The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Work on a lumber mill to cost $780,
900. to be- erected at Spokane, is to
begin Immediately.
| Broker Howard ]. Kressly of Spo-
kane is still among the missing and the
warrant issued for his arrest remains
unserved.
All four national banks of Spokane
show decided increase in the report
which has been prepared for the comp
troller of the currency.
Just $3.50 for each meadow lark is
what two birds cost Leo Denzel and
John Hopkins, two young men of Spo-
kane, for. killing the birds.
| Reports come from the Horse Heav-
en- country that the wheat crop for
this year is practically ruined and
hundreds of farmers will be ruined
financially.
Officials of the new Occur d'Alene
& Spokane Street Railway company
have received $50 carloads of rails and
materials for the new line, from Pu-
eblo, Col.
d. Contracts are soon to be let for the
construction of an irrigation system
which will furnish water for 226 acres
Of land owned by that company at
Kirby.
The recent rain was general through
out nearly all parts of the Inland EN-
pire, according to reports from the
principal towns, and was Of great value
to the growing crops.
The dead body Of man was found
in the Yakima river recently 20 miles
below Kiona. It is supposed to be
the corpse of section hand who fell
into the river at Ellensburg.
Governor Mcbride has named R. C..
McCroskey of Garfield, Wash, and
Frank j. Barnard of Seattle as regents
of the state agricultural college. Both
men succeed themselves and each win
serve term of six years.
+ Horatius won the second Seattle
Derby on slow track, against field
of eight starters, in 2:12k, coming un-
der the wire two and one-half lengths
ahead of Polonius, with Fossil third,
killed off in the early pace.
The dry kilns of the Monarch Shin
gle company at Blaine were destroyed
by fire recently. Six million shingles
were burned, entailing a loss Of be.
tween $4,000 and $4,000. The insur.
ance is about half the loss.
A leading hop buyer of North va
kima who went over the valley on a
tour of inspection reports that he
found the hop fields in better condi
ton than at this time last year, with
good indications of a crop equally as
good as last year.
A 10 year old son of Simeon Evans
who lives in Robinson canyon, neal
Ellensburg, while driving to the cream
cry recently fell off the wagon and the
wheel, striking his head, completely
scalped one side. The glancing blow
saved the boys life.
Charles Billings, former sheriff o.
:. Thurston county, selected to succeed
Jesse Mills, who has been appointed or
the state board of control, has declined
and Edward McClarty, a veteran of the
Spanish-American war, has been ap
pointed in his stead.
The directors of the Seattle National
bank and the Boston National bank
have each adopted resolutions to- con
solidate these two institutions, form
ing new one with capital and sur.
plus of 100000. and taking the name
of the Seattle National bank.
Major Silas Wolf of the Nineteenth
infantry will be the battalion com.
mander of the four companies of that
regiment which will be Quartered at
Fort Wright at Spokane to succeed the
two companies of the Seventeenth, that
will leave for the Philippines on the
goth.
A number of the members of the
Spokane Rod and Gun club will attend
the shoot at Dayton. on June rs, 81
and %. This shoot, given by the
Sportsman's Association of the North
west, is the biggest event of the year
in gun circles. Shooters from Oregon,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, British Colum-
bia and Washington will take part.
Governor Mcbride will speak at the
Elberton picnic week from We'd
,esday. Spokane county has by far
rne greatest number of rural free de-
livery routes in the state, if not in
the northwest.
Smallpox is getting fresh start in
Walla Walla, eight patients being re-
ported here. Five of these are in the
DaSthOuSo which is now 11ndar county