The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-05-29
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
While working in sewer trench at
Tacoma recently Aaron Anderson,
plumber, was buried under cavein,
which crushed him to death.
w. Woodland, a restaurant man at
Tacoma, recently drowned himself in
peculiar way. He hired boat, and,
rowing out into the sound, tied the
rope around his neck, tied heavy
stone to his feet and jumped over
board. When the boat drifted ashore
the body was found.
A combination of the Sunnyside Sun
and the Sunnyside Valley Republican
and an utilization of this paper with the
Toppenish Review, the Granger News,
Mabton Chronicle, Grandview Press
and Prosser Republican-Bulleti is a
plan now on foot which promises to
result in great change in the news
paper situation in the Yakima valley.
| Charles Wheeler, the section fore
man at Elk who has been praying for
assistance to locate $500 which he
confessed he stole from the Great
Northern depot at Elk, has had his
prayer answered, but in most un-
expected manner. Wheeler is now
free. The thief was Harry Russell, a
10 year old boy who lived about two
miles from Elk.
Senator Levi Ankeny Of Walla Walla
has sold to Peter McGregor and J. E.
Taylor of Hooper the Ankeny ranch
in Adams county. The ranch consists
of $500 acres Of decided land and TO-
500 acres of leased land. The pur-
chase price is said to have been $780,
900. Included in the deal were 500
head of Hereford cattle.
While playing near his parents
home at Ellenburg the 20 months old
son Of Rev. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson
fell into the creek and was drowned.
Spokane has been selected as the
sionary department of the Episcopal
church and the international Glorious.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows for
the state will convene in Walla Walla
June 1 for four days session.
Manager P. c. Holland is out of the
Washington Printing and Bookbinding
company, Walla Walla, and the recent
strike is over
William Grady, laborer, who was
employed in the mines at Clealum,
was instantly killed recently by a
train.
General orders, covering, among
other things, Memorial day parades,
have been issued from the office of Ad-
jutant General Ortis Hamilton.
The power plant and the pumping
machinery which will irrigate the Han
ford project, under construction for a
year, are practically completed.
At a recent meeting of the We
natchee commercial club large sum
of money was donated to advertising
the valley.
A preliminary test will be made
this week at the Charleston Canning
company, the cooperative association
which has built large canning plant
on the Charleston side of the Snake
river.
James Cummin, a rancher living
instantly killed.
Marcus Aurelius Sick, former un-
dertaker and laundryman at Washtuc,
ma, was the hero of great fire at Buff
falo recently, saving several lives
during big fire.
Crushed under five feet OF sand and
clay, Aaron Anderson, a plumber, was
lsmothered to death recently at Ia
coma while working in sewer trench
The work of the county assessor
shows the towns in the county and
the official count shows that Cash
mere has 535, Wenatchee 3075 and
Leavenworth 1862. This is the popu
lation strictly within the corporate
limits, there being large population
in the valley contiguous to the vari
GUS towns. Wenatchee has a subur
ban population of 1000.
The Cheney State bank, organized
20 months ago, has been converted
into a national bank, and will begin
business tomorrow as the Security
National bank of Cheney.
. Oscar Hicks, employed on the farm
of Nat Bryant, is at the Pullman hospi
tai in a critical condition, the result
of fall from the hay NOW of the
Bryant barn to the floor beneath. In
falling Hicks struck on a platform
lighting astride of it, and he received
injuries which may prove fatal. Moth
ing is known Of any relatives of the
injured man.
IDAHO EVENTS.
Almost 1000 school children were
the guests recently of the Red Collar
: Line officials for a ride On tho lal.s