The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-12-16
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
A Review From the States of WASH
ingtOn, Idaho, Montana and Ore
gOn-News of the Past Week
Boiled Down to Suit Our Busy
Readers.
IDAHO.

IDAHO.
Sam Beck one of the old pioneers of
Boise is dead.
The expenses of the United States
court in Idaho for the year were $685.
8229O.
L. A. Hyde has been appointed post
master at Bruneau valley.
William l.. Sipe has been appointed
postmaster at Brannan.
A postofice has been established at
Mica, Kootenai county.
A postoffice has been established at
Willola, Nez Perce county.
Henry L. Wadsworth has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Lapwai.
A strong effort is to be put forth
again to secure the opening of the Fort
Hall reservation.
A cave-in occurred in the tunnel of
the Clear Water branch of the North
ern Pacific near Orofino last week, kill
ling a workman.
New pensions have been granted to
the following residents of the state of
Idaho: Charles York, Nampa, $6 per
month; Francis M. Mckenzie, Swan
Lake, S.; Richard Barrett. Emmett,
$12; Isaac w. Porter, Arco. So.
Senator Shoup has departed for
| Washington. The senator is an ar
dent expansionist and an advocate of
the building of the Nicaragua canal.
D. w. Ross last week picked out
from a sluice box on the Pioneer plac-
ers, of which he Is manager, a nugget
3 inches long, 21a inches greatest
width and l inch thick, being some.
what egg shaped and worn perfectly
smoothe.
Fifty people have dragged the bot
tom of the Snake at Payette for the
body of Walter King, who was drowned
without success. Wire fences have
been planted across the river in two
places in the hopes of catching the
body.
There is much activity In the timber
sections of the Potlach country. Con
tracts have been let for 100000 tie'
and the woods are full of workmen
Much heavy timber is being manufac
tured at the mills which will be uset
in the construction of large mill a
the mouth of North Fork next spring
The mill will have a capacity of 10000
feet daily.
, The labor situation in Chicago Is n
more reassuring than for several weeks
The building contractors make no sc
cret of their intention of destroying tn
unions, and the latter are determine
to pick up the gauntlet If 1t is throw
down on January /. Outsiders seem t
think there is a great deal Of bluff o
q both sides, which. Of course. is nothin
new for Chicago.
l. WASHINGTON.
. The diphtheria scare at Colfax is
II thing of the past.
q A school teacher has q light form
y diphtheria at Pullman.
p Spokane business men favor a pc
Is manent exposition home.
The Jobbers' Association of Spokal
'e will give a banquet on Jan. 4.
d The Cheney liquor license Is $60
and slot machines 500 a year.
s. The council has ordered saloons sh
II, from II to $50 a. m. at Spokane.
he Practically the whole of the Stu
tie river valley is one vast sheet OF watt
MT ]. D. Murray is bound over at Wal
Walla on the charge Of stealing hoi
A new postofice has been establit
ed at Pinhook, to be known as RI
he postoffice.
ire James B, Martin of Peola says t
at farmers in that section are still bu
ok seeding.
me Farmers around Dayton are CO
lily planning of damage done by the rect
heavy rains.
la. The -four mill at Harrington has
gun operations. The mill has CAP
on ity of 200 barrels day.
,er- Hog cholera has made its appeara
me, in the vicinity of Dayton. number
'wo animals having died Of it.
the The Pataha City mill has star
ded grinding again after being entirely
1. modelled with the wing system.
Work on the improvement OF the
anogan river has been carried II
i of Johnson creek to short distance De
J in Alma.
ere, Capt. James Robertson and ELI
unit Hansen, master shipbuilders, nave
cla- cided to locate in Anacortes ana es
and lish a shipyard.
ling Minnie, 15-year-old daughter OF
]. Bridges, of Ellensburg, commi
suicide last week while in a TT OF
ger, taking three ounces OF carr
,aoe acid.
, IN. Benjamin Briggs, aged 81 years,
ont. drowned recently while attemptin
I TO wade the Nooksack river near the
,g;n. hatchery at Welcome.
Joseph Steele. pioneer OF Wna
county, was found dead at MS
avn at Sumas. The cause OF his death
row a gunshot wound, supposed 10
not been inflicted by himself.
,kin. The dead body Of squaw was
! a ON the track near the EllepsDur
pot. The accident happened AZ