The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-10

1t is reported that the business por-
ton of Gervais, Ore. was destroyed by
fire recently.
The seth annual encampment of the
G. A. R. begun at Washington, d. Q.
last Monday. 1t will last week.
A cargo of raw silk valued at ST.
500 900 arrived at Vancouver, b. Q. |
the other day.
sW. R. Hearst of the New York
Journal, has been nominated for con-
gress from the eleventh district by the
democrats.
Beginning October 6, stopping of
apple shipments enroute to Fargo, N.
D., will be discontinued by the north
transcontinental lines.
Judge Brooks of Minneapolis has
sentenced former Superintendent of
Police f. w. Ames to six years and
half in the penitentiary for accepting
q bride.
A committee of Boer sympathizers
of New York welcomed Francis Will
lam Reitz, recently. He was fOrmeraly
secretary of state of the Orange Free
State.
The rumor started some months ago
that the Chicago, milwaukee 81 st.
Paul was seriously contemplating the
extension of its system to the north
Pacific coast as again been revived.
General Chaffee and Vice Governor
Wright have sailed from Manila on the
transport Sumner. They were accord
ed a general and popular farewell
demonstration.
The total gross earnings of the
Northern Pacific last year were SAL
1873, $3.50; net, 2O,O98, 966; surplus,
1,547 1886 increase, 1914, 667.) The
total surplus now is 50, 1854, 700.
The city reservoir at Camden, N. j.,
broke recently and about 100000
gallons of water escaped and flowed
down the streets, flooding the cellars
of many houses and doing other damage.
The Saimese government has just
issued large quantity of paper money
with the assistance of the Hong Kong
81 Shanghai bank. Siamese credit is
thus placed under the control of Great
Britain.
Sheriff Robinson of Cripple Greek +,
Col, levied on a pullman car for taxes
amounting to 1868 which the pullman
company neglected to pay and in order
to prevent the removal of the car, he
chained it to the track.
The river steamer Hassalo and the
British ship Cypromene were in col
lision recently on the Columbia river
at Coffin Rock, two miles below Kala-
ma. The total damage will be about
$4,000.
At o'clock Monday morning the
gates of the ninth anuanl Spokane In
terstate Fair was thrown open and at
O'Clock the in evening the Masonic
Fair were opened. 1t is believed the
two big events will send to Spokane a
record breaking crowd.
According to the report of the pay
master general, army expenses decreased
during the past year 1913, 1919, as COM
pared with the preceding year, partly
owing to the decrease in the pay Of the
army and in part to the reduction OF
claims for extra pay to volunteers.
The total expenditures made by Pay
master General Bates were $52, 532, >
479.
Utah MOrmOns are greatly incenseC
over the insinuation that the crime OF
Wilcliam Hooper Young, alleged muir
derer, is in accordance with the 'blooC
atonement" teachings of the mormon
church, of which his grandfather
Rrirbo,,, XoupU was thp great DrOfit
The Kansas supreme court has grant
ed stay of execution i'll the case o
Jessie Morrison, now in the peniten
tiary for the murder of Clara Vile.
Castle. The case will be heard il
January. Miss Morrison's appeal bone
will be fixed at $4,000 AS soon a
this is given she will be released unit
the time of her trial. She was sentenc
ed to Is years in the penitentiary.
William Nelson Cromwell, genera
counsel for the new Panama company
who has returned from Paris, says h
delivered to Attorney General Knox i
Paris every conveyance, decree, con
cession or other document relating
the properties of the new Panam
panal company and its unquestiOnabl
cover to convey the canal, the plant
Concessions and other property to tn
United States, free and clear Of a
liens or claims of any kind.
The feature of the naval estimates
for 1904, which have been made publ
at the navy department, is the hbel
atty of the recommendations for eac