The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-08
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.


two children and driver were severe
ly bruised.
Grandma" Young, wife of John
Young. Sr., died at the family home in
Pullman recently.
John Conway, an engineer on the
Great Northern railroad, died at Spo-
kane as the result of an accident while
riding on the engine.
Father" William Pelan was install
ed as grand prelate of the grand COM
mandery of Washington Knights Tenn
plar, at a recent meeting in Spokane.
Following is the state treasurer's
quarterly statement of cash balances
in various funds at the close of bust
ness June 80: General fund, over
draft. $50, 1871; military, $114, O4S; in
terest, $9,9S3; current school, $780,
12O: permanent school, S565, 694 har-
Dor, s12,OS1; special land deposits,
s31S; revolving fund, sS7, 1853; grain in
spection, $5626; university, $20,SSS;
fish hatchery, $4,071; United States,
s276; deposits, survey of tide lands,
S21O state library, $19,942; scientific
school, S26,796; capitol building, $40;
agricultural college, $25,716; charit-
able, educational, penal and reforma-
tory, SAT, 80; normal schools, $15,95l;
state capitol commission, 1929; cap
itol building interest overdraft, $SS.37;
oyster, $3.50; total, $1,2OS,45S; less
overdrafts, $5,S51.
The Stevens County Pioneer asso-
citation concluded. it's first annual pic
mic under most favorable circumstan-
ces and with success.
School buildings of this state may be
lawfully insured in mutual fire insur-
ance companies organized under the
law of 1903, according to an opinion
handed down by Attorney General
Stratton.
The first case of sunstroke ever re
ported in Everett section occurred laNt
week, when William Rye, member Of
the Great Northern labor gang, was
stricken with heat, dying soon after
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M
Shaw, is to make several campaign
speeches in this state.
The national banks of Spokane have
declared semiannual profits amounting
to s6S,000
The leave of absence granted to Min
lister Harry l.. Wilson of Chile, fol-
merly of Spokane, extends for so days
Mrs. Emily Gendron, aged 20 years
was dragged to death in a runaway aC
cident near her home at Mckee las
week.
A telephone message from Silve
Beach, Wash, says. that the Larso
Lumber companys mills there are o.
fire. The plant is valued at $780,
, In the near future Miss Grace d
Geus, of Everett, will be married to
son of the prime minister and chic
magistrate of Holland, Anton CraayC
In the presence of hundreds of men
2 bers, and as many more guests, tn
! beautiful new 500, 900 home of tn
. Spokane Amateur Athletic club wa
formally thrown open and dedicate
) last week.
2 Corporation Counsel John P. Judso
is the oldest practicing lawyer in poir
Y of admission to the bar in the state
e The total production of wheat in tn
r states of Oregon and Washington IL
the cereal year which ended June 5
1904, was 33,5S4,970 bushels, as COZ
l. pared with Al $40 4S5 bushels last yea
D The secretary of the interior has a
/ proved the selection of public lant
J. made by the Northern Pacific under i
e grant to q, 029 acres in the Spokan
Seattle and Vancouver land districts
It Lawrence Miller of Chicago, Satu
Il day night won the Pacific coast lig
l. heavyweight championship by defes
Il ing Joe Carroll in the first and secoI
t. falls of the match in so and four mi
utes, respectively. The bout was Il
e fastest ever seen in Bellingham.
h After eight months of one of Il
s. hardest fought strikes in Spokane q
It master and the journeymen plumbe
lie have practically come to an agre
le ment.
For the first time practically sin
-e it was built the Garfield county Jail
H. empty.
1T William Gates, the Reardan pione'
h is dead. Mr. Gates was rs years c
and a member of the G. A. r.
t. One hundred and ninety-four hon
N steads were filed upon in the Wa
b, Walla land Office during the quart
% ended June 80.
x The picnic and live stock show
the Whitman county grangers, held
a Lyle's grove, seven miles southw'
n of Pullman, was a decided success.
IS, The exact location of the bounds