The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1903-05-16
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

year.
Heavy shipments OF potatoes are
being made from Garfield 10 Kansas
City and Texas points.
W w. Ranfrew OF Coltax, former
county clerk. has bought the Bank u
Elberton from ii. W Roberts.
Ralph Niles OF Whitman academy
won the inIeraCademic defamation
contest ar Walla WaEa recently.
Bert Fuller Of Pendleton. Ore. was
drowned in the waste ditch Of the Yak
ma Milling company Saturday night.
A steady. soaking rain which will
oe OF ineStimab,e value TO the gram
crop OF the Palouse country. fell last
sunday.
A letter has been received from
Marcoui, the inventor OF wireless
Biography, stating that he would visit
Spokane in June.
The semicentenntal reunion Of the
Pioneers association Of Washington
will be held at Madison park. Seattle
on June 2 and ,.
The little son OF Henry Schlehube~
who lives north OF Pennington. was
kicked by a horse recently. causing
fracture OF the skull
The members OF the Spokane C. A
Z. propose 10 give a royal entertain
nent to fellow veterans when the de
}artment encampment meets in Spo
zane In May.
The German steamship Anub.s
smashed into the south grain eonveyo-
and dock OF elevator Is at Tacoma re
Gently, causing damage estimated at
between $4,000 and $4,000
At Whatcom fire recently destroyed
the dry kiln and shlrgle shed. togeth r
with 100000 shingles, belonging 10
the Hastings Shingle company OF Van
couver, B, c. Loss 10000.
The electric light company has an
bounced that 1t will at once entirely
replace its line Of poles and wire n
Asotin. The company now has about
$50 lights in use in Asotiu.
A carload-about $50 head-oS stock
hogs was shipped from Garfield recent
" to Spokane The pigs weighed from
50 to l25 pounds each. Eight cents
per pound was paid for them.
The Pasco country is to be irrigated
at last. Water is to be secured from
Snake river and to be raised to a do
sired level by an immense pumping
plant. It is said. at Five Mile rapids.
Tommy Saiuskin. an Indian. was
killed recently at Big Cottonwood on
the upper Ahtanum He got into 4
fight with some Indians over a horse
when George Ward hit hIm with \
stone, killing him almost instantly.
The May apportionment Of current
school funds will exceed any othr-
quarterly apportionnent ever made IN
this state by over 5000 900 The state
auditor certified to he amount avail.
able for distribution among the school
districts placing II ut 1906 6s5.
Mrs. Kahlert died at a Spokane hos
pttal recently Of pemphlgus. Penn
nhlgus Is a verv peculiar disease and
literally skins the patient alive. The
disease originates in large blister.
Other blisters form and. expanding.
AXE the skin OF the patient. It is al
ways fatal.
The government has ordered 4 zen
eral investigation Of the status Of In.
liam allotments which may result In
he cancellation Of 4 number OF such
,laims on the Colville reserve and the
throwing open to settlement and Entry
~ citizens Of some OF the best lands
n eastern Washington.
A contract has been awarded by the
Pierce County Improvement company.
which is Harvesting the glaciers n
Mount Tacoma for power for four OF
he largest turbine wheels In the world.
rhe giant generators will develop 1900
lOrse power each and are II feet IN
iiameter. They are to supply electric
for Tacoma and the nearby
places.
George G. Hackett Of Boston Is In
for the purpose OF erecting
arge refrigerator plant and arranging
or the establishment Of a line Of 100
refrigerator cars between Seattle and
EASTERN markets. In these his com
ANY will ship from Puget sound fresh
ialmon, halibut smelt and other fish
o all points in the United States. Each
ar has capacity Of 25 tons net and
will be shipped 10 times each year.
George T. Mcconnell, an Odd Fellow
or nearly a half century, is dead az
Val'a Walla, aged 60
Angus J. McPhall Of Darlington,
Wash, shot and killed Fred Anderson.
saloonkeeper. MCPhail is in the hands
4 the authorities here. Business jeal.
'usy Is said to be the cause Of the
Iced
An artesian flow Of water has been
truck on the Rlalsck fruit farm near
Valla Walla at distance Of $50 fee.
The water runs 80 gallons per minute.
md comes to the surface at a tempers.
Te Of 10 degrees.
Thirteen city prisoners, serving
hort terms for miaor offenses, took
he hinges of a door Of the Seattle
all and escaped. Twenty other prison.
rs declined to go out into the dark.
less and stayed until new hinges wera
ut on the door.
Shamrock III, Tried Enounh