The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1901-03-30
WASHINGTON.

WAsHINGTOA.
The total registration of Spokane Is
$3.50.
W. A. Richie. the Spokane architect.
may superintend work on the capital
building.
wenatchee will soon have electric
lights.
Miss Laura Morgan of Colfax is still
missing.
A great deal of land is being taken up
In the vicinity OF Wenatchee
A voluntary FIRE department was
formed in Wenatchee last week.
Washington will have no fire marshal
because no salary is specified in the bill
recently passed.
Some irrigation districts OF Yakima
valley viii suffer from the shortage OF
water this season.
The Yakima Creamery & Produce
company has been organized TO do bust
ness AT Yakima City.
The Wenatchee chamber OF com
meree is talking OF an excursion to Ey-
erett in the near future.
Ellensburg is being greatly improved
this spring by the many trees which are
being planted by the property owners.
Some person wrecked the plant OF the
Republic Pioneer last week by burning
the type and using a crowbar TO the
presses.
S. A. Anderson. wiper at the round
house at Leavenworth, was recently
struck by an engine and received fatal
injuries.
Al Seattle last week s. Christensen.
grocer. was held up by two masked
robbers, beat over the head and reliev-
ed OF SEQ.
The Yakima milling company has
closed operations for a week TO put in
new machinery and increase the capac
lily OF the mill.
There are three new cases Of small
pox in the family OF George Neal. a
farmer living on Union fat. eight miles
south OF Colfax.
Lieutenant Colonel Will Luhn OF the
35th volunteers received a warm vel
come home from Manila at Spokane
last week by relatives comrades and
citizena
The body OF Thomas Doherty. whC
was drowned in the Snake river at the
Trade Dollar dam and power plant or
February IL last. has been recovered
Doherty was an engineer from Joliet
III. The remains will be shipped Il
that place.
One Of the most important bills pass
ed by the last legislature was intro
duoed by Representative Gunderson o.
Mason county, providing for the selec
ton Of text books by counties insteaC
OF by the state board OF education, al
heretofore. This was the last bill re
naming in the hands OF the governor
and he has vetoed IL
c. II. Sinclair, a government expert
will leave Seattle within a short tim,
TO remark the international boundar,
In the Mount Baker district Captain
J. r. Pratt Of the United States coas
and geodetic survey states that tn
boundary is not TO be changed, but 1
simply TO he remarked.
Andrew Merchant, a pioneer OF tn
northwest and a brother Of Robert MeI
chant. a Seattle commission merchant
died recently at the family residence Il
Seattle from heart failure, aged 6
years. Andrew Merchant settled in OF
egon a few miles south OF Portland Il
lS47. he being one Of the pioneers O
that state.
The membership of the Northwestern
Sportsmen's association embraces club
and individual shooters of the states c
Montana, Idaho, Oregon. Washingto
and the province OF British Columbi;
The tournament scheduled TO take plac
at walla Walla in June is the sever
tenth annual event OF the association
Trophies valued at $4,000 and cash pr
miums OF $1,000 are offered for the be-
b Stub and individual scores.