The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-06-28


largely by cotton planters.
Secretary Root has received a letter
from Governor General Wood contain
ing the official announcement of the
adoption of the Platt amendment by
the Cuban constitutional convention.
Like the constitutions of most of the
South American republics, the Cuban
constitution has been framed with the
constitution of the United States as a
model. The adoption os the Plat
amendment makes it sufficient for all
the purposes of this government in its
relations with Cuba.
Dr. ID. K. Pearsons of Chicago has
made public the following college
pledges, due by January 1, 1902: Whit
man college. Walla Walla, Wash, $780,
600; Illinois college, Jacksonville, $780,
900; Fargo college, Fargo, ~ D.. $780,
600; McKendrie college, Lebanon, ILL.,,
$4,000; Bethany college, Linnsburg,
Kan. $25, 900; Fairmont college, Wichi-
ia, Kan, $4,000; Drury, Springfield,
Mo, $25, 1000. Total, $275.G COO. This is
an official list of gifts "to struggling
colleges" which DR.. Pearsons proposes
to make before the end of the year. In
addition there are one or two other
promises which will make the total
$350,000 in round numbers.
Each nation is to help in the de-
struction of the forts in China.
The Amalgmated Copper company has
filed papers increasing its capital stock
from SIS 100000 to Sl55O0O0OO
The grain warehouse of the Taco
ma Grain company at Reardan. Wash,
is now a mass of burnt ruins together
with about 10000 bushels of wheat
The fire is supposed to have been
started by a drunken tramp, and he is
not to be found. his remains are now
supposed to be in the ruins.
s. +. Stevens, county judge and a
wealthy farmer and John A. Webb a
ncighbor also prominent in county af-
fairs, met on the road three miles
from Miakka, Manatee county Flori-
da. and renewed an old feud that ex-
listed between them. Stevens was
stabbed to death. and Webb seriously
but probably not fatally cut.
Recent events in Cape Colony seem
to prove the Boer invasion of that
country to be serious. A letter to the
Daily Mail dated Cape Town, June 5,
confirms the pro-Boer report, and says
the invaders number anywhere from
1000 to 10000; that they are swarming
all over the eastern and midland dis
tricts and getting recruits and horses.
The death of H. S. Church of Louis
vile was the second act of a bloody
tragedy that began in Louisville with
the murder of Emily Stewart, but
which did not come to light until re-
Gently when the police found the hor-
ribly mutilated body of the woman hid
den in a closet in the same house
where the man was dying from
wounds self-inficted with pistol and
razor.
A shooting and cutting ARRAY in
crowded coach on the st. Louis & San
Francisco Sunday ended in the killing
of one person and the wounding of
several others, and created a panic
The killed; Mrs. Samuel Hart, col
ored, st Louis. The wounded: James
Laughlin. conductor, St Louis, shot
through the arm; Frank Williams. col
ed, st. Louis. shot through the leg
and badly cut about head.
A tornado struck the residence por-
ton of Middleport. Ohio, early Sunday
morning. Two houses and six barns
were blown down, about 20 buildings
unroofed and 500 trees uproted All
the telephone, electric light and tele-
graph wires were torn down and
across the trolley wire of street cars.
Horses were killed by contact with
the wires and one man was fatally
burned. Thousands of dollars damage
was done to bridges.
The annual report of B. H. Tatum.
assayer in charge of the United States
assay Office at Helena. Montana.
shows the mineral production of
Montana for 1900 to have been
as follows: Gold, S4.786.225; silver.
s1S,4S2,211: copper. 39S27,135: lead.
s7O1 ,155; total, s6S746.727. This is
decrease of $4.71O,5S1 as compared
with the previous year and is due to
the falling off in silver production and
the lower average price received for
copper, whose output exceeded the
preceding year.
Corte1 Has Confessed.