The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-12-21
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Mrs. Mary Agnes Gaffrey, a wealth

WAS % years Oh age.
The University of Washington has
been obliged to close on account of
the fuel famine
The North Coast railway has filed
amended articles, showing details
, of its proposed routes The main line
is to run from Seattle to Spokane $50
miles, passing through the counties
OF King, Pierce, Lewis, Yakima, Ben
! ton, Franklin, Adams, Whitman and
Spokane. Branches are to be built
from point in Benton or Franklin
counties to Walla Walla, Is miles;
from a point on the main line in Spo-
kane county to Pennington; from a
point IN Adams county to Eureka juno
uon; from a point in Adams county to
davenport; from a point in Adams
county to Wilsoncreek. The incorpora-
tors are: Robert E. Strahorn, E. s.
Blount and R. J. Danson.
Because of the alleged increase in
cost of living, practically every de-
| partment of the city government of
Seattle has received demands from
their employees for corresponding
| raise in wages.
Organization of a company with a
| capital stock of $2,4OO,OOO and the
erection of the largest and most mod
ern cement plant in the northwest is
| the plan of ]. H. Spear, manager of
| the Washington Brick, Lime and Manu-
| featuring company, and associates. The
| immense factory will be located eth
e. at Colville, Wash, or on Pend
d'Oreille lake, Idaho, extensive cement
beds having been secured at both To-
cations.
With the election of D. S. Troy as
president, Ira P. Whitney secretary
and treasurer, and David Brown, J. T.
Durdle, A. ID. Stevens and L. S. Tho
mic directors, the 18th annual conven-
| ton at Spokane of the Washington
State Dairymen's association has ad-
| journed.
Ben Snfpes, 20 years ago known as
| the cattle king of the northwest,
| whose large herds ranged in Yakima
valley. died in Seattle recently.
There is famine in building ma
terial in Tacoma.
In mass meeting at Seattle, the
shingle manufacturers of Washington
| agreed on close down for period
of IS days,
Students of the graduating class Of
the high school car not be compelled
20 wear caps and gowns at the gradu-
ating exercises.
James Murray Coleman, Seattle's
wealthiest citizen and pioneer of 1872,
100000.
After a trial of two days jury
found Eugenio Batinioella, alias Mar
faudille, guilty of murder in the second
degree for causing the death of Mrs.
Emma Daley, his landlady, who was
shot by the discharge of revolver
concealed in his trunk. The jury
recommended the prisoner to the
mercy of the court.
| There will be no consolidation of
the Farmers and the Pacific States
Telephone and Telegraph company s
| INES IN Pullman.
| Four children of Lawrence Talbert
burned to death, as the result of a
fire that destroyed a farmhouse re-
Gently in Cowiche valley, IA miles from
North Yakima.
| Another new steamer is to be built
at Hover to replace the Mata c. Hover,
which has bzeen leased to Wren &
lGreenough, contractors, building the
North Bank line through Hover.
George Vivian, sentenced from Whit
man county for assault with intent to
rob, has been released from the peni-
Tertiary on parole.
Owing to the short crop last season,
residents of Garfield county have ex-
perienced difficulty in getting fruit for
winter use.
The immediate construction of ar
mories at Seattle Tacoma and Spo-
kane, to cost respectively $125,00O,
$4,000 and $4,000, and to be paid for
from the state military fund, is recon-
mended in the biennial report of the
adjutant general.
1t is reported that eastern Washing
ton members elect of the state legis-
lature may interpose vigorous opposi-
ton to the appropriation asked for by
, Seattle for the proposed Alaska-Yu-
kon-Pacific exposition if the jobbers
! of Seattle continue to oppose eastern
Washington in the effort now being
made to secure more equitable ad-
iustment of transcontinental freight
rates.
| Exhonorating Captain P. H. Mason,
master of the steamer Jeanne, which
sank the Dix, and revoking the license
of Captain Percy A. Lermond, master
Of the latter vessel, was the finding OF
the United States inspectors who in
vestigated the recent disaster.
| While the newspapers are not unan1'
nous on the subject, the coal situa-
ton in Seattle has undergone an i'm
provement during the past week.
| warid