The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Thomas of White Mud lakes as game
warden. 1t is reported one man killed
19 deer in one day in the mountains
near Chewelah.
Potatoes in Yakima have taken an
other jump in price. They were sell
ing for $40 a ton, but now s2S has
been offered for choice product.
Henry Hines of Waitsburg, sustained
bad fracture of both ankles. the
result of a fall from the front of a
business block where he was fixing
an awning.
The resignation of Prosecuting At
torney w. P. Guthrie was presented
to the Yakima commissioners and &C
cepted.
At recent meeting of the millown-
ers along the line of the Spokane Falls
& Northern at Chewelah, it was voted
to join with the Western Pine Ship
pers' association
The dairy school closes April %. The
session of eight weeks is proving the
most successful in the history of this
department of the Washington Agri-
cultural college.
shipments will be under way in 10
days, and gardeners have an excellent
prospect in this crop in yield and
prices.
Manager R. H. Cosgrove of the Spo-
kane Interstate Fair, has found a new
kind of earth which, he believes, will
make the track at the fair grounds
faster and better than ever before. The
entire track will have new surface.
The purse for the Spokane Derby this
year will be $1,000, the same as last
year.
James Anderson, one of the propri-
etors of the Doan G. Anderson logging
camp near Maple Falls, was drowned
at Silver Lake, 80 miles northeast of
Bellingham
The Yakima baseball association has
been organized for the year.
Seeding in Horse Heaven and Rat
tlesnake districts is in full blast.
David Hanley, a tramp, had a leg
crushed at North Yakima. by falling
under the wheels of a moving train
while attempting to board it.
One hundred Chinese were shipped
from Seattle to San Francisco. to be
sent from there to the Bristol bay.
Alaska. canneries.
There have been brought into the
state during the past year under GER
tificate, 904 cattle, 337 horses and 1O7
swine.
A Northern Pacific freight train,
eastbound, was wrecked three miles
east of Cheney, Saturday, and the en-
CINE and 10 freight cars were badly
demolished.
John J. Humphrey, one Of the best
known bankers of eastern Washington
died at Portland, Ore, while en- route
to Spokane, after trip to San Fran
cisco. He was 46 years old.
Plans are on foot to organize the
farmers in the vicinity of Spokane into
a stock company to build a cold storage
plant designed to assist the producers
in the holding of farm products of all
kinds at central point in Spokane I'M
til such time as the best prices prevail
in the market.
1t is learned that one japanese firm
in Seattle has had a credit of $3.50 600
placed with it by representatives Of
the japanese government to be used
IN the purchase of supplies. Largely
through this firm, 1000 tons of barely
nave been sent to Kobe already from
this state and Oregon, and orders for
more are placed. This movement has
jumped the price of barley from $3.50
to $3.50 a ton. Big shipments of flour
are going to Japan on every shin that
leaves port.
over 80 stations, jacks, mares and
colts were paraded in Dayton in the
Columbia county horse show. which
brought out a collection of animals
that reused general admiration.
The warm weather of the past week
has dried up the mud to a great extent
and the roads have again become pas
sable. Flowing has been commenced
by number of farmers. Owing to the
lateness of the season seeding will be
rushed.
Burglars broke into John Lemley's
saloon at Reardan, blew open the safe
and took therefrom about $4,000 in
money.
A. W. Stincel, well known mer-
chant tailor of Chehalis. was struck
by freight train and killed instantly.
Just how the accident happened is hard
to determine.
Twelve miles up Mill creek above
Walla Walla, M. D. Wardlow's automo-
bile ran over so foot embankment
lnJuring Miss Bessie York, one of