The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-03-02
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Arthur Perry was instantly killed in
a logging camp at Startup, Snohomish
county, Wash, a few days ago.
The reunion of the veterans of the
Civil and Spanish-American wars was
a pleasant affair at Waitsburg last
week.
The farmers of Walla Walla county
have been selling wheat in small lots
from day to day for the past few
weeks until it is estimated by dealers
that there is not to exceed Is or 20
per cent of the 1905 crop left.
1t is officially stated that the next
annual encampment of the Department
of Washington and Alaska, G.. A. R.,
is to be held at Walla Walla, on June
Is, 26 and q.
Word comes from Bellingham that
the scheme to raise a subsidy of ST..
100000 for railway line between that
city and Spokane has failed for the
lack of support, less than 100000
having been subscribed toward the
project.
High school students who struck at
Tacoma for a Washington's birthday
holiday are being suspended as fast
as their names are learned.
Kittitas county is yearly increasing
its fruit production and it is believed
that more fruit trees will be planted
this year than during any previous
year.
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manu-
facturers' association has agreed to
the recommendation of the price list
committee, making an advance of 81
thousand on the existing lumber
schedules.
Secretary Hitchcock has ordered the
cancellation of the Washington state
selection in the Yakima valley. The
selection embraces about $4,000 acres,
and was rejected by the interior de.
partment because it was in conflict
with government irrigation work.
Responsive to a movement begun
in Seattle to contribute 1000 tons of
Washington wheat to the famine
stricken sufferers of Japan Judge
Chadwick of Colfax has begun a
vigorous and systematic effort in
Whitman county to raise its proper
ton.
The Big Bend railway is having
rails hauled from Davenport to where
the grading is going on for their cleo
trio line few miles north of the
town.
Two Japanese laborers, Y. Yamam-
OTTO and G. Ibosi, were thawing out
dynamite in shack near Tacoma
recently when % sticks exploded.
Ibosi, was killed instantly and va
mamoto, who was seriously injured, is
still alive.
Harriet Richards, a school teacher
% years of age from Clifford, Mo-.
committed suicide in Spokane last
Saturday morning by drinking two
ounces of carbolic acid. Dependency
over i'll health is the supposed reason.
E. P. O'Neil, right of way attorney
for the Northern Pacific, with head
quarters at Tacoma, is now securing
right of way for an extension Of the
Northern Pacific from Pasco to Ri
paria, Wash.
While the three big lumber associa-
tons on the coast increased prices on
the fir products and tilted the cost of
ties 81 a thousand feet to become ef-
fective at once, the raise will not at
feet the wholesale prices on lumber in
this part of the country.
William Bartlett and Lauren Barnett,
the boys who attempted to wreck the
0. R. & N. train and were sentenced
to one year in the county Jail, have
been released. Several neighbors of
the Barnett boys family, living near
st. John, visited Colfax and urged
Judge Chadwick to release the boys.
Mrs. Barnett is said to be almost a
mental wreck because of her son be-
ing in Jail and it was feared she would
go insane.
Washington State college and the
University of Idaho will not hold their
regular annual debate this year. The
debate council of the University of
Idaho has cancelled the date.
Mischievous youngsters are believed
to have set in motion the Great North
ern locomotive, which crashed into the
Oregon Railway &C Navigation COM
pany's passenger train at the junction
near Spokane last week, blotting out
one life and injuring three others.
lack Taylor, the station agent at the
junction, who was injured by being hit
on the head by flying trunk, died a
few hours later.
/. The plat of the townsite having it's
southwest corner IL miles due east of
Bossburg, in Stevens county, will be
filed in the United States land Office
In Spokane on April 6. Actual settlers
will be allowed three months after
April 6 to make their filings, and the
state of Washington will be allowed 60
days in which to offer selection lists
of unOccunied lands