The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-03-01
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaIl Trade ls Good.
WASHINGTON T

cided for an open shop policy after
March /, regardless of the action Of
the union.
Walla Walla county has been the
hardest hit of any of the eastern
Washington sections on account Of
thousands upon thousands
Of dollars worth of damage being done
the roads and farms, aside from the
the railroads have received.
Copies of the Indian war records for
the state of Washington have been
and forwarded from Wash
ington to Olympia. They contain a
record of all Indian wars in this state
With a roster of all those who took
part in them.
A. G. Steinman of Ellensburg has
assumed the duties as receiver Of the
North Yakima land Office.
Jack O'Keefe. pioneer Of Asotin
county, died recently.
The seventh annual convention of
the Washington Letter Carriers asso-
clation was held in Seattle Friday Of
this week.
George Hubner vas crushed to death
recently by rolling a log in Englands
logging camp near Castle Rock.
Tacoma has been selected by the Co
Iumbia conference as their next place
of meeting in the fall.
S. Gardner Yerkes. assistant general
passenger agent of the Great North
ern railway, has resigned his position
with the Hill line, to become effective
March l.
Serving a sentence of four days in
the city Jail as a man, dressed in
mems clothing and confined in the
tank" with a dozen seasoned hoboes,
was the experience of Edna Elliott,
who, seeming to be unable to keep
out of trouble, was convicted Of petty
larceny in Spokane and sentenced to
LAY a fine Of $500 and costs.
The Chelan Commercial club, at it's
last meeting. passed resolutions in
viting the Mountaineering club of Se-
attic to hold its first annual outing
on Lake Chelan, and pledged its mem
bers, in the event of the acceptance
Of the invitation. to do all in their
power to make the visit of the Noun
taineers agreeable.
Judge James X. Kennedy, an old
and well known lawyer and former as
sociate justice of the supreme court
of the territory of Washington. died
at his home in Walla Walla recently,
aged "a. Death was due to heart dis
ease.
Arrangements have been made for
Spokane to hold it's second annual big
cleaning day under the direction of the
City Beautiful committee Of the $780,
900 club.
News has just been received that the
wages of miners in the Roslyn and Gle
alum districts have recently been ad-
vanced 10 per cent. In view of the
scarcity of fuel during the past win
ter, this increase may become bene'
fetal to the coal market if it remains
permanent.
e. W. Downen has sold his farm, ly
ing between Pullman and Wawawai
to w. L. LaFollette, the fruit king" Of
Wawawai. for $4,000. The farm con
tains $40 acres and is well improved.
1t is said trains will be running from
Tacoma to Spokane yer the Nortf
Coast railway in two and a half years
Tacoma will be the first large cit!
through the Tieton pass.
Acting under orders of Mayor Moor
and Chief Wappenstein, the Seattle pc
lice Sunday enforced the Sunday clos
ing law in identically the same name
as on last Sabbath.
The Tacoma saloons were close,
tight Sunday and few attractions o
the Sunday closing law have been re
ported.
The legislative investigation now il
progress into the conduct of the Ofic
OF the state land commissioner ha
brought out prominently the fact tina
standing timber on the lands owned b
the state is being sold at from 20 cent
to 80 cents per thousand feet less tina
1t could be sold under the same lay
with a slight amendment permittin
the purchasers two or four years NOR
time within which to remove the tin
Der purchased. This is the testimon
of all witnesses examined on thi
point without a single exception.
Back of this is another very pc
tinent fact, not alluded to in th
testimony, and that is that the pre-
en- law was passed by the legislator
of 1897 at the instigation of the 10.
ging interests, the purchasers of tn
state timber under these conditions
That law is cheating the school chi
dren of Washington out of from 500
600 to $150,00O a year and the none
goes into the pockets Of the big, ric
logging companies of the state, VIII
are organized into a trust to keep u
the price of logs and make the col
sumers pay more for their timber.
Saturday morning the 6-year-old so
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Storie of Palous
City was taken suddenly i'll with col
gestion of the lungs and died With
a few hours. The mother died durin
the evening. Her death was due par