The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-10-25
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A nursery company of Sunnyside has
secured seven tons of peach pits for
their next seasons planting. They ex-
pect to grow half million trees from
this lot. From one sack of pits this
season this company grew $500 trees.
S. A. Bowers, who owns quarter
section of land four miles east of Pa
louise, has sack containing 20 pota-
toes, which weighed SO pounds. The
largest tuber weighed four pounds.
Christ Rukus, a Greek laborer, aged
rs years, employed in the Oregon Rail-
road & Navigation extra grang at
Meeker's station, on the o. R. & N.
railroad, four miles west of La Crosse,
was accidentally shot and instantly
killed by his 15-year-old nephew, name
unknown, recently.
The Spokane postoffice is now doing
business of upward of 100000 a
year.
After being arrested in Spokane, M.
T. Brown, who was wanted at Taco
ma on the charge of stealing about
$4,000 from the Northern Pacific depot
at Tacoma, escaped from the officers.
Later he was located at Bellingham,
but succeeded in getting away before
the officers secured him. He is still
at large.
Alleged to be short in his accounts
at least $110, H. B. Messenger, book
keeper for the Frye-Bruhn Packing
company at Everett, has disappeared.
DR.. John A. Crosse, farmer near
Starbuck, lost about $500 by a fire
which started on top of haystack
and burned rs tons of hay recently.
Judge ]. A. Taggard, who is said to
have united in marriage more couples
than any other man in the state, is
dead at North Yakima as the result of
an operation on one of his eyes.
Caught by revolving shaft in the
mill of the Puget Sound Lumber COM
rany, on the Tacoma waterfront, Thad-
deus H. Ward was beheaded and every
vestige of clothing was stripped from
his body.
George Bald, aged IS years, commit
ted suicide recently at his home at
Cornell. He had been sick for two
weeks with asthma and had other
troubles.
AS a remedy for the prevailing hop
conditions, dealers in North Yakima
have been urged to assist in organic
ing a pool to dispose of the crop for
this year to the best advantages.
John Price and Roy Cornell, both
recently convicted at Pendleton OF
horse stealing, were sentenced to five
and three years, respectively, in the
penitentiary.
The new 60-gallon chemical fire en-
CINE ordered several months ago by
the Toppenish council has arrived.
common dimension stuff can now be
purchased from the mills in Tacoma al
$13 and $14 thousand, this being So
and 81 below the figures quoted few
months ago.
The September report of the State
Soldiers home at Orting, made by Su
perintendent Willis l.. Ames to the
state board of control, shows on the
last day of the month 256 veterans in
the institution, 81 in the colony ant
113 on parole, total of 400 on the
rolls.
In rage of jealousy, John Schwab
a young Slovenian of Roslyn, recently
shot and instantly killed his young
wife and then turned the weapon up
on himself, with the result that he al
SO died few hours afterward. The
young people had only been married
two months, and report has>i that the
husband was insanely jealous of hi
young bride, and owing to her persis
tence in speaking to old acquaintances
1t is supposed they quarreled and in hi
rage he took the life of his companion
The Kennewick volunteer fire de
partment has adopted resolutions re
questing the town council to order ap
paratus to the extent Of about $500
Unable to get hay balers, the ranch
ers Of Green valley have banded them
selves together, and have bought
machine which they will operat,
themselves. The ranchers in that dis
trict have in the neighborhood of 100,
tons of hay on the ground, and Their,
are no baling machines in sight.
Wheat hauling from the Glade an,
other grain sections tributary to Nab
ton is now at it's height, and there ar,
from rs to 100 loads brought in eacl
day.