The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-09-04
WASHINGTON NEWS.


up by the general strike.
Organized labor is planning for a
big parade on Labor day, Septem-
Der 7.
There are 1868 acres more improved
land in Spokane county this year than
in 1902.
Plans for irrigating the country
around Newman Lake have been an
nounced.
The Washington State Medical asso-
citation held it's annual meeting in Spo-
kane this week.
Wala Walla grocers are in COM
bine to buy goods in large lots and
keep up prices
There was no observance of Sunday
in the harvest fields of Whitman coun-
T., last Sunday.
The heavy and steady rains of last
week did considerable damage to the
grain in Columbia county.
The thirteenth year of the Wash
ington state normal school at Ellens-
burg will open September g.
Chief Deputy Grain Inspector E. l..
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east side is damaged by rain.
Robert Tyson, aged %, was killed
at Simmons station recently by being
run over by an o. r. & N. train.
Nineteen babies died in Spokane
during August from cholera infantum,
indicating an alarming epidemic of
this dread disease.
a. ,ooon+ ,,,oot;po Of tho CLARKE
ton business men a permanent organ
ization of the Charleston commercial
club was perfected.
The harvest in the vicinity of Pres
cott and throughout the entire wheat
belt of Wala Walla county, is rapidly
drawing to a close.
The Washington State Press associ-
alton decided to accept the invitation
of Spokane to hold its annual conven-
ton there next year.
The gates of the Interstate fair will
close at o'clock on the 18th day of
October, all other statements to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
The state fruit commissioner says
apples are half a crop, heavy crop of
prunes and plums, and half a crop OF
peaches. Rains do great good.
The assessed valuation of all prop
erty in Spokane, less exemptions
amounts to about $459 per capita
based on a total population of 10000.
Cash ~ Gaddis has been appointed
receiver of the Devenish Hardware
company at Pullman, with bonds fiXeC
at $4,000 until the assets are inven
toried.
Though it has not been defnitel!
decided, September 10 will prObabl!
be the date the chamber of commerce,
excursion will leave Spokane for it,
trip through the Big Bend country t.
Wenatchee
Whitman monument is falling int
a state of neglect and nearly ever
visitor chips off a piece of the marbl
slab marking the spot where the maj
tyred missionary fell by the hand of
savage in 1S47.
Captain A. j. Bale of the tug Elf re
ports seeing a big whale off the Ell
trance to Tacoma harbor, near Brown
Point. recently The captain says
was regular gray backed whale, 4
or so feet long.
Switching charges along the line {
the Spokane Falls & Northern lin
will probably be increased from 81 t
So. This will apply to all industrie
along the road and will particular
affect the lumber mills in the norther
part of the state.
Live hogs are being shipped frOl
Omaha to Spokane to supply the d
mands of the local packing house
The freight alone on the ANNA
amounts to about $3.50 each, yet the
are being imported in constantly i
creasing numbers.
Senator Foster and COngressme
Jones and Cushman are on an inspe
ton trip by steamboat on the upp'
Columbia. The tour is taken at Il
request of the residents of that sc
ton of the state who desire imprOv
ments on the river for navigation.
Fourteen townships OF governmel
land in southeastern Lincoln count
eastern Adams county and westel
Whitman county have been withdraw
from entry by Commissioner w.
Richards of the general land office
Washington. The withdrawal is MAJ
under the national irrigation act.
A Great Northern extra freight,
passing through the Cascade tunn
last week. ran into a section gang
work on the Wellington end. Pet
Mccoy, foreman, and Edward Gall
CHER. a member of the crew, were
otnntl,. l.illod AL the ntheIrs ascane