The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-12-02
WASHINGTON NEWS.


The Spokane Poultry association will
give a poultry show in Spokane about
January 10, 1905.
The ~lifeless body of Clarence w.
Sinclair, master of the launch Bis
marck, which runs on Lake Washing
ton, neal Seattle, was found in the
lake recently. The body was lying face
downward in about Is inches of water.
W%ashington's unique state building
at the worlds fair in st. Louis may be
sold for a song. 1t cost $4,000 and
an offer of $500 has been made for it.
Recently patents have been granted
to inventors residing in Washington
Is follows: Mortimer A. Howe, Ia
coma, bank check, record book and
binder; Andrew J.. Ketelsen, Seattle,
steam cooker and presser; Michael
Lacey, apparatus for raising sunken
vessels; John Metzger, Tacoma, tan
dem compound engine bushing; Geo.
H. Whitehose, Seattle, adjustable lev
err; Matthias P. Zindorf, Seattle, gar
ment supporter.
The noted and picturesque piece of
property on the Columbia river, known
as Castle Rock, being n of the great
scenic attractions on the Washington
side Of the river between Portland and
The Dalles, has been sold to Charles
e. Ladd of Portland. It is intended to
preserve the rock for it's natural at
fractions.
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manufac-
turers' association at its recent meet
ing in Tacoma adopted the uniform
system of sizes for finished and match
ed lumber in force by the Yellow-Pine
association, with slight exceptions in
sizes of drop siding and partition. No
action vas taken as to the matter OF
closing down the mills.
T. Sakai, a Japanese cook who works
at Tekoa, secured a marriage license
in Spokane authorizing him to take
as his wife Clara White, a negress.
Sakai is described as a fine looking
Jap. He is "a and his prospective
wife is 26.
The banks Of the Big Bend were
new in SO prosperous a condition as
at present. Every n Of them, 1t Is
generally believed, can, with short no
tice, pay every dollar Of deposits.
Frank Parker, the man fatally shot
at Colfax by Charles Martin, formerly
lived in Republic.
Mrs. G. s.. Gritman, while coming
from Garfield to Palouse in a livery
rig. was thrown from the buggy and
seriously hurt.
Business at the Walla Walla land
Office has increased to such an extent
that an extra clerk has been asked
for by the officials. The immense vol.
ume of work ~occasioned by irrigation
has necessitated the request.
The bank deposits amount to over
SIS, 900, 900 in the five Walla Walla
banks.
A new ~postofice has been establish
ed at Sainte German, 16 miles north
west of Waterville.
The Seattle chamber of commercs
has completed arrangements for wei
coming the steamship Minnesota, the
mammoth new vessel of the Great Nor
them line due in that port on o.
about December 20.
william Martin of Colfax was fount
guilty of conducting a gambling game
Secretary Hitchcock has set asid,
81, 0O0, 900 for work on the Palouse ir
rigation project.
For committing an assault upon
year old Leona Moran, Fred Adam
must spend rs years in the peniten
tiary at Walla Walla. This is tn
longest sentence ever imposed in KIM
county for any crime except murder
If the recommendations contained II
the biennial report Of the state boar
of control, just prepared, are adopte
by the legislature, the state will ez
pend in the next fiscal period $4,000
in building additions to the state II
situations under its control and owe
1000, 900 including building, maints
nance and incidentals.
MONTANA NEWS.
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