Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-08-24
GENERAL NORTHWEST MEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of lteuss
From the -Four North ssesa States
Of . miscellaneous Nature Gath-
cred the Past Week.
WASHINGTON .

wAsnINGTQs
Everett is to have a ttail grocers'
association.
Garfield county will vote on a 5000
court house proposition.
Japan has already taken more lum-
ber from Washington this year than 1t
did during the whole Of 1899.
The increase OF lumber shipments
to Hawaii this year, as compared with
1899. amounts to 26 per cent
Centralia's new lawn tennis club Is
prospecting under the presidency of DR..
+. c. Lewis. The club has IS members
Wallula, Oh the Columbia river, ship
ped the first ripe peaches in the state,
says a correspondent OF the Pasco
News Recorder.
| From all over the valley reports con-
tinue to come in saying the potato crop
viii not be near up to the average says
the Ellensburg Capital
| During all of 1899 Mexico used 7,249.-
$40 feet of lumber from this state, and
during the first half OF 1909 the con-
sumption was 7,057,20 feet.
During the first six months Of 1900
the exports of Washington lumber to
the Philippines amounted to SO per
cent of the exports during all of last
year.
Mrs. F. f. Woodwork. the wife OF a
locomotive fireman, shot herself
through the heart, and Mrs, Mary Rich
ards. a widow, took poison. in Portland
recently.
! l.n
and shingle mills Of this state during
the last month, no less than twenty
fires being noted, the total loss amount
ing to 100000.
To persons from counties not so
densely populated, the recent institute
at Pullman would have certainly been
surprise, from the fact that the en-
rollment was more than $50 for the ses-
sion.
The American District Telegraph Co
has been organized in Spokane. They
will do a general messenger business
also may engage in electrical construc
ton, and act as agents for firms and
individuals.
A new company is forming in Spo
kane to extend the telephone lines that
center in Spokane. Are going into
the Okanogan and will string wires
to the new mining towns of that prom
ising district.
Thursday, August 23, is the date
fixed for the annual outing and picnic
of the Spokane Retail Grocers' Asso
citation, and as previously announced
Coeur d'Alene City is the place where
the festivities will be held.
Republic has the prospect Of having
a good water system by the close Of the
year. The Republic company has
been granted a franchise for so years
to supply water to the people OF the
town and for fire purposes.
The interior department Is makini
efforts to give the widest publicity t.
the laws against forest fires to the enc
that campers and hunters and other.
, will be careful to start no blaze tina
will destroy valuable standing timber
The body of Joseph NJ. Olsen wa
found in the hold of the ship Isaai
Reed, anchored in the stream near tn
coal bunkers, recently, by the watch
: man of the vessel Olsen's neck wa
, juries which indicated death by a fall
The state board OF land commission
ers has approved the sale of timber ol
school land In section 36. township 2
north, range east. 800 acres TO tn
Snohomish Logging company for 1910
and 140 acres in Spokane county to II
b. Wadsworth for $500. in section q
township 80 north, range 43 east.
Last fall a new wheat known as tn
Aroadian was introduced into thi
country and considerable acreag
sown This Is now being haryeste
and threshed and the results have bee
sappointing to nearly all who hav
tried it. The yield is not nearly S
y good as other varieties OF wheat an
u the grain skaters so badly that it
Improbable. From all districts wher
the wheat has been tried the same r
x ports are heard.