The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-08-03
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--FaIl Trade L. Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

which he died, and Carl Herbert was
seriously injured while leaning out OF
adjoining windows Of the smoking car
as the train was passing Through
Prairie station. The men are both OF
Acme and were en- route to Deming.
Following terrific bolt of lightning
at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon many OF
the buildings in Spokane suffered from
total failure of electric lights Sunday
night and number of small fires kept
the department busy during the early
hours of the evening. The fires were
due to disorganization of the system
of distributing electric power through
the wires.
w. /. Creelman, % years Of age, the
son of wealthy parents owning prop
erty in San Francisco and Los Ange-
les, and for two weeks employed in
the secret service of the Northern
Pacific Railway company, was the
burglar fatally shot at Spokane the
other evening.
Little Joe Jannot of Keller, aged
Q years, was accidentally shot the other
evening at the Gold Cord mine, on
Silver creek, by Will Jannot, his
father, an employee of the mine, while
adjusting 20 rife.
The weather has been SO oppres-
sively hot that the hay harvesters
have chosen to rest during the mid
die of the day and labor in the fields
by moonlight after night.
Work on the ", V. & e. between
Midway and Nelson is progressing
rather slowly, owing to the shortage
of ties at various places along the
route
The labor famine in the Palouse
country is still unbroken.
Harold ]. Marugg, aged 6. Of Spo
kane, was drowned in the Spokane
river last Saturday.
A force of men is putting in the
new and sidetracks for the o. r. &
N. at Cornell.
State Grain Commissioner W. H
Reed has reports from number Of
correspondents in the Big Bend ant
Ritzville countries which show a seri
GUS loss in the grain crop below wha
was expected earlier in the season.
H. A. Rolf has taken charge of thu
First Bank of Kiona as cashier an(
resident manager. He succeeds G.
Anderson, the unfortunate young mai
who was drowned in the Yakima rive
at that place last week.
State Labor Commissioner G.
Hubbard announces that he las In
structed his deputies to require al
mills operating the socalled. "clippe
knot saw" to have the same provided
with substantial safeguards or thei
use discontinued from now on; other
wise certificates of inspection will b.
withheld from shingle mills usinI
them.
Fire destroyed the barn on the J
r. Thompson place, two miles mort
of Dayton, the other afternoon, tt
gether with the contents. including
: $40 belonging to Ed Hammond an
$40 of Wilbur Browns, the none
being in bedding used by the men.
The car shortage promises to be
serious problem in moving the whea
: crop the coming fall, judging from tn
{ manner in which the cars are tie
Y lup in the yards at various points o
4 the roads,
q The new Walla Walla city officer
have taken the reins of government
Farmers of the Inland Empire VIII
8 have heretofore been fortunate in 81
{ Gaping any serious trouble from pest
8 may experience difficulty in the nea
5 future with the Hessian fly, unles
i immediate concerted action to abol
g don wheat growing is taken for tn
y eradication of this pest, which has a
ready made its appearance in Clar
county, Oregon.
The business portion Of Blain ws
- burned recently. The Palace hotel va
:, ued at $4,000, the Nicolet restaurant
worth $4,000, and the Blaine baker
wara hurnod