The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-05-15

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A jury term OF court will open Al
Colfax Thursday, May FL.
Pullman is enjoying a building boom
which promises to surpass that of last
year.
Heavy shipments of potatoes are
being made from Garfield to Kansas
City and Texas points.
w. w. Renfrew of Colfax, former
county clerk, has bought the Bank oi
Elberton from H. w. Roberts.
Ralph Niles Of Whitman academy
won the interacademic defamation
contest at Walla Wal!a recently.
Bert Fuller of Pendleton, Ore, was
drowned in the waste ditch of the Yaki.
ma Milling company Saturday night
A steady, soaking rain. which will
be Of inestimab,e value to the grain
crop Of the Palouse country, fell last
Sunday.
A letter has been received from
Marconi, the inventor of wireless
telegraphy. stating that he would visit
Spokane in June.
The semicentennial reunion of the
Pioneers association of Washington
will be held at Madison park, Seattle,
on June and 3.
The little son of Henry Schlehuber,
who lives north of Farmington, was
kicked by horse recently, causing
fracture Of the skull.
The members of the Spokane g. A.
R. propose to give royal entertain
ment to fellow veterans when the de.
partment encampment meets in Spo-
kane in May.
The German steamship Anubjs
smashed into the south grain conveyor
and dock Of elevator d at Tacoma re
Gently, causing damage estimated at
between $4,000 and $4,000.
At Whatcom fire recently destroyed
the dry kiln and single shed, together
with 100000 shingles, belonging 70
the Hastings Single company of Van
couver, B. G. Loss $4,000.
The electric light company has an
nounced that it will at once entirely
replace its line Of poles and wire n
Asotin. The company now has about
$50 lights in use in Asotin.
A carload-about $50 head-of stock
hogs was shipped from Garfield recent
ly to Spokane. The pigs weighed from
80 to 125 pounds each. Eight. cents
per pound was paid for them.
The Pasco country is to be irrigated
at last. Water is to be secured from
Snake rivera to he raised to de-
sired level by an immense pumping
plant, it is said, at Five Mile rapids.
Tommy Saluskin, an Indian, was
killed recently at Big Cottonwood OH
the upper Ahtanum. He got into a
fight with some Indians over a. horse
when George Ward hit him with al
stone, killing him almost instantly.
The May apportionment Of current
school funds will exceed any Other
quarterly apportionment ever made In
his state by over 100000. The state
auditor certified to the amount avail
able for distribution among the school
districts, placing it Mt $906,6S5.
Mrs. Kahlert died at Spokane hos
oital recently of pemphigus. Penn
ohigus is very peculiar disease and |
literally skins the patient alive. The |
disease originates in large blister.
Other blisters form and. expanding,
AXE the skin of the patient. It is al
ways fatal.
The government has ordered a gen.
,ral Investigation of the status of In
lian allotments which may result in |
he cancellation of a number Of such
'laims on the Colville reserve and the
hrowing open to settlement and entry
" citizens of some Of the best lands
n eastern Washington.
A contract has been awarded by the
Pierce County improvement company,
which is Harvesting the glaciers Of
Mount Tacoma for power for four of
he largest turbine wheels in the world.
rhe giant generators will develop 1900
lorse power each and are II feet in
liameter. They are to supply electric
for Tacoma and the nearby
,laces.
George G. Hackett Of Boston is in
seattle for the purpose of erecting
arge refrigerator plant and arranging
or the establishment of line of 100
efr1gerator cars between Seattle and
EASTERN markets. In these his COM
ANY will ship from Puget sound fresh
almon, halibut smelt and other fish
o all points in the United States. Each
ar has capacity of 25 tons net and
vilr be shipped 10 times each year.
George T. Mcconnell, an Odd Fellow
or nearly half century, is dead at
Vo1lo WoIfo orod on