The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-10-30
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The business men of Chewelah met
last night and organized the Chewelah
Commercial club.
The finest art exhibit ever displayed
in Pullman was on exhibition at the
state college last week.
The Ferry county commissioners
have fixed the tax levy for the ensu-
ing year at 25.4S mills on the dollar.
An attempt is to be made at We
natchee to hold a midwinter flower
show, to be participated in solely by
children under the age of Is.
While working for the Potlatch Lum-
Der company in the timber a few miles
above Palouse, William Johnson was
seriously injured by falling tree.
The University of Washington foot
ball team simply walked away with
the Whitman college eleven Saturday
afternoon, the final score being 35 to 0.
The consumption of paper in the In
land Empire has reached the point
where the establishment of a paper
mill in Spokane would be justified by
the market.
The body of George Wilson was
found recently lying by the railroad
track one mile west of Leavenworth.
He had apparently been killed by a
train during the night
Bert Taylor has been taken from
Colfax, Wash, to the penitentiary to
serve the three year sentence inflicted
for horse stealing. He had hereto
fore an excellent reputation.
The mills and material men of Ia
coma have joined FORCES with the con-
tractors association and refuse to sell
any building materials to the unions or
any of their representatives.
Chester Murray, boy about IA
years of age, the son of John Murray,
prominent resident of Roy, was kill
/, ed Sunday afternoon by being struck
with a bat while playing ball at Roy.
The steamship Lyra, arrived at Ia
coma from Manila recently with the
largest cargo of hemp that ever cross
ed the Pacific ocean in any vessel, ag
gregating 2,142,OOO pounds and being
valued at $734,000.
A Seattle brewing company has pur
: chased a vacant lot at Pullman and
: will erect brick building to be occu
j. pied as a wholesale house, and viii
make Pullman the distributing poin
. for the Inland Empire.
The warehouses at Sweetwater are
y receiving about 1000 sacks Of gail
> daily and shipping about 1900 day
with no agent at the depot. Grain Ii
turning out much better than farmer
y anticipated.
Last week finished up the grain har
70 vest in the Palouse section and tn
> crop is now all under shelter. Ret
70 able estimates give a shortage of 4
&c per cent in the amount of grain haule
10 to the warehouses as compared wit
last year.
u Northern Pacific Counsel Grosscu
IL of Tacoma says that too much in
lo portance has been attached to the RICH
W of way ruling. The suit was brough
10 to GUST settlers in certain places an
the company will not proceed agains
&c desirable occupants of land.
10 School teachers of Minneapolis VIII
IL went on an excursion last summer
e take up timber lands in Chelan coul
10 ty, Washington, may become mixed u
10 in the timber land scandals. 1t is e.
pected that the teachers were the too
u of designing lumber men in synd
cate.
nc Mrs. Oscar Drumheller, wife of
~ wealthy farmer living near Wal
III Walla, narrowly escaped instaI
IL death by the overturning of buge
W in which she was riding. The hors
ran away, demolishing the vehicle ar
al seriously injuring Mrs. Drumheller.
ly What is believed to be the bigge
OK family in Washington held a fami
nd reunion at the home of Thomas Ma
IN. lock, one of the brothers, at Cola
es. recently, when IL sons and daughte
he of Preston H. Matlock, deceased, s.
ID, down to dinner together, the first tin
in 10 years. There are seven brot
ed ers and four sisters in the family, al
es their early childhood was spent
er, Whitman county, where their faith
rk settled at what is known as Matlo'
sx- bridge, on the Palouse river, 20 mil
he west of here, in 1875.
mt President Bryan of The Washingtc
Ill Agricultural college has arranged
In series of farmers institute. The s
lso ries will open at Wenatchee Mond
mel and Tuesday, November 2 and 3. T.
lis second of the series will be held
n.y. Waterville Wednesday and Thursds
November and 5, and the third
M. Chelan on Friday and Saturday. \
vemher G and z An institute will