The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-06-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.

MeuOTldl SSINlCtS VI the Ouu OA-
lows was held last Sunday
Arrangements are completed for the
Odessa Fourth of July celebration.
Spokane's Pioneer society held it's
ninth annual picnic last Saturday.
The next convention of the Masonic
grand lodge will be held in Belling-
ham.
Another farmers telephone line has
been built between Harrington and
Moscow.
During the summer the churches of
Pullman Will hold union services each
Sunday night.
Nearly $4,000 in money orders was
sent out of Walla Walla from Decem-
Der 1 to May 81.
T. d. Rockwell of Spokane will de-
liver the Grafton at the Fourth of July
celebration at Colfax.
The Arthur Cox ranch of 500 acres,
near Belmont, was sold last week for
a cash consideration of $4,000.
L. o. Janeck of North Yakima was
appointed a member of the state fair
commission by Governor Mcbride.
Former State Senator CARRIER has
been selected to give the Fourth OF
July Grafton at Daytons celebration.
The fourteenth state convention OF
the Washington Christian Endeavor
union will be held in Spokane June %
to &c.
Governor Mcbride has appointed G..
w. Otterson of Seattle a delegate to
the American mining congress to meet
in Portland in August.
c. Will Shaffer, secretary of the
State Bar association, has announced
that the annual meeting will be held in
Seattle July Z, 8 and 8.
1t is announced that the railroads
have decided to grant the fare and a
third rate for visitors to the Spokane
Interstate fair this year.
1t is said at the interior department
that a reCired army officer will be de-
tailed to take charge of affairs at the
Colville Indian reservation.
About two dozen cattle were killed
in the Blue mountains near the head
of Twenty Mile creek last week, it is
thought by eating wild parsnips
According to present plans, the AID
ans county electric road will be doing
business between Davenport and Miles
in time to handle the coming crop.
The fourth annual report of the In
land Empire Horticultural and Flori
cultural association is out in book
entitled Fruit Growing in Washing
ton"
The annual picnic of the Lincoln
County Pioneers association was held
this week at the picnic grounds on
Grab Creek, 10 miles southeast of Har-
rington.
The population of the city of Taco
ma, exclusive of Mckinley precinct
according to r. L. Polk & Co.'s direc
tory, now in press, is $1,000, an in
crease of 1000 since little less than
a year ago.
The Washington Water Power com
pany has taken up its option and Sc
cured control of the old right of way
of the Seattle, LAKE Shore & Eastern
railroad between spokane and Medical
Lake.
shocked by receipt of the news that
J. NJ ("Jack") Smith, ex-county audi
tor and one of the best known citizens
of Whitman county, had committed
suicide by shooting, at Tillamook, Ore
The contract has been signed for the
construction of the Northern Pacific
Beneficial associations new hospital
l. l,r,t1t Il
owned by the employees. 1t will cost
exclusive of the hospital fittings, sucn
as beds and medical and surgical equip
ment, between 100000 and $4,000. 1t
will occupy two solid city blocks and
a portion of third, having frontage
of 300 feet and depth of 600 feet. The
location is considered admirable.
The grand chapter of the Order oil
the Eastern Star for this state elect
ed the following officers: Grand mat
ron, Mrs. e. Belle Marcy, Montevino
grand patron, w. r. Baker, Colville
reelected grand associate matron
Mrs. Nellie w. Guernsey of Seattle;
grand associate patron, James McCor
mick of Tacoma; grand secretary, Mrs
Lizzie j. Demorest Of Tacoma, re-elect
ed; grand treasurer, Mrs. Alice M
Taylor of Seattle, reelected; grand
conductress, Mrs. S. d. Deering Of
Everett; grand associate conductress
Mrs. Emily E. Mensing, Seattle.
OREGON ITEMS.
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