The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-04-20
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
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-FaIi Trade Is Good.
IDAHO NEWS.

| Alter serving sentence OIL 10 years
and nine months in the Idaho prison
for the crime of murder, Frank Arm
strong was given his liberty last week
and left at once for Chicago, where he
| has relatives. tie was twice sentenced
to hang. and afrerward given life i'm
prisonment, which was committed to
35 years He was good prisoner and
| the time gained shortened the sen
| tence
The Shoshone county commission.
ers appropriated $500 to assist the vii
| lage of Mullan in the erection of a
| Jail to cost not less than $1,000, on
| the conditions that Mullan care for its
| maintenance and deed a half interest
in the building to ShOshone county.
W. E. Stillinger, president of the
Moscow Booster club, has received the
club buttons bearing the inscription,
1910, Moscow population, 10000
Arbor day was observed by the
Wardner public school in fitting style.
The body of Edward Schrieb, drown
ed at Clarks Fork on February rs, was
found Saturday by party of fisher
men, floating a mile and half below
where he was drowned.
S. B. Carson, aged 81 years, brake
man on the Great Northern railway,
west of Boomers Ferry and was run
over, cutting his right leg off at the
hip. Mr.. Carson had been in the en-
ploy of the company for the last two
years The man will die.
Lewiston, Idaho.-Jerry Quick, a
well known trapper and hunter, is
dead He was employed with the Chi
cago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul surveyors
on the North Fork of the Clearwater
and was assisting in towing supplies
up the river when the boat lurched and
he was thrown into the river and
drowned.
Nez Perez county officials will here
after draw maximum salaries as fol-
lows: Sheriff. $4,000; auditor, $4,000;
assessor. $4,000; treasurer, $500; pro-
bate judge, $500; county superinten-
dent, $1,000; surveyor, $500; coroner,
$500. The increases are: Sheriff,
$3.50; treasurer. $500; probate Judge.
5000; coroner $3.50.
J. H. Shavelear, agent for the North
ern Pacific at Hope, has received no
tice from the bureau of fisheries at
Washington d. c., that his order, plac-
ed with the government last fall
through Senator Dubois for 10000 rain
bow trout for planting in Lake Pend
d'Oreille, will be delivered to him
within the next 80 or 40 days by the
governments fish car.
On last Wednesday William Olson
left Burke for Goldfields. New, riding
his bicycle the entire distance. He has
chosen his route via Spokane and Port
land After leaving the latter city he
will ride over the old government mill
tary road in the southern part of the
state into California, thence into Ne
vada.
The town of Wallace is expecting
this summer to entertain Opie Read,
novelist; R. F. Outcault, of Buster
Brown" fame, and Charles N. Crewd-
son, a western life and serial writer.
Business men of Washington and
Idaho are organizing tobacco grow
ing company to put in large planta-
tions at Lenore This is the second
tobacco company to enter the Clearwa-
ter country.