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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
general NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
of Miscellaneous Naiare Gath
cred the Past Week.
IDAHO.

Doc Spedden was drowned at White
bird recently.
The harvest in the Garden valley has
been bountiful this year.
The new artificial ice plant at Boise
is now in successful operation.
Ed. Burch was thrown from his horse
recently in Star Valley and instantly
killed.
John Clancy, the man who was so
badly beat up at Boise, has died from
his injuries.
Sixty thousand dollars worth of
brick buildings are nearing completion
at Wallace.
The fruit crop is good in all sections
of the state. except in southern Ban
mock county.
Experts have found ex-Assessor S. o.
Tannahill, of Lewiston, short in his &C
counts to the amount of S2,537.3O.
Though the ranges are unusually
dry. the dry grass is nutritious, and
stock continues in good condition.
Wallace, the 9-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. George Young of Albion, was
accidentally shot and killed recently.
AS the result of warm weather the
cooling moth and scale have increased
in many orchards in the southwestern
counties.
Otto L. Brunzell of Reynolds has sue
cessfully passed his examinations and
will enter his career as a cadet at west
Point in September.
William Carey, foreman of sawmll
fifteen miles from Drewsey, fell on the
running saw while crossing on a tim
Der. and was instantly killed.
Applications for booth room at the
inter-mountain fair at Boise are com
ing in very fast, and in a short time
all the best space will be taken.
Milo Boyaken, aged IA, was fatal!
wounded by the discharge of plsto
over which he and younger brothe
were struggling for possession at thel
home in Boise.
Weiser's new fruit evaporator, nov
under way, will have S4x9O feet HOO
space: the plant is to cost $4,000, VII
have a capacity of thirty-one tons eN
cry thirty hours, and seventeen peopl
will be employed in and around tn
building.
The body of a man was found In IN
Payette river recently near Idaho CIT!
which is supposed to be that OF Lorel
20 Carpenter, who lost his life on Ma
% at a point twenty-five or thlrt
miles above, his body not having bee
recovered.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
France DistrustfuI.

Paris, Aug. 2O.-Englands decision not
to land troops in Shanghai when con-
WINGED that the other powers would fol-
low her example is conridered here as
not masking her real intention as to
China as being one of selfish interests.
Her intended independent action created
not a little criticism, but now that it has
been checked, official circles silently grin
at what is regarded as a rebuff.
1t is even stated that her course cast
suspicion upon the genuineness of Eng
lands attitude regarding the "open-door'
policy, for had England been left in pos
session of the port of Shanghai and in
control of the rich resources of the Yangtse
valley, she easily could have been salts
fed with her position, whether or not the
remainder of the powers secured com
mercial privileges in the oriental empire
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
OREGON.

Cattle thieves are reported to be OPP
Grating on the Burnt River range.
Klamath county has 1000 people and
an assessed valuation of $1,600,000.
A Port Oxford man has sent 1000
sheep this season to San Francisco, by
steamer.
H. c. Ehlen's 116-acres farm in Mar
ion county, has been sold to Fred Year
gen for s4,500.
The farmers of Clackamas county are
complaining of having more hay than
their barns will hold
Pendleton has secured the Seventh
regiment band (Vancouver) for its har-
vest carnival, September Is to %.
1t is reported that battle is likely
to occur shortly between the cattle own
ers and sheep men on the Malheur di'
vide. The cattle men have ordered the
sheep men to keep their fiocks on the
Malheur side of the divide, while the
latter claim the privilege of driving
anywhere they please. Blood may be
spilled.
The Baker City foundry, which was
burned about two. weeks ago, will b'
rebuilt at once by Manager McLynn
The new opera house and Masonic tenn
pie are rapidly nearing completion ant
the new $4,000 school house is abou
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24

a good water system by the close of the
year. The Republic company has
been granted a franchise for so years
to supply water to the people of the
town and for fire purposes.
The interior department is making
efforts to give the widest publicity to
the laws against forest fires to the end
that campers and hunters and others
will be careful to start no blaze that
will destroy valuable standing timber.
The body of Joseph M. Olsen was
found in the hold of the snip Isaac
Reed, anchored in the stream near the
coal bunkers, recently, by the watch
man of the vessel Olsen's neck was
broken and he had sustained other in
juries which indicated death by fall.
The state board of land commission
ers has approved the sale of timber on
school land in section SO, township rs
north, range east, 800 acres to the
Snohomish Logging company for S3lOt
and lao acres in Spokane county to H
b. Wadsworth for $500, in section SO
township 20 north, range 43 east.
Last fall new wheat known as the
Arcadian was introduced into this
country and a considerable acreag'
sown. This is now being harvested
and threshed and the results have beer
disappointing to nearly all who hav'
tried it. The yield is not nearly 81
good as other varieties of wheat AM
the grain skaters so badly that it /
Improbable From all districts wher
the wheat has been tried the same re
ports are heard.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24

1t is expected that the furnaces of the
CRANKY smelter at Grand Forks will
be blown In tomorrow or Friday. The
sampling works commenced operations
yesterday.
1t is authoritatively learned that the
Canadian Pacific smelter at Trail, b.
c., is to be enlarged at once to more
than double it's present capacity, max
ing it able to handle about 1900 tons
OF ore per day.
The first shipment of ore from the
lie Roi No. 2 mines was made to the
Northport smelter last week. 1t con-
sisted of four carloads from the No. 2.
All preparations are being made for
regular shipments from that mine.
In July the st. Eugene Consolidated
Mining Company paid out in wages
$25, 400. This is the largest sum ever
paid out by the company in a single
month. In May it's payroll was $17,-
900 and in June $21, 900. The increas-
ing monthly pay-rolls of this company
are having a telling effect on the town,
which is in a healthy and prosperous
condition. Business in all lines is ex
ceedingly brisk and the hotelmen and
merchants especially are reaping a
harvest.
Contracts have been made between
the Rossland Great Western Mining
company and the Canadian Rand Drill
company for the purchase of a 40-dril
STANDARDIZATION air compressor, t.
be delivered within five months, anC
with the West Kootenay Power anC
Light company for electric power t.
operate the machine. The contract 70
I the electric motor, which will have 80
u horse power will probably be let tC
l. morrow. The compressor is to be a
d exact duplicate of the one just complies
e ed at the Black Bear, but without tn
y steam cylinder. This machinery wi
? be installed on the Nickel Plate fla
g between the boiler house and the mine
o 1t will be connected with the other tw
s. machines on the Black Bear ground b
q pipe lines, so that any or all of tn
e three can supply power to any of tn
d British America corporation mines
When this machine is installed tn
nominal capacity of the British Amer
ca corporation compressors will be IL
It drills, but the actual capacity will
v nearer $50 drills, for in large mine
e. all the drills are not in operation ;
he the same time and the number whic
can be operated is thus increased
tx proportion.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
For Breaking Oaths.

Pretoria, Aug. 21.-Lord Roberts
proclamation reciting the fact that
many have broken the oath to maintain
neutrality and that the leniency extend
ed to the burghers is not appreciated
warns all who break their oaths in the
future that they will be punished by
death, Imprisonment or fine. He de-
clares that all burghers in districts oc-
cupied by the British, except those who
take the oath, will be regarded as pris-
oners of war and will be transported
and that buildings on the land where
the enemy or his scouts are harbored
will be liable to be RACED.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
Metals.

New York-Silver certificates, 611a @
621ac; bar silver, 6O%c; Mexican dol
lars, 4Sc.
San Francisco-Silver bars, 60Bc;
Mexican dollars, 49@491ac.
New York-Metals-The feature of
operations on the metal exchange was
the announcement from London that
1000 tons of tin had been shipped.
This statement weakened our market
considerably, offerings OF spot being
at $34.
The brokers' price for lead was 1896
and for copper $16.50.
Copper ruled quiet and unchanged
here. In London it was 5s higher, at
f73.
London-Bar silver, 81 1916.
Lead and spelter-Dull and un
changed at s3.S7%@4.02 and s4.25@
4.30 respectively.
Iron and steel were weak again. Pit
iron warrants show a decline of p
points to s12.75.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24

There were 1000 head of horses sold
in Dillon last week.
The Elks celebration at Butte last
week was a grand affair.
The Helena Golf Club is going to
have tournament in Helena this year.
miners union has been organized
in Marysville, of which William Walsh
is president.
For a long time Boulder has been
without brass band but the long felt
want is about to be supplied.
1t is reported at Saco that H. w.
Davis has leased 1000 sheep to Mark
Wright for period of two years.
Whitehall expects soon to have fire
bell in the city, which will arouse the
soundest sleepers for miles around.
The people of Philipsburg are now
enjoying again the telephone system of
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company.
In all the years that apples have been
grown in western Montana there has
never been such crop as the orchard
men will harvest this year.
Len Lewis, the well-known Meagher
county sheep grower, is said to have
1000 tons of alfalfa on one of his
ranches to be used next winter.
1t will probably be some time before
the census bureau will issue an official
bulletin giving the population of the
city of Butte, and the surrounding dis
trict.
Virginia city is going to have electric
lights The Madison Canyon Power
company which is putting in 1900
horse power plant in the Madison can
yon. will deliver the power to the noted
mining camp.
Conley G. McTague of Deer Lodge
have put up 1900 tons of hay. While
= others favor alfalfa Conley & McTague
after due consideration and experience
unequivocally pronounce in favor o
5 alsyke clover.
1 It is reported that Evan Jones ha
sold his ranch and sheep to w. G. Con
S rad for the sum of $4,000. The rancl
;. is the old Simmerman place, one of tn
). best in Teton county. 1t is under
J. stood that Mr.. Jones will remain AM
}, have charge of the business for MI
o Conrad says the Choteau Montaniar
Glenwood Springs is enveloped in
L cloud of smoke today, caused by tn
p forest fires which surround the tow
5 on three sides. These fires are ragin
at Grizzly Creek, at the back of Noun
: Lookout and at Sunset Peak and ar
d supposed to have originated throug
l. the neglect of campers.
Thomas R. Kinds is asking the di:
0 trict court to allow him 100000 70
o his services as receiver of the Bosto
II and Montana Mining Company. In az
It dition to this compensation Mr.. Hind
asks that the court allow $31 ,294.94 fo
a other claims arising out of the receives
If ship.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
REPUBLIC.

A new strike is reported from the
Keno, in Meyers Greek district. The
nature of the strike is unknown. The
property is owned by Mccarthy & Ryan
OF Chesaw, and is considered one of the
best copper prospects in the district.
The biggest consolidation of mining
interests in the history of the north
west is under negotiation. The ex-
pected union is of several of the lead
ing mines of Republic camp and the
man most prominently identified with
it is Senator Miller of New York. Sen
ator Miller is known to represent the
control of the Republic and Quilp and
large eastern capital seeking invest
ment. 1t is believed that an effort is
being made to join to the Republic and
Quilp two or more of the leading mines
of the camp. What these are is not
definitely known, but the Lone Pine
Surprise is mentioned as one and the
| Tom Thumb as another.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
WASHINGTON a..
recovered

Everett is to have a retail grocers
association.
Garfield county will vote on $4,000
court house proposition.
Japan has already taken more lum-
Der from Washington this year than IL
did during the whole of 1899.
The increase of lumber shipments
to Hawaii this year, as compared with
1899, amounts to 26 per cent
Centralia's new lawn tennis club is
prospecting under the presidency OF DR..
&c. Lewis. The club has Is members.
Wallula. on the Columbia river, ship
ped the first ripe peaches in the state
saws a correspondent of the Pasco
News-Recorder.
From all over the valley reports con-
tinue to come in saying the potato crop
will not be near up to the average, says
the Ellensburg Capital.
During all of 1899 Mexico used 7.249'-
$40 feet of lumber from this state, and
during the first half of 1900 the con-
sumption was 1867, 204 feet.
During the first six months of 1900
the exports of Washington lumber to
the Philippines amounted to SO per
cent of the exports during all OF last
year.
Mrs. F. E. Woodwork, the wife of
locomotive fireman, shot herself
through the heart, and Mrs. Mary Rich
ards, a widow, took poison, in Portland
recently.
Fire caused havoc among the saw
- of CT dnrlnp
the last month, no less than twenty
fires being noted, the total loss amount
ing to 100000.
To persons from counties not 81
densely populated, the recent institute
at Pullman would have certainly beer
surprise. from the fact that the en-
rollment was more than $50 for the ses
sion.
The American District Telegraph co
has been organized in Spokane. The!
will do a general messenger business
also may engage in electrical construc
ton. and act as agents for firms AM
individuals.
new company is forming in Sp'
kane to extend the telephone lines tina
center in Spokane Are going int
the Okanogan and will string wire
to the new mining towns of that prom
Using district.
Thursday, August 23, is the dat
fixed for the annual outing and picni
of the Spokane Retail Grocers' ASS
citation, and as previously announces
Occur d'Alene City is the place wheI
the festivities will be held.
Republic has the prospect of hayin
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
MINES AND MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES
Items Cleaned From Late Reports
All Districts Are Being Developed
"A Prosperous Yenr y. Predicted
Mining Notes and Per.0aaI..

A mineral exhibit for this years
Spokane exposition that VIII be far
better than any made before is assured
by Manager Hawley. Owing to the
rather seant information that has been
made known regarding the mineral ex-
hibit this year the impression has got
about that this end of the exposition
was being side-tracked, and a good
many criticisms have been heard from
the mining men. 1t is generally real
lied that the excellent display of ores
made last year was one of the most i'm
portant and attractive parts of the fair
and it's usefulness as a drawing card
and an advertisement of the mining re
sources of the northwest was conspicu
ously demonstrated.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
Powers Found Guilty.

Georgetown, Ky, Aug. 2O.-The verdict
of the jury in the case of ex-Secretary
of State Caleb Powers, charged with be-
ing an accessory before the fact to the
murder of William Goebel, was:
eve find the defendant guilty, and fix
his punishment at confinement in the pen
itentiary for the rest of his natural life. y
The jury was out only % minutes
Juror Craig stated afterwards that the
verdict could have been returned even
sooner, but considerable time was taken
up reading the instructions.
The vote in favor of a life sentence was
unanimous.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
MINING NOTES.

The Antelope claim on Fifteen Mile
creek, owned by John Hill and r. E.
Lee, of Colville, is attracting consider
able attention on account of its copper
showing, which is improving with ev-
cry shot.
Eighty carloads of machinery for the
Sweeny syndicate are said to be on the
road and expected to arrive soon at
Sites, Idaho, from which place it will
be taken to the Hump over the new
wagon road by way of Badger.
Seats in the Colorado City mining
exchange have advanced from 1928 tc
$3.50 within a period of two years
and Colorado City is not mining dis
trict nor are there any great mines
adjacent.
The final cleanup of the Sterlin min'
in eastern Oregon, for the season, wa
completed last week and amounted T.
1900 ounces. The entire amount takei
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24

ready for occupancy. New brick bust
ness blocks are under way and many
cottages will be built this fall.
Such unbounded enthusiasm as that
created by the preparations for the
street fair and harvest carnival, Sep
TENDER Is to %, has never before been
seen in Pendleton. Everybody is in
terested as one person to insure sue
cess for the great undertaking.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24
Iowa Crops Injured.

Des Moines, Ia, lug. 2O.-The eX-
tremely heavy rainfall in all parts of Iowa
recently has become a serious menace to
crops. The total rainfall in this vicinity
has been 81 inches. The average rain
fall in the state in the last four days is
over six inches. The Des Moines river has
risen 10 feet. The lowlands are flooded
and many bridges have been swept away
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-24

In Switzerland a telephone can be
fitted to private houses for So a year.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-03-09

The Washington Post a staunch ad-
ministration organ, thus speaks of the
Republican party. 1.-The splendid and
successful conduct of the war with
Spain has been sadly clouded by the
scandals of mismana2ement and ia
voritism, which attended that glorious
consummatiOn. The course of the
administration with reference to Cuba
and the Philippines has lost the party
many stout and potent friends. The
strange policy recently adopted toward
Porto Rico has outraged practically the
entire country. The Hay-Pauncefote
treaty has still further impaired Mr..
Mckinley g prestige. and the rumored
purpose of the President to compel its
ratification will, if it should berealized.
not only discredit the government, but
bring contempt and odium upon the
party. In q word, the situation, as it
seems to US, is far more favorable to
Mr.. Bryan and far less so to Mr.. Nc
Kinley than 1t was four years ago.nl
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-03-09
Col. lack ChinE Talks.

Col. Jack Chinn, who arrived i'll Lex
ington, KY, on Tuesday, was the cen
tire of attraction owing to the recent
statements intimating that he killed
Senator Goebel. Col!tChinn, in speak
ing of those stories, said: They are
lies; Republicans would give 81 .0O0, 00O
today if they could rid themselves OF
the assassination Of Goebel. Lincoln
was murdered by a crank, Garfield by
a lunatic, but Goebel was killed by a
sane man deliberately carrying out
plans made for him by those whose in
~terests might be benefited by his death.
Two of the best detectives in this
country told me two weeks ago, that
the assassination was the result OF a
gigantic plot. The Statement is that L
drew my pistol are untrue. Had L
located the assassins you may feel GER
tain that I should have fired at them. "
Harlan Whitaker, who was arrest
ed on the charge Of killing Mr.. Goebel,
has been indicted and remand9d to
Jail without bail.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-03-09
THE SEABOARD AIR LINE.

The charter for the building of the
Seaboard Air Line from Richmond to
Washington passed in the Legislature
and became a law toward the close of
the session, after one of the hardest
fights any company ever had to get
the right to build a railroad through
Virginia Many years ago the B. &
o. tried to get On Virginia soil and
put its main line up through the Val
ley. 1t was driven out to the borders
of the State and with 1t millions of
dollars went, which might as well
have enriched the Valley of Virginia
as Maryland, or! what is now West
Virginia. Today a railroad company
asks simply to be. allowed to build on
Virginia soil and only succeeds in OBJ
tanning the right after a most heated,
prolonged and costly fight. In West
Virginia and some other States, char.
tiers for railroads are not granted by
the Legislature, but are issued by the
Secretary of State under a general
railroad law. Any company can pro-
cure a charter and build at once. No
hostile corporation can wheedle, caiole
or bride a Legislature there to dany
another company a charter, and the
result is that no less than ten impor-
tant railways are now building in that
State, while poor old Virginia has
scarcely one, and that too with her
undeveloped territory and clamor
about inviting capital. When a rail
way company that does mean to build
knocks at her legislative doors for a
charter, months of the hardest, bitter
est fighting are passed before the right
is granted. II this opposition to the
Air Line charter is a sample of what
work is necessary to get a chance TO
develop the State and build up her
waste places, it is fortunate that all
the charters necessary to business
prosperity, are not granted by orr
Legislature.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-03-09

VIRGINIA, To-wit:-At Rules held in the
y Clerks Office of the Circuit Court of
Augusta county, the 9Th day of March,
1900.
Henry NJ. Trayer and others, Plaintiffs.
VS..
William Trayer and others, Defendants.
IN ChancerY.
The object of this suit is to obtain par
tition, if practicable, Or a sale in lieu OF
partition, if impracticabIe, of a tract of
land containing thirty acres, moIe or less,
situated near Staunton, in Augusta coun-
ty, Va, which was conveyed by Josephine
Stuart and others to A. B.. Lightner, Trus-
tee, for the use of John NJ. Trayer and
wife and their children, in accordance with
the provisions of the Will of Jane Trayer.
deceased.
And it appearing by affidavit filed that
due diligence has been used on behalf of
the plaintiffs to ascertain in what county
or corporation defendants Ada Rowe. Mat
tie Trayer, Herbert Trayer, Thomas Tray
er, Howard Traver and BERTHE TIayer,
reside, without effect, 1t is ordered that
said defendants do severally appear here
within fifteen days after due publication
of this order and do what is necessary to
protect their interests in this suit:
Teste,
JOS. B. WOODWARD, Clerk.
j., J. l.. & L. Bumgardner, p. q.
mar 9 At