Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-04-13
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
King. the famous general will visit
Spokane in June.
The expenses incurred In the hanging
Of George Webster amounted to $SSe.90.
Burglars blew open the safe at Span
gle. took money orders and a watch;
valuable papers are also missing, but
no money was secured by the bold
thieves.
Albert Michaud was hanged last week
In Tacoma. He died in IL minutes, his
neck being broken by the fall. He was
hanged for brutally numbering his d..
vorced wife.
Arbor Day was celebrated In Spokane
by the planting of trees, raking of
lawns and the putting out of shrub
berry, plants, flowers and vines, by pri-
vate parties.
Bessie, the four-year-old daughter of
John G. Hiliman, who resides on the
Ennis farm, near Osborne station, on
the w. & G. r. line, eight miles from
Walla Walla, was burned to death last
Sunday.
The poultry men Of the northwest are
ambitious, as they have new scheme
for forming general association to
take In all the rest. The first exhibit
will be held in Seattle, and Spokane
hopes to capture the second one.
William T. Richardson, a well-to-do
farmer residing two miles below Day
ron died af Dortlopd Mondo,, oo - -,
suit of an operation. Mr.. Richardson
was IS years of age, and had lived in
this county for nearly rs years.
The Cheney normal school won the
second of the annual debates between
that school and the Blair business col
lege after mental combat last week
that took the judges Is minutes to de-
termine the winner. They were not
unanimous then, but two voted for the
normal and one for Blair.
The last sales of Yakima hops, made
few days ago, were 70 bales grown by
William Davern, on the Cowiche, for
tx cents, and Henry B. Scudder, 10
bales, which sold for cents. These
were bought by j. ]. Carpenter, who
estimates that there are only 700 bales
of the crop of 1899 remaining in this
valley. The growers are expecting at
least Is cents this fall.
DIR. Yount was summoned to the
Grand Coulee country last week to at
tend young Walter Stevenson, who had
been wounded by the accidental dis
charge of shotgun. The young man
was dead when the doctor arrived
there. Deceased was the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Sanford Stevenson, who con.
Quoted the store and postoflce at Barry.
The family had been living in Wilbur
until recently.
From all the country tributary to
Cheney come the most encouraging re-
ports of the prospects for grain, hay
and fruit crops. Old settlers say they
have never known the ground to be wet
to so great depth as at present. Winter
wheat, of which large acreage has
been planted, is springing up like
magic. The seeding of spring grain is
progressing rapidly. Fruit trees are be-
ginning to blossom.
Mrs. Alice Parker, living four miles
from Chewelah, on the Colville road, is
testing the large Trout incubator which
she had built last fall. The capacity is
$500 eggs. She is putting in eggs as
fast as she can obtain them, and at the
present time has nearly 1000 in pro-
cess of Matching. She expects the first
Matching April s. AS this is the only
incubator Of the kind built in the state,
the results are being watched with in
terest by the poultry men.
The railway committee in the Cana
dian house Of commons has killed the
preamble Of the bill for a charter to
build the Kettle River Valley railway
into Boundary Greek, to connect with
the Great Northern, thus giving the
Grand Trunk Railway, through Chica-
go connections, access to British Co
lumbia. This is the charter so long
sought by d. G. Corbin, and so per-
sistently withheld by the Dominion
government. The valley Of the Kettle
river offers the natural route into the
Boundary country.