The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-07-31
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IDAHO, WASHINGTON
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A meeting of the citizens of Garfield
was held recently to organize an anti
saloon league.
Oroville is to become city now as
result of vote taken on incorporation,
which was overwhelmingly in favor.
The Inland Empire Pioneer associa-
ton announces that the annual meet
ing will be at Ballous grove, August 6.
Unless drastic measures are taken
there will be a plague of Jim Hill mus
tard throughout the Palouse country.
The annual school census of Pull
man has been completed and shows
1852 children of school age, as against
800 last year.
A meeting of the regents of Wash
ington State college will be held We'd
nesday, August 5. The opening of
school occurs September 20.
At North Yakima the Webber-Bussel
cannery has begun operations and will
employ 100 hands at the start. A large
quantity of apricots will be put up.
Deeds for approximately $1,000,00O
worth of property within the city linn
it's OF Spokane sere filed Saturday by
the North Coast Railway company.
The Palouse local of the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative union
has leased the Frank Friese ware
house there to handle the crop of the
memsers.
Bert FODDER has been arrested at
Sprague on the charge of stealing a
horse, saddle, bride and chaps. The
property belonged to Ed Hallett of
Ritzville.
While a crew of haymakers was
bathing in the Okanogan river, six
miles above Brewster, recently, the
body of a woman was discovered
lodged in the underbrush.
For the last IL years and seven
months pastor of the First Baptist
church at Spokane, DR.. o. w. Van
Osdel has severed his pastoral rela-
ton with the congregation.
Melba, age Z, daughter of Norman
Markley, attorney of Seattle, is alive
after she was thrown into Lake Wash
ington by her mother, who moment
later threw herself in and drowned.
Mount Baker is an active volcano,
the craters belching forth vapor and
sulphurous fumes, according to an ex-
ploring party of five who have re-
turned from the scene of the phenom-
enon.
Bacon & Galbraith's hay barn and
large amount of hay stacked nearby
burned at Toppenish recently. Four
hundred tons of hay is lost, with insur-
ance of $1400. The barn cost about
$4,000 and is insured for $4,000.
Fifty years ago, September 5, 1858
Colonel George Wright camped on the
site of the fort at Spokane named
after him, and it is now proposed to
commemorate the event next Septem
Der by suitable public ceremony
B. D. Springer, millwright of Ia
coma, now working in the coal mines
at Pittsburg, Wash, has received word
that he has fallen heir to about $40,
100000, through division of the old
Springer estate in Pennsylvania being
made.
| Several sections of school lands
around North Yakima were leased re
Gently by County Auditor Croker. The
Selah Ranch company took a section
at cents an acre. William Ludwig, al
10 cents an acre for whole section
paid the highest price.
Forty thousand acres of land thai
were withdrawn for use in connection
with the Big Bend irrigation project
will be open for settlement September
80 and for filing after October 80 this
year. No settlement or filing will be
recognized prior to these dates.
Judge c. H. Hanford of the circuit
court has issued a temporary injunc
ton restraining the longshoremen
who are on strike in Tacoma, from
interfering with the conduct of bust
ness of the Alaska Steamship an(
Alaska Pacific Steamship company an(
from molesting strikebreakers.
Cracksmen drilled their way through
three steel doors into the vaultroon
of the Seattle Safe Deposit Vaults a
701 First avenue, in the heart of the
business district of Seattle, Sunday
and stole a large amount of jewelr!
and contents of strong boxes. They
were frightened away before the.
could get into the inner vault.
Sheriff Crowley of Kittitas count.
has not given up his efforts to captur,
the man who shot and killed Et
Thereof at the tunnel camp of the Mil
wapkee road, 20 miles east of Ellens
burg, early in the morning of July 20
and it is now thought possible tina
the fugitive may be one of the gang
who killed Marshal Miller at Kent las
winter.
Dam up the Calispel river near it,
mouth where it joins the Pent
d'Oreille, and then pump the accumu
lating water over the dam, is the in
genious project which bunch of en-
terprising farmers in the Calispel val
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