The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-08-07
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-Cullings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


The hay harvest is now in full blast
and many men are finding employ
ment.
Mr.. Thee sold his farm of 800 acres
not far from Uniontown recently for
$50 per acre.
A commercial club has been formed
by Wilbur business men to advance
the towns interests.
What is stated to be the first death
from smallpox in Spokane for three
and a half years occurred last week.
The man cut in two by a Great
Northern train at Spokane last week
has been identified as Elmer Ofill.
American salmon Gamers have en-
tered the market as buyers of sockeyes
on the Fraser river, British Columbia
The Farmers Alliance Warehouse
company, with warehouses located at
Fallon, has declared Is per cent divi-
dend
The supreme court has decided that
bank checks issued for money ad-
vanced for the purpose of gambling are
void
Mr.. Pugh of Huntsville was eating a
carrot recently it choked and is ex-
pected to die.
Peter ]. Gessner, for Is years one
of the best known gamblers in Seattle,
recently committed suicide by taking
carbolic acid.
Farmers are haying and few pieces
Of ov~Ixr 90
but harvesting generally will not be-
gin for a week yet.
William G. Roberts, Tacoma manag-
er for Kerr, Clifford & Co., was drowned
recently in Henderson bay by the cap
sizing of a rowboat.
Seattle celebrated her fiftieth birth
day last Thursday in appropriate style
There was a big parade, in which fully
1000 persons participated.
AS shown by the monthly report is
sued yesterday, the postoffice in Spo-
kane did $2,175.73 more business dur
ing the July just passed than it did
during July in 1902.
The transcOntinental railroads en-
gagged in a large amount of cOnstruc-
ton work in western Washington have
sent east to secure a sufficient supply
of labor to carry on their work
John Berg of Whatcom, Pacific coast
heavyweight champion wrestler, re-
Gently defeated Frank Coleman, claim
ing the middlweight championship of
America, gaining two out of three falls
At a recent meeting of the directors
10 To-
Ike Harris was elected manager fol
the ensuing year. The fair will be held
from the 18th to the 18th of October
The population of Ellensburg has in
creased almost 1000 since the natiOna
census was taken. The recent census
shows a population May 1, of 3472
but it is generally conceded that it i:
fully 1000 now.
The governor has appointed DR.. f
e. Shaw of Walla Walla as member o
the state board of medical examiner
for a term ending May %, 1906. HI
succeeds j. H. Hoxsey of Spangle
/, term expired.
The Washington Sugar company a
Waverly will more than double it's out
put this year as compared to last year
This announcement was made recent,
b by d. c. Corbin, president of the com
pany.
Matthew A. Mathers. who recent
died at the home of his son on Mora
prairie near Spokane was S4 years oil
at the time of his death, and had bee
a resident of Washington for man
years. Mr.. Mathers served through tn
Mexican war.
The remains of Arthur H. Ganounl
who died recently, were buried at Che
welah by the Masonic fraternity, c
which the deceased had been a men
2 Der since 1850 Mr.. Ganoung was
) his SD year when he died He fol
2 merely lived at Waterville, Wash.N
7 Campbell Bros show train wa
wrecked on the Northern Pacific, b.
r tween Pennington and Belmont, las
= week. In rounding a curve the 20 foe
l property fatcar jumped the track an
2 was totally demolished. No one wa
i injured, but the property loss wa
f heavy.
S Charles Meyers, an aXman in the en-
+ ploy of the Columbia Impro"emer
: company at Electron. 80 miles sout
of Tacoma, was caught under an in
mense boulder rolling down the moul
tainside and crushed to death. He
a supposed to have relatives in Elizi
q beth, n. j.
e The Spokane police believe that tn
q highwaymen who held up two stree
!, cars are men who have recently bee
e committing similar desperate deed