The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-18
WASHINGTON.


A bank has been established at Elma.
Coliax is having its annual scarlet fever
scare. There are two mild cases in town.
The municipal taxes OF Hoquiam are 81
mills, of Montesano 23 mills, OF Aberdeen
% mills
Consolidation of Whatcom and Fair
haven is being talked very strongly now
III both towns.
Davenport boasts of well twenty
three feet deep, in which ice remains froz-
en- the year around.
A party of as arrived at Oakesdale last
week from Tennessee, all of whom will
settle in this neighborhood.
Stevens county warrants are at par.
Two years ago they were going begging
at 80 cents on the dollar.
Melville Nee has been sentenced to
three years imprisonment for robbing the
mail at the Miles postoffce-.
Robert Morrill,. who is installing the
new electric light plant in Nelson, is
pushing the work with vigor.
During this month Walla Walla will
have for its guests the members of the
The annual oratorical contest of the
Washington agricultural college is set for
March II, at the auditorium of the col
lege.
The Columbia and Citizens bank of
Dayton have consolidated and win here
after be known as the Columbia National
bank
During February the local police of
Spokane made 269 arrests, POI of the ar
rested persons being males and 6S fe-
males.
An attempt was made last week to
burn the large grain warehouse of Aaron
Kuhn, on the o. r. & n. tracks, west oil
the depot at Pullman.
Tom Trask, late proprietor of the
! Olympic saloon, was found dead in his
room over the Nevada saloon at Tacoma
from the effects of bullet wound in tn,
head.
William E. Randall of Centralia, mar
about 80 years old, was kicked in the alb
domen by a horse, from the effects of the
injury he died. He leaves a wide ant
children.
Father Hylebos of Tacoma announce
the receipt OF letter from Ireland say
ing a small colony would soon start 70
the sound to settle on lands OF the Puy
allup reservation.
DR.. Bill, an Indian medicine man of tn
Tumwater tribe of Klickitats, report
that the Rock creek Indians have sui
fered more sickness this winter than eve
before in their history.
, Peter Duber, a brakeman on tn
Northern Pacific work train, near Che
halls, was run over and badly mangle
by the cars at Winlock last week, an
died few hours later.
Jack Cronin, who was shot by Sheri
Billings in Olympia after throwing
lighted lamp in the face of the sheriff
in an Intellectual effort to escape frol
Jail, is lying in a comparatively easy col
: dition.
The board of regents Of the agrieultur,
college will meet at Pullman this weel
The college has recently received thrt
! new cream separators and a new con
bined churn and worker all donated b
manufacturers.
; Ii the bill is not vetoed by the 60
ernor granting cities of the fourth cla
Z the right to establish fire limits and a
- quire property by two-thirds vote
y the electors, Wilbur will purchase ma
ural park site in the western part of thu
city.
The governor is in receipt of numero'
letters from the parents and friends
: Washingtons soldiers killed at Manil
asking what steps are to be taken towal
. bringing their bodies home. The COVER
/ or states that he has written Gener
Corbin at Washington regarding the ma
. ter.
,, Mr.. and Mrs Rhinehart, at Walker
: Valley, two miles west of Biglake, on tt
: Seattle & International, went out to woI
: in the woods, locking up their three sms
children in the house, and in the evenin
- when they returned, there was nothiI
.. but heap of ashes to show where Il
house had stood, and their children Ia
evidently been consumed in the flame
The children were small, the younge
being l year old, and the eldest only 8