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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
7
A broad survey notes incidents across Washington Idaho Montana and Oregon ranging from fires and accidents to political moves and economic shifts. Highlights include a Spokane telephone count a Seattle jail for boys construction use of Chuckanac sandstone for Seattle federal building and a plan to erect 9000 acres of timber lands near Council Boise.
A sweeping weekly overview reports on political tensions in St. Petersburg, notable deaths including Mrs. Mary J. Carlisle and Judge Andrew Leamy, and a series of incidents from Chicago to Spokane. It notes rail and power industry concerns, labor strikes, and reactions to global cotton and economic issues, with brief market prices from Spokane and Tacoma and wheat values in Liverpool.
Harry Fisher of Garden Valley was accidentally killed by a bullet from his own gun. E. C. Lothrop marketed hogs in Lewiston at over 260 pounds each for $5.25 per hundred. A mammoth head of lettuce stands nearly three feet high and six feet in circumference.
John Anderson a Hood's Canal farmer near Union City Washington endured cancer and after buying ten gallons of whisky and a phonograph spent ten days drinking and listening to music before shooting himself in the heart. He was married to an Indigenous woman and left all his possessions to her.
The United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service will immediately take active control of the yellow fever situation in New Orleans, directing measures to contain the outbreak and protect public health.
Col R Leverings of Armour Institute Chicago reports the death of student Lovelard after a fatal fall from Mount Ypsilon summit. The incident occurred during a climbing attempt and ends a promising scholastic career.
A rapid blaze swept through Hoboken’s Lackawanna docks destroying two ferry boats, threatening waterfront piers including the Hamburg American and North German Lloyd structures, and damaging the immigration station. Estimated losses range from 400000 to 500000 with no lives reported. The Hopatcong ferry sank after the fire.
The report lists several incidents and transactions: the drowning of 10 year old Eugene Francis McCoy in the Grande Ronde river near La Grande. 19 year old Minn Dayton drowned in Seaside breakers. a Pine Street line Portland car robbery of $63 by two masked men. sale of Blue Mountain Springs in Grant county to R. E. Jacobs and W. W. Reise for about $20,000. riot in Blaine between Japanese and whites injuring a white man and four Japanese. two Munich scientists photograph the human heart between beats using Roentgen rays.
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