Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1902-01-24
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

AueTe were 3ti alarms OF IRE IN Sc
attic last year.
A social club Of men has been or.
ganized in Cheney.
Thomas Harbine died in Tacoma last
week. aged SO years.
The fourth annual Poultry show at
Pullman was 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-
cletion was organized In Seattle last
week.
The expense of running Spokane
county's business affairs for 1901 was
$255,41749.
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 afoat again.
The order of Red Men will hold
winter carnival at Walla Walla from
February to s.
jerome Rice, postmaster at Fairfield.
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect April l, 1902.
The state agricultural college will
have two intercollegiate debates this
year with Whitman.
kenewick is rejoicing over the pros
poets OF getting water for irrigation
Portland over $50 miles OF wire.
The price OF wood in Pendleton con-
tinues high, with tendency to rise.
Cut slab wood in Walla Walla is $4.75
per cord, and fir and tamarac bring So.
the coming season.
About $50 delegates attended the
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 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
a million and a half dollars will be
spent on facilities.
The state board OF control consisting
Of three members will on February 10
tons under its control.
Trinity Episcopal church, the fines,
church in Seattle, was to ally destroyed
by fire at 2 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, well
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 short time ago,
has suffered the amputation of his left
arm at the shoulder.
The state agricultural experiment
station will give series OF farmers
institutes at Thornton, January 81 and
%; Sunset, 20 and 80; st. John, Janu-
AIRY 81 and February !.
Washington's congressional delega-
ton was before the house committee
on rivers and harbors the past week,
urging appropriations for Washington
rivers and harbors. II asked for n
grand total of $2,457.867, and OF this
sum 1888 900 is wanted for eastern
Washington rivers. OF this latter sum
an even half million is asked to star.
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-
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