The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-02-19

NEWSNOTES
ITEMS CULLED FOR OUR
BUSY READERS.
ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN
MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON
AND WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Wenatcnee now mas 6oVo popudIAon'
Scores of counterfeit SIS and $40 gold
pieces bearing 1901 date have appeared
in Seattle the last few days.
From present appearances Newport
will have two electric railway lines
within the next year or two. One OF
these will make Connection with Spo-
kane and the other tap the rich Priest
lake country in the northern end of
Bonner county, Idaho.
The annual report of the Yakima
Horticultural union shows that 1920
packages Of fruit were handled by the
union the past season. 1t is an increase
Of 10000 over last year. Owing to
lower prices, the value of the business
was $21, 663 less than in 1907.
Governor Hay has signed house bill
No. 2 and announced the appointment
of M. L. Clifford of Tacoma as superior
court Judge to fill the position created
by the bill.
For the organization Of grand jury
to supplement the investigation of the
state bar association committee into
the alleged misconduct of former Su-
preme Justice Milo A. Root and M. j.
Gordon, attorney for the Great North
ern railway and former chief justice
Of the state supreme court, an order
was issued in Spokane county by Judge
J. D. Hinkle, presiding judge of the
superior court, and the names of the
prospective grand jurors were drawn
by the jury commissioners.
Grain and feed prices in Whitman
county are steadily advancing. All rec
ord prices are broken. Bluestem wheat
is wanted for milling purposes, 81 per
bushel being offered. Warehousemen
say the total amount of wheat owned
by farmers in the county is about 49,
600 bushels, while the warehouses con-
tain from 10000 to 100000 bushels,
which is being called for at rapid
rate and may not last 10 days.
Alexander Anderson, chief deputy
state grain inspector, says statistics
show that this state produced 41,OOO,.
900 bushels of wheat last year, against
26,000,000 this year, and that q recent
canvass by J. W. Arrasmith, the chief
grain inspector, would indicate that
there is little wheat in outlying dis
tricts.
How much wheat is held by Seattle
grain and mill men for exorbitant
prices is question asked many times
by millers and grain dealers. One firm
boasts of having sold, only two days
ol,olr
to Spokane milling firm at $1.1s a
bushel. Bluestem is freely offered at
SLIT bushel.
Four inches of snow fell in Tacoma
Saturday night.
With five weeks gone and but three
and half weeks remaining of the 18th
legislature, there have been 251 bills
introduced in the senate, of which sew
en- have become laws, and 276 intro
duced in the house, of which three are
laws.
P. R. Parks of Colville has been ap-
pointed postmaster at that place.
Mr.. Hunting, one of the largest
prune and apple growers near Chehalis,
says the prune crop was not hurt by
the cold weather in January, as far as
he could ascertain.
With the extension of the Idaho &
Washington Northern railroad to Meta
line, WASH, and the certainty Of the
development Of an electric power plant
with 10000 horsepower by the Lehigh
Valley Cement company of Pennsyl-
vania, the Metaline mining district,
which was known to be rich in lead
ore before the discovery Of the Occur
d 'Alene deposits, is assured of railroad
facilities this summer.