The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-07-03
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From xchanges-CuIings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Zl.0i per cent.
John S. Carter, pioneer and one of
the best known citizens of Whitman
county is dead.
The striking millworkers of Spokane
announce that their cooperative mill
will be started next week.
Mrs. Mary Brown of Everett was
elected president of the State Fedora
ton of Womens' clubs at Everett last
week.
The cool weather of the past week
has been of considerable help to grow
ing wheat. The outlook now is for a
fair crop.
The new railroad to connect Spokane
with the Canadian Pacific is an as
sured fact. 1t is thought the road
will be completed by next year.
A picnic and stock show will be held
near Pullman July 8, 9 and 10 by the
seventh annual reunion of the Whit
man County Veterans association.
The Everett Record says it is be-
lieved that the Northern Pacific is con-
templating the extension of the Monte
Cristo road to Coulee City, Douglas
county.
The homeseeker rates will remain
in effect every Tuesday out of st. Paul
until the third Tuesday in October
These rates are one fare plus 50 for
the round trip.
While it is impossible to predict
with any degree of certainty what the
run Of salmon will be, all conditions
are favorable for a good run on Puget
sound this season.
Becker of Ogden has the honor Of
having the highest average of the
three days shoot, having lost only As
birds out of 600. Sheard lost Sc, w. H.
Seaver 81, E. E. Ellis 62.
At Seattle wall of clay 20 feet high
caved in on three laborers recently,
instantly killing A. Jampere and re-
sulting in injuries to Samuel Romeo
and r. G. Vanderhoof
Eastern Washington apples on sale
at a hotel in Vienna for 1925 each
were seen by R. E. Strahorn and wife
of Spokane. who have just returned
from an extended European tour.
1t has been decided not to have any
poultry exhibit at the interstate fair
at Spokane this fall. A poultry show
will probably be given by poultry fan
ciers some time during the winter.
The annual session of the Whitman
County Veterans association, which
meets IN Pullman for an encampment
of three days, beginning July 8, prom
ises to be one of the big affairs of the
summer.
At the Sportsmen's Association of
the Northwest at Dayton last week
officers were elected for the years
10000 and the state of California
was admitted into the association
The officers elected were as follows:
j. ]. Shields, a restaurant man OF
Occur d'Alene City, has disappeared
from Spokane. Shields had about 500
cash in his pockets when last seen
and his family is much worried about
his disappearance. Foul play is feared
p. f. Smith, Tacoma. president; M
B. Brownlee, Spokane, first vice pres
ident; ]. Hills, Libby, Mont, second
vice president; A. P. Biglow, Ogden
Utah, third vice president E. V. Cea
sar, Tacoma, secretary and treasurer
Members of the board were elected
as follows: T. B. Ware, Spokane; Mr.
Abraham, Portland; Mr.. Sheard, Ia
coma; Mr.. Baker, Dayton; Mr.. Woods
Tacoma.
A case of attempted murder oe
Cured recently at Curlew lake, on the
Colville reservation. A settler, who's
name the victim refuses to disclose
rode on horseback to the shack of Dan
iel McLennan, a fellow homesteadeT
and without moments warning pulle,
gun and began shooting. The frs
bullet struck McLennan in the abdo
men, passing out at the back, missini
} the vital organs. He will recover.
The first salmon for the pack o
1903 by the Pacific Packing & Nav
cation company we're taken from tn
} nets of the company last week ant
} packed at Fairhaven. The catch cor
sisted of some 700 fish. and 300 case
of the finished product were put up.
While Charles A. Gushing. presiden
of the Port Angeles & Eastern raj
) road, was cleaning his shotgun recenf
l ly he in some manner accidentally di:
: charged one barrel Of the gun into hi
abdomen. The gun was loaded wit
J birdshot. the full charge of which Ell
tered the body on the left side. A
though Mr.. Cushing was not killed hi
condition is very critical.
George Gonde q machiniSt of Oakes