The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-13
Washington.

Stevens county has 9OO miles Oh pup
lie roads.
Everett real estate business is lively.
A golf club has been organized at
Walla Walla.
The telephone line between Monroe
and Snohomish is now completed.
The cherry crop in the Palouse coun-
try has been for the most part frost
killed.
An artesian well sunk on Eureka
Flats struck a strong flow of water at
100 feet.
The new Salem hatchery, on the Lit
tie Spokane, will be in operation by
August LIST.
The share of Stevens county's debt
assumed by Ferry county amounts to
about $4,000.
A monument to the dead of Company
1 may be erected on the court house
lawn in Walla Walla.
Patrick McCluskey, a mortar-mixer,
fell into the bay at Seattle recently,
and was drowned
Michigan capitalists have bought
1000 acres of timber land in Skagit
county for $4,000.
DR.. N. G. Blalock, of Walla Walla,
Wash, has over 100 hives of bees on
his ranch, below the city.
Peter Hahersetzer was killed last
week by falling tree limb while work
ing at Clusters shingle mill, near
Frances.
About 45 men are now employed on
/ Hrtf1 riar
Wash, and laborers for the mills and
camps are said to be scarce.
Senator Addison G. Foster is work
ing hard to bring delegation of East
ern senators and congressman to the
coast to visit Washington and Alaska.
Gov. Rogers has approved the plans
for the new wing for the Western
Washington Hospital for the insane,
and two dormitories for the state uni
versity.
Pure Food Commissioner Mcdonald
has decided, at the urgent request of
practically all the large wholesale
houses of the state. to delay the en-
forcement of the pure food law until
July LIST.
ton, on the Northern Pacific, IL miles
west of Tacoma. and stringent mea
sures have been taken by County Ply
stefan Heliker and his deputies to pre-
vent it's spreading.
Stevens hall, the girls dormatory OF
the agricultural college at Pullman
took fire recently, and for a time q
panic threatened among the sixty
/, young lady students of the college
The fire was put out by patent extin
, guishers with a loss of $3.50.
, The body of Stephen H. Falconer, {
e Douglas Island contractor, was found
= in the bay near Juneau April 22nd
t Falconer was formerly of Walla Walla
e Wash, and was a prominent Odd Eel
+ low. He had been missing since De
cember Bird.
$ A. V. Fawcett former mayor of Tia
= coma, has declined the appointment
) rendered him by Governor Rogers as
5 member of the state fair commission
o on the ground that his business inter
) ests will not admit of his giving tn
|. necessary attention to state fair maj
i tiers.
The old Theatre Comique, the orig
e inal haunt of vice in Tacoma, was file
d to the doors Sunday night by a crow
d assembled for a purpose which mus
d have made the old walls feel that the
g were in a strange country. The SCI
l. vices of the Salvation Army were tn
IS attractions.
Reports from all over the Yakim
n valley agree that the strawberry plant
: are badly frozen out, and in man
e places they are entirely killed. TIL
cold snap was bad for the peach tree
in Parker bottom. 1t is stated tn;
the crop of the entire valley was pra
l. tically ruined.
d The coal strike at Bucoda, mac
d some little time ago, has developed i
e to a matter of great Importance to tn;
y community in particular, and Thur
ton county in general. 1t was at fir
IL thought the coal found was antharcit
> but this is not strictly true. But, VIII
is almost as good, the coal is of s
u perior bituminOus quality.
Thirty Lives Lost in n ShipwrecIS
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