The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-09-29
NORTHWEST STATES
Washington, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
d.nts and Personal Events Take
pIace-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

More wheat is now coming into Har-
rington daily than at any time this
season. At the same time less is be-
ing sold.
The party of Northern Pacific sur
yeyors, numbering IA, have finished
their survey of the new road through
the Kennewick valley.
Jessie Bacon, a labOrer, aged 40, was
run over by a rig driven by Chris Issit
at Walla Walla recently, fracturing
his skull. He died five hours later.
George Schmidt, a shoemaker, was
instantly killed by J. Overbaugh, by
an accidental push of the hand last
Saturday. Schmidt who was intoxi-
Gated, fell on stone walk.
Sedgwick post, No. 8, G. A. R., and
the Woman's Relief corps, at Spokane,
held memorial services Saturday even
ing, the first in the history of these
organizations in that city.
Four masked men held up the Head
light saloon at Spokane while five men
were in it, robbed the men of SIS in
money, got about $25 from the till and
escaped without interruption.
Railroads entering Spokane expect
large crowds at the Spokane fair in
October. The rates they have given
in some respects are better than here
tofore and cover a wider territory.
The G. A. R. district reunion of
southeast Washington will be held this
year at Asotin. No formal organiZa-
ton exists as yet, but one will prob
ably be formed at this convention.
Fifty-nine cases of typhoid fever eX-
list among the convicts in the peniten-
tiary and new cases are reported daily.
The prison has 765 convicts and the
officials fear a much greater epidemic.
North Yakima was closed Sunday in
the strictest construction of the Sun
day closing law. Every business house
was shut up tight excepting hotels
and drug stores, the latter keeping
open part of the time.
The Portland & Seattle Railway
company will ultimately, it is reported
at Olympia, extend its line up the Co
lumba and Okanogan rivers to Orc
vile in Okanogan county and thence
into British Columbia.
A conflagratiOn at Barneston, a lit
tie saWmill town on the Cedar river,
destroyed the planning mill, drykllEs
and sheds where the dry lumber was
piled of the Kent Lumber company
Damage amounting to $4,000 was
done. 1t was fully covered by insur-
ance.
1t is expected the reclamation SER
vice will soon announce the undertake
ing of the old Leadbetter canal south
of kennewick on the first bench. This
project will water the high land from
a point on the Yakima river, east OF
Prosser, taking in about 10000 acres
above the Kennewick canal.
In addition to the new bank which
will open at Colfax the city is to have
third bank to be known either as
the Farmers & traders or the Mer,
chants & Farmers bank, about Nov. l.
The bank is to succeed and absorb the
Bank of Colfax, the oldest banking
institution in eastern Washington.
A freight wreck near the center OF
Stampede tunnel delayed traffic Sat,
urday on the western division of the
Northern Pacific railroad "a hours
Eight loaded cars were derailed and
the trucks torn from under them. They
ar piled in confused mass. No one
was hurt. The train was an extra
made up of 80 westbound loaded cars
most Of them filled with wheat for Ia
coma.