The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-02-22
NORTHWEST LIENS

1t is estimated that 1900 Immigrants
reached Spokane on their western Jour
ney one day last week, over the North
ern Pacific and the Great Northern.
Z. A. Smith, baker residing on
Eleventh street, Tacoma, claims to
have been assaulted by burglars in his
home last week and robbed of S125.
The death at Helena, Mont, of Rev.
Thomas Van Scoy will cause a shock
both of surprise and regret to his MANY
friends in educational and church
work in Oregon.
Flfty-six farmers from Walla WaIla.
Prescott, Waitsburg, Dayton Pomeroy
and other points visited the agricuI-
tural college and experiment station at
Pullman recently
AT Colfax Fred Brown shipped three.
carloads of fat hogs to Seattle. The.
hogs were bought in the country
around Colfax, Mr. Brown paying 4sl
cents per pound on foot.
1t is the unanimous opinion of the
sporting fraternity that the fight be-
tween Bill Langley of Wallace and
Charles Jost of Portland, which came.
off last week in Wardner was for blood.
Jost won in the 18th.
The sum of $3.50 is offered by the
county commissioners of Spokane
county as reward for the arrest and
conviction of w. A. Lewis. an attorney
and fugitive from justice of the state
of Washington, charged with larceny
by embezzlement.
1t is expected that the Wenatchee
Chamber of Commerce will soon take
up the matter of the high line ditch.
which will put water on all of the land
of that valley. The estimated cost of
this undertaking is from $15O,OOO to
100000.
Maps of definite location, just filed
in the land Office at Waterville by the
Northern Pacific Railway Co., indicate
a purpose to extend the Central Wash
ington branch from Coulee City, it's
present terminus, to Bridgeport on the
Columbia river.
Norman Mills, the defaulting clerk
in Tacoma treasurer's office, was ar
raigned in the superior court on two
charges of forgery and embezzlement.
He pleaded not guilty and was released
on $1,000 bail in each case, his father
being accepted as security. The short
age has been made good.
The largest judgment ever granted
in Jefferson county has just been rem
dered by Judge McClinton in the fore
closure case instituted by the Bank of
British Columbia against the Moore G.
Smith Lumber company. The amount
of the judgment is SAT-, 900 and covers
the property known as the Port Dis
covery mill, together with thousands
of dollars worth of fine timber land.
The Bank of British Columbia is said
to have found a purchaser for the prop
erty and consequently instituted the
foreclosure suit to quiet title.
While Harry Romer was playing bill
lizards in his saloon at East Helena in
the presence of six or seven spectators.
man about five feet eight inches high
entered at the rear door and aiming a.
revolver at the party, called on them
to hold up their hands Romer was.
robbed of 1857 and a watch. The bar
tender was compelled to open the cash
register and put all the money on the
bar, where the robber took it, and all
others were obliged to give up. The
police have suspicious of the robbers
identity. He is believed to be a man
named Johnson, seen around East Hell
ena recently. He has probably gone.
over the hills toward Butte.