The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-06-17
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-CuIlings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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The democratic state convention will
be held at Bellingham August 2.
Harvest in some parts of Columbia
county will be delayed until nearly
October.
Walla Walla BARRIERS are scored by
the state board of BARRIERS. They. claim
the shops are unsanitary.
Casting banana peenngs on streets
or sidewalks is to be made a misde- |
meanor in South Bend, Wash.
Two thousand people attended the
A. o. U. w. picnic at Waitsburg. The
affair was a complete success.
Unions affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor will form sec
ond trades council in Spokane.
Joseph F. Kennedy, a veteran paint
err of Spokane, was killed in a run
away last Saturday in Spokane
Roy Painter, stamp clerk at the Wal
la Walla postoffice, has received an ap-
pointment in the Philippine service.
Fred j. Mcdonald, Is years old, is
under arrest at Colfax on a charge
of attempting to pass counterfeit mon
ey.
f. G. CLEANERS was arrested at Will
bur and found guilty on the charge of
practicing medicine in the state with
out a license.
The foundation for the Odd Fellows
building at Garfield has been COM
pleted. Work on the structure will be
rapidly pushed.
The Reno post, G. A. r. of Spokane,
has appointed a committee to see that
decorators of the stars and stripes
are prosecuted.
By the breaking of the suction pipe
in the hold the ocean going dredger
Pacific was sunk in 20 feet of water
in the channel at. Tacoma.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Spokane Pioneer society will be held
at Natatorium park June IS, from 3
p. m. to 10 p. m.
General Adna r. Chaffee will inspect
the forts of this state during the COM
ing July. He will be accompanied by
other army officers.
Frank Butler of Spokane, brakeman
on the Spokane Falls & Northern train,
was instantly killed Saturday at a
point two miles from Ymir.
Last Saturday the dead body of j.
N. Bovee, a civil war veteran, who
hanged himself in the woodshed of his
home at Portage, Wash, was found.
Bellingham was entirely without wa
ter the first of the week, caused by the
bursting of the big 80 inch main near
the source of supply, at Lake What
; CON-
Directors of the Spokane Amateur
Athletic association have decided that
the new club building would be for
! mally opened to the members and
their friends June 80.
: The Stevens County Pioneer asso-
citation has secured S. c. Hyde OF
t Spokane to deliver the first annual ad
dress to the association at its annual
picnic in Colville, June 3d.
Judge Chadwick refused a change
= of venue from Whitman county fol
assault with intent to commit murder
for shooting T. ]. Turnbow.
Frank Baker, aged so, and whose
previous residence is unknown, fel
from a moving street car at Belling
ham and sustained a fracture of the
: spinal cord, which resulted in his
death.
: Plans for the new grandstand at the
race track in the fair grounds at Spo
kane have been prepared. They pro
, vide for a building 1853 feet long, Al
feet wide and So feet high that will
|, seat 5000 people.
, The state college cadets held thei
annual competitive drill before go
q people on the college campus. d com
pany, with Captain Clare G. Todd com
Y manding, won the silver cup for tn
f best drilled company.
t The Spokane Interstate fair man
}. agement announces that no vaudevill
e night show will be given down tow
r during the fair this year. Instead fire
v works displays will be given ever
d night at the fair grounds.
The 22d annual encampment of tn
Grand Army of the Republic, depart
ment of Washington and Alaska, Wi
be held at Bellingham June 81, % an
%. The convention of the Women
Relief corps will be held on June 81.
v The Interior Warehouse company
|. big grain warehouse at Diamond, min
miles west of Colfax, burned recently
Loss $4,000, with $4,000 insurance. TIL
y fire is supposed to have caught fror
II spark from the o. r. & N. passer
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