The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-05-15
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


Colfax Thursday, May Fl.
Pullman is enjoying building boom
which promises to surpass that OF last
year.
Heavy shipments of potatoes are
being made from Garfield to Kansas
City and Texas points.
w. w. Renfrew of Colfax, former
county clerk, has bought the Bank Of
Elberton from II. w. Roberts.
Ralph Niles of Whitman academy
won the interacademic defamation
contest at Walla Walla recently.
Bert Fuller of 'Pendleton, Ore, was
drowned in the waste ditch of the Yaki-
ma Milling company Saturday night
A steady, soaking rain. which will
be of inestimable value to the grain
crop of the Palouse country, fell last
Sunday.
A letter has been received from
Marconi, the inventor Of wireless
telegraphy, stating that he would visit
Spokane in June.
The semicentennial reunion of the
Pioneers association of Washington
on June and 3.
The little son of Henry SchlehubeT,
who lives north of Pennington, was
kicked by a horse recently, causing
fracture of the skull.
The members of the Spokane G. A.
r. propose to give a royal entertain
ment to fellow veterans when the de-
partment encampment meets in Spo-
kane in May.
The German steamship Anubis
smashed into the south grain conveyor
and dock of elevator Is at Tacoma re
Gently, causing damage estimated at
between $4,000 and 100000.
At Whatcom fire recently destroyed
the dry kiln and shirgle shed, together
with 100000 shingles, belonging 10
the Hastings Single company of Van
couver, B. c. Loss 100000.
The electric light company has an
nounced that it will at once entirely
replace it's line of poles and wire n
Asotin. The company now has about
$50 lights in use in Asotin.
A carload-about $50 head-of stock
hogs was shipped from Garfield recent
ly to Spokane. The pigs weighed from
so to 1875 pounds each. Eight cents
per pound was paid for them.
The Pasco country is to be irrigated
at last Water is to be secured from
Snake river and to be raised to a de-
sired level by an immense pumping
plant, it is said at Five Mile rapids.
Tommy Saluskin, an Indian, was
killed recently at Big Cottonwood on
the upper Ahtanum. He got into
fight with some Indians over a horse
when George Ward hit him with n
stone, killing him almost instantly.
The May apportionment of current
school funds will exceed any other
quarterly apportionment ever made in
this state by over 100000 The stale
auditor certified to the amount avail
able for distribution among the school
districts, placing it mt S906.6S5.
Mrs. Kahlert died at a Spokane hos
pital recently of pemphigus. Penn
phigus is a very peculiar disease and
literally skins the patient alive. The
disease originates in a large blister.
Other blisters form and expanding,
take the skin off the patient. 1t is al
ways fatal.
The government has ordered a gen
eral investigation of the status of In
dian allotments which may result in
the cancellation of number of such
claims on the Colville reserve and the
throwing open to settlement and entry
by citizens of some of the best lands
in eastern Washington.
contract has been awarded by the
Pierce County Improvement company
which is Harvesting the glaciers 81
Mount Tacoma for power for four oil
the largest turbine wheels in the world
The giant generators will develop 1890
horse power each and are II feet in
diameter. They are to sunply electro
current for Tacoma and the nearby
places.
George G. Hackett of Boston is In
Seattle for the purpose of erecting {
large refrigerator plant and arranging
for the establishment of a line of 1OC
refrigerator cars between Seattle anC
eastern markets. In these his com
PAW will ship from Puget sound fresl
salmon. halibut smelt and other fish
10 all points in the United States. Eacl
car has a capacity of 25 tons net aHt
will be shipped 10 times each year.
MONTANA EVENTS.
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