The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1901-11-23
WASHINGTON NEWS.

er's 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
zeal Lake for 20 years died recently.
Prescott is TO have a large depart
ment building. whose construction has
started.
Richard Buchanan, awaiting trial
for arson. has escaped from the Lewis
county jail.
The city tax levy OF Seattle for the
coming year Is TO be IL mills in the old
city limits and ten mills In the new.
President Penrose viii invite Presi-
dent Charles w. Elliot Of Harvard 20
visit Whitman college on his trip west
According TO Warden Catron OF the
State penitentiary. 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 20
organize the Washington State Hotel
keepers Association.
Sira Carman. one OF the pioneer
physicians in Seattle. was committed
70 the Western Washington Hospital
for the insane last week
Great interest ts being taken IN the
campaign for the Davenport election
TO be held December 3. when two coun-
eilmen and a mayor viii be elected.
Spokane shippers who were recently
interviewed expressed their grave con-
cern 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 1t is certain not TO be de.
iayed 20 any appreciable extent from
now on.
A body was found on the water front
a Seattle in a bad state OF decompo-
sition, which is believed 10 be that Of
]. NJ. Gussinger, who fell on the Yesler
dock last month.
W. Abbot Lewis. the absconding
Spokane attorney. is again in custody.
His second flight TO avoid standing
trial on a criminal charge was inter.
rnpted at Denver, Col
The recent SHOWS on the mountains
have driven the deer TO lower ground
and sportsmen report good success.
Deer are said TO be more plentiful this
year than for number OF years past
Terrence J. Mooney. the big Phlla
delphia expoliceman. member of the
s0th battery. with a penchant for as
saultiag women. and self confessed bad
man. has left Fort WallA Walla and Il
b presumed he has deserted.
Z. r. Benson. manager of the Yakims
Land and Cattle company, has purcnas
ed a ranch OF 5000 acres in the Rattle
snake country and proposes stocking II
with Hereford cattle. The McAlpint
herd OF 100 head has been purchases
at Kiona and additions will be made
from the east. The plan Is 20 seed tbs
farm 10 grass and care for the stock tn
same as is done in the central states
| II. Ferguson Sastro. alias Henry Fer
guson. was found guilty Of piracy anS
theft He admitted that during th'
past FIVE years he had struggled 90O'
pounds Of opium, valued at $4,000
which he delivered at Tacoma, from
which point the contraband stuff wa
taken TO Portland.
Silas Smith. marshall OF the town o
COSmopolis. was recently shot and In
SANITY killed by an insane contraS
tor named W. ]. You're. C. Fenwick
deputy constable was also shot In tn
abdomen by You're and fatally wound
ed. You're was shot in the arm and ha
his skull fractured by a blow fror
Fenwick's six-shooter after the latte
had been shot. He may die. Your
has been In an insane asylum, but ha
been discharged as cured.