The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-24
WASHINGTON.

Street grading is going on at lively |
rate in Republic.
Republic will celebrate the natal day |
of the republic in proper style.
The Columbia river continues to rise
and high water is anticipated.
Spokane has raised bonus of s12,-
900 for its industrial exposition.
The Whatcom city council has de-
cided not to use asphalt pavement.
Chewelah is prosperous town and
is enjoying quite building boom.
The Olympia council has relieved
Police Justice Dobbins of his duties.
S. b. Stratton has begun extracting
gold from the beach sands near Monte
sano.
The schools of Lincoln county have
been closed on account of a small pox
scare.
The Spokane police are enforcing the
ordinance against scattering handbills
in the streets.
There were $50 arrests by the Ia
coma police in May, and 1887 meals
were furnished prisoners.
Levi Ankeny has declared that he
on the republican ticket next year.
The body of Bert Whitney who was
drowned in the Snake river several
weeks ago was found in the Columbia
near Columbus.
The defalcations of ex-Deputy State
Auditor George ID. Evans, of Olympia,
Wash, will figure up nearer $4,000
than $4,000, as was at first supposed.
A thief stole gold-tinted cross from
the Episcopal church at Walla Walla
the other night. When he found that it
was not gold as he supposed he threw
it away.
1t is reported that there will be an
other stage line put on between Marcus
and Republic in the near future. This
route is claimed to 10 miles shorter
than via Bossburg.
Owing to small pox in a light form
having appeared in Lincoln and AID
ans counties, the authorities have es-
tablished a quarantine and ordered q
general vaccination of the inhabitants.
1t is estimated that since the fire in
) Republic at least rs per cent of the un-
desirable element of the population
have folded their tents and departed
for pastures new. There was no gen.
eral mourning over the exodus.
Samuel Collyer, vice-president of the
road at Centralia, gives out the infor
nation that the road is to be extended
eastward to the coal fields at Hanna
ford creek, and the heavy timber lands
between there and the Cowlitz valley
After holding several meetings ar
rangements have been completed
whereby a wagon road will soon be
completed from Kettle Falls to Repub
lie. About $4,000 has already been
raised by subscription toward doing the
work.
A novelty in the form of puffball
4 67 inches in circumference and weigh
ing 81 pounds is on exhibition at the
bank of Colfax. The puffball was
l grown in the garden of Fred Metz in
South Colfax. It is attracting a great
s deal of attention.
e The management of the beet sugar
factory at Fairfield have in 1,400 acres
D of beets, and will have their $500, 00C
r plant ready for sugar making next fall
They expect to make 5000 tons this
o year. They will pay $500 a ton fol
: beets at the railway station.
:, Rev. w. A. Smith, who died at Col
t vile recently had a most remarkable
record of having preached for so years
without missing a Sunday, and it wal
his earnest desire to die in harness
1 but it was to be otherwise. For NOR,
?, than year he had been hopeless in
+ valid. He was born in Ohio and wa,
4 70 years old.