Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-05-12
WARRINGTON.

Stevens county has 900 miles of pun
lie roads.
A golf club has been organized a
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 we'll sunk on Eureka
Flats struck strong flow of water at
120 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
I 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
two vessels building at Hoquiam,
Wash, and laborers for the mills and
camps are said to be scarce.
Senator Addison G. Foster is work
ing hard to bring a 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.
Smallpox has broken out at Alder
ton, on the Northern Pacific, - miles
west of Tacoma. and stringent mea.
sures have been taken by County Ply
Slclan 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
Inc fire was put out by patent extin.
with loss of $3.50.
The body of Stephen H. Falconer q
douglas Island contractor, was found
n the bay near Juneau April 22nd
.aiconer was formerly of Walla Walla
Nash.' and was a prominent Odd Eel.
o". HE had been missing since De-
ember 3rd.
A. V. Fawcett, former mayor of Ia.
oma' mas declined the appointment
enuered him by Governor Rogers as a
n nv h..
MEMBER OF the state fair commission
II the ground that his business inter.
Sts Will not admit of his giving the
ecessary attention to state fair mat.
ers. mat
Inc old Theatre Comique, the orig.
lal haunt of vice in Tacoma was flled
the doors Sunday night by crowd
SsemOled for a purpose which must
ave maze the old walls feel that thew ,
ere In strange country. The SER
ces OF the Salvation Army were the !
fractions. "oio Tic
reports from all over the Yakima
lliey agree that the strawberry plants !
oduiy frozen out, and in MANY /
aces tney are entirely killed. The s
~ snap was bad for the peach trees
arher bottom. 1t is stated that :
g crop of the entire valley was nrac =
,ally ruined. - az =
nc coal strike at Bucoda, made o
me little time ago, has develonad w. 6
a matter OF great importance to that p
immunity In particular, and Thurs. b
county In general. 1t was AZ 6rst :,
ougnt the coal found was antharcita ~ ~
. Inns, ,nis Is not strictly true. But, what
almost as good, the coal is of a 81. 7
'lor Dltuminous quality. .