The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-06-07


At a meeting of the generals Of the
allied troops at Pekin, 1t was decided
to transfer the administration Of the
city of Pekin to the Chinese officials
gradually during June. Coun Won Wal
dersee, accompanied by his staff, will
leave Pekin Monday.
The strange sliding movement of the
city of Butte. which has been notice
able at intervals for several years, has
again manifested itself by five large
cracks in the earth in different sections
of the city. The largest crevice oc-
Cured on West Galena street, where
a crack 70 inches wide and of consid-
cradle length and depth has appeared.
A heavy rain and hail storm covered
a wide area recently and did great dam
age to all crops in Texas, especially to
fruit. A special from Palentine says
the damage to property inside the city
and to crops in the surrounding coun-
try will reach $150.000.
Lieutenant John M. Neil, an ex-offi-
Ger of the regular army, stationed at
the Preside near San Francisco. was
arrested in Minneapolis by a deputy
United States marshal on instructions
from San Francisco. charging him with
forgery of vouchers in the army three
years ago.
The stranger who came to a hotel in
Fergus Falls, Mimi, and registered as
George Gilbert of Portland, Oregon,
was found lying on the floor of his
room with a bullet hole in his fore
head. A revolver was found near the
body and the man had evidently killed
himself.
Incomplete details have been receiv-
ed at Bieber, Cal, of the lynching of
five men at Lookout, Modoc county.
The lynched were Calvin Hall, 70 years
old, his three halfbreed sons, Frank,
James and Martin, aged respectively
&c. 10 and 16, and B. ID. Yantis, aged 81.
Cause-stealing
A cable message has been received by
William Cramp & Sons announcing
that the first payment for the cruiser
contracted for by the government of
Turkey has been PAID by the Imperial
Ottoman bank. Until now there has
been an element of doubt as to whether
the cruiser would ever be built, but
with the first payment made, the work
will be carried forward.
81 am Elijah, the prophet, who ap
peared first as Elijah himself, second
as John the Baptist, and who now
comes in me the restorer of all things
Elijah was a prophet. John was a
preacher, but l combine in myself the
attributes of prophet, preacher and
ruler of men. Gaze on me, then. l say
it fearlessly. Make the most of it, you
wretches in ecclesiastical garb. | am
he that is the living physical and spir'
itual embodiment of Elijah, and my
mission on earth a second time has
been prophesied by Malachi, by God
himself, by his son Jesus, by Peter
and 5000 years ago by Moses. All who
believe me to be in very truth all of this
will stand up" And over 5000 people
rose to their feet and greeted the dec
laration with cheers and handicap
pings. John Alexander Dowie, true tC
his promises, made this statement from
the platform of the Auditorium in Chi
cago Sunday night in the presence Of
5000 people. 1t was the elimination Of
a frenzied speech in which he de
nounced everybody and everything no
in Zion, cursed the pope and the Ro
man Catholic church, spat literally a
Masonry, the newspapers and the bank
ers of Chicago, and ragged and tore III
and down the stage like mad man.