The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-05-20
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Davenport II having small building
boom.
Spring races win DO held in Cheney
In May.
The State Bar Association win meet
1t Tacoma in July.
Northport win expend $1,000 in build
Ing new sidewalks.
Many homesteadera are taking IN
land In Franklin county.
Onkesdaie 10 0Eerrnn with tramps
and professional beggaFs.
Several new business houses have 70.
Gently opened up In Elma.
Lincoln county II 70 have . new
town TO be known a. GRANVILLE.
School enrolment At Hoquiam u
470. compared with $50 . year ago.
Farmers are drilling wells near Wal.
IL Waiia and striking good flows Of wa
ter.
The Port Townsend city council has
levied poli-tax Of - per head on male
inhabitants.
The annual meeting Of the Wash.
ington Stats Red Gross Society win
be held in Tacoma May Is, "a and Is.
Reports 70 State Commissioners Bak.
eF indicate that Yakima county win
have only half crop Of peaches. while
the aprieots arc all killed. In walla
Waila there viii DO asIight crop all
around.
Out Of 1.200. 900 acres Of land in Che.
halls county only 5000 acres are IN.
der cultivation.
There 10 much danger Of hIgh water
in the Shaft river from melting SHOWS
In the mountains.
Asotin Ia 70 have an electric light
plant and ts talking Of establishing .
telephone exchange.
Matters arc being pushed with 70
spoct 70 tho establishment Of the sedrO.
woolley telephone exchange.
Old aelds Of alfalfa In Yakima valley
have been In many cases winter killed,
and are now being resaeded.
Herbert d. Huson. deputy customs
collector At Tacoma. has tendered his
resignation 10 Collector Huastia.
A. stimaon has started his ferry
across the Columbia river. three miles
below the mouth Of the Spokane.
Early garden vegetables such e. 20.
tatOes. beans. etc. we're cut 20 tho
ground By the recent frosss In Pa,
louna.
A move is on foot for = railroad and
aawmill enterprise AZ centraiia, that,
u completed. will be OF real benefit 70
the town.
About Is men are employed on two
vessels building ~ HoQuIam. and labor
ere for the mills and camps are said
TO be scarce.
The buIiding Of q bicycle path b.
tween Mt Vernon and Ia Conner IL b.
Ing much discussed among wheelmen
In The two toWnA
The lownalte Of Priest River has
been located ~ placer ground, and a.
seaament work has begun. amid con.
siderable excitement
A movement has been started in Ia,
come 10 erect = monument In Wright
Park 70 the memory Of the soldiers
Of the First Washington regiment Who
have fallen In the Philippines.
Tho big electric plant installed By
Robert Morrill,. IL Northport, IL no1
completed. and ~ soon 81 q few minor
portions OF the machinery reach there,
which viii b. within = week. the full
plant will be put in operation.
During the SESSION Of the Tacoma
city council tho other svenlng. J. A.
James. councllman- as-iRrge. presented
. resolution proposing q fitting reoep-
ton 10 the Washington volunteer col.
dicra when they shall have returned
from the Philippines.
Henry Carr. who has resided On old
Dominion mountain. near Colvilla. for
= Number Of years. was stricken with
paralysis recently. Mr.. Carr IL an IN.
tercstlng hgnro By reason Of his hax.
ing Travelled extensively In darkest
Africa. under IL n Stanley. Carr was
in StanIey's expedition when STANLEY
discovered Livingstone.