Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-30
WASHINGTON NOTES.


WASHINGTON NOTES.
Captain George X. Armstrong has
submitted to Governor Mead request
for the organization of company of
state militia with headquarters at Col
vile.
Representative Jones has introduced
bill authorizing the construction of
dam across the Snake river at Five
Mile rapids by the Benton Water COM
rany.
Unlike nearly every former in
stance of Yakima Indian being killed
by train, Wavnaka, the old Indian
who was struck and killed by loco
motive at Toppenish recently, was not
drunk.
At recent meeting of the stockhold-
ers Of the Dayton creamery commit
tee, consisting of ]. W. Jessie, H. A.
Kaeppler and A. c. Gerkin, was ap-
pointed to dispose of the creamery
plant, the venture having proved a
financial failure.
Gray & Gray have sold their grist
mill at Oakesdale to a Mr.. Barron of
Asotin.
The annual district convention of
Knights of Pythias convened in Spra-
que and held an all-night session Fri
day night. Five candidates were given
the last rank in the order. Team work
was put on by the Spokane lodge and
team taken from Harrington, Daven-
port and Sprague.
Ice jams are forming in the Column
bia river and within the last few days
two such jams have frozen together.
making a compact mass of ice capable
of sustaining the weight of teams and
sleds. One is in the river just below
Wenatchee, the up-river end coming
just to the piers Of the new bridge, the
jam extending down the river about
two miles. The other is above Wenat-
chez, between Orondo and Chelan, and
is over a mile long.
Elaborate services were held over
the remains of the late Eugene ]. Eel
loves at Spokane last Sunday in the
Masonic temple. The dead man was
member Of several fraternal and
social organizations and members of
these bodies turned out to honor the
memory of their dead comrade.
Wenatchee business men are debat-
ing the question of raising 5000 a
month to advertise the Wenatche val
ley.
Senator Ankeny has taken up with
the director of the geological survey
the feasibility Of irrigating a 10000
acre tract of land lying along TucanOn
river in Garfield and Columbia coun-
ties. During the flood season it is esti-
mated the river carries off twice the
volume of water 1t does during the dry
season.
A plan is on foot in Spokane to found
domestic training school for the edu-
cation OF girls in the science of cook
ing, laundering, serving, manners, care
of children and the general duties of
the modern house servant.
The state board of control has con.
tracted for 5000 bales Of jute at $3.50
per bale, delivered I. o. b. Walla Walla,
to continue the operations of the mill
in the penitentiary. F. T. Grove &
Co., Tacoma, are the successful bidders.
The last contract price, in December,
was $27.65 per bale.
The director Of the geological survey
has assured Senator Ankeny he will
have the proposed irrigation project,
which was recommended by the sena-
tor in Garfield and Columbia counties,
examined into at once. Instructions
have just been sent to geological sur
vey engineers in the field to make a re-
rort at the earliest possible date.
Members of the Spokane delegation
sent committee to Governor Mead re-
sently asking him to make a change
| in the superintendent of the Medical
Lake hospital on account, as they
stated It, of the inability of Superin-
tendent Anderson to handle the insti
tuition efficiently. Dr. Anderson will
take his vacation during February and
may not return as superintendent.
After living in the woods about the
outskirts Of Tacoma for more than
year, associating with no one, and Sc
curing fool by midnight thefts, Frank
Richie. the police say, is the man who
for year has been hiding in tn e
woods, sleeping in the underbrush and
stealing chickens or whatever he could
lay his hands on to keep life within
him.
The river and harbor bill, reported
to the house Monday, carries 100000
for the Cello canal, 100000 having
been added to the amendment original
ly looked for.