The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-04
IDAHO NEWS.

UNIV Nc"Ss
All of the churches of Weiser will
hold union services in the open air
Sunday evenings during the summer.
The log cut around st. Maries will
be large this summer. Contracts are
under consideration for about 50,OO0,-
600 feet.
Andrew Carnegie has donated $1,000
TO be applied toward the purchase of
a pipe organ for the Presbyterian
church at Boise.
The 32d annual session of the Co.
lumbia River conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church will convene
in Moscow August %.
The badly decomposed body of
Frank G. Marin was found recently
in a cattle shed at the fairgrounds at
Blackfoot. He had been missing for
five weeks.
Tom Wheeler carries the record as
champion sheep shearer in Idaho. He
is now at his ranch near Hayburn. Mr..
Wheeler also won a round trip ticket
to the Portland exposition for the
rapidity and neatness of his work.
Governor GOOding has requested the
cooperation of the different towns Of
the state in the organization of a state
band, which will make a trip to the
Portland exhibition and participate in
the observances on Idaho day, Sep
TENDER 4.
Miles S. Johnson of Lewiston, for
four years prosecuting attorney Of
Nez Perez county, has been appointed
assistant United States attorney for
North Idaho and assumed the position
on August l. Lewiston has been desig-
mated as his official residence.
After being a fugitive from justice
for over eight years, Theodore Foust,
who was indicted for robbery by the
grand jury of Shoshone county early
in 1898, was arrested by Sheriff Suth-
erland and Officer Quinn, who found
him walking the streets of Wallace.
Information has reached Boise of a
fatal dynamite explosion which occur
red a few days ago at Meadows. A
man named Barnum was killed and
three other men were injured. A box
Of dynamite at Carl Browns camp on
Big creek caught fire while a number
of people were sitting near it, and eX-
ploded before they could get away.
contracting firm Of San Francisco
has been awarded the contract for
constructing the o. R. & N.-Northern
Pacific connection between Riparia
and Lewiston. The line will be start
ed Immediately and according to the
terms of the contract is to be in shape
for operation April 1, 1906. The esti-
mated cost is between $1,700,00O and
$2,000,000.
Professor H. T. French, in charge
of the agricultural college and expert
ment station, is planning for the most
extensive series of farmers institutes
throughout the state this fall that
have ever been held in Idaho In all
there will be Is or 20 Institutes, eX-
tending from the panhandle to the
southern extremity of the state. Good
roads will be leading subject of the
programs.
Mrs. Caddie M. Shupe was convicted
at Paris of the crime of voluntary
manslaughter, in the murder of Arthur
Douglas. The crime was committed
at Montpelier July 1. Douglas had
been living with the woman for two
years, but determined to leave her. He
visited her and gave final answer to
her pleadings that he do not forsake
her, declaring he would not yield. She
then shot him.
There will be launched at the
Cramps shipbuilding yards in Phila-
delphia next fall battleship which
will be one of the most effective in the
world The battleship will be the
Idaho and belongs to what is known
as the Mississippi class. The Idaho
will be a ship of $4,000 tons, with
waterline of 375 feet, II feet wide, and
have a coal bunker capacity of 1850
tons and II knots speed. Her mean
gross draft will be q feet. When COM
pleted she will have cost nearly &c.,
100000.