Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-05-11
" AsHINGTON,

done In Waitsburg during the past
week.
The early closing movement has at
last gained control of the business
houses Of Walla Walla.
E. c. Bellows OF this state has been
nominated by the president to be con.
sui general at Yokohama.
Hagerty and Johnson, who had q
Cape Nome project, are wanted by
many investors at Spokane.
Edward Cochran Of Waitsburg. is ar.
ranging to remove his distillery from
Its location to Walla Walla.
The Union Smelter Manufacturing
Company OF st. Louis offers to estab.
lish q smelter in Spokane IL the enter.
prise is assisted by Spokane capital.
Last week Whitman college defeated
the Walla Walla team in one of the
most remarkable games Of baseball
ever played on the Whitman campus.
While suffering from a fit Of de-
spondency because his affections were
not returned, Charley Lawrence, an
1S-year-old youth. committed suicide
at Davenport.
In quarrel over money matters last
Thursday. Thomas Murphy. gang
foreman. shot Frank DriscOll, a laborer,
three times with q small revolver.
Murphy escaped.
Whitman was the winner in the inter
collegiate oratorical contest and also Won
baseball game. William Worthington'
oration on "Genius Of the Great Emanci,
patton took first prize
Some masked highwaymen on board
east-bound freight No. 1OS last week
robbed five men and threw them from
the train. Three unknown men are
in the hospital at North Yakima. Sc
verely injured.
Prof. H. E. Mcbride, formerly one
Of the North Yakima school superin'
tendents, has leased the farm and fruit
orchard of M. C. Dickson at Fruitvalt
and is engaged in the fancy poultry
and pet stock business.
Apricot trees have shed their bios
SONS in the PalOuse and the fruit is
already being formed. Many Of the
cherry trees have dropped their bios
SONS and nothing but late killing
frost can prevent an enormous crop ol
all varieties of fruit grown In this 10
cality.
The best sale OF wheat reported al
Walla Walla in several weeks occurred
last week when Ernest Dunning
ton sold 10000 sacks Of bluestem at Al
cents on board the cars. Dunningtor
Bros. sold in the same deal $500 sacks
Of bluestem at A cents. The bulk ol
the grain Is old crop.
William Warnstaff, an aged farmer
living near Princeton, Idaho. Is miles
east of Palouse, was killed in myster
ious manner last week. His body wal
found lying face downward In the road
on Halter creek. Life had been extinct
several hours. Examination showed
that the skull had been fractured ovel
one eye and a cash was cut through
the scalp. The old man had been rid
ing a young horse, and 1t Is supposed
he dismounted and the horse kicked
him.
w. H. Coombs, one Of the mos
prominent farmers in Lincoln county
living about q mile from Harrington
met a violent death last week. Mr.
Coombs started to lead colt and hors'
to pasture. He tied the rope attacnet
to the horses collar to his left arm
1 o,a hold tho colt with another rope II
his right hand. In some manner I'M
animals became frightened and dashe'
across the field, dragging Mr.. Coomb
after them. He was dragged along Tn
ground until his head struck stump
crushing the skull. He never resaihe'
consciousness, dying two hours later.