The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
WASHINGTON NEWS.

A big Fourth of July celebration In
Walla Walla is assured.
Spokane is to be made the head
quarters for the Maccabees.
A good flow of water has been struck
at depth of 46 feet at Edwall.
Knights of Pythias met in district
convention at Pullman on Monday.
The funeral of Edward H. Slocum,
a pioneer of Columbia county, was held
Sunday.
AT North Yakima the grand lodge of
the Improved Order of Red Men met
May 10, IL and II.
The contract for constructing the
sewer system for the business section
of Pullman has been awarded.
Spokane has more miles of electric
car lines than any other city OF equal
population in the United States.
1t is estimated half the strawberry
crop of the valley was killed by heavy
frosts recently. There was no dam
age to fruit except apricots.
Little Prewitt Baker of Seattle is
missing and detectives are convinced
the child was kidnapped from his home
at Eagle Harbor.
Creston's fine school is to be erect
ed at once. 1t will be a modern
two story brick structure with roomy
halls and stairways provided for.
Unbranded NANCY horses are to suf-
fer the pealty of death. State Veter-
marian announces the policy OF his
department on the Klickitat cases.
A fair representation of outside
teachers and nearly all from Waits
burg and the immediate vicinity at
tended the county institute at Waits
burg.
A large force of government engi-
neers is Quitting at Pasco TO COM
mence work on the preliminary loca-
ton survey of the Palouse river lrri-
CATION canal The first preliminary
survey was recently completed.
George Gates and two other men
who are supposed to have been the
robbers who held up a Southern Pa
cific train at Copley. Cal on March 81
are believed to be in the vicinity OF
Seattle.
A full crew of so convicts has start
ed the first work of the seasons run
in the penitentiary brickyard. There
is sufficient clay at the yard to make
the first kiln, which will consist Of
about 100000 brick.
No visible signs of unrest existed
among the hundreds of convicts at the
state penitentiary Friday, as result
of the execution of Zenon Champoux
though the principal facts were doubt
less known to nearly every prisoner
~ A movement to secure legislator
providing for tax exemption in The
matter of lodge funds and benefciar
les is expected to be started by thu
lodges of Spokane. The plan is t.
extend the campaign throughout thl
state.
The Alberta Creamery association
skimming station, six miles southeas
of Ellensburg, was burned recently
The plant cost $1,000 and was insure'
for $500. 1t will be rebuilt. The chez
ry, prune and pear crop of the vale,
has been badly damaged by the lat
hard frosts.
Only 20 years of age, but charge
with a long string of burglaries an
robberies. to a part of which he ha
confessed, Renwick McCammon,
young carpenter, is in the Spokan
Jail awaiting trial, which will undoub
eddy result in his being sent to tn
penitentiary.
An order was received yesterday b
A. P. Cahill at Longs station, nea
Dayton, for 1000 barrels of -four to b
shipped to San Jose de Guatemala.
is the first Central American consigr
ment ever filed by the Columbia Mil
ing company
c. j. Ingram, station agent at Sn'
uualmie, Northern Pacific static
north of Seattle, was shot in the mout
by a highwayman. He was brough
to Seattle. Ingram was just closin
I'D the Office safe when the bandit Ell
tered. He refused to turn over tn
contents of the safe and was she
through the mouth. The wound
critical, but not necessary fatal. Il
gram recognized the bandit as a ma
known in the town as Bridges. A poss
started after him and he was capture
soon after the shooting.
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