The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-08-16
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WASHINGTON NOTES.. d
The citizens of Okanogan are soon
to vote on the incorporating of the
town.
The ukase has gone forth, and the
hobo in Whitman county must work
or move on.
Construction en- the Portland & oe-
attic railroad is being rapidly pushed
to completion
The bodies Of Vern Wilcox and
Robert D. Mitchell, who were drowned
in the Columbia river recently near
Bridgeport. were recovered
Carl B. Roden, assistant in the Chi
cago public library, has been elected
| librarian for the Seattle library.
Whitman county will be entirely out
OF debt this fall, according to the state
ments of the county commissioners.
1t is said the warehouse men
throughout the Inland Empire have
raised the price for storage and hand
ling of grain.
Under regulations issued by the Sec
rotary of the interior, automobiles
will hereafter be permitted in Mount
Rainier national park.
1t is said Washington's new CT
gazette law which is in effect will yet
result in the manufacture of new
variety of cigarettes.
| L. f. Darr, a prominent hardware
marchant Of Uniontown, met with an
accident recently during runaway
that will probably prove fatal.
The wreck on the Northern Pacific
at Garfield has all been cleared up.
The four men injured are doing nicely,
and the doctor says they will recover.
AS many as 80 cruisers have been
looking over timber for the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad in the
dense forests on the Olympia PENN
sula.
Riley Harris, declared by the King
county sheriff to be one of the most
noted and daring horse thieves in the
country, was captured in his camp in
Seattle.
wv. H. Ludden, a well known at
tcrney of Spokane, has announced his
intention of making the race for the
nomination to congress from the Third
district.
During the past year ending June
80 the police of Spokane made total
of 547O arrests, of which number 4911
were for city offenses and 553 fol
state offenses.
In a rearend collision of southbound
trains on the Northern Pacific at Kala
ma recently Conductor G. B. Carl o.
Tacoma, who was in the caboose o.
the forward train, was instantly killed
Magnus Olson, who is to have charge
; of the chorus work of the Nord Pa
cific saengerfest, which will be helt
in Spokane from August 20 to Septem
Der 1, says a large crowd will bt
there.
After 80 years spent in searching
> for his two children, who had beer
taken from his home by their mothe
33 years ago, M. l.. Fauver Of Boyt
county, Nebraska, has located them IL
. Whitman county.
r Orders have been issued from thu
, Great Northern headquarters instruct
Q ing all agents to refuse consignment
4 of shingles fer points via Duluth o
t Superior, along the Great Lakes, ow
Q ing to congestion of freight at tn
t docks at the head waters of the lakes
q The report of Professor Elton Flu
Q mer of the Washington State colleg
: on his examination of the stomach O
Clyde Henion of Newport has bee
made public, and the chemist state
that he did not discover any poiso
that could have caused the death c
o Henion, or any trace of poison.
The farmers of the vicinity of Da!
n ton have been taking advantage of tn
IS high price offered for barley, which
s 81, and in some cases higher, per 10
If pounds. The farmers have estimate
a total yield of 100000 sacks of barle
1t alone. If this is true, and with tn
d. wheat crop, there will be nearly $1,000
a. 600 in circulation in that vicinity du
IL ing the coming fall.
tie AT recent mass meeting in Seatt
rs at which 200 single manufacture
al were present, fund of $4,000 We
or pledged to cooperate with the Pacif
Coast Lumber Manufacturers associ
at ton and other lumber associations
10 fighting the proposed 10-ceht advant
" in freight rates to the east to be mao
at by the transcontinental lines Octob
lie l. Lumber associations have alrea(
e, raised $145,000.