The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-05-29
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATEST NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week-CuIl-
ings From Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana-Numerous Accidents and Per
sona Happenings Occur.
IDAHO NEWS.

f. Il. Johnesse, superintendent of
the Thunder Mountain road, has let a
contract for building it to the North
western Bridge & Construction COM
pany OF Boise, for $4,000.
A new passenger boat is being built
to ply on lake Couer d'Alene and to
the head of navigation on the st. Joe
and the ST. Maries rivers. 1t is ex-
pected she will be able to make Is
miles an hour. She will be completed
in about two months.
Work on construction of the tram
way from Summit to Lenore will be
commenced in June. This tramway
will be over 1900 feet in length.
The souvenir presented to President
Roosevelt on his visit to Wallace was
a small pyramid consisting of galena,
copper, silver, gold and gold quartz.
Charles A. Dunn of Wallace, who
received the appointment to Annapolis
by United States Senator w. b. Hey
burn, has received word that he passed
the examination.
The result of voting for queer of the
carnival at Lewiston resulted in the
election of Miss Nyda MOunce, nom
mated by the Artisans, receiving 5572
votes
The ferryboat on the North Fork
of the Clearwater at Ahsahka, which
broke loose a week ago, is still out
. George Forester, a veteran of the
civil war, 60 years of age, died at
OrofinO recently after a lingering ill
ness. He served in Company E. Forty
nfu inf hn
rebellion.
The body of Charles Miller, who
was drowned in Salmon river on De-
cember 8, 1902, has been found. 1t is
now thought that he committed suicide
while respondent.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company will make improvements in
the telephone system at Wardner to
the extent of $1,000 or over.
Beginning May 81, the steamer Geor-
gia Cakes will make Sunday trips
around Lake Occur d'Alene to accom-
modate excursion parties and camp
ers.
Three sales of this years wool clip.
aggregating $4,000 pounds, were made
last Saturday at Lewiston to f. E.
Green, representing Boston manufac-
turers.
An electric road from Kooskia to
Buffalo Hump is proposed.
Announcement is made that the Ket-
tenbach Grain company has completed
arrangements Tor taking over the grain
and warehouse business of Kerr, Gift
ford & Co., in the Clearwater country,
end that the transfer will be made at
once.
During a fight Sunday afternoon
after the baseball game between Boise
and Nampa at Nampa, James f.
Quarles. colored, Of Boise shot Special
Officer John n. Grogan through the
shoulder. Henry Williams, a Boise
bartender, went to the assistance of
Quarles and was attacked. The fight
started over an attempt by a Boise
player to apologize to a Nampa player
for spiking him.
Petitions have been circulated and
have received 1000 signatures asking
that a daily mail be established be-
tween Lewiston and Cottonwood anu
Grangeville.
In the Nez Perez prairie it is be-
lieved the aggregate yield of grain this
year will be fully % per cent greater
than ever before.
A rate of one fare and third is an
nounced to Lewiston on the occasion
of the Red Mems carnival there, June
1-6.
Seventy-five thousand acres of arid
land will be reclaimed and opened for
settlement in Idaho as the result of
a deal which has been contaminated
in Salt Lake, when the American Falls
Canal & Power company concluded ar
engagements for completing its canal
in Idaho. The contract was awarded
to Lyman Skeen of Ogden for the con-
structiOn of the entire canal system.
The cost of this work, exclusive of
headgates, etc, will amount to $685.
600. More than 100 men will begin
construction work this week. and with
in 80 days it is believed water can be
delivered upon 5000 acres. The COM
pany's canal is taken out of the Snake
river, about II miles above the town
of Blackfoot, in Bingham county, and
runs southwest So miles. 1t terminates
just below the American falls, where
it discharges its surplus water back
into the Snake river.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The commencement exercises of the
Yakima high school will be held on