The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-04-13
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WARRINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NO. 20.
Nc Ruth Coston of Spokane will be
i. ,a1 wears old Saturday.
rho hattleship oregon is at Seattle,
,,here she will undergo repairs.
extensive improvements are to be
IL n the roads leading into COlfaX.
rovarnor Mead has returned home
49, several weeks visit in Califor-
MIA.
citizens of Seattle are organizing di-
roct urinary leagues in every ward in
that city.
Tho prosser school bond election to
voto $4,000 for a new brick building
zoe carried by vote of IS to 80.
Two batallions of colored troops
18th regimental headquarters and the
h.nd for Fort Wright, at Spokane, is
the latest.
Archibald R. Voliva, one of the best
tcovn bartenders in North Yakima, is
/. 6rst cousin of w. Glenn Voliva, who
has succeeded Dowie as a leader of the
sect
Using a stove poker as their only
tool prisoners in the old Yakima coun-
ty iail had started to dig to freedom.
Before .ney had made much Roadway
they were detected.
The International Anticigarette
league is sending to Spokane its gen.
oral superintendent, Rev. Wallace r..
struble, to engage in crusade against
smoking by minors.
II is said that reckless automobilists
who use the Tacoma public streets for
speeding will either have to run at a
slow speed while within the city limits
or suffer the penalty of arrest.
Agent Jay Lynch of the Yakima In
dian reservation, has received an or
der from the Indian bureau to confis-
cate the drug stores on the reservation
which nave been selling whisky to
Indians.
When inmates of state institutions
commit suicide and the coroner con-
ducts an inquest the coroner must be
paid by the county and not by the
state, according to an opinion rendered
by Attorney General Atkinson.
Archie Griffin, who escaped from the
Oroville Jail recently and was reported
:. to have broken his neck by fall over
! the cliff at McLaughlin's canyon, is
still alive and well ahead of the sher-
IFS posse on the Colville reservation.
Information from all parts of the
Yakima valley point to a record break
ing fruit crop in this section. Further
examination of the trees shows that
the apricot trees are the only ones
damaged to any appreciate extent by
the March freeze.
The new cruiser Washington, which
has just been completed for the United
/. States government, is in readiness for
Z her speed trials, which will take
place during the week. The Washing
tons contract calls for a minimum
speed Of % knots per hour
N. NJ. Cole, GO years of age, FAM
illarly known as Mes" rancher, liv-
ing half mile from the mouth of the
Little Spokane, 10 miles from Spokane,
has disappeared amid circumstances
strongly suggestive of foul play. He
has been missing from his cabin since
wednesday evening, March %.
In order to break into the Elk lodge
rooms in the fifteenth story of the
Alaska building, in Seattle, a daring
burglar recently climbed up the fire
escape from the court to the top floor
ana IN that way gained easy entrance.
he pried open the secretary's desk
ana took about $40, overlooking $500
which was few inches from the
smaller sum.
Inc sheep on the mountain ranges
are particularly fat and the wool ex-
ceptlonally fine this spring. Though
.ae winter was no milder than usual,
Tue sneep came through it in good
shape, and the losses were few. Geo.
w. Lowden of LoOmis lost but one eve
oat OF flock of 2O5O head, and the ex-
pefience OF other stockmen was SIM
mar II is estimated that there will be
crop OF 10000 pounds of high grade
ing.