The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-11-22
-FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
NEWS is BRIEFLY TOLD HERE
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week
aIarvesting In Full Blast-Big
Crops Assured - Many Accidents
OccVr-PersOnaIs.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS
Falrhaven has organized Tax Pay
ers league.
The paramount issue will be high or
low saloon license.
The first rest room to be established
in Walla Walla has been opened
Jacob Hager who had lived at Med
ical Lake for 20 years died recently.
Prescott is to have a large depart
ment building, whose construction has
started.
Richard Buchanan, awaiting trial
TOR arson, has escaped from the Lewis
county Jail.
The city tax levy of Seattle for the
coming year is to be II mills in the old
city limits and ten mills in the new.
President Penrose will invite Presi-
dent Charles W. Elliot of Harvard to
visit Whitman college on his trip west.
According to Warden Catron of the
State penltentiary. there has been no
discrimination in the distribution of
gram sacks.
Oscar Jacobson, first mate of the
steamer Capitol City plying between
Seattle and Olympia, was shot, per-
haps fatally.
Seattle and Tacoma hotel proprietors
have taken the preliminary steps to
organize the Washington State Hotel
keepers Association.
Sira Carman. one of the pioneer
physicians in Seattle, was committed
TO the Western Washington Hospital
Cor the insane last week.
Great interest is being taken Ii the
campaign for the Davenport election
TO be held December 8, when two coun-
cilmen and a mayor will be elected.
Spokane shippers who were recently
interviewed expressed their grave con-
Germ at the gigantic railway monopoly
which has recently been organized.
Work on the capitol annex has not
progressed as rapidly recently as here
tofore, but it is certain not to be de-
layed to any appreciable extent from
now on.
A body was found on the water front
at Seattle in a bad state of decompo-
sition, which is believed 70 be that OF
j. M. Gussinger who fell off the Yesler
dock last month.
The recent SHOWS on the mountalns
have driven the deer to lower ground
and sportsmen report good success
Deer are said to be more plentiful thi:
year than for number of years past
Terrence ]. Mooney, the big Phila
delphia eX-policeman, member of The
Both battery. with a penchant for as
n 4 J.. q
man. has left Fort Walla Walla and il
Is presumed he has deserted.
H. Ferguson Sastro, alias Henry Fer
gusOa, was found guilty of piracy ant
theft He admitted that during the
past five years he had Struggled 5000
pounds OF opium, valued at $4,000
which he delivered at Tacoma, from
which point the contraband stuff wa
taken to Portland
e. F. Ben sOn, MANAGER OF the Yakimi
Land and Cattle company. has purcnas
ed a ranch of 5000 acres in the Rattle
snake country and proposes stocking
with Hereford cattle. The McAlpin,
herd Of 100 head has been purchase
ut KiOna and additions will be mad
from the east. The plan is to seed tn
farm TO grass and care for The stock tn
same as is done in the central state:
Silas Smith, marshall of the town o
CosmoDolis, was recently shot and in
stantly killed by an insane contrat
Tor named w. J. You're. c. Fenwicl
deputy constable was also shot in tn
abdomen by You're and fatally wound
ed. You're was shot in the arm and ha
mis- skull fractured by blow froi
FeRwicks six-shooter after the latte
had been shot. He may die. Your
has been ia an insane asylum, but ha
been discharged as cured.