The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-12-17
WASHINGTON NEWS.

meet at Spokane on December %, 20
and 30.
Dan Ganagher, butcher who has
been out of employment, committed
suicide in Seattle Sunday.
John Dollar, painters foreman for
the contractors at Fort Casey, was in
stantly killed by an unknown soldier.
Pacific coast hops are quoted in
New York at SO cents, which has
strengthened the Tacoma market.
Whitman college has passed the 400
mark in attendance this year, which is
far the most prosperous in its his
tory.
Luke Melin, aged 60 years, an old
timer in the Big Bend, died recently
at his home several miles west OF
Maritime.
The 18th annual defamation contest
was won by Hugh c. Todd, 06, in the
Washington Agricultural college chap
ell at Pullman.
Charles e. Sumner, representing the
Empire Electric company of Toledo,
Ohio, will ask Spokane for a 80 year
franchise to put in an, independent
telephone company.
Frank M. Finnegan, an electric line
man of the Washington Water Power
company, met instant death about
O'Clock Saturday evening from contact
with a live wire while working.
thief robbed G. B. Robins of Mos
COW, Idaho, an invalid, of approx
mately $500 in a room in the Pacific
hotel at Spokane This money was
the savings of years of hard work.
petition is being circulated for sig
natures asking for a pardon for Henry
Craemer now serving a life sentence
in Walla Walla for the murder of Phil
ippine Meller and her baby in 1894.
information received in Tacoma is
that at least six or seven central labor
organizations out of nine in the state
indorsed or will indOrse William Black
man for reappointment as state labor
commissioner.
Within the next few days Seattle
will be connected with Port Townsend
Fort Casey. Friday Harbor and Victo-
ria, B. c., by wireless telegraph. A
wireless station has been erected on
top of Queen Anne hill.
Two Japanese, Mirahara and Turu
shima, have bought a small shingle
mill in Bellingham for $4,000 cash, and
will operate it with a crew of theil
countrymen. Fourteen white men have
been employed in the place.
After occupying its present site fol
IS years and caring for 20275 patti
ents, the Catholic hospital at Spokane
finds it necessary to abandon the ole
site and will build a new and much
more commodious hospital building.
Tacoma-At Port Madison. KitsaI
county, the house of Arthur Raines
burned at IL O'Clock at night while he
and his wife were digging clans {
mile away. The three children o.
the couple, aged 5, and years, were
burned to death.
The senate committee on Indian at
fairs has ordered a favorable repor
on Congressman Jones bill, which
has passed the house, providing to
the sale to settlers of about 700 acre
of allotted land in the Yakima reser
walton.
Two Spokane &. Occur d'Alene cleo
lTlC line lIdluo COllluSu at OpOh'A
Bridge recently. Mike Crosby, motor
man, was seriously cut about the fac
and head by glass, and two other mer
one a motorman and the other pas
senger, were slightly hurt.
Henry Faye, accused of murder il
the first degree for alleged burning o
the Harrington hotel, when Lawrenc
Tierney persisted, two months ago, wa
acquitted at Davenport on the charg
of arson. While the trial was in pro
gress Judge Neal ordered the subst
tuition of the charge of arson instea
of murder.
Judgment has been finally entered i
the long drawn out suit brought by tn
Goss Construction company against tn
state capitol commission for extra
in constructing the capitol amer
This judgment, which has been sigI
ed by Judge Linn of the superior cour
gives the Goss company $4935 an
costs, amounting in all to about $500
that the state will be required to pa,
The suit was originally for about $25
900.