The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-10-16

ers are at work in the three packing
houses.
The proposition to issue 100000
worth of school bonds for building
purposes was just barely defeated by
the voters at Spokane last week.
Edward Day, the 16 year old son of
William Day, living at Spokane, &C
cidentally shot himself while hunting
ducks last Sunday and now lies dead.
According to advices received from
the coast folmaldehyde or borax has
been found in nearly all canned meats
prepared by the big packing houses of
the west.
At Walla Walla Sunday the most
destructive fire that has occurred in
years was discovered at the rear of
the lumber yard and planning mill
owned by Whitehouse, Crimmins &
Co. The loss is 100000. The blaze
was undoubtedly of incendiary origin.
Willie Davis, the 16 year old son
of William Davis of Steptoe Butte, was
fatally injured recently by being
kicked in the temple by horse. The
boy fell through a hole in the floor
of a hay loft behind the horse, which
kicked him, fracturing his skull.
Samuel Hill, president of the State
Good Roads association, has been ap-
pointed by the association as its rep
resentative to go to Washington and
urge upon congress the appropriation
of money to assist in the building OF
highways in the various states, with
a special view to securing appropri
ations for Washington.
Herbert Macarthur, manager Of the
Blalock Fruit company, has received
returns from three cars of prunes
shipped direct to London and Liver
pool markets from the orchard neal
Walla Walla. 1t required just 33 days
for the shipment to reach it's desti
nation and the fruit was in excellent
condition, having been forwarded il
refrigerators. This is the first ex
pertinent of the kind.
A large number of valuable docu
ments, dating back as far as 1853
have been found among a lot of ole
rubbish stored in the state ormory
in Olympia. The existence of some
of the papers were known to exist
but had been lost for 10 years. Amons
the latter are the muster rolls o
Washington and Oregon volunteer!
who participated in suppressing the
Indian insurrection in 1857.
Four Cinnamon tied to bedposts
with gunnysacks over their heads ant
gags in their mouths, was the seem
that greeted a countryman when h
returned to his home near North Yak
ina. The house had been entered b.
robbers, looted of all valuables, in
Guiding $3.50 in money, two gol
watches and a bulldog revolver. Flo
hours the four Cinnamon lay almos
frightened to death while the robber
carried on their looting.
The office of the state grain con
| missioner reports an unfortunate stat
of affairs in the condition of the whea
and other grain now arriving at Tf
coma. The losses to the shippers
considerable, and much of this los
? might be saved did the shippers bu
realize that in shipping wet grain int
{ the Sound country they are invitin
7 disaster, the humidity of the atmo
2 phere completing the damage begu
over the mountains. The grower
ought to be advised at once that graf
+ shipped wet, or even in a moist col
5 dition, does not dry out at this poll
Y at all. AS a general thing it heat
' and cakes.
: An Inland Empire exhibit is to
D gathered and displayed at the S
D Louis exposition. At meeting he
recently of representatives of a nuI
Der Of the eastern Washington cou
ties a general plan was agreed upo
= 1t was decided to raise $4,000 cas-
of which Spokane county will contri
n ute one-half and the following cou
ties will make uD the other 5000
p Whitman, Adams, Lincoln, Dougla
CAelan, .Okanogan, Ferry and Ste
O ems. Each county is to select one ms
and the nine selected will have chars
= of the exhibits and the eXpenditu
of the money. 1t was decided tn
q each county should label its exhibi
separately, so that due credit W
i be given to every locality represente
# Judgment for Five Millions.
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