The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-06-15
NEWSOf NORTHWEST.
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON News ITEMS.
\ Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding Country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Plaee-FaIl Trade ls Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

has been called to Alaska on bust
ness trip.
The Spokane county pioneers 1Otl
annual picnic at Medical Lake was
great success.
Tacoma's mayor has put himsel
on record as in favor of saloon ant
restaurant boxes.
Excellent work is being done on tn,
wagon roads leading into Colfax from
the surrounding country.
The Everett Milling company will
begin the erection this week of
large grain warehouse at Ephrata.
G. e. Briggs, a well to do rancho
of the upper Methow valley, and
pioneer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself recently.
The finding of John Carrolls bod,
in Garrison creek, near Walla Walla
removes all doubt as to the aged milk
mans. death. He disappeared May 29
Kettle Falls citizens have votet
unanimously that the district be bond
ed for $1,000 to build an addition tt
the large school building and establish
a high school
George Taylor, engineer on the
McInnis Lumber companys tug Sa
retta was killed in an unknown man
ner on the boat about four miles be
low Newport.
Governor Mead today granted 6
parole to John Harrigan, alias Charles
w. Hamlin, who was. sentenced ir
Whatcom county on August 6, 1902, to
IA years for robbery.
The prosecuting attorneys of the
state will hold convention al
Everett on July IL, 10, and IA in
connection with the eighteenth annual
session of the State Bar association
A well dressed man who committed
suicide at the Tacoma hotel has been
identified as William Campbell Beas.
ley, publisher of the Commonwealth
Magazine of Seattle. His former
home was in Peoria, Ill.
Twenty farmers of the Kittitas val
ley have formed an association and
purchased Samson De Thorembrais,
an imported Belgian stallion, from Nc.
Laughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio
for $4,000.
One of the largest realty transfers
in Yakima county in recent months
was the sale of the Bounds ranch in
Selah valley by P. A. Bounds to Ur-
ban Ditman, widely known stock
man, for $30,S00.
Theodore Strong, laborer in the
Erickson-Peterson construction gang
on the o. w. & 1. road at Riparia,
met with serious accident recently
which will neccessitate the amputa-
ton of his left leg above the knee.
1t is announced that Samuel A.
Wells, former receiver of the Spokane
land office, has been nominated by
President Roosevelt to succeed Eu-
gene B. Hyde, the present receiver,
who succeeded Mr.. Wells four years
ago.
Thirty-six of the 81 counties of
Washington were represented at the
first annual convention of farmers
held under the auspices of the Wash
ington State college. Okanogan
county was the only one not sending
a delegation.
One hundred and fifty farmers met
in Cunningham Saturday and voted to
build farmers elevator. Steel stor-
age tanks will be put up to handle the
crop. All the wheat will be handled
in bulk. This does away with what
the farmers call the sack graft"
Manager Lennox of the proposed
Whitman county fair has been work
ing hard laying plans for the event.
he has about decided to hold the fair
the first week in October. The prizes
will be more valuable and cover a
larger number of displays than ever
before.
Wenatchee valley fruit growers are
receiving higher prices for fruit this
year than ever before, the prices I'D
o date averaging SO per cent higher
han those paid last year. The We
latchee Valley Fruit Growers asso-
'iation, an organization of the grow
RS of the Wenatchee and Columbia
Talleys, controlling SIS per cent of the
rult raised in the Wenatchee valley.
S doing the work.
A. A. Armstrong, who killed Robert
Patton near Aberdeen three years ago
vas hanged at the penitentiary Fri
lay morning at 5:26 O'Clock. The
Execution was successful in every de-
all. The mans neck was broken by
he fall and death came in 10 minutes
Although so years old he bravely met
Ieath.
Engineers of the reclamation SER
Ice are measuring the area of lands |
ontracted for the Tieton project. An
fortunately, $4,000 acres will be re-
laimed by this project, of which about |
5 per cent has been subscribed. This
all the government requires, but
ONE of the land subscribed NAV he
hown by engineers to be unsuited
7hich will necessitate additions to the
and already contracted.
OREGON ITEMS