The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-02-15
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
of a Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
IDAHO.

IDAHO.
Paul Corcoran is i'll with infamma
tory rheumatism.
Edward T. Elom committed suicide
at Wallace last week.
Fred S. Curtis has been appointed
postmaster at Caprum.
Nez Perez will have free public IL
brary in the near future.
Great activity still prevails in the
logging camps in the Rathdrum Sec
ton.
Arrangements are being made to. es-
tablish free ferry across the Snake
river at Weiser.
The Wardner and Kellogg schools
are to unite in a public celebration of
Washington's birthday
Abe Harper, a farmer living near
Grangeville, committed suicide last
week by shooting himself.
1t is understood the Schlitz brewery
of Milwaukee has made arrangements
for all the hops raised in Idaho.
1t is stated in some quarters that
martial law will be abolished in Sho-
shone county within sixty days.
Peter Like, a prominent resident of
the Nez Perez prairie, was seriously in
jured while on his way to Nez Perez.
On a farm owned by T. Driscoll, four
miles from Genesee, Albert S. Hauan
has made oil discoveries which he con-
siders very promising.
Two employees of a contractor of the
Northern Pacific, Tom Harrison and
Shorty Taylor, were burned to death
in a cabin four miles above Kendrick
recently.
Mrs. Barnes, wife of Daniel Barnes,
a farmer living near Princeton, '15
miles east of Palouse, died recently of
heart disease. She had been i'll but a
few days.
Governor Hunt has received from the
British sonsul at Portland the thanks
of King Edward VII for the resolution
of coincidence passed by the legislature
on Victoria's death.
Representative Hart has introduced
a bill providing for the payment of q
bounty of one cent pound on beet su
gar made in the state. There is not q
factory in the state at present.
The town of Newport, Idaho, is nc
more. BY the scratch of pen an off
cial in Washington wiped the place
from the map, and by another scratch
established the town of Newport
Wash.
Last week a party of II men ant
women broke open the Lewiston Uni
versalist church door, pried off the OLE
lock and put on a new one. They ar
determined to share in profits of thu
proposed sale of the church building
The public prosecutor says they ar
trespassers.
The Nez Perez County Pioneer asso
citation has been organized by the adoI
ton of constitution providing that al
persons coming to the present stat
prior to the last of December, 1877, ar
eligible to membership.
The final step, so far as the state i
concerned was taken last week in on
of the biggest reclamation proposition
under the Carey act yet divulged. Th
state land board closed a deal with tn
American Falls Power Canal Comps
ny which means ultimately the recli
nation of a tract of about 10000 acres
OF this 81 900 is part of the public d.
main, subject to purchase under tn
provisions of the Carey act at so cent
an acre, the remainder being stat
lands. Not only will this great body {
land be reclaimed, but it is almost ce
tain that large factory will be esta
lished to manufacture sugar from beet
grown on the land.