The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-09-12
ASlIINGTON.

Fires In the grain fields around IA
louise have caused serious loss.
Straw day in Columbia county was
a decided failure.
The first car load of wheat ever sent
from Pasco was shipped last week.
Harvest is well advanced around
Oakesdale.
Henry Miller, pioneer of Whitman
county, is dead.
The infant son of E. G. Balzer of
Spokane was fatally burned last week.
The daily Independent American is
the name of new daily paper in Re-
public.
Democracy broke the Pacific coast
record for a mile on half mile track
by going in 2:OS at Whatcom, last
week.
G. G. Debolt's separator exploded
while at work on the farm of Lee
Black, near st. John, and was burned
together with the stacker.
There was good attendance at
each session of the COLUMBIA River con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
cnurCn at COlIaX lASU week.
The steamer North Star was wrecked
in the Entiat rapids, 20 miles above
Wenatchee, and now hangs ON rock
as though broken in two.
The separator of L. J. Swank S
threshing outfit blew up from smut on
his ranch about five miles south west
of Uhiontown.
Carol Hughes has sold the John Nc
Kay farm near Medical Lake, to JOS
eph Roemer of Minneapolis for 1914 900.
This place consists of 1925 acres and
is we'll improved.
Colonel A. J. Puffer. who died in
Walla Walla last week of cancer of
the stomach, was the man who started
wheat raising in the Washtucna coun-
try.
Gotlieb Werner, a homesteader of
Franklin county, was found dead in
his room at hotel in Council, having
committed suicide by hanging himself
to a coathook.
Joseph S. Allen has rendered his re-
signation as a member of the board
of trustees of the state normal school
at Cheney. This action is necessitated
by i'll health.
September 20 meeting of represen-
tatives of all the commercial clubs of
the state will be held at North Yak
lima, to take action on matters pertain
ing to the new irrigation law.
A separator belonging to JohnW. May
nard exploded recently ON the ranch of
l.. +. Shirley, five miles west of Col
ton. The machine was badly wrecked
and 400 sacks of wheat destroyed by
fire.
Ten rounds of fast fighting failed to
decide the question of the supremacy
between Billy Armstrong and Dick
Lewis last week at Spokane. Referee
Max Carter declared the contest a
draw.
Efforts are being made to stop burg
laries, hOldups and petty thieving that
has been going on lately in Spokane.
-Four policemen in full uniform and
armed with rifles will be mounted on
bicycles and put ON night duty in the
residence districts.
The hoppicking season has opened in
North Yakima with indications that
there will be scarcity of labor to
gather the crop. The crop is fully as
large as that of last year, with prices
more than doubled. Last year more
than IA, 900 bales were grown.
The longshoremen employed by Nc
Cabe and Hamilton at Tacoma have
been notified of an increase of wages,
amounting to about 10 per cent. AT all
the grain houses notices are posted that
on September 10 the per cent scale will
be increased from 20 cents per hour to
271a cents an hour, weighers to get
S216 cents an hour instead of 80 cents.
Several hundred men share in the bene-