The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-07-21
NORTHWEST States
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Aeei'
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-OutIook 10 Bright
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Farmers generally predict a large
grain crop in Columbia county.
An ice factory and cold storage
plant is being erected at Pomeroy.
Never before in the history of Doug
las county has wheat looked better.
American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, Seattle, Septem-
Der 14-18.
The street railways of Spokane en-
ploy 4S4 men, providing living for
242O people.
Plans are being drawn for the $685.
600 county court house to be erected
in North Yakima.
The body picked up in the Spokane
river last Thursday is supposed to be
that of Tom Kingden, lumberjack.
The peach and apricot crop this
year will be by far the largest and
the best ever harvested in the We
natchee valley.
The conditions of the crops indicate
that one of the largest yields in the
history of Walla Walla county will ne
harvested this year.
The Spokane river claimed another
victim Saturday in Irving s. Smith,
10 year old boy, who was drowned
while attempting to swim across.
| Garfield county, from the Snake riv'
er to the Blue mountains, is one OF the
great wheat yielding countries OF the
Inland Empire, and the yield this year
will break all records.
Blind Dan" Cavanaugh, who has
been a familiar figure in Spokane tor
the past three or four years as he sold
newspapers on the street corners,
committed suicide by jumping off the
Post street bridge Friday night
Goodbye, Spokane" were his last
words as he leaped to his death in
the swiftly moving waters.
Judge Neterer of the superior court
at Bellingham upheld the eight hour
law of this state by overruling the de
murrer submitted on constitutions
grounds by the defendant in the sui
brought by the state against Con
!. tractor Charles E. Lind, accused o.
, violating the law which fixes the mum
; Der of hours in day for which la
, borers may be employed on public
works.
Ellensburg.-As the result of team
; running away while James Carver wa
, moving hay he was thrown in from
!; of the sickle and dragged some dis
3 lance. He had presence of mind t
c throw the machine out of gear be
fore he fell. and this saved his life
c One arm was broken in six place
and the flesh was stripped from tn
bone. 1t was necessary to amputat
the arm near the shoulder immed
F.; ately.
+; Whitman college has been notifie
/, that it's instructors are eligible to tn
l. Andrew Carnegie fund of 100000
Z; for the pensioning of disabled colleg
7, instructors. The institution has n
!; members of its faculty who need sue
aid, but should they ever it will b
forthcoming, as Whitman is one OF tn
SO institutions that are eligible. III
:; college will also receive portion
:; the $5OO,OOO income from the $4,000
900 given by John D. Rockefeller IL
s, the assistance of the small college
ID in the United States.
Another step toward the early sa
Is and disposition of the surplus lant
in the Yakima Indian reservation WI
le taken Saturday when Secretary Hitc
V cock appointed William E. Casso
Superintendent of bitches Redms
a and Superintendent Lynch of the va
IT, ina reservation and an irrigation
pert from the reclamation service,
constitute a commission with powe
to select such lands in the reservati'
or as in their minds are desirable in &C
an nection with the construction OF t
IS, contemplated irrigation systems
he lands crossed by existing irrigatl
w. bitches, also lands necessary for
to agency school and religious purpos'
Ike also such tracts of grazing and II
nj Der lands as may be deemed expe
ent for use and benefit of the India
of the reservation. The commissi
will also be empowered to appra
residue lands of the reservation, a
". where there are timber lands the II
=: - Der is to be appraised separately FRI
~, the land.