The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-02-26
WASHINGTON NEWS.

vas pronounced the best institute ever
held in Yakima.
A splendid wheat crop is assured by
he abundant snowfall and ranchers
are highly elated over the prospect.
Samuel Kohn, a sewing machine
lgent, crazed by drink, committed sui
'ide at Spokane by jumping into the
river recently.
Samuel Vinson, deputy United States
marshal in Spokane during the last
Cleveland administration, died a short
ime ago in Virginia.
Everett Wilson shot and wounded
Dan Bethune at Orient during quar-
rel. Wilson fired with big revolver,
he bullet entering the abdomen.
At the special election held at Cres-
on to vote on the proposition to bond
he district in the sum of $1,000 to erect
md furnish a new school building the
ballot stood As for and 5 against
Governor MBride has appointed w. H.
Cline of Sunnyside a member of the
state fair commission to succeed G. j.
Hill of North Yakima.
Collector Of Customs Ide at Port
Townsend has fined l 6 steamers plying
no Puget sound, for violations of the
steamboat inspection laws and regula-
tiO0s and rules to prevent collisions be-
tween vessels.
The mid winter carnival at Walla
Walla given by the band Mas a grand
success.
Water has been secured on the John
son ranch on the highlands near the
Snake river, after drilling to the depth
of $50 feet. There is 100 feet of water
in the we'll. An extensive test failed
to lower it to any perceptible extent.
According to we'll known Spok ane
builder, more construction has been
going ON during the pres nt month
than in any other February since the
fire of 1889.
Manager Robert H. Cosgrove of the
Spokane Interstate fair is expected to
arrive i'll Spokane within a few days
from his home at LeSueur, MINI.
Senator Foster has introduced an
amendment to the military bill provid
ing for an Appropriation of 100000 fol
construction of a steel bridge across
the Spokane river, connecting Spokane
with Fort Wright
Yakima Memorial is the new name
of the new home at Spokane acquir
ed by the Northwestern Home Find
ing association. 1t is to be a perpet
ual monument to the citizens of NORTH
Yakima for their liberal contributions
to the support of the home.
William Isenhart has been appoint
ed postmaster of the Chelan postoffice
John M. Swan, a pioneer of the state
of Washington, and one of the best
known Odd Fellows in the state, dice
recently at the Odd Fellows home
in Walla Walla, the immediate cause
of death being senile decay.
County Clerk Arthur A. Hauerbacl
of Walla Walla filed his resignation
with the county commissioners.
shortage in Mr.. Hauerbach's accounts
was discovered. The shortage totals
over $1,000. He and friends have
made up the shortage and he has since
withdrawn his resignation.
Attorney General Stratton has Civ
en- his opinion to the effect that for
eign corporations who have filed theil
articles in the secretary of states of
fee can not evade the payment of the
yearly license tax on the ground thai
they are not doing business" in this
state.
AS the result of quarrel at Cam
den, over ice cutting privileges, Claude
Calhoun was fatally shot, Fred Geb
|. hardt was beaten to insensibility anC
Postmaster A. ID. Owen was also Civ
EN- a few blows. Owen shot Calhoun
after the Calhoun brothers had attack
ed the postmaster in his own store
Owen Immediately gave himself III
and with Ernest Calhoun, a brother o.
the wounded man. was taken to Spo
, kane.
Spokane Shippers, who pay to the
railroads in freight rates annually
} three-quarters of a million dollars
have combined to throw all their traf
fc to the Oregon Railroad & Navi
cation company until the Great North
ern and the Northern Pacific railroads
offer satisfactory rates. The firm.
represented are members of the Spo
kane Shippers association and unani
mously passed a resolution demand
ing a transcontinental rate which vii
not exceed the coast rate plus 25 pei
cent of the return local rate from the
terminal point.