The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-10-13
WASHINGTON NOTES.

| The worst windstorm of the year
struck the Sound last Friday night.
From Wallula comes the information
that a big grading outfit with about
100 men is at work on the north bank
OF the Columbia at Wallula.
Nome has come forward with q
Subscription of $4,000 for the Alaska
exposition, proposed to be held in Sc
attic in 1907.
The Great Northern has authorized
a reward Of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of each man implicated in
the recent holdup of the overland
train near Ballard.
Information is wanted as to the
whereabouts of Frances Bartlett or
Frances Err. 1t is understood she has
also been known as Madge Cohen.
Address George Err. Lynden, Wash.
Blown up by dynamite, the barge
Newport, lumber freighter of the
best type on the Pend d'Oreille river,
was reduced to wreckage at her moor
ings at Newport, recently.
Three persons killed. each at a diff
ferent place and time, together with
serious wreck in the Northern Pacific
yards, was Tacoma's casualty record
for last Friday. The dead are: Ed
ward TrOmar, Northern Pacific fire.
man; John F. Keiser, Northern Pacific
switchman, and Charles Robinson, an
Indian.
Rev. U. F. Hawk of Spokane has
Of
south of Colfax, to Paul Priest of Spo-
kane for $4,000, or about $43.75 an
acre.
+. w. Staff, carpenter employed
by the Washington Water Power Com
pany, was accidentally drowned in the
Spokane river Saturday.
At the recent meeting of the Presby-
terrain state synod it was decided to
divide the Presbytery of Puget sound,
placing King, Jefferson and Clallam
counties in one and the counties of
Whatcom. Skagit, San Juan and Che
Ian in the other. The latter is to be
called the Presbytery of Bellingham.
AS to forestry the state of Washing |
ton is placed in a class by itself by
the findings Of the Lewis and Clark |
exposition forestry jury awards, which
gave out that gold medal had been |
awarded to the Evergreen state for |
every entry in the forestry class and |
there were between 40 and so.
The total number of teachers en-
ployed in the state is 5179, of whom
1928 are males and 1851 females.
Male teachers receive an average sal
airy OF $64.51; females $51.61.
The long looked for opening of
SpokaAe's new public library will take
place November 1. ..s
Preparations are already under way
Tor the meeting of the State Educa-
ional association, which will be held
1t North Yakima December %, 2S and
30.
Governors Rogers and Mcbride par
Toned in eight years 112 penitentiary
an average of IA a year. Gov
srnor Mead has pardoned 25 convicts
n the frst nine months of his ad-
and has also commuteII
.hree sentences, RENTED two fines
md paroled IL convicts.
"A rural route service from POme- g,
'oy to Tucannon and Marengo goes ,
INTO effect December 1.
Deep gloom has settled upon the
lew farmers OF the Palouse country
vho have their grain crop unthresh-
ID, and they will suffer serious loss.
A state bank with a capital stock
4 $4,000 is assured for Thornton.
The waters Of the Columbia river a
re rising rapidly, occasioned by la
eaVy rains near the headwaters. In
he past week the raise has been more
han Is inches.
w. R Lamb has received his ap-II
ointment as the first postmaster of v
-ichland. new town recently start n
d nine miles west from Kennewick.