The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-06

Events TerseIy Told.
The total appropriation made by this
congress was siS1, .629.
An imperial decree has been signed
ordering the formation of a third ST.
berian corps.
The regular quarterly dividend Of
"a per cent on Great Northern is
announced.
The statement of the treasury shows
available cash balance, $219,091 ,652;
gold, $107,424.2S3.
The army transport Thomas has sail
ed from San Francisco for Manila with
$1,00O,000 in silver money for use in
the Philippines.
courtmartial has sentenced Col.
Audreianaf to the loss of his rank
and civil rights and to be imprisoned
for two and a half years for recruiting
frauds.
Horace B. Shattuck of Lowell, doing
business as H. B. Shattuck & Son.
dealers in hardware, has failed. The
liabilities are stated at $4,000 and
assets $27O,OOO
Samuel Parks, the former walking
delegate of the structural ironworkers'
union in New York, is dying at the
hospital at Sing Sing. He is suffering
from consumption.
King Oscar of Sweden has signed
decree declaring strict neutrality
between Japan and Russia during the
war. The decree is similar in terms
to that issued by the Danish govern
ment
AS the mother was in the act of
laying her baby in bed. Fleming Froh-
man of Dallas Mills, Ala, shot his
wife, cut her throat, killing her, and
then inflicted fatal wounds upon him
self.
Bill Devere, plainsman. cowboy
and gambler, who scored a big hit as
the Arizona editor in Hoyt's "a Black
Sheep" died in New York recently.
Devere was known all over the west.
and had many friends in Spokane.
Lord Curzon of Kedleston, viceroy
OF India, sailed for home on board
the steamer Arabia. He was given a
great sendoff. The city was gaily dec
GRATED and large crowds gathered to,
bid him farewell.
The Spanish steamer Zalkira Bat
was sunk off Sicily island in a col
lision with the British steamer Cres-
syl, bound from Cardiff for Buenos
Ayres Thirteen members of the crew
of the Zalkira Bat were drowned.
Horsemen have been notified that
the meetings of the grand circuit at
Empire and Brighton tracks contem-
plate Offering $4,000 for stake race
for 2:15 trotters. If carried out. the
purses will be the largest ever con-
tested for by trotters.
Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge of the
British navy. who. before his retire
ment, March IA, was commander In
chief on the China station, has sailed
for England from New York In dis
cusslng developments in the far east
he expressed the opinion that very
large battleships have proved unde-
sirable.
The fast morning train on the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern rail-
road, known as No. Is, running as a
worlds fair special, was wrecked one
mile and half from KimmswIcK, Mo.
The engine struck an open switch, am.
with the exception of thelas t sleeper,
all the coaches were derailed. Many
persons were knled and injured.
The government of Panama has in
dicated its desire to have. 81 200, 900 Of
= the amount to be paid that country on
account of the canal purchase trans
mitted to ]. P. Morgan G. Co., their
, financial agents at New York, the re-
naming 100000 to await the arrival
= of the Panama minister in June next.
The treasury department will comply
with this request.
The secretary of the treasury has
issued a call directing national bank
repositories to transfer to the assis-
. tant treasurer at Mex York on or be-
fore May 10, 1904, an aggregate sum
of $12,000,000. The call on each bank
is for 10 per cent of the deposit Of
such bank as it stood before the re-
cent 20 per cent call, thus making a
total withdrawal of 30 per cent OF
public deposits.
Although William G. Whitney's will
!, provided that his magnificent house
t shall be maintained as a home" for
e his daughter, Dorothy, and his STEP
4 children for two years after his death,
= it is reported to have been sold to
+ James Henry Smith, heir of the $780,
. 100000 estate of George Smith of Chi
caqn and London Mona of thncn al