The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-04-06

fore, the surveyors now working
around Rainbow may be doing SO mere
~ for their own amusement.
Court at Lewiston has been adjourn
ed until the 23rd of April. owing to
the postponement of several cases and
the settlement of others.
A bill has been passed granting the
Capital City Improvement company of
Helena, the right to construct a dam
across the Missouri river in Montana.
IDAHO NEWS.
-Four barren walls are all that re-
main of the great $4,000 administra.
ton building of the University OF
Idaho at Moscow, fire having destroyed
the pride of hundreds of students.
Colonel N. ]. Sharp, register of the
land office at HALEY, has been given a
clean bill of health by the secretary
OF the interior, Sharp was charged
with being responsible for a great in.
rush of people to the Minidoka irri.
cation project south of the Snake river
1t being claimed he assured the peo-
pie in advance that thes government
would reclaim those lands Immediate
ly. This was not proven.
The nomination of Francis Winters
for postmaster Of Montpelier is sulll
hanging fire in the senate committee
On pQstomces. -
Six sheep dipping watts will be in.
stalled along the Washington-Idaho
state line by the government
The loss of the administration OF
main building of the Idaho state
university, which was completely de-
stroyed by fire Friday has cast a gloom
over the entire state
After being out 20 hours the jury
in the case of the state against Sam
uel L. Mcfarland, a Lewiston attorney
zebag4ed, with embezzlement, failed to
agree and was discharged.
On June % hundreds of Christian
Hndeavorers from all parts of north
Idaho and Washington will gather in
Lewiston for the biennial convention
of the Washington-North Idaho Chris
tian, Endeavor union, which will con.
.tir1ie until July 1.
!. Considerable excitement has been
caused by the announcement OF
Stephen Carver, banker of Chinook
Mont. that he is DESTROYS of building
a railroad from Lewiston through
Charleston to Asotin, and then to Ane
tone, in AsOtin county, a distance of 80
miles.
During. the latter part of April
Professor H. T. French of the agri
cultural college and experiment station
will ship 200 head of Angora goats
from Oregon to Moscow to stock LIS
goat farm six miles north.
BY the rules governing the triangu
lar debate league, consisting of the
Universities of Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington,. Idaho wins the championship.
A hero, but homeless and penniless
is G. Hallowell a railroad employe
whose home near the O. r. & N
roundhouse was totally destroyed by
fire. Residence and, furniture were
valued at $4,000; no insurance. The
father risked his life to save his three
children, whom he carried out in his
arms. On his last trip burning raj
ter fell and struck him on the shoulder
Police Chief Pat McGovern of Occur
d'Alene has received another check
for $500 for faithful duty. This. time
the check comes from the United
States government for capturing
Portland Whitney," the Wallace post
office thief, convicted about eight
months ago. Whitney was sentenced
to IA years Imprisonment.
. Henry Henenkrat, accompanied by his
sons Alfred and Arthur, the three be-
ing trappers at Kingston. recently took
to Wallace two handsome mountain
lion hides, for the killing of which
beasts the county paid them bounty
of SIS for each animal. The lions
were of: about the same size, approx
mately six feet from tip to tip. and
both were entrapped and killed two
miles northeast from Kingston.
OREGON. ITEMS.
C. J. Owen, for many years editor
and manager of the Evening Telegram
of Portland has resigned his position
to accept the business managefship OF
F. Tyler, who for some time past has
hoon news editor of the Telegram will