Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1902-03-14
.l0UR NORTHWESTERN STATES
rrws HERE IS BRIEFLY TOLD.
~ oice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week -
Every section shows General
Growth-Many Accidents Occur
Personals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Walla Walla convicts can not be
taken out to break rock
The North Yakima high school ca
diets this week received so stands Of
arms from the Springfield arsenal
A rear end collision occurred on the
| Great Northern, three milest west of
Wenatchee, recently. AS a result Lee
/ D. Ferryman. head brakeman, is dead.
The biggest gambling war in the his
! tory Of Seattle Is on. and from the way
things are now shaped up it is not i'm
| possible that King Faro" will slumber
| for two years.
Ex-United States Senator John B. Al
len of Seattle has been brought out as
candidate for secretary of the in.
terror in President Roosevelt's cabinet
by Senator Foster. 1t is generally ex-
pected that Secretary Hitchcock will
resign shortly.
BY vote of 10 to 13 the Commercial
club of Yakima decided at a recent
meeting to indorse resolution exclud-
ing all stock from the Rainier forest re-
serve after 1902.
Plans for gigantic excursion to Salt
Lake City, to attend the session of the
grand lodge, to be held there August
u, 10 and IA, are being made by the
members of the lodge of Elks in the
state.
The lumber manufacturers of east
ern Washington are getting from $3.50
to So and $40 increase in the price of
some varieties of lumber over what
they were receiving from eight to
twelve months ago.
Spokane County Treasurer Mudgett
reports that during February collec-
tons of real estate taxes were $685.
279.99 in excess of February of last
year, and the personal tax collections
were sac, 330.21 in excess.
]. ]. Layton, a trusy in the Asylum
for the Insane, at Steilacoom, commit
ted from the Soldiers Home, at Or
ting, two years ago. was found dead in
the woods near the asylum recently
He had cut his throat with jack
knife. He served in an Indiana regi-
ment.
The fate of j. O. Stoneburner, the
barber who SO mysteriously disappear
ed from Waitsburg. has been cleared
up and he will soon be plying his old
trade in Waitsburg. He states that he
is at work in Lewiston and will return.
The missive tells tale Of peculiar de-
nent1a.
The United States transport Dix,
Captain w. w. Hopkins, departed last
week from Seattle for Manila with
cargo of 1000 tons, consisting of 49,
900 bales Of hay, $4,000 sacks of oats
and 1900 sacks of bran. Five head of
horses were also carried. The Dix will
proceed direct to Manila.
Two highwaymen entered the sa-
loon of Thomas Hyde at Franklin last
Saturday night, and without any
warming, shot and killed Martin
Johnson, the bartender. Twelve men
were in the saloon at the time and
they were all robbed. The burglars
escaped and have not yet been caught.
Frank Church and H. G. Jacobs. ad-
vertising men of the Everett Daily
Record, were drowned Sunday after
noon by the capsiZing of small sail
boat in sqaull. John Costello, a
boy. was rescued. AS the boat over
turned all managed to cling to the
gunwale, young Church cheering up
his companions. Soon Jacobs re-
leased his hold. Church following
,iithin few seconds. The bodies
We're not recovered.