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VOL. I.
KOOTENAI, IDAHO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3,
1891
NO. 14 .
THE KOOTENAI HERALD
Issued Every Saturday By
S. D, TAYLOR, Proprietor,
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each insertion, according to the nature of the
advertisement.
CORRESPONDENCE
i s solicited from all parts of the Panhandle. All
communications should be accompanied by the
writer's name, not necessarily for publication,
but as a guarantee of reliability.
PETER X-iTTTsHD,
—WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Goods delivered at Crossport, Galena Landing and all points on the
Lower Kootenai river. »
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Branch House at-*.Crossport.
JHEN. P. HOTEL
A. KAISER, Proprietor
charges reasonable.
The N. P. is conveniently located one block north of the depot
©n Kootenai avenue. # 1 '
The table is supplied with everything the market affolds, the
kitchen being under the immediate supervision of Madam Kaiser
caterer of large experience.
Give us a call.
a
OPEN DAY AND NICHT.
The Headquarters Saloon.
A. RICKERT, Proprietor,
-CARItlES THE BEST
Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Pabst'e celebrated Milwaukee Beer always
famous Cuban Blossom Cigars
draught. Try our
on
JDK,TUG- STOIFLjE
H. W. CATES & COMPANY,
OEAT.ERS IN
°<IDRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES.!*
Stationery, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Etc.
A full line of Paints and Oils.
Fine Cigars a specialty.
Dr. T. A. Bishop's.Office at the Store.
MAIN AND BONNER STRKKTS,
COR.
BONNER'S FERRY. IDAHO.
, it
THE OLD RELIABLE.
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THE -:- MINER'S -:- SALOON.
The Favorite Resort of the Town.
—ALWAYS ON HAND A CHOICE STOCK OF—
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS.
$
Open always. Give us a call.
JAMES E. DOLAN
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Attorney at Law,
KOOTENAI, IDAHO.
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Collections promptly attended to.
C. L, HEITMAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
RATHDRUM, IDAHO.
Special attention given to miniug business.
H. D. HOEYE'S
«« BARBER V SHOP. >©
All Kinds of Work Done in an Artistic
Manner.
When you want anything in the barbering line,
give me a call.
Slu»j> in Head)] liar ter* Saloon.
PACIFIC COAST.
An Immense Fire Rages
on Mount Shasta.
GRAY WOLVES IN OREGON.
The United States Geological Survey
Locates Storage Reservoirs
in New Mexico.
San Diego has organized a company of
naval reserves.
Thirty Mojave Indian polo players
have gone from Needles to Albuquerque,
N. M., to play at the fair there.
At the navy yard at Mare Island about
650 applications for work have been filed
with the labor employment bureau.
The perennial fight of the disposition
of the sewage of Los Angeles is about to
break out again with renewed fury.
The eleventh annual exposition of New
Mexico has opened at Albuquerque, and
promises to excel all previous meetings.
A syndicate of Chinamen, with ample
capital backing it, has purchased a site
near Victoria for a rice mill, and work
on the erection of the mill will begin at
once.
According to the Virginia City Enter
prise a disease resembling diphtheria has
broken out among the horses and cattle
on a ranch near Steamboat, and a num
ber of animals have died from it.
In the United States Court at Los An
geles the cases against Senator Ricardo
Trumbull, Supercargo Burt and Captain
O'Farrell of the Robert and Minnie were
continued " until hereafter called."
Coal of good quality has been found
by a surveyor who is mapping out a reli
gious colony on Malcolm Island into sec
tions. The coal is a mile west of Rough
Bay and opposite Port McNeil on Van
couver Island, B. C.
Advices received at Vancouver, B. C.,
sav that President HäinArn 'lias
pointed Frank H. Pierce of New Hamp
shire, formerly of the Cuban consular
service, as Consular Agent there, vice
Jay Ewing resigned.
At Sacramento gambling is in full
blast every where, and players can find
any kind of a game they wish close at
hand. Every public house has from four
to five games running, many of them
kpoDin? onon dftv and nicHit
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An immense fire nas been raging on
the southern slope of Mount Shasta, a
few miles south of Sisson, a vast amount
of wood, ties, logs and standing timber
being destroyed. Every available man
was needed to check the fire.
In the timbered districts of Clatsop and
Tillamookcounties.Or., largegray wolves
are becoming more numerous, and are
rapidly destroying the elk, as they kill j
the young caivefln the spring and even
the old ones when they catch them alone,
The testimony in the Albertson bank
robbing case at Tacoma continues to
show that Albertson was verv deliberate
in his work. R. B. Albertson, a cousin
is charged with writing the guaranty of
immunity and knowing for whom he
worked.
On the Jemes Mountains about sev
enty miles north of Santa Fe, N. M.,
the United States geological survey has
located five storage reservoirs, from
which water will feed the immense tracts
ap
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levs Bv this Dlln telte MXN) OM 6 «)™ '
olth« palest 'ÄÄ Ä
the world are enpecteil to he reolaimed. I
The Los Angeles Times prints an inter- j
view with De Barth Sliorb, who has just
returned from Chicago, in which he
states that the management of the
World's Fair is rotten to the core, and
that he will take steps to have an inves
tigationat Washington unless Davis is re
moved as Director-General on the ground
of his unfitness for the place. Mr. Shorb
says Senator Stewart of Nevada has
promised to lead the fight in the Senate.
The fish hatchery is to be built on Me
thow river in Okanogan county, Wash.,
and Commissioner Crawford has gone
there t° ascertain the number of salmon
held m the rack recently built by him,
He advises that the site be located with
reference to government township lines,
and the Commissioner of the general
him! office will be asked to reserve land
for the State, Efforts will be made to to
have a sawmill erected in order that
lumber may he at hand for the erection
the hatchery in the spring. Settlers j
will also be encouraged to open roads.
An idea of the profits that can be de
rived from a lemon orchard with
proper
care may be gained by taking an esti
mate from H. K. Snow's six-acre
grove
of eight-year-old trees in Tustin, Orange
county, Cal. Up to the present time he
has picked about 1,200 box, which is
about two-thirds of the present year's
crop. At the above estimate an
ill yield 300 boxes of merchantable
fruit, which will bring this season
average of $2.50 a box—$750 an acre,
$4,500 for the six acres of lemons.
acre
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EDUCATIONAL.
leanheri* in Home European Countries
Have Not Pleasantest Experiences.
Twentv-one Sisters of Charity have
been licensed to teach in Texas public
schools.
Brown University has decided to ad
mit women to its classes on the
conditions as men.
The entering Chautauqua class which
is to pursue a three years' course com
prises 15,(XX) students.
The University of Oxford has rescinded
the vote admitting women to the Bache
lor of Medicine examinations.
Harvard College was founded in 1636,
Yale in 1701. William and Marvof Vir
ginia was chartered in 1695.
Thirty-two studen ts of Queen 's College,
Belfast, have petitioned the council that
women shall not be admitted to study.
The chair of oratory in the University
of Honolulu, Sandwich Island, has been
offered to Miss Norma C. Crawford of
Minersville, Pa.
The Legislature in Maine has enacted
a law which requires all public-school
teachers to devote some time each week
to teaching kindness to animals.
same
T „ ,,
^,'* ec * e T 1 philanthropy
P 01 - 1 ILe schools now as the vehicle of
V*??, t ie children the cleanliness that
next to godliness. The chiefparocaial
scliool in i-tocKiiolin lias introduced win*
ter bathing as a feature, with great can
tion apparently, lest innovation excite
a prejudice, for the report says that the
children are given a bath everv three
weeks. Now that the thing is in run
ning order, 100 children can lie washed
in three hours. The boys took readily
to the scheme ; the girls for some reason
did not. Of forty girls in one class that
averaged 13 years of age only sixteen
j had ever known the luxury of a bath in
winter. The teachers report that the
effect on the children is beneficial in!
^Vhicfi Ä
ft first wcro .hinf P ' 1 -
y OI *
N ATinitf ITT A PIT AT
THL NATIONAL CAPITAL.
-
The Real inventor of the Rain-ProdacinK
Process is a Virginian,
The girl who carried off the honors of
entrance at the University of London
examination was Charlotte Higgins. She
is but 20 years of age. There were 1,600
male students pitted against her.
Teachers in some European countries
do not have the pleasantest experiences.
In Spain the payment of salaries is ha
bitually in arrears. Altogether 2,500
teachers have arrears due them, and it
is not surprising that in one place a
teacher has taken to jelling matches,
and his wife and children have gone into
domestic service.
According to the late military statistics
there are no illiterate persons in Bavaria.
Among 2,772 recruits enlisted in the
army in the palatinate there were only
three individuals who could not read
write. But that district forms no excep
tion to the rule. The general number of
recruits from the entire population was
20,584, and among them were only six
illiterate persons.
The New York Evangelist says: Do
not the methods of teaching in our pub
lic schools need to be overhauled? The
pupils are crammed with a superficial
knowledge of nearly a score of different
studies without an ability to write a sen
tence in the English language correctly.
What children need is not to learn
much, but to learn a few things well,
and while acquiring such knowledge to
learn to think for themselves.
or
has seized
Secretary Foster has issued a circular
giving notice that no more bonds of the
4>ij per cent, loan would be received for
continuance at 2 per cent, after Septem
' ber - 30, . Bonds which have not been
S,"" 1 will be redeemed on pre.e..
I " êcretarv Noble ha, leaned an order
j establishing county lines and county
«eats in the Indian country about to he
opened for settlement in Oklahoma. He
Las also directed that cavalry be sta
tioned on each county-seat reservation
to warn away intruders.
The Treasury Department has com
pleted the purchase of silver for the cur
rent month. No further purchases will
Le made until October 2. The amount
°* silver offered for sale was 800,000
ounces, and the amount purchased 400,
000, ranging in price from 97 to 97.2
cents. The purchase of silver bullion at
the local mints aggregated 351,264
ounces.
Owing to numerous inquiries coming
from different parts of the country for
fractional silver coin, the United States
Treasurer has prepared a circular stating
in substance that the new' halves and
dollars will be fdrnished in sums of $200
or more by express, free of charge, or by
registered mail in sums or multiples of
$50, registration charges paid to any
point in the United States,
In view' of the fact that sugars not above
16 D's in color are now exempt from
duty, irrespective of the country from
which imported, the Treasury Depart
ment has authorized the Customs Col
lector at San Francisco to waive require
ments imposed by the regulations
pelling importers of sugar from Hawaii
to produce properly authenticated in
voices, showing such sugar was the pro
duce of that country, when free entry is
j claimed under the act of October 1
1890,
com
EASTERN ITEMS.
Skeletons of Prehistoric
People Found.
SUICIDE MANIA OF AGNOSTICS
Chicago Will Have to Modify the Plans
Made for the World's Fair
Buildings, Etc.
mi , , .
, T he trade and commerce of Charles
ton - °> last Y ear amounted to $98,
5r,4 - 718 > a net increase of $17,935,001
the preceding year,
Thomas Delany of Albany, aged 19
thought nothing of smoking five
packages of cigarettes a day. His funeral
took place the other day.
Judgments aggregating *150 (XX) have
been filed against Adam Backer, the
commercial note broker of New York
i who assigned August 3 last
<v,„ riu „i , i V» a ,
has 12dV Ämenl
against the Mexican National Railway
j Company upon a claim for $105 900
i Oklahoma is hardly a year old '
| Territory, and yet wè are told that the
question of admitting it to Statehood
j will come before Congress this winter.
Minneapolis has no desire to consoli
date w r ith St. Paul.
Carloads of diseased Chicago cattle
have been seized at Buffalo.
The Gradv monument will he unveiled
at Atlanta, Ga., October 21.
There is something over 35,000 natives
of Switzerland in and around New York.
C. P. Huntington is to complete the
Middle and East Tennessee railroad
within sixty days.
A company to insure tobacco planters
against loss by hail is one of the latest
schemes in Connecticut.
The house at Appomattox, Va., in
which General Lee surrendered to Gen
eral Grant has been sold for $10,000.
Canada has sent but 30,000 sheep to
Great Britain during the year just ended,
as compared with 45.000 for the year be
fore.
A landlords' tion has been
formed in Boston f ,ik- purpose of mu
tual protection against objectionable ten
ants.
The organ in the music room of the
residence of the late Mrs. Hopkins
Searle at Great Barrington, Mass., cost
$100,000.
So great is the homeward rush of
American tourists that many of them
are unable to find passage on returning
steamers.
It is said that the smuggling of Chi
nese into this country has been recently
accelerated by the price having risen to
$100 per head.
Cleveland has passed a law' reducing
the price of gas to 60 cents per 1,000 feet
and giving the city an option on the gas
works at any time.
Judgments aggregating $14,926against
Alexander Herrmann, the magician, have
just been entered in the County Clerk's
office at New York.
over
or six
as a
Chicago Odd Fellows are to erect a
thirty-four-story building. The structure
from ground to dome will be 560 feet,
and it is to be completed by the fall of
1892.
According to statistics gathered bv
PÄÄS ^
j year ' n l be United States,
Two thousand men, mostly French
Canadians, employed in the saw mills at
Ottawa have struck for a reduction of
one and a half hours' work per day and
an increase of 50 cents in
week.
A mound containing skeletons of pre
historic people has been discovered ■ _
farm near Carthage, 111. The skeletons
lay in all conceivable positions, and r
supposed to be those of warriors who fell
in battle,
wages per
on a
are
Chicago will have to modify the plans
made for the World's Fair buildings and
grounds or face a serious financial diffi
culty. The estimated cost of getting the
show ready to open is $18,000,000. This
is too much, even though the govern
ment should lie induced to contribute
$5,000,000 outright.
Senor Celso Balsar Mareno, a well
known Italian American residing at
Washington and acting as an agent in
this country of the National party of Ha
waii, corresponding to the Chilian
gressionalists, has laid before the Presi
dent a letter he recently received from a
correspondent in Honolulu, asserting
England is now planning to take posses
sion of the kingdom. The writer said
that some action on the part of the
United States is necessary; that the
Queen is favorable to British interests
and is ready to countenance the
when made. The President was inter
ested by the letter, and asked Senor Ma
reno to communicate with Secretary
Blaine.
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