The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
NEWS Of THE NORTHWEST
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS
A Review From the States of Wash
inRton, Idaho, Montana and Ore
gon-News of the Past Week
Boiled Down.
WARRINGTON.

Everett Will have fr = mall delivery
January /.
Seattle has been created first-class
free-delivery postofice.
Thurston county commissioners have
made total levy of $50 mills.
Cars are still a scarce article on the
Great Northern for grain shipment.
Spokane won golf game last week
with the B. G. players, forty-seven up.
The exposition at Spokane was a
grand success, both financially and in
attendance.
The school of pharmacy at the Wash
ington Agricultural college is crowded
with students.
The wheat raised in Adams county
in the year 1900 if sold at the present
prices would give a per capita of 5000.
The large bear which has been caus-
ing the farmers in the vicinity of Sum-
ner much annoyance for some time has
been killed.
The Tacoma park commissioners
have decided to build in Point Defiance
park a conservatory modelled after
those in eastern parks.
The case of the state against Max
Karter, accused of manslaughter in the
case of the death of Abner Yates Crow
ell, at Spokane, has been dismissed.
The Seattle Manufacturers associa-
tion has decided to hold an exposition
shortly after New Years, made up of
the products of factories in that city.
The Edwall creamery plant was des-
troyed by fire a few days ago entailing
a loss of several hundred dollars on the
owners. The creamery will be rebuilt
Immediately.
The monthly crop report issued by
the department of agriculture shows
that the estimated average yield of
hops in pounds per acre is 1860 in
Washington.
In trying to save a shovel from a
Northern Pacific train recently at Spo-
kane Michael Schultz a section hand,
was struck and received injuries from
which he died.
The Goldendale Journal announces
the death of Greenbury Phillips, aged
81 years. He was a native of North
Carolina and settled in Klickitat coun-
ty 30 years ago.
The state fair commission has sub
mited report of the business of the
fair for 1900 to the people who con-
tributed to its maintenance. There
was small deficit.
Gross carelessness on the part of
carmen on the Jackson street line in
Seattle resulted in an accident which
providentially escaped being attended
with fatal consequences.
DR.. John Boswell, a pioneer Metho-
dist preacher, physician and one of the
founders of the Willamette Medical
College at Salem, Oregon, died last
week in Colfax, aged 80.
A big fire occurred in the Eastbrook
block, in Seattle last week. The fire
department made quick run and sue
ceeded in saving the building with but
little loss. The stocks were damaged
to the amount of 100000.
The prune season is in full blast in
the Palouse country and dryers and
evaporators are running day and night,
curing the biggest crop of prunes ever
grown in that country, and one that
will bring tt the country a large
amount of money.
c. E. Gholson's fruit dryer, located
eight miles west of Walla Walla, to-
gether with large quantity of this sea
sons fruit, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. A defective fiue was the cause
The loss is $4,000 with $4,000 insur.
ance. Mr. Gholson will rebuild.