The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1899-06-10

/ WASHINGTON.
During the past two weeks 1000 cat
tie have been shipped from Pomeroy.
1 Recently when the steamer Camano
was on her upper trip. q pipe burst
and sealded the fireman Charles Miles.
D. L. Crowder, an attorney Of North
Yakima. had his leg broken in q runa-
way recently and his knee seriously
| injured.
p. B. CORNWALL has interested him.
self in fax culture in whateom eoun-
", and Will,endeaVor 70 have extensive
experiments made.
Postmaster EWart has received not
ice from the postmaster general that
the Colfax ONCE has been advanced
from the third to the second class.
Contracts for the sale Of the 1899
hop crop are being made by Eastern
buyers with Puyallup Valley growers.
The price runs up to 12h cents per
pound.
Twenty-eight cities and towns in
Whitman county show an assessed val.
uation Of $l,6l0.06O, Of which $780,
S2s is on lots and $Sl3.4sl on improve
ments.
Err Rollins. a rancher at QuIlcene,
twenty-eight miles from Port Town
send, was crushed to death by a tree
falling upon HIM. He leaves q wife
and child.
The Tacoma Land Company has paid
into the Pierce county treasury $780,
900 taxes on the property recently bid
in at the receivers sale OF the COM
pany's assets.
EltWeed Pomeroy, national president
Of the Direct Legislation League, and
one Of the most ardent workers for
the movement. win visit Puget Sound
early this month.
The geological survey under E. A.
Murlin, who recently arrived from
Washington, has pitched camp near
EIensburgh, preparatory to beginning
the seasons work.
While working at Mine No. 2, at
Roslyn, Wash, Thos. Ray, a miner.
received some very serious internal in |
juries. from which he will probably
die, by fan OF rock.
Work on the Port Angeles Eastern |
railway is progressing satisfactorily. |
The Van Norman Company Is rapidly
Transforming the water front into a |
typical railroad street.
A new relief corps has been form
ed in Seattle to look after the welfare
Of the soldier boys now in Manila.
The name of the new organization lsc
the Forston Relief Corps.
Probably no city on the coast has
been more directly changed by the re-
turn Of prosperity than Aberdeen. In
less than two years it has more than
doubled its population which now num-
bers over $500.
The prune crop in Thurston county
viii be almost total failure, owing to
the cold, backward spring. Strawber.
ries anu cherries are slightly damaged
by frost. Apples and pears stiIl show
good prospects.
Tanner, acting commissioner of In
dian affairs, has informed Assessor
Hill Of Pierce county. that Puyallup
lands bought under con.
tract are still government land and
not subject to taxation.
The postofflce has been advised by
The war department of the final aban.
tonment Of old Fort Spokane and the
Of all the effects to the new
'ort. Mail for the troops should here
lfter be addressed to Spokane, in |
Itead Of Miles. Wash, as heretofore. I
Edward A Turner, who with N. v.
3. Stacey. opened the first exclusively
cal estate business in Seattle IL dead
dr. Turner was a native Of st. George.
Ne. He was printer by trade and Z
hort time after his arrival in Seattle.
the publication Of a small
ally newspaper called the Tribune. !
The publication was absorbed by the /
ntelligencer in 1879.
Spokane Industrial Exposition"
1hich was formerly the Spokane
'ruit Fair" has begun active opera n
ions for a large exhibit this fall, and !
{ recent meeting Of the board elect
the following officers: Charles Z.
'irden. auditor; John L. Smith, gen. .
raj superintendent Of all departments o
kept the mineral department; John
|. Featherston, superintendent of the
mineral department This annual ex- p
ioit IL assuming greater proportlonsl
han ever this year.
sad drowning occurred at Wick n
rsham. Myrtle Demar, a 14-year-old
irl was on a raft Of single bolts on
ne mill pond when suddenly the raft q
arted and the girl was precipltated N
Ito the water. Her father, Gus Demar.
eeing her predicament rushed to her :,
ssistanee, but lost his life In his Ell. n
rts to save his daughter. Both were N
rowned in sight Of some men on shore
no were unable to lend assistance -,
he drowning occurred near Anderson
Nelson's mill The bodies were sent
Lowell, Wash, where tho family for. pl
Ierly resided.