The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-12-25
WASHINGTON ITEMa.


$o6,57S.49, showing an increase of $751;
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Byron Larson, the youngest son of
G. +. Larson, of Republic, got lost on
Loon mountain, at the head of Nine
Mile creek, recently and froze to death.
His BODY was recovered by searchers.
Considerable interest is manifested
in the forthcoming election recently
ordered by the county commissioners
TO determine whether or not the town
of Starbuck, with its 400 inhabitants,
shall be incorporated into a town of
the fourth class.
About 700 new residences have been
erected in Spokane in the past seven
months.
With the forwarding of 800 by the
people of Olympia to the secretary
of the Rogers memorial committee,
the entire amount of $4,000 sought to
be raised to erect monument to the
late governor was completed.
An Olympia paper prints a story to
the effect that recently a tremendous
landslide occurred on Mount Rainier
involving the highest peak of the
pletely changing the confguration of
the southeastern slope.
Stockmen of the Big Bend are in
better spirits now than a few weeks
ago, owing to the late rains.
The new peddler's ordinance of Spo-
kane, excluding peddlers from the
downtown district in the fire limits,
was declared void by Spokane Judge.
The Official program of the eleventh
annual meeting of the State Dairy
mems association to be held in North
Yakima, December 20, 80 and 81, 1903,
has been announced.
b. F. GoOtch, wanted at Silver City
N. M, for the murder of Ross in the
fall of 1902, is under arrest at Everett
in the county Jail.
The armored cruiser New York and
the gunboat bennington have left the
navy yard at Bremerton under rush or
ders for San Francisco.
Ray Gilbert, a freight conductor,
whose run was from Ellensburg to
PascO, fell from a car below North
Yakima recently and was killed, hav-
ing both legs cut off. He is a nephew
of General superintendent Gilbert.
Arrangements for the entertainment
of the farmers institute to be held in
Walla Walla in February is annOunc-
ed The Walla Walla poultry show
will be held in conjunction with the in
stitute.
Attorneys for Cy Victor, who was
recently convicted in Davenport of the
murder of Charles Thennis, have filed
seven affidavits relative to the pend
ing motion for a new trial.
A deed with a stated consideration
of $4,000 was filed for record recent
~ from Fred Setter to the Evergreen
State Fruit company and conveys the
fruit orchards on Moran prairie hand
led by the company.
Barney O'Connor, brakeman on g
work train on the o. r. & N. was
killed recently four miles from Walls
Walla, by being crushed under the
train.
Judge John J. McGilvra, one of Sc
attles oldest pioneers, is dead, at the
age of 76 years.
The new directory of Walla Walls
shows a total of 1890 names of indi
vidual residents of the city, names o.
firms and duplicates being omitted
BY the use of the multiplier 21A the
population of the city is shown to b'
12.475.
Work at the state normal at Chene!
was suspended Wednesday afternoon
to be resumed again January 4.
There is a possibility that Nortl
Yakima will suffer a shortage of fue
before long.
Although much has been done b,
California scientists in solving the
problem of the Goblin moth in thei
field, yet Principal e. A. Bryan of tn
state agricultural college of Pullman
says that the remedy for the frui
tree evil must be still worked out il
each individual locality. He has aC
cepted an invitation to address the In
land Empire Horticultural and Flor
cultural society at it's meeting at SpC
kane in January.
Ernest Stalberg broke both arm
by falling from a horizontal bar i
the gymnasium of the Young Men
club at Davenport. Young Stalber
attempted to swing by his knees fror
the bar. He lost his hold and fel
He succeeded in alighting upon hi
feet, but plunged forward, breakin
both bones of the right arm and on
bone of the left arm.
A dam on the Coweman river,
tributary of the Cowlitz, collapsed II