The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-12-02
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.
A Review From the States of wash
gon-Nevs of the Past Week
Boiled Down to Suit Our Busy
Readers.


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Carlton, OF Kendrick.
Troop A, of the First cavalry, has
left Wardner. They are en- route to
Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
The girls dormitory at the normal at
Lewiston has been completed. 1t will
accommodate SO students.
James Glendenning, superintendent
of the Idaho forest reserves, will make
his winter headquarters in Spokane.
The Big Buffalo mine locator got a
heavy sentence last week for making a
gun play year ago at Grangeville.
Fall sown grain is looking fine at
Cottonwood. The farmers are busy
blowing. The ground is in fine con-
dition, and the weather pleasant
The supreme court upholds the SUI
perior court in displacing the men in
office in Shoshone county, when the
Bunker Hill mill was blown up.
The store of the A. D. g. M. company,
at Gibbonsville, was held up recently
by two men and several hundred dol
lars secured at the point of a revolver.
Ex-Governor Mcconnell admires Nor
mons, but says Roberts is not a fair
type and thinks it ill-advised for re-
ligious bodies to attempt to influence
congress.
The Bull Pen doors are to be opened
and the "a men held at Wardner are
to be set free ON December /. The par
ole system is part of the plan for their
deliveranCe.
1t is phenomenal the development
during recent months in the Clear
water. A bright future is ahead. New
mills to manufacture it's lumber are be-
ing installed.
Troop A, Sixth cavalry, has also left
for Fort Riley. 1t is one of the dis
mounted troops which has been here.
This leaves two troops of cavalry
still in the Ceur d'Alenes, one at Ward
Eer and one at Wallace.
Clifford Riggs of Cottonwood put
rife ball through Chas. Mockamer, liv-
ing nine miles south of Cottonwood,
killing him. The victim and his BROTH
er went to Riggs, who was herding
sheep on their land, and after a few
words the shooting occurred. Riggs
surrendered himself Immediately.
WASHINGTON.
Spokane banks were never in better
condition than at present.
On account of bad weather at Repub.
lie freighting is almost suspended.
Seventeen-year-old John Bechtel, a
Colville boy, is in Jail and admits he is
a horse thief.
Governor Rogers says he has not Of
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attic newspaper.
Seattle Pr. excursionists are under
investigation by an Alaska grand jury
for taking a totem pole last summer.
The Kettle river is above high water
mark for this season of the year. Two
spans of the Helphrey bridge have gone
out.
Last week Leslie Belt, son of ex.
mayor of Spokane, was in Jail for strik-
ing a woman. He was refused bail by
the chief of police.
Three new school buildings are to
be begun in the spring at Spokane
Seventy-flve thousand dollars is to be
expended on new sites.l
The revised estimated 1899 pack OF
Puget Sound salmon places the number
of cases at 1900, as against a total
of 355, 900 cases for 1898.
State Treasurer Young has issued a
call on the general fund for warrants
from Nos. 47,616 to 1885 inclusive
Total amount of call $114,0O4. The cal
natures Dec. 4, 1899.
Arthur Huey of Walla Walla is miss
ing. He is young man 16 years old
five feet one inch in height, has dark
hair, brown eyes, full, round face, and
walks with a slight limp.
The brick walls of Science hall al
Pullman, the last of the two new col
lege buildings are up, and the roof and
cornice are being put on. The brick
work on the walls is completed.
A literary and social cooperative
club is being organized in Tacoma fol-
the study of municipal affairs and so
cial intercourse non-political and non
sectarian in every sense of the word.
The Spokane jobbers will unite. Ar
organization has been formed already
Twenty-four merchants already inter
ested in the association. A. w. DolanG
is president and r. G. Dillingham; sec
rotary.
The price of wheat in the local mar
kets of Colville remains at $1.25 pei
hundred, and eggs command a casf
price of S5 cents per dozen, and il
seems impossible to get poultry at any
) price.
The seventh annual meeting of thu