The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-07-03
WASHINGTON NEWS.


Spokane in the past 10 months was
21.57 per cent.
John s. Carter, pioneer and one of
the best known citizens of Whitman |
county is dead.
The striking millworkers Of Spokane |
announce that their cooperative mill
will be started next week.
Mrs. Mary Brown of Everett was
elected president Of the State Fedora
ton of Womens' clubs at Everett last
week.
The cool weather of the past week
has been of considerable help to grow
ing wheat. The outlook now is for a
fair crop.
The new railroad to connect Spokane
with the Canadian Pacific is an as
sured fact. It is thought the road
will be completed by next year.
A picnic and stock show will be held
near Pullman July 8, 8 and 10 by the
seventh annual reunion of the Whit
man County Veterans association.
The Everett Record says 1t is be-
lieved that the Northern Pacific is con-
templating the extension Of the Monte
Cristo road to Coulee City, Douglas
county.
The homeseeker rates will remain
in effect every Tuesday out of 81 Paul
until the third Tuesday in October.
These rates are one fare plus 81 for
the round trip.
While it is impossible to predict
| ~ int " xUh
run of salmon will be, all conditions
are favorable for good run on Puget
sound this season.
Becker of Ogden has the honor Of
having the highest average OF the
three days shoot, having lost only As
| birds out Of 600. Sheard lost Sc, w. H.
t Seaver 81, e. e. Ellis 81.
At Seattle a wall of clay 20 feet high
!. caved in on three laborers recently,
{ instantly killing A. Jampere and re-
, sulting in injuries to Samuel Romeo
' and r. c. vanderhoof.
\ Eastern Washington apples on sale
|. at a hotel in Vienna for $1.25 each
were seen by r. e. Strahorn and wife
I. of Spokane, who have just returned
= from an extended European tour.
It has been decided not to have any
:. poultry exhibit at the interstate fail
at Spokane this fall. A poultry chow
will probably be given by poultry fan
ciers some time during the winter.
The annual session Of the Whitman
County Veterans association, which
=. meets in Pullman for an encampmen
:, of three days, beginning July 8, prom
= ises to be one of the big affairs of tn
summer.
- At the Sportsmen's Association Q
!. the Northwest at Dayton last wee
= officers were elected for the year
- 10000 and the state Of Californi
.. was admitted into the association
The officers elected were as follows:
J.. P. F. Smith, Tacoma. president; N
. B. Brownlee, Spokane. first vice pres
= ident; J. Hills, Libby. Mont, secon
- vice president; A. P. Biglow, OgdeI
~ Utah, third vice president; e. v. Get
- sar, Tacoma, secretary and treasurer
~ Members of the board were electe
~ as follows: T. B. Ware. Spokane; Nj
~ Abraham, Portland; Mr.. Sheard, T,
~ coma; Mr.. Baker, Dayton; Mr.. Wood
~ Tacoma.
A case of attempted murder O,
- Cured recently at Curlew lake, on tn
Colville reservation. A settler, who's
- name the victim, refuses to disclose
- rode on horseback to the shack of Dal
- lei McLennan, fellow homesteade
- and without a moments warning pulle
a gun and began shooting. The fri
bullet struck McLennan in the add
- men, passing out at the back, missin
the vital organs. He will recover.
- The first salmon for the pack {
~ 1903 by the Pacific Packing & Nav
- cation company were taken from til
~ nets Of the company last week an
" packed at Fairhaven. The catch CO..
sisted of some TOO fish. and 800 case
N Of the finished product were put up.
- While Charles A. Gushing, presidel
o of the Port Angeles & Eastern raj
~ road, was cleaning his shotgun recen
~ ly he in some manner accidentally di
y, charged one barrel of the gun into h
=. abdomen. The gun was loaded wit
- birdshot, the full charge Of which e
tered the body on the left side.
though Mr.. Gushing was not killed b
condition is very critical.
George Goude, a machinist Of Oake
~ dale, is at work upon a combined hea
~ er and thresher that may revolution,
20 threshing methods in the Palou'
10 country. The machine is the inventit
ID. of L. B. Mack and w. F. York Of WI
,,v la Walla and Mr.. Goude and is desig
nd ed with a view to overcome the defec
oh of the present combined machines (
,as the Palouse hills.