The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-09

Cresceus added more laurels to his
fame recently by trotting a mile in
2:O214, reducing by half a second his
week old record of 2:0234.
w. S. Cooper Of Sherman county
Oregon, recently sold ranch near the
town of Wasco for $16,50O that he
bought last fall for SILL 900.
Alexander Stonewitch, an Austrian
miner from Rossland, fell from the
southbound passenger train, receiving
injuries which will probably prove
fatal.
Hugh Keller minister of agriculture.
at Winnipeg, estimates the wheat yield
in Manitoba and the Northwest Terri
tory this year at from 100000 to
60,00C,000 bushels.
At Denver Fred Jevne, an old time
ball player and umpire, who has been
umpiring the Western league games re-
Gently, fell from a third story window
of the Victor hotel and was probably
fatally injured. Jevne was on the Spo-
kane team when John S. Barnes was
manager in 1891. Jevne was an out
fielder and a terrific hitter.
Word has been received from Victo-
ria, B. c.. of the defalcation of Quar-
termaster's Clerk John McCaull and his
disappearance from the United States
transport Egbert, on which he was as
signed to duty.
The board of admission announces
that the attendance at the Buffalo ex-
position during the first three months
ending at midnight on July 81 were
2,774,90S. With the exception of one
week the admissions have shown a
steady increase.
American and European residents as
sert that the demeanOr of the Pekin
populace is constantly becoming more
unfriendly, and as the allied troops de-
part the Chinese resume their old hab-
it's of jostling and cursing foreigners
in the streets.
At Marinette, Wis, Sunday United
States Senator B. r. Tillman of South
Carolina addressed a large audience on
the race question from a southern
standpoint. One of the features of his
remarks was plea in justification of
lynchine.
Ira Turner was shot and killed re-
Gently in a woodchoppers' cabin in
Deadman's gulch, eight miles from
Missoula. by Henry hudson his father
in-law. hudson, who surrendered after
the shooting, says that after having re-
turned from town to the claims he
found Turner beating his wife.
The Roosevelt Rough Riders asso-
citation, which was holding it's reunion
in Colorado Springs, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Captain Frederick
Muller of Santa Fe, n. NJ. president;
Lieutenant Dave Leahy Of Ration, n.
NJ, first vice president; King Henley
of Winslow, Ariz., quartermaster SER
geant.
The biggest ship in the world, the
Celtic, White Star line, has reached her
dock in New York on her maiden voy-
age. Her time from Liverpool was 8
days and 46 minutes. AS she is berthed
her steerage deck is higher than the
entrance to the pier. After she was
warped in the iron doors of the aft
cabins had to be opened to land pas
sengers. Three hundred and forty-ive
cabin and 26S steerage passengers came
over on the vessel.
An attempt is being made in St
Louis to form a building material
trades council to include all working
men engaged in the manufacture OF
structural materials. If the project is
carried out successfully only union
made material can be used in the cree
ton of the worlds fair buildings, ii
is stated.