The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-12-11
IDAHO SQuIBS.


Mason, belonging to the lodge at
Occur d acne.
Bneer-Nah, the Oldest Indian on the
Occur d'Alene reservation is dead.
A post OF veterans of the Spanish
American war was organized recently
at Boise at a meeting of Philippine
volunteers.
Charles o. BroXon, editor of the Pc
catello Advance, is charged with Grim
NAL libel. The complaint is sworn to
by Charles P0ppletOn, sergeant of po-
lice. His bond was fixed at 5000.
Lewis Bond. a riverman. was drawn
ed by falling off boat in the St. Joe
river recently. He was rowing down
stream with a lady in the boat. He
slipped and fell overheard. He was
Frank Leuch, a Northern Pacific
brakeman, fell 80 feet in a caboose
into the creek from a trestle near
Granite recently, and escaped with a
lacerated leg and arm and a scalp
wound.
Material is being assembled for the
new power station to be erected by
the Washington Water Power COM
pany at Post Falls. The new station
is to be equal in power capacity to the
Spokane liant.
State Auditor T. Turner will wait
until the supreme court acts before he
will pay the bounty on beet sugar. He
says the power of the state legislature
to authorize payment of bounties must
be shown first
Senator Hepburn has presented to
the proper committee a joint memo
rial of the governor of Idaho and the
state legislature, praying for a suffi-
cient appropriation to improve the
Pend d'Oreille river between Albany
;. falls and the mouth of Priest river.
:, One of the largest timber sales re-
= corded in Shoshone county in many
= months was that of Fred A. Blackwell
and wife to the Wisconsin Log G. Lum-
Der company and others. A half in
4 terest in all the timber on sundry
tracts of land in township AZ north
range l east was transferred for $40,
p 54O.76.
, The year old child of a family
:, named Giles was burned to death Sun
day. The little one was playing neal
! the fire. The mother left the room
. and the baby secured a piece of pa
= per and lighted it at the fire. The
a baby's clothing caught fire and the
II child also inhaled smoke. The baby
>, died in a few minutes.
Thomas ID. Parsons has filed deeds
. for two farms which he bought re
- Gently. One, of 28O acres, was pur
-. chased from the First National banl
n of Moscow, consideration being $500
~ and is located about five miles west o
- Kendrick. The other was 200 acres
~ purchased from Joseph H. Riley O
~ Moscow, and is located three mile
~ north of Moscow consideration $S4O(
William Gam, one of the three me
IN now in jail at Mountain Home on tn
:, charge of having set fire to the Stool
- ton hotel at Glens Ferry in which
~ life was lost, has confessed. His col
q fession duplicates ONeill, one of tn
~ other men in Jail, on the charge. Gan
m declares Red" Hooks, the third men
A., Der of the trio, to be innocent Of an
al part in the affair He says it wa
partly from motives of revenge an
or partly for purposes of robbery.
bo Moscow, Idaho.-The state Ian
%. board has fixed December % as tn
~ date for the sale of a number Of va
20 liable tracts of school land in Lata
no county. The sale will occur at tn
no courthouse, the different tracts bein
in knocked down to the highest bidde
q The total amount to be sold is som
thing over 5000 acres. the appraise
IIv valuation being from $40 to $50 q
or acre, and in a number Of cases, whel
70. lands have been held under lease, II
IN purchaser will be called on to pay II
m. value of improvements on the lands.
,+a T. ]. McGinness was recently bour
GO. over at Boise to the district court {
"a. charge Of manslaughter for the XII
m. ing of c. A. Packenham. His boz
sb- was fixed at $4,000. On November
nd McGinness and two companions, &
of whom were somewhat intoxicate
were driving up the Highland vall'
road and passed Packenham, who w
on his way to the X-ray tunnel,
ex- which he was superintendent. McGi
ma ness discharged his rifle when sor
900 yards away and the ball stru,