The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-06
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanqes-CuIlinas
From Washington, Idaho. Montana
and Oregon--NumeroUs Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Southwestern Washington league May
T.
Hal ]. Cole has assumed the duties
of register of the United States land
office at Spokane.
Lett Adams, whose parents and
home are at Detroit. Mich, committed
suicide at Spokane.
The output of Washington loggers
will be curtailed 80 per cent during
the months of May and June.
The Spokane bank clearings for the
month OF April as reported by Brad
streets, amounted to $9,973,24S.
Work on repairing the ilcigeting
ditch of the Palouse Land & Irrigation |
company will begin in the next few
days.
The annual army athletic competi-
ton for this department will be heiu
at Vancouver barracks. May 10. 20.
and 81.
Final arrangements have been made
for the state trap shoot, to be held in
Harrington on the 18th, goth and 21st
of May.
The Master Horseshoers and Black
smiths Protective association held its
fourth annual convention in Yakima
Saturday.
The trustees of the state normal
school at Cheney have decided to re-
tain the entire faculty for the coming
school year.
: The first Seventh Day Adventist
campmeeting of the upper Columbia
river conference will be held at Col
= fax June to IL.
A big stock parade has been arrang-
ed by the management of the Spokane
Interstate fair association for Friday
afternoon, October Z.
+ State inspector says conditions are
best ever for grain. The acreage is
the largest known in states history.
: No wheat winter killed.
+ Another attempt is to be made this
week to organize all the lumber deal
e ers of the northwest, except the coast
d shippers, into one association.
! Edwin A. Snow, assistant professor
/ of English at the Washington Agricul
e tural college, has severed his connec
i ton with the school and left Pullman
l. Merchants and people handling mon
ey should watch for counterfeit coins
as several bogus ten dollar gold pieces
o have been passed in Colfax recently.
J. Rates for Bellingham on hay, grail
: and -four from eastern Washington
d equal to the carload lot schedule IL
Al effect to Everett and Seattle. is in ef
d feet.
D. The proposition for filter for Col
Is fax's water supply carried by vet
II of 293 to 1T in a recent election. TIL
d plant will be installed as soon as pos
Is sible.
n Victor Ahern, the 16 year old So
N of Mrs. Ahern, a widow living seve
X miles northeast Of Ritzville, was kille
,e at Ritzville by train striking his was
10 on while crossing the tracks.
x In a trial test of Greene Smiths ne7
reversible hillside disc harrow nea
Colfax proved a perfect success an
no doubt exists but that it will meC
I the requirements of the country.
asl Frank P. Bell of Fairfield is tn
,h inventor of a device which he claim
at will prevent lightning from striking
RI telephone and running the instrumeI
es or giving a person who may be usin
ne it at the time a shock.
It. Robert D. Williams accidentally XII
ne ed himself while STOPPING over to drin
mt from a spring, while bear huntin
a. about two miles from NOrthport. I'll
accident was caused by a revolv'
dropping from its holster, the hamm'
striking rock.
The scaffold on which Champou
IS Seattle wife-murderer, will be hange
Id May 6, is ready at the state penite
to tiary. Champoux will be the first ma
to suffer capital punishment under Il
new law which provides for all eX
GU cutions at the prison there.
Two switch trains coming togeth
er with a crash Sunday morning in Il
nix Northern Pacific yards at Spokane,
en- jured Switchmen S. L. Whipple al
ed Waniel A. Carrigan, and Engine
al Charles Beadle, partly demolishing
boxcar and damaged one engine.
We were very much surprised, VIII
,th in Spokane a few days ago, to nc
ne that the Shaw-Wells Company, Sou
he 1876 Post ST., carried full line Of gas
line launches and both wood and met
row boats. We had an idea that II
in class of gods would not be carried
100 an inland town.
nd The Goss contract for the buildi
of the state capitol annex has at Ia
been completed and contractors q
tes ready to turn the building over to I