The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-03-19
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A railroad agent has been installed
at lrby, six miles east of Krupp.
George 7. Crane Of Spokane has pur-
chased the Brewster nurseries of w. j.
Doust, also OF Spokane, for $4,000.
Plans for the new $4U,OUO knights of
Pythias building which Ii to be erected
at Spokane are nearly completed.
The jury in the case OF Joshua Klein
at Tacoma brought in compromise YER
dict Of guilty of an assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to do bodily
harm, and recommended him to the
clemency Of the court.
Water was tapped this week in the
fifth artesian well on the Blalock fruit
farm at Walla Walla. 1t flows about
5000 gallons a minute and is larger
than other wells sunk on the faum. The
fountain pitches eight feet into the air
in stream 10 inches in diameter.
Fire in the Oroville Lumber company
stable destroyed the stable, all the
dressed lumber, 100000 shingles and 10
tons of hay. The barn and contents
were valued at $4,000, with no insur-
ance. The Office and livery barn saved
by the chemical engine and bucket bri-
gade.
Thirteen spars for Emperor Will
liam IS new racing yacht have been
shipped to Hamburg from Hoquiam.
J. B. Yerger, an Oregon lumberman,
has purchased the plant Of the insolvent
Everett Lumber company at Everett
from the receiver for $4,000, and oper-
atoms at the long idle mill are to be
resumed Immediately.
Emmett Bagley, patient at the
Steilacoom insane asylum, suicided re-
Gently.
Word has just come from Washing
ton, D. c., that the reclamation service
has taken action with regard to al
legged locators, who have been locating
homeseekers on land withdrawn from
entry at North Yakima. The machin-
cry of the government has been set to
work and the practice probably will
be stopped very quickly.
Patsy Jonas, well known sprinter,
was arrested recently at Colville, on
the charge of having robbed the safe
of the Colville feed store of $50. He
Immediately confessed to the robbery.
Annie Jennie, an Indian, living with
in few miles of Renton, Wash, where
she was born, died last week after
diving 100 years.
A company has been organized to
build cold storage plant at Lind.
Whitman county's fourth grand jury
since 1899, convened by order Of Judge
Garfield March 2, Saturday made it's
final report and was discharged. AS the
result of the deliberations 80 true bills
were found.
The Mabton siphon, which has been
under construction for nine months, is
finished. This siphon is numbered
among the great engineering feats of
the west. The water is taken from the
;Sunnyside canal and runs on a gradual
incline almost three miles to the Yak
ina river. There it makes a sudden
drop of 1875 feet. The water is then
run under the Yakima river, a distance
of 1870 yards, with a pressure Of tons
on the walls of the siphon. The ex-
posed parts are all constructed of &C.
ment pipes, five feet in diameter. The
completion of this siphon brings large
tract of irrigable land under cultivation.
At recent meeting of the Yakima
Horticultural union, President w. N.
Irish was elected general overseer and
Ray Paddock sales manager. The Off
GERS were elected because of the resigna-
ton of f. E. Sampson, general manager,
who leaves here April to become man
ager of the Okanogan Fruit union Of
Vernon, B. c.
The eleventh legislature authorized
the expenditure or disbursement of 49,
565,29O, as compared with 1884 $40 ap-
propriated for all purposes by the legis-
In addition, this legislature has author
lied the sale of the capitol land grant
for the erection of a new capitol at
Olympia according to plans which it
was estimated in 1895 would have cost
a million. While no recent estimate
has been made, it is probable that the
cost of the building now would exceed
a million and half and perhaps reach
two millions.
Judge yesterday of Tacoma issued
the call for grand jury to meet Mon
day, April S, to investigate the. jamie
son charges against Mayor Linck and
Chief of Police Duley in connection
with the operation of the restricted dis
trict and to conduct an inquiry into
municipal affairs in general.
A. Horton, a poor man, recent ar
rival at Tacoma from the east, has re-
ceived the news that his share of SIS
ter's estate was $22 900 in cash, which
would be Immediately sent him.