The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-10-07

Elgin has taken steps to form a
commercial club.
Mrs. w. G.. Gyton drowned herself
and two children near The Dalles the
other day. Family troubles are said to
have led to the tragedy.
Stockmen of Willow creek shipped
ten carloads of beef cattle to Portland
last Saturday. says the Huntington
Herald
Fourteen cars, each of 1000 pounds
carrying capacity, have been received
at La Grande. for hauling beets to the
sugar factory.
Sumpter's water works will be fin
ished by December /. The pipe line
is three miles long. The supply will be
sufficient for $4,000 people.
Many sales of cattle are reported
from Wallowa county. One firm bought
1900 head, another 800 and various 9TH
ers from $50 to 250 head. One man has
bought over 200 fat COWS.
Beef cattle have been gathered in
Wallowa county, but few sales have
been made so far. The prices asked
are 3 cents for COWS and 81 cents for
steers.
Crook county's assessor returns $48.-
S62 in money this year. The Prineville
Review shows that one bank, by its
published statement, had $139,45S not
long ago. and wonders why tax laws
are SO generally evaded.
Joe Elliott, of Prineville, was wound
ed in the head last week by a pistol
shot, fired by Vic Davis. who had called
him from a saloon into a cellar. Davis
is under arrest Elliott was not badly
hurt
The government geological survey is
at work on the Sumpter geological
sheet. The geological survey follows
the typographical survey, which is still
at work on the Sumpter sheet, but has
removed It's camp up to near Bourne.
Both survey parties will prosecute their
work until checked by cold weather,
and mean to resume as early as prac-
ticable next summer. The maps will
not be finished for about IS months.
The Oregon synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church convened at
McMinnville this week.
Thomas Walker has force of men at
work rebuilding his machine shop at
Empire City, which was recently de-
stroyed by fire.
Rogue river had no run of salmon to
speak of this year. The spring catch
was very small, and up to this time
the full run is hardly worthy of men
ton.
Contractor Jacobsen is rushing mat
tiers and getting things ready to start
the government works at Coos bay. He
has large force of men engaged in re
pairing the lighters 10 be used in carry
ing rock
Lakeview expects railroad connection
via Reno, New, by November of next
year. When the freighting season
shall open in the spring 1t is expected
the railroad may be met at Likely,
about 80 miles due south of Lakeview.
Half of the government wharf at
Newport fell into the Yaquina bay a
few days ago. The accident was due to
the work of the teredo upon the piling.
1t is feared that without further re-
paid the remainder of the structure,
and perhaps along with it some of the
private wharves, may meet with a sim
liar fate before the coming winter ends.
Fishermen, accounting for the scar
city of salmon in Coos bay, say it is due
to the immense number of seals in the
lower bay and just outside the bar.
Never before were they seen in such
numbers, and as they are dead medi-
cine" on tho chinook and silverside, It
is believed their presence has caused
the salmon TO seek other streams in
quest of spawning ground.
A man named Johnson, while clear
ing land two miles below Bandon,
found human skeleton in the brush.
With it were silver watch and pearl
handled knife. 1t had evidently been
there number of years, and there was
nothing by which it could be identified.
The case is mystery, as no one has
ever been missed in that vicinity, who
could be accounted for by the finding
of these remains.
Yesterday a small child of Frank
Kliever, living three miles north of
Dallas, was seriously burned by pull
ing dish OF hot grease from table.
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