The Western news., 1900-02-07

bench near Boise, endeavOred to kill I
sheep hearder named Kenneth Nolan
nan, because bunch Of the sheep tn,
latter was driving went on the former
land. Rowland fired several shots a
McLannan with Winchester, oneo
which passed through the intended
victims coat sleeve. Seven or eigh
sheep were killed by the bullets. TIL,
shooter Is in Jail in default of a bond o.
$4,000.
WARRINGTON.
Tacoma is receiving daily about hall
a million feet of logs.
An Exposition Company has beer
incorporated at Spokane.
Whitman County Horticultural AS
sociation, Garfield, Feb, l.
Whitman County Poultry and Pc,
Stock Association, Colfax, Feb. 7-1O.
Nearly every branch Of business al
Republic seems to be we'll represented
Tacoma has determined to add school
section SO TO her already extensive
parks.
The erection Of a salmon cannery in
Port Townsend is now an assured fact
The commissioners Of Ferry county
have decided to rigidly enforce quar-.
entine against all Indians.
The Mid-Winter Graduation of Spo.
kane's High School class exercises
were held last week.
There are contracts for over 100
spars to be taken out Of the timber near
Elma the coming season.
At the Cheney Normal school last
week four students finished q five-year
course and received diplomas.
An unknown man, cheaply but fash
lily dressed, was shot and killed in the
suburbs of Seattle last week.
Peter Sutter, farmer living Is
miles southeast of Pomeroy, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat.
No more smallpox has been reported
In Colville vicinity, and the one case
six miles in the country Is reported be-
yond danger.
Wilbur Terrence, a farmer living
near Diamond, was thrown from load
OF lumber and sustained a severe con-
cussion of the brain.
The collier, Miami, belonging to the
Pacific Coast Company, was totally
wrecked on reef near Oyster Bay, on
the east shore of Vancouver island.
Mrs. Katherine Wyman. wife of Dr.
H. M. Wyman, Of Kettle Falls, died
from the effects of dose of morphine
evidently taken with suicidal intent.
Powder did not thaw so lighted
candle under it caused an explosion
near Myers Falls. Osborn Upper was
painfully cut about the head and pos
sibly blinded. Nick Beigle was also
injured.
The efforts of the Retail Grocers AS
sociation to secure the aid of the job
bers in a boycott of the cut-rate gro-
GERS at Spokane, that would stop price
cutting. has resulted in numerous COM
plications.
Captain Henry Tailor, engineer in
charge of government improvements
on the Sound has already begun to ac-
cumulate material for the new fortifi.
cations at the entrance to the Port Or.
hard naval yard.
Adjutant General Fox was surprised
to learn that the bodies of Washing
toms dead heroes had arrived at San
Francisco from the Philippines, as he
had received no official notification of
their removal for shipment.
Goddard whipped Dan Eagan of Mon
tana at Davenport. The contest was
fast and furious from the start, but the
Montana boxer was hit frequently and
was knocked down twice. Eagan's
second threw up the sponge
The date of the next oratorical con-
test at Whitman College has been set
for March 10th. twenty-five dollars
in prizes has been offered by Mrs. Les
ter Wilson to the successful contestants
On an alder tree on high bluff, near
the mouth of North river, in this state,
Surveyor Vickery has found the follow
ing inscription: "U. s. Survey Camp,
No. IA, December 10, 1885," This is the
date of the first survey of Pacific county
l: had been cut in tree and grown ov-
er.
Austin Corbin has won the Daven.
port cup for the best pen of birds in the
ducdu CldSS. MI. COrDln car
ried off this trophy last year and this
year the same birds which captured
the prize before have won again. He
won on his Black Minorcas with a
score on the pen of 1884. It is off,
cially announced that Mrs. Harry Baer
carries off the Finch cup, which is
awarded for the best pen in the Asiatic
class. This also is the second time
that Mrs. Baer has taken that cup.
She captured the prize with her light
Cochins. The Hazelwood Dairy Com
pany this year takes two Of the cups
the Wetzel cup, which is the largest
prize offered, and is for the best collec-
tion in the show, and the Hypotheek-
bank cup for the best pen in the Amer
lean class, which was captured by the
White Rocks. This is the result of the
fiAh annual poultry show of Spokane.
Deaths From Prostitution.
Chicago.-The weather in the vicinity
OF Melbourne, Australia, has broken all
records for heat RECENTLY. On New Years