The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-01-19
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them Pacific railroad bridge across
the Columbia river at Vancouver, has
been commenced. AS soon as the con
troversy with the government over the
projected bridge across the Willamette
has been settled that structure will be
commenced. The estimated cost OF
the two bridges is $3,OOO,OOO.
IDAHO News.
Moscow lodge No. 249, B. P. o. e..
dedicated their new temple Friday
with elaborate ceremonies.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho may de-
eide to exploit his proposition for the
annexation of santo Domingo.
That there are two Harry Orchards
can be no longer doubted, says the
Boise Capital News. The milkman al
Wallace is now definitely ascertained
to be an entirely different individual
from the Harry Orchard confined in
the jail at Caldwell charged with the
murder of Ex-Governor Steunenberg.
A laborer named Steinmiller, en-
ployed in digging a sewer at Occur
d'Alene, was buried in a cavein re.
Gently and had a narrow escape from
death.
The Northern Pacific has lost out in
it's fight to prevent the classification
of timber lands valued at 81. SOC, 900 in
ShOshOne county, Idaho, as mineral
lands, the railway company being de-
cided against by the United States
land Office at Occur d'Alene The com
pany gets but certain nonminera1
lands. The decision is signed by Reg
lister r. N. Dunn and Receiver C. D.
Warner.
At the present time the United
States geological survey is maintain
ing IL gauging stations on Idaho
streams. Seven of these stations are
essential in connection with the rec
lamation projects now under way in
the state.
A new railroad between Mountain
Home and Bruneau, Idaho, q distance
Of 20 miles, will probably be construct
ed.
Senator w. B. Hepburn has been
busy at this session of the senate. and
word comes from Washington that he
is likely to succeed in putting his
pure food bill through the senate this
winter. The bill, while generally snip
posed to have much merit, has beer
beaten by one scheme or another SOS
sion after session. and If Senator Hey
h,,p in vo0Eyinu ~ vovD II
may rank as q notable victory.
The news that the o. r. & N. COM
pany has fled articles Of incorpora
ton at Olympia, Wash. for a route
down the Salmon river was good news
for Lewiston and the tributary coun'
TRY.
In an accident at the Hecla mine
near Burke. B. B: Alton sustained in
juries, by being crushed between an
ore ear and the timbers in the tun
mel, from which he died in the hos
pital six hours later.
The Nez Perez Indians will ask con
gress to pass a bill to declare them
competent to transact their own pri'
yate business without the consent OF
the Indian agent and the department
MONTANA sQUIsBs.
Policeman Clifford McGilvray has
been suspended from the ranks at
Butte and sent to the county Jail un'
der arrest as the result Of an ARRAY
in Main street, which for a time
threatened a riot.
Two more indictments returned by
the recent federal grand jury have
been made public when F. D. Cooper
and William Wickson, both residents
of Cascade county, appeared before
the federal court and pleaded not gull
ty to the charges alleging violations
of the land laws.
The 10Th annual session of the Mon.
tana Society of Engineers, composed
of prominent mining men Of the state,
has elected B. H. Dunshee. prOmi-
nent Amalganated engineer, president
of the organization. The session OF
engineers was held at Lewiston. Mont
Pleading guilty to having forged the
| udulS VI ChuPAoyOA w - SANNAA Ava
$50, with the assurance, he says, that
he would be given one year in the
penitentiary, George Lascas, a youth,
was sentenced Saturday afternoon to
10 years in the penitentiary at hard
labor. Lascas was dumbfounded by
the sentence. Judge Donlan took oc'
casion to say he proposed to put q
stop to the carnival of crime in Butte,
by giving every criminal brought be-
fore him for sentence the limit. Las
cas- committed forgery in order to buy
wine for burlesque chorus girls.
Oregon Short Line engineers are IN
Madison county endeavoring to run
another line to Butte, seeking route
by which they may extend the Coke
Vile, Wyo., cutoff and the Yellowstone
Park branch into Butte, thing that
would materially reduce the expense
of operating and make a considerable
saving of time in the shipment OF coal
from the Wyoming fields to the Mon
tana markets.
COMING.
January Attractions at The Spokane