The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-07-28
Northwest STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON news items.
I Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the eur.
rounding County-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Ptaee-Outlook 10 Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON NOTES.
j. j. Watson, a switchman, shot and
killed Otis DeLacy in Spokane Friday
night.
At recent meeting of the directors
OF the Lincoln County Fair association
1t was decided to hold the fair the
week following the Spokane Interstate
fair. There will be four days-the
18th, 18th, Goth and 21st of October.
Ike Harris was unanimously chosen
manager
Walla Walla county has begun the
annual campaign to straw the dusty
roads of the county and make them
passable for the immense amount of
| wheat that must pass over them in
the next two months.
One of the most interesting events
connected with the Odd Fellows Or
der of Washington was the recent Gel
ebratiOn of the semicentennial of the
Olympia lodge No. 1.
J. l.. Johnson of EndicOtt commit
ted suicide in that town recently. Mr..
Johnson had simply grown tired of
| life and cut his throat.
Especially shocking was the terri
BILE accident on the United States gun
boat Bennington to the people of Col
| fax. Amel Bensel, one of the war
ships dead, left Colfax about one year
ago for the navy.
Within Is minutes after Frank
Nicholas of Colfax had sold 5 cent
package of cigarettes to small boy
| of II years he was arrested and paid
$22.4O in fines.
Charles c. Setter has sold his $50
acre wheat ranch 10 miles south of
Cheney, to T. w. Merriman, recent
arrival from Lind, for a consideration
of $4,000.
The reorganized Palmer Mountain
Tunnel company, pushing the big tun-
mel through the huge mountain of nor
thern Okanogan county, has been
launched under the laws of Arizona.
Washington has no uniform meth
cd for the assessment of railway prop
erty. The matter is entirely in the
hands of county assessors and county
boards of equalization to fix the val
ues within their respective jurisdic-
tons.
The Tacoma chamber of commerce
has already taken action in the eff
fort to induce the government to use
| Washington fir on an equal basis with
yellow pine in the construction work
to be done in the Panama canal zone.
| DR.. Dean Richmond Babbitt, late
in Brooklyn, N. Y, died recently from
the result of an operation performed
to relieve internal complications, some
months ago. He was for 10 months
dean of All Saints cathedral in Spo-
kane
Italians in Spokane and Lewiston,
Idaho, are asserting that Joseph Rossi
DUO di Rossi, nobleman, grandee
and alleged heir to $54,O0O,000-is a
fakir and owes sums varying from the
conventional IS loan to board bill.
A warrant has been obtained from a
justice at Spokane for the arrest Of
Rossi on the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
David Sullivan was accidentally
killed in the California Wine house at
Wenatchee by ]. F.. Murphy, prin-
ter. Sullivan was well known ranch
err, residing only few miles from the
city. Without apparent cause, Sulli-
van commenced to abuse Murphy, and
finally struck him. Murphy in turn
struck Sullivan in the mouth with his
fist. Sullivan staggered over and fell
backward, and broke his neck by the
fall. The blow received by Sullivan
was not a hard one, scarcely break
| ing the skin on his lip.
The mountain climbing party, as
finally made up for the start on last
Monday from Paradise valley to the
| top of Mount Rainier, height 1886
| feet, consisted of Is Mazamas from
Oregon and Washington, ITO Sierras
from California, q Appalachians from
the east and six Alpines. Red fire will
be burned from the mountain top
Tuesday night at 9 o'clock and should
be visible with glasses for $50 miles
around. The elevation of the present
camp is $500 feet.