The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-09-30
WASHINGTON.

Spokane must pay out $4,000 In In
terest October 1.
There will be no more paving this
year in Spokane.
Waitsburg has been forging ahead
rapidly this summer.
The city treasurer OF Fairhaven has
issued 81 bicycle licenses.
Tacoma schools have 5,205 pupils en-.
rolled in nineteen buildings.
Dayton business men have organized
social club with over 40 members.
The Spokane Union depot property
was sold in New York at auction for
$3.50, 900.
More than one hundred students are
enrolled al the Cheney normal school.
One Of tie big days Of the exposition
this year will be International day,
October 10th.
The banks of Colfax, a city OF $500
population. have deposits of $3.50, ,0OO--
mostly from farmers.
A new bank, to be known as the Scan
dinavian-American. will be opened in
WnatcOm November 1St.
The Chehalis Water Company Is bor-
ing an artesian we'll to add to its supply
Of water.
The blackberry crop of the Kittitas
valley has been practically q failure
this season.
The five days session of the sixth
Stevens county teachers institute Is
closed with very satisfactory results.
The opening ceremonies of the Sp0-
kane Industrial Exposition ON Octobe.
Sd, will be far more imposing this year
than ever before.
One Of the interesting features of en-.
tertainment at the Spokane Industrial
Exposition which opens soon, will be
the athletic sports.
v. Gulli0n, laborer, was run over by
a work train in the railroad yards and
his leg crushed, at North Yakima. He
will probably die.
e. B. Raymond, the well-known bicy.
Gle rider, was the victim of painful
bicycle accident recently, which may
permanently disfgure him.
John Anderson, a farmer living near
Reardan, was picked up in the road suf
fering from confusion of the brain
cansed by fall from his buggy.
w. A. Davis, Of Steptoe, is ARRANGING
for bear chase September 29th. He
will furnish the bear, the animal being
one he raised, but has become vicious.
Soon as the necessary supplies can bt
shipped up from Portland, crew of Ii
men will be put to work repairing the
Snake river dikes, at Log Cabin and
Goose island.
The body of August Bush, whose mys
terious disappearance from his home II
Seattle last week, was found in Lake
Union. The presumption is that Busf
committed suicide.
Representative Jones has received ;
dispatch from Senator Foster. now II
Washington, saying that the sheep rails
ers would have to get their fiocks off tn,
reserves by September.
Volunteer grain Is springing up II
many fields and in some instances nj
sowing will be necessary, as the stant
will be sufficient to insure crop, say.
the Ellensburg Capitol.
The present grades in both bluesten
and club require weight of sixty ant
half pounds in choice milling, fifty
eight pounds for No. /. fifty-six pounds
for No. 2, and fifty-four pounds for No
8.
At the grounds of the Spokane Indus
trial Exposition at Spokane all tn,
tents are now up and some Of them ar,
ready for exhibits. The big enter
tainment tent has a floor space of "a,
900 square feet.
In mad fit of jealousy over a won
an who would not return his love, Orel
Baker Byland shot and killed his wifi
and his brother and then turned tn
gun ON himself. All three are dead a
Walla Walla.
Bert Johnston, aged 35. was instantl
killed at Fairfield. He was drivin,
a combined harvester and thresher t
which was attached 80 horses. A SUD
den jolt threw the man from his sea
and he fell between the nearest horses
The entire team took fright and ra
away, the wheels Of both machines pa.
sing over the PROSTATE body Of Johr
son, instantly killing him.