The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-04-08
FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-CulIings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon--Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

A plant to make brick, to cost $4,000,
will be installed at Prosser.
Farming operations are in full blast
in the vicinity of Endicott, and about
half of the spring seeding is done.
In western Whitman county, where
the soil is lighter and contains more
sand than in the eastern half, spring
work can begin from one to three
weeks earlier than further east.
Advertisements are posted asking
for bids on the new mail and stage
route from Pomeroy to Lewiston, that
is to be officially opened May 9.
In the third incendiary fire within
two hours, at Seattle, early Sunday
morning, J. w. Norris was probably
fatally burned while trying to save his
wife from the flames.
A savings bank, to be known as the
Peoples Savings bank, has been or
ganized at Davenport.
So much rain has fallen in the Pres
colt country and westward on Eureka
fiat that the farmers predict an I'M
usually bad spring for weeds.
A new idea at the Spokane Interstate
IAN this fall will be IA number Of
pri. es in different departments which
viii be open only to school children.
Columbia county has a court record
for the past Is months perhaps un-
equaled elsewhere in the state. But
one criminal case has come to trial
in that time.
A report from Seattle says that or
ers in the last few days for 225,000
cases of Alaska pink salmon for ship
ment to Japan.
Mrs. F. F. Emery of Spokane will not
represent the Washington State Fed
Grafton as delegate to the General
Federation of Women's clubs, to be
held at St. Louis this summer. Mrs.
| Emegss has left for Boston, to be gone
all summer. 1t is expected that Mrs.
Harris Baldwin of Spokane will be ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy.
The first conviction in a perjury
case ever secured in the superior court
Of Spokane county has reached the end
with the sentence of Frank Rutledge
to serve five years in the state peni.
Tertiary.
Prizes for fruit will be greatly in
reased at the Spokane Interstate fair
this season.
An order recently issued by Adju
tant General Drain announces that
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Taylor
18th infantry, has been detailed by the
commanding general of the Pacific
division to make the annual inspec
ton of the national. guard eff Washing
ton during this month, as provided fol
by the militia act of 1908.
Joseph Henritzi of Chelan has in
vented a new building material which
he expects to manufacture at his up
lake home. 1t is white as marble, car
be nodded into any shape, and is tc
be much stronger and tougher thar
brick and to stand the ravages of the
elements much better.
The sugar beet industry in the vi
entity of Latah promises to be greater
this fall than ever.
Blanche Stoddard, the Pacific coas
actress, who is now Mrs. Edward ]
Radcliffe, has been engaged at Boston
for the star part in special produc
ton of Wagner's "Parsifal," to be
given at the Castle Square theatre
Miss Stoddard came from Spokane
where she made her debut in public
| Oh, ~;
race from Ben Hur" with fine dra
matte effect.
The quarterly report of the state
land office shows greater receipts into
the current school fund than for any
previous quarter. The excess over the
largest previous quarter is $4,000.
DR.. John M. Semple has been elect
ed president of the Medical Lake Ho
tel and Sanitarium company, which is
erecting a new sanitarium at Medica
Lake, Spokane county. The sanitariun
is to be four stories high. A physi
clan will be in charge.
Barnet Lipscomb, well known far
mer is dead at his home near Colfax
of old age.
In response to the call of the comp
troller of currency the banks of Spo
kane have issued a statement of thei1
financial condition at the close of bus
mess Monday, March %. The report
shows deposits of Zen millions of dol
lars in the Spokane banks and an in
crease of nearly half million dollars
| e.,
The First National bank of ColfaS
has opened savings bank department
| the first in Whitman county.