The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-08-31
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country--Numeroas Acci-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace--FaIl Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS
Most Of the schools open Monday,
September 8.
The Lincoln County Medical asso-
citation has been formed.
The Sprague roller mill has COM
menced operations again after brief
shutdown.
A. J. James, aged rs years. one of
the early settlers of Columbia county,
Is dead.
Dependency drove w. A. Nicols, a
Palouse pioneer, to suicide. He used
q revolver.
Roy Miller, formerly Of Palouse,
was killed in Everett recently by fall
Ing from telegraph pole.
Cinnamon Of Walla Walla are rails
ing fund among their countrymen to
assist in the building of the Y. M. G. A.
building.
Owing to landslide on the Oregon
Railway & Navigation track between
Alto and Bowles, traffic was delayed
last week
The seventeenth annual meeting Of
the Washington State Medical ASSOC
citation will be held in Spokane Sep
TENDER II, IL and Is.
George Hazard, formerly of Ia
coma, is under arrest at Newcastle.
Ind, for fraud in connection with the
publication Of county history.
George Edwards. hotel porter at
Walla Walla. charged with forgery.
pleaded guilty in the superior court
and was sentenced to three years In
the penitentiary.
Fruit shipments are going out from
Toppenish at the rate of 10 to 80 tons
. day of local express In addition to
six to IL cars of freight.
Ida Smith, aged IS, who Is said to
be the prettiest half-breed on the Yak
lima reservation, and Frank Iyall,
full-blooded Yakima Indian, were mar
ried recently.
Mark Lipscombe was shot dead in
q saloon brawl at Tyler Sunday after
noon by Theodore Thurman, barten-
der. The latter escaped.
The 7-year-old daughter of Louis
Houck, who lives in Beaver creek dis
trict, near Leavenworth. was recently
gored by COW In the barn. The girl
will recover.
After years of vicissitudes, the
Holden mine on Lake Chelan Is being
rapidly developed. The mine has been
financed by Jay P. Graves. the well
known Spokane capitalist.
This year the owners of the Yakima
hop yards will furnish potatoes and
fruit to the pickers; also camping
places, and will transport the camping
outfits free to the yards.
Albert w. Howard, aged "a, who
was one of President Lincoln's body
guard at the time of his assassination,
died of old age Sunday at his home in
North Yakima.
1t Is said the Northern Pacific has
a scheme for annulling the o. R. &
N. complaint to the railroad commits
sion by offering joint rate on wheat
from Washington and Idaho points
to Portland terminals.
Fire has destroyed the sawmill, dry
kiln and large amount of hardwood
lumber at Tacoma, belonging to the
Carman Manufacturing company. Loss
between $4,000 and 100000, covered
by insurance.
Chief of Police Harold of Ellens-
burg has issued an order that all sa-
looms in the city must close Sunday
evenings at o'clock and remain
closed until a. m. Monday, and that
all gambling must cease at once.
The sixth annual convention of the
Photographers association of the Pa
cific northwest, including Washing
ton. Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Brit
fish Columbia, meets this year at Spo-
kane September 5. The meetings will
be held at the Masonic temple.
The Puget Sound Oyster Brokerage
association has been formed, and in
the future Olympia oysters and the
transplanted eastern oysters grown
In the sound will be marketed through
a sales agency representing all the
oyster growers in the association.
Headquarters of the association will
be in Olympia. It is asserted that
the prices for the coming seasons
crop will be so cents sack increase
over that of last year. Last season
prices ranged from So to 81 a sack.
IDAHO NOTES.
Harvesting has begun In the Pot
latch country. Farmers are paying
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