The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-03-01
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of it will be grown this season.
OREGON. 4rtI
Two carloads of potatoes have just
been shipped from Oregon City to New
Mexico.
Fat cattle are passing through from
Boise to the Sound markets. Several
trainloads passed during the last week.
Committeeman in charge of arrange
ments for the woolgrowers' convention
to meet at Pendleton March 6, and
are receiving information that insures
an attendance of from 300 to 500.
1t will cost the people of Oregon who
provide for, control and educate their
own boys $30,750 year for the next
two years to house, control and teach
100, more or less, unruly boys Of par
ents who shirk their duty toward their
sons, says the Oregonian.
The special committee appointed by
the legislature to examine the books of
the state land Office have reported that
defalcation of $30,0U0 had been dis
covered in that department, the short
age having occurred in 1894 and when
George w. Davis handled the school
funds.
w. A. Morris of Salem, who took the
Carnot medal in the debate between
Stanford university and the University
of California, is a native of the Polk
county hills, west of Salem. His early
education was received in the country
II
College" and later he studied in the Sa-
lem public schools and at Willamette
university.
MONTANA.
Washington's birthday was appropri-
ately observed in all the schools of the
state.
George Wedlake, another one of the
Bald Butte mine ore thieves, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary.
There is plenty of room in the Flat
head for more people, but they should
not come with the idea that there are
places open for them at good salary
to start with.
The Telegraphers' gun club of Hell
ena has decided to become member of
the Montana State Sportsmen's asso-
citation.
The canteen at Fort harrison is as
dry as Maine prohibition town so far
as the sale of anything containing a
particle of alcohol is concerned.
Robert James, the grader of Billings,
who attempted suicide by slashing his
jugular with a razor last week, has
been ordered to the insane asylum at
Warm Springs.
Mrs Belle Bohn, aged So years, who
has been better known in Missoula as
Aunt Mary" Travis, died last week at
the sisters hospital after days illness
with pneumonia.
A. D. Maynard shipped carload Of
horses east last week. The horses were
in excellent condition, and will doubt
! less command good prices, as there is
a good demand in the east for horses
now.
Joel Crossman, aged "a years, and
who for the past % years had been a
resident of Butte, died at the residence
of his sister, Alice L. Crossman, 1924
South Wyoming street in Butte recent
ly.
James McDevitt of Choteau has sold
his sheep and is going into cattle rails
ing exclusively. He has contracted
with parties in Utah for 1000 head of
heifers which will be delivered to him
at Conrad in the early spring.
Louis Valliere, employed at Kendall's
mill at Turah, was instantly killed re-
Gently. Villaire was employed on the
log chute that brings the logs down the
hill back of the mill. One of these logs
struck an obstruction of some sort and
jumping from the chute, killed him in
stantly.
DR.. w. E. Dodd, one of those report
ed lost in the Rio Janerio disaster, was
for many years a resident of Butte. He
went to Manila with the Montana regi-
ment and returned with it. Coming to
Butte, he practiced there a while and
returned to Honolulu with his brother
and Attorney Henshaw, who is also re
ported lost. Very little is known in
Butte concerning Henshaw.