The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-04-05
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Fruit trees are budding and alfalfa
foot high in the Kiona valley.
Many farmers say this is the most
backward spring in Adams county.
George Mattox's crew of II men have
just finished shearing 1900 head of
sheep near Kiona for Prior 4 Son OF
North Yakima.
Thus far the free employment
bureau recently established in Walla
Walla by the farmers of that district
has proven a success.
The proposition to vote $4,000
bonds for Latah school district No.
60, to build new schoolhouse, was
carried recently at the election.
The wild animal industry cost the
taxpayers of Lincoln county $121 dur
ing the month of March; SIP for coy
ote and 50 for wildcat and lynx scalps
John Birnot of Spokane, formerly a
farmer, has bought from ]. Brown 220
acres of land in the Saltese lake bot
tom, the price being $4,000, or 500
an acre.
A great deal of dissatisfaction exists
in the Columbia Flat county in regard
to the school situation, as the nearest
school house is 10 miles from the home
of some of the children.
building of an entirely new type
is planned to be built in Spokane this
summer. This building will be an
apartment hotel, a 10 story steel struc-
ture, which will cost $25O,0OO.
General William Booth founder of
the Salvation Army, was in Seattle
Sunday. he embarked Monday on the
steamship Minnesota for Japan. Gen.
eral Booth delivered three addresses
Easter.
At last plans are practically COM
pletely for the erection of a 100000
hotel in Walla Walla. The proposed
structure is to be seven stories, with
300 rooms, and modern in every de-
tail.
The adoption of a 1000 mile inter
cbangeable mileage book will be
placed on sale in Spokane May 1, and
which will be good over the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific and o. X.
& N roads.
management of the Tacoma theater,
in which the defendant was charged
with violating the Sunday closing law,
Judge Smell has rendered a decision
in favor of the theater.
Assistant Attorney General A. j.
Faulkner has decided that the in.
crease in salaries voted at the last leg
islature will not take effect till June
IA, although the appropriations carry
ing larger salaries are available
April 1.
Frederick Schaefer German cob
bier, was run down by a streetcar in
Seattle Saturday night and instantly
killed. The body was practically cut
in two. John Aiken, the motorman,
was arrested on a charge of man
slaughter.
There is a large amount of wheat,
aggregating nearly 100000 bushels,
still stored in the warehouses along
the w. & c. r. railroad, which has not
been shipped out for want of cars, and
that the owners have been obliged to
pay insurance, besides losing interest
on their money by the delay.
ITO connect eastern and western
Washington so that the main tread of
domestic commerce may be given
larger and broader ways of transpor-
tation 1000 miles Of wagon road has
been projected in this state, which to
construct will cost more than 81 ,0OO,-
00O," says ]. H. Snow, state highway
commissioner.
In an opinion to Land Commissioner
E. w. Ross, Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral A. ]. Falkner holds that the lano
commissioners having sold timber on
state lands in Stevens county sep
arate from the land, where the timber
does not exceed 100000 feet to the
quarter, the land itself cannot also be
sold until the timber is removed.
To meet more than five millions in
appropriations made by the last legis-
lature for state expenditures for the
two years beginning Monday, there is
on hand in the state treasury general
fund less than $4,000. All told, the
treasurer at the close Of business Sat
urday holds about $1,625,O0O, accord
ing to a statement issued by Treasurer
George G. Mills, but of this consid-
cradle portion is permanent school
funds, which the state cannot touch.
Whitman County Notes.
The baseball fever is high in Ro-
salia.
A move is on foot to organize TO-.
600 club at Garfield.
Albion will soon have a newspaper.
I. H. Hughey is to be editor.
Spring seeding throughout the Pa
louise country promises to be late this
year.
The Spokane & Inland has a steam
shovel working in the deep cut north
of Oakesdale.
The roads, owing to the continued
wet weather, are almost impossible.
Why not make better ones?
The lambing season for sheep is now
in progress and sheepmen report
bright prospects for a good crop of
lanmbs.
Eugene Brown of Colfax has com.