The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-30
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Oakesdale's new theatre has been
completed.
Another food recently threatened
the Palouse country.
The Seattle Athletic club will build
a new club house soon.
Mohler, a station six miles south of
Harrington, is soon to have a -four
mill.
The Canadian Pacific Railway COM
pany ras established offices in Spo-
kane.
The w. A. c. girls basket ball team
defeated the Colfax girls club last
week by a score of II to 0.
AS shown by the postofice records
the business of Sunnyside has increas-
ed SO per cent over last year.
The Yakima Baseball association
will soon be recognized and a stock
company formed to build new grounds.
Edward Spencer, who killed Ella
Mundt recently in Spokane still suf-
fers considerable pain from his wound.
He will recover.
The remains of the man found on the
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near Spokane have been identified as
that of Nels Lofholm.
Joseph Smith, another of the few
remaining compatriots of DR.. Marcus
Whitman and Joseph Meek is dead.
He was 81 years of age.
The two new passenger locomotives
installed on the Northern Pacific, to
run between Spokane and Ellensburg,
are the largest on the line.
There is a great demand for seed
spring wheat among the farmers who
were detained from sowing last fall
because of the dry condition of the
soil.
The death of Captain Alexander
Griggs, owner of the Columbia &
Okanogan steamer line, occurred this
recently at Wenatchee from a para
lytic stroke, the third he has had in
the past six years.
The body Of Nathaniel Foden, who
fell from the Monroe street bridge, at
Spokane, into the Spokane river last
May, was recently found seven and a
half miles down the river from Spo-
kane.
''The coming meeting of the North
west rruItgrowers' association in Spo-
kane on February 8, 4, 5, ought to be
the most successful in its history" said
b. sel gunner OF Colfax, vice president
of the association.
f. Minter, a conductor on a Wash
ington and Columbia river construc-
ton train, was recently assaulted from
behind, knocked senseless and robbed
of his money and watch, at Wallula.
General Charles King, now stationed
at Milwaukee, may be in Spokane on
February to attend the ball which
the members of General Charles King
camp of the Spanish war veterans are
planning to give then.
A heavy flow of artesian well water
has been struck near the property oil
the Blalock Island Corporation of Spo
kane, which owns 1000 acres of semi
arid land on the Washington side OF
the Columbia river opposite BlalocS
island.
The consensus of opinion along the
line of the much advertised electric
railroad from Dayton to Pendletor
through Waitsburg, Dixie. Prescott
Walla Walla and all the remaining
towns to Pendleton is that the projec
is all off.
The largest land deal ever made il
North Yakima county was consum
mated recently by Coffin Brothers, whC
sold at one time 43 sections of Horse
Heaven wheat land to syndicate o
capitalists of Spokane. The consid
Grafton is given as 100000.
The remains of the II men whC
were killed in the wreck on the Grea
Northern, near Leavenworth, Wash.
recently, have been identified as Alex
ander Nelson, j. A. Nelson, c. j. Olson
Frank Nelson, Richard Hoffbaum, JohI
Connolly, Ray McCaslin, Alexander
Hoag, John Bassett, Robert Rollins
Charles Buckley and Fred Corrigan.