The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1903-03-27
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Conductors and gripmen Of the Ia
coma Street Car company went on a
strike Sunday morning.
The funeral of the late s. s. Glidden,
the Spokane banker, was held Monday
afternoon from the family residence III
Spokane.
For the first time in the history of
Tacoma the gambling houses are
closed, and closed for good.
deep Creek" Jones was recently
appointed by Governor Mcbride a
member of the state board Of control.
The law requiring saloons to remain
closed on Sundays was observed al
Vancouver last Sunday for the first
time in number of years.
A monster snow and land slide, 300
feet wide, carried away the Spokane
Falls & Northern railroad bridge at
Hendricks cut last week. The bridge
spanned the Columbia river.
officers of the First National Bank
of Charleston, which has just been Or
ganized, have received the bank char
ter from the comptroller of currency.
It is said the bank will be opened for
business about May 1.
Brigadier General Frederick r. Fun
ston has arrived at Vancouver bar
racks, where he will assume command
of the department of the Columbia, re.
lieving General George M. Randall
who has been ordered to the Philip.
pines.
New station agents on the Rocky
Mountain division of the Northern Pa
cific have been announced as follows:
G. F. Mapes, Hope, Idaho; A. Duffield
Burke, Idaho; F. A. Brown, Rathdrum
Idaho; w. Lemoine, Florence, Mont.
and G. G. Burke, Stevensville. Mont.
The game law passed by the last leg
islature is more complicated than any
of it's predecessors, for the reason thai
an effort was made to suit the condi
tions of every county. Sportsmen who
have examined the new law pronounce
it satisfactory.
The Seattle grand jury has voted t.
indict Justice T. H. Cam and Polio,
Judge George Of Seattle precinct, &C
cused of malfeasance in Office in thei
failure to take steps to suppress gam
= bling and other vices tolerated by tn
: present administration.
/ d. A. Brodie, chief of the Puyallu
: experiment station, has received
J. commission from the department of Of
2 riculture at Washington, d. c., to rt
/. port at once to st. Louis, Mo-, to TAX
t charge of an exhibit to be made mex
year by the bureau Of plant industry
+ One of the largest real estate deal
/. ever made in the Palouse country wa
r. closed at Colfax last week. BY 1t
!. terms SOu0 acres Of land in Whitma
q and Garfield counties, Washington
Al and Latah county, Idaho, have bee
a. sold and vast sum of eastern none
brought into that country.
4 Governor Mcbride has filed the ge
/, eral appropriation bill, after pairing
down in the amount of $77,309.73.
y. addition to this he vetoed the sectic
70 of the Portland fair bill that appropl
,s ates $4,000 and disapproved in the
~ entirety seven other bills carrying a
ST propriations, thus reducing the burdt
70 ON the general fund of the state in Il
a. grand total of $399, 9,960.12.
Only one other bill making an appl
IN priation now remains in the govt
nor's hands. It is the tax commissi'
ID bill and carries $4,000. If this is n
vetoed the appropriations of the eigh
be legislature will aggregate $2.407, ,459.
IA on the general fund and $706, ,892.92
be special funds.