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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
6
John P. Pearson aged 21 drowned last night at 10 o clock in the reservoir below the Hanford Canal dam. The body was taken aboard the Steamer Gem and will be shipped to his home in Moscow Idaho for interment. A brother and joint Hanford land owner will accompany the remains.
The Good Roads Association met last Saturday discussing work and future plans. Sheriff A G McNeill represented Prosser and George E Finley with Miller A Cooper represented Finley. A Finley list of 51 members was filed with the secretary. The next meeting is set for August Std and a branch association was formed at Prosser.
Valley residents gathered with shovels to repair river road from Mounsey ranch to the West side of town. They filled holes with moist earth to create lasting patches and ease driving on the river road.
White Bluffs beat Kennewick in a pitchers’ duel last Sunday. The game remained scoreless through six innings as Heart shut down the home team while Jewett of Kennewick.allowed a few late hits before the finish.
Local rifle club members under Postmaster J Scott dig a pit west of town and raise an embankment to stop bullets, preparing for the first target practice.
The ladies of the M. E. Church announce a lawn social at Wick Amom next Wednesday evening inviting all ages. Ice cream will be served. Also for sale 3 dozen Plymouth Rob hens and 1 portable oven with 120 foot capacity. W. A. Hawer.
M. Lockerby president of the First International Bank arrived from Portal to announce the bank will open next week. Vault and permanent fixtures have been completed. interior work will proceed immediately.
J N Crosby files for re election for commissioner from the Rat Uesnake district after an error led to his name being omitted from a printed list.
Photographer Gene Gravenslund will not be in his studio on Saturday disrupting usual appointments and photography sessions for the day.
S T Laird and Rufus Fullerton traveled to Seattle early this week on business. D O Ghormely, synodical missionary, visited en route to Hover and will dedicate the First Presbyterian church in White Binuffs tomorrow. H W Deagranges returned from the Palouse on business. E B McConahy and family are visiting Fay and Mrs Dean this week. McConahy is general agent for the Chicago and Great Western Bay at Kansas City and plans to inspect his Sunnyside ranch with Mr Dean.
The platform endorses anti injunction measures and labor rights, calls for eight hour day, workers' compensation, and Department of Labor expansion. It urges tariff cuts, free articles competing with trusts, and immediate wood pulp and timber tariff relief. It backs postal savings banks, banking reform, rate regulation, direct election of senators, and expansion of waterways and navy. It condemns imperialism in the Philippines, supports income tax, civil service enforcement, grazing rules by states, Asiatic immigration limits, and territorial rights for Alaska and Porto Rico. It also promotes a stronger merchant marine without new burdens and favors territorial governance for the territories.
Melwood Kemmaster a 17 year old San Francisco girl dressed as a boy to seek work and meals on dining cars. She was arrested in Omaha on vagrancy charges. The police judge after confirming the disguise urged her to return to her home and wear her own clothes. She broke down and agreed to go back home.
Portland markets list Wheat prices for Club red Russian bluestem Valley from 82 to 86 cents per bushel Barley Feed rolled 24.50 to 28.50 Oats No 1 white 26.50 gray g2c Hay Timothy Willamette Valley fancy 15 ordinary 12 Eastern Oregon 17.50 mixed 15 alfalfa 12 Butter extra 25 fancy 24 Eggs 23 24c Hops 1907 crop 5 6%c Wool Valley 10 16%c tb Eastern Oregon 8 11 6c Mohair Choice 18 18%c
Seattle markets list prices for Wheat Bluestem 89c a bushel Oats 26.50 to 27.50 Barley 25 to 26 Hay Eastern Washington 15 to 17 per ton Puget Sound 10 to 12 per ton Wheat hay 12.50 per ton Alfalfa 9.50 to 10 per ton Butter Washington creamery 25c Ranch 20c Oregon 24c Eggs Selected local 22 to 24c per dozen Eastern and Pegon 22c per dozen
A Rapid City report says Marion Frank Bright, alias Marion Frank Dragoo of Everett Washington, was shot in a corn field near Imlay after planning a quiet divorce and marriage to a local woman. Ernest B. Randall, Bright’s former employee and Tacoma born, is jailed on murder charges as investigators link a long history of theft and passion to the crime.
Spokane-Great Northern No 3 was halted by a lone robber one and a half miles east of Naples Idaho. A section crew acted as decoy and the gunman escaped after a duel with Conductor A M Matthews. Passengers panicked as shots rang out but no one was hurt and a dynamite stick was set off beside a car.
Under Edith DeL Jarmuth and Emma Smith DeVoe, a major suffrage effort begins in Seattle to educate and organize for a constitutional equal suffrage amendment. The drive aims to pressure the coming legislature and to showcase Washington as a leader in the national movement, with the state convention opening in October 1909.
A verbal option until August 1 grants F A Vanderlip vice president of City National Bank of New York control of Exchange National Bank of Spokane stock owned by Charles Sweeney and Sweeney Investment Co. No money is paid yet and final terms depend on price agreement. Sweeney valued stock at 180 a share about 600000 total, optioned to Vanderlip about 100000 below.
Tousick, owner of the Walla Walla Steam Laundry and city council member, wins the mayoralty on the Democratic ticket by a heavy vote. Police Chief Davis is re elected, D Keefe wins Street Commissioner seat over H H Crampton who held the post for years.
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