The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1903-11-14
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Falls Thursday.
walla walla county win work her
prisoners on the roads,
State Senator A. 5. Ruth Is very i'll
at his home In Olympia.
The fall rains have set in and the
winter wheat win benett.
Tekoa makes her Indian prisoners
work ont their fines on streets.
The voters Of Spokane have APP
proved the proposed 100000 bond is
sue for new school buildings and addi-
lions to present buildings.
A Walla walla uank will be open
for one hour. between Z and o'clock
b. m. to give working men and others
chance to transact business.
The annual Spokane County Teach
ers' institute, which closed Saturday.
was the most successful teachers
meeting ever held In the county.
The Spokane County Teachers in
stitute last week adopted a resolution
in favor Of employing teachers by the
year and paying them in 10 annual in
stallments.
The Spokane Benevolent & Protec-
tive Order OF Elks have made arrange
ments for the annual memorial serv-
ices Of the order. which will be held
on December s.
James Guthrie Harboard, formerly a
Spokane boy. and once a private at
Fort Spokane. has recently been pro
rioted by President Roosevelt. and is
now colonel OF the Tenth cavalry,
stationed in the Philippine Islands.
The indications are that a change
may yet be made in the route Of the
E. B. & B. C. railroad from whatcom
TO Spokane and that it may not come
through Hannegan pass in the Cas-
cades.
The extension OF the Sunnyside
ditch In Yakima county. which Is
considered practically assured by the
state land department, is but the FIRST
step. according to that department. in
series OF irrigation projects.
/ Nearly all Of the wheat grown In the
vicinity OF Mondovi Is In the ware
houses. Little has been shipped. and
IL is estimated that the total crop will
be about 10000 bushels. A depot Is
badly needed there.
] The Las. OF Washington's 1903 po
tato crop is being cleaned up by ma
chinery now II is expected the croE
for the state will be over 1000 0OC
Enthusiastically In excess OF last
years crop. The yield per acre Is moi
so heavy as last year. owing to the un
usually dry summer. but the acreage
is much greater.
Two lives were crushed out under
meath the weight OF an engine on thu
Columbia & Puget Sound railway Sun
day by the overturning OF the loco
motive and cars at the ''Y" between
Black Diamond and Franklin, neal
Seattle. The dead are Frank Dixon
brakeman, married; Walter Parker
fireman. a single man.
Five hundred people Witnessed (
shocking accident at the stock fair a
Pomeroy Saturday. While Roy VIII
liams was making a balloon ascension
Tom Andrews, his assistant, becam,
entangled In the guy ropes and wa!
carried up 50 feet, from which helgh
he fell headforemost to the earn will
sickening crash. breaking both arm
at the wrists and being horribly bruis
&c and mangled about the face anC
body.
Harold Haynie. who was convicted
in the King county superior court o
the crime Of highway robbery. wa
sentenced to six years Imprisonment
at hard labor In the state penitentiar!
at Walla Walla. Haynie and hi
young wife were from Portland On
night they drove up near the Wash
lngton hotel, behind a spotted pony
and while Mrs. Haynie stayed In tn
buggy Haynie held up at least on
and probably several men.
The remains Of J. F. Nessly wer
buried In Colfax last Saturday. Rev
Nessly had been a Mason for NOR
than so years, and was in the mInlstr-
for so years. a record Of service prob
ably not equaled by any other ministe
|, n the northwest. He was 70 year
and 9 months old at the time Of hi
death, but was active and retained hi
full mental facilities until he wa
stricken with paralysis October 20
since when he was unconscious unit
his death