The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-03-16


confederate soldiers buried in Mon
tana, has been fonowed by official &C
ton by the chapter The plan contem-
plates the erection of fountain in a
park in Helena dedicated to the
Southern Soldier"
The case against Daniel Mcmillan,
the Butte ma. carrier charged with
secreting letter, has been concluded
and he entered plea of guilty. 1t was
the last criminal case to be tried in
the federal court for the present He
will serve year at hard labor at Deer
Lodge.
The clerk of Deer Lodge county has
been ordered to advertise for bids for
the construction OF the Big Hole road
from point near French gulch to Raj
ston, on the Big Hole river, by the
county commissioners.
The board of county commissioners
at Billings has granted a petition ask
ing for the calling of special election
to vote on the proposition of adopting
the primary election law passed by the
last legislature as local option meas
ure. The date of the election will be
May IL.
Thomas Nelson, forean of the
Northern Pacific roundhouse at Man.
dan, N. D.. has been appointed master
mechanic at Livingston to succeed ].
H. Sally. whose resignation took effect
the first of the month.
To tho c,1rnrico of o1,orr o-o ~ ~
county commissioners, at the close of
the regular session at Livingston, an
nOunced that the proposition 10 put in
operation the Waite primary election
law was defeated
By order of the forest service a small
group Of reserve south of Bozeman
have been merged into larger reserve
under the name of the Gallatin forest
reserve, composed of compact body
of land containing about $50 acres.
M. E. Miller. Burlington locomotive
fireman, who lives at Sheridan, Wyo.,
was badly scalded by the bursting of a
steam injector pipe in the cab of an
engine recently while at work in the
Northern Pacific roundhouse
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Fourteen convicts were taken to
the penitentiary Saturday by Travel
ing guards ESterbrook and ChalOtt
and Deputy Sheriff Chef Bedding of
Seattle. There are $40 convicts serv-
ing sentences at the penitentiary and
"a out on parole.
Jay P. Graves of Spokane has pur-
chased the tremendous falls in the Co.
lumbia river above Kettle Falls,
Wash, 100 miles north of Spokane,
for $4,000. He expects to develop it
into one of the greatest electric prop
critics in America. Although the falls
are so immense that it is exceedingly
difficult to estimate the flow, there is
believed to be a minimum of 10000
to 1O0,0 horse power at low water.
The supreme court, in a decision
handed down recently, sustained the
lower court in finding L. M. Poole of
Spokane guilty of living off the earn
ings of a fallen woman, and in SEN
fencing him to five years imprison-
ment.
The North Coast road is not only an
assured fact but it has been definitely
stated by President Robert E. Stra-
horn that North Yakima is to be the
main division point between the two
terminals, Walla Walla and Seattle.
While lying fiat on the floor of the
first story of the Merle Heany Manu-
featuring company's building, with
their heads projecting over freight
elevator shaft, directing streams of
water into the basement, where fire
broke out recently Lieutenant Charles
Kirk and Pipeman Herman Larson OF
the Seattle fire department, were
caught under the elevator and receiv-
ed serious injuries.
The Tacoma republican convention
has nominated for mayor, R. L. Nc
Cormick; treasurer. Ray Freeland;
comptroller, John Mead.
In response to request for an
opinion on the subject. Attorney Cen
eral Atkinson has advised the board
of control that the grain bags manu-
featured at the Walla Walla peniten-
tiary can be sold only to actual con-
sumers who are residents of the
state.
A full-fedged opium den, with some
of the paraphernalia still in sight, was
discovered in Seattle recently in a
Chinese laundry.
The supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the so-called pedlers'
licene law of 1905, under the provi-
sions of which pedlers were required
to pay license fee of 5000 in each
county in the state in which they car
ried on bushes.
Judge Moore. mayor elect of Seat
tie, says he will close all forms OF
gambling down tight in Seattle.
The supreme court has rendered
decision knocking out as unconstitu-
tional the plumbers license law.
The Lewiston-ClarkstOn company is
employing 125 men laying the new
pipe line from Asotin creek to irrigate
Vineland. Five miles of the work is
finished.
Tumbleweeds and Chinese lettuce
which have been long pest to far
mers of Harrington section, are re-