The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-07-24
WARRINGTON NEWS.

Ellensburg women are raising $3.50 |
for public fountain.
Crop reports are q little more
gloomy than they were q little earlier |
in the season.
Rev. G. Tsuruda is pastor of the
Spokane Japanese Methodist church,
organized recently.
F. A. English has sold his fruit farm,
four miles north of Pennington, for
$4,000. An Iowa man is the buyer.
The Weyerhaeuser syndicate has
purchased 14,700 acres of land in Sno-
homish county, for which it paid $685.
TAO.
T. ]. Pitzer, Garfield grocer, is
missing. He has not been heard from
since he left home week ago for
Spokane.
The first catch Of sockeye salmon of
the season has reached Seattle port.
1t consisted Of 5000 fish taken on the
San Juan island banks.
Seattle was chosen by the labor COM
missioner as the field for the first in
spection of bakeshops under the law
passed by the last legislature.
Mrs. Annie Null died at Seattle sud-
denly week ago and her infant daugh-
ter SO hours later. An autopsy indi-
Gates poison by carbolic acid or SINH
lar drug.
The route lies through the Methow,
the Okanogan and the Spokane valleys
to Spokane. 1t taps Mt. Baker, Slate
Creek and the Methow Valley mining
country.
Elvin Nicholson, "a years old, Of FL
lensburg, committed suicide at North
Yakima recently by shooting himself
in the head. He leaves wife at
Ellensburg.
The personal property Of Whitman
county is assessed at more than $780,
900 more than last year, nearly every
line of property assessed showing a
marked growth for the year.
The official call for the next meeting
Of the transmississippi commercial
congress at Seattle, has been issued by
Secretary Arthur F. Francis. The
dates fixed are August 10, 10, 20, 81
1903.
Miss Edna I. Warner, Miss Nina
Soloman and T. v. Foster were drown
ed in the bay at Everett last Sunday
by the capsizing of their sail boat
There were no witnesses to the &C
cident.
Grief over the sudden death of hel
husband, followed almost Immediately
by the confinement of her daughter IL
an asylum for the insane, has caused
Mrs. F. G. Yonnie, a well known resi-
dent of Tyler, to lose her mind.
The body of Fred Payne, drowne'
recently off the steamer Chelan at We
natchee, was found near Rock Island
He was about 80 years Of age ant
unmarried. Charles Hare was ais
drowned in attempting to rescue him
The ninth annual fair Of the Whit
man County Fair association has beel
decided upon, and it will be held il
the fair grounds west Of Colfax, be
ginning Monday, October IL, and clos
ing Saturday, October IL. being in OF
Grafton for six full days.
Herbert Bolster, one of the hes
known citizens of the Inland Empire
a pioneer of Spokane, and for severa
years manager of the Spokane frui
fair, died last week at his home. Flo
many months Mr.. Bolster suffered wit
a nervous malady, which baffled tn
skill of physicians.
John Dexter, a harvest laborer
the employ of Frank Kaiser of Waits
burg, was drowned while bathing q
Teal bridge. The unfortunate ma
was wading in four feet Of water whe
he suddenly stepped into hole owe
nine feet deep. He was unmarrie
, and came recently from Oregon.
A novel sight recently was that {
: Misses Alice Mullen and Minerva Fl
} ley, respectively business manager an
} operator in the telephone Office at RI
, public, climbing telephone pole
put a new cable fuse in the box. Ov
ing to the linemen's strike now on, nc
| a man could be found to do the work.
The greatest irrigation enterprise
/, the northwest was set on foot whe
: the Yakima Development compan.
capitalized at $250,000. filed articles {
Incorporation. The scheme is the d.
velopment of every foot of desert Ian
in the Yakima valley, the water to b
taken from the Yakima river, its trib1
! taries and storage lakes.
. Amended articles of incorporate
I have been filed with the secretary {
state and the Whatcom county auditc
by the Bellingham Bay & British G.
= lumbia Railroad company. The art
, cles were amended at San Francisc
, July 2, and propose an extension of th
!. line to Spokane, distance of rs
D miles. This will be the shortest. moi
direct route from Spokane to tidew