The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-08-14
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of interesting Items
Gathered From hanges-CuIIings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


fair in Colville this year.
Grain yield reports are more en-
couraging from Palouse farms.
No other town in the northwest can
boast of as many automobiles as Spo-
kane
The new depot Of the Northern Pa
cifc at Kennewick is we'll under head
way.
The Spokane city commissioners
have ordered a Decarie crematory
plant to cost $22 500.
No fruit fair, such as was held last
season by the Walla Walla Fruit Fair
association, will be given this autumn.
The Portland FIGURING Mills COM
pany of Portland has purchased the
entire plant of the Everett roller mills
at Everett, Wash.
The following postmasters were re-
Gently appointed in Washington: Mob
Ter, Erwin Yake, vice Emma Ayers, re-
signed Quincy, c. M. Stewart, vice r.
w Williams, removed.
Prominent hop growers of the Paci-
fc northwest are endeavoring to Sc
cure unity Of action among the produc-
ers with the object of controlling this
seasons product and forcing UP prices.
If the attendance of Presidents HILL
Mellen and Mohler can be secured, the
largest good roads convention ever
held in the west will be held in Spo-
kane during the interstate fair next
fall.
The supreme court has handed down
decision upholding the constitution
atty of the law passed by the last
legislature making the conducting Of
gambling room, resort or game a
felony.
The McGinnis Bros. will run hack
line between Davenport and Harring-
ton, making the round trip once each
day. The stage will leave Harring-
ton at a. m. and return about the
same time in the afternoon.
Susan B. Bachelor, a girl not yet
16 years old, died in conclusions re-
Gently at Seattle as the result of TAX
ing strychnine. The coroner, after
an autopsy, declares that the drug
must have been taken with suicidal
intent.
The entire plant and lumber yard
of the Filion Saw & Single mills com
pany at Port Angeles was destroyed
by a fire recently which was probably
started by a hot box in the planning
mill. The loss was about $4,000, nc
insurance. The mill will be rebuilt
On Monday, August 3, the mercan
tile firms of NJ. E. & E. T. Hay and
David Thomson of the Big Bend will
consolidate, the new firm to continue
business under the name OF Thomson
; Mercantile company. David Thomson
will be the manager of the business.
The new cutoff connecting CouleC
City on the Washington Central with
Adrian on the main line of the Great
Northern will be completed by August
Is, in time to handle the first ship
ments of the new wheat crop in the
Big Bend country.
c. o. Cobb and H. B. Waterman, res
: idents of Spokane, who came from
Webster, Iowa, last spring, have pur
chased 1920 acres of farm land eigh
miles northeast of Waterville. TIL
land is fenced and mostly under cul
tivation. Price $1566O.
Convict Ed. Bloom was shot in tn
thigh in the jute mill at the stat
: prison because he refused to stop fight
ing with a convict named Stetson, al
/ ter being ordered three times. Bloc
was not seriously hurt. Since tn
+ Folsom break there has been col
. siderable characterization and unres
. among the prisoners at Walla Wallf
Adjutant General Drain has al
nounced that the annual encampmen
. of the National Guard will be held q
i Camp Weisenberger, near America
. lake, beginning September IA to 2
Il The same rules and regulations govern
Il ing the encampment of last year in r
o gard to cooking, bedding, tents an
$ practice will be observed. All the cool
ing will be done by enlisted men.
Oren Butten, a trapeze performe
u was killed at North Yakima in Cam
& bell Bros show. He was walking hea
u downward from set of rings su
ID pended from board 80 feet from IL
+ ground when one of the straps holdiI
ID ring broke He fell to the grour
and sustained a crushed skull.
Two Indians were run over al
Of killed on the railroad near Wapat
Id While on their way home from Il
lg show they became drunk and lay dow
IN on the track to Sleep
J. e. Brown, a prominent re
estate dealer of Garfield, serious
r. shot Thomas Turnhow another re