The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-31
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Austin Mires says Spokane's enumer-
alton will stand.
Work on the Whitman county fair
is progressing nicely.
Memo is a new postoffice just estab- |
lished in Adams county.
A regular stage line now phys be-
tween Republic and Chesaw.
The Spokane Trades Council is pre-
pairing Ior a great parade on Labor Day
on September 8.
l.. II. Plttsman of Ritzville was
caught on a derrick FORK recently and
seriously injured.
Word has been received of the sui
eide of Marion Shellman, a well known
farmer near Anatone.
The commissioners of Ferry county in
spected the new cutoff on the Kettle
Falls-Republic wagon road.
The Ministerial Association and the
Anti-Saloon League are after the gam
blers and the women of Colfax.
Charles Bauncer, a merchant and
millman of Midtown, Skagit county,
was murdered by robbers recently.
The shipments of fruit from North
Yakima are increasing every day. 1t
takes a fruit express car every day.
Fred Bahrs, harvest hand, attempt
ed to commit suicide in Colfax last
week by swallowing a handful of NOR
phine.
uOratio N. Belt, who served as mayor
of Spokane for two consecutive terms,
passed away at his home at Spokane
last week.
The largest sale of hops recorded this
season was made last week, when Pier
Bros. of New York contracted for a
crop OF over 200 acres.
Diver Harry H. Jones' who is at work
in the river just above the Post street
wagon bridge just above the Post street
considerable attention.
), A new irrigation scheme is under
way in the west side of the valley
whereby many hundred acres of land
will be brought under cultivation.
Earl, the son of William Newton, a
farmer living in the Big Bend country
had leg and an arm broken at Col
fax last week, while hauling grain.
Plans are under way for tourna
ment of volunteer firemen of the Inland
, Empire and surrounding region during
the reunion of fire chiefs in Spokane
in October.
The greatest deed ever recorded in
+ Yakima county was filed with the audi
tor recently. The transfer includes al
, of the land and canals of the old Sun
nyside Ditch Company.
The North Yakima city council ha:
passed the ordinance prohibiting ex
pectorating on the sidewalks and il
! public places and the ordinance requir
ing certificates of death from the city
, physician.
, T. ]. McFerron, one of the mos
prominent fruit-raisers in Cheney anC
=. vicinity, says the crop of apples this
year will be the largest ever harvested
. and that there will be a fine crop o
pears and prunes.
Colonel ]. H. Wholley, who was il
command of the First Washington vol
unteers, is making a good record TO
himself as a civil officer in the Philip
= pines, where he now holds the position
of acting mayor of Guagua.
w. B. Hepburn of Spokane has re
ceived the notification of the appoint
/ ment of his son, John B. Hepburn, a
e captain and inspector of customs at tn
e Port of Balamban, in the Island o
Cebu, Philippine islands.
S Deputy Sheriff Stewart had terri
n BILE encounter with crazy man name
4 Anton Gustarson, near Steptoe butt
k last week, in which the officer was ser
ously and perhaps dangerous injured
: The fight occurred in an open field.
It The commission appointed by tn
g president of the United States to trea
T with the Yakima Indians has returne
from the reservation with no tiding
}, of value to those who have been wal
+ ing to get the lands. The Indians wer
S offered % cents an acre for tract c
T 100000 acres, which they recently a.
g quired.
# OREGON.