Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-07-13
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There isn't q locality in eastern
Washington where there is a poor crop
Of wheat.
Senator Turner has appointed a. al.
ternate to West Point Leo p. Quinn of
Spokane. the son of Attorney P. F.
Quinn.
Fourth was participated in by q good
crowd from the country. Lind and 9TH
er towns.
The contract for a new combination
bridge over Union Flat creek. at Leach.
Vile. four miles from Cotton, for SITS,
! has been let.
| Around Walla Walla harvest has al
ready begun, and the yield will aver.
age at least 40 bushels. with many
fields going 60.
The first annual shooting tourna-
ment OF the Walla Walla Gun club last
week was great success. and prizes
amounting to $500 were paid.
There is reason to believe that the
census will show that there are 1000
Inhabitants On the North half OF the
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county.
From the Palouse all reports are en-.
couraging. The fall grain Is far
enough along to commence haying, and
the harvest will at least be a month
earlier than last year.
The feasibility of an electric rail.
road from Spokane through the Spo-
kane and Colville Indian reservations
to connection with the Spokane Falls
& Northern has been recently pointed
out.
The increasing business OF the Spo.
kane postofide has made an addition to
its force imperative. and four new men
will be put at work October l. Three
of the men will be carriers and one will
act as clerk.
Wagons have been abandoned on the
Wilson-Kettle Falls stage line and Con-
cord coaches substituted. Travel over
the road is increasing rapidly. The
incoming passengers more than double
the outgoing.
Jay Lynch, agent OF the Yakima In.
dian reservation, has issued orders pro-
hibting the keeping OF characters
once ordered of the reservation in the
employ of persons doing business there
A strict enforcement OF the law is to
be made.
Perhaps the biggest outlook for the
Inland Empire in crops in comparison
with average years is in fruit. Three
and four carloads a day are already
shipped by Spokane merchants, and
this will increase as the season ad
G vances.
. Barley and oats, according to tn,
best reports. are going to compare a
! least favorably with average years
though in some localities the barle.
! heads are short, and consequently will
I not give as good yield as was at frs
, expected.
r Henry Yeomans. the Spokane bo,
I who has made a record for himself ii
Y collegiate work at Harvard, has recent
: ly returned from his alma mater I
r spend his vacation. He returns In tn
il fall to take up his duties as assistan
3 professor az history in that institution
The managers of Spokane's expos
n tion have adopted a scale of prices 70
. admission that should prove mucl
!. more satisfactory to the public thai
oily Iudu0 Ill IOIuc
years. The price for general admi,
sion will be Is cents; the added charg
Of 10 cents for seats will be cheerfull
! paid.
: Fred Brown, the stock dealer of Co
y fax, has returned from Seattle an
u brings an interesting story OF bunc
II OF Whitman county steers which h
y fed at Colfax last winter and In Marc
;, shipped to Seattle. where they wer
:. sold. On his last trip Mr.. Brown me
= the man to whom he sold the cattl,
e The latter had Just returned from Dav
IS son City. where he took the steers, q
d ing by boat to Skagway and theme
across the mountains to the end OF tn
railroad, and then driven over the ic
r. and lakes and rivers to Dawson. A
q Dawson the cattle were sold at 35 cent
= per pound. the so head being sold fc
i 5000 per head, the remaining Is brinl
!. ing $3.50 each. 1t cost only SITS pc
head to take the cattle to Dawson.
Cadets for West Point under the II
crease provided by recent legislatio
have been appointed during the la.
week from the following states &
large: Vannie B. O'Neill. Mount Plea
~ ant, Texas, and Max o. Elser, alternat
'' Corsicana, Texas; Edward K MartiI
:. Searcey, Ark. and Karl Hargrave, a
ternate, Brownston, Ark; Lucien Mo
!" dy. Huron, 8. D.; Milton Fenner, alte
nate, Austin, Texas; Alvin B. Barbe
alternate Portland, Or; Merrill
Spalding, Concordia Kan, and Norma
F. Ramsey, alternate, Topeka, Kan.
or Railroad strike ON.
~ St Paul, Mimi, July 1.-THE strike d
:. clared on the Montana Central yesterda
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