The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-12-16
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
A Review From the States of Wash
gon-News of the Past Week
Boiled Down to Suit Our Busy
Readers.
IDAHO.

bOlSe is utdu.
The expenses of the United States
court in Idaho for the year were $685. |
$3.50.
L. A. Hyde has been appointed post
master at Bruneau valley.
William L. Sipe has been appointed
postmaster at Brannan.
postoffice has been established at
Mica, Kootenai county.
postoffice has been established at
Willola, Nez Perez county.
Henry l.. Wadsworth has been APP
pointed postmaster at Lapwai.
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 workman.
Senator Shoup has departed for
Washington. The senator is an ar
dent expansionist and an advocate of
the building of the Nicaragua canal.
New pensions have been granted to
the following residents of the state of
Idaho: Charles York, Nampa, Sc per
, month; Francis M. Mckenzie, Swan
Lake, Sc; Richard Barrett, Emmett,
S12; Isaac w. Porter Arco, So.
d. w. Ross last week picked out
from sluice box on the Pioneer plac-
ers, of which he is manager, a nugget
inches long, pa inches greatest
? width and l inch thick, being some
what egg shaped and worn perfectly
] smoothe.
! Fifty people have dragged the bot
e tom of the Snake at Payette for the
e body of Walter King, who was drowned
q without success. Wire fences have
e been planted across the river in two
places in the hopes of catching the
body.
r. There is much activity in the timber
sections of the Potlach country. Con-
+. tracts have been let for 100000 ties
g and the woods are full of workmen.
Much heavy timber is being manufac-
q tured at the mills which will be used
" in the construction of a large mill al
the mouth of North Fork next spring
, The mill will have a capacity of 100000
i feet daily.
The labor situation in Chicago is M
= more reassuring than for several weeks
"a The building contractors make no Sc
O cret of their intention of destroying the
l. unions, and the latter are determined
n to pick up the gauntlet if it is thrown
d down on January /. Outsiders seem t
think there is great deal of bluff OF
is both sides, which, of course, is nothing
h new for Chicago.
n WASHINGTON.
D. The diphtheria scare at Colfax is
thing of the past.
lg A school teacher has light form o
ly diphtheria at Pullman.
III Spokane business znen favor pei
We manent exposition home.
k. The Jobbers' Association of Spokan
will give banquet on Jan. 4.
IN The Cheney liquor license is 500
70 and slot machines 800 year.
~ The council has ordered saloons shu
IL from IL to $3.50 a. IN. at Spokane.
Oh Practically the whole of the Stuc
ID. river valley is one vast sheet of waite
N ]. d. Murray is bound over at Wall
In Walla on the charge of stealing hog
zig A new postofice has been establish
at ed at Pinhook. to be known as Rio
nd postoffice.
err James B. Martin of Peola says til
farmers in that section are still bus
10. seeding.
I'LL Farmers around Dayton are cor
lal planning of damage done by the receI
en- heavy rains.
,+o Tho f1our mill AZ Harrin pton has b
ng gun operations. The mill has capa
in ity of 200 barrels day.
Hog cholera has made its appearan
sss in the vicinity of Dayton, a number
est animals having died of it.
la- The Pataha City mill has startC
on grinding again after being entirely I
les modelled with the wing system.
las Work on the improvement of the o
ad- anogan river has been carried fro
Johnson creek to q short distance belo
he Alma.
ties Capt. James Robertson and Eli
no Hansen, master shipbuilders, have
ore cided to locate in Anacortes and esta
OPP lish a shipyard.
LAT Benjamin Briggs, aged 81 years, W
ing drowned recently while attempting
> a wade the Nooksack river near the fl
wn hatchery at Welcome.
the Minnie, 15-year-old daughter of
I'd ]. Bridges, of Ellensburg, commit
of suicide last week while in a fit of 9
AXE ger, taking three ounces of carlo
ter acid.
ide Joseph Steele, pioneer of WhatcC
! oo,o+xr x-oc fo,,n6 dQad af his hQ1