The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-05-13

Washington.
Stevens county has 900 miles Of pub
| lie roads.
Everett real estate business IL lively
4 golf club has been organized I;
WniIa WalIa.
The telephone line between Monro1
and snOhomiEh 10 now completed.
The cherry crop IL the Palouse coun.
try has been for the most part frost
killed.
An artesian well sunk on Eureka
Flats struck . strong low Of water At
40 feet.
The new Salem hatchery. on the LIT.
tie Spokane, win be in operation by
August list
The share Of Stevens couniy's debt
assumed BY Ferry county amounts 70
about $4,000,
A monument 20 the dead Of Company
! may be erected on the court house
lawn in Waiia waIla.
Patrick MccIuakey. mortar-mixer,
fell into the bay at Seattle recently,
and was drowned.
Michigan capitalists have bought
1000 acres n timber land IN Ekagit
county for $4,000.
DR.. n. O. Blaiock. OF WaiIa WalIa,
Wash. has over 100 hives OF bees on
his ranch, below the city.
Peter Hahersetzer was killed last
week By q falling tree limb while work
ing At Clusters single mill near
Frances.
About Is men are now employed on
two vessels building AZ HoquIam.
Wash. and laborers for the mills and
camps are said 70 be scarce.
Senator Addison G. Foster is work
Ing hard to bring delegation OF East
ern senator's and congressman 70 the
coast 70 visit Washington and Alaska.
Gov. Rogers has approved the plans
Tor the new wing for the Western
Washington Hospital for the insane,
and two dormitories for the state uni.
yersity.
Pure Food Commissioner Mcdonald
has decided. Al the urgent request Of
practically all the large wholesale
houses OF the state. TO delay the en-
forcemeHt OF the pure food law until
July LIST.
The coal strike At Bncoda, made
some little time ago. has developed in
to matter Of great importance 70 that
community in particular. and Thurs.
ton county IN general II was at first
thought the coal found was anthracite.
but this lie not strictly true. But, what
10 almost a. good. the coal Is OF n gu.
pertor bituminoas 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.
stefan Heliker and his deputies TO pre-
vent It's spreading.
Stevens hall, the girls dormatory OF
the agricultural college Rt Pullman,
took IRE recently. and for q time a
panic threatened among the sixty
young lady students Of the college.
The ARE was put out BY patent extin.
gniehers with q loss OF $3.50. Vs.
Reports from AL over the Yakima
valley agree that the strawberry plants
~ SN@8 AASANA 0NAs anu IN many
places they are entirely killed. The
cold snap was bad for the peach trees
In Parker bottom. Il is stated that
the crop Of the entire valley was prac.
tically ruined.
The body Of Stephen H. Faiconer, a
Douglas Island contractor, was found
in the bay near Juneau April a2nd.
Falconer was formerly OF Walla waIla,
Wash, and was a prominent Odd Eel.
low. He had been missing since De
eember Srd.
A v. Fawcett, former mayor OF Ia,
coma. has declined the appointment
rendered him by Governor Rogers as a
member OF the state fair commission,
on the ground that his business inter
ests will not admit Of his giving the
necessary attention to state fair mat
tera.
The old Theatre Comique. the orig
inal haunt OF vice in Tacoma, was flled
to the doors Sunday night by a crowd
assembled for purpose which must
have made the old walls feel that they
were In a strange country. The ser
vices Of the Salvation Army were the
attractions.