The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1909-02-19
WASHINGTON NOTES

| uiiSSlouST, ueliNSleu tuS pl ihS4pt'i ou-
dress. The building is one OF the
| finest in the state.
| North Yakima-The annual report
| of the Horticultural Union shows
| that 264,920 packages of fruit were
| handled by it last season, an in
crease of 10000 over the previous
| year. The resources of the union
are over $4,000.
notwithstanding to figures Civ
en- out from the O. r. & n. station,
wheat shipments from Dayton and
the Turner extension for the past
week aggregate 100000 bushels, all
wheat consigned to Portland for ex-
port. Less than 10 per cent of the
wheat crop of Columbia county re-
| mains in the warehouses here.
Colville-It is believed here that
| William Kahl, German brewer, has
| been murdered at the lonely cabin
| on his homestead in the mountains.
He left Colville Christmas with a
winters supplies. A big splotch of
blood was found in front Of the
cabin door and all of the supplies
are missing. A search party is be-
! ing organized.
Washougal-The Clark County
| Bank of this city was entered by two
cracksmen Friday night, who with
| two shots of nitro-glycerine blew the
outer door of the safe open, but
| made so much noise that they wax
| ened half the town and promptly de-
camped before anyone saw them.
There is no clew to. the robbers.
| They secured nothing.
Aberdeen--By the accidental dis
charge of shotgun the baby of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Pope was killed and
| Mrs. Pope and two other children
| wounded, the children seriously,
| while family of Indians were 60
ing up the Quinault river. Pope is
| one of the best known Indians of
the Quinault reservation and is edu
| Gated and well-to-do. -
COlville-One hundred pairs of
Hungarian pheasants from Pennsyl-
vania have reached county Auditor
Joseph and are being given out to
farmers interested in stocking the
country with game. They were paid
for from a propagation fund. Large
numbers of Colorado trout are also
being brought in to stock various
streams Of the country.
Montesano-The case of ]. M.
Gould, of Satsop, against the Hewitt
Logging Company, for $27, 900 for
the death of his little 11-year-old
beneath the wheels of logging
train, has been non-suited in the
superior court. The accident oc-
Cured about eight months ago. The
case was non-suited on the grounds
of contributory negligence.
Seattle - The Michigan Pacific
Lumber Company, with a capital of
s1,500,00O, was organized in De-
troit last week, the bulk of the stock
being held by Michigan and Seattle
men. The company undertakes to
log and market 2,577, 100000 feet
of pine, spruce, cedar and hemlock
in a district located 80 miles west
of Vancouver and IL miles from Sc
attic.
Seattle-Representative Jones is
preparing for war with the forest
service unless that branch of the
government gives the people of the
Methow Valley square deal" Ever
since the Washington Forest reserve
was extended to include this we'll
known and heretofore quiet valley,
the settlers owning farms within it's
confines have endeavored to have the
valley eliminated from the reserve,
but so far without success.
Everett. w. Ellsworth, who
disappeared from Everett last Sep
TENDER and who had been given up
for dead by his family, has returned
| home with the report that he was
drugged on Everett waterfront,
shanghaied on board the lumber
schooner Morande and forced to
| make the trip to Australia. He
worked his way back to San Fran
cisco.
Seattle-Karl Armstrong, a Nome
operator, and two other wealthy
| Alaskans, have announced that they
will hang up purse of $4,000 for
a Marathon race between the great
| runners now before the public, in
Guiding Dorando, Longboat, Shrubb
and Hayes. The race, according to
their plans, will be pulled off here
| in May Seattle is to witness its
| first Marathon on Februry %, when
amateur runners of the Northwest
and California will contest on half
mile racetrack.
| demonstrating immense timber
holdings to assure future business
and also to look after valuable tide
| lands for terminals on the Tacoma
waterfront, a party of officers of the
| Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Company, together with prominent
| lumbermen of Chicago, are in this
city. A conference has been held
with local lumbermen, and it is I'M
| derstood the railroad will take over
5OO,OOO,OO0 feet of timber lying
along the Tacoma Eastern railroad
and the Nisqually river.
| Port Townsend-An aid to ship
| ping of the North Pacific that is