The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-07-13
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
Place-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Steel is now eight miles from Mid
way on the Vancouver, Victoria &
Eastern railway.
John Hedman was drowned recent
ly in the Columbia river three miles
west of Columbus.
The firm of Cooper & Levy of Sc
attic has been arrested and fined for
each of the various buildings they
rent for immoral purposes.
Representative Jones has taken up
with Governor Mead the feasibility Of
state funds for a topo-
graphic survey of Washington.
E. Riste, superintendent Of the We
natchee schools, has rendered his res
ignation. Miss Ida M. Case, principal
of the high school, has also resigned.
w. ]. Downing, laborer at rail
road camp near Penewawa, dropped
dead recently while at work. Death
is supposed to be due to the extreme
heat.
Mrs. Henry Strohm Of Dayton,
Wash, was recently placed under
$500 bonds for shooting the 10-year.
old son of ]. M. Dunlap with a % cal
iber rifle. The boy had annoyed her.
Marion A. Mulroney, formerly a
Plaza boy, but now in charge of the
wireless telegraph service on the u
s. s. Boston, Is only 20 years of age
He learned the Morse system of teleg'
raphy at his home in Plaza, Wash.
The officials of the Sound single
mills bureau admit that 1t Is the In.
tention of single manufacturers
throughout the state generally to try
and resume operations this week with
non-union men.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of ]. F. Kennedy of Lewiston
surveyor, who has been employed
by L. S. Wilson, in charge of sur
veying crew for the Northern Pacific
near Marshall, Wash.
In a row recently over changing &
team with which Sol McGrith wa:
hauling water for Fred Hopkins a
the latter's farm near Walla Walla
McGrith fired three shots from 81
caliber revolver point blank at Hop
kins' head at close range, two O
which took effect with probably fata
result.
First gashing his throat with ;
razor, Trussaint Beaudry, aged So, ;
prosperous farmer of Mckee valley
lleaped into an irrigating ditch a
North Yakima and drowned himself il
a foot of water. On account Of i'll
ness he had scarcely slept for Il
days and was temporarily insane.
The coroner's jury at Asotin, afte
Investigating the cause of the dealt
of Christian Blomond, alias Fren'
Stang, leader of the three Jail break
ers, returned a verdict that he cam
to his death by gunshot wound in
ficted by Harry Draper of Spokane
while acting under the authority O
Sheriff R. H. Richards.
| G. Meade Emery, distinguish
lawyer of Seattle, was shot and prot
ably fatally wounded at his residenc
in that city Saturday night by Ches
ter Thompson, a University of Wasf
ington student and son of Will
Thompson, former attorney for tn
Great Northern Railroad company
The cause was infatuation for Cha
lotte Whittlesey, niece of the stricke
man, who had denied his attention
and then asked her uncle that her az
mirer be denied admittance should b
desire to see her. Judge Emery wa
shot down on his own threshhol
while attempting to restrain Thoml
son from entering the residence.
} Two electric cars on the Point d.
fiance line at Tacoma were in heat
} on collision Sunday and five passel
: gers and one employee were injured.
al The body of Max Papineau of Pa,
J ton, ILL.,, son of manufacturer Their
: was found on top of westbound pa
: senger coach Sunday at Seattle. 1t
] supposed that he was beating his wa,
I The hot weather in the Yakima va
r Hey has caused the death Of thousand
? of fish in the Yakima river, Wage
: loads of dead fish have lodged againl
: the different dams and the farmer
: are hauling them away for fertilizer.
a Frank B. Bonner, formerly of Sp
kane, was drowned at South Bend Sa
urday night.
Barney Leroy Layman was Instant
killed by lightning recently thre
: : miles east of Toppenish. He was !
: years old. A younger brother stan
: ing near was shocked. but recovere
The state still holds Soap lake. Tt
reported sale of riparian rights prove
to be false.