The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-05-19
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
Place--outlook Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


The Pioneers association of the
state of Washington will hold it's an
nual meeting in Seattle, June 2O-21.
Exports from the Puget sound Gus
toms district to April were the heavi-
est on record, y reaching total of
$4,702,616.
The tallest concrete chimney in the
world has just been completed by the
Tacoma smelter. 1t rises 3O6 feet 6
inches from the base.
A building boom seems to be in
store for Asotin this summer. Citi-
zens look forward for one of the best
years in the history of the town.
Five thousand people crowded the
streets of Walla Walla last Saturday
to witness the parade of fine horses,
in which 60 high grade animals were
shown.
The present population of the state
is $4,000, according to estimates COM
pleted by the statistical department of
the secretary of states Office. The
same estimates give Seattle about 1884,
900 people.
The $1O1,OOo appropriated by the
last legislature for buildings at the
western Washington hospital for the
insane will be used by the board OF
control in erecting and equipping two
detached ward buildings.
The Columbia Irrigation company,
which is building a canal from the
Walla Walla river to reclaim large
tract of land, has 1O7 teams at work
and ten miles of the "a mile canal is
practically complete.
| About As members of the Foresters
of America left Spokane Tuesday to
attend the session of the grand court,
which convenes- in Seattle May 16.
This will be the fifteenth grand court
to be held in this state.
The library committee of North
Yakima has been notified that An
drew Carnegie has given an addition
Ial $4,000 for the library, making the
total $4,000. Work on the building
will be commenced at once.
Superior Judge Frater of Seattle de-
ed by the legislature of 1908, is uncon-
stitutional. The county clerk will
hereafter collect probate fees in &C
cordanee with the former law.
In drunken row between a party
of Films and Swedes Sunday morning,
John Thornsen was killed by blow
from a two by six inch plank, which
fractured his skull. Martin Marten-
son, one of the suspects arrested, was
held and is now in Jail here.
In row which started in the bar
room of hotel on Main avenue, Spo
kane, shortly before midnight Satur
day night, William Crane, the barten
der, was shot in the back by an Ital
ian, and his wound may result fatally
! Weinberg Bros, the old hay firn
of the Kittitas valley, have bought
from Henry Lutro 100 acres of land
three miles from Ellensburg for $40,
900 cash. This farm sold for $4,000
three years ago and $4,000 five years
ago.
Grain merchants on the Sound are
expecting a large flour trade with Jap
an, due to the new Japanese war tariff
which will go into effect July 1. Al
least two steamers have been especial
ly chartered to load with -four from
Tacoma.
. B. F. Onstot, whose daughter, Miss
Mae Onstot, was drowned by the col
lapse of the foot bridge in Colfax OF
the night of April 5, has offered tt
: settle with the city of Colfax fol
$500. The city council refused the
proposition.
The countrymen of H. Arao, thu
Japanese who murdered Chinamal
in Spokane and is sentenced to b.
hanged in the Walla Walla peniten
tiary on June 8, have petitioned War
den KEGS that the body be given t.
them after the hanging to dispose OF
The law says there is nothing to hin
: der him from granting the request
The new "cow ordinance" at Sedro
Woolley, prohibits all stock from run
ming at large within the corporal
: limits of the city, except mich COWS
D which are allowed to run from 6 a. m
to 7 p. m. The cows, however, ar
e prohibited from wearing bells, bu
1 must wear license tag.
st. John lodge No. 9, F. and A. M
the Oldest Masonic lodge in Seattle
will erect an appropriate memoria
over the grave of it's first master
John Webster, who, As years ago, pre-
sided over the lodge sessions, NAL
ing the journey from Port Madison
where he then resided, in rowboa
by himself, returning to his home tn
y same night in order to be at work /
the sawmill next morning.
The summer science school for tn
teachers, which is to be reestablishe
, lat the Washington State college du
= ing the summer vacation, will be
!. boon to teachers who are DESTROYS {
y improving their vacation by takin
special courses. The college facult
will teach, and there will be man
special courses which may be take
by any teacher in the state.