The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-11-26
WASHINGTON NEWS.

known dentists in the state, died at
Spokane Thursday evening, as a re-
suit of two operations for appendicitis
and gall stones The funeral was held
Sunday.
Governor ELECT Mead has announced
that his private secretary will be Ash
nun l.. Brown, city editor of the Post
Intelligencer.
Brooding over the death of his part
ner, who was killed by being tossed
from trestle by switch engine, west
of Spokane, John Hollingren of Spo-
kane deliberately lay down on the rail
way track and few moments later a
switch engine struck him. He is not
expected to live.
The mortal remains of Seattle's for
mer mayor, Mr.. Humes, are to be
brought to Seattle from Fairbanks,
Alaska.
The official count of the vote of Stew
ems county shows that Martin Maloney,
democrat, is elected representative,
over w. G. Gray by plurality of eight
votes.
More than 100000 fruit trees were
shipped into the state of Washington
is that fully 1900, 900 more will be add
ed to the orchards of the state this
year, says A. Vanholderbeke, state hor-
ticultural commissioner.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Cole celebrated
the 66th anniversary of their wedding
last week at the residence of their
daughter, Mrs. A. G. Kellam, at Spo-
kane. Mr.. Cole was born in Jefferson
county, New York, June 5, 1916. Mrs
Cole was born in the same county on
April "a, two years later.
The meeting of the Washington Live
Stocs association is to be held in Spo-
kane December %.
The state irrigation commission is
to meet in Tacoma on the 29th inst.
and expects 10 remain in session until
a code of laws is adopted to present
to the next legislature
Wilson Tieo, half breed allotment
Indian of the Yakima reservation is
under arrest charged with killing EN-
ma Harker, an Indian girl.
Colfax again proves her claim to be
ing the richest agricultural town in the
west, if not in the United States. The
statements just issued by the two ma
tional banks show total deposits of 81,
1859. The population of Colfax il
now estimated at $500 This gives
bank deposits of $S45.47 for each man
woman and child in Colfax.
The biennial report of the stat
treasurer, just completed, shows a re
duction in the state debt in the las
four years of $235,S33, and an aggre
gate amount of business done in tn
last two years of $2,750,O 900 in excess O
the business done by the state in tn
last two years of the preceding admin
istration.
For hours Saturday telephone an
telegraph wires were paralyzed a
over northwestern Washington by tn
greatest windstorm experienced i
years. The greatest loss was sustain
ed by a tar factory in Bellinghan
whose loss amounted to $4,000. Plat
glass windows were smashed, sid
walks and fences overturned and boat
driven from their mornings. Asid
from small yachts being pounded o
shore no marine disasters are reporte
1t is learned on good authority thu
the survey preliminary to the buildin
of the Tacoma & Eastern road
North Yakima via the Cowlitz cot
fields will continue on to Spokane ;
some future date. A survey is undt
way to Sunnyside over the divid
from the Mckee valley in an endea
or to find a shorter route than thi
via Mckee valley and Union Gap
The vault in postoffice at Central
proved too hard to crack when dyn
mited by burglars Saturday night. tt
outer part of safe was complete
wrecked, while inner portion remain
intact
Hoquiam.-Miss c. E. Drummond,
popular young lady of Iron Springs
summer resort on North Beach, is I
ported to have been thrown from
buggy into Joe creek and drowned.
Five thousand, perhaps 5000 peopl
should find seats in the new armo
in Spokane" says Adjutant Gener
James A. Drain.
The first snow of the season in q
Big Bend fell Saturday afternoon. La
year the first snow fell November z.
OREGON ITEMS.
o. r. Holiday, wanted in Portlar