The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-09-16
WASHINGTON.


eminent.
The university of Washington opens
September u.
A steel bridge is to be built at MEMO,
Pacific county.
There is a shortage of school teach
ers in Jefferson county.
Tacoma VIII need $11S,000 to run its
public schools the coming year.
Walla Walla couuty's wheat yield Is
now estimated at not less than $4,000
bushels.
Active preparations for the opening
of the Colfax college September 20 are
being made.
The Yakima Indian reservation is
expected to yield 100000 bushels Of
grain this year.
Joseph b. Barck, bailiff in the SUI
perior court at Tacoma, was drowned
in the bay last Friday.
James w. Current, deputy auditor of
Klickitat county, has mysteriously dis
appeared from Goldendale.
The total precipitation in Walla
for August was 2.16 inches, which beats
the record for twenty-seven years.
John Anderson, 14-year-old boy, of
Loon Lake, is missing. 1t is feared
that he has met with some accident.
A number of new silver trophies have
been provided for prizes at the Spo-
kane Industrial Exposition this year.
The normal school, which opened last
Monday at Cheney, is progressing very
satisfactorily to faculty and students.
Athletic sports are to be interesting
features of this years Spokane Indus
trial Exposition, which opens on the Sd
of October.
1t is learned that Don Cameron, who
Horseshoe basin, Chelan, few weeks
ago, is dead.
Pullman has a genuine smallpox
scare. There is one we'll developed case
in the new pest house, and two suspic-
ious cases under quarantine.
Between 600 and 700 delegates to the
Columbia river conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church assembled in
Spokane for the conference.
College hall, at Pullman, has been
successfully moved and now stands on
the foundation built for it in the rear
of the administration building.
w. M. Herbert, a musician of Spo-
kane, by the death of his father in Eng
land, has fallen heir to $4,000 in cash
and a considerable amount of property.
A Governors day is another feature
which is being added to the many at
fractions at the Spokane Industrial Elk
position which opens on the Sd of next
month.
Spokane celebrated Labor day in
grand style. They had a magnificent
parade in the morning and speaking
and sports at Medical Lake in the af
ternoon.
The editors of the Pacific Northwest
have been invited to a banquet at Spo
kane to be rendered them on press day
October Z, at the Spokane Industrial
Exposition.
The premium list for the Spokane In
dustrial Exposition is out. II is {
handsome illustrated souvenir book
which will be priced by every one whC
secures a copy.
No American contralto enjoys a wild
ct reputation DIS MUSICAL dIllSI tlAdl
does ore-Sherwood Pyle, who is t.
sing every afternoon and evening
throughout the Spokane Industrial Elk
position.
1.-TWO amateur bicycle worlds rec
ords were lowered at the Y. NJ. C. A
meet in Spokane recently. c. c. Hol
eel, on heavy track, unaided by an!
favorable wind, made the half in As Al
and the quarter in 20 Is.
Professor Frank Miller made a high
: ly successful balloon ascension at Spc
kane one night last week, which Wa
= seen by several thousand people. Tn
ascension and the drop with the para
) chute was kept in full view all the tim
by means of a mammoth nautica
, searchlight.