The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1900-04-21
WARRINGTON.

The Spokane Chamber Of Commerce
is working on the smelter proposition
Enrolment Is the heaviest IN the his
tory of the Agricultural College at Pull
| man.
Test Of the Paramount cemetery au.
tomobile at Spokane. shows 1t to work
perfectly.
The heaviest rain storm in months
occurred here last week. over an inch
Of water having fallen.
John Lee and Adolph Hand, both
aged s years, were drowned in Lake
Union at the Freemons mill recently,
They were fishing from log boom.
A movement to hold n fruit fair In
Walla Walla during September has
been started, and a committee is ar
ranging for site for the building.
Thomas Moore. one Of the Oldest citi-
gems in Fruitville, is dead. He was
over so years Of age. and one Of the
most respected men in the valley.
The body of child apparently about
5 months old, was found in a ditch on
the line Of the Seattle & International
Railroad, near Ravenna park, Seattle.
The Suburb roller Mill at Marshall
has been sold by W. H. wiscomb and
F. ]. Pierce to William and B. E. Amery
practical -four mill men OF Wisconsin,
for $4,000 cash.
Company B, twenty-fourth infantry,
now stationed at Van Couver barracks,
has been ordered to Fort Wright as
soon as 1t can be relieved from its pres
ent duties.
Whitman college proposes to cele-
brate in an appropriate manner the
S0th birthday of DIR. D. K. Pearsons,
who gave to the college the Whitman
Memorial building and who gave alto
gether to the college some $4,000.
The S-year-old son of Fred Reisen-
eaur. farmer living one mile from
Cotton, was burned to death in a field
near the house. 1t is supposed the
child lighted a match in trying to burn
stubble when his clothes became
lgnited.
Never before has winter wheat looked
so promising. The warm days during
the fore part of the winter startedpwild
oats and weeds in protusion, which
we're later killed by the frost. The re-
suit has been an unusually large acre
age OF clean wheat.
BURGERS. evidently experts, did eff
fective work at Rockford last week.
Drills, chisels and other toole were tax
en- from Bacon's blacksmith shop, and
the Model Hardware store, owned by
d. c. Farnsworth. was robbed of about
5000 worth of revolvers, cartridges,
knives, razors and other goods.
A carload Of thoroughbred cattle ar
rived in Colfax last week from Baker
City. Ore, and will be a valuable ad-
dition to the stock industry Of this
country. There were q head Of cattle
in the car. OF which six are thorough
bred Herefords and Is thoroughbred
Short Horns. The Heretords belong to
] r. Wicks, wealthy farmer and stock
grower Of Ouecho, about 10 miles south
OF Colfax. OF the Short Horns. Henry
Larkin gets six heifers and one bull; |
]. L. Strevey. one bull and one heifer: |
Champlin Bros, two bulls: and J. Ste |
Wig one bull. All are yearlings but one,
which IS a 2-year-old bull. The cattle |
are an exceptionally fine lot, all regis
tered and with good pedigrees.
D. B. Scheller, state forest superin-
has received authority to issue
permits for the grazing OF not exceeding
100000 sheep in the Mount Rainier
east OF the Cascades, the
sheep to enter not earlier than July l,
and to leave by September Is.