The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

begin Immediately.
Broker Howard ]. Kressly of Spo-
kane is still among the missing and the
warrant issued for his arrest remains
unserved
All four national banks of Spokane
show decided increase in the report
which has been prepared for the comp
troller of the currency.
Just $3.50 for each meadow lark is
what two birds cost Leo Denzel and
John Hopkins, two young men of Spo-
kane for killing the birds.
Reports come from the Horse Heav-
en- country that the wheat crop for
this year is practically ruined and
hundreds of farmers will be ruined
financially.
Officials of the new Occur d'Alene
& Spokane Street Railway company
have received $50 carloads of rails and
materials for the new line, from Pu-
.eblo Col.
Contracts are soon to be let for the
construction of an irrigation system
which will furnish water for 226 acres
of land owned by that company at
Kirby.
The recent rain was general through
out nearly all parts of the Inland EN-
pire, according to reports from the
principal towns, and was of great value
to the growing crops.
The dead body of a man was found
in the Yakima river recently 20 miles
below Kiona. 1t is supposed to be
the corpse of a section hand who fell
into the river at Ellensburg.
Governor Mcbride has named R. c.
McCroskey of Garfield, Wash, and
Frank ]. Barnard of Seattle as regents
of the state agricultural college. Both
men succeed themselves and each viii
serve a term of six years.
Horatius won the second Seattle
Derby on a slow track against field
of eight starters, in 2:121s, coming I'M
der the wire two and one-half lengths
ahead of Polonius, with Fossil third,
killed off in the early pace.
The dry kilns of the Monarch Shin
gle company at Blaine were destroyed
by fire recently. Six million shingles
were burned, entailing a loss of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. The insur
ance is about half the loss.
A leading hop buyer of North va
kima who went over the valley on
tour of inspection reports that he
found the hop fields in better condi.
ton than at this time last year, with
good indications of a crop equally as
good as last year.
4 20 year old son of Simeon Evans,
Ellensburg, while driving to the cream
cry recently fell off the wagon and the
wheel, striking his head, completely
scalped one side. The glancing blow
saved the boys life
Charles Billings, former sheriff of
Thurston county, selected to succeed
Jesse Mills, who has been appointed on
the state board of control, has declined,
and Edward McClarty, veteran of the
Spanish-American war, has been ap-
pointed in his stead.
The directors of the Seattle National
bank and the Boston National bank
have each adopted resolutions to con-
solidate these two institutions, form
ing a new one with capital and sur
plus of 100000 and taking the name
of the Seattle National bank.
Major Silas Wolf of the Nineteenth
infantry will be the battalion COM
mander of the four companies of that
regiment which will be quartered at
Fort Wright at Spokane to succeed the
two companies of the Seventeenth, that
will leave for the Philippines on the
goth.
A number Of the members of the
Spokane Rod and Gun club will attend
the shoot at Dayton on June &c, 81
and 2S. This shoot, given by the
Sportsman's Association of the North
west, is the biggest event of the year
in gun circles. Shooters from Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, British Column
bia and Washington will take part.
Governor Mcbride has announced
the appointment of the Lewis and
Clark exposition committee of the state
of Washington. 1t consists of Hon. ].
G. Megler. Brookfield; Colonel F. ].
Parker, Walla Walla; w. w. Tolman,
Spokane; Hon. G. w. R. Peaslee, Clark
ston; Hon. R. P. Thomas, Anacortes;
Hon. Thomas Harrington, Buckley;
Hon. George Lindsey. In this list
Messrs. Tolman, Peaslee, Thomas,
Harrington and Lindsey are also mem
bers of the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition commission of the state of Wash
ington, while Messrs. Megler and Par
ker we're on the preliminary board of
the Portland exposition.