The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-08-14
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Northern Pacific train near Belling-
ham recently.
Choice bluestem and Turkey red
wheat sold at "a cents a bushel in
Pomeroy Saturday.
Fire started by a threshing engine
burned over nearly 900 acres of wheat
near Endicott recently.
Saturday was payday at Camp Stan
ley, American Lake, and $4,000 was
paid to the national guardsmen.
Louis Grosjean, an employee of the
Denny pottery works at Seattle, lost
both arms in the live rolls recently.
Barnard Saunders of Aberdeen, Al
years old, a widower with one son,
was killed in Coats logging camp.
Gustav johnson, a we'll known
tailor, was drowned while bathing at
Rainier beach, near Seattle, recently.
The body of an unknown man was
found beside the tracks of the North
ern Pacific, two miles west of Key
stone.
Judge William H. Smell of the SUI
perior court, Tacoma, has announced
his candidacy for the United States
senate
The Northern Pacific light and pow
er plant at Pasco was destroyed by
fire recently. The plant was valued
at $4,000 and was partly insured.
Alfred M. Miller, Wenas valley
farmer, died recently, aged rs years.
Miller was a pioneer, crossing the
plains in a prairie schooner in 1851.
| Four hundred of the 1000 railroad
men making Seattle their headquar-
| tiers have organized the Railway EN-
ployes' Club of the State of Washing
ton
The Washington Forestry associa-
ton was organized Saturday in Seat
tie. The purpose of the association
is to preserve the natural resources
of the state.
| The Walla Walla Commercial club
will install a permanent exhibit of
the products of Walla Walla county
as soon as possible in the new rooms
in the city hall.
Judge M. M. Goldman, formerly OF
Dayton, but now resident of Seattle
has filed his declaration of candidacy
for the senatorial nomination on the
democratic ticket.
John Green, an old resident of Che
Ian county, was killed instantly Sat
urday by falling from a large rock
above Stehekin, down a precipitous
cliff a distance of rs feet.
With but a few feet of water in the
supply tank, and with the complete
destruction of the city's power plant
Pasco is experiencing situation
which will no doubt be long remem
bered.
While returning from picking hue
kleberries near Hunters, Miss Bertha
Sewell, aged 10, was thrown from
the wagon and the wheels passed ovel
her chest, injuring her so that she
died in a few minutes.
A stirring plea for the observance
of Memorial day along the lines in
tended when the day was first started
was made by William Goodyear o
Colfax, democratic candidate for con
gress, at the reunion of the veterans
at Spokane.
Orders have been issued from tn,
state fire warden's Office upon thu
requests of the Washington Fores
Fire association that no more burning
permits be issued by county fire wal
dens throughout the state until fur
Their notice.
The payroll of Spokane for all dc
partments of the city for the mont
of July reached the grand total Q
$6S,S36.6S, as compared with $40, 1884
for the same month of last year, show
ing an increase of SIS, 3OS23, or nearl
40 per cent.
The combined harvester belongin
to ]. N. and George Jacobs, brothers
residing two miles east of UniontowI
blew up recently. The huge machin
was literally blown to pieces an
hurled in all directions, and two me
narrowly escaped being injured by fl.
, ing pieces of iron and steel. The onl
plausible theory as to the cause {
the explosion is that someone durin
during the night placed nitroglycerin
in the machine and the friction cause
by starting set it off,