The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-09-07

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The Indians talk of holding H.
of the tribes from Wasb;ne
ton, Oregon and Idaho at Tonnon,,
for a great powwow after hop picr
ing. @
1t is planned to hold a fair g.,
Okanosan county at Riverside at Som.
date in October to be fixed later
Fire again visited Waterville ana
wiped out the oldest hotel in the d.
Bend country, the Bradley, formerlS
the Big Bend hotel.
The c. M. & ST. p Ry. is preparino
to start construction work aroma
Ellensburg.
Howard kressly, the ex-society man
and broker of Spokane, who has co.,
ed three years of five year sentence
in the Walla Walla penitentiarv for
the part he took in obtaining s1OO
600 under false pretenses and in
wrecking the Lucille Dreyfus mine has
been parolled by Governor Mead.
Fire was discovered recently at tho
home of Mrs. H. S. Gowing at Pres.
colt. Neighbors at once ran in, and
were Mortified to find the inside Of tho
house in flames and the lifeless body
of Mrs. Gowing on the bed. Inst
how the fire originated is unknown
OREGON NOTES.
E. H. Bjorman, a steeple climber
at Salem, fell from the smokestack Of
the electric plant to the ground, a dis.
lance of so feet and was practically
uninjured.
Six Pendleton youths have been
arrested on the charge of taking LIQUOR
on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
James Bricker, a farmer near Mabel
was killed recently by a falling tree.
Fifteen head of cattle were found
dead near Cornucopia as a result of
having eaten giant powder carlessly
left by workmen who were building a
road to the Queen of the West mine.
The cattle are fond of glycerine, as it
melts in the rays of the sun.
The largest crop of wheat grown
by any one man in Umatilla county
this year is that of George Perringer
who has farms upon the Umatilla
Indian reservation largely. Mr.. Per.
ringer has just finished harvesting and
he made 100000 shocks, or about s..
900 bushels.
Weston is experiencing it's usual
annual water famine.
MONTANA NEWS.
w. B. Taylor. we'll known citizen
of BOZeman, and a soldier named
Charles Allen of Cincinnati lost their
lives by drowning. With three WON
en-, Taylor and Allen took boat ride
and when out but a short time the
boat began leaking so badly that II
capsized. Taylor and Allen both tried
to swim to shore, but were seized with
cramps and sank. The women chung
to the boat and we're rescued, after
great efforts. The mems bodies were
not recovered.
Ed Flynn, a well known mining
man. was shot and instantly killed at
Salt Lake recently by Alvin McKin.
ley. The two men had been enemies
for years, and when they met the
quarrel began at once. Flynn was
armed with a knife, with which he
cut Mckinley in several places. Nc
Kinley is under arrest
The annual reunion of the Spanish
War Vetrans of Montana opened in
Butte last Saturday and adjourned
Monday of this week.
The secretary of the interior has
awarded the contract for the construc
ton of the lower yellowstone dam OF
the lower Yellowstone irrigation pro
ject in Montana, to the Pacific Coast
Construction company Of Portland
Ore, for the sum of $142,825. This
dam is to be a rock filled timber crib
bed structure across the Yellowstone
at the head work of the canal, about
Is miles northeast of Glendive and
according to the terms Of the contract,
will be completed February 1. 1903
From Glenham the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul road will pass
through Borman and Schnasco coun'
ties in South Dakota, and will cut
through the southwestern corner OF
North Dakota in Nettinger and Bow
man counties. From there it will run
into Custer county, Montana. Tne
road crosses the Northern Pacific at
Terry and parallels that road ana
the Yellowstone river to Miles Clty
and Forsythe, then it strikes on IN
a northwesterly direction to the MUS
selshell river to Yellowstone county,
following the river to Harlowton ana
Lombard. Here the Montant railroad
in operation from Lewiston to Harlow
ton will connect as a feeder. FTom
Lombard the main line will cross the
mountains to Butte.
A chain of strange fatalities seems
to be connected with c. o. Mosier, q
ranchman living some miles west u
Red Ladge. Mosier fell of haystack
Friday and was instantly killed. Two
years ago his oldest son, Oliver, was
involved in a murder and holdup anu
is now a fugitive from justice. Some
months after this son in law was
killed in the railroad yards at Billings.
His widow gave birth to twins less
than a month after his death, anu