The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-16
WASHINGTON NOTE.

irult Trees will l.
year. 'nls
Unprincipled white men q, M
and at Lakeside continue In seiah
Indians with liquor. n'sn
The Stetson-Post Mill .o,
six acre mill site at Seattle was "uys
recently for 100000. ""' sold
John U. Hofstetter. for 40 year, >,
of the foremost citizens Of star oue
county, died recently. He waa a Us
years old. 70
With an initial membership ., ,,
lodge No. AZ of the Theatrical ~, w.
chanical association was organize. ne
Spokane last week. :"
The committee on subscriho,.
the Tekoa commercial club has sao w
ed 60 names on the list, which 10 ~.
ficient to insure success. ''
Ed Erickson and another ma,
under arrest in Seattle suspectoa :.
holding up the Great Northern t,,;"
recently near Ballard. a
The recent annual bean bake =,
tertainment and ball by the G. D
post and Woman's Relief corps :,
Pullman was a success.
J. F. Boise, who lives near E,,o,,
burg on the Cariboo in the nortbass
part of the valley, reports finding
nice flow of oil on his place.
There were three daring holduns h
Tacoma Saturday night, all the vnl
Of lone highwayman, and it was e,i
IDENTIFY the same individual in e..h
case.
Jay P. Graves of Spokane has nov
limosine automobile, costing abou,
$4,000. 1t is classed as the finest ms.
chine in the state. 1t is fitted with
closed body and electric lights.
The safe in the postoffce in tho
East Spokane grocery was blown omen
with nitroglycerine Sunday morning
The men secured $40 and $500 worth
of stamps in small denominations.
The Spokane Central Labor council,
was formed Sunday at a meeting Of
delegates from % unions. The new
central body will take out a charter
from the American Federation Of La.
Dor.
1t is learned on absolutely reliable
authority that the Union Pacific will
build to Tacoma and, as announced
several wees ago, it will be the first
of. the transcontinental lines to reach
that city.
At meeting of the Cashmere Fruit
Growers association it was unani
mously agreed to join the fruit grow.
ers' union now being formed to EN-.
brace every fruit producing district in
Chelan county.
The lid went down tight in Wal!a
Walla at ~ o'clock Saturday night.
Every business place in the. city was
closed excepting hotels, restaurants.
livery stables, drug stores and under
taking parlors, which are exempt I'M.
der the law.
The Law Enforcement league Of
Spokane are demanding that all forms
Of business be closed on Sundays ex-
cepting the four classes exempted by
the city and state laws governing Sun
day closing. The businesses exempt
are drug stores. undertakers, hotels
and livery stables.
L. F. Parker, who was employed on
the new packing house near Fort Wal
la Walla, was recently found dead be.
side the fence west of the fort A
revolver at his side with one chamber
empty and a bullet wound in the right
side of the head told the sad story OF
suicide. No cause can be assigned
for the act.
w. A. Nichols, a Spokane man,
makes the announcement that money
has been raised and the delivery OF
steel begun for the construction OF
the Big Bend Transit company. lhe
proposed road will run from Spokane
to Davenport From Davenport two
lines will be built. One line will run
to the mouth of the Spokane river
and the other to Ritzville.
Sailors on the French bark Admiral
Courbet, lying in Port Townsend, mu'
tinted Saturday and, forcibly taking
boat, pulled ashore, declaring tlat
they would not proceed to sea in tne
vessel, owing to her lightened condl'
ton. N. w. O'Rear of Port TOWNSEND
who arrived in the city today, said tna'
the sailors were afraid to 60 to SEE
with the vessel in light ballast
The Chelan Transfer company has
been awarded the contract for cair''
ing mail from Chelan Falls to Chelan
and Lake side beginning July !. Inns
company has the present contrac.'
Mayor Amos Edmunds has Deen
awarded the contract for carrying 'ns
mails on Lake Chelan from the Ioo'
of the lake to Stehekin and intermedf
ate points.
Sentences aggregatlng 81 years W.
pronounced Saturday by Judge hiss
at North Yakima upon four prisoners
Joseph Whitley, colored, was given :
20 year sentence for manslaugntel,
Joseph Reed, IA years for assault =
commit robbery; Joseph Anderson,
colored, IA years for burglary, anu
Edward Mitchell, colored, four years
for burglary. Robert Small. II yeas
old, convicted of horse stealing, Wa'