The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-05-25
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
'.oreek is preparing to cele-
=. The Fourth Of July.
= brale W. services were held Sun
Dea,. arnoop at o'clock IN the Swed-
a. ,abernacle at Spokane. ...,o
isn .a' rive Bruhn company OF Seattle
NV ~. purchased 1000 sheep from
me vessey & McRae company u M
ona. t.. poindexter of Spokane made
'u' wosbv permanent receiver OF the
B. =. Co,umbia River Railroad &
Savipation company.
ovocutive committee of the
l .,ord commercial club will be in
ro .sone next Saturday and Sunday
opoA ostb and 9th, as guests of the
!. c'u .,:a,t divorces have been granted
= .;a. the present term of the supe-
court at Conconully and the end is
,v vet This is the record for Okano-
gan county.
81 wheat in the Big Bend country
.oross the river from Wenatchee is in
~ exceptionally good condition and
-. ronchers expect the yield will be
heavy again this year.
FIRE caused s12,S00 damage in the
..w of frame stores on Lake avenue,
M Lake, Sunday morning. The
.o.ol insurance is $500. For a time
,so whole town was endangered.
John H. Ransom, broker OF Spo-
,.ro accidentally shot himself in the
abdomen last Sunday and died shortly
ofter He was about IS years OF age
and left a wife and three children.
Conconully.-About $4,000 pounds
If wool will be shipped down the river
as q result of this springs shearing,
which begins on May 20. Wool was
meyer in better condition or of higher
grade.
The steamer Selkirk, which met her
fate on the rocks at Rock Island rap
ids near Wenatchee few days ago, is
now below the rapids partially sub
merged and made fast to rocks on the
bank.
Warren Goodwin, the year old son
Of George Goodwin, three miles east of
Pennington, was shot and probably
fatally injured by accidental discharge
i Of small rifle in the hands of his
brother.
j. The program for the graduating ex-
ercises of the North Yakima high
school, which win take place Friday,
June list, at the Yakima theatre, has
been arranged. There are Fl members
in the class.
So great was the damage to straw
berry plants by the big windstorm and
the accompanying cold weather of
March that the 1906 crop around Ken
newick, variously estimated up till
that time at from $1,000 TO, 10000
crates, will be reduced to a bare 5000
or 5000 crates.
A. A. Kelly of East Spokane was
chosen president of the Spokane Fruit
Vegetable Growers association by
the trustees. The other officers are j.
+. Strong of Five Mile Prairie, vice
president; c. L. Smith of Spokane, Sec
rotary; w. NJ Jones of East Green
acres. treasurer.
The grazing season has opened and
many thousands of sheep which have
been wintered in the Big Bend country
are being taken to the mountains west
OF Wenatchee. One hundred and fifty
thousand sheep will be taken to the
mountains this season. About $4,000
are being taken from the vicinity of
Winchester.
number of farmers owning small
iots OF wheat which they have been
noiding for higher prices in the vicin-
ny OF Valley Grove, Eureka Flat and
waila Walla have sold the Kerr-Gif-
lord company an aggregate of about
4a'oOo bushels at "a and IS cents a
ousnel for bluestem and So and GA
cents for club.
IN the defamation contest between
pupils OF Washington high schools at
oeattle Robert Denny of Everett won
nfs' prize, his selection being the TO-
'uih scene from Julius Caesar; the
second prize went to Miss Eva Berry
Colfax. on The Deathbed Scene of
oeheolct Arnold" Miss Berry also
"on second place at Pullman recently.
MSS Bessie Graham of Seattle was
,n'rd Miss Myrtle Rowell Of Ellens.
oe'e fourth. and Fred Inkster of Dav-
export was fifth.
onarles w. Wappenstein was ap,
po'nted chief of police of Seattle re.
s ssa'.y oy Mayor Moore. The new
~ e' nas been member of the detec-
A'e Ioree OF Seattle since 1896.
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