The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-22
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
State Normal school at Ellensburg
opened with an enrolment of 143
students,
Sunday, for the first time in the his
tory of Kettle Falls. the saloons were
all closed.
The enrolment of the Pullman
public school at the end of the second
week was 487.
The purchase Of the Tacoma hotel
by w. s. Norman of Spokane, has
become an accomplished fact.
Frank Pasquale vas hung at GAS
Friday morning in the penitentary yard
for the murder Of Charles Gray.
The number of convicts confined
at the state p~enitentiary is greater
than for a long time. The number is
IT'S.
Henry Parker of Parker & Williams,
contractors, has disappeared from his
rooms at a Chehalis hotel and has not
been heard of.
Morris e. Stinebaugh, aged Is years,
was killed Sunday night by falling
from the roller coaster at Natatorium
park at Spokane.
At the bond election held at
saY9dlan, it vas decided by a vote of
~ to issue bonds to build a
D. M. Stew-,usa
la Walla, COMMITTEE o,u W.,
ton by shooting himself sat pand1a.
head Another case of booze. tho
+. Haun has finished threshing
acres OF red Russian whest five mile,
north of Elberton. He secured Q "a,
bushels, or better than 40 bushels IL
an acre.
AT whitman college, which omen
ed Monday, the registration of students
was the largest ever reached al
the opening date. About $50 tudents
are registered.
Lieutenant R. B. Grub. post sur.
geon at Fort Wright, at Spokane. has
been ordered to the Philippines and
will sail December 5. His successor
has not yet been announced.
commencing with last Sunday
North Yakima will be a closed town
I'LL after hop picking or longer. This
decision was reached when the sa-
loon men got together and agreed not
to open.
Henry U1rich, age 1S, and John
Berry, age 10, have admitted to the
police that they were in the recent
accident at Spokane which resulted
in the death of G. S. Wilson. W.
rich was on the horse that ran down
and killed Mr.. Wilson.
Mrs. E. Carr, wife or an old pioneer
was fatally burned at her sons home
Sunday evening at Seattle. It is
thought that she was trying to light
the fire with coal oil and that a por-
ton was spilled on her dress, which
ignited and inflicted fatal injuries.
Steve Maddox attempted to com.
init suicide at North Yakima by
cutting himself across the throat with
a razor. Failing in his attempt he
took his clothes of, set fire to them,
and then jumped into the blaze. He
was taken in charge by officers and
will be sent to his home in Mount
Vernon.
Two heavily loaded streetcars col |
lided at a sharp curve on the South
Tacoma line Sunday afternoon, seri-
ously injuring two persons and bruis-
ing and shaking a number of others.
The most seriously injured are Henry
Dewof, a solicitor, and Joseph Gal
hgher, one of the motormen. Both will
recover.
Washington day at the Lewis and
Clark exposition will be September q.
The day will be made one of the big
gest OF the whole exposition period,
and will be notable because OF the
large number of prominent Washing
ton people who will attend. Among
these latter will be Governor Albert
Mead and his staff.
An increase in one year of $17,133,-
974 in the total assessed valuation
of all property in the state of Wash
Ington as equalized by the county
boards, is shown in a comparative
prepared by the state board
Of equalization from schedules fur {
lished by the various counties. The
'otal assessed valuation is given at
1927, 997, 919. l.
At a point on the Spokane river +,
s miles north of Davenport and so
niles northwest of Spokane, a huge r
andside filled the channel of the river !
nd completely damned the current :
or over an hour. In this instance a 6
,reat chunk of the mountain, car
wing rocks and giant trees, gave way .
In a few minutes formed a dam =
hat would have cost 100000 If built =
y skilled engineers. The water form =
d above and. finally worked a chan. Z
ell through new territory on the In
ian reservation side. |.