The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-03
general NORTHWEST NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
an Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest States
of a Miscellaneous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
WASHIN GTON.

1t was 40 in the shade one day last
week at Chelan Falls.
Not a trace has yet been found of
W.. A. York of Walla Walla.
Spokane is to have some good base
lssJI games August 4, 5 and 6.
The Columbia continues to fall very
fsst and early low water is looked for.
Several cases of typhoid fever are re-
sorted in the country around Ritzville.
Principal Miller expects a large at
tendance this year at the Cheney Nor
NAL school.
The accidental death of Roy Miller
G5y a tree having fallen upon him on
Washon island, in this state, is re-
ported.
Frank Stanton, the Spokane burglar
recently captured, received two years
in the pen.
The preliminary steps have been
taken at Ritzville towards organizing
a brass band.
Wong zee is innocent of the murder
eSf Ching, the Chinese gambler, killed
in Colfax, May 81.
This is the last year Of the switch
back on the Great Northern. Trains
are expected to run through the tunnel
in October.
A new broom factory has been estab-
aished at Sunnyside, the result of an ex-
pertinent in trying to grow broomcorn
in Yakima county.
Every day now sees a string of har-
vest hands headed for the Big Bend
harvest fields, where haying is on and
G1arvest soon to follow.
The low water in the Matches river
is causing much trouble to ditch man.
ayers in keeping the current near the
banks, so the flow may be tapped.
George Spudley, resident of Cakes
dale, committed suicide last week by
.severing his jugular vein with a COM
mon jacknife. He was under arrest at
the time.
The Okanogan river has been i'm
proved since last year, as navigation
is more safe. The work unfinished on
the lower river can be completed for
less than $4,000.
The fruit of Chelan and vicinity is
exceeding all previous years in quality
and quantity, and the grain ware
houses are making preparations for en-
aarging their structures before the next
crop is ready.
The paramount question before the
farmers and leading business men, not
only in Walla Walla, the immediate
vicinity, and the Walla Walla valley,
but to farmers and business men of
the entire Columbia river basin, is that
OF grain rates.
Fire at Buckley last week destroyed
40 buildings and the greater portion
OF their contents, causing loss of $780,
. 900, with little insurance. The fire
started in Banks livery stable, where
1zlHorses were burned, and spread to
the STANDARD hotel and the Pioneer
restaurant
-Hulin Bros. of Colfax, have the
building for their new fruit dryer near
AZ completed The roof is being put on
and it is hoped TO have the building
order by August 5. The dryer will
Siave "a capacity of II tons of green
B fruit every "a hours.
The State Press Association at its last
meeting chose Gray's Harbor as the
next place of meeting and elected the
following officers: President John
Hull of Whatcom; first vice president,
e NJ bay of Fairhaven; second vice
president w. II. linus of Kalama; sec
rotary, Grant Engle of Shelton; treas
urer, L. M. Wood of Seattle; orator,
Mrs. Minnie Sargent of Pullman; poet,
Frank G. Teek of Whatcom.