Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-11-29
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Items OF Interest From Other Points in
Old kootenai.

0oeur Aiene has night school of
typewriting and stenography.
The new telephone line between st.
Maries and Santa is now in operation.
Priest River is to have q new saw
mill. }. /. Bailey Of Newport has
received the contract for the carpen-
ter work.
The Bonners Ferry public schools
re-opened Monday morning, after be-
ing closed for five weeks on account
! of the smallpox contagion.
Five cases Of smallpox are reported
from the Rimrock settlement, about
eight miles southeast of Rathdrum.
a strict quarantine has been placed
on the infected neighborhood by Sher-
iii oyer.
Mrs. w. G. Stone, highly respect
ed lady, who resided I'm Paradise val
ley near Bonners Ferry, died on the
18th after a protracted illness, due to
abdominal troubles.
Mr.. Burt Babb Of Bonners Ferry
met with painful accident Monday
of last week. While splitting wood
his axe struck clothes line, glanced
and struck his left ankle. cutting the
bone clean eff Mr.. Babb is recent
arrival from Colorado
A rich strike is reported to have
been made on the Iron Cap and Sun
day Morning claims at Tyson camp re-
Gently. F. W. Haverland OF st. Mar
les, who is interested in these claims,
has gone there to investigate. and If
conditions warrant stamp mill will
be installed at once.
t. l.. Quarles, deputy in the audi
tors Office at Rathdrum, says that the
mill sample Of ore from the Ehlert
mine, near Lane, in the south end If
this county, a property in which Mr..
QuarleS is interested, gave return of
S22 in gold. The ore chute is l. feet
wide. a stamp mill will be erected
Iat once.
j. l.. B0utellier's little 5-year-old boy
was badly burned at Harrison last
week by some acid says the Search
light. The acid was in a bottle, and
was left on a stump hy tie electric
light men. Had the little fellow
drank the acid ii would have caused
his death. but as il was be WIS badly
burned ca the body and his clothing
ruined.
Tie Press SAYS that excavation com
menced last Tuesday for the new Ex-
Grange Bank al Coeur q d'Alene. The
new structure will be at brick. two
stories and basement. The baSe-
ment viii be }3X34 feet and will be
fitted up for a barber shop aud bath
rooms. The first floor Will be occu-
pied by tie oanh and the second floor
will be lifted up Tor IN opera house.
The main building viii bc "5xs0 feet.
Miss Bertha Reeder, teacher in the
intermediate department OF the pub
he school at RonnerS Ferry, WAS out
for the first time last Tuesday. after
having been in quarantine over five
week. says the Herald. N iss Reeder
had quite severe attack Of smallpox,
but will not have more tnan four or
i've marks on her face and these
scarcely noticeable. After all she
should feel thankful that she IS now
an immune from the disease.
Joseph Eocmer of the Cocurd Alcne
Lumber Company, returned last week
from the ST. Maries river where he
had been looking after the improve
ment, that are being made to the
stream ID, the ST. Joe Improvement
Company. says the Occur q Meme
Press. The obstructi9ns at the Loops
are almost removed and Il wing dam
is being completed which viii make
that part Of the river more nasigabie
for logs Large storage dams will be
huilt ON streams emptying into the
river but this work will not be pushed
until next spring.
Absolam X. White, one Of the old
est and best known pioneer settlers OF
the 1t. Marics country, died al his
home on his ranch near tlarkia on
tbe 10Th inst. lie had been sufferer
for many years with catarrh Of the
throat and after seeking relief in var
ions parts Of the country returned