The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-03-27
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Conductors and gripmen OF the Ia
coma street Car company went on
strike SUNDAY morning.
The funeral OF the late S. S. Glidden,
the SPOKANE banker, was held Monday
afternoon from the family residence III
Spokane.
For the first time in the history OF
Tacoma the gambling houses are
closed, and closed Tor good.
Deep Greek Jones was recently
appointed by Governor Mcbride a
member of the state board OF control.
The law requiring saloons TO remain
closed on Sundays was observed at
Vancouver last Sunday for the first
time in a number of years.
A monster snow and land slide, 300
feet wide, carried away the Spokane
Falls & Northern railroad bridge at
Hendricks cut last week. The bridge
spanned the Columbia river.
Gmcers of the First National Bank
of Clarkston which has just been or
ganized, have received the bank char
ter from the comptroller of currency
1t is said the bank will be opened Tor
business about May 1.
Brigadier General Frederick r. Fun
ston has arrived at Vancouver bar
racks, where he will assume command
of the department of the Columbia, re
leving General George M. Randall,
who has been ordered to the Pnllip-
pines.
The presidents train is to leave Wal
la Walla at $3.50 p. m. May 25, and
proceed to Wallace, Idaho, stopping
for five minutes at Tekoa. He leaves
Wallace the next morning, reaches
Spokane at 2:35 p. m, stops here three
and one half hours, and leaves for Mon
tana, presumably by the Northern Pa
cifc, at 6:05 p. m
The game law passed by the last leg
islature is more complicated than any
of it's predecessors, for the reason that
an effort was made to suit the cOndi-
lions of every county. SpOrtsmen who
have examined the new law pronounce
it satisfactory.
The Seattle grand jury has voted to
indict Justice r. II. Cam and Police
Judge George of Seattle precinct, ac
cused of malfeasance in Office in their
failure to take steps to suppress gam
bling and other vices tolerated by tbs
present administration.
D. A. Brodie chief of the PuyalluT
experiment station, has received d
commission from the department of ag
riculture at Washington, d. c., to re
port at once to St. Louis, Mo-, to take
charge of an exhibit to be made neXt
year by the bureau of plant industry.
One of the largest real estate deals
ever made in the PalOuse country was
closed at Colfax last week. By Its
terms 5000 acres of land in Whitman
and Garfield counties, Washington
and Latah county, Idaho, have beer
sold and a vast sum of eastern money
brought into that country.
Governor Mcbride has filed the gen
eral appropriation bill, after pairing i
down in the amount of $77,309.73. II
addition to this he vetoed the section
of the Portland fair bill that appropri
ates $4,000 and disapproved in theil
entirety seven other bills carrying ap
, preparations, thus reoucing the burdeT
on the general fund of the state in thu
grand total of 1899. 960.12.
Only one other bill making an apprO
nriation NOW rernairs in the cover
nor's hands. 1t is the tax commission
bill ana carries $4,000. If this is no
vetoed the appropriations of the eight
legislature will aggregate $2.407, 459.S
on the general fund and $7O6 1922 OIL
special funds.