The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-10-28
WARRINGTON.


$4,000.
The p. A. F. cannery will probably
run all winter.
Anacortes is to have new bank, of
which w. T. Oden will be manager.
Another vein of fine-looking coal has
been uncovered on the Upper Taenum.
Whatcom county has 90 miles of
trunk line wagon roads, costing $751;
600.
The receipts of the Walla Walla fruit
fair this year were S., 200 and expenses
only $4,000.
Menlo creamery, at South Bend. won
first prize for cheese and second on but
ter at the state fair.
Washington dairymen are TO hold
convention at North Yakima on De
cember 20. 20 and 30.
John Thomas, of Tacoma, claims the
distinction of helping to start Sir
Thomas Upton in business.
Aug. Smythe shipped from Grants,
near Goldendale. for Chicago, the 9TH
er day $500 head of lambs.
The boys at the reform school are
making 100 suits of clothing for the in
mates of the Steilacoom asylum.
Thieves at Everett last week stole
about 1000 feet of copper ground wire
from the street railway company.
August Soapley, a farmer living
north of Ritzville, was found dead last
week on the floor of his residence.
A sockeye salmon hatchery is about
to be established on Chilliwack lake,
which empties into the Fraser river of
British Columbia.
Five hundred thousand sacks have
been sold to wheat raisers in Lincoln,
Wash. Every warehouse is full and
still grain is coming in.
Waverly, Spokane county, and Berry
man, Walla Walla county, have been
made money order offices with Spokane
as their depository.
The Whitman county fair has been a
great success, having over 1000 individ-
ual entries and a large attendance.
There were over 800 displays of fruit.
John Mccall. a brakeman on the
Northern Pacific, fell between the
wheels of a moving caboose near
Grays Harbor and his leg badly crush
ed.
The superior court of Spokane coun-
ty has decided that the school board
has no right to refuse admission to the
schools to children who have not been
vaccinated.
The Northwestern improvement Com
pany was awarded the contract of sup
plying 1000 tons of coal for the state
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board of audit last week.
NJ. A. Short of Pleasant postoffice,
better known as Pony" Short, and the
only breeder of Angora goats in Kick
itat, is said to be stricken with small
pox at his home on Rock creek.
Red clover measuring 5 feet 5 -
! inches, a squash weighing 9519 pounds
and. three apples weighing 4 pounds
and ounces are among the big prod
ucts of Kittitas county.
The Pacific American Company at
Fairhaven will supply q large order of
canned salmon for the use of the Brit
ish troops in the Transvaal during the
Boer war.
The Pacific Coast company at Seattle
has announced an advance in wages of
! u to 10 per cent for all the men en-
ployed in the coal mines at Newcastle.
Coal creek, Lawson and Franklin, in
all about 1900 people. The advance is
made retroactive, and will include the
entire month of October.
John Prussia, who was on the Con
? federate gunboat Alabama, when she
was destroyed by the United States
warship Kearsarge, off the harbor OF
, Cherbourg, France, in 1864. is employ
ed in the box factory at Cosmopolis
When the Alabama was sunk by her an
tagonist, Prussia was saved by a
French fishing boat.
There are now $4,000 bushels OF
wheat and 10000 bushels of oats and
: barley, making 407 900 bushels OF
grain in the Pullman warehouses, witt
i, from 10000 to $4,000 bushels yet to be
brought in. This does not include
what has been brought to the mill MOI
what has already been delivered there
The figures are only given of the grair
that will be exported. The total amount
last year was 100000 bushels.
Designs of Foreign Powers.
London, Oct. 25.--Sensational rumors o