The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-12-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The University of Washington has
been obliged to close on account OF
the fuel famine.
The North Coast railway has filed
amended articles, showing details
of it's proposed routes. The main line
is to run from Seattle to Spokane, $50
miles, passing through the counties
of King, Pierce, Lewis, Yakima, Ben
ton, Franklin, Adams, Whitman and
Spokane. Branches are to be built
from a point in Benton or Franklin
counties to Walla Walla, rs miles;
from a point on the main line in Spo-
kane county to Pennington; from a
point in Adams county to Eureka juno
ton; from a point in Adams county to
Davenport; from a point In Adams
county to Wilsoncreek. The incorpera-
tors are: Robert E. Strahorn, E. s.
Blount and R. ]. Danson.
Because Of the alleged increase in
cost of living, practically every de-
partment of the city government OF
Seattle has received demands from
their employees for corresponding
raise in wages.
| Organization Of a company with
capital stock of $2,4OO,O0O and the
erection of the largest and most mod
ern cement plant in the northwest is
the plan of J. H. Spear, manager of
the Washington Brick, Lime and Manu-
featuring company, and associates. The
immense factory will be located eth
e. at Celville, Wash, or on Pend
d'Oreille lake, Idaho, extensive cement
beds having been secured at both To-
cations.
With the election of D. S. Troy as
president, Ira P. Whitney secretary
and treasurer, and David Brown, ]. T.
Durdle, A. M. Stevens and L. S. Tho
mic directors, the 14th annual conven-
ton at Spokane of the Washington
State Dairymens association has ad-
journed.
Ben Snipes, 20 years ago known as
the cattle king of the northwest,
whose large herds ranged in Yakima
) valley. died in Seattle recently.
There is a famine in building ma
terial in Tacoma.
| Ill luCCIlh6 at NO1IIAV1 SAAS
, shingle manufacturers Of Washington
agreed on close down for period
. of 69 days,
Students of the graduating class Of
the high school car not be compelled
10 wear caps and gowns at the gradu-
D ating exercises.
4 James Murray Coleman, Seattle's
NJ nj ~ 1870
is dead. His wealth is estimated at
I 100000.
After a trial of two days a jury
found Eugenio Batinioella, alias Mar
" faudille, guilty of murder in the second
. degree for causing the death of Mrs.
, Emma Daley, his landlady, who was
shot by the discharge of a revolver
t concealed in his trunk. The jury
= recommended the prisoner to the
b mercy of the court.
There will be no consolidation OF
the Farmers and the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph company's
lines in Pullman.
II Four children of Lawrence Talbert
burned to death, as the result of q
= fire that destroyed farmhouse re
Re Gently in Cowiche valley, IA miles from
10 North Yakima.
Another new steamer is to be bull
y at Hover to replace the Mata G. Hover
n which has bzeen leased to Wren
Greenough, contractors, building the
n North Bank line through Hover.
r., George Vivian, sentenced from Whit
man county for assault with intent tt
Is rob, has been released from the peni
i. Tertiary on parole.
!. Owing to the short crop last season
: residents Of Garfield county have ex
to perienced difficulty in getting fruit TO
winter use.
" The immediate construction of al
ar mories at Seattle, Tacoma and Spo
kane, to cost respectively $125, 0OC
~ 100000 and $4,000, and to be paid TO
he from the state military fund, is recon
a., mended in the biennial report of tn
adjutant general
b. 1t is reported that eastern Washine
ton members-elect of the state legis
! lature may interpose vigorous oppos
10 ton to the appropriation asked for b
/, Seattle for the proposed Alaska-Yr
" kon-Paciic exposition If the jobber
Of Seattle continue to oppose easter
Washington in the effort now bein
made to secure a more equitable az
81 justment of transcontinental freigh
rates.
Ill Exhonorating Captain P. H. Masor
nd master of the steamer Jeanne, whic
ne sank the Dix, and revoking the licens
. of Captain Percy A. Lermond, maste
10 Of the latter vessel, was the finding {
as the United States inspectors who IL
vestigated the recent disaster.
While the newspapers are not unan
nous On the subject, the coal stu,
nd ton in Seattle has undergone an in
ne provement during the past week.
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