The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-02-28
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Eight men deserted from Fort .Walla
Walla last week.
La Framboise, a former resident of
Colville, is missing.
John w. Goodwin was nominated for
mayor by the democratic convention
at Seattle.
The cable ferry at Chelan Falls,
which has been tired up during the
running of ice, has again resumed OPP
erations.
Representative Jones has introduced
a bill granting $4,000 acres to the state
of Washington for the benefit of the
state soldiers home.
Representative Jones has introduced
bill appropriating $4,000 to estab-
lish q fish hatchery in Yakima co<ty
for the propagation Of trout for stock
ing the Washington streams.
James Carrier, IL years of age, was
found dead Sunday morning under a
fallen tree near his home in Olympia.
He had felled the tree and failed to
get out of its way as it came down.
This is the municipal ticket nominal
ed by the Seattle republican conven-
ton last Friday: For mayor, Thomas
j. Humes; for comptroller, John Rip
linger; for corporation counsel, Nit
chell Gillian; for treasurer, Matt H.
Gormley.
Charles Lee dropped dead near his
home at Yakima City last week. Heart
failure was the cause. Mr.. Lee was a
pioneer of the Yakima valley and was
the largest bee keeper in central Wash
ington. He was 60 years old and
leaves family.
Fire partially destroyed the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredging company's
big dredger San Diego, anchored in Ell
lott boy, Friday afternoon. The fire
smouldered in the boiler-room for more
than two hours before it was discov-
cred.
Representative Jones will offer an
amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill appropriating $4,000 to defray the
expenses of transferring the Wenat-
chez Indians from their lands neal
Wenatchee to the south half of the
Colville reservation.
Mrs. Clara Malvern was shot to
death recently at her home in Sno
homish, but whether a case of suicide
or murder is unknown. Joe Malvern
piano player, went home in an in
toxicated condition and began a quar-
rel with his wife, during which a shot
was fired. Malvern claims that his
wife shot himself.
Forty thousand acrer in Douglas
county have been purchased from the
Northern Pacific company by syndi
cate company of Tacoma. For some
time past the parties have been oper
ating in the wheat lands in Adam!
and Douglas counties.
A special round trip rate of one fare
plus 50, has been made by the northern
transcontinental railroads in favor o
the homeseekers coming into the west
ern territory. This rate, which is al
extremely low one, went into effec
February 10, and will be effective up tt
and including May 20, 1902.
An unknown Indian was killed las
week at Ainsworth by the w. y Q. R
railroad train. The Indian wanted t,
cross the Snake river with a horse ant
buggy and planned to swim the horse
across and pull the buggy by ham
over the long Ainsworth bridge. H
was half way over with the buggy
when the train caught him and hurle
him off the bridge. He is said to hav
been badly mangled.
Stoke & Amery have arrived "a
Sprague with carload of pure Perch
eron horses and Hereford cattle fror
Kansas City. Among their purchase
are three of the first cows out of tn
5S head of the Armour estate, importe
from England the same week Stock
& Amery arrived in Kansas City. TIL
five Percheron horses from Iowa an
Illinois will average 1850 pounds eacf
OREGON NOTES.
Wheat went to- 81 cents for choic
bluestem at Pendleton last week.
The thriving town of FreeWater col