The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-09-25
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
The daily output of 400 barrels Is
the capacity of the -four mills in Walla
Walla. St"
The State Teachers association or
Washington will meet at Tacoma, De
cember % to 80.
More than IL miles Of track have
been laid, east from Spokane on the
Occur d'Alene electric line.
Governor Henry McBride's presence
at the Interstate Fair October Z, Gov
errors day." is now assured.
Some grain is standing in the fields
about Oakesdale, Seltice and Belmont,
and this is being cut by headers.
1t is estimated that from 80 to IS per
cent of the crop of Whitman county
has been cut and about So per cent has
been threshed.
Plans and specifications have been
completed for the new Jail at Asotin.
which will be built this fall at an ex.
pense of $4,000.
While working in the jute mill at
w oAl1 w AAlc, " cou., q SOhFASS AAeSe AAAo
hand caught in the machinery and
severe wound resulted.
The sawmill of the Eureka Sawmill
company, situated five miles north
west of Republic, was consumed by
fire recently. There was no insurance.
A man named Tanto committed sui
eide by blowing his brains out with a
gun. He lived on homestead about
80 miles from Lind in Douglas county.
Wheat is coming into Edwall at the
rate of about 10000 bushels per day.
Ninety per cent. Of the wheat is blue
stem, and it is almost all grading No:
/.
The body of w. H. H. Ragan, the
Steptoe Butte farmer, was found by
searching parties two miles from his
home. He had wandered away and
died.
Wheat this year along the Great
Northern railway is of uniformly good
quality and smut cases are rare, most
Of the wheat weighing 60 pounds to
the bushel.
0CNOlo Oh 1lOduS VI uu0
prunes are being received in Walla
Walla from orchards near Dixie, the
fruit being sent there for packing and
forwarding.
An endeavor is being made by the
cattlemen of Okanogan county to
reach an amicable adjustment of the
serious differences which have exist.
ed there since the introduction of
sheep.
John Sullivan, night Waterman at
the old smelter, four miles down the
river from Spokane, was thrown from
his buggy and kicked in the abdomen
so violently by his horse that he died
recently two hours after.
John L. Smith, the veteran superin.
tendent of 10 successive Interstate
fairs in Spokane, is to be with the In.
terstate Fair association in the ca
pacity of superintendent of the stock
department no more after this sea
son.
The wheat of the Waitsburg district
is nearly all in the warehouse, and II
is estimated that fully 100000 bush
els are under cover. The dealers say
about one-third of it has been sold al
prices ranging from 70 to Is cents fol
club and bluestem respectively.
The total tax levy for state pur
poses has been fixed by the state board
of equalization at seven and three
6fths mills, five mills of which is fol
the school fund. This is no change
from the total of last year. The tota
amount of state taxes that will thus be
raised is $2105,116, of which $692,471
goes to the general fund, $1,3S4.94I
to the school fund and $27,7O0 to the
military fund.
The matter of organizing board O.
trade or a commercial club is being
agitated by some of Harrington's citi
zens.
The real estate of the Joseph Conat
ser estate was sold at auction Satur
day at Colfax, and brought good prices
at spirited bidding. The real estate
consisted of 14OS acres of land ant
about 100 town lots in Sunset. Thu
land brought an average of about $2I
| per acre and the town lots averaged
about SIS each. D. F. Anderson Of Ro
salia was auctiopeer. The real estat,
brought almost $4,000.
A lynching was narrowly averte'
at Sunnyside, three miles east of Ev
erett, recently. A rancher named M
L. Scott, formerly a member of the Sal
walton army, accused of assaulting tn,
IA year old daughter of A. S. Nichols
was in the hands of an Infatuated mol
of farmers, with the hemp rope al
but around his neck, when Sheriff
Brewer arrived and pursuaded the an
cry ranchers to turn the accused mai