The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1903-08-22
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The state fair this year promises "a
be the best ever held.
The smut problem Is again facing
the threshing machine men Of the Pa.
louise country.
-Four dollars and q half per COW Il
the pront farmers OF Waila Walia dis.
triet are realizing from the dairying
industry.
A party OF Iowa farmers have pur.
chased about 10000 acres OF land in
Douglas county. around the town OF
WateFVilIe.
Burglars effected an entrance 10 the
once OF Kasler 4 Nicholson, lumber
dealers Of oakssdale. recently. and
blew open the safe.
Reports from the Puyallup valley
are TO the effect that the blackberry
crop has been seriously injured by the
recent hot weather.
George Steele Of spangie was seri.
ousiy injured recently by being struck
over the eye with a derrick fork while
working with q header.
Frank Ahalstrom, q Swedish section
hand working ON the Northern Pacific
a. Marshall. Is dead from q collision
With = train while riding 9 railroad
Teloeipede.
The wheat crop Is turning out bet
ter than WAS expected. Short grain
that Was thought would only average
from 10 TO is bushels per acre Is now
going from Is 10 20.
B. L. Davis was crushed 10 death by
falling tree in WIZARDS logging
camp near oFtihg. about 80 miles from
Tacoma. reeentiy. He was q single
man. recently from South Pennington.
Mass.
contEaets have been let for the
erection o. two large grain warehouses
BY the Puget Sound Warehouse com.
pany u Tacoma TO replace the strac
lures recently destroyed BY are Al
Pullman.
A wreck occurred on the Northern
Paeiae recently one mile east Of Gun.
ningham- No passenger train. heax.
iiy loaded. eFAs-s into the rear end
q freight train. but fortunately no
lives wer lost
The annual tournament 81 the Day.
export Rod a Gun club vas a great
saeress. The nee, was attended by
spoStsmen from all parts Of the state.
~ veil A. from idaho There was $500
prize money divided.
Coleman TieFney. q sailor between
Seattle and Alaska on the steamer
Spokane. vas killed By hitting him
on the bead with handouts recently
by Policeman W. II. Soaring Of Sc
attic. while resisting arrest. He was
drunk.
Prom - to 30 bushels per acre Is
the yield % wheat Monroe Martin.
an extensive farmer living on Aikali
Cat. = miles southwest of colfax. re-
ooiVeA from 100 acres II spring and
fAil Gown grain which be has finished
harvesting
u Is the opinion os State Auditor
John y Atklnaon. who IL cxonselo
chairman q the state board Of equal.
isasion. that the aggregate property
valuation 81 this state viii be raised
thia year BY tho county boards nearly
SEQ .ooo. 600 over last years total val.
uation. This means that. notwith.
standing tho Increased appropriation
By the last legislature. there viii be
no peceasity fnr an increase in the
stats levy over what Il has been for
The last Sin or eight years.
Governor Mcbride has appointed W.
l. Wright % North Yakima a. a mem.
Der q the state fair commission for
Washington. 10 succeed William II.
vesscy % North Yakima, who resign.
Cd on account u business Mr..
wrigh,'s term ends March -. 1905.
Tho open season for grouse. Part.
ridge. prairie chicken. sage hen. ma.
tive pheasant or p,armiRan has begun.
This applies however. only TO those
counties east ~ the Cascade noun.
'alna Tho season extends until No.
vembeF ia There IL an exception.
however. IN the case ~ Kiltitas coun.
~. where the season runs from Sep.
tembsr 10 10 October /. In other parts
~ tho state the open season IL from
September 10 January /. Tho open
season for swan. goose. HandhIll crane.
brant. snipo and ducks does not begin
until September /.
I, has just been learned that while
sinking an aTtesian well q few weeks
ago on the Blalock farm near walla
walla. owned by Finch a Campbell.
Spokane. a stratum Of coal. 10 feet
thick. At q depth Of 800 feet. was en-.
oountered. A sample of the material
sent to Pullman showed, II Is said. q
good quality of coal. The Blaiock
farm consists Of 700 acres. but a deal
IL pending TO add another hundred
acres. The local management refuses
to give out anything concerning the
deal.
Hope and Eunlce Faulds' daughter
of Postmaster Faulds OF Redmond.
we're drowned In Saminski slough
near Seattle recently. The two girls,
who are II and i6 years old. with a
cousin. were wading in the water Of
AZ. at...,.t. ,rhon Es,ntro afinDad into