The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-27
WASHINGTON.


mining exchange.
Miss Winnie Holmes, of Kent, was
drowned in the sound last week.
Twenty men are at WORK on the gun
emplacements at Admiralty head.
Forest Grove Rod & Gun Club has
been organized with Is members.
Three new churches are being built
at Granite Falls, Snchomish county.
Two telephone companies are build
ing lines from Spokane TO Republic.
Tim McClare killed large Ameri-
can eagle near Boisfort the other day.
In Chehalis school district the teach
ers' wages have been increased 10 per
cent.
The new $4,000 school house propo-
sition in North Yakima was defeated
by "a majority.
Jack Ker, a Washington pioneer,
aged 70 years, died last week in Yak
ina City of dropsy.
Arrangements are being made to
send colony of Whitman county far
mers to Lower California.
A 10-year-old son of A. J. Prater, in
Chehalis, fell off the Doernbecher
boom in the Chehalis river last week
and was drowned.
In the Walla Walla land Office for the
month of April, 544S1a acres of land
were entered on and final proof was
made on 1910 acres.
Fire completely destroyed the resi-
dence of o. M. Sparks at Tekoa, with
its contents. The loss is between $500
and $4,000, with but S1400 insurance.
Joe Tulip, fisherman who has
made Seattle his home for many years,
was run over and killed by a Column
bia & Puget Sound railway engine last
week.
The little 2-year-old daughter of FL
mer Luce and wife, of Antoine, while
crossing a foot bridge over the creek
near their residence, fell in and was
drowned last week.
Clallam county is getting it's share
of the homeseekers. The Angeles pa
pers report the arrival last week of a
total of over 100 persons, part of 100
families to arrive from Erie, Pa.
Mary Milton, variety actress, and
Joe Dunn, her husband, have been ar.
rested for completely in the robbery OF
$4,000 worth of silks from the Hohens-
child store at Tacoma, last December.
Recently John Hengren, q prominent
rancher living near Spangle, was held
up on Main street in Spangle by three
men unknown to him and relieved oil
SIS, all the money he had on his person
at the time.
State Commissioner e. A. Mcdonald
announces that the state pure food law
covers not only all articles of food, but
also articles of drink. He proposes
that the drinking population of Wash
ington shall have the genuine stuff.
The new telephone line between Har
rington and Mohler is in operation
The line extends from Harrington tc
Hon. ]. F. Green's California ranch
and on to Mohler. 1t is a private en-
terprise, and was put up by Mr.. Greer
and the Yarwood brothers.
The state fair commissioners have
been notified by Hon. Levi Ankeny thai
he will give $50 as a special premium
for the best results from sugar beets
grown in the Yakima valley, D. c. Cor
bin having offered to build beet sugar
refinery here should the results JUS
tify it.
The building boom still continues il
Republic; there is no apparent letup
There are still few business houses
under way, but the bulk of the build
ings are small and cheap affairs. TIL,
street grades having been established
some of the buildings erected last yeal
are being lowered to conform to tn,
grade. Street grading has not beer
completed. That portion of Clark ave
nue. belonging to the Clark TownsitC
company is still unfinished, but the
story has gone out that as soon as Sur
veyor j. G. Ralston returns the work
will be prosecuted vigorously.