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....su.meroN STATE NEWS.


robruary IA of this year.
TIL Tbe pacific & Southeastern Railway
.omnapv. capitalized at $15,OOO,OOO,
Sos fled articles of incorporation. The
uan,nanv will have a terminus at Ia
n,a and extend across the state of
Tvas tapping the richest parts
a. tbe state. Ultimately the line VIII
s,ur, mart of transcontinental sys-
.on branches will be built to Spo-
sane Seattle, Portland and British
Columbia.
The IS months old daughter of
coorge Gerlitz, farmer near Dusty,
,,od after nearly three weeks intense
suffering as the result of an accidental
sooldng which occurred to the child
April 8.
The fifth annual horse show at
waitsburg Saturday was by far the
host vet held, $500 people being here
and liz well-bred horses on parade.
THE Lincoln County Pioneers and
historical association has decided to
hold the picnic this year on June %,
d and 25 owing to advantages to be
derived by the Davenport and Wilbur
fairs. which will be held directly fol
loving
LAYING 90-pound steel at rate three
times as fast as was ever made by
the same number of men with rails
half as heavy and pursuing old-time
methods. is the daily performance of
gang of 125 men using a tracklay-
hg machine on the Chicago, Malwau-
kee & st. Paul extension west of
Othello, Douglas county.
Twenty horses and mules of the
finest breed and ranging in cost from
several hundred dollars to $4,000 were
in the parade of the first horse show
ever held at Ritzville Saturday. Over
500 people were in attendance.
Pullman is to have free delivery of
mail August l, when two carriers will
| be put to work in the city.
The sensational disappearance OF
! Fred Hays. a teamster of North Yalxi-
ma last fall, in the Black Rock hills is
believed to have been cleared up by
the finding of body in the mountains
few days ago.
The senate has passed a bill for the
erection of public building at Ever
ett
Spokane's new postoffice gets SIS,
900 in sundry civil bills reported Sat
urday. The Columbia river appropri
alton was cut from $1,7O0000 for i'm
- ffr,nn faaf
by engineers to $1,450,00O and from
100000 for the Three Mile rapids al
Cello to S336,00O, both ON continuing
contracts.
Fourteen prisoners from Spokane
county, including two women, who
nave been sentenced to indeterminat'
sciences in the state penitentiarl
anging from l to 20 years, were sen
70 Walla Walla prison this week.
Jack Kidd, a Milwaukee railroad la
'oTer, aged SO years, attempted t
commit suicide in the Tekoa city jai
sunday afternoon by cutting his throa
with a pocket knife, and succeeded il
nnlctng wounds that will undoubted
y prove fatal.
united States Senator Samuel II
rHes OF Seattle has been put in pos
session of One-half interest of thu
.unn Sullivan estate, valued approx
ualeiy at $1,000,000. This ends liti
Sauon that has extended over a perio'
elgnt years and which has beef
SOnnc IN having the history of thu
'ullVan family in Ireland we'll aire'
the various courts of this state.
Pullman is to have a big conver
rOn when the first convention of tn
.amers Educational and Cooperativ
Iion Tor the Inland Empire is he'll
~ere, June Is and 16.
w. h. Gage, railroad contractor, re
Y'S mat no heavy railroad construC
SOn on the North Coasts propose
~" Is hkely to be undertaken With
~e next six months.
a message from Watrous. N. M
~es that Willis and Burt Cooper
Gu sons of Mrs. Zacharias Taylo
e'per Oh Rosalia, were suffocated a
oottom of 6O-foot well they wer
1 snS on their mothers ranch, b
be Sruuen flow of natural gas whic
Unexpectedly tapped.
er ~e Great Northern and the Nortl
be fn ae,nc each contributed $1,000 t
.und for the entertainment of tn
lives -, pattleship fleet when it a
. IN Seattle May %.
IDAHO EVENTS.