The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-25
WASHINGTON.

curing in Walla Walla.
Gov. John r. Rogers has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation.
Goddard lost his second fight in four
rounds to Griffin at Spokane.
Medical Lake is just now suffering
from q scarcity OF dwelling houses.
Wenatchee has been blessed abund-
antly The past two weeks with rain.
The Spokane District Ministerial AS
ISOLATION will be in session November
Frank Bayles, of North Yakima, rails
ed a potato which weighs five pounds
seven ounces.
The Tacoma local Red Cross Society
has fe1 over 5000 soldiers during the
past five months.
21-23 at Cheney.
Baseball managers will meet this
week in Seattle tc form the plans for
new ball league.
The new bridge ordered by the last leg
islature has just been completed over the
Methow at Twisp.
The Great Northern railroad has be-
gun construction Of a new line of rail-
way through the Index mining district.
The work of putting in the water
system at Davenport is progressing
slowly because of the scarcity of men.
Henry Halvorsen. a rancher from An
derson island, near Tacoma, was rob
bed of his watch and $50 in cash last
week.
Recently Captain Wainwright ship
ped 100 head of cavalry horses from
Walla Walla to Seattle for use in the
Philippines.
The business men of Cilville have
signed compact to the effect that they
will close their respective business
places on Sunday.
The state board of land commission
ers has made selection Of 5000 acres
of indemnity land in townships 10 and
l6 west, Chehalis county.
A postoffice has been established at
Cunningham, Adams county. Freder-
lex Bend has been commissioned post
master at Pasco, and VIM. d. Gibbon at
Maple valley.
The Washington Red Cedar Single
Manufacturers Association feels that it
has scored victory over the brokers
who made the recent cut of Is cents per
thousand in the price of shingles.
John B. Hepburn of Spokane, a pri-
vate in Company l., First Washington
volunteers, is now first lieutenant of
the Forty-fourth United States Infan-
try Volunteers, and on his way back
to the Philippines.
A siX.lessed horse is a native of the
Wilson creek county and is being TAX
en- to Seattle to be placed or exhibition
The extra legs which this animal pos
sessed came out on the inside of the
front legs, and were much shorter and
smaller than the others.
Governor Rogers has appointed the
following military officers members of
the examining board: Brigadier Gen
eral j. d. Mcintyre, ex-officio, Seattle;
Brigadier General E. H. Fox, adjutant
general, Olympia; Colonel William A.
Shannon, ex-oficio, Seattle; Major John
Y. Terry, Seattle.
The Northwestern Improvement
Company of Roslyn now have 1000 men
working in and around the mines, and
are putting on new men almost every
day. They can scarcely keep up with
the orders, three ships being turned
away lately rather than keep them
waiting. Business in all lines is fine,
and che town never has seen as rapid
growth as it has the past season.
Recently the elimination of a rather
extraordinary scheme among farmers
occurred at Dayton, in the filing of
lengthy articles OF incorporation of a
new railroad line to make possible the
handling of a large amount of grain by
rail Instead of by wagon as has been
the custom in all the past. In other
words, the farmers of the vicinity now
propose to build short line of railway
as all efforts to secure the line other
wise have failed.