The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-01-18
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
washington, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Piace-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

bOIn Scudtc duu uouSS was SoASN
to order for the tenth legislative ses-
sion Monday at noon.
Two laborers were killed and one
badly injured by huge blast at M.
Phin's rallroad construction camp, six
miles out of Kahlotus, Sunday after
noon. The dead are: Lew Colville,
an Australian; Milo Marritis, an Aus
strian.
That construction work on the vari-
GUS extensions OF the Inland Empire
system will be pushed forward the
coming spring is shown in the an
nouncement of President Jay P.
Graves, of the placing of a large con-
tract for steel to be delivered during
April, May and June. The contract
is for 1000 tons of 60 pound and 70
pound steel rails, and means that
nearly Is miles of road will be added
to the Inland Empire system in 1907.
Driven to extremes by the scarcity
! and high cost of fuel, farmers in the
vicinity of Washtucna are burning
corn on the cob.
Lying face downward on the snow
covered sidewalk, near North Forty
third street, the lifeless form of Eben
Pierce, one of Tacoma's pioneer citi-
zens, was discovered Sunday night
His death is believed to have been the
result OF stroke of apoplexy, and in
dications are that. death was instan-
taneous.
The people of Monitor and Browns
fats, near Wenatchee, are said to be
practically hemmed in by snowslides,
which have blocked the roads.
The Sound steamer Alice Gertrude,
owned by the Puget Sound Naviga-
uon company, struck on the reef at
the entrance to Clallam bay. She is
lying 200 yards from the beach and
tho heavy swells are pounding her to
pieces.
Plans and specifications for the
new federal building at Spokane have
been completed.
The Great Northern has ordered %
Mallet compound engines of very
heavy build for freight service in the
Cascades. The locomotives are to be
delivered within the coming year.
r. c. Bare, the alleged horsethief
who broke Jail Thursday night with
Kid Barker, the Kennewick murderer
has been captured at Sunnyside by
Constable Young.
While coasting down hill or
Peone prairie, near Spokane, Adolph
Back, the 10 year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Beck, was almost instant
ly killed by a heavy bobsled which
ran over him.
Martin Meuli, wealthy rancher
has contracted with Arthur Bransor
to erect a three story 50x12O foo
brick hotel building at Lewiston, Ida
no. The building is to be completed
by August 1, and will cost $4,000. l
: will be up to date and modern il
3 every respect.
Such a mass of business has collect
ed in the land Office at North Yaki
ma on account of the presidents fail
ure to appoint receiver to succeed
!. H. F. Nichols, deceased, that it is es
timated it will require four or fiv
|. months after receiver is appointe'
:. found in the Sudan.
For 10 days the coolest weather ha
t prevailed in Spokane in IA years.
p Olin Worden, aged 10, who cor
fessed to stealing $500, was commit
d ted to the state reform school b
s. Judge Rigg of Pasco.
e Nearly million and half pound
,. of fruit were shipped by express fro1
e North Yakima alone during 1906, tn
r. exact amount being 1,417.6S9 pounds
The private library of Rev. Myro
Eells, who died at Union last weel
was bequeathed to Whitman cOlleg'
Is and Rev. Mr. Eells also recommends
% representing 80 years careful to
t. and research, be given to the instit'
. ton.
n Senator Dubois has offered a
B. amendment to the Indian appropri
ton bill, appropriating $1,500,000
81 payment of 100000 acres of &C
~ Vile Indian land opened to settlemel
~ under the act of 1892.
u An examination of the records
IL the county auditors Office of Wal
o. Walla county discloses that an unus
u, ally large number of real and chatt
s' mortgages have been placed on recol
during the past two months.
There is a movement on foot amor
the large wheat producers of Eas
Id ern Washington to devise some metht
an to cope with the high prices demard'
e. by the grain bag trust for grain bag
IT, The proposition to combine and sci
IT. a representative direct to Calcutta
Is. purchase sacks from the producer h
ed been suggested as the most effectu
~. solution.
*. Reports from the Bellingham e
OF cheering department show that
Y. most SCI 900 was expended for sire
nj improvements in that city during 49,
wv and that the work is not to lag in 10
is shown by estimates of improN
ments now contemplated aggregatil
in the neighborhood of 100000.