The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-13

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Stevens county has 900 miles Of pub
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 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 1st.
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 As 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 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 1st.
The coal strike at Bucoda, made
some little time ago, has developed In
to matter of great Importance to thai
community in particular, and Thurs
ton county in general. It was at first
thought the coal found was anthracite
but this Is not strictly true. But, what
is almost as good, the coal is of a su
perior bituminous quality.
| Smallpox has broken out at Alder
ton, on the Northern Pacific, IL miles
west Of Tacoma. and stringent mea
sures have been taken by County Ply
sician Heliker and his deputies to pre-
vent its spreading.
Stevens hall, the girls dormatory oi
the agricultural college at Pullman
took fire recently, and for time 9
panic threatened among the sixty
young lady students of the college
The fire was put out by patent extin
guishers with loss of $3.50.
Reports from all over the Yakima
valley agree that the strawberry plants
| are badly frozen out, and in many
places they are entirely killed. The
cold snap was bad for the peach trees
| in Parker bottom. It is stated that
the crop of the entire valley was prac
tically ruined.
The body of Stephen H. Falconer, q
Douglas Island contractor, was found
in the bay near Juneau April 22nd
Falconer was formerly of Walla Walla
Wash, and was a prominent Odd Eel
low. He had been missing since De
cember Bird.
A. v. Fawcett, former mayor of Ia
coma, has declined the appointment
rendered him by Governor Rogers as 9
member Of the state fair commission
on the ground that his business inter
ests will not admit of his giving tn.
necessary attention to state fair mat
ters.
The old Theatre Comique, the orig
inal haunt of vice in Tacoma, was fillet
to the doors Sunday night by a GROVE
assembled for a purpose which mus
have made the old walls feel that the,
were in strange country. The SCI
vices Of the Salvation Army were tn
attractions.