The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-09-25
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The daily output of 400 barrels is
the capacity of the flour mills in Walla
Walla.
The State Teachers association OF
Washington will meet at Tacoma, De
cember % to 80.
More than ~ miles Of track have
been laid east from Spokane on the
Occur d'Alene electric line.
Governor Henry McBride's presence
at the Interstate Fair October Z, Gov
errors day." is now assured.
Some grain is standing in the fields
about Oakesdale, Seltice and Belmont,
and this is being cut by headers.
1t is estimated that from 80 to 50 per
cent of the crop of Whitman county
has been cut and about IS per cent has
been threshed.
Plans and specifications have been
completed for the new Jail at Asotin,
which will be built this fall at an ex
pense Of $4,000.
While working in the jute mill at
Walla Walla, Wash, a convict had his
hand caught in the machinery and a
severe wound resulted.
The sawmill Of the Eureka Sawmill
company, situated five miles north
west of Republic, was consumed by
fire recently. There was no insurance.
A man named Tanto committed sui
eide by blowing his brains out with
gun. He lived on a homestead about
80 miles from Lind in Douglas county.
int TrHxva11 the
rate of about 10000 bushels per day.
Ninety per cent of the wheat is blue
stem. and it is almost all grading No.
l.
The body of w. II. II. Raglan, the
Steptoe Butte farmer, was found by
searching parties two miles from his
home He had wandered away and
died.
Wheat this year along the Great
Northern railway is of uniformly good
quality and smut cases are rare, most
of the wheat weighing 60 pounds to
the bushel.
Several carloads of fine Italian
prunes are being received in Walla
Walla from orchards near Dixie, the
fruit being sent there for packing and
forwarding.
An endeavor is being made by the
cattlemen of OkanOgan county to
reach an amicable adjustment Of the
serious differences which have exist
ed there since the introduction OF
sheep.
John Sullivan, night Waterman al
the old smelter, four miles down the
river from Spokane, was thrown from
his buggy and kicked in the abdomen
so violently by his horse that he died
recently two hours after.
John L. Smith, the veteran superin
tendent of 10 successive Interstate
fairs in Spokane, is TO be with the In
terstate Fair association in the ca
pacity Of superintendent OF the stool
department no more after this sea
son.
The wheat Of the Waitsburg distric
is nearly all in the warehouse, and I
is estimated that fully 10000 bush
els are under cover The dealers sa,
about one-third of it has been sold q
prices ranging from 20 to rs cents 70
club and bluestem respectively.
The total tax levy for state pun
poses has been fixed by the state boar
of equalization at seven and three
fifths mills, five mills Of which is TO
the school fund. This is no chang
from the total of last year. The tots
amount of state taxes that will thus b
raised is 50 1O5116 of which 1892 AZ
goes to the general fund. $1,384.94
to the school fund and $27,700 to tn
military fund.
The matter of organizing board {
trade or a commercial club is bein
agitated by some of Harrington's cit
zens.
The real estate of the Joseph Coma
ser estate was sold at auction Satu
day at ColfaX, and brought good price
at spirited bidding. The real esta
consisted of 14OS acres of land al
about 100 town lots in Sunset TT
land brought an average of about s.
per acre and the town lots average
about So each. d. F. Anderson of r
salia was auctiODeer. The real esta
brought almost $4,000
A lynching was narrowly avert'
at Sunnyside, three miles east of E
erett, recently. A rancher named
l.. Scott, formerly member of the S;
walton army, accused of assaulting Il
IA year old daughter of A. S. Nicho
was in the hands of an infuriated MI