Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-03-24
wAsHINGTON.

A telegraph line now connects Bossbur,
with Colville.
The city of Dayton has practically i.
floating debt.
Tacoma BARRIERS have agreed not 1.
open their shops on Sunday.
The MISREPRESENTATION ordinance is BE-
ing vigorously enforced in Spokane.
A temporary organization of the Seat
tie mining exchange has been effected.
Ellensburg is enjoying building boom
owing to the scarcity of residence houses
The Citizens Bank, of Puyallup, hal
reduced its capital stock from $25 ,OO0 Il
$4,000.
A large proportion of the winter wheai
in Adams county was killed by the recenj
cold spell.
The Red Cross Society of Ellensbure
Wash, has just sent 800 to the soldiel
boys at Manila.
A plank road has been constructed from
Lake Stevens to Hartford Junction, Ii
/ Snohomish county.
X. S. Peck, resident of Chehalis, 81
years old, filed recently on q homestead
in the Big Bottom country.
A company OF Whitman college cadet
has been organized. The uniforms are
to be navy blue with black braid.
An old resident and business man. NJ
+. Preston, OF snohomish, dropped dead
at his home, Of apoplexy last week.
Walter H. French, of Seattle, street
railway engineer, is dead from injuries Is
ceived while caught in a cable winder.
j. +. Saylor, Of Lincoln, Nebr., has been
elected superintendent of the public
schools OF Spokane. His salary will be
81, 500 a year.
A. j. Jackson, rancher of Cottonwood
island, near Anacortes, was shot and kill.
ed by Joseph Henry, also raneher. q
the same place. 4 @
Morris Kohlman, an old resident 81
Prosser, was drowned the other nipht
about mile above town. In attempting
to cross the river his boat was capsized.
Frederick Clark, a shoemaker Of Rosa.
liza, was found dead in his bed by neigh
Dor. The body was found in the back
room Of his shop, in which he lived alone.
c. A. Anderson has been relieved from
the SUPPLEMENTARY of the st. Paul &
Tacoma Lumber Company, at North Yak
ina, pending an investigation of his ac-
counts. :. M
A l3-year old boy Of Snohomish by the
name of Madden, living eight miles north
east OF there, accidentally shot and killed
himself while out hunting with a ride
the other day. M
The board of health has ordered the
residents of three entire blocks in the
Blackchapel district, in Seattle, to vacate
their houses on account of their unsani-
tary condition.
John Callahan, of Seattle, fell from the
telegraph pole at the northeast corner OF
First avenue and University street the
other day, and was instantly killed. He
fell about as feet.
Log driving on the Palouse river last
week was temporarily suspended owing
to the cold weather which stopped the
thawing of the snow in the mountains.
The assessed valuation of property at
Tacoma is $3l,17l,S26.
Particulars have been received regard.
ing the killing of John Jackson by Joe
Henry, both of Cottonwood island, at the
Urban postoffice. The murder is the re-
suit OF feud continuing over several
years and growing out of politics.
The state has contracted with Gen.
MeKenny for rental of the whole of hls
four-story building, corner of Fourth and
Main, Olympia, for public Offices, at an
annual rental of $4,000, the owner i.
supply light and heat for the whole
premises
The registration books of Tacoma show
a total registration of 1854, notable de-.
crease over the total for 1898 and 1897
"A year ago there were 5454 voters regis
tered for the spring election and at the
election two years ago the
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