The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-19
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organized.
The recruiting office in Spokane is
making a good record.
Preparations are now On foot to open
a private bank in Reardan.
Pomeroy warehouses lost $4,000
sacks of last years grain.
Tacoma has issued 4149 bicycle Ii
censes and $50 dog licenses.
Lincoln county laborers report
shortage of farm laborers.
Company B, National Guard, of Col
fax, is raising funds to build an ar
mory.
The Spokane Industrial Exposition
is to be held from the Sd to the 18th of
October.
Harvest and mill hands are reported
very scarce in the country around New
Whatcom.
The most successful grower of sweet
corn at Yakima this season is Henry
Kampeter.
Edward Hyperion, 4 years old, was
drowned in Duwamish river, near Sc
attic, recently.
In all probability Tekoa will have
one, and possibly two, more banks in
the near future.
A miniature salmon cannery, perfect
in all details, will be part of Washing
toms exhibit at the Paris exposition.
]. E. Harding of Garfield has receiv-
ed news announcing his appointment
as first lieutenant in the regular army.
Hoboes and tough characters are be-
coming plentiful in the Palouse coun-
try and numerous depredations are re-
ported.
Whatcom county will have fair this
year and it will be held on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, September q, 2S
and 80.
The state road is now completed be-
yond the eight-mile post from Stehekin
to Bridge creek, and the work is being
we'll done.
The internal revenue collections for
July by the Seattle Office under Deputy
Bowen amounted to $50,994.35 from
all sources.
The Seattle & International Railway
company is charged up by Whatcon
county with SIS, S14. SO taxes and inter
est due for the years 1928.
A postoffice has been established a.
Echo, on Kingston creek, ten miles
north of Colville. George Koeckel, the
merchant at that point, is postmaster
The Grand Army band of Canton
f Ohio, apparently, is to be the big feat
ure of the entertainment at the Spo
kane Industrial Exposition this year
According to the personal assessment
? rolls for the year ending March 1, 1898
| the assessed value of all improvement
o in Spokane county for the year is 1920
: 600.
. The two greatest cornet players o
S the world are to be present at the SpC
: kane Industrial Exposition this veal
/ These people are A. H. Knoll and Mari
Mcneil.
$ Bears are so thick on the Nemah, 1
e Pacific county, that it is considered
5 mighty poor day when four or five ar
e not seen in proximity to the loggin
camp down there.
It The county commissioners of Viii
o man have awarded the contract fo
It building combination bridge over tn
L Palouse river on the Henry Fishe
L road, near Winona-
A gigantic heating plant to furnis
steam heat for several of Spokane
l. large buildings from a central static
lie is being discussed by a number of Sp
L kane property owners.
,e The first official seal used by the tie
10 ritory of Washington has been recent
lie discovered, it having been lost for SON
r years. This seal was made in 1858, b
John Clark, an Olympia blacksmith.
Assessor Richards, of Kittitas coul
Q ty, has completed the tax rolls for tn
N year. They show the assessed value
rs town lots and acreage to be $2,92S,51l
J. of railroad track, $757,631; persona
IS s1,31O,29S; a total of $4,996, 44O.
10 VIM. vane has purchased from Mr.
Logan the original Newport, Wasf
townsite. He will have the dedicatio
set aside and the ground will then
n rented to a wealthy manufacturer
g Newport News, Va, who will son
,e time this fall erect a large plant II
ID the manufacture of excelsior, sas
doors, etc.