The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-02-11
WASHINGTON.

Snohomish is overrun with tramps.
Whooping cough has made It's appear
ance at Ellensburg.
The schools of Colfax are in flourish
ing condition.
Counterfeit dollars dated 1885 are being
circulated in Spokane.
The Walla Walla police have run all
the hobos out of town lately.
Claude Riggs Of North Yakima pos
sesses violin which he claims to be $50
years old.
The total school enrolment of Everett
is 1883, an increase Of fifty.three over
that Of one year ago.
John Berg, well known saloon man OF
Roslyn, dropped dead on Wednesday
while climbing hill.
On February Kettle Falls will vote
on the proposition to levy special tax
of $1,000 for water purposes
The prizes Of the late poultry show at
Colfax have all been delivered. the ex-
penses paid and final reckoning OF ac-
counts made.
The Palouse farmers last season put all
their spare ground into wheat raising
Now there is shortage Of all kinds Of
farm products.
A boy who gave his name as Carl Usen-
gunner was caught passing counterfeit
nickels in different slot machines at Wal
Ia Walla recently.
The permanent school fund of Wash
ington will soon be increased to $lO;4OO
by the sale Of timber land in Lewis,
Clarke and Chehalis counties.
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment Of the superior court of Thurs
ton county in the case Of the state W.
John Cronin, appellant, Cronin, logger
who shot one Antonio Ferran, year
ago last Christmas, and was sentenced
to twenty years imprisonment.
A sad accident occurred at McMurray
Monday morning. Freddie Gagen, accom-.
panied by his two little sisters, were cross.
ing the lake on their way to school. Fred
die was rowing and the oar slipped and
he was thrown out Of the boat. This hap
pened in the middle Of the lake, and be.
fore help could reach him he was drown.
ed. He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Gagen, and about nine years old.
The body is in about forty feet Of water
and has not yet been recovered.
State Treasurer c. w. Young Is the
heaviest stockholder in the Peoples Ad-
vocate, o populist paper on which FORE
closure proceedings have been instituted
by the Second National bank of Colfax.
A boy named McGonigle was picked up
| in tncoucshta
Yakima the other day. He had been
thrown from his horse and had either
fallen on his head or had been kicked hy
the animal.
The experts appointed by the North
Yakima city council to look into the ru.
mored shortage in City Treasurer Pres
sey's accounts, have thus far discovered
the shortage to be about $4,000, but it is
claimed that the whole shortage is $1,000.
A decree of foreclosure was entered in
the superior court recently in the suit
Of the State Trust company, of New York,
representing the bondholders, against the
big drydock at Quartermaster harbor. The
decree is for $2O3,4s5. The property will
be sold March Is.
With the credits already due for service
in the jails and penitentiary and with
good behavior throughout, A. j. Symes.
condemned recently to serve his SEN
tence Of eighteen years for killing Lou
Conlee, will be entitled to discharge from
prison at the end OF ten years.
The sudden change in the weather was
welcomed by the Walla Walla fruit grow
ers. The unusually warm weather Of the
past week had caused the fruit trees to
begin to bud, but they had not reached
that stage where they could be easily nip.
ped by subsequent cold snap.