The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-12-11
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-Culings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Wheat is nearly all in market around |
GOvan. The crop has been quite sat
The Washington State Game & Fish
Protective association has been or
ganized in Seattle.
Farm work has been stopped in the
Palouse country because of hard freez-
ing of the ground at nights.
w. A. c. second team. IL; Univer-
sity of Idaho second team. 0. This
represents a good game in Pullman
Saturday.
Milton Keeper, "a freshman, won
first prize in the annual defamation
contest at the Washington Agricultur
al college Saturday night.
The destruction of the home of Geo.
Wright, at Whatcom, by fire recently
caused the death of one child and the
pedhaps fatal injury of another.
AS a result of the strike of the
plumbers for $3.50 a day Spokane is
apparently on the verge Of one of the
bitterest labor wars IN it's history.
M. l.. Starr of Medical Lake was
run over by a passenger train at Hat
ton last Sunday morning and had his
left hand and right arm ground to a
pulp.
Floyd L. Daggett and DR.. G. S. ALI
son were recently elected school di-
rectors for school district No. 81, en-
bracing the city of Spokane and one
outlying addition.
One of the finest church edifices in
Washington was opened for public
worship Sunday, when the first SER
vices were held in the auditorium of
the Central Christian church at Spo-
kane
The case of James Champoux, who
10 months ago, in Seattle, killed Lot
tie Brace in fit of jealousy, has been
affirmed. Champoux's defense was in
sanity, but he was convicted of muir
der in the first degree and must hang
Building operations during the year
1903 in Spokane will aggregate nearly
$3,500,000 in actual cost, Independent
of street railway construction, public
works, machinery installed or build
ings projected for future construction
The steamers Flyer, Bellingham anC
Dode, all Sound vessels, were in col
lision in the bay at Seattle last Sun
day. The Flyer had large hole tori
in her portside abreast of the engine
Fifteen thousand dollars will probabl.
cover all damage.
Tom Fitzgerald, aged &C, railroad
labOrer, was found almost dead in
boxcar recently. He cut his throa
with a razor and crawled into tn
car, where he lay four days. He vii
, probably recover Fitzgerald is frOr
. Missoula, Mont. He was Respondent
With solemn yet simple ceremonies
, the members of Spokane Lodge, Nc
22S, Benevolent and Protective Orde
! of Elks, Sunday held their annus
, lodge of sorrow, in memory of thei
t departed brethren. The services wer
{ held in the Auditorium theater, an
= the crowd packed the house Man
5 people remained standing throughoI
2 the ceremonies.
4 Rudolph Butzaw, a stenographer
the employ of M. E. & E. T. Ha,
was drowned in a lake about seve
miles south of Wilbur Sunday afte
noon. Butzaw was skating with
y party of friends when he went throug
the thin ice. Efforts to rescue hi
were fruitless. The body has not bee
l. recovered. Parents of the decease
T live at Loda. Illinois.
l. The damage to the work now undo
l. way on the irrigation canal on IL
d Yakima Indian reservation is more S
2 rious than at first anticipated. Pra
l. tically all the work at the headga
will have to be done over again. TT
q food came at a time that nothi1
IL could be done to save it. The rise
{, the river covered everything to
d depth of about IL feet.
n This state has Jared exceptional
L we'll with the committees assigned h
e delegation in the house of represent
IL tives. Congressman Jones was assig
ed to the rivers and harbors, Co
e. gresham Cushman to the intersta
and foreign commerce and Congress
man Humphreys to the merchant N
rine and fisheries committees. In &C
u nection with this Congressman Gus
a. man also goes to the private la
IN claims committee.
Dr.