The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-12-01
NORTHWEST States
WASHINGTON, MONTANA, IDAHO
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
place-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES,

Secret Service Officer Steven A.
ConnelI makes an estimate that Geo.
Edward Adams, defaulting cashier OF
the United States assay Office in Sc
attic. has made away with an amount
in excess Of 100000.
Harry Davis, private secretary to
representative Jones, has been in
formed by Secretary Hitchcock that
the department would take no action
IN Washington irrigation projects I'M
I'll the matter could be taken up with
the Washington congressman.
A resolution TO provide for a post
graduate course of lectures upon all
branches of medicine and surgery was
recently adopted with unanimity at
special meeting of the Spokane County
Medical society and the faculty of 20
musicians was appointed.
w. j. Shaughnessy, formerly pub
Usher of the kennewick Courier, was
killed on the railroad four miles east
of Prosser last week. 1t is supposed
he was either struck by a train or
fell off while riding on train. His
body was found completely cut in two.
within the past four months four
times as many inspections of dairies
and creameries have been made in
q Washington as were made in the pre-
7ceding six years." says L. Davies,
state dairy and pure food commits
sioner.
The state railroad commission has
appointed O. O. Calderhead an expert
on railroad freight rates. He was for
merly a cashier for the Northern Pa
cific Railroad company.
After searching for four months for
their brother, Thomas e. Jones, who
was reported to be MORALLY wounded
in the mountains of Idaho, near Spo-
kane, Mrs. William Martin and Mrs.
Georgia Nevin of Denver have given
up the quest without securing a trace
of Jones.
Lieutenant D. c. McClelland of Com
pany E, at Fort Wright, has returned
S44O, Company Els missing funds.
Cleaning day in Spokane, last Satur-
day, was pronounced a success.
The permitting of gambling in their
places will prove quite an expensive
luxury to the proprietors of the five
saloons in Walla Walla, whose licenses
we're revoked by the council. The to-
tai amount forfeited by reason of the
revocation of licenses is $2045.50.
George Raymond of Seattle has
made one of the largest purchases OF
wheat land that has taken place in
the Alto vicinity in a long time, when
he closed a deal for the Charley lobe
place of 100 acres at $40 an acre, or
about $4,000 for the ranch.
The railroad commission has accept
ed the resignation Of ]. Will Lysons,
temporary secretary, to take effect on
April 1, 1906, and elected Clinton A.
Snowden of Tacoma permanent secre-
tary; selected o. o. Calderhead OF
Seattle as expert employee; made Mrs.
C. E. Van Etten, permanent clerk at
an increase in salary of 500 per
year, or a total of $1,000, and voted to
employ Mr. Snowden as clerk from
January 1 to April 1, at salary OF
500 per month.
syndicate composed OF David L.
Ham, E. A. Torrance, F. D. Garrett,
C. L. Hoffman, Aaron Kuhn and w.
S. Yearsley, has purchased 5000 acres
of land in southern Alberta, N. w. L.,
for 100000.
Tacoma grain buyers who are SAID
to belong to the combine are noncom-
initial over the opinion of the assls-
tant attorney general that the compact
said to have been entered into by
millers and buyers is in restraint OF
trade as contemplated in the inter
state commerce law, prohibiting sucn
combinations. Those who say anything
at all are inclined to consider the
matter as joke.