The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-08
WASHINGTON NEWS.


the soil is lighter and contains more
sand than in the eastern half, spring
work can begin from one to three
weeks earlier than further east.
Advertisements are posted asking
for bids on the new mail and stage
route from PomerOy to Lewiston, that
is to be officially opened May 8.
In the third incendiary fire within
two hours, at Seattle, early Sunday
morning, j. w. Norris was probably
fatally burned while trying to save his
wife from the flames.
A savings bank, to be known as the |
Peoples Savings bank, has been or
ganized at Davenport.
So much rain has fallen in the Pres
colt country and westward on Eureka
fiat that the farmers predict an un-
usually bad spring for weeds.
A new idea at the Spokane Interstate
fair this fall will be a number OF
prizes in different departments which
will be open only to school children.
Columbia county has a court record
for the past 10 months perhaps un-
equaled elsewhere in the state. But
one criminal case has come to trial
in that time.
A report from Seattle says that or
ders have been placed with local deal
ers in the last few days for 225,OOO
cases of Alaska pink salmon for ship
ment to Japan.
Mrs. f. f. Emery of Spokane will not
represent the Washington State Fed
Grafton as a delegate to the General
Federation of Womens clubs, to be
held at st. Louis this summer. Mrs.
Emery has left for Boston, to be gone
all summer. 1t is expected that Mrs.
Harris Baldwin of Spokane will be APP
pointed to fill the vacancy.
The first conviction in a perjury
case ever secured in the superior court
of Spokane county has reached the end
with the sentence of Frank Rutledge
to serve five years in the state peni-
Tertiary.
Prizes for fruit will be greatly in
creased at the Spokane Interstate fair
this season.
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tant General Drain announces that
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Taylor,
10Th infantry, has been detailed by the
commanding general of the Pacific
division to make the annual inspec-
ton of the national guard of Washing
ton during this month, as provided for
by the militia act of 1903.
Joseph Henritzi of Chelan has in
vented a new building material which
he expects to manufacture at his up
lake home. 1t is white as marble, can
be nodded into any shape, and is to
be much stronger and tougher than
brick and to stand the ravages of the
elements much better
Barnet LipscOmb, a well known far
mer, is dead at his home near Colfax,
of old age.
The First National bank of Colfax
has opened a savings bank department,
the first in Whitman county.
In response to the call of the comp
troller of currency the banks of SpO-
kane have issued a statement of their
financial condition at the close of bus
mess Monday, March %. The report
shows deposits of ten millions of dol
lars in the Spokane banks and an in
crease of nearly half million dollars
since the last call for January %.
1--WE expect to build about 60 miles
of railroad to tap our timber holdings
at the head of the Palouse and the
Potlatch rivers" said Henry furnish
of Duluth, Mimi, vice president OF
the Potlatch Lumber company, which
has a mill at Palouse City.
the American Hereford Breeders
Association has decided to offer $500
in premiums at the Spokane Interstate
fair. this fall.
A special Pullman will be chartered
for the Walla Walla delegation to the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows meeting
to be held in Tacoma in June.
The Farmers warehouse at Garfield
was damaged to the extent of $500 by
= fire.
Five hundred homestead patents
without which title to government land
is not considered perfect, lie in the
: district land office at Walla Walls
r waiting claimants.
Workmen in the Great Northern
shops at Hillyard are employed II
| hours a day now instead of eight hours
as they have been working ali winter