The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-10-09
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Wheat is pouring in from all direc- |
lions to Davenport and nothwithstand |
ing the fact that trainloads of the
staple are being shipped out, the ware
houses are overlooking and are COM
pelIed to build platforms to handle
the overflow. over a quarter of a
million of bushels of wheat have been
received and II is estimated that near
iy one-half of the crop is still upon
the farms. Little grain is being sold.
Frank Coleman, who claims Amer
ica's middleweight catchas-catch-can
wrestling championship, recently de-
feated Tom Davis at Whatcom, win
ming the first fall at the end of 1
hour and AZ minutes, and the second in
five minutes.
Frank Dudacek of Iowa, who bought
400 acres of the Edgar A. Torrance
farm, near Diamond, last spring for
$1,000, is expected this week in Col
fax with colony of his neighbors. Mr..
Dudacek's experience with Whitman
county farming has been such pleas
ing surprise to him that he is expected
to bring large number of farmers to
join the Iowa colony which settled
near DIAMOND ldSJ
With the completion of the Belling-
ham Bay & British Columbia line, d.
c. Corbin's new railway to connect
with the Canadian Pacific, and the
Occur d'Alene electric road into Spo-
kane it will be warranted in disputing
with Denver the title of being the
greatest railroad center of the west.
Today Spokane is distributing through
railroads in 10 general directions, not
counting branch lines into territory
reached in a general way by main
system. BY the first of the year the
new trolley line will have added a
fourteenth general distributor.
After four days session the Stew
ems county fair closed one of the most
successful expositions and race meets
ever held in the county. 1t is esti
mated that fully 10000 people visited
the fair during the season.
Exhibits may be shipped free to Spo
kane if destined for the great expo
sition at St Louis.
The city of Spokane tax levy this
year will be 13 mills, an increase o.
one mill over last year.
A daughter was born to Cromwell
M. Knowlton recently at Seattle. Jus
as the child was born into the worlC
Knowlton lighted a fuse to a can o
black powder in a small cabin shor
distance from his home and blew him
self into eternity. He attempted u
take a two-year-old daughter with him
but the little girl escaped with Sigh
injuries.
The pay roll for the Spokane schoo
teachers for the first month OF tn
school year amounted to $1S,079,SO.
All the butcher shops in Wall
Wala will close at 6 o'clock here
after.
The Lincoln county fair dates fror
Oct. 10 to II, inclusive, at Davenport
The judges at the fruit fair at Wall
Walla awarded c. r. Frasier tn
sweepstakes prize of $50 for the hes
individual display, he taking six frs
prizes in this class out of seven e.
hibits made at the fairs there.
A receiver has been appointed fo
Greenberg Bros. dry goods dealers {
Whatcom, at the instigatiOn of Sa
Francisco creditors. The aggregate {
the claims of the San Francisco house
is s95, 700. Their estimated assets al
$4,000.
The rapid growth of Palouse towr
causes a scarcity of houses.
The strike of linemen employed b
the Pacific States Telephone Tel
graph company has been official
called Off
BY the sale of 100000 Spokar
county refunding bonds the count
commissioners save the taxpayers
the county $4,000 in interest in IL
next ten years. The new bonds wei
sold at IL per cent interest, at $12C
premium and accrued interest.
A street carnival will be held
DAYTON, October 10 to II, under Il
auspices of the Layton camp, No. 0
w. O. w. This is the first carniv
ever held in Dayton.
Valuable records of the Cathol
church, which it will be impossible
replace, were destroyed by fire whi'
Quilted the residence of Bishop E
ward ODea at Seattle. The fire WI
caused by a defective fiue, and hi
it's origin adjacent to the room
which the records were kept.
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.