The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-12-13
FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
NEWS is BRIEFLY TOLD HERE.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week
harvesting Is in Full Blast-Big
Crops Assured - Many Accidents
OccUr-PersoDals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


Walla Walla valley as sugar beet grow
ers is in prospect.
Perry Queenan, of Milwaukee, knock
ed out Dick Case of Seattle, Wash, in
the 18th round at Seattle last week.
The Yakima Milling company has let
the contract for the construction of an
elevator with a capacity of $4,000 bush
els.
Pullman is to have a pork packing
establishment, on a small scale at first.
but with increased capacity as occasion
demands.
Track laying on the Republic and
Grand Forks railway is completed in
to Nelson, Wash, about six miles from
Grand Forks.
More fruit trees are being planted in
Whitman county than ever before, fall
and winter apples being the principal
fruits planted.
John w. Considine, recently acquit-
ted at Seattle of the murder of W. L..
Meredith, has avowed his intention to
remain in Seattle.
President Bryan, Professor Spillman
and Professor Smith will attend the
State Dairymen's association at Everett
December 26 and q.
Word was received at Palouse that
Edward Smith, for many years a resi-
dent of Pullman, had been killed in
Montana by the premature explosion
of blast.
A freight train from Nelson ran into
a rock slide on the banks of Dead Man 5
Eddy, four miles north of Northport
last week. The engine and two empty
boxcars rolled down the bank and near
~ into the river. No fatalities.
W.. Spillman, who for the past sew
en- years has been professor of agricul-
ture at the Washington Agricultural
college. has been offered and accepted
the position of government agrostrlo-
gist with headquarters at Washington
ID. c., and salary much better than he
has received while with the college.
A series of farmers institutes, begin
ming December 10, will be held com
mencing at Waterville and continuing
in order at Coulee, Maritime, Davenport
and Creston. A two days session will
be given at each place. An. institute
will also be held at Pomeroy between
Christmas and New Year. Professor &
l.. Smith will conduct these meetings
A serious train wreck near Tyler
about six miles west of Cheney, occur
red on the Northern Pacific railroad
and was caused by defective truck
which broke just as the train was roun
ding a sharp curve. The defective
truck was about in the middle of The
train. The breaking of the truck pre-
cipitated the whole train into the ditch
A car load of matches was included il
the train, and as the cars went tumb
ling into the ditch the matches ignl.eC
and in a few moments the whole coun
try around was lit up by fierce anC
brilliant blaze.
Word comes from Yellow Dog, a cross
roads station Is miles east of Garfield
in the edge of the woods, that E. F
Bean, the village blacksmith, was Kill
ed in a distressing and peculiar man
ner. Mr.. Bean had been to Garfield in
buggy and returned home started ITO un
hitch the horses. He had fastened tn
lines to the dash board and unhitche(
the traces, when he stumbled and fel
across the lines, behind the horses
This ierked the animals backward witt
sucn violence that they fell upon thei
launches and literally sat upon thei
unfortunate owner crushing him be
meath their weight.