The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-09-02
WASHINGTON NEWS

pound at North Yakima.
The new government cable from Sit
ka to Seattle is completed.
The sales at Colfax for machinery
for one year make an aggregate of
100000.
The public schools of Colfax will
open for the new year Monday, Sep
TENDER 5.
The business of the Northern Pacific
in Pasco has reached about the high
water mark.
The business men of Hillyard have
declared in favor of annexation to the
city of Spokane.
George H. Leggett, assistant chief of
the Tacoma fire department, commit
ted suicide last week.
The initial step has been taken to-
ward the organization of a Chelan
county bar association.
Saturday about noon a company OF
friends called on Richard Mcmahon
of Albion and celebrated his 92d birth
day
Over 100 mills we're represented at
the semiannual meeting of the Coast
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coma.
The Puget Sound American is the
name of the new evening daily to be
started in Bellingham by the Blethen
family of Seattle.
Four Spokane boys, all of whom
had a longing desire to see more of
the world. rode into Seattle on brake
beams last week.
Mrs Mary Phelps, one of the pio-
neers of Whitman county, was strick-
en- with paralysis at her home near
Garfield and died.
Jack Lawton, fireman on the tug
Tempest, while fixing a valve was
scalded to death by steam, six miles
below Mukilteo, near Everett.
H. Baker, a prominent veterinary
surgeon of Walla Walla, was found
dead in his bed recently, death having
been caused by an overdose of choral
Guy Cotton of the state of Washing
ton was struck by an eastbound Great
Northern passenger train near Cedar
Lake. Mimi, Saturday and instantly
killed.
Cracks in the walls of the recent ad
dition to the state insane asylum al
Meulcal Lake are so serious that trou
BILE is feared if patients should be in
stalled.
Work will commence this week tC
put the Spokane interstate fail
grounds in shape for the fair thai
opens there October and continue
to October 9.
The jury in the case of state versus
Frank M. Taylor who shot and killed
Bert A. Mcintyre on the streets o.
Bossburg in the afternoon of July
. %, returned verdict of murder il
the second degree.
A twin screw steamer is loading
$4,000 sacks of flour at Tacoma fol
the orient This is said to be the
largest cargo of flour ever carried
from any port on the Pacific coast.
School opens at the Washington
Agricultural college on Wednesday
September 81, for a full term of nin'
months, and the prospects are for ;
larger attendance than ever before.
Jay p. Graves of Spokane, with A
J. Smith and S. ]. Crutcher of Pine
City, have made trip of investiga
ton in reference to the proposed lin'
from Colfax to Spokane via Pine City
Special days have now been givel
to each one of the dates of the Spo
kane Interstate fair as follows: OctC
Der 3. fruitgrowers' day; October
British Columbia day; October 6, Der
by day; October 7, Palouse day; DC
tober 8, Spokane day; October 9. In
dian day.
The governors Office has given on
the names of four officers of the ma
tional guard of this state who hav
been recommended by the governo
for the course of free instruction a
the national military school at For
Leavenworth and Fort Monroe. The
are: Lieutenant Howard Darlington
of Seattle, Lieutenant Burton E. Bow
en- and Captain Herbert Num- of Var
couver and Lieutenant George M. Bul
bingham of Ellensburg.
While threshing on the farm of Blu
Furgeston, five miles west of Cakes
dale. Mr. Goodard's threshing ms
chine was blown up by smut and tn
entire inside burned out. Very littl
grain was destroyed, though the stray
stack was burned. Nobody was hun
badly.
Fire originating from sparks fror
the smoke jacket of the pumphous
engine destroyed the w. & C.
roundhouse, pumphouse, water tanl