The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-01-20
WASHINGTON.

The town of Pennington has no doc
tor.
Robberies are quite frequent in Spo-
kane lately
A new sewer system has been start
ed at Walla Walla.
A poultry show will be held in Walla
Walla in February.
All the houses in Walla Walla are be-
ing numbered even to the suburbs.
During the year 1899 there were $50
notarial commissions issued by Cover
nor Rogers.
An early closing movement of bust
ness houses has gone into effect at Cen
tralia.
Col. John w. Pinkerton, for many
years prominent citizen of Tacoma,
is dead
Charleston is now the name of the new
postoffice in Vineland formerly known
as Concord.
Spokane police court paid a profit
last year. The fines collected there ex-
ceeded police expenses.
Ethel Perry, of Walla Walla, has been
ordered committed to the reform
school by Judge Brentz.
Hot lunch is being served daily at the
Spokane High School for the benefit of
the pupils and teachers.
Orville, Okanogan county, Wash,
has been made a money order office
with Spokane as it's depository.
The depot of the Washington & Col
umbia railway burned to the ground at
Waitsburg, causing total loss.
There are now $50 students enrolled
at the Washinton Agricultural college,
the highest number in its history.
Contracts have been let for the ma
sonry OF the new Great Northern
bridges at Spokane to st. Paul firm.
There is considerable activity in the
wheat market at COlfax. and several ex-
tensive farmers are selling their crops.
In few days every street win have
suitable signs placed, showing the in
tersection Of every stree in Walla Wal
la.
Fish Commissioner Little has ar
ranged to plant a carload of eastern
Holsters in Puget sound waters as an
experiment.
]. A. Dennis, of Dryad, states that he
intends either moving his single plant
from Dryad or will put in new outfit
at Montesano.
There are in King county "a road SUI
pervisors, who have immediate charge
OF as many different road districts
within its limits.
The quarantine against smallpox at
Leavenworth had just been declared
off and people were beginning to feel at
ease, when another case broke out.
G. L. Harris, of Billings, Mont,
agrees to furnish water for irrigation
purposes at Pasco, if the land owners
will give him half of their land when
the water system shall be completed.
Columbia county made a record in
the collection of taxes for the year 1893
The books have been checked up and
show that only per cent of the levy is
/ still unpaid.
So far as known in Walla Walla, the
whereabouts of Clapp are still a mys-
terry. 1t is generally believed that he
has left the country. The theory of
foul play has lost credence.
One of the largest individual sales
of wheat this year was that of B. f.
Manchester, a farmer living eight miles
southeast of Colfax, who sold to Chas,
de France 11.700 bushels of wheat
stored in he warehouse at Mackene
ma, for SO cents per bushel.
Reports submitted to the charity or
ganization society of Seattle show;
The number of applications for aid and
assistance during 1899 amounted to 1913
exclusive of the casual callers or the
migratory class of single men that
have been reported from the residence
portion of the city.