The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-05-08
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
G. p Headley. q pioneer Of Walls
Walla, Is dead.
The settling OF southwestern parts
OF Whitman county is rapid.
The Northern Pacific has decided to
build q $4,000 depot at Kennewick.
Hitching posts have been removed
from the main streets at Walla Walla
Active steps have been taken by
citizens of Krupp towards securing q
depot.
|. A steamship line has been estab.
lished on the Columbia river between
Wenatchee and Kettle Falls.
The Indictments of the Seattle grand
Jury against George U. Piper ana
Judge George have been dismissed.
Frank Half, sawmill man who has
been employed in the various sawmills
in the neighborhood of Addy, is miss
ing.
M. De La Montanya, rural route in
spector, has passed favorably on two
proposed rural routes to be established
at Sunnys'de.
The. University of Washington de.
feated the Seattle Y. M. c. A. team in
the recent track and field meet by a
score of TIN to 577a.
The six shingle mills operating in
Spokane have closed for an indefinite
period. The reason given is that there
is no market for the supply.
The Huntley Mercantile company,
with capital stock OF $4,000, has
been organized to do general mer-
chandise business at ST. John.
H. G.. Stlmmel, manager of the Spo-
kane Interstate fair, has let the COLI
tract to cover the race track with
.our inches of black loan soil.
Samuel e. Robinson of the Wash
inguon Agricultural college won the
seventh annual intercollegiate oratori-
cal contest held at Whitman college.
y Lucy and Leon Caron, charged with
two French girls into the
United States from Belgium for I'M
moral purposes, pleaded guilty in the
federal court at Spokane last week.
The state penitentiary record is
again broken by the accession Of 10
King county convicts. There are now
6S5 prisoners in the institution, and
the record number is steadily rising.
T. A. Livesley of North Yakima has
sold 118 bales Of hops to a Portland
company. The price is given out by
the buyers to have been IL cents, but |
the growers say that % cents was
paid.
AS result of the May day strikes in
Spokane 300 men were thrown out OF |
The millworkers, the
ron molders and the building laberers
struck because their demands were not
granted
Coroner 2. P. Heliker has filed with
he county commissioners a report OF
he recent finding OF an unknown dead
indian near the John Cleman's sheep
amp in Kittitas canyon. He was
hanging by his neck to a post, a hand
zerchief being used as a rope
April was heavy month in the Spo-
;ane land OFFICE. The total cash re-
'eipts from all sources amounted to
'13,334.S0. There were 119 homestead
entries, the total acreage being 49,
1916. The total receipts from cash
ales of land amounted to $75S446.
Mrs w. c. Kornbaugh of Tyler re-
emily was accidentally shot in the
land and side by gun in the hands
II her husband. He had just loaded
he gun and was walking to the door
o shoot 2 coy, te. when the weapon
vas discharged. The wound is not Sc
ious.
The mill, lumber and several houses
Il the Martin Lumber Co. of Contra
la were recently burned to the ground.
\ boxcar on the siding was destroyed.
The loss N the mill alone will amount
o $4,000, but how much lumber has
'een destroyed it is impossible to say.
NhQ mill wit. ho rahuiIt