The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-03-08
NORTHWEST ITEMS.

NORTHWEST ITEMS.
A Washington special says Senator
Shoup is being considered for the posi-
ton of assistant secretary of war.
About 100000 acres of rich agricul
tural lands in Idaho will be thrown
open for settlement this summer.
The Bank of Weiser has offered a
reward of 500 for the recovery of the
body of Colonel Hart, who was drown
ed in Snake river recently.
Governor Toole has appointed James H.
Daley of Helena state boiler inspector and
j. d. O'Brien of Deer Lodge county as
sstant for terms of four years, and the
senate confirmed them.
Ya-Ya-Ya-Ya of the Walla Walla In
dian tribe has lost his life, although
it is not known how. His body was
found near the track of the o. r. & N.
main line on the Umatilla river in the
foothills.
w. S. Byers, who is preparing for
the construction of a large warehouse
at his Touring mills at Pendleton is
now shipping to fill contracts for an
aggregate of 100000 sacks of flour to
Siberia. The flour goes in 5000 barrel
lots, 10000 sacks at shipment.
Professor w. ]. Spillman, agricultur-
alist at the Washington agricultural
experiment station at Pullman, warns
farmers of the Inland Empire against
extensive and expensive experiments
with a new sort of hedge fence which
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A we'll dressed man of middle age,
who said he wished to marry a woman
who is an inmate of the county poor
house, presented himself to Clerk of
the Court Roberts of Butte and asked
for a license. The applicant said he
did not have the So to pay the fee re-
quired by law and the license was re-
fused.
Articles Incorporating an exposition
which will celebrate the centennial an
niversary of the arrival in Oregon OF
the Lewis and Clarke expedition in
1905 have been filed with the secretary
of state The incorporators are: H
w. Scott, II. B. Bellinger, L. B. Cox
H. w. Corbet, Henry Hahn, Samue
Connell, E. Ehrman, r. w. Lewis ant
]. M. Long.
AS a result of an inquest conducted
by Coroner Hoye of Seattle, assisted
by Deputy Prosecuting Attorne.
Keith, over the body of Maggie Hun
sucker, who died while undergoin.
treatment for the morphine habit. AT
thur B. Ford, secretary of the Wash
ington Sanitarium; Mrs. Charlotte
Morgan and Burt Chapman were al
rested charged with being criminal.
responsible for the woman's death.
The Pacific Northwest Baseball
league has been formed, at which W
H. Lucas was elected president, secre
tary and treasurer at a salary of $40
per month from April 1. A constitu
ton and bylaws was adopted, and i
was decided to open the season May
and close October 10, giving a serie
of four games a week. The first game
will be played at Spokane and Tacoma
Portland meeting the former and Seal
tie the latter. The salary list will no
exceed $1,000 per month per team.
In the supreme court at Rossland
Chief Justice McColl presiding. a jur
awarded two miners. Claude M. Hen:
ley and Owen Biglow, damages agains
the lie Roi company of $500 and s95
respectively, for injuries sustained b
a cage falling on them in the min
last September. The suit of Alexande
Chisholm for $4,000 damages agains
the same company, for injuries receiV
ed in August last, was dismissed on tn
ground that the plaintiff had bee
guilty of contributory negligence.