The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-01-23
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES
Recent Happenings In This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

of ROsalia took place Saturday.
A Japanese invasion of the business
district is apparently threatened in
Yakima.
Spokane states that he will be a can
didate for governor.
Joseph Rogers, a wealthy retired
rancher of Walla Walla, died recent
ly in San Francisco.
The new wagon bridge across the
Snake river between Pasco and Bur
bank will be completed by September
first.
YAKIMA.-Mrs. Ella Bounds, wife
of Pleas A. Bounds, fell down a stair
to the basement floor Of their
home in Yakima recently and was
fatally injured.
Acting Governor Howell recently
designated Sunday, January %, as
law and order Sunday, and the week
following as law and order week
throughout the state.
The 1O-cent street far fare, which
the street railway desired to put into
effect this week at Tacoma vas sus
pended for 60 days by the state public
service commission at Olympia
The new coal near the Detillion
bridge on the Spokane river, which
is being developed by the Chinook
Coal company, is producing a good
grade of so-called blacksmith coal.
Charles Hartman, age 4S, a butcher
of Heisler, Alberta, died recently at
Spokane of sleping sickness, the third
victim to be claimed by the disease
in Spokane within the last month.
Ira Honefinger, who came to Olym
pia from Spokane as a member Of
the house of representatives several
years ago, has resigned his position
as chief of the election division of the
secretary of states office.
New cane sugar will retail for 1917
cents a pound in Seattle. the King
county fair price committee has de
cided. Later the price may toucl
1917 cents. The committee thinks the
retailers should be allowed a profit
of 3 cents a pound.
Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, 50 year.
old. probably was injured fatally, Mrs
Alice H. Potter received serious
bruises and six others suffered minol
hurts when a furnace in an apartment
house in Seattle exploded Saturday
partially wrecking the building.
Membership in the l. w. w. wa!
declared a felony by the verdict O
a Thurston county jury recently
when Frank Hastings and Elias Mat
son, members of the organization
were found guilty under the crimina
s~yndicalism act for mere member
ship in the an%archistic order.
The weather was so cold in Decem
Der that aphis and scale, two OF tn
fruit pests around Walla Walla were
were killed in many instances. Hor
ticultural Inspector e. G. Wood say
he found the apples uninjured aroun'
Dayton. In Garfield county the peacl
crop was cut about so per cent
After listening for three days t
the reports of the engineers investi
eating the Methow-O kanogan irriga
ton project, the state reclamation
board deferred action. Financial pos
sibilities and the crop proposition est
mate will be reported upon by tn
directors of the irrigation district.
Hotels in Spokane are booking larg'
numbers of reservations already TO
three coming conventions, the hard
ware mems meeting, the second an
nual automotive show and the liv'
stock meeting to be held during tn
coming fortnight. The hardware NEE
starts January 20, the automotiv
show, January %, and the live stool
show, January 26.
C. e. Brown, a resident of Chatta
roy, Wash, and employed by a lum
Der company, was instantly killed re
Gently when he jumped from a tran
car loaded with lumber to som
boards which he had placed along
side the track to be used as a plat
form for piling lumber. The board
gave way under his weight and h
fell about IA feet to the ground.
A total of 11,750 tons of fruit Wen
into byproducts during the last sex
son in the Wenatchee district. O
this amount 6750 tons were utilize
by the byproduct factories in the di'
trict and 5000 tons were shipped GU
The total shipments of Gull apple
were 252 cars. The average pric
received by the grower for these Gull
is estimated to be about $12.50 a tol
or about $3.50, 000.