The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-29
WASHING1 ITEMS.


sunday night.
Congressman Humphrey of Wash
.ngton has recommended the appoint
.nent Of Hugh Eldridge as postmaster
at Bellingham.
Inc nIAlOn dollar voice Of Adelina
Patti was not heard in Spokane Sat
urday evening, because the Sivance
sac of seats did not come up to the
expectations of tue managers.
Railroad officials predict that i'm
migration 10 the northwest in 1904,
particularly to this state, will be far
IN excess of any previous year.
The Occur Alene & Spokane cleo
cric line mas been awarded the con-
tract to carry the mails between Spo-
ZANE and Occur d'Alene, Idaho, be-
ginning Marcn l.
The state of washington will not
Did for the Spokane 100000 school
Oond issue, winch is to be sold next
month.
Alexander Snyder, a farmer living
on Willow creek, 20 miles southwest of
Colfax, was found drowned in a wa
Ger trough recently. Snyder had Wis
tied a neighbOr named Bremen and
frank considerable whisky in the ev-
ening. He started home and was not
again seen alive. 1t is not known
whether it is a case of accident or sui
eide.
After two hours deliberation the
Wenatchee jury IN the case Of Charles
Van Boskirk brought in a verdict OF
mot guilty"
A youthful sateblower named Aus
tin was shot to Geath by officer James
Logan at Spokane recently. Logan
caught the man and an accomplish
trying to blow Jne safe in a saloon
and the shooting occurred during the
pursuit.
Senator Foster and Representative
Jones of Washington called at the wal
department recently in the interest O.
the Spokane army post bridge bill anC
were promised a report soon. The!
were assured 100000 would be recon
mended and Jnere would be a few
minor amendments to the bill.
bill for a lighthouse and fog sig
mas been introduced by Senator Eos
ter. At present vessels plying in tina
I part of the sound are without light t.
enable them to md their way through
the islands in that vicinity. Thirt
thousand dollars is to be provided TO
the project.
Byron $. Diffenbach, former assist
ocfa nf
merchant at Standpoint, Idaho, ha
been appointed assistant director {
> posts for the nlIippines and has az
> cepted the position. The post is a II
crative one Mr.. Diffenbach will leav
for Manila in a short time.
Governor Henry Mcbride will set
. new precedent in Washington polite
by making a number of speeches
i eastern Washington prior to the holt
= ing of the republican county and stat
conventions.
The proposed excursion of the stat
t editorial association to st. Louis, ha
: been called off. the annual meeting {
: the association will be held in Sp'
e kane as originally planned.
/ wheat sections nave already receive
v so per cent more moisture thus fs
o than during the entire winter an
4 spring of last year. Farmers so
:. more grain tnan ever before, exper
enee having taught them that fall SOY
l. ing yields the best results.
z. 1t was reported in railroad circle
Al fol .
: freight men in Chicago, January 25,
for the purpose of adjusting freigl
rates into Spokane territory, instea
of considering advanced tariffs to u
l. coast.
The present population of Spokar
e is 65,118, according to the current
d sue of Folks directory of this eli
now in press.
At the election held at Almira it We
decided to incorporate the town by
vote of nearly three to one.
Norman patterson, aged 70 years,
pioneer of Whitman county, was four
dead recently at his residence in &c
n fax His death is thought to be dl
s. to heart disease.
5, The Prosser Falls Land & Irrig
d ton company, in which Senator lie
d Ankeny is interested, has applied
o the Prosser City council for an electr
i, light franchise.
9 Benjamin j. Cappell, who return'
% from Dawson last November, where
u worked a claim, committed suicide
Woodinville, near Seattle, by firing
bullet through mis- brain The on
reason assigned for the act is that