The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-08-28
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.
MAst1lNa1uN NEWS.


OF harvest hands throughout the Big
Bend.
1ne new town of Nighthawk has
peen laid out on banks OF the Simil-
Nameen river.
Inc boycott of the nondelivery COM
mission houses by the Spokane Re
tan Grocers' association is still on.
There is an effort being made to do
away with the heavy grade on the S.
+. q N. between Marcus and Myers
Falls.
A material reduction on rates on
sash and doors from Spokane to east
ern points goes into effect on Septem-
per Is.
The water situation at Waitsburg is
becoming serious. There is a good
supply, but it is bad for drinking pur
poses.
An electric storm Sunday afternoon
played havoc with the telephone,
street railway and electric lighting sys-
TENS.
ii. M. Shafer of San Diego, Cal, will
succeed Professor L. B. Alger as prin-
cipal of the state normal school at
Cheney.
The management of the Interstate
Fair association is working on the live
stock auction sale proposed for the
8th and 9Th of October.
Capt. l. N. Campbell well known
mining man of Spokane, is dead at the
home of his brother, A. B. Campbell.
/ nootb MOS duo 70 coroOpoo
The Transmississippi Commercial
congress closed in Seattle last Sat
urday the most successful session in
the history Of the congress.
The hay raisers of the Yakima val
ley are experiencing a greater demand
for their product than at any time
there for raising feed for stock.
F. H. Hammond and brakeman
Charles Johnson were slightly injured
in a wreck on the O. R. & N. Sunday
afternoon at Buckley, 20 miles from
Spokane.
Friday Sheriff Inkster and deputies
Level and O'Farrell of Lincoln county
arrested w. H. Marcho and James
ShucN at Deep Creek, upon the charge
of horse stealing.
An important defect has been dis
covered in the laws passed by the last
legislature in relation to the leasing
of state lands, which renders void
scores of leases.
Despondent over the fear that he
might be beaten in a law suit, ]. A.
GOettel of Spokane apparently could
cto hn fod
suicide. He was a tailor.
John L. Smith, superintendent of the
Interstate fair, is making a tour of
coast cities for the purpose of interest
ing fruit growers, stock raisers and
; farmers in the fair here from October
until 10.
= The Spokane county board of equal
ization has completed it's annual labors
and the records of it's proceedings
show that the personal valuations re
turned by the assessor have been re
/ duced about $500, 900.
l The state insurance department in
t figuring up its receipts to date finds
that they are $17.42S.3S ahead of what
, the receipts of the Office were for the
= tllNllt cal VI lJOG. uG lOldl IGC0lpls
y to date are $2S.612.49
= A Sill fire occurred Saturday a
/ Walla Walla, burning the mattress anC
:. upholstering factory, a blacksmith
d shop and four shacks occupied by Chi
d nese. The insurance is $1,000. Thu
: fire started in the "picker" at the mat
tress company's building.
- ~,
newspaper man, we'll known, and par
i ticularly in the northwest, died re
Il Gently at his home in Sedro-Woolley
e Skagit county, of Inflammation of tn
r. bowels. He leaves a widow and on
n child, living in Sedro-Woolley.
t. The record yield of wheat for Whit
y man county so far reported this seasol
e is that of Adam Lust, a farmer livin
d one mile from Endicott, who threshe
L fraction over 81 bushels per acr
n from a field of 100 acres. The whea
was of the red variety, sown last fal
on summer fallOwed land
Deputy Collector of Customs Thoma
If R. Delaney and Inspector Stephen
a Brinker of Seattle recently seized 10
Ie pounds of ambergris, alleged to hav
% been stolen at Victoria. The value {
a the concretion is at the present whole
,e sale market list $50 an ounce, maxim
1t the seizure worth about $4,000.
n The detailed plans for the hours {
N amusement to be given at the Spokan
Interstate Fair grounds are being di
cussed by the fair management. TIL
IS entertainment of thousands Of peopl
Z each day for ninht or 10 hours is