The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-06-28
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
N. M. Hart, superintendent Of the
Butte, Mont, public schools, has been
elected principal Of the Spokane high
school. His salary was fixed at $4,000
a year.
The fifth annual Lincoln County Pr
oneer and Historical associations pic
| mic was the most successful In the his
| tory Of the association.
Hundreds of carloads of harvesters
are being brought to Tacoma for trans
shipment to Vladivostok, whence they
are sent by rail to Manchuria.
A Great Northern railway passenger
going west was wrecked about eight
miles up the Tumwater canyon west OF
ILeavenworth Saturday night The
train was a double-header. The first
engine spread the rails, falling on it's
side. The second engine was thrown
| from the track into the Wenatchee riv-
er, carrying the mail car along with It,
There was nobody injured except the
! fireman, who was slightly injured
about the head.
The large blast near Kahlotus on
George Chew's contract on the Port
land & Seattle line was exploded Sat
urday night. This blast consisted OF
$50 900 pounds of powder, which rep
resents an outlay of over $4,000 for
powder alone.
State Horticulturist Frank E. Hunt
ley and his deputy, P. S. Darlington,
are in Wenatchee to investigate the
condition Of the orchards and the fruit
crop. Mr.. Darlington will make We
natchee his headquarters and have un-
der his official observation the coun-
ties of Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan.
]. E. Nessly of Pullman is not gull
lty of maintaining a nuisance and
Judge Chadwick instructed the jury to
return verdict.
jennie McLain has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla. The crime for
which he was arrested and to which
he pleaded guilty was that Of the muir
der of William Cameron, white man,
on the Colville reservation about two
weeks ago. McLain is halfbreed
Indian.
The Stevens County Pioneer society
will hold it's regular annual meeting
and picnic at Chewalah next Sunday.
The body of William Gustavus Adolf
plus Schoening, formerly student at
the University of Washington, was
found floating in the bay near the
fire boat at the foot of Madison street,
Seattle, Wash, Coroner Carroll be-
lieves that Schoening committed sui
eide while temporarily insane. The
body had lain in the water at least
two weeks.
| Ernest F. w. Poolton, aged Is, a
student in the freshman class of the
Seattle high school, died Monday as
| the result of burns received from an
exploding lamp.
Under the name of the Young Mems
Buddhist association of Seattle, Japa-
nese of Seattle have raised a fund of
$4,000 and have purchased site for
a temple.
George w. France, for over seven
years postmaster Of Hoquiam, sue
cumbed to lingering illness from can
Ger of the stomach and other organs
which was too far advanced to be re-
moved.
While Mrs. Bumgardner and her
daughter Clara were assisting the fer
ryman in crossing the Central ferry
recently the rear wheel, which they
were operating, got beyond their con
troll, and, catching in the clothes Of
the woman, threw them overheard
Mrs. Bumgardner caught in the ropes
and was rescued, but the younger WON
an, being less fortunate, was thrown
far out in the stream beyond all pos
sible help and was drowned.
Saul Louie, the Indian charged with
murder in the first degree for brutally
beating the life out of his sweetheart
on the reservation April 10, because
she lavished her affections upon an
other red man, was sentenced to Il
years in the penitentiary at Walls
Walla
Complete returns from the specia
election held in school districts No. 1
10, rs, 3S, 40, 46, 81 and 116 Whitman
county, to decide whether or not the!
Z. should organize into high school dis
trict show that large majority votet
against organization.
The wreck which happened on thu
; Spokane & International recently at /;
point near Spokane Bridge, killet
3 George e. Kendall and w. H. Waters