The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-12-17
WARRINGTON NENfa.


WASHINGTON NEMa.
The State Teachers association win
meet At Spokane on December 70. ~
and 80.
Dan Gallagher, q butcher who has
been out Of employment. committed
suicide In Seattle Sunday.
John Dollar, q painters foreman for
the contractors az Fort Casey, was i'm.
stantly killed by an unknown soldler.
Pacific Coast hops are quoted in
New York at IS cents, which has
strengthened the Tacoma market.
Whitman college has passed the 100
mark In attendance this year, which is
far the most prosperous in its his
tory,
Luke MeIin. aged 60 years, an old
timer in the Big Bend. died recently
at his home several miles west Of
Hartline
The 18th annual defamation contest
was won by Hugh c. Todd. O6. in the
Washington Agricultural college chap
Ell at Pullman.
Charles E. Sumner, representing the
Empire Electric company Of Toledo,
lOhio, viii ask Spokane for q IS year
franchise to put in an independent
telephone company.
| Frank NJ 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
A thief robbed q. b. Robins OF Mos
COW. Idaho, an invalid. Of apron.
mately $500 in a room in the Pacific
hotel at Spokane. This money was
the savings Of years Of hard work.
A petition is being circulated for sig.
natures asking for pardon for Henry
lCraemer. now serving a life sentence
in Walla Walla for the MURDER OF PhIl.
'ippine MeiIer and her baby in 1854.
: Information received in Tacoma il
THAT at least six or seven central labor
organizations out OF nine in the state
Endorsed or win iBdorse William Black
imam for reappointment as state labor
commissioner.
Within the next few days Seatus
will be connected with Port Townsend
Fort Casey. Friday Harbor and VictO
ria, b. c., by wireless telegraph. A
wireless station has been erected or
top OF Queen Anne hill
Two japanese. Mirahara and Turu
shima. have bought a small shingl'
mill in Bellingham for $1,000 cash, and
will operate 1t with a crew Of theil
countrymen. Fourteen white men hav,
been employed In the place.
After occupying it's present site fol
is years and caring for 20,275 patti
tents. the Catholic hospital at Spokane
finds it necessary to abandon the Ole
site and will build a new and mucE
more commodious hospital building.
Henry Faye. accused OF murder il
the first degree for alleged burning o.
the Harrington hotel, when Lawrenc'
lTierney persisted, two months ago. wal
Of arson. While the trial was in pro
igress Judge Neal ordered the substi
tuition Of the charge Of arson instea'
of murder
Tacoma,-At Port Madison, Kitsal
, county, the house OF Arthur Raine
burned at III O'Clock al night while b.
and his wife we're digging clans |
mile away The three children o
the couple. aged 5. 4 and years. wen
burned to death.
! The senate committee on Indian al
, fairs has ordered a favorable repor
! on Congressman Jones bill, which
has passed the house. providing TO
/, the sale to settlers OF about 200 acre
of allotted land in the Yakima reseT
walton.
Two Spokane 4 Occur d'Alene eleC
trio line trains collided at SpokRn
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 a pas
senger. were slightly hurt.
Judgment has been finally entered 4
the long drawn out suit brought by n
Goss Construction company against tn
state capitol commission for extra
; in constructing the capitol amer
= This judgment. which has been sign
ed by Judge Linn Of the superior eouri
gives the Goss company ssssS an,
costs. amounting in all to about 5000
that the state will be required to pay
The suit was originally for about S25
900.