The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-23
WASHINGTON.


Prosecuting Attorney Fulton of King
has decided it unlawful to shoot
quail until 1906.
Although threshing has only begun
in the vicinity of Pullman, phenominaA
yields are already reported
Another threshing machine, the fifth
since the opening of the threshing sea-
son in Whitman county, exploded ands
burned near Sunset last Thursday.
Frank Claude O'Donnell, brakeman
on the O. r. & N freight train, was.
instantly killed at Winona junction re-
Gently by being crushed between cars.
To prevent a desperate plan of jain
delivery, Alfred Hamilton, against
whom the death sentence three times
has been pronounced, was taken to Sc
attic from Whatcom.
The Washington State Press associa-
tion met in Tacoma last week and elect
ed officers, and decided to meet in Wal
la Walla next year. Frank B. Cole OF
Tacoma was elected president.
At Fairfield the best run of thresh-
ing machine reported this season is by
Herman Bartlett, whose machine thresh-
ed slightly over 5000 bushels last Mon
day on the farm of William Kienbaun-
Adolph Scruber, who since died, was
picked up beside the Northern Pacific
tracks near Leary. Scruber, while yet
able to talk, said he was riding in
box car when his companions, a num-
Der of tramps, assaulted him to rob
him. He stated that they shot him and
rified his pockets and that he then man
aged to leap from the train.
Threshing machines and combined
harvesters have started throughout Lin
coin county, and from everywhere come;
reports of AN enormous yield. John IT.
Green, who farms 5000 acres near Har-
rington, has three combined harvesters.
working to gather in his immense crop,
which is averaging 35 bushels to the
acre.
meeting of the lumber manufac-
turers and wholesalers operating ON the
Pacific coast and in the northwest was
held recently in Seattle. 1t was called
as a result of the proposed action of the
western trunk lines in advancing
freight rates on lumber and shingles.
The proposed advance is at the rate or
| 3 cents a hundred on lines east of Chi
cago and St. Paul
One of the largest land deals that has
been made in locality of Tekoa was
!, consummated last week when Gay LON
bard and A. Cohn purchased the Ham
berger-Catlin tract, consisting of about
= 900 acres of land under cultivation. The
price paid was $25 per acre, including a
I one-third interest in the crop The deal
involves a cash consideration of 1922,
e 600.
u Probably the largest single transac
+ ton in fruit ever made in the state
u was consummated last week in Cakes
'e dale. The transaction involved the salt
for cash of Mr.. Hanford's entire croI
IL of apples. The consideration was be
J tween 81 900 and $4,000. BY the terms
of the deal Mr.. Hanford has nothing
more to do with the crop, the buyer
agreeing to gather and take care Of it.
al The spirit of the barbed wire tele
IL phone has reached Stevens county, o
81 that part of the county included in tn
Is Columbia river valley. Willard ]. She
u ton, a citizen of Rice, furnishes tn
IL farmers of that locality with phone
~ and puts them in at cost of about )
eu apiece. The system is known as 9TH
u Farmers Exchange" Already six farm
&c are connected by phone, with abou
cn eight miles of wire, the greater pal
Cd of which is barbed wire fence, all {
which works to perfection.