The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-01-31
-FOUR NORTHWESTERN STATES
NEWS rs BRIEFLY TOLD HERE.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week
Every Section shows General
Growth-Many Accidents Occur
Personals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

w VS.
Henry l.. Leland, a prominent Ia
coma commission man, is dead.
w. A. Lewis stands convicted of the
crime of larceny by embezzlement at
Spokane.
Gov. Mcbride makes a positive an
nouncement that there will be no extra |
session now.
Manager Grim, of Spokane league
team. has signed king" Kelly and
Charles Elsey.
At Northport, Miss Jennie M. Bar
low committed suicide last week by
taking strychnine. She lived with her
uncle, Robert Morrill,.
Wesley & McRae, the big sheep rails
ers of Yakima county, are making ar
rangements to ship 5000 head of sheep
to Chicago in February.
Intimation comes from the depart
ment of justice that Attorney General
Knox will recommend the abandon
ment of the Mcneil island peniten-
tiary.
Quincy, Wash, is a new town To-
Gated on a large prairie eight miles
from the Columbia river and so level
that the trains of the Great Northern
can be seen for twelve miles.
Fruit Inspector Beck has notified all
the fruit growers that the cottonwood
trees and willows near their places
must be cut down at once, on account
of being infested with San Jose scale.
At Wenatchee, George Washington,
an Indian known all over the north
western portion of the state, was found
dead on the railroad track. near the
crossing to the Touring mill, last
week.
A number of small boats more or
less injured, many buildings along the
water front damaged, and business of
all sorts completely crippled, is the
record of a storm that swept over Sc
attic last week.
Otto Cawthorn, an 1S-year-old boy
E employed to run the elevator in the
Standard Furniture company's build
ing, was almost instantly killed last
week at Seattle while attempting to
rise from the floor.
Horticulturists from all over east
: ern Washington and northern Idaho
{ gathered in Spokane last week, the
occasion being the second annua
c convention of the Inland Empire
Horticultural and Horticultural asso
+ citation.
i During the 4S mile wind storm las
}, week a section of wharf in Old Ia
|. coma was washed from it's piling anC
/ floated out to sea. On the whar
n stands a small grocery store owned b!
}. a man named Johnson. They were
a finally brought to shore and safel.
e moored.
Il George w. Middleton. aged 20, com
). mitted suicide last week at Cheney
l. placing the muzzle of a rifle to hi
e forehead and pulling the trigger will
d his foot. Middleton left letter say
ing girls had cost him his life, ant
y announcing his determination to Kill
X himself.
a The senate committee on public
1t building has authorized a Favorable
l. report on Senator Turner's bill apprc
Is priating $4,000 for a public building
% at Spokane The committee also AT
e thorized favorable report on Sena
IS tor Fosters bill for a public buildin
'e at Tacoma, but reduced the appropria
y ton from $3.50, 900 to $55O,OOO.
ID At New Whatcom, while the six chi
dren of Robert Shield were gathere
S around a stove a water tank. whic
"a had frozen as the result of blizzar
Ot which had commenced during tn
IN night, exploded, injuring all six. Franz
is 13 years of age, suffered a doubl
in compound fracture of the left thigh
lie and may die. Pearl, aged Z, was bat
IN ly cut by flying pieces of iron. Tn
is room was completely wrecked.