The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-07-10
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHING ON NEW0-
A number of important transactions
took place last week among the
sheepmen of Yakima.
In the police court at Republic John
Daniels was acquitted on a charge of
shooting Archie Mcclellan on June 26
at a place between the Ike Laheur
and Lambert ranches at Lambert
creek.
Nature supplied the fireworks for
the Fourth of July celebration at Spo-
kane. A violent electric storm, with
thunder and lightning, raved during
the evening.
John Berg of WhatcOm successfully
defended his title to the catch as catch
can championship of the Pacific coast
by defeating F. s. Lewis in two falls
Berg won the first fall in AZ minutes
and 80 seconds and the second in 20
minutes.
The annual report of the Spokane
postofice for II months ending June
80 show receipts of $197 1922, an in
crease of about % per cent over re-
ceipts for the previous year
Walla Walla contributed two Fourth
of July accidents An old man named
Loughead was knocked down while
crossing the street by a runaway team
which had been scared by fireworks.
Iougheads leg was broken below the
knee. and he is in a hospital The
wrong end of a firecracker held by a
lad named Patterson, years old,
blew out, burning the boys face pain
fully, but not seriously.
The three Odd Fellows lodges in
Spokane are looking forward eagerly
to the day when they can occupy a
home of their own.
The most successful independence
day celebration ever held in Colville
was that of the 4th. Over 5000 peo-
pie from outside points were in at
tendance and the program as outlined
was carried out without hitch.
Palouse, with almost every building
decorated with the national colors, pre-
scented a festive appearance the 4th
With the exception of the rain, nothing
occurred to mar the celebration, which
was the most successful and largel!
attended in the history of the town.
Farmers in the Big Bend passed al
enjoyable Fourth, as the heaviest rail
of the season fell. The rain was gen
eral over a vast area and assured
wheat crops.
The Fourth was celebrated by tn
largest number of people ever assem-
bled in Sunnyside.
The biggest deal in timber land
since the Weyerhaeuser syndicat
came to the state of Washington wa
consummated recently when G. +
Cobb, James Campbell and Rufus +
Smith of Seattle and Frank Browne
of Everett paid $1,OOO,OOO in cash t
the Dunsmuir estate for $4,000 acres c
timber lands on Vancouver islant
This deal has been on for\more tina
a year. The purchasers are to hav
the choice of any $4,000 acres of tn
100000 acres owned by the Dunsmui
estate.
Ships for the north Pacific squa'
ron are now under orders for the p
get sound navy yard for the first tim
since the trouble between the town {
Bremerton and the navy departmeI
over the saloons near the yard gate
George Mitchell, until recently eI
ployed by TwOhy Bros. on railroa
construction work in Montana, wf
murdered by unknown men on tt
river bank two blocks west of the Mo
roe street bridge at Spokane recent
He was hit over the head with rour
iron bar.
Two hundred or more Japanese
borers at Waverly have been order'
to pay poll taxes or work on the road
The board of Spokane county col
missioners have spread upon the
minutes the motion declaring tn
Spokane county is a county of 700
inhabitants, and that the same is
county of the second class"