The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-08-21
-FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
ChOaee Selection Of Interesting ltems
+, Gathered through the Week-The
Outlook IL Good In Every secefO"
MANY Accidents and Personal
HapRe nia4s.
WARRINGTON.

the entire Big Bend.
An enraged steer ran wild In Seat
lie recently butting people right and
left.
The fruit crop is abundant this
year. and the quality Is up to the
standard.
An enormous amount OF hay is COM
ing into Palouse from the big mea-
dows along the Palouse river.
The Cucumber industry Is gaining .
foothold among farmers east OF Spo-
kane. It Is said they can clear 5000
IN acre.
Gotfreid Closner, who escaped from
the Medical Lake insane asylum, has
been captured at the farm Of his
brother near Colfax.
The water has been pumped out OF
the Princess Maud workings at Repub-
lie. In q few days the work of stop
ping ore will begin.
The demand for timber land Is 80
great that all the government timber
land In the Spokane land ONCE dis
trict II being rapidly exhausted.
An estimate Of $3.50 900 for a new
city hall in Seattle Is in the report
Of the city engineer. There Is also an
estimate of 100000 for q new Jail.
The Turner extension is now In run
ming order and the O. r. & N. and
w. 4 c. r. will run trains alternately
20 Turner.
II warehousemen cannot tell the
county assessor and the board of equal
ixation to whom the wheat belongs
IN their warehouses they must pay the
assessment.
Charles Owen, q workman on a
Great Northern pile driver train.
slipped and fell between the cars at
Lowell last week His body was com
pletely cut In two.
Notice has Just been received at
Fort Wright. near Spokane. that the
government will erect one field ON.
GERS set and one double captains set
at the fort In addition to the improve
ments now under way.
The Snohomish County Agricultural
association I. closing :hs entries ioi
the race meet to be held In Everett
September .. 10 and IL. The entries
include many Oregon, California.
Idaho and Colorado horses.
One Of the boldest holdups in Walla
Walla for years took place last week.
when two unmarked men pointed
guns at Antoine Besette. night bar
tender at the Eureka saloon. and got
away with SIS and Bessette's watch.
Mrs. Josie Adams holds the record
this year for having packed the larg-
est number OF crates OF pound tins Of
salmon at Blaine, The other day she
put up 139 crates Of "a tins each. In
order to do this she had to handle
S,e:e pounds Of salmon.
L. H. Hopkins, superintendent OF
the Congress mine. on Bridge creek.
10 In Republic. He states that small
forces are working on the Congress.
Robin and Art Dumont claims. and
that the outlook for these properties
was never brighter than at this time.
The Eagle roller mills, at Colfax,
burned recently. making the third fire
IN week within radius of 300 feet
AL believed to be OF incendiary origin.
The fire started under the floor of q
shed adjoining the mill. which was a
three-story frame structure run by wa.
ter power.
Mary Garner and Hilda Koenig, two
girls Z years old. while at a picnic
OF the Presbyterian Sunday school at
Buckley recently. fell into the river
from pile driver. William Dau.
cutlery. q timber cruiser, jumped in
and managed to save Hilda Koenig
but the Garner girl was drowned.
Receiver Eastman Of the First Ma.
tional bank at Vancouver announced
that he would declare a Is per cen,
dividend to the depositors. This will
make . total Of 80 per cent declared
IN dividends. and the receiver believe.
that 100 cents on the dollar will be
paid within . short time.
A man. barefooted and bleedins
from several severe knife gashes IN
the neck and over the heart, was
found wandering around through the
neld east Of Hatton last week. II was
evident that he was robbed 1T Con.
nell. ~ that 10 where he was to &c,
on the train. and the parties doins
the work attempted to murder him
but he got away and ran all the way
TO Hatton, . distance Of about IL
miles.
OREGON NOTEs.
The cricket eleven from Vancouver