The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-02-22
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
of n Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.

The cold has Damaged the wheat.

IDAHO.
The cold has Damaged the wheat.
The Potlatch river was frozen last
week for the first time in seven years.
The Bank of Nez Perez is opened for |
business under the management of j.
A. Shultz.
The blessing of st. Stanislaus Kost- |
ka Catholic church at Rathdrum occur
red recently.
Arrangements have been completed
for the establishment of the Bank of
Troy, which will open it's doors for bus
mess March 1.
In the district court at Moscow Judge
e. c.. Steele declared the state law ex-
acting license from persons peddling
articles not produced in Idaho to be
unconstitutional.
A case of wholesale horse stealing in
Washington county has come to light.
Warrants are out for the arrest of a
number of men, the principal ones be-
ing John Walker and one Vance.
At Troy Duthie & Corrin last wetA
sold four carloads of apples to party
in Butte, Mont, at a price which net
ted the fruit raisers rs cents per box,
or about $500 for the four carloads.
A modern creamery is being erected
at Mohler to cost $500. The money
has been subscribed by merchants, far
mers and stockmen. The plant will
have capacity of 1000 pounds of but
ter and 1000 pounds of cheese daily.
Swimming stations will be established
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AS a result of the movement in the
legislature to include Potlatch prairie
in the new county that is proposed to
be created in the Clearwater country,
mass meeting of the leading citizens
of the prairie was held at Leland re-
Gently to protest against such a move.
The supreme court has denied writ
of error in a case coming down from
Idaho county. A merchant there nam
ed Hunt disposed of $4,000 stock Of
goods to Messrs. Sweet, Richardson
and Wilkinson for about $4,000. Ar
rests followed on charges of conspira-
cy to defraud creditors. The supreme
court held that it is fraudulent sale"
within the law.
Registration at the state normal
school during the second semester, of
which this is the third week, is 140,
and registration since The beginning of
the school year. last September, has
been 1913. The senior class to graduate
in June numbers 25 of whom but three
are young men. Both the young men s
and girls dormitories are reported to
be crowded.
Two farmers hanged themselves last
week north of Genesee. liver Larson
aged so years, and Ole Otness, 7S years
of age, committed suicide without any
apparent reason. Mr. Larson had fast
ened one end of rope to a beam and
the other around his neck and then
jumped off a box, breaking his neck
He came to Idaho from Oregon two
years ago, and leaves a wife and six
children, the youngest years old. He
served for eight years as sheriff in
North Dakota, was a brave man ant
we'll educated Mr. Otness lived little
farther out on the same road. He go
up early in the morning and after do
ing his chores went across the field tt
Mr.. Larson's barn. He was shortly fol
lowed by his son, who thought this {
strange proceeding, but before he ar
rived the man had hung himself will
a stout fish cord.