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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1906
Page
3
A collage of regional notes reports on gambling closure in Sandpoint power projects in Bear Lake Idaho and Moscow Idaho, political figures in federal circles, farm and railroad issues in Montana Washington and Idaho, accidents including a fatal rifle incident, and local civic actions from Spokane Prosser Tacoma and beyond with several town incidents and developments.
The report names John Hudson and Samuel Webb as involved. Webb was shot twice by Hudson with one bullet through Webb’s wrist and the other into his left breast. Webb died after about five hours of illness. the cause remains unknown.
Reports from Oregon detail J B Johnson killed by dynamite near Head river. Two Japanese workers Furui and Omura blown up at Hilliard ranch near Boring. F G Naylor estate valued at 8000 after murder in Pendleton. Infant dies from heart failure in Milton. George Blodgett shoots Miss Alice Gordon identified as Mrs Alice Mulligan in Portland lodging house. Blodgett held. his family in Kalispell Montana.
More than 300 German, Swedish, Norwegian and Polish groups held a mass meeting in Chicago urging the city council to let the mayor issue temporary club liquor permits and seeking state relief and home rule for amusements. The overflow crowd numbered about 20,000 outside the First Regiment Armory, with a parade along Michigan Avenue and disruptions to streetcar traffic. Samuel Alschuler spoke, defending lawful enjoyment and urging reform of dramshop licenses.
Melting snow and high water caused the Wyoming and Northwestern work train to plunge into a stream near Natrona, twenty miles west of Casper. Six men are confirmed dead including foreman Charles Noll, and twenty one were injured. The wreck occurred as the train crossed the stream with the engine remaining on track while cars dropped into the ravine. The coach carried Austrian and Italian laborers and was crushed after being struck by a following water car. No single party blamed. the train was moving slowly under cautions for bad track.
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee approves the Ankeny Jones bill to grant 350 acres at the Spokane and Columbia rivers junction to Davenport Washington based Big Bend Electric Railway Company for a townsite and terminal purposes as part of the Indian appropriation bill.
The president signs legislation to open the south half of the Colville Indian reservation to white settlement. All lands will be surveyed plotted and appraised with opening possibly two to three years away and a survey likely to begin next summer.
John Hays Hammond the third a noted mining engineer of New York is ill in San Francisco with acute pneumonia threatening his health weeks after traveling.
Manager Petrich of the Spokane theater announces ongoing bookings for the summer season with a lineup of attractions to fill the schedule.
The Reno post of the G A R raised 948.75 for the monument fund. Oregon Railroad Navigation Co announces a new potato rate of thirty cents per cwt from Spokane to San Francisco. Washington Supreme Court lowers the longshoreman's leg valuation in the Melse vs Alaska Commercial case from 20,000 to 14,000 in King County.
The Spokane venue lists April 1 2 Babes in Toyland 3 4 Merry Maidens 5 6 Beauty and Beast Primrose Minstrels 10 11 New Century Girls 12 onward Christian Blanche Walsh Mascots Alberta Gallatin Heir to Hoorah Creston Clark My Wifes Family. Reserved seats via Joseph Petrich manager with prices 25c to 1 50 deposit required Sleeping Beauty and the Beast announced for April 5 6 7.
The musical extravaganza Babes in Toyland by Glen MacDonough with music by Victor Herbert comes to the Spokane theatre for two nights starting April 1. About 100 people are involved, including Ignacio Martinetti Katherine Bell Albertine Benson Gene Lunenska Maud Campbell Katherine Murray Ida Ward Gus Pixley Walter Schrode John F Ward Edward P Sullivan Robert Burns and James Wilson. Principal songs listed are Toyland Dont Cry Be Peep Put Down Six and Carry Two Floretta and My Castle in Spain.
The famed soprano Madame Calve joked about her English during a tour saying she has learned odd slang. She claimed to be from Missouri and slipped phrases like Twenty three you skidoo as part of a lighthearted quip.
Spokane readies for a busy summer with the Shirley Company at the Auditorium, a new Columbia stock venture, and Ada Rehan in light opera though she faces appendicitis. Miss Maude Adams escaped serious injury in New York when the curtain dropped during Peter Pan. Mme Nordica may lead Hammerstein’s Manhattan Opera House next season. Seattle property at Third Ave and Cherry St sold for 227000 to Stirrat & Goetz, after a 190000 deal a week earlier. Christine Nilsson, the Swedish nightingale, reputedly gambles heavily at Monte Carlo with a villa in Mentone nearby.
In Mullan Idaho after April 1 miners at the Snowstorm copper mine will work eight hours instead of ten. The mine produces 250 to 300 tons daily and will be the first in the Coeur d Alenes to adopt the eight hour system.
A mosaic of scientific notes and biblical debate spans tortoise life in the Galapagos, odor theory, high kite flights, hair growth in disease, dog ancestry, horse eye pigment, deep ocean life, charcoal gas absorption, Eden rivers and location. The piece blends natural history with scholarly conjecture.
Orientalists and top scripture scholars continue to debate the earthly paradise known as the Garden of Eden, with experts from various fields seeking the site and its true location.
A curious note on how people stumble in noble address with examples. Lady Dufferin was once addressed as Your Enormity in India, while Abyssinia sent a letter to The Queen of Kings and the Empress of the Red Sea. Queen Victoria’s Highland tenants greeted her simply with Come awain and sit down, Queen Victoria.
The excerpt compiles quick remarks from multiple sources including a family anecdote about Mamma Bobby and Papa, a publisher author exchange on royalties, and aphorisms from the Washington Star and Baltimore American about health and pursuits. It ends with a wry note on dust and autos.
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