Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-30
NEWS OF NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selections of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-CulIins
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.



to be opened and worked.
A generous rain has put the roads in
good shape for wheat hauling.
The baseball season of Pacific Ma
tional ended with Boise the winner.
About 800 teams are unloading
wheat at the Nez Perce tramway ev-
cry day.
There were seven men in attendance
at the recent so-called populist state
convention at Boise.
A very profitable farmers institute
Of five sessions closed at the Dudley
schoolhouse last week.
The new Nez Perce Catholic church
is being completed and will be in use
about the middle of October.
A man posing as cripple with one
arm tied up, is visiting the small
towns. The man is fraud and blk.
No word has yet been received of
Fred Greenwald, the well known hotel
man who disappeared from Mullan a
short time ago.
Nez Perce is having land boom.
There are more land buyers in that
vicinity than ever before in the. his
tory of the country.
The recent Genesee school census
shows 413 children of school age, 21l
boys and 2O2 girls. This is an increase
of Al over year ago.
]. NJ. Wolfe Of Seattle, who is in
terested in a number of mining prop
nrt; of Inc n.
ming factory in Lewiston.
l.. V. Smith, WHO was Jailed, charged
with burglary, and who successfully
erected his escape by.sawing through
the Jail, has been captured at Mont
pelier.
The Northern Pacific is doing much
towards improving the track and
roadbed up the long Kendrick hill.
Thirty men have been working two
months and will continue till snow
flies.
Rufus UT, the year old son Of
R. w. Utt, was found dead by his
mother a few rods from the house on
Halter creek, four miles east of Prince
ton. A log rolled over and caught the
child, crushing out his life.
While several young boys were play
ing with rifle Sunday afternoon
which they found in a cabin at Burke,
the weapon was discharged, the bullet
striking William Monroe, a u year old
boy, in the groin. This shot may be
fatal.
Word comes from Ionia of the pc
culiar death of James Stranger, the
6 year old son of Joseph Stranger. A
rock thrown by the boys elder brother
struck him squarely in the temple,
causing almost instant death. The
throwing of the stone was wholly ac-
cidental.
Members of the reform school board,
accompanied by Governor Morrison,
have returned to Boise from st. An
thony, where they went to hold meet
ing. The board elected Professor
Humphries of Eldora, Idaho, as super
intendent of the school at salary
of $1,000 and expenses.
Hardly had the news of the death
of their famous chief, Joseph, reached
the Nez Perce on their reservation
near Lewiston before letters and mes
sengers were dispatched in all direc'
tions calling every Indian within num-
dreds of miles of Lewiston to gather
for a grand feast and war dance in
memory of their departed leader and
to select his successor.
Five thousand Indians are expected
to. arrive during the next two. or three
weeks, at which time the ceremony
will commence. These Indians will
not only be Nez Perce, but. invitations
have been sent to the Spokanes, Occur
d'Alenes, Blackfoots, Yakimas, Flat
heads and Umatillas. 1t will undoubt-
edly be the largest gathering OF red
men seen in Idaho since the war times
of the early 70s.