Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-02-10
WASHINGTON.

Snohomish is overrun with tramps.
The schools of Colfax are in flourish
ing condition.
Whooping cough has made its appear
ance at Ellensburg.
Counterfeit dollars dated 1886 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 a violin which he claims to be ESQ
years old.
The total school enrolment of Everett
is 1883, an increase of fifty-three over
that of one year ago.
John Berg, a 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 81 900 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.
la Walla recently.
The permanent school fund of Wash
ington will soon be increased to $1,000
by the sale of timber land in Lewis,
Clarke and Chehalis counties.
State Treasurer C.. w. Young is the
heaviest stakeholder in the Peoples Ad-
voeate, 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 an insensible condition near North
Yakima the other day. He had been
thrown from his horse and had either
fallen on his head or had been kicked by
the animal.
The experts appointed by the North
Yakima city council to look into the ru-
mored shortage in City Treasurer Pres.
seys accounts, have thus far discovered
the shortage to be about $1,000, but it is
claimed that the whole shortage is Sc, 800
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
q good behavior throughout, A. j. Symes.
a 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
y welcomed by the Walla Walla fruit grow
ers. The unusually warm weather OF the
n past week had caused the fruit trees 10
!. begin to bud, but they had not reached
). that stage where they could be easily nip.
ped by subsequent cold snap.
!. The supreme court has affirmed the
4 judgment OF the superior court of Thurs
n ton county in the case of the state vs.
John Cronin, appellant, Cronin, a logger
=. who shot one Antonio Ferrari, a yeal
n ago last Christmas, and was sentenced
q to twenty years Imprisonment.
# A sad accident occurred at McAIurray
Monday morning. Freddie Gagen, accom-
70 panied by his two little sisters, were cross
t. ing the lake on their way to school. Fred
to die was rowing and the oar slipped anc
n. he was thrown out of the boat This hap
n. pened in the middle of the lake, and be
fore help could reach him he was drown
NJ cd. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs
,e George Gagen, and about nine years old
lie The body is in about forty feet OF waite
o. and has not yet been recovered.