The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1902-02-14
FOURNORTHHtSItRN STATES.
NEWS HERE Is BRIEFLY TOLD,
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week -
Every section shows General
Gro~th-Nany Accidents Occur
Personals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The Palouse country is becoming {
regular network OF barb wire tele
phones.
Charles Donahue. third hassman. has
been $ gned 70 play with the Spokane
professional baseball club OF 1902.
The Meyers Falls postofiee and
depot were broken into last week
Small plumber was obtained at each
place.
The reunion at Waitsburg, Spokane
and Seattle OF men who fought in the
Philippines. was observed in an ap
propriate manner last week
During the recent storm the wind,
which attained very high velocity.
blew in the roof OF the Spokane Grain
& Milling company's mill warehouse
at Latah.
A statement compiled by the bureau
OF statistics OF the treasury depart
ment shows that during 1901 there
We're shipped out of Washington p. isl
cars of lumber.
The supervising architect has recon-
mended an appropriation OF 5000. O00
for three-story and basement build
ing at Tacoma, an increase of sl0e, uoa
over the former estimate
Principal J. H. Miller o. the state
normal school at Cheney. has rendered
his resignation. 10 take effect immedl-
ately. The resignation was accepted
by the board of trustees.
At an expense OF slightly over sT01
each. Dayton and Columbia county act
ing jointly, have purchased a rock
crusher. and are contemplating invest
ment in a rock roller 10 make better
roads.
OF fruit there went forward from
wenatchee for the Season oy express.
1854 boxes, aggregating loo. 432
pounds; by freight. 52.735 boxes, or
1,602.050 pounds. Wheat shipments.
51S.230 bushels. 1t is estimated that /
one third of the crop is still 10 be
moved
John Herbert Prentice, 81 years old 4
was shot and killed at the home of his
father. two miles west of Pullman. re-
Gently. under most peculiar circum-
stances A coroner's jury returned a
verdict of death from a gunshot
wound inflicted by his own hands. but
does not say whether It was suicide
or accident
William Buchholz of Prosser last
week reported TO the government stock
inspector that his sheep had been dy-
few days A peculiar thing about the
disease is that no one knows what it
is. Other sheepmen are becoming
and fear rapid spread OF the
plague among their stock
By the explosion of a gasoline can
in a steam laundry at North Yakima.
the building and part of the machinery
we're partly destroyed. Sith loss Of
about $1,000. The explosion took Mace
n the ironing room. on the second
story. and severely burned two women
employees. They escaped with their l
ives by jumping out OF window.
The road supervisors OF Walla
Talla county and other parts of south !
.astern Washington have been holding
iome interesting meetings. and it is
lot unlikely that important highway I
will follow. They have
greed that no community viii prosper
n the largest degree unless it has
GOD roads. ard they have gone about {
0 ascertain the best ways Of getting }
hem. {
Governor Mcbride has received let
er from Adjutant General Drain stat
ny that he has secured favorable ac- 4
ion on the claim for pay for the volun-
GERS who were rejected through phys
al disability at the time Of the forma- h
ion Of the First Washington at Camp Il
togers. The amount allowed by the u
ational government is 1888 There r
re about $50 men who are entitled TO
ay for their time in camp.