The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-05-06
IDAHO ITEMS.

IDAHO ITEMS.
Genesee has organized q baseball
team for the season.
The representatives of the Wallace
high school defeated those of the Null.
Ian high school in the debating con.
test recently.
The Washington Water Power com.
pany is preparing to install q big pow.
er house at Post Fails.
John Parsons, a Wardner justice of
the peace, has been convicted before
Justice Kelly on a charge of living in
house of i'll fame.
The Moscow Mercantile Credit asso-
citation was organized by "a of the bust
ness firms of Moscow.
| At recent meeting of plasterers,
bricklayers and stonemasons, it was
decided to organize as a branch of
the International union.
The icehouse belonging to the Ar
mour Fruit Car company, near Pay.
cite, burned recently. There were
| $4,000 tons of ice stored in the struc-
ture
j. A. Tormey, superintendent of the
Spokane schools, will deliver the COM
mencement address at the exercises of
the Wardner schools. which will be
held Friday evening. May 49,
Shippers of livestock at Boise have
been notified that the Northwestern
road has rescinded the rule against
the giving of transportation for the
purpose of taking livestock to market.
Spring work on the Lapwai, Garden
Gulch, Sweetwater, Tom Beall and
Cottonwood creeks and ridges is about
complete, and grain is generally look
ing well. Fall sown grain is well ad-
vanced.
| Chester King, a boy about IA years
Of age, whose parents live in Weiser,
was drowned in Buttermilk slough, an
arm of Snake river. about four miles
from the city.
The situation at the mills Of the
Occur d'Alene Lumber company, where
the men went out recently on &C.
count of a slight reduction in the wa
ges of few of the men. remains un-
changed, both sides still holding out.
While section crew of five Italians
was repairing the track on the Silver
King branch of the o. R. & N. recent
ly, severe electrical storm arose, and
before they reached cover a bolt of
lightning struck among them, hurting
them to the ground. All lay stunned
for some time, when, with one excep-
ton, they slowly regained their senses.
The supreme court denied the ap-
plication Of l.. P. Stay for release on
writ Of habeas corpus. Stay. who
killed John M. Hays in Latah county
January III 1904. was committed by
the probate judge without bail on a
charge of murder.
The county commissioners at
Grangeville have fixed the salary of
the various county officials as fol-
lows: Sheriff, $500; assessor, $500;
treasurer, $1,000; judge, $500; school
superintendent, $1,000; surveyor, $500.
The county attorneys salary will be
liked in July.
From Lewiston comes a report that
Charles Sweeny of Spokane, who is
the owner of the Big Buffalo mine, in
the Buffalo district. has acquired a
valuable tract Of land near Harpster,
and expects to soon secure an extern
sion of the Northern Pacific road from
Sites to that place.
The committee in charge of raising
a subscription Of $500 to pay the tray
cling expenses of the two battalions
Of cadets from the University of Ida
no. $50 in number, for a weeks en-
carnpment at Lewiston, report having
raised the necessary amount, and the
encampment is assured.