The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-07-13
.NEWSOf NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news items.
. Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
.oundina country-Numerous Acct
..n+s and Personal Events Take
p,.ee-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
cteel is now eight miles from Mid
uov on the Vancouver, Victoria &
eastern railway.
Iohn Hedman was drowned recent
~ in the Columbia river three miles
vest of Columbus.
The firm of Cooper & Levy of Sc
.ttle has been arrested and fined for
ooch of the various buildings they
rent for, immoral purposes.
representative Jones has taken up
with Governor Mead the feasibility of
anpropriating state funds for topo-
graphic survey of Washington.
r. Riste, superintendent of the We
natchee schools, has rendered his res
;pnation. Miss Ida M. Case, principal
of the high school, has also resigned.
W. ]. Downing, a laborer at rail-
road camp near Penewawa, dropped
dead recently while at work. Death
10 supposed to be due to the extreme
heat.
Mrs. Henry Strohm Of Dayton,
WASH, was recently placed under
$500 bonds for shooting the 10-year-
old son of j. M. Dunlap with a % cal
iber rifle. The boy had annoyed her.
Marion A. Mulroney, formerly a
Plaza boy. but now in charge of the
wireless telegraph service on the U.
s. s. Boston, is only 20 years of age.
He learned the Morse system of teleg-
raphy at his home in Plaza, Wash.
The officials of the Sound single
mills bureau admit that it is the in
tention of single manufacturers
throughout the state generally to try
and resume operations this week with
n0n-union men.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of ]. F. Kennedy of Lewiston,
a surveyor, who has been employed
by L. S. Wilson, in charge of sur
veying crew for the Northern Pacific
near Marshall, Wash.
In a row recently over changing a
team with which Sol McGrith was
hauling water for Fred Hopkins at
the latter's farm near Walla Walla.
McGrith fired three shots from SO
caliber revolver point blank at Hop
kins' head at close range, two OF
which took effect with probably fatal
result.
First gashing his throat with a
razor, Trussaint Beaudry, aged So, a
prosperous farmer of Mckee valley,
leaped into an irrigating ditch at
North Yakima and drowned himself in
a foot of water. On account of ILL
ness he had scarcely slept for 10
days and was temporarily insane.
The coroner's jury at Asotin, after
Investigating the cause of the death
of Christian Blomond, alias Friend
Stang, leader of the three Jail break
ers, returned a verdict that he came
to his death by gunshot wound in
1icted by Harry Draper of Spokane,
while acting under the authority of
Sheriff R. H. Richards.
G. Meade Emery, a distinguished
lawyer of Seattle, was shot and prob.
ably fatally wounded at his residence
in that city Saturday night by Ches-
ter Thompson, University of Wash
lngton student and son of Will H.
thompson, former attorney for the
Great Northern Railroad company.
The inf Nho r.
iotte Whittlesey, niece of the stricken
man, who had denied his attentions
and then asked her uncle that her ad-
mlrer be denied admittance should he
desire to see her. Judge Emery was
snot down on his own Threshold
while attempting to restrain Thomp.
son from entering the residence.
Two electric cars on the Point De-
lance line at Tacoma were in head
IN collision Sunday and five passen-
gers and one employee were injured.
The body of Max Papineau of Pax
'on' ILL.,, son of manufacturer there,
was found on top of a westbound pas
senger coach Sunday at Seattle. 1t is
supposed that he was beating his way.
The hot weather in the Yakima val
icy has caused the death of thousands
VI nsh in the Yakima river. Wagon
,odds OF dead fish have lodged against
Tue Inherent dams and the farmers
are hauling them away for fertilizer.
frank B. Bonner, formerly of Spo.
name, was drowned at South Bend Sat.
urday night.
Barney Leroy Layman was instantly
Ai.,ed by lightning recently three
niies east of Toppenish He was 16
.edrs old. A younger brother stand
lug near was shocked, but recovered
Inc state still holds Soap lake. The
.epor'ed sale of riparian rights proves
to be false.
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