is announced in st. Paul that the
Great Northern is figuring on the build
ing of its air line between St Paul and
the Canadian boundary at once. The
information comes from contractors
who have been asked to furnish esti-
mates.
An epidemic OF small pox has brok-
en- out on Orcas island to the terror of
the inhabitants, and with the result of
Herewith.
Orders have been issued sending the
Forty-sixth and Thirty-ninth regiments
of volunteers to Vancouver barracks as
quickly as possible. The Forty-sixth
was recruited at Fort Crook, Neb., and
the Thirty-ninth at South birmingham,
Mass.
The United States CONSUL at Daw-
son City has reported to the department
of state that w. II. Sutton, who died at
Dawson City last spring, has been iden-
attorneys OF the young mans family,
who live in Minnesota.
The transports City of Para, Zealan-
dia, and Valencia have sailed for Man
lila with the Twenty-ninth regiment
and large number OF recruits from
San Francisco.
The war department has written to
the governor of Idaho informing him
that the state authorities must make
arrangements to control the Cover
d'Alene mining situation, as it is desir-
ed 10 withdraw the United States troops
as soon as possible.
Captain BOdtish, of the steam whaler
Beluga. who has Just returned to San
Francisco from the Attic, reports that
some kind of consumption is epidemic
among the Indians.
The big steel ship, Edward Sewell,
just launched from the yard OF Ter
builders, Arthur Sewell & Company.
Bath, Me, is the ninth one of the feet
built by the Sewells and is the fourth
steel vessel constructed by the firm.
A logger going up to camp on the
Shelton Southwestern railroad one day
last Wcchs lnIcW MS DldhhClS Oh ouu
they rolled under the wheels, ditchiDg
number of cars. Now Superinten-
dent Kneeland's fat has gone forth
stopping everybody from riding on the
train, even to the logging-camp moguls.
The immense log raft which left Sc
attic few weeks ago in tow of the
steamer Czarina, and which was lost
off the coast and found a few days ago
off Port Hartford, was towed into San
Francisco not much the worst for wear
and practically intact.
Visitors to the Spokane Exposition
this year are more than pleased with
the entire affair. 1t is an exposition in
every sense of the word and no longer
could be called a fruit fair. ALI the de-
partments are well represented, and
there is no room to spare anywhere.
The music and the vaudeville attract
ions make the program very fine. Ev-
cry one is pleased with the treatment
given visitors by the people of Spokane,
and by the management of the exposi-
ton.
When the transport Pennsylvania
arrives with the First Washington,
volunteers they will be given a royal
reception by the Red Cross association
assisted by the citizens executive com
mittee. Through the generosity OF the
executive committee the steamer Caro-
line has been placed at the disposal OF
the Red Cross associatiOn and will be