The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-25
WASHINGTON.

WAsHfN6TUN.
A telegraph line now connects Bossburg
with Colville.
The city of Dayton has practically no
floating debt
The assessed valuation OF property at
Tacoma is $3l,l7l 1926.
Tacoma BARRIERS have agreed not to
open their shops on Sunday.
The MISREPRESENTATION ordinance is be-
ing vigorously enforced in Spokane.
A temporary organization OF the Seat
tie mining exchange has been effected.
Elensburg is enjoying building boom,
owing to the scarcity of residence houses.
The Citizens Bank, of Puyallup, has
reduced its capital stock from $4,000 to
$4,000.
A large proportion of the winter wheat
in Adams county was killed by the recent
cold spell.
The Red Cross Society of Ellensburg,
Wash, has Just sent 800 to the soldier
boys at Manila.
A plank road has been constructed from
Lake Stevens to Hartford Junction, In
Snohomish county.
R. S. Peck, a resident of Chehalis, "a
years old, filed recently on homestead
in the Big Bottom country.
A company of Whitman college cadets
has been organized. The uniforms are
to be navy blue with black braid.
An old resident and business man, n.
E. Preston, of Snohomish, dropped dead
at his home, of apoplexy last week.
Walter H. French, OF Seattle, street
railway engineer, is dead from injuries re-
ceived while caught in cable winder.
]. f. Saylor, of Lincoln, Nebr., has been
elected superintendent of the public
schools of Spokane. His salary will be
$500 year.
A. J. Jackson a rancher of Cottonwood
= island, near Anacortes, was shot and kill
ed by Joseph Henry, also a rancher, OF
the same place.
Morris Kohlman, an old resident OF
Prosser, was drowned the other night
about mile above town. In attempting
to cross the river his boat was capsized.
,, Frederick Clark, shoemaker of Rosa
liza, was found dead in his bed by neigh
Dor. The body was found in the back
room of his shop, in which he lived alone
8 G. A. Anderson has been relieved from
the superintendency of the st. Paul &
Tacoma Lumber Company, at North Yak
ina, pending an investigation of his ac
counts.
A l3-year old boy of Snohomish by thu
name of Madden, living eight miles north
east of there, accidentally shot and killeC
:, himself while out hunting with a rift
= the other day.
: The board of health has ordered TIN
+ residents of three entire blocks in tn,
n Blackchapel district, in Seattle, to vacat
q their houses on account of their unsani
e tary condition.
If John Callahan, of Seattle, fell from tn
telegraph pole at the northeast corner o
J.: First avenue and University street tn
IS other day, and was instantly killed. H
J. fell about 40 feet.
y Log driving on the Palouse river las
week was temporarily suspended OWN
a, to the cold weather which stopped tn
thawing of the snow in the mountains.
e, Particulars have been received regard
ing the killing of John Jackson by 10
IS Henry, both of Cottonwood island, at tn
Urban postoffice. The murder is the re
suit of feud continuing over severe
g years and growing out of politics
The state has contracted with Gel
|: McKenny for rental of the whole of hi
&c four-story building corner OF Fourth an
Main, Olympia, for public offices, at a
e. annual rental of $4,000, the owner t
C. supply light and heat for the who
IN premises.
The registration books of Tacoma sho
a total registration of 1854, notable d
crease over the total for 1898 and 1879
IN A year ago there were 5454 voters regi
Z tered for the spring election and at II
70 eouncilmanic election two years ago Il
Ill total was 45hQ