The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-06-13
WASHINGTON.

Skagit county's oat crop promises
a fine yield.
The Great Northern is erecting new
depots at Ephrata and Milan.
More farmers have gone into sugar
beet raising this year than ever before.
The total receipts at the Tacoma
postoffice for the past month were
sS069.63
1t is reported that the Great North
ern will build a line from Republic to
Wenatchee.
Uly Gaisford, one of the weaithies.
stoclmen of the Methow country, was
drowned last week.
George H. Martin has been appoint
ed manager of the Spokane Interstate
Fair Association.
During the month of May 140 home
stead filings were made in the North
Yakima land office.
Del Cary Smith of Spokane was re-
elected grand president of the Eagles
at Minneapolis last week.
1t is announced that the Washington
& Great Northern road will be COM
pleted to Republic by July 1.
Eastern capitalists are making ar
rangements to establish cold storage
plant at North Yakima this summer.
The crop prospect throughout the
Palouse country is better than it has
ever been at this season of the year.
Frank Morrison, general secretary OF
the American Federation, and Presi-
dent Gompers will be in this state In
July.
L. H. Spawr of Prescott has re-
ceived what is said to be the first gaso-
| line engine in the county designed for
running threshing machine.
Mike Lahey fell between two fat
cars of a moving train near Lamona
recently and his body was almost cut
in twain. Death was instantaneous.
The British ship Ganges, sailed from
Tacoma last week for South Africa
with cargo of Washington oats and
hay for the British army, valued at
$117,776.
bad train wreck occurred on the
Northern Pacific railroad last week at
Eagle Gorge, near Tacoma, in which
two locomotives and several cars were
demolished
Professor c. A. Barry of the Wash.
ington Agricultural College, mad his
hands painfully burned last week
while trying to extinguish fire which
was destroying some lace curtains.
1t is rumored that Kerr, Clifford &
Co., grain dealers and exporters al
Portland and Tacoma, have bought the
warehouse rights at Tekoa belonging
to the Spokane Grain e. Milling Co.
Good reports come from the peacf
sections east of the mountains, ant
the outlook for apples is, on the whole
favorable. But cherries, prunes anC
pears have dropped off so that only {
small crop is left.
Senator Foster has introduced il
the house, and which was favorablN
reported. extending the time one yea
from the passage of the act for max
ing sal procf on desert lani entries
in Yakima &C unity.
In the case of Mate Elby Dovel
drowned from the steamer Canaan
when that vessel was lost, the treach
erous Columbia refuses to give up it
dead. The same is true as to Majo
Smith, who recently tried to juml
from one of the steamers to the whar
and was drowned.
The jury in the case of the stat
against st. John Dix, charged will
wrecking two banks in Whatcom coun
ty, while under his control, returned
verdict of guilty of larceny by EN-
bezzlement. Dix was arrested in Lon
don, England, about four months agt
and after stubborn resistance was ex
tradited.
6. iieTa, Randall, comma 1d;hg ;hi
/, department IF the Columbia. recent!
detailed to investigate sites in Wash
. ington for the establishment Of rer
maoent camp grounds for inssMct:ol
of 80 .ps ot The regular arm and ia
Jional .uly.l, fas made his report. stat
ing th't OF the three sites, the firc
under consideration, that IS miles
east of the city of Spokane, is the on
l think is best"