The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-01-26
NEWSOf NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IOARo, MONTANA
avn oregon news items.
r.w Interesting Items Gathered
Our Exchanges Of the Sur
..,ndinq Country-Numerous Acct
80. and Personal Events Take
,,,..-FaII Trade Is Good.
WARRINGTON NOTES.

,,nroximately half of the state
.,nds will be taken out of the Capital
,vat;onal bank in Olympia AID distrib-
..ed in depositaries selected by the
cote treasurer in other parts of the
state.
General Ashton of Tacoma, who
,ront TO San Francisco some weeks ago
;, the interests of the tideland pool,
= now on his way to Chicago to con-
ILL with railroad officials of the Har-
imam system as regards the tidelands
wanted for terminals in Tacoma.
Following the example set by the
washington Retail Lumber Dealers,
tho retailers of British Columbia and
oregon have advanced their list.
# is reported that Gov A. E. Mead
has decided to turn down State Fish
commissioner T. B. Kershaw and to
name a new man to fill that position
whom Kershaw's term expires in
March.
Knox T. Bordeaux, little Agar old
hov was drowned in two feet of water
recently near his home in Seattle.
The Milwaukee railroad has estab-
lshed tie camps along the Snoqual-
mic mass route, 10000 ties are to be
emf between the pass and Renton.
Professor w. ]. Spillman, whose
able work at the Washington State COL
lege at Pullman led to his employment
nv the United States department Of
agriculture as it's agriculturist, is es-
tablishing object lesson farms in var
ious sections of the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rigg, living on
Rattlesnake fiat, 20 miles south of
Ritzville, recently celebrated the 50th
anniversary of their wedding. Mr..
Rigg is II and Mrs. Rigg " years of
age.
A new industry which may possibly
attain Importance in Garfield county
has been undertaken by c. w. Fitz-
simmons and A. M. Sibley. This is the
cultivation of the famous ginseng
plant.
F.E. Benson of Prosser, Washing
ton, president of the Washington Live
Stock association, has appointed the
following delegates to the meeting OF
the National Live Stock association in
Denver, January 30 to February 1:
LIP. Mulkey, Walla Walla; Peter Nc
Gregor Hooper; DR.. S. B. Nelson,
Pullman; E. E. Elliott, Pullman; Hen
~ Traub Winona; L. G.. Monroe, Spo-
kane; William Carruthers, Chattaroy;
C. o. Hales, Waitsburg; R. A. Hunter,
Quincy; H. Snebley, Ellensburg; K. O..
Koehler, Ellensburg; William Duling,
Garfield: P. w. Cox, Colfax; F. M.
Rothrock, Spokane, and E. F. Benson,
Prosser.
John T. Anderson camp, No. S, Unit
ed Spanish War Veterans, has been
formed at North Yakima.
A rousing meeting of farmers was
held in Rosalia Saturday morning. Be-
tween 300 and 400 people assembled.
crowding the hall, many being obliged
to stand The announcement by D..
c. Corbin that he would pay $5.75, or
so cents more than the present price,
for beets. if he could obtain $4,000
tons, or Sc for $4,000 tons, together
with the announcement that the bust
ness men of Rosalia have pledged
themselves to pay bonus of 10 cents
ton for all beets raised in that vi
cinity the coming season, caused much
enthusiasm.
Ed Paulner, who was injured at Spo-
kane in the Northern Pacific yards
some time ago, and whose leg was
amputated near the thigh in conse-
quence, is now able to be around again.
His recovery is due to fellow men,
bers of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, who gave about 40 pieces
OF their skin to be grated upon the
stump of his leg. George Carr gave
IL pieces, each about half an inch
long; M. V. Pitts gave about the same
number, and Henry Rhoder gave sew
eral pieces from his arm.