The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-04-18
WASHINGTON NEWS.

CnleI Lot or the Lower SpOkaneS IS
dead. He was 60 years of age.
A reorganization OF the Walla Walla
Commercial association was effected
last week.
Storey Ware, a pioneer OF Palouse
locality, aged about 60 years. was kill
ed last week.
At North Yakima the Janeck build
ing was Quilted by fire resulting in a
loss of about $4,000.
Spokane's baseball team Is being
rounded up, practice work has begun,
and in few weeks the league games
will begin.
Colonel B. c. Bedell and Albert
Bedell, father and son, OF Walla Walla
have brought 1,24O acres of wheat
land in Franklin county. Colonel
Bedell and son now have 1850 acres,
including homesteads, in that section,
and are actively improving the whole.
With the aid of an old shirt and
strip OF blanket John Weir an insane
man, hanged himself to the grating Of
a cell in the Spokane county Jail re-
Gently.
DR.. w. H. Hare of North Yakima,
received a letter from Washington, D.
c., Offering him the position of super
intendent of the eastern part of the
Rainier forest reserve.
c. G. Raby, who resigned last week
as Whitman county auditor after the
discovery of serious irregularities in
his accounts, was formally arrested
and is now out on bail.
Late developments in the recent
BUGGY tragedy at Everett tend to show
conclusivey that Mrs. BUGGY was
mentally unbalanced when she killed
her husband and child and then COM
mitted suicide.
President F. B. Gault of Whitworth
college, Tacoma, has received a COM
mission from President Roosevelt as
member of the board Of visitors to
the naval academy at Annapolis this
year
From a technical standpoint the
sensation Of the Seattle bench show
was the pointer dog, Whitestone, own
ed by A. B. Jackson of Spokane. He
is unquestionably the best headed
pointer in America said C. 3. Van
dell. representative of the American
Field Whitestone scooped everything
in sight. on limit, open and winners
classes. including special for the
best pointer In the show.
Two hundred thousand bushels of
wheat, mostly bluestem, were sold at
Walla Walla last Friday at 50 cents.
Paine Brothers and Miles c. Moore
sold the holdings. The gain is most
ly on Eureka fiat The Drumhellers
also made large sales and number
of other ranchers let go small guam
titles. Puget sound companies got the
bulk This has been the first action
in the wheat market for many weeks
The United States land Office at Spo-
kane has received notification that an
other township in Stevens county has
been surveyed, and will be thrown
open to settlement 1t is township SS
in range Al east 1t contains 1434995
acres which will be open to settlement
after May 19-The eastern portion OF
the township is still unsurveyed. It
is mountainous, and untitled for set
Element. The new township corners
on the south.
The following are th>- new officers
of the Inland Empire Teachers associ
alton: President, S. p. L. PenrOse o.
Walla Walla; first vicepresident, Mrs
Levi Young OF Moscow. Idaho; SECOND
vice-president, Miss Eva Wood, Pendle
ton, Ore; third vice-president, Prof
w. S. Beach of Pullman; recordins
secretary. Miss Ida Shepherd of Lew
iston, Idaho; members of the execu
tive committee. G. S. Bund of Walli
Walla, Miss Permeal French of Boise
Idaho, II. T. Coleman Of Spokane, f
f. Bragg of Union, Ore. and F. NJ
Burke Of Walla Walla. 1t was de
cded to hold the meeting next yea
at Walla Wala.