Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-09-01
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peen incorporated.
Whitworth college is going to be NOV
ed from Sumner to Tacoma.
The Socialist colony at Harmony
Lewis county, has dissolved.
1t is virtually settled that the Sno
homish county fair will be success.
A saloon within block of Seattl,
police headquarters was held up recent
i ly.
I Joseph N. Spinrod, barber of Seat
tie, was run over by train in Tacoma
recently.
/ A parasite plant called the dodder, i.
attacking clover and alfalfa in Eastern
Washington. T. ~
The corner stone of the new Catholic
Church of the Sacred Heart, at Seattle
was laid recently.
Work on the Inland Telephone line
between Asotin and Anatone is prog
ressing rapidly.
During the past eight months 49,
prisoners have been received at Walla
Walla county jail.
! Frank Boyle, aged 16 years, was
drowned while crossing the Yakima
river, near North Yakima
James McGary, of Ritzville, was
bound over to the superior court in the
sum of $3.50 for stealing cattle.
Lee Comstock, IL year old boy of
Spangle, was accidently shot in the left
arm recently while out hunting.
Jack Howard, of Republic, is under
arrest on the charge of being the person
who murdered w. w. Banning recently,
George B. Kabrick, of Vancouver, was
run over by passenger train and
frightfully mangled, one leg being cut
off.
The city of Walla Walla has sold
$350,000 of bonds, of which $4,000
were general municipal and $4,000
were sewer and water bonds.
A protest is being raised by the peo-
pie of Olympia against the removal of
the territorial seal from the capitol to
the University of Washington.
Burglars broke into the Northern Pa
cific depot at Olympia, recently, blew
open the safe and stole $16S in cash.
Nothing but cash was touched.
John Roberts, Northern Pacific Sec
ton hand at Pullman, was recently SER
iously injured by being thrown from
hand car and having the car pass over
his head.
A big impetus was given in Seattle
to the movement which has for its OBJ
ject the reception and entertainment of
the First Washington regiment on it's
home coming.
T. B. Cheer, 20 years old, an inmate
of the county poor house at Chehalis,
was struck by the engine of work
train the other afternoon near Newau-
KUN, and instantly killed.
There are few Washington volun-
teers sick and destitute in California. |
Governor Rogers has asked the people |
of the state to help them out and there
will probably be generous response.
1t has. been discovered at North Yak
ina, that through an error at Olympia,
Yakima county tax payers have been
called on to pay about $4,000 more of
state taxes for 1898 than they should
pay.
Last year of the IL mills levied for
city expenses of Tacoma, 6.35 mills was
for interest on bonds, which, according
to city comptroller Lister, will be in
creased to about 8. 5 mills the present
year.
James Templeton, a bachelor farmer,
Sc years old. living near Penewawa,
IxyiV in hn IaI
from Colfax recently, unconscious.
One rib was broken and his head, neck
and shoulders were badly bruised. His
hack was lying bottom up and badly
The team was missing.
James Boggin, Jr., who is in the en-
ploy of a threshing crew at Anatone,
vas accidently caught by the tumbling
rod, which connects the separator to
he engine, and he was whirled around
ievehal times at rapid rate. The I'M
ortunate man was stripped of all of
lis clothing excepting his shoes and a
,ollar band Mr.. Broggan was not SER
ously hurt, barring few skin bruises.
The Rattlesnake country of Yakima
county has been considered good only
or stock ranches until this year, when
t has been thoroughly tested for wheat i,
growing and has stood the test so we'll
hat those who have land there will :
ell only for fancy prices. 1t is now
'elieved that this section will prove
o be one of the best wheat growing !.
racts in the state.
Following are the appointments in
astern Washington of the school fund:
adams, $2,320.S6; Asotin, $1,551.28;
Columbia, s5,1s1.S4; Ferry, $3.50;
$304.20; Garfield, $3.00S.0S;
littitas, $S,S67.74; Lewis, $1O,1970S;
lincoln, $6,176.O7; Okanogan, ST. =
1888; Spokane, $24,949.04; Walla :
Valla, $9,421.91; Whitman, $16,5S7.10;
akima, $5,561.55.