The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-10-12
NEWSOf NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, lDARO, MONTANA
and OREGON news items.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Ptace-FaiI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A fuel famine is on at Washtucns


After hop picking season lasting {
month, the 1906 Yakima crop is har
vested and it is known that it will fal
at least 20 per cent below the 1905
crop. 1t is estimated that the produc
for this year will not exceed $4,000
bales, while last season it was approx
imately $4,000 bales The slump is
due to unfavorable weather conditions
The September report of the Wash
iEgton state finances by State Auditor
Clausen shows expenditures of SIS,
1880 and receipts of $141,227.5S fol
the month. The balance in the gen
eral fund October l is shown at $25S,
525.3S.
Tacoma journeymen plumbers have
made a demand on the master plumb
ers of the city for an increase il
wages from SIS to $3.50 per day.
King county property owners oppos
ing the Lake Washington canal pro
posed by Jas. A. Moore, have begun
an action to restrain the bond issue
carried at the recent election to pro
vide $500,300O toward financing the
enterprise. The county commission
ers and Moore are named as defend
ants.
Application for new trial will be
made by the o. R. & N. railway ii
the case of joint freight rates between
the o. R. & N. and Northern Pacific
from eastern Washington to Puget
sound, in which Judge Chadwick Of
Colfax handed down a decision ad
verse to the railroad company.
The Methow-Barron state road, fol
which the last session of the state
legislature appropriate $4,000, $500
of which was to be spent in OkanogaI
county, and for which county has al
ready spent or appropriated more
than a similar amount, is nearing com
pletion.
Melvin A. Edwards, aged &c, died as
result of scalds received at Milan
Wash, through the explosion of the
boiler in the engine room of the Spo
kane Lumber company.
The first trains over the Spokane
International railway will be operated
some time next month.
]. B. Wisdom suffered a stroke Of
paralysis Thursday while at work or
his ranch northwest of Wilbur.
Australian markets will be sought
for big red apples grown in the Wen
atchee valley. e. Wagner, a leading
grower, will start soon for the orient
with 5000 boxes, making six carloads.
Archie Williams, boy, met VIC
lent death near Brewster recently
He was jolted off wagon and the
wheel passed over his head.
The main line Of the Vancouver
Victoria & Eastern railway from Ferry
and Midway, B. c., to Nelson, Wash.
is practically completed, and will be
in operation the first of November.
Palouse warehouses are glutted with
grain and hay, as it is impossible tt
secure cars. Several warehouseme1
have been compelled to ask patrons
to suspend delivery until the car sit
uation is relieved. Wheat is quoted ii
the local market at so cents for rec
Russian and So for club variaties. Few
farmers are selling.
AS the commencement Of cam
paign to raise an additional $4,000 fol
the Young Mems Christian association
building at North Yakima it was de
cided to have special programs in the
churches October IA, which will bt
known as Y. M. c.. A. Sunday.
State Treasurer George G. Mills has
completed the biennial report of hi:
office for the two years ending Sep
TENDER 80, 1906. This report shows
that business had quadrupled since
1904, although there has been abso
lutely no increase in the Office force
and but $45 a year increase in sala
ries. The two years receipts were
sS,937, 5O391 and disbursements were
1860, OO096.
The big Indian powwow is on a
Toppenish, and will continue until DC
tober %. Racing will be the principa
pastime during the daytime, and a
night dancing and other forms of In
dian entertainment will be INDUCED
in far into the night.
Frank Baker, one of the convict:
employed at the state rock crushing
camp at Meskill, Lewis county, ha:
escaped.