The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-10-16
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Walla Walla is to have new -four
ing mill.
The Spokane county tax levy for
this year is II mills.
Good roads convention will go to
Whatcom next year.
The Spokane telephone operators
union has collapsed.
The wool clip of the Inland Empire
is 45,OO0,000 pounds q year.
I. P. Armstrong, an old time resi-
dent Of Spokane, died recently.
Royalty. owned by Harry. Green OF
Spokane, won the Spokane Derby.
Garfield continues to pay the high
est price in the Palouse country for
wheat.
More than 100000 fruit trees have
been set out this year in the Inland
Empire.
The Whitman County fair opened
Monday, and everything was in read
mess for the opening day..
D.. E. Sheppard, the aged convict
who escaped from the penitentiary
| few weeks ago, is still loose.
The first copies Of the 1903 house
and senate journals-were received by
the state librarian for distribution.
One hundred and eighty delegates
were registered as in. attendance at
the good roads convention at Spokane
recently.
In proportion to population, Spokane
stands higher today on the list of bank
clearings than any other city Of the
United States.
There were ,581 pounds of but
ter and 175,OO0 pounds of cheese pro-
duced in Spokane county last year
by two creameries.
The fruit season is fairly open in
Garfield and large shipments are be-
ing made. A fair sized army of pack.
ers are at work in the three packing
houses.
The proposition to issue 100000
worth Of school bonds for building
purposes was just barely defeated by
the voters at Spokane last week.
Edward Day, the 16 year old son o.
William Day, living at Spokane, &C
. cidentally shot himself while hunting
, According to advices received from
the coast folmaldehyde or borax hal
been found in nearly all canned meats
prepared by the big packing houses o
the west.
/ At Walla Walla Sunday the mos
t destructive fire that has occurred il
. years was discovered at the rear o
: the lumber yard and planning mil
> owned by Whitehouse, Crimmins
4 Co. The loss is 100000. The blaz
> was undoubtedly of incendiary origin
r Willie Davis, the 16 year old so
of William Davis of Steptoe Butte, wa
i fatally injured recently by bein
+ kicked in the temple by a horse. TIL
q boy fell through a hole in the foo
+ of hay loft behind the horse, whic
n kicked him, fracturing his skull.
t Samuel Hill, president of the Stat
n Good Roads association, has been al
e pointed by the association as its rel
resentative to go to Washington an
urge upon congress the appropriate
of money to assist in the building {
highways in the various states, wit
a special view to securing appropr
9 atoms for Washington.
Herbert Macarthur, manager of tn
Blalock Fruit company, has receive
- returns from three cars Of prune
shipped direct to London and Live
- pool markets from the orchard nes
=. Walla Walla. It required just 33 day
= for the shipment to reach it's dest
~ nation and the fruit was in excelle1
condition, having been forwarded
refrigerators. This is the first e
:. pertinent of the kind.
:. A large number of valuable doc
~ ments, dating back as far as 1856
have been found among a lot of o
y. - rubbish stored in the state ormol
- in Olympia. The existence of son
Of the papers were known to exis
~ but had been lost for 10 years. Amor
the latter are the muster rolls
u Washington and Oregon voluntee
-" who participated in suppressing tt
- Indian insurrection in 1857.
- The Office of the state grain col
missioner reports an unfortunate sta
u of affairs in the condition of the whe
IT. and other grain now arriving at T
le coma. The losses to the shippers
!" considerable, and much of this 10
10 might be saved did the shippers b
realize that in shipping wet grain in
p the Sound country they are invitil
IN disaster, the humidity of the atmc
tie phere completing the damage beg
es over the, mountains. The grove
p ought to be advised at once that gra
at shipped wet, or even in a moist &C
dition, does not dry out at this poi
he at all. AS a general thing it hea
in and cakes.