The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-05-04
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
: and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Itsms Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding country-Numerou AccI.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FalI Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

John Gormely met death by drown
He was working on the new Northern
Pacific bridge across the Columbia
river and lost his balance, falling
: through to the water, 80 feet below.
The State Bank of Washington,
located at Spokane, has suspended
temporarily.
B. j. Weeks, general manager Of the
Spokane Traction company. has re-
signed his position.
The Colville juvenile band has
been organized with boys under 16
years Of age, who are being trained by
c. H. Peregrine, formerly Of Mont
ana.
Invitations are out from the trustees
and faculty of the Upper Iowa uni
versity for the inaugural ceremonies
at the induction of Rev. DR.. William
Arnold Shanklin as president Of the
university at Fayette, Iowa, Tues
day, May %. He was formerly minis
err of the First M. e. church at Spo-
kane.
Holding a verdict of $4,000 to be
excessive, the supreme court, sitting
at Olympia, in an opinion by Chief
Justice Mount, cut the award in favor
of Herbert. L. Williams, a postal clerk
of Spokane. to $4,000 for injuries sus-
tanned in a collision of cars on the
Spokane Falls & Northern railway at
Northport, Wash, three years ago
Judge Dunbar dissented.
Clairvoyants, spiritualists and trance
mediums can practice in Spokane
without a license according to a rul.
ing made by Judge Huneke.
The body of Thomas Amos, who
died at his home 10 miles east OF
Creston was buried at Colfax. He
was a past grand master of Masons
of Washington, and entitled to the
honors of burial by the grand lodge
Approximately 200 gallons of cream
are shipped daily by express from
Mabton to Spokane.
The Pacific Coast Steamship com
pany on the sound announces that II
will sell tickets and take prepaid
freight for San Francisco. The
agents are instructed by the company
to see that the passengers on its
steamers have sufficient funds for
maintenance on arrival at San Fran
cisco.
Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the
big railroad strike in 1894, is fighting
for foothold in Seattle labor circles
Spangle is having quite boom this
spring.
AS a shipping point Mabton has
reached considerable prominence. :.
A safety pin was removed from the
throat of Alice Scudder, the 2 yeal
old child of Mr.. and Mrs. Scudder, Of
Tacoma, by DR.. Loughlin, whose ser
child for sore throat.
Daniel Stewart, a pioneer of Walls
Walla, aged 81 years, is dead.
At depth of n feet six incl
flow of artesian water has been en-
countered at Bluelight, IL miles from
Mabton. At Mabton $4,000 was ex
pended in an effort to find an artesiar
well but without success.
The Bank of Kettle Falls was burg
larized Friday night. The safe wal
blown open and all> the cash ant
papers of value were taken The losl
in cash is placed at $1100.
Tacoma dealers have advanced thu
price of alfalfa and timothy 81 ton
Alfalfa is quoted at $12.5O@$13.50, ant
timothy at $20@$21 a ton.
The annual report of the Spokan,
library commission has just been filet
for the year 1905 and shows that thu
average number of books loaned dali.
during that year was 1913.
Chief of Police T. R. Delaney diet
at Seattle Saturday afternoon, ate
a protracted illness. Bright's diseas,
was the cause of death. Chief De
laney took office on April 1, 1904.
IDAHO NEWS.
Six thousand rainbow trout from