The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-08-17
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 NOTES.

IDAHO NOTES.
Word was received at st. Maries that
Peter Basoa, better known as Indian
Pete, stabbed and perhaps fatally
wounded a tribesman known as Long
Timothy, who is under the shadow
OF the law for horse stealing.
Stantry Newman was severely bit
ten by a rabid dog at Lewiston while
he and Dudley Gilman were trying
to capture the rowing animal. New
man ended his life with a bullet.
For more than an hour at Lewiston
Saturday the thermometer registered
107 degrees, the hottest day of the
year.
When completed the Culdesac
branch of the Northern Pacific will
be one of the most remarkable pieces
of construction work in the entire sys
tenn. In the first 10 miles out the road
climbs higher than on any other Is
miles on the main system. Between
Culdesac and the top of the hill the
road will pass through six tunnels
travel twice the air line distance, and
attain an altitude of more than half a
mile above the level of the sea- One
of these six tunnels will be but a few
feet less than 1000 feet long, and
besides containing horseshoe curve
will be the backbone of a switchback
seven miles long. The cuts along the
uphill grade will be among the heav.
lest on the entire Northern Pacific
system.
At Burke, Della, aged years, daugh
ter of Frank Cavaness. who fell into
wash boiler of boiling water, died
from her scalds.
Wallace is literally surrounded by
forest fires, and daily for the last
week quantities of valuable timber
throughout the district have gone up
in smoke. It is imposs...e to estimate
the damage.
Mr.. Corbin's Spokane & Interna
tiOnal railroad is now in Standpoint
The Occur d'Alene chamber of com
merce has promised Swedish Luth.
Grams bonus of $4,000 and 10 acres
for the location of a 100000 col.
lege.
John o. Peters, prominent mer
chant of Council, has been arrested on
charge of arson in the first degree
The Umatilla county court has ap.
propriated $1,000 to the district fair
association to provide county ex.
hibit at the fair September "a to 2s
This makes total of $4,000 available
MONTANA NEWS.
The racing at the Montana state fair
this year will be better than it has
been in the past, both in me number
OF even entries in the stake events and
the quality of the horses.
The Great Falls wool market has
closed business for the year.
Lovers of the fistic art will hail with
delight the announcement that Mike
(Twin) Sullivan, of Boston, and Jack
Dougherty, the speedy mitt singer
from Milwaukee, have been signed to
box in Butte Labor Day.
Arrangements for the county fair,
which will be held September 26, ~
and % in Anaconda are fast being
completed.
The plan for having Miles City and
Lewistown act together in giving their
street carnivals during the coming fall
meets with favor in both cities.
Gov. TOOle has granted a full pardon
to Thomas Tighe. convicted in Broad.
water county April 4. 1903, of man
slaughter, and sentenced to term of
six years in the penitentiary He had
a year to serve.
A German count, travelling incog.
nito under the name of Albert Becker
spent last Saturday in Butte.
A shocking accident occurred recent.
ly at Spring Hill, Is miles north OF
Bozeman. The infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Parker was playing
near large washing machine full of
boiling water when she in some way
succeeded in pulling out the plug
which held the water, and before any
one could rescue her she was so badly
scalded that she died in a few hours.
The first of the construction work in
enlarging the Boston & Montana smell
ter in Great Falls has been started.
An unusually hot spell prevailed in
Montana nearly all last week. Sunday
the government thermometer at Miles
City registered 106, and the one at
Havre 102 degrees, these places being
the hottest in the state.
The body of Dave Grenneld, the rail
road man who died at White Fish, was
taken to Plains for interment. He was
a freight conductor on the Great
Northern, and was clearing up a wreck
when he sustained injuries which caus-
ed his death.
Mrs. William ]. Evans, living five
miles east of Anaconda, is dead.
The twentieth annual session of the
Montana conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal church is being held at Bill
lings this week.
At st. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada,
recently, Mr.. Maillet. who died, was
one of Montana's first white settlers
He came to what now is known as the
Butter Root valley in 1855.
The picnic of the Modern Woodmen
| OF America in Missoula last Sunday