The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-05-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Twenty lives are reported lost in a
snowsIide at Sunrise City, Alaska.
Many houses were caught in the ava
lanche.
Valdes, Alaska, is crowded with idle
men anxiously awaiting beginning of
work on the government line to the
interior.
AT Houston, Texas, in a fire which |
destroyed a livery stable and three resi-
dences recently, five persons were
burned to death and several others
were injured.
Carefully compiled statistics show
that the gold production of the Cripple
Creek district up to the close of the
present month makes grand total of
over $100000,O00. Gold was first dis
covered in this camp in 1889.
Light, life and air has broken in
onto the five entombed miners at Au-
rora, Ohio. Two were rescued alive,
one was found dead and the other two
are supposed to be lifeless. Grant
Shard was mangled by falling rocks
and earth and dieo instantly.
Thirty-one billion dollars is the ag-
gregate of national debts of the world
at the close of the nineteenth century.
This is ten times as much as in the
closing years of the eighteenth cen
tury, according to expert statisticians
of the treasury bureau devoted to this
work This bureau has just issued a
statement on the subject, 1t apparently
being suggested by the recent an
nouncement of the new British loan
of $300,000.000.
The Mechanics Savings Bank of
Westerly, r. T., is closed. This action
came as a great surprise to the town
and great excitement prevails among
small depositors. The estimated
amount of deposits is something less
than 81 900, 900, the securities on their
face values less than $1,1O0,000. The
number of depositors is about 200
Many of the securities are western in
vestments, which are understood to
have decreased in value year by year.
George Cummins, aged %, son OF
D. w. Cummins, telegraph operator al
Northport, Wash, who recently re
turned from volunteer service in the
Philippines, and was employed in the
railroad yards as switchman, wa.
caught between two heavy ore carr
while making a coupling, and killed
almost instantly, living only a few
minutes. He called by name favorit
sister May, who lies very sick at home
> and then asked to have his head raised
after which he gasped a few times AM
expired.
At Cincinnati Mrs. Rich ard Crater
: the wife of a housepainter, on bein
unable to keep her husband from
, saloon, went to the place with one O
y his kalsomine buckets and a Whit
J. wash brush. She kalsomined hill
, from head to foot in the saloon. II
returned to the saloon after he had a
= companied her home and changed HI
clothing. She followed him again an
the next time kalsomined the salool
keeper and his bar fixtures and gay
; notice that she would repeat the pc
Torrance to anyone selling liquor
L her husband.
c.. F. Sayler of Iowa, the speci;
agent in charge of the beet sugar il
vestigation of the department of agr
y culture, is in Washington and has su
Is mitted his report to Secretary Wilso
lie He says this year shows an active te
l. dency toward the institution of ne
ct beet sugar enterprises. Next autumn
D. he says, Michigan will have three ne
81 factories and Ohio Indiana, Ne
n York, Colorado, Utah, South and Mort
Dakota and Illinois will install ne
'r factory enterprises, making thirtet
al throughout the United States now
B. contemplation. A conservative est
mate, he says, is that there will be
\. beet sugar factories in operate
Id throughout the United States by Il
end of next autumn. Everything /
t. dictates that the industry is thorough
Id established throughout the country.
Id Felix Gras, the Provincial poet wi