The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-10
WASHINGTON.

and scalded the fireman Charles Miles.
ID. L. Crowder an attorney of North
Yakima, had his leg broken in runa-
way recently and his knee seriously
injured.
p B. Cornwall has interested him
self in fax culture in Whatcom coun-
ty, and will endeavor to have extensive
experiments made.
Postmaster Ewart has received not
ice from the postmaster general that
the Colfax Office 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 1914 cents per
pound.
Twenty-eight cities and towns in
Whitman county show an assessed val
uation of s1,610,O60, of which $780,
629 is on lots and $913,431 on improve
ments.
e. R. Rollins. a rancher at Quilcene,
twenty-eight miles from Port Town
send, was crushed to death by a tree
falling upon hlm. He leaves a wife
and child.
The Tacoma Land Company has paid
into the Pierce county treasury $780,
600 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, will visit Puget Sound
early this month.
The geological survey under E. A.
Murlin, who recently arrived from
Washington, has pitched camp near
Ellensburgh, preparatory to beginning
the seasons work.
While working at Mine No. 2, at
Roslyn, Wash, Thos. Ray, miner,
received some very serious internal in
juries, from which he will probably
die, by fail 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 isC
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 it's population which now mum
bers over $500.
The prune crop in Thurston county
will be almost total failure, owing tt
the cold, backward spring. Strawber
ries and cherries are slightly damaged
by frost. Apples and pears still show
good prospects.
Tanner, acting commissioner of In
dian affairs, has informed Assessor
Hill of Pierce county, that PuyalluI
} reservation lands bought under con
tract are still government land ant
, not subject to taxation.
The postofice has been advised by
the war department of the final aban
: donment of old Fort Spokane and tn,
removal of all the effects to the new
fort. Mail for the troops should here
after be addressed to Spokane, in
stead of Miles. Wash, as heretofore.
Edward A. Turner, who with M. V
B. Stacey, opened the first exclusivel.
real estate business in Seattle is dead
Mr.. Turner was native of st. George
Me. He was a printer by trade and ;
|, short time after his arrival in Seattle
commenced the publication of a small
daily newspaper called the Tribune
The publication was absorbed by tn
Intelligencer in 1879.
Spokane Industrial Exposition,
which was formerly the "Spokan
. Fruit Fair" has begun active opera
. lions for a large exhibit this fall, an,
. at a recent meeting of the board elect
ed the following officers: Charles f
T. Virden, auditor; John L. Smith, gen
eral superintendent of all department
except the mineral department. Johl
. H. Featherston, superintendent of tn
mineral department. This annual e1
= hibit is assuming greater proportion
than ever this year.
A sad drowning occurred at Wick
ersham. Myrtle Demar, a 14-year-ol
: girl was on a raft of shingle bolts o.
4 the mill pond when suddenly the raj
q parted and the girl was precipitate
into the water. Her father Gus Demal
! seeing her predicament rushed to he
: assistance, but lost his life in his eff
n orts to save his daughter. Both wer
o drowned in sight of some men on shor
who were unable to lend assistanc,
The drowning occurred near Anderso
& Nelson's mill The bodies were sen