The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-29
WARRINGTON.

time since its construction has broken,
near the headgate.
More new building have been erected
in Asotin the past six months than in
the two years previous.
Postmaster Browne, of Sank. Skag-
it county, has disappeared, warrant
for his arrest for tampering with the
mails having been issued.
A committee has been appointed at
Everett to organize Snohomish ccun-
/ ty agricultural association and arrange
| for holding a county fair the coming
fall.
Contractor Mckay will begin in a
few days the construction of barracks
! for company of soldiers at Marrow
stone point, across from Port Town
send.
Last week Charles Connolly, an ex-
employee of the Mason County Logging
Company's camp was badly crushed.
Henry Kleinberg is building one of
the largest warehouses of central Wash
ton near the Northern Pacific railroad
tracks at Ellensburg. Its dimensions
will be 40x100 feet.
E. Derringhoff, who has been drill
ling an artesian well for j. Fesser in
the Mckee. near North Yakima, has
struck a big flow of water-sufficient
to irrigate 100 acres.
f. G. Rhymer. an accountant, COM
mitted suicide at Seattle by shooting
himself. He was respondent from i'll
ness. He was a single man. "a years
old, and lived formerly in Chicago.
Work on the Adrian ditch near Will
son creek, is being pushed. One and
one-half miles of the ditch have been
completed, and it is expected that it
will reach Adrian in less than two
weeks.
The second crop of Alfalfa has been
cut at North Yakima. The yield is
unusually heavy. Fruit and hops are
doing well. In the wheat sections,
] Horse Heaven and the Reservation, the
fall-sown wheat replowed in the spring
is all right.
A serious accident occurred near the
Mud Bay logging camp near Olympia.
A car jumped the track and ran over
team of horses. severally injuring
the driver, o. E. Stickler and killing
both horses.
By the breaking of log chain, o. E.
Sticken was nearly killed at Olympia
recently. One end of the parted chain
struck him in the face. The team
then ran away, and one horse was kill
ed.
Sixty-five thousand dollars cash was
Saturday last paid on behalf of the
Great Northern railroad for about 40
acres of land on Havermale island, in
Spokane. This is but small percent
age of the amount the road contem-
plates investing in Spokane in the near
future.
Last week a war took place between
so Japanese on the one side and ESQ
Chinese on the other, at Fairhaven.
The fight ragged internationally all
night and knives, rocks and iron
bars being the weapons. The total
list of casualties were 10 Cinnamon
and one Japanese being wounded.
While employees were at work re-
piling lumber in Chamberlin & Co.'S
lumber yards at Walla Walla, the body
of an unknown man was found. The
head and face were mangled and the
body was terribly crushed by timbers.
The man was about 60 years old and
respectable looking. He had gray
hair and chin whiskers.
The Board of County Commissioners
has a plan for protecting game birds
and animals in Pierce county and en-
forcing the game laws by the appoint
ment of all road supervisors as deputy
game wardens. Each road supervis-
or will have a copy of the game laws,
and will see that they are enforced in
his district.
The body of an unknown man, APP
parantly an Indian, was taken from the
Yakima river, near Prosser. The
body was that of a man about 40 or so
years old. The little finger of the
right hand was off, and he had rings
in his ears. He was smoothe shaved,
hair clipped. partially bald. The only
clothes he had on was a cheap duck
shirt.
Aaron Kuhn, of Colfax, has made one
of the largest purchases of grain of the
season, buying $4,000 bushels of wheat
at 43 cents in the warehouse. The
wheat was at Mockenemo, Diamond.
Glenwood and Colfax. The purchase
represented some large crops. H. F.
Schritier sold $4,000 bushels; E. H.
Newton, 10000; ]. A. Lyons. 5000;
Mrs. P. Freeman, 6.000-all of their
own raising.
Martin Smith, a laborer, employed
at the Northport Mining & Smelling