The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-08-30
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The -four mill at Odessa is nearly
ready for business.

The -four mill at Odessa is nearly
ready for business
September 13 has been declared
Straw Day" for Lincoln county.
A lone highwayman held up two
men in the streets Of WailuIa last week
and relieved them Of 500 in coin.
The Puget Sound Grain company will
build large warehouse at North Pine,
a point few miles from Rosalia.
ID. G. Corbin will build large new
wardehuuse at his beet sugar plant
at Wayerly.
II is reported that the wheat yield
of Franklin county at SOC. 600 bushels,
against 300, 900 bushels last year.
John Caverly, 20 years old, was in.
stantly killed last week by a fall of
rock at Union.
Upwards of $500 will be distributed
Id prizes al the Cascade county fair at
Great Falls, September 1s to 10.
Seattle has been selected asst he city
in which will be held the next session
Of the Transmississippi congress in
1908.
While engaged with other workmen
in the construction Of a grain elevator
at Seattle last week, ]. w. McQuarrie,
carpenter, fell distgnce Of As feet
/ TO his death
Frank Pierpont Graves, PHI. d.
president of the University Of Wash
ington has rendered his resignation TO
the board Of regents and it was ae-
cepted Immediately.
The Ridgeway." the finest opera
house in the Palouse country. was
opened Thursday by Miss Katharine
Ridgeway (Kate Hogan OF Collar. in
whose honor the house was named.
Alexander Canutt, a pioneer settler.
and one of the best known men of
Whitman county. died at his residence
| in North ColfaX last week Of paralysis
at the age Of 80 years.
The MasoRs fair at Spokane will
be held during the same time as the
Inter State fair, but as evening sessions
Will be the feature of the Masons'. Fair
the two will not conflict
After getting a confession from the
woman, Sheriff Gardner brought as
prisoners Jasper Hyatt and his wife.
charged with the murder of their in
FAINT child. which she recently accused
an unknown man Of killing.
Royalty won the initial derby of the
King County Fair association last
week. going the distance. one mile and
a quarter, in the good time of 2:0s.
The purse was $1,000. A field Of seven
| started
The consensus of opinion of wheat
buyers is that while the wheat yield
through eastern Washington will fall
short of the 1901 harvest, the increased
acreage will about bring the total pro-
duction up to that Of last year.
A head on collision occurred on the
| Great Northern Il miles east of Spo-
kane recently. The Boomers Ferry &C.
commodation crashed into an east
bound freigth which was standing on
the side track. Several persons were
I injured.
Burglars swooped down up Milan
last week. They carried away money.
! postage stamps, jewelry. edibles and
/ drinkables valued al about 5000.
The good roads convention viii be
| held al Spokane October G TO IL. or the
FIRST week of the interstate fair.
William Blay, laborer, was struck
and instantly killed by a Great Nor
thern passenger train at Meetum, q
small station three mile north of Bal
lard. Blay was walking on the track
when he was killed, and did notseem
to hear the whistle Of the locomotive.
A South Bend passenger train ran
over the 2-year-old child of Stephen
McCready Of Leban. near that place
Both legs were cut of. The child was
playing on the track near a curve. hav.
ing slipped away from its mother. and
the engineer did not see it until too
late TO stop.
The Palouse River Lumber company
of Palouse has purchased Il 900 acres
of white and yellow pine, fur and tam
arack from the Northwestern anc Hy-
potheek bank, Spokane, for consider
alton of 100000. The tracks are sit
mated along the Palouse river east of
the Idaho line. The capacity Of the
plant at Palonse will be increased from
s, 500O,o to 10000, 900 feet per an
mum.