The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-04-22
WASHIN0TOH.

WASHINGT0A.
Colfax is to have board of trade.
Port Angeles is to have q telephone
system.
The Citizens National Bank, located
at Dayton, is closing up its affairs.
A young lady must be eighteen years
old before she can teach school in this
state.
Averill's log drive of 100000 feet
has safely arrived at the mill at FL
berton.
The state land commissioner recent
ly sold two forty-acre tracts of land in
Cowlitz county for $92e.l5.
Eight hundred dollars has been sub
scribed by the citizens of Republic to
equip and maintain fire department.
d. T. Welch, Of Asotln county, has
been appointed deputy United States
marshal. with headquarters at Walla
Walla.
The citizens Of the towns of Burling.
ton and Sedro-Woolley are making .
strong effort to secure the county seat
of Skagit county.
The state fair commission have se-
cured the services of Joel Shoemaker.
late editor Of the Farmer. to act as as
sistant secretary.
An ordinance has been passed by the
city council of Snohomish establishing
license on slot machines Of $50 per
year for each machine.
Andrew F. Burleigh, the well-known
Seattle lawyer. will move to Republic.
Mr. Burleigh was at one time consider
ed strong candidate for the United
States senate.
United States Indian Agent Edward
Mills, Of Tulip. is in New Whatcom to
make the annual distribution of tools
and farming implements to the Indians
ON the Lummi reservation.
The trustees Of the state normal
school at Whatcom have elected Prof.
e. T.. Mathes, Of Lewiston, Idaho, a.
principal at salary Of $4,000 per year.
The other appointments will be made
later.
Oliver p. Grimes, Of Everett, has
been appointed postmaster at Casco, in
Snohomish county. The old name Of
the town was Salmon; the Great
Northern Ry. Co. calls 1t Bearing, and
now the government has named It
Casco.
The name Of the town of Nelson,
Wash, has been changed to Danville,
the Dan" being in honor Of Dan M.
Drumheller, who is largely interested
In the townsite. 1t lies just across the
international boundary line opposite
Carson.
McGillivry, agent of the Oregon Tel
ephone Company, has begun the wir-
Ing Of Goldendale, preparatory to plac-
Ing rs instruments and installing q To-
cal telephone system. The work will
require the expenditure Of several
thousand dollars.
L. Ditcher was killed In a logging
camp near Winlock last week. The ca
BILE of a donkey engine few from under
a log. and c-ruck him fearful blow
under the chin, breaking his neck.
Death resulted instantly Mr.. Dich.
ter leaves wife and five small chill
dren In almost destitute circumstances.
Private Albert L. Knudson, of Com
pany l, who has been appointed chap
| A"iA VI luc + Hot w dSuIuStOu VOluu.
teers, was Walla Walla boy. Pre-.
vious to his enlistment he was a stu
dent of Whitman college, In the class
OF 1900. For four years he has work
ed his way through college and during
his vacation labored in the harvest
field.
The dam across the Chelan river has
been completed except for minor de-
tails, which will be added after the usu.
al spring high water The dam is 80
constructed as to hold the water of the
lake at level which Will permit lake
steamers to land mile and half be-
low present landings. Two previous
attempts to construct such dam were
failures.
While rotary plow was clearing
the Great Northern track this side of
Madison last week it was struck by an
avalanche and dashed 1000 feet down
a canyon. There were seven men on
the engine in addition to the regular
crew. All have been dug out of the
snow but one. Four men were injured
three probably fatally. The injured
are: Pilot Jerry Moriarlty, head cut,
injured internally; George Hart, both
legs and arms broken, injured inter-
nally; Thomas Sullivan, injured inter-
nally; Fireman Thomas Grant. head
and hand cut