The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-08-07
FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
,.rr NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
selection of Interesting Items
c.,hered Through the Week-The
.,r I. Good In Every Section
Many Accidents and Personal
Happenings.
WASHINGTON.

building permits issued at Spokane
during July represent $15S,57O.
rventy-seven bushels per acre Is the
estimated average for Eureka nat.
Iobn Dooley, one Of the first pion-
.ors Of the country, Is dead at Walla
Walla -,
,or this wear is estimated at $780, 900
bushels. 80.
harvesting of Columbia's big million
and a half bushel crop is now well un-
der way
Niler's hotel, for many years the larg-
est in Tekoa, was totally destroyed by
fire recently.
Commencing this morning Republic,
Curlew and Danville will have a daily
mail service.
Eugene B. Hyde has succeeded Sam
mel A. Wells as receiver of the Spo-
kane land office.
The fruit crop of Yakima valley
promises to be much larger than ever
in its past history.
The total number of bicycle licenses
issued at Spokane since April L. up to
the close of July was 1888.
The changing Of headquarters of the
Department of the Columbia from Van
couver to Seattle is announced.
The new -four mill at Seattle, erect
ed by the Hammond Milling Company,
will be ready to start by September 1.
An incendiary fire has destroyed two
large barns, eight horses and quantity
of farming implements seven miles from
Everett.
Thomas NJ. Epley was accidentally
killed at Fort Casey recently by a
chain slipping from a log and striking
him on the head.
The -four mills at Ritzville for the
year ending July ground 100000
bushels Of wheat into -four, aggregat-
ing $4,000 barrels.
A band of about 10000 sheep have
just been driven in from Oregon to
the vicinity of West Fork, where they
will be grazed during the summer.
Fire totally destroyed the plant OF
the Bryant Lumber & Single com.
pany at Fremont, q suburb of Seattle
last week. The loss Is estimated at
about $4,000.
A mass meeting Of the people OF
eastern Yakima county has decided
that new county. to be known az
Riverside, must be created at the next
session Of the legislature.
The contract for the construction Of
q coaling plant at the Puget sound
navy yard has been awarded to the
Puget Sound Bridge Z Dredging com
pany Of Seattle at $265,0O0.
G. G. Raby, ex-county auditor Of
Whitman county. Is still in jail. hav
ing failed to give $4,000 bonds to sc
cure his release pending the appeal Of
his case to the supreme court.
The Centennial mill, at Spokane
caught flre last week and in less tina,
an hour was q total loss Samuel Glas
COW, manager of the mill company, es
Inmates the loss at $4,000, fully in
sured.
A. E. Taylor, a sheepherder, was &C
cidentally shot at Kalispel valley las
week. After all night ride to the seen,
OF the accident the fatigued coroner
jury was preceded by the corpse lash
ed astride mule and turned loose.
The o. r. & N. Is making improve
ments which demand large amour
OF labor. while at the Naples cut.of
on the Great Northern. between Spc
Kane and Boomers Ferry, several hund
red men for 81 could be accommodate
ed.
william Henry Martin, who has lon
mad the distinction of being the oldes
Odd Fellow in the state, is dead q
bennington. He was over IS year
oid. He had been a member of the
y: o. F. for over 81 years, having joir
cd the order in Kentucky in 1848.
II Is reported at North Yakima tha
tne Congdon canal is to be enlarge
ana rebuilt to supply water for 120
sectional acres now in sagebrush. Fc
the purpose Of setting men to wor
water users have been notified this
sne water would be shut OF on Octobe
ana remain until next April.
MIS-. G. e. Scriber Of Colfax lost tn
power OF speech more than six month
aso and had It restored AZ suddenl
as 1t had left her while fishing on tn
81 Joe river in Idaho q few days az
her father was similarly aflicte
many years ago. having lost the pow.
OF speech. which suddenly returned
ABOUT six months.e These two cas-,
are quite interesting from q scientif
standpoint.
OREGON NOTES.
hricklaying has begun on the ne
strain building at Milton. Two bui
ness nrms will occupy the lower 40,