The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18
WASHINGTON.


Colfax is having its annual scarlet fever
scare. There are two mild cases in town.
The municipal taxes of Hoquiam are 81
mills, Of Montesano % mills, Of Aberdeen
20 mills.
Consolidation Of Whatcom and Fair.
haven is being talked very strongly now
in both towns.
Davenport boasts OF well twenty
three feet deep, in which ice remains froz-
en- the year around.
A party Of 40 arrived at Oakesdale last
week from Tennessee, all of whom will
settle in this neighborhood.
Stevens county warrants are at par.
Two years ago they were going begging
at IS cents on the dollar.
Melville Nee has been sentenced to
three years imprisonment for robbing the
mail at the Miles postofAce.
Robert Morrill,. who is installing the
new electric light plant in Nelson, is
pushing the work with vigor.
During this month Walla Walla will
have for its guests the members of the
Inland Empire Teachers Association.
The annual oratorical contest of the
Washington agricultural college is set for
March II, at the auditorium Of the col.
lege.
The Columbia and Citizens bank of
Dayton have consolidated and will here
after be known as the Columbia National
bank.
During February the local police of
Spokane made 200 arrests, POI OF the ar
rested persons being males and 0S fe-
males.
An attempt was made last week to
burn the large grain warehouse of Aaron
Kuhn, on the 0. r. & n tracks, west of
the depot at Pullman.
Tom Trask, late proprietor of the
Olympic saloon, was found dead in his
room over the Nevada saloon at Tacoma,
from the effects of bullet wound in the
head.
William E. Randall of Centralia, man
about 35 years old, was kicked in the alb
donien by horse, from the effects of the
children.
Father Hylebos of Tacoma announces
the receipt Of letter from Ireland say
ing small colony would soon start for
the sound to settle on lands of the Puy-
allup reservation.
Jack Cronin, who was shot by Sheriff
Billings in Olympia after throwing II
lighted lamp in the face of the sheriff,
in an Intellectual effort to escape from
Jail, is lying in comparatively easy con-
dition.
The board of regents Of the agricultural
college will meet at Pullman this week.
The college has recently received three
new cream separators and a new COM
bined churn and worker, all donated by
manufacturers.
DR.. Bill, an Indian medicine man of the
Tumwater tribe of Klickitats, reports
that the Rock creek Indians have suf-
fered more sickness this winter than ever
before in their history.
| Peter Duber, brakeman on the
Northern Pacific work train, near Che
halls, was run over and badly mAngled
| by the cars at Winlock last week, and
died few hours later.
If the bill is not vetoed by the gov
ernor granting cities of the fourth class
the right to establish fire limits and ac.
quire property by a two-thirds vote OF
the electors, Wilbur will purchase nat.
ural park site in the western part Of that
city.
The governor is in receipt of numerous
letters from the parents and friends OF
Washington's soldiers killed at Manila
asking what steps are to be taken toward
bringing their bodies home. The govern
or states that he has written General
Corbin at Washington regarding the mat
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rhinehart, at Walker,
Valley, two miles west Of Biglake, on the
Seattle & International, went out to work
in the woods, locking up their three small
children in the house, and in the evening
when they returned, there was nothing
but heap of ashes to show where tn,
house had stood, and their children hat
evidently been consumed in the flames
The children were small, the youngest
being year old, and the eldest only s.