The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-01-06

guns.
During the past two months What
com county treasurer. V. A. Roderer,
has collected s421,931.69 in county
taxes.
Anderson Wait. Junior, the son of
Anderson Wait, Senior, founder OF the
towns of Waitsburg, Dayton and Elber-
ton, is dead.
The town of Leavenworth on the
Great Northern railroad, is quaran-
tined against smallpox fireman
has broken out with the disase.
By five years of experiment it has
been demonstrated that proper Guilt
walton increases the weight of the Pu-
get Sound oyster 80 to so per cent.
King county commissioners have de-
cided to put the county prisoners to
work on the roads. favoring the inau-
guration of the chain-gang system.
No county in the state has made the
record in the way of convicting crimi-
nails during the past II months that
WaHa Walla county has, considering
population.
Remains of Edison butcher were
found in his room at Spokane last week
cause of death unknown, but thought
to have been due to natural causes.
His widow at Tacoma.
A fraternal order of Spanish war vet
Grams will soon be formed in Spokane.
Nearly every state in the Union has al
ready formed or is now organizing or
ders of similar nature.
Two robbers boarded street car in
Seattle and the passengers drew their
guns. Stranger on the front end
dropped a robber. A passenger on the
inside was shot by the other desperate.
Martin Everette, in Jail at Kamloops
B. c., seeks redress for an alleged alb
lduction, and sheriffs up in Ferry coun-
ty are to be arrested, as Secretary OF
state Hay takes a hand in Everett's be
half.
Representatives of twenty of the
leading logging firms of this state met
in Seattle and made an all around ad
vance in the price of logs, entering into
an agreement to maintain the new
schedule or shut down.
The Carbon Hill Coal Company CAV,
$500 to each widow and 500 to eaci
child of a miner killed in the explosion
of December 9Th. Mothers dependan
upon lost sons for support were treat
ed on the same basis as widows. Thi
donation of the company represents ;
total of about $4,000. Relief contrs
buttons from other sources will amour
to similar sum.
OREGON.
Enrolment in La Grande's school
has reached GAL.
Helix has formed an athletic clu
with 40 members.
Tillamook's postofice issued none
orders amounting to $4,339 during N,
vember.
The Heppner Touring mills repoI
DEFENDERS business the biggest in il
history.
Coyotes have recently been very troJ
blesome to goats in the Molalla country
Clackamas county.
In the Juntina neighborhood of Ma
heur county it is said 5000 jackrabbit
have been killed this winter.
The steam launch of the Unite
States revenue cutter Commodore Pc
ry was sunk by running on the Sylvi
De Grace rocks, about 600 yards froI
shore, at Astoria.
The torpedo boat destroyer Colds
borough, which the Wolff & Zwicke
Iron Works of Portland have practica
ly completed, was given her first col
tractors trial on the Columbia las
week to the satisfaction of all.
The Dufur Dispath describes an irr
eating scheme to turn the waters {
the Deschutes river onto the sage brus
lands of Crook county. Over 10000
acres of land are capable of being r
claimed.
/ A number of the large ranchers an
stockmen of the southeastern part {
= Wasco county are organizing a con
pany to build telephone line to col
} meet their ranches and to run from Al
telope to Muddy, Ashwood and Ha
5 Creek.
Over 10000 packages of green, fruit
r berries and vegetables were shippe
from Ashland by freight and expires
E in the season of 1899, aggregating
weight about 100000 pounds, or Il
! carloads of 10 tons each.
Portland architects report CROWN
/ tendency to build on the part of ow
ers of city real estate, and the year 19C
: it is thought will witness the erectio
OF more new houses than even 1S9
e which doubled its building record ov'
t that of 1898, says the Oregonian.
The Heppner Times reports the sa
O of o 600 bushels of wheat at the Bal