The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1906-07-27
NORTHWEST NEWS.

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The shingle manufacturers of western
Washington have combined on the de
mand for an open shop aud 1SO manu-
facturers have signed articles agreeing To
stand together. Plans are being laid to
bring test case against those who have
signed the union contract on the ground
that they are aiding the union bovcott
and interfering with trade
The first wheat th-eshed this year III
the inland northwest grain belt was
marketed in Lewiston on Tuesday Of last
week, being bought by the Vollmpr. Clear
water company at 90 cents a bushe
The deal was for 10000 bushels of blue
stem. Ten thousand bushels were sold
by Horace Nelson Of Tammany and
1000 bushels by Hunt Bros. Of Enter
prise. The wheat was of the buestem
variety.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
convention has been secured by Spokane
Tor 1907. A vote OF thanks has been
extended by both the $50, 900 club and
the chamber Of commerce TO Dr. D. W.
Van Osdel through whose efforts Spo-
kane was chosen az convention city
The B. I. 7. [. were in session in Omaha
last week
p. {. COrbin of Spokane announces
that he will commence work shortly on
an immense system of irrigation canals,
costing 5000, 900, whereby he expects to
permit Of water being placed on all land
in the Spokane valley between the city
OF Spokane and the Idaho line, nearly 20
miles away
Charles A. Justus and three children
of his sister, Mrs. Samuel MOudy. were
burned to death at the family homestead,
four miles east of Middleton, Idaho, July
1S. Justus was in charge OF the seven
children, their parents being in the hos
pital. The four older children escaped
from the burning house, their uncle los
ing his life in an effort to rescue the
younger ones.
The acting secretary OF the interior
has approved the purchase Of the Sunny
irrigation canal and authorized the pay
ment Of $25O,000 to the Washington
Irrigation company for the same. This
removes the last obstacle that stood in
the way OF the construction by the gov
ernment of the Teton and Sunnvside
projects.
A private dispatch reached Walla
WaIla last Friday that Governor Mead
had rendered a decision in the case Of
Oscar Bradshaw, convicted OF murder
and sentenced to hang August 3, and
cOmmuted the sentence to life imprison-
ment.
The national convention of the Luthe-
ran synod Of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
has voted in favor of establishing a
Lutheran college in the state of Wash
ingtOn.
Country schools in Washington face a
famine of competent teachers for the
work next winter. From every county
comes cry for teachers.
DR.. C.. l.. Gritman, the Moscow physi-
elan charged with criminal assault on &
year old Verna McHardie, was bound
over at the preliminary hearing for trial
10 the district court at the fall term and
was released from custody in $1,000
bonds.
Women are being employed in a box
factory at AnacOrtes to handle circular
saws, according to a report made by
State Labor Commissioner Charles +.
Hubbard. The factory owners were un-
able to secure a sufficient number OF male
employees and finally induced four or
five women TO take up the work. The
saws are all well guarded go that the
possibility of accidents ID reduced to q
minimum and as the material handled is
light, the work is easily done by the
women.
Miss Mary Ridpath, daughter OF W. NJ.
Ridpath of Spokane, and John Dart
| Ankeny, son Of United States Senator
Levi Ankeny of v ALA Walla, we're mar
ried at Spokane, July IS.