The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-06-22
NEWSOFNORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of tho Sur
rounding couhtry-Numerous AecI.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade 10 Good.
wAsHIN eroN NOTES.

"NSVtN6ION No ES~
w. e. Henry, state librian of In
diana, has resigned to accept the posi-
ton of librarian at the University o.
Washington.
A bad fire occurred at Fairfield Sat
urday. Three buildings were burned
Secretary Hitchcock has allotted the
following funds in addition to allot
ments heretofore made: Sunnyside
project, $250,000; Yakima Indian re
servation, 100000. This makes the
total ailotments for these projects ur
to date 100000.
The Colfax high school DEBATING
team has received the championship
medal for the Inland Empire. The
team comprises Miss Frances Boots
and Messrs. Virgil Canutt and Robert
Burgunder.
Kirt Flecsig, a log driver on the
Pend d'Oreille river, who lived near
McDowelps Crossing, was drowned in
Colville river near Blue creek. His
badly was recovered.
Grace Kelso, Is years old, who lived
just south of Olympia, drowned her.
self recently.
Samuel H. Piles will address the
people Of Ritzville on the Fourth of
July.
) Lind will soon buy chemical en-
CINE.
Mrs. Matte Oaks, wife of w. w.
Oaks of Seattle, who has been insane
for some time, and who was recently
fr.Dy
lum, drowned herself in the bathtub
few days ago.
James Doyle, brakeman on a freight
train on the Washington, Idaho &
Montana railway, had his left foot
so badly crushed recently that ampu.
tation was necessary.
ueorgie Williams, the II year old
son of George Williams, an employee
OF the Potlatch Lumber company was
drowned in dam at the sawmill.
The petition asking governor Mead
to extend clemeney in the case of
Oscar Bradshaw, sentenced to be ex-
ecuted August for the murder of one
Nelson in boxcar at Pasco three
years ago, will be presented to the
chief executive here on the 23d in
slant. when he will speak at the
Modern Woodmen of America picnic.
1t looks as if a 80 bushel crop is
assured in the Big Bend. The wheat
Is uncommonly thick, the plant is
very healthy, and the farmers say
that this promises to be the banner
year for the section.
The house has concurred in the
senate ammendments to the Jones bill
ratifying and confirming soldiers adj
ditional homestead entries heretofore
made and allowed upon land embraced
in the Columbia Indian reservation.
The bill now goes to the president for
his signature
AS lie result Of the seamen's
strike Grays Harbor lumber mills
have been forced to close down and
others are preparing to cease opera
lions.
State Fire Warden ]. R. Welty has
given out list of contributors to the
fund that is being raised for carry
ing on the work Of his bureau this
SUNNI r. The total amount contri- |
buted is 1898 of which $4,000 comes !
from the Weyerhauser Timber COM
pany and the fire remainder being
made up of IS contributors.
AS result of the recent conference
between the state railroad commission |
and the Union Pacific, Northern Pa.
cl1c and Great Northern railroad COM |
panies, all grain bags shipped from |
the penitentiary will have the same |
freight classification as those shipped |
from coast points.
A remarkable discovery has been
made by workingman grading on the |
Observation-Disclosures railroad. Men en-
ployed encountered what they be-
neyed to be mounds of earth cover
ing rocks. Investigation disclosed
these to be ancient Indian mounds.
Many curious relics were unearthed.
Defective electric wiring is given as
the probable cause OF the fire Sunday
morning which did damage at the Vic
tor building and MCGOWAN Bros. hard
ware store, southwest corner of Mill
street and Sprague avenue.
4 Louise Walton, colored, claimed to
pc one Of the cleverest shoplifters in
the country, was apprehended at Bill
lings, Mont, upon the request of the
Yakima sheriff. Her trunk, which
weighed over 300 pounds, and which,
It Is asserted, is filled to the brim with
stolen goods from Spokane and North
Yakima stores valued at over $1,000,
vas taken in charge by the Montana
oncers and will be returned here with
the woman,