The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-01-24
FOUR NORTHWESTERN STATES
NEWS is BRIEFLY TOLD HERE
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week
Every section Shows General
Growth-Many Accidents Occur
Personals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


There were S77 alarms of fire in Sc
attic last year.
A social club of men has been or
ganized in Cheney.
Thomas Harbine died in Tacoma last
week, aged 80 years.
The fourth annual Poultry show at
Pullman was a success.
Work on the Seattle-Tacoma street
car line has been resumed.
The Fairhaven city council has decid- |
ed to make that an open town.
Cheney and the neighboring commu-
mites held coyote drive last week.
The State Hotel Mems association
was organized in Seattle last week.
The Pacific Northwest Racing asso-
week.
The expense of running Spokane
county's business affairs for 1901 was
$255, 417.49.
North Yakima is to have a sheep
shearing plant that will be the largest
in the state.
The steamer Fairhaven. which ran
on the rocks at Miller Point last week,
is a1oat again.
The order of Red Men will hold a
winter carnival at Walla Walla from
February to 8.
Jerome Rice, postmaster at Fairfield,
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect April 1, 1902.
Kenewick is rejoicing over the pros
poets of getting water for irrigation
the coming season.
The state agricultural college will
have two intercollegiate debates this
year with Whitman.
About $50 delegates attended the
J fifth state labor congress of Washing
! ton at Tacoma last week.
Student Ray and "Bruiser" Ford
slugged each other for ten rounds at
University in Seattle last week. 1t
was the sixth of a series of battles for
which purses are said to have been Civ
en-.
The N. P. and G. N. companies are to
have a union depot at Seattle. Over
million and a half dollars will be
spent on facilities.
of three members will on February 10
start to make the round of the institu-
lions under it's control.
Trinity Episcopal church, the finest
church in Seattle was to ally destroyed
by fire at o'clock Monday morning.
Property loss about $4,000.
The movement to induce homeseek-
ers to locate in the Inland Empire
should be heartily supported by every
body, both in city and country.
The marriage of S. w. George, we'll
known as the blind man running fruit
stand at a Spokane variety theatre, and
Miss Anna c. Haines was solemnized
last week.
The young man named Prendergast
living below Daisy, who shot himself
in the breast and arm a short time ago
has suffered the amputation of his left
arm at the shoulder.
The state agricultural experiment
station will give a series Of farmers
institutes at Thornton, January q and
%; Sunset, 20 and 80; st. John, Janu-
airy 81 and February l.
w oohAbS bOh NOlt3 CoolOldl QClC6o
ton was before the house committee
on rivers and harbors the past week
urging appropriations for Washington
rivers and harbors. 1t asked for a
grand total of $2,457, 1867, and of this
sum $553,O00 is wanted for eastern
Washington rivers. OF this latter sum
an even half million is asked to start
work on the obstruction in the Colum
bia river between The Dalles and Ce
lilo. These distractions overcome, and
minor improvements made of the
Snake river, it will be feasible to trans
port the products of eastern Washing
ton and northern Idaho directly from
the fields, forests and mines, to sea
going vessels on the lower Columbia
The delegation declared to the com
mittee that this project affects more
directly more people in the two states
than any other, and is of more import
ance to them than any other"
IDAHO GLEANINGs.
Agitation looking toward the incor
poration of Wardner has resulted il