The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-09-16

diers in the Spanish war than was ex
pected, the number being 295. There
are now 991, $40 names of pensioners on
the rolls.
The surplus reserve of the New York
clearing house banks to ali intents and
purposes was practically wiped out by
the operations of the week ending Sep
TENDER 3.
The foundation has been laid for a
long contest over the four million dol
lar estate left by the late Wilson Wad-
bingham, who died in New York about
three months ago.
Express train No. 10 on the Southern
Pacific was robbed near Cochise AriZ.,
by four masked men, who blew the safe
open and took everything in sight. The
amount of their booty is said TO be
small.
The First Colorado regiment of vol
unteers have been mustered out, paid
and discharged. The rolls carried 9S9
men, all told, and the amount disbursed
was about 100000. The regiment has
left for home.
A movement is on foot against send
ing exhibits to the Paris exposition in
1900. Many intending exhibitors have
withdrawn their notices of partieipa-
ton, on the ground that the present
state of things in France renders it UNI
safe to send exhibits.
1t is understood that General Sir
| 20, al NJ I will
start for Cape Town Saturday. The
Indian authorities are chartering
steamers to transport troops to South
Africa as rapidly as possible.
Patrolman Jack Martin of Tacoma
was shot and wounded by two men
whom he was attempting to arrest. He
wounded and captured Tom Moore of
Butte, Mont, one of his asailants, but
the other made his escape.
In single week one-half of the pecan
CT CD in Texas was killed by the pest
known as the web worm, and commonly
called the caterpillar. Reports are still
coming in to the effect that the worms
nave invaded the remaining counties.
The governor of Idaho says he has
every reason to believe that the Idaho
regiment would be brought from San
Francisco to Boise in body. The plan
is to bring them over the Shasta route
of the Southern Pacific to Portland, and
from there over the o. r. & N. and Ore
gon Short Line.
The navy department expects to be
gin the manufacture of Smokeless pow
der at its powder mill few miles back
from the Potomac river near Indian
Head, within the next two or three
months. Work on the mills has been
pushed energetically, and at present
about 1900 men are employed.
Two hundred feet of a trestle on the
Columbia, Newberry & Laurens road
over Broad river, near Columbia, S. G.
gave way under a trainload of granite
Several cars and an engine fell so fee
into the water. The following were
killed. Engineer Dick Weatherby
Fireman Silas Rennick, Stewart Mar
tin, negro, Unidentified man, will
head severed from body. William
Bates, an extra fireman, went dowI
with the wreck, but was dug out from
, tons of granite without a scratch.
Deputy Marshal Joseph Pinkham re
turned to Boise, Idaho, from Owyhe'
county with John Jensen in custody
The prisoner is one of two desperate
men who attacked Blackaby & Parks
store at Jordan Valley, on the evening
/ of August %, his partner, Joseph Law
, son, being killed at the time.
The government steamer Ramoni
. struck a skiff containing six belatet
q merrymakers in Quincy bay, ILL.,, al
, were thrown in the water and tire
drowned. The dead: John e. Web
r kamp, Lulu Broye, Mary Mccarthy
, The other three were saved by clinginl
to beer keg from the overturned boat
An order for the organization of tw
q colored regiments to be known as tn
, Forty eighth and Forthy-ninth volun
e Ger infantry has been issued from tn
war department. All the field officer
I of these regiments are white men nov
I in the regular army. All company off
p GERS are colored men who served in tn
D war with Spain.
VIII Postpone Trials.