The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-07-27
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaIi Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHING On EMS.
The Tacoma city directory for 1906
shows Tacomas population to be S4,-
80, a gain of 10000 over last year.
The Hastings Industrial company of
Chicago will put in an 500 COW cream
cry at Palouse City.
Three barns, containing 118 tons OF
hay, were destroyed by fire recently
on the Mike Jennings ranch, four
miles from Spangle.
A. l.. BassfOrd, a switchman on the
Great Northern, was killed at Leaven-
worth recently by being struck by a
freight engine.
Henry Dill, an aged farmer of Span
gle, was found dead in the road recent
ly. He had evidently been thrown
from a load of lumber which he was
hauling, and had been run over by the
wheels of tue wagon.
Congressman Francis w. Cushman
with his wife and mother have arrived
home in Tacoma.
The country schools of Washington
face a famine of competent teachers
lOI tuC WI n ACAt WlALOA
c.. ]. Anderson, cashier Of the First
Bank of Kiona, was drowned recently
while swimming in the Yakima river.
Colonel F. Jackson. one of the most
prominent residents of Prosser died
Saturday morning after an illness of
about two weeks. He was a prOmi-
nent member of the Grand Army.
Grain is seriously hurt. say farmers
about Davenport.
The lid is on at North Yakima. as
chief of police has ordered ali the
games to close.
While playing along the bank of an
irrigating ditch in North Yakima Geor-
gia Richmond, the two and half year
old daughter of v. S. Richmond. fell
into the stream and was drowned.
For the fiscal year ending June 30,
1906. the Spokane postoffice shows an
increase of 1877 per cent.
Governor Mead has committed the
sentence of death passed upon Oscar
Bradshaw to life imprisonment.
Over g., 900 acres of land near Alma
and Conconully, which were with
drawn from entry on account of the
Okanogan irrigation and reclamation
project. have been restored to entry.
Filing cannot take place until after
notice has been posted 80 days.
The thirty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the Grand Lodge of Washing
ton, Independent Order of Good Tenn
plars, in session at Yakima. elected
James R. O'Farrell of Orting past
grand chief templar.
Work on all other buildings provid-
ed for by the omnibus public buildings
appropriation bill, which became a law
at the last session of congress. will
probably not begin until late next
spring and possibly not until June.
Adolph Kirchner. prominent must
clan of Spokane. is at the head of a
movement to organize in Spokane the
Spokane Aschenbroedel society. which
will include professional and amateur
musicians and singers in the Inland
empire. the purpose being to hold a
musical festival in Spokane next May.
The factory inspection law makes
inspection compulsory, and does not
leave it to the option of the factory
owners, according to Charles F. Hub
bard, state labor commissioner.
The annual convention of the Inter-
national otage Employees at Boston
elected John Suarez of st. Louis pres
ident. S. H. Metcalf of Spokane is
among the vice presidents chosen.
IDAHO NOTES.
The sale of Idaho state timber at
Rathdrum proved total failure, as
lumbermen consider the appraised val
ues too high.
The government has set the time of
the sale of town lots in Hepburn and
Rupert townsites in southern Idaho,
for August 20 and u respectively.
Idaho has built five beet sugar fac
tories during the past five years. cost
ing 100000 each. and two more are
now under construction.
Senator and Mrs. w. B. Hepburn
have arrived home in Wallace.
A bad fire occurred at Standpoint re-
Gently. destroying the armory build
ing, 1t was unfinished and the loss
will reach $4,000.
George Wheeler was brought to a
hospital at Boise from Mountain
Home suffering from an accidental
pistol wound. He was taking a sad.
die from a horse, when the pistol
dropped from the holster and was dis
charged. The surgeons found his in
testines perforated badly, and his con.
dition is critical.
Walter Helfrich. whose mother con.
ducts a dressmaking establishment in
Nampa, was thrown from a buggy
near Boise recently and sustained a
fracture of the skull. He is in a dan.
gerous condition. The lad is 8 years
old
Marconi has discovered that by the
use of modified receiver for wireless
electric messages, it is possible to tell