The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-09-18

1t is oficiany announced that the
car will arrive in Rome on October
~ and will I,main three days.
Seattle streetcars ran in almost
their usual number and practically on
schedule time, in spite Of the street
car operators strike.
There is no bread in Panama, ow
ing to the bakers union ordering al
general strike in compliance with the
master bakers regarding the number
of working hours.
1t is said that Senator Fred T. Du-
bois of Idaho will resist the claims of
Senator Reed SmOot of Utah to a seat
in the United States senate.
The mineowners association of
Cripple Creek, Col, has announced
that no member of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners will be employed in
any of the properties owned by mem
bers of the association.
Wheat reached the highest price of
the season at Garfield recently when
$4,000 bushels sold tor 90 cents per
bushel, sacked in the warehouse. The
grain sold was club and red wheat.
Bluestem is worth four cents a bushel
more than club ana red.
San Francisco was visited by hot
wave recently. The mercury stood at
GA degrees in the early morning and
during the day it gradually rose until
at l:20 p. m. the thermometer regis
tered 80 degrees in the shade.
James Powell, a lineman for the
Northern Pacific, engaged in stretch
ing wires aiong the route of the Belt
line, was killed by an electric shock
at RentOn, near Seattle, recently.
Chris Berg, who was pulling the line,
was knocked over and thrown several
feet from the wire, and suffered in
Juries.
Six inchee of snow on the level has
fallen throughout Yellowstone park
during Sunday.
The last statement of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $685.
1868; gold, sos, 176,O95.
Charles Kuhnie, one of the best
known and wealthiest farmers of Paso
Robes, Cal, was murdered recently.
In the Alps all Geographic communi-
cation was for a time completely in
terrupted and Italy cut off from Eu-
rope and America.
United States Senator Platt of Con
necticut has announced that he favors
the nomination of President Roosevelt
as the head of the republican national
ticket
William A. Hoffman,, who shot and
killed his father-in-law, DR.. A. j.
Brandt near Mayestown, Ill.,. and
threatened to take the lives of others.
is under arrest at Bellevile, Ill.
Frank Day formerly of California.
was killed in an automobile at the
State fair grounds at Milwaukee, Wis.
while driving against Barney Old
fields record in race against time
Before a crowd of 25,OOO people, Ar
thur FeatherstOne's Igniter won the
$4,000 annual championship stakes.
two miles and a quarter, at Sleeps
head Bay recently.
Rome paper says 1t is insistent-
ly rumOred that the discovery was
made recently that a sum of money
was missing from the treasury of the
propaganda. Pope Plus ordered that
an inquiry into the matter be made by
Cardinal De La Nolpe, project of econ
Omy of the propaganda. who. accord
ing to the reports, found $4,000 to be
missing
dispatch from Augusta Wis. says
that the town and vicinity are flooded
the result of a cloudburst The levee
went out and the floods swept through
the town, carrying everything before
it. Every railroad running through
the Northwest is crippled from wash
outs.
Recently at Clay Center, Neb two
unknown highwaymen attempted tC
secure money from several persons
A party of four resisted, and Dad
Stevens, J. w. Houserman. Nigh
Waterman Bush and Louis Behrend!
were shot by the robbers and severely
wounded Behrends was hit in the
head and is not expected to live The
bandits got no money. although thei
victims had considerable cash anS
jewelry in their possession. The high
waymen escaped.