The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-06-12
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Skagit county's oat crop promises
. fine yield.
The Great Northern is erecting new
depots at Ephrata and Milan.
More farmers have gone into sugar
beet raising this year than ever before.
The total receipts at the Tacoma
postoffice for the past month were
$SO6s.63.
It is reported that the Great North.
ern will build a line from Republic to
Wenatchee.
Uly Gaisford. one of the weaithies.
stockmen Of the Methow country, was
drowned last week.
George H. Martin has been appoint
ed manager of the Spokane Interstate
Fair Association.
During the month Of May 140 home
stead filings were made in the North
Yakima land ONCE.
Del Cary Smith of Spokane was re-
elected grand president of the Eagles
at Minneapolis last week.
1t is announced that the Washington
& Great Northern road will be COM
pleted to Republic by July 1.
Eastern capitalists are making ar
rangements to establish a cold storage
plant at North Yakima this summer.
The crop prospect throughout the
Palouse country is better than it has
ever been at this season of the year.
Frank Morrison. general secretary OF
the American Federation. and Presi-
dent Gompers will be in this state in
July.
L. II. Spawn Of Prescott has re-
ceived what is said to be the first gaso-
line engine in the county designed for
running a threshing machine.
Mike Lahey fell between two fat
cars Of a moving train near Lamona
recently and his body was almost cut
in twain. Death was instantaneous.
The British shin Ganges. sailed from
Tacoma last week for South Africa
with cargo Of Washington oats and
hay for the British army, valued at
/ $117,776.
A bad train wreck occurred on the
Northern Pacific railroad last week at
Eagle Gorge, near Tacoma, in which
two locomotives and several cars were
demolished.
Professor c. A. Barry of the Wash
ington Agricultural. College. mad his
hands painfully burned last weeh
while trying to extinguish fire which
was destroying some lace curtains.
It is rumored that Kerr. Clifford
Co.. grain dealers and exporters a
Portland and Tacoma, have bought thu
warehouse rights 1t Tekoa belonging
to the Spokane Grain & Milling Co.
Good reports come from the peacl
sections east Of the mountains. ant
the outlook for apples is. on the whole
favorable. But cherries. prunes AM
pears have dropped on SO that only
small crop is left.
Senator Foster has introduced II
the house. and which was fayorabl
reported. extending the time one yea
from the passage of the act for mah
ing sal procf on desert land entric
in Yakima Ct unity.
In the case of Mate Elby Dove
; drowned from the steamer Camar
when that vessel was lost. the treact
erous Columbia refuses to give up 1t
dead. The same is true as to Majo
, Smith, who recently tried to jun
from one Of the steamers to the whar
and was drowned.
The jury in the Case Of the stat
r against st. John Dix. charged wit
wrecking two banks in Whatcom coul
ty, while under his control. returne
= verdict of guilty of larceny by en-
bezxlement. Dix was arrested in Lol
don. England. about four months az
t and after stubborn resistance was e,
4 tradited.
|, (;sncraI Randall, comma ,GinY III
E department II the Columbia. recenil
? detailed to investigate sites in Wss!
r ington for the establishment III re
: maoent camp grounds for ins..nc':n
: 1T ~. .ps ri The regular arm and NJ
5 tional .un..l. ras made his repor,. sta
g ing thst cot the three sites, tho FIR:
q under consideration. that Is mile
}. east Of the city Of Spokane, is the or
q think is best"