Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-09-29
WASHINGTON.

terest October l.
There will be no more paving this
year in Spokane.
Waitsburg has been forging ahead
rapidly this summer.
The city treasurer of Fairhaven has
issued 81 bicycle licenses.
Tacoma schools have 5,205 pupils en-
rolled in nineteen buildings.
Dayton business men have organized
a social club with over 40 members.
More than one hundred students are
enrolled at the Cheney normal school.
The Spokane Union depot property
was sold in New York at auction for
$25O,0OO
The Chehalis Water Company is bor-
ing an artesian well to add to its supply
of water
The blackberry crop of the Kittitas
valley has been practically a failure
this season.
One of the big days of the exposition
this year will be International day,
October 10th.
The banks of Colfax, city of $500
population, have deposits of $750,00O--
mostly from farmers.
A new bank, to be known as the Scan
dinavian-American, will be opened in
Whatcom November LIST.
The five days session of the sixth
Stevens county teachers institute is
closed with very satisfactory results.
The opening ceremonies of the Spo-
kane Industrial Exposition on Octobe"
Sd, will be far more imposing this year
than ever before.
One of the interesting features of en-
tertainment at the Spokane Industrial
Exposition which opens soon, will be
the athletic sports.
V. Gullion, laborer, was run over by
work train in the railroad yards and
his leg crushed, at North Yakima. He
will probably die
E. B. Raymond, the well-known bicy.
Gle rider, was the victim of a painful
bicycle accident recently, which may
permanently disfigure him.
John Anderson, a farmer living near
Reardan, was picked up in the road suf
terlng from confusion of the brain
cansed by fall from his buggy.
w. A. Davis, of Steptoe, is arranging
for bear chase September 29th He
will furnish the bear, the animal beinr
one he raised, but has become vicious.
Soon as the necessary supplies can he
shipped UP from Portland, a crew of Il
men Will be put to work repairing the
Snake river bikes, at Log Cabin and
Goose island.
Inc body of August Bush, whose mvs.
terious disappearance from his home in
Seattle last week, was found in Lake
Union. The presumption is that Rusb
committed suicide.
Representative Jones has received =
dispatch from Senator Foster now in
washington, saying that the sheen rails.
ers would have to get their fiocks off the
reserves by September. "
volunteer grain is springing up in
many fields and in some instances No
sowing will be necessary, as the stand
VIII be sufficient to insure a crop save
the Ellensburg Capitol. 0"' .
the present grades in both bluaston,
ana club require a weight of sixty and
nalt pounds in choice milling. fiftv.
eignt pounds for No. l, fffty-six pounGS
LOT NO. 2, and fifty-four pounds for No
3. '' ior NO
In mad fit of jealousy over a wom
an who would not return his love Ornn
BAKER Byland shot and killed his wifo
ana MS brother and then turned tbo
gun on himself. All three are dead at
Walla Walla. " y O0''u DIT
AL the grounds of the Spokane Indus,
trial Exposition at Spokane oil as
tents are now up and some of them oro
y ior EXHIBITS. The big enter.
tainment tent has a floor snaca ~ 90
700 square feet. Oh
bert Johnston, aged 35, was INSTANTLY
Killed at Fairfield. He wac dn;,,u
combined harvester and tbresbar -
wnich was attached 80 horses A sud
len JOLT threw the man from his Soo.
~ ne Tell between the nearest horses
ne entire team took fright and ron
way the wheels of both machines nos
sing over the PROSTATE body Of 1o I
son. instantly killing him. ''nn
trusts are DuShipo ~ A.