The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-09-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
The dates Of the Spokane Interstate
ir are Oct. Q TO IA inclusive.

Inc uhtes OF the bpOkane lnDer8tat
Fair are Oct Q to IA inclusive.
The sale Of $3.50, 900 worth Of schoo
bonds was made at Spokane last week
Mrs. Henry BlackmAn, who was &C
cidently shot recently died.
Harvest in the southern part o.
Whitman county is progressing slowl,
because Of the scarcity Of headers.
Spokane lodge Of Elks No. 22s lead
all ElkdOm In wealth and member
ship
The Spokane Interstate Fair are pre-.
senang new appearance under thu
changes that are being instituted.
Word has been received from Loom.
Is Of the murder Of Horace Smith, q
well-known half breed.
Chief Of Police Reddy participated
in street car holdup last week in Spo.
kane. BE did not have his gun.
This threshing outfit operated by
Hughes and Thomas near Wilbur was
destroyed by fire recently.
The new girls dormitory Of Waits
burg academy has been turned over to
the board Of regents.
There is much activity at Thornton.
All the warehouse companies are pre-
pairing 70 receive big crops.
George L. Bigger was caught in
the engine in q sawmill at Wsyside re-
Gently and was fatally injured.
b. F. Conner. one Of Dayton's prom
inent citizens, died last week from the
effect Of an accidental gun shot.
A movement has been started to en-
fore the closing on Sunday of all places
Of business, including saloons, in Al
mira and maritime.
One Of the handsomest premium lists
ever issued in the state is now ready
for distribution by the Spokane Inter
state Fair.
In 20 rounds Of the prettiest and
fastest fighting ever seen in Seattle,
Rufe Turner could not knock ont Per-
~ Queenan last week.
Frank Parsley of Everett, blew out his
brains last week. He was respondent
over q cancer, with which he was
efiicted.
Oscar Bradshaw, has made a con-
fession TO the murder of PeterNelson,
at Pasco, recently He claimsit was
accidental
Mrs. Hyatt, who killed her two
months old baby girl at the Hyatt
farm near Govan recently, has been ad-
juged insane.
st. Paul's cathedral of the Epis-
copal church at Walla Walla, one of
the finest small churches in the north
west will be formerly opened Septem-
Der z.
Sheriff Gardner says that if the
Creston parties who claim the Tracy
reward, will give Goldfinch, the be-
trayer Of the outlaw, an equasl share
with each Of them in the reward, he
will step aside.
As the time for opening the Spokane
interstate fair approaches it becomes
evident that as & fall attraction for the
people Of the Inland Empire it will be
AANAN COMPREHENSIVE AIu AuUcINeDufs
than ever before.
George b. Martin, secretary and
manager Of the Spokane Interstate
Fair, will be glad to answer any in
q 1iries from farmers, fruit growers,
dairymen, stock raisers, etc, concern
ing the coming fair.
Floyd johnson, a telegraph operator
and railroad agent at Creston, has been
arrested on the charge Of forgery. He
answered New York newspapers re-
quest TO a sheriff for a story Of Tracy Is
capture and drew draft on the paper
in the name of the official He is out
on $1,000 bonds.
The Weyerhauser Timber company
has become the owner of what is vir-
tually one-eighth of Thurston county.
They get all of the timber lands of
the Northern Pacific in that county,
amounting 20 81, 299 acres. The pur-
chase price was 1891, S6S; also two
tracts Of land timber in Snohomish
county, one Of ls,7ss acres and the
other go acres, paying $l2I, 72g and
$3797, respectively, for them.
The labor organizations Of the state
celebrated Labor day in q becoming
style.