The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-11-11
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The bones of old Chief Joseph are t,
rest peacefully beneath a little mount
Of earth at Nespelem.
With a few exceptions, all of tn,
grain tributary to Prescott has beer
disposed of by the growers.
J. H. Lasswell, will begin at once
the erection of so barrel daily ca
pacity Touring mill at Colville.
The demand for Washington floul
from the eastern and southern states
is almost as great as that for wheat
The Western Pine Shippers associa
zion has applied for membership in the
National Lumber Manufacturers asso
citation.
| Lumber is being hauled for the new
$4,000 Christian church at Pullman
Ind the work of raising the superstruc.
cure will begin in few days.
All of the right of way for the Med.
zeal Lake electric line has been Sc
cured and the company will be letting
The contracts for the grading work
before long.
Sixteen hundred dollars worth of
- uAs sASSo anu OIL uuUCly were TcCGlV-
ed in Palouse last week. The trees
are mostly winter varieties of apple
and peach trees.
Farmers, millmen and miners Of
eastern Washington and northern Ida
no are estimated to have paid over
b1,5OO,000 to Spokane implement and
machinery dealers the past year.
James G. Bramen, restaurant man
If Bremerton, suburb of Seattle, is
lead and his wife lying at the hospital
rs the result of shooting which was
the outcome of quarrel between
them.
A special wheat rate has been an
nounced by the railroads from all
points in the Palouse country north of
Winona, Wash, to Milwaukee. 1t is
12R cents per cwt., with a minimum
ear Of 10000 pounds.
Two weeks will elapse before the IA
blocks OF paving will be completed in
Walla Walla, but property holders on
streets touched by paving are already
lgitating the extension of the improve
hOhI Ill oil uuSCIlOuS.
Sunday morning about o'clock
burglars entered the Old Crow saloon
1T Pennington through the back win.
low and carried the safe, which was
small one, to the blacksmith shop of
J. w. Walters, where they blew it open
Ind robbed it of about $40.
Figures compiled by the state land
office for the biennial report show an
aggregate of $1,O73,930 invested in
county, municipal and school district
bonds in the last two years. An aver
ige of Ala per cent is realized.
The report of the Spokane health
department for the month of October
shows that there were SO births as
against total of "a births during the
month of last year. In
October, 1904, there were 80 deahts, |
against total of 4S deaths in October,
1903.
What is said to be the largest real
estate deal made in the history of |
Spokane was consummated last week |
when Charles Sweeny purchased the
Rookery, the Spokane Natiohals Bank |
block and the Riverside block, the
best paying blocks in the heart of the
,ity, for $360,000.
AS result of holdup of the Cam
len postoffice last week in which two
men robbed the safe of $40, one man,
John Wilson, was fatally shot near
Jhattaroy, being shot by Deputy Sher-
If E. c. Pratt, and the other, H. Allen,
lfter a desperate struggle with De-
ectives in Spokane, was landed in
all.
Robbers blew the front off of the
'afe in the Bank of Endicott at an
'arly hour Friday morning, but were
frightened away without getting at the
of the strong box. The noise
# the explosion gave an alarm, and
he robbers took to their heels under
/ rain of revolver shots. One of the
LEGGED thugs, named Joe Buler, was
aptured later.