The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-02-01
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Captain George K. 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
a dam across the Snake river at Five
Mile rapids by the Benton Water COM
rany.
Unlike nearly every former in
stance of a 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 J. W. Jessie, H. A.
Kaeppler and A. G. 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 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
a 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 mile long.
Elaborate services were held over
the remains of the late Eugene J. Eel
loves at Spokane last Sunday in the
Masonic temple. The dead man was
a 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
month to advertise the Wenatche val
ley.
Senator Ankeny has taken up witt
: the director of the geological surve!
/. the feasibility of irrigating a 4O,00'
: acre tract of land lying along Tucanol
' river in Garfield and Columbia cOun
D ties. During the flood season it is est
A mated the river carries off twice tn
1 volume of water it does during the dr.
l. season.
|. A plan is on foot in Spokane to foun
e domestic training school for the edr
r cation of girls in the science of cool
ing, laundering, serving, manners, car
y of children and the general duties c
s. the modern house servant.
e The state board of control has col
e tracted for 5000 bales of jute at 1868
II per bale, delivered f. o. b. Walla Walli
st to continue the operations of the. mi
is in the penitentiary. F. T. Grove I
s Co., Tacoma, are the successful bidders
r. The last contract price, in Decembe
a was $27.65 per bale.
" The director of the geological surve
~ has assured Senator Ankeny he wi
O. have the proposed irrigation projec
I'd which was recommended by the sen
al tor in Garfield and Columbia countie
s. examined into at once. instruction
IT. have just been sent to geological su
vey engineers in the field to make a r
rort at the earliest possible date.
IT Members of the Spokane delegate
sent committee to Governor Mead T
as sently asking him to make chan&
in the superintendent of the Medic
ia Lake hospital on account, as the
al stated it, of the inability of Superb
ly, tendent Anderson to handle the ms
tuition efficiently. Dr. Anderson W
is take his vacation during February al
ed may not return as superintendent.
'p- After living in the woods about Il
ny outskirts Of Tacoma for more than
MS year, associating with no one, and s
Ne curing fool by midnight thefts, F'ral
'er Richie. the police say, is the man w
'u' for year has been hiding in t
as woods, sleeping in the underbrush a
iiu stealing chickens or whatever he cou
lay his hands on to keep life with
lat him.
FOR Tho r,var ond harhor hill ranort
III to the house Monday, carries $4,000
ne for the Cello canal, 100000 havi
Is been added to the amendment origin
ly looked for.