Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1902-01-31
)UR NORTHWESTERN STATES
EWs IS BRIEFLY TOLD HERE.
koice Selection Of lnte restinx Items
gathered Through the Week.
Every section shows General
Growth-Many Accidents Occur
Personals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
Henry l.. Leland. a prominent Ia
ma commission man, is dead.
Nv. A. Lewis stands convicted of the
me of larceny by embezzlement at
okane.
Gov. Mcbride makes a positive an
uncement that there will be no extra
esion now.
Manager Grim, Of Spokane league
I'm, has signed king" Kelly and
aries Elsey.
At Northport, Miss Jennie M. Bar
committed suicide last week by
king strychnine. She lived with her
cle Robert Morrill,.
Nessey & McRae, the big sheep rails
Of Yakima county, are making ar
bgements to ship 5000 head of sheep
Chicago in February.
ntimation comes from the depart
Int of justice that Attorney General
ox will recommend the abandon
int of the McNeill island peniten-
Try.
Quincy, Wash, is a new town To-
ted on a large prairie eight miles
i'm the Columbia river, and so level
1t the trains Of the Great Northern
be seen for twelve miles.
Fruit Inspector Beck has notified all
fruit growers that the cottonwood
les and willows near their places
list be cut down at once, ON account
being infested with San Jose scale.
At Wenatchee, George Washington.
Indian known all over the north
stern portion Of the state, was found
I'D on the railroad track. near the
bssing to the Touring mill, last
ek.
"a number of small boats more or
Is injured, many buildings along the
tier front damaged, and business OF
sorts completely crippled, is the
cord of a storm that swept over Sc
Tie last week.
DITTO Cawthorn, an 18-year-old boy
bployed to run the elevator in the
hndard Furniture company's build
J, was almost instantly killed last
kek at Seattle while attempting tt
e from the floor.
Horticulturists from all over east
b Washington and northern Idaho
thered in Spokane last week, the
casion being the second annua
Invention of the Inland Empire
brticultural and Horticultural asso
4tion.
During the 48 mile wind storm las
Iek a section Of wharf in Old Ia
ma was washed from its piling anC
ated out to sea. On the wharf
lnds small grocery store owned by
man named Johnson. They were
ALLY brought to shore and safel.
bored.
George w. Middleton, aged 20, com
tied suicide last week at Cheney
Acing the muzzle Of a rife to his
tehead and pulling the trigger with
foot Middleton left letter say
girls had cost him his life, and
bouncing his determination to xii
mseH.
The senate committee on public
Hiding has authorized favorable
port on Senator Turner's bill appro
ating 100000 for public building
Spokane. The committee also au
brized favorable report on Sena
Fosters bill for a public building
Tacoma. but reduced the appropria
IN from $3.50, 900 to $550.OOO.
At New Whatcom, while the six chill
en Of Robert Shield were gathered
bund a stove a water tank. which
d frozen as the result of blizzaro
Itch had commenced during the
kht. exploded. injuring all six. Frank
years Of age, suffered double
mpound fracture of the left thigh
may die. Pearl, aged Z, was pad
cut by flying pieces of iron. Inc
pm was completely wrecked.
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