The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-08-26
WASHINGTON NEWS


lie schools will open on August 30.
Dissatisfaction is expressed at St
John because of the poor mail service.
II is said that Spokane stands sec
ond only to Los Angeles as a bicycle
town
The hay harvest in Kittitas valley
is practically over and the balers are
at work in all directions.
Company l., N. G. W.. at Colfax, has
been mustered out of service because
of lack of competent officers.
The most serious of the forest fires
in this part of the state appear to be
in the northern part of King county.
Sportsmen are having no trouble in
bagging plenty of birds this season
around Chelan, as they are plentiful.
Whitman county's yield of wheat is
enormous. Conservative men place to-
tai at between 12.O00,0O0 and 14.000.-
900.
The Whitman county fair will be
held at the association grounds just
west of Colfax from October IL to Is,
inclusive.
r. C. McCroskey of Garfield sold
10000 bushels of club and red wheat
Saturday to Kerr Clifford & Co. for
sc cents.
Frederick William Round Jr., 10
connective fireman, % years old. ended
his life with a pistol at Tacoma Sat
urday last.
T. ]. Demerest of Palouse has just
sold to w. J. Demerest of Salem, Ore.
his patent right on a compressed all
water elevator.
The people of the Chelan country
think they have a real live volcano II
addiction to many other interesting
natural features.
Saloon man Portz of Uniontown wa
victim of masked thugs recently. The.
secured $3.50 in cash, $54 in check
and a gold watch.
, The plans submitted for the count
. bridge over the Okanogan river a
Riverside have been approved by tn
secretary of war.
Twelve of the leading Knight Ten
. plar Communicates of various easter
:, cities will pass through Spokane o
their way to San Francisco.
Jesse Reeder was killed and fea
. fully mangled in a threshing machin
- accident recently near Texas lake,
miles southwest of st. John.
Work was begun this week exc
waiting for the foundation and swim
. ming tank for the new gymnasium Il
Whitman college, at Walla Walla.
Twelve adults and % children a
!, homeless as result of what is thoug
y to be an incendiary fire which burnt
over Fourth Plain, five miles east
Vancouver.
george l.. Woerheide, apparently
m cultured family in st. Louis, comm
he ted suicide in Spokane because
would not stoop to an inferior positiC
It. in the community.
20 Frederick Campbell, the II year o
20 son of Rufus Campbell, farmer livil
lS six miles west of Sprague, was drow
"a ed Saturday morning in Colville LAX
81 He had gone swimming.
30 Tommy Burns of Chicago defeat
OS Cyclone" Kelley of San Francisco
% Tacoma recently in the fourth roui
"A of what was to be a 20 round mat
DO with right to the heart.
20 A few days ago Fred Ripley
"A Stehekin rowed a small boat from {
So head to the foot of lake Chelan in
AZ little over II hours. The distance
- supposed to be about 60 miles.
80 Dogs of high and low degree W
compete for premiums in Spoka
from October 5 to in the bench she
ed which is to be given in connecti
at with the Spokane interstate fair.
Sc Many fields of wheat that farme
g. estimated would make 40 and so bus
nd els per acre before harvest show
1T threshing time a crop of so to
hit bushels instead.
he Fire broke out in the stockyards
Ct the Great Northern at Hillyard. T.
he warehouses were burned. The bui
ed and the loss is estimated at abe
$4,000. The cause of the fire is I
known.
The mystery surrounding the disi
~ pearance of William Mckenzie of BE
ingham, who was last seen two wee
ago in company with Miss Kate Ba
- was cleared away today by the d
NJ covery of both the bodies floating
- the water of Lake Whatcom.
AT present there are 7,240,7 acl
of forest reserve in Washington, a
ac- it is proposed to increase it by wi
nj drawing 9 722 600 acres more II