The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-29
WASHINGTON.

commenced a hegira toward Spokane.
A branch of the State Children's
Home Society is to be established in
Walla Walla.
A high wind at Medical Lake took
off about 20 feet of the roofing of the
Eastern Washington hospital for the
insane.
The three year old daughter of Geo.
Tempero, a farmer living near the
foot of Kamiah butte, was burned to
death last week.
Thieves broke into a bonded car at
Northport and stole a barrel of beer,
Many bonded cars have been broken
into of late at Northport.
The body of man has been washed
up at Harvey, which is claimed to be
that of A. Bartell, who was drowned
at Marcus, about six weeks ago.
M. G. Morris, who claims to have
come from Tacoma, was arrested last
week at Hoquiam, charged with forg-
ing a check on Poison Bros, for SIS.
The North Palouse is on rampage
and the high water is already causing
considerable uneasiness among the in
habitants of North Colfax, as well as
in other towns along the turbulent
stream.
The closing of the contract for $780,
900 of expenditures in the improve
ment of the Bellingham Bay Gas Com
panys plant marks another import
ant step in the progress of New What
CONS industrial interests.
Eight years ago the trustees of the
Medical Lake Hospital purchased 10S
acres of land three miles northwest of
that place for pasture. The board of
audit and control has decided to have
it broken and sown to wheat.
Many strangers are coming to the
Wenatchee valley to settle, and new
homes anu new orchards are being
started on all sides. 1t will be only
a few years before the Wenatchee val
ley will be the garden spot of the state.
4 There will be joint teachers meet
ing for Walla Walla and Columbia
counties held on Saturday, May goth,
! at Waitsburg. A large number of
teachers from the two counties will
I be present, and an important meeting
held.
The Gray's Harbor Commercial Co.,
is rebuilding its new mill and putting
in the largest band saw in the world.
The cry of short cedar supply is be-
ginning to be heard, some say that four
months will cut out all the logs now
, on hand.
A deaf mute committed suicide at
Tekoa by throwing himself before an
t o. R. & N. train. Name unknown.
4 The body of John Monpettit, former
! ly soldier in the Fourth Cavalry,
l was found last week under a ware
house in Walla Walla.
e Gov. Rogers has appointed o. A.
: Hoag, of Chelan, and H. c. Richardson
e of Glover, from Okanogan county, and
= j. G. Kellar, from Ferry county, road
C commissioners on the state road to be
i built to Republic, through those two
o counties.
1 The Salvation Army has scored a
a notable triumph in it's warfare
1 against sin in Tacoma. Captain and
= Mrs. McAbee have practically complet
: ed arrangements to lease the old theat
re comique, on Pacific avenue, near
Ninth street, and convert it into a
: house of worship.
A The total warrant debt of the city
: of Centralia is $29,O29, all on the gen
+ eral fund; $4,000 of this is in pei
% cent warrants, and $1,000 in ten pei
% cent warrants. The city also owes a
r. bout $4,000 in accrued interest OF
Il these securities. There are $4,000
in electric light bonds outstanding
The total city debt is approximate.
100000.
, Eula Hammond, the three-year oil,
= daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Hammon'
o at Walla Walla, was scalded to dealt
last week by falling into tub of boi
ing water. The little girl was lef
, in the room alone for a few moment
- while her mother had stepped into a.
a adjoining room. Upon returning sh
found the child in the tub, one side o
her face and body being terribly scale
ed. She died few hours afterwards
. Wenatchee is to have water works
y Agent Meeks at Pasco, has in hi
possession a scalp taken from a woma
soldier who fell in the PHILIPPINE wa
while trying to check the terrible &C
vances of our brave Washington boy
" in the battle near Manila. The seal
:, came wrapped in a newspaper. H. K
" Harrison, an employee of the Northern
= Pacific, who gave up his position t
- join the army, sent the gruesome tc
!, ken as a memento of that bloody occa
!. sion.
ID Plenty of Money.