The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-06-23
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
PIace-OutIook Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NEWS

United Commercial Travellers decid
ed to hold the next annual session OF
the grand council at Seattle early
next May.
AnacorteS canneries expect an out.
put of nearly $4,00O,0OO this year
Four of the canneries are now making
about 100000 cases per day.
Captain F. Southard has sold his 4S0
acre farm four miles east of Latah to
Clarence Soss of Spokane, for the sum
of $4,000, possession to be given this
fall.
1t looks as though Spokane will be
successful in its ID for the education
! al institution which the United Nor
wegian Lutheran church will locate il
the far west.
The labor unions of Seattle will hold
a carnival in that city from July to
Is, the proceeds to be devoted to the
labor temple, which is already under
construction.
The past years enrolment of the
public schools at Tacoma reached a
total of 9599, an increase of 672 over
the previous year. The average daily
attendance was 7419.
H. A. Fairchild of Bellingham, John
as. McMillin of Roche Harbor and John
C. Lawrence of Garfield. have been
named by Governor Mead on the state
railroad commission.
Quartermaster General HUMPHREYS
announces that about 100000 will be
spent by the war department in i'm
provements and the enlargement of
Fort Wright, at Spokane.
Guilty" was the verdict which the
jury in the DR.. Mary Latham arson
case at Spokane reached on the first
ballot, after the jurors had been out
only trif1e over two hours.
The attorney general has delivered
an opinion to the highway commission
to the effect that the law makes man.
datory the survey of state roads pro.
vided for by the last legislature. The
burden of furnishing the survey falls
upon each county traversed by state
road.
Judge H. B. Rigg of Yakima county
:, transmitted to Governor Mead his de.
cree finding that a majority of the
people of the proposed county of Ben.
ton have petitioned for it's creation
and that the law and constitution had
been complied with. The governor
thereupon Issued q proclamation declar-
ing the new county created.
! Jesse H. Rose, representing Mime
sofa capitalists, has deposited $4,000
in the Yakima Valley bank as for.
felt to North Yakima if he does not
commence work on the electric rail
way here within six months. This
money is to represent certified check
that he will give the city as soon as
franchise which he has applied for
is passed by the council.
The state treasurer has completed a
statement showing the total sum col.
lected since 1888 from towns. cities
and counties in the state of Washing
ton, as the states share of liquor Ii
censes to be $732,20S.69. AS this rep
rasents one-tenth of the sums paid for
licenses by the liquor traffic, it fol
lows that the business has paid out
in licenses nearly seven and half
million dollars in II years.
OREGON NEWS.
The funeral of Reuben j. Oliver
was conducted in Echo last Friday.
The management of the Lewis and
Clark fair has set aside August Is as
Elks' day at the exposition.
he I~;t
and Boston are anchored in the Will
lamette, in front of Portland.
number of farmers north and east
of Milton have binders at work bind
ing their grain, which is almost ripe
enough to thresh.
A cloudburst south of Vale, on Camp
creek, has drowned a sheepherder en-
ployed by Isaac & Gwinne, the Owy-
nee and Malheur sheep kings, togeth-
er with number of sheep.
Two men who refuse to give their
names have been arrested and are be-
ing held at Pendleton on suspicion of
being murderers of the man found
dead near Hilgard along the railroad.
Creditors of the Bank of Sumpter
are being paid their pro rata of the
amount realized from the assets of the
defunct institution. The sum paid to
each creditor is 361h cents on the dol
lar
William Lamb and L. Boche, who
We're seriously injured by the eXplo-
sion of a blast at the Citizens Con-
solidated mine near Sumpter, are yet
alive, with prospects of ultimate re-
covery.
The closing day of the annual con-
Ventlon of the Episcopal diocese OF
Oregon was devoted to the election OF
an assistant to Bishop B. Wistar Nor
us. Rev. F, E. Lloyd of Uniontown,
Pa, after several hours discussion of
the merits of other candidates. was
elected with the title bishop coadju-
tor of Oregon.
Judge w. w. Cotton of Portland
mas been appointed to the vacancy on