The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-10
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


The Pacific National league has sue
oeeded the Pacific Northwest league.
G. w. Bowen's store and postofhce
at Glenwood was totally destroyed 10y |
fire recently.
The city of Goldendale has pur-
chased it's waterworks system from
Hess & Cooper.
The farmers and fruitgrowers
around Ellensburg have organized
shippers association.
Flowing has begun generally in the
Palouse country, and with dry wealth
er seeding will be in full blast.
North Yakima and surrounding
country is suffering from shortage
of hay never before experienced.
The Spokane county annual Sunday
school convention will meet April 3
and 10 in Spokane, at the First Pres
byterian church.
The growth of Klickitat county is
shown by the fact that 300 tracts OF
land were added to the assessment
roll last year.
Walla Walla gamblers say the
games, which are now running wide
open in Walla Walla, will continue,
regardless of the law.
At Seattle the jury in the case of
Annie Lewis, charged with the murder
of Manse Lewis on January 6, returned
a verdict of not guilty
The residence of Aaron Kuhn, at
Spokane, was entered by burglars re-
Gently while the family was absent
and a number of costly articles were
stolen.
The magnitude of the real estate
transfers in Whitman county and the
number of immigrants who are pour
ing into the district daily are sur
prising.
c. G. Raby, ex-Whitman county audi
tor, has been taken to the peniten-
tiary. He was convicted of larceny by
embezzlement for the theft of a war
rant for $1753.
Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate
and phianthropist, promises $4,000
for the construction of book temple
on a site to be furnished by the city
of Spokane.
Charles Hickman was shot through
the heart and instantly killed by Will
liam Kelley at the Coltax fair grounds
recently. The shooting was purely
accidental.
The first hop contracts made this
spring in the Yakima valley have
been filed with the county auditor, II
which 10000 pounds of the 1903 crol
were sold at 16 and II cents.
James Fielding, a farmer, living OF
Pleasant Prairie, near Spokane, too
a teaspoonful of arsenic recently
claiming that he mistook it for qui
nine. and as a result is dead.
A large sawmill is to be built at thu
town of Ward, about mile and
half from Marcus, on Kettle river
Ward is a new townsite on the Wash
ington & Great Northern railway.
BY the unanimous vote of the Spc
kane board of education, James A
Tormey of Winona, MINI, was electe
to the superintendency of the publ
schools at a salary of $4,000 a year.
Invitations have been extended t
the mayors and the editors through
out the Inland Empire to visit Spc
kane as the guests of the Roosevelt
committee upon the date of the pres
dents visit.
Run to earth by persistent work q
detectives, three men are in the SpC
kane county Jail who have confesse
to being implicated in a wholesal
scheme to plumber the Spokane Dru
company.
The beautiful farm owned by A.
Johnson four miles east of CARTEL
has been sold to an Iowa man. TIL
property is one of the best improve
ranches in eastern Washington, an
brought about $45 per acre.
John Roberts, a railroad yard en-
ploye at Wallula, was probably fl
tally shot through the abdomen o
Deputy Sheriff William Nave recent,
the railroad man having shot at Nav
first, thinking he was a holdup.
A head end collision occurred O
the Gray's Harbor branch of til
Northern Pacific Sunday between
passenger train and an extra cas-
bound freight, smashing both engine
and throwing the mailcar down ii
bank. No one was seriously injure
Chris Nygard a well known CO
tractor of Wilbur shot and killed hiI
self instantly about 12:15 p. m. Satu
day. Dependency on account of b
ing unable to get some work settle
for. combined with ill health, are su
posed to be the causes of the So
affair.