The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-10-23
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-Cullings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.

lDAF1O INEW0 W. To-
The game of football Saturday after
noon between the Lewiston high
school and the University Of Idaho
second team resulted in a tie, no score
being made.
The Northern Pacific line revision
under construction east of Hope will
reduce curvature 1850 degrees, re-
duce distance $500 feet and rise and
fall 81 feet. 1t will reduce the max
imum grade on that portion of the line
from one per cent to one-half of one
per cent.
A representative of the Hastings In
dustrial company of Chicago has sub
mitted a proposition to establish
cannery at Kendrick on the coopera-
tive plan, the plant to be owned and
operated by stockholders.
The proposition of constructing an
electric railroad line from Grangeville
to Lewiston via Denver and Cotton
wood is announced.
University Puget Sound II, Univer-
sity of Idaho 0, is the score of the
game played at Moscow Saturday The
attendance and grounds were both
good.
Grang eville-Meadows stage was
driven off the road between Golf and
Whitebird, and, with six passengers,
was precipitated down an embank-
ment nearly so feet high. The night
was very dark and the road rough
from recent rains. The drivers han
ding of his team was unsatisfactory
to the passengers, and they refused to
ride with him, and got out of the
wagon. The driver handed the reins
to r. E. Lockwood of Weiser, a pas
senger, and requested him to drive
This being satisfactory all got into the
stage. They had gone but a short
distance when the accident occurred
Two men had their breasts crushed
in and a third had his collarbone
broken. The other three passengers
one of whom was a woman, we're all
more or less bruised.
By the filing of an application in the
Office of the state engineer for the
diversion of water from the Snake
river at Shonshone Falls, the fact i:
disclosed that Senator w. A. Clark
of Montana, who owns a tract of lanC
at the falls, proposes to utilize hi
holdings for the establishment of ;
large electrical power generating sta
ton. The application calls for q, 00I
inches.
Word from Congressman Frencl
that the Latah county fruit and vege
table exhibit had been given the frs
prize and purse of $1OO at the Idaht
state fair in Boise. This was tn
exhibit shown at the Moscow fair il
September.
The enrolment at the Lewiston MOI
NAL school has reached 1872.
Senator Dubois of Idaho, accom-
panied by former Senator Heitfeld, i
at Medical Lake, Wash, for a fey
days of recreation.
, misunderstanding of orders cause
a headon collision on the Occur d'Alen
branch of the Northern Pacific, nea
Borax, Mont, between a work trail
, and freight train. The engineer
and the firemen jumped and escape
, injury. Much damage was done to tn
engines. No one was hurt.
Serious differences have arise
among the officers and stakeholder
of the Reservation Fair associatio
which the courts will probably b
called on to decide. The fair, whic
was held at Peck by the associatio
the first week this month, was not I
? nancially successful, and the board c
, directors accused General Manage
Thomas Kirby with the responsibilit.
]. Judge, a miner at the Tige
: POorman, received a serious injur
= last week by falling 40 feet down
= waste chute. He is cut about the hea
: and his limbs are badly bruised.
A fatal hunting accident occurre
= on Silver creek, some miles north
: HALEY, recently. Edward Patton
rancher on Silver creek, losing h
life. The shot was fired by Fred 81
loft OF HALEY.
The Idaho state press associate
met at Occur d'Alene city this wee