The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-12-25
WASH oron ITEMS.

months.
There is a possibility that North
Yakima will suffer a shortage Of fuel
before long.
Judge John ]. McGilvra, one of Sc
attle's Oldest pioneers, is dead, at the
age Of rs years.
Stockmen OF the Big Bend are in
better spirits now than few weeks
ago, owing to the late rains.
Work at the state normal at Cheney
was suspended Wednesday afternoon,
to be resumed again January 4.
B. F. Gootch. wanted at Silver City
N. M, for the murder of Ross in the
fall of 1902, is under arrest at Everett
in the county Jail.
The armored cruiser New York and
the gunboat Bennington have left the
navy yard at Bremerton under rush Or
ders for San Francisco.
The new peddler's ordinance of Spo-
kane, excluding peddlers from the
downtown district in the fire limits,
was declared void by Spokane judge.
Barney O'Connor, brakeman on a
work train on the o. R. & N. was
killed recently four miles from Walla
Walla, by being crushed under the
train.
The official program Of the eleventh
annual meeting of the State Dairy
mems association to be held in North
Yakima, December 20, 80 and 81, 1903,
has been announced.
Attorneys for Cy Victor, who was
recently convicted in Davenport of the
murder of Charles Thennis, have filed
seven afidavits relative to the pend
ing motion for new trial.
Byron Larson. the youngest son of
c. F. Larson, Of Republic, got lost on
Loon mountain, at the head Of Nine
Mile creek, recently and froze to death.
Ills body was recovered by searchers.
Arrangements for the entertainment
of the farmers institute to be held in
Walla Walla In February is announc-
ed. The Walla Walla poultry show
will be held in conjunction with the in
stitute.
The boiler in the Ritzville electric
plant sprung a leak recently and the
town is now in darkness.
Fire recently destroyed a row Of
five small wooden houses on Main
street at Colfax, commonly known as
the Ellsworth row. The loss on the
buildings is $4,000. with $500 insur-
ance.
A deed with stated consideration
of 100000 was filed for record recent
ly from Fred Setter to the Evergreen
State Fruit company and conveys the
fruit orchards on Moran prairie hand
led by the company.
With the forwarding of 800 by the
people of Olympia to the secretary
Of the Rogers memorial, committee
the entire amount of $4,000 sought to
be raised to erect monument to the
late governor was completed.
Ray Gilbert, freight conductor
whose run was from Ellensburg tc
Pasco, fell from a, car below NORTH
Yakima recently and was killed, hav
ing both legs cut of. He is nephew
of General Superintendent Gilbert.
The new directory OF Walla Walls
shows a total Of 1890 names Of indi
vidual residents of the city, names o.
firms and duplicates being omitted
| By the use of the multiplier IA thu
population of the city is shown to b
12.475.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
H. Shively has closed the books o
the department for the year. whicl
shows the receipts for 1902 we're $68
1S4.11. while the receipts for 1908 ar
1$s6.57s.49. showing an increase of SIS
394.38.
A dam on the Coweman river.
tributary of the Cowlitz. collapsed re
Gently, entailing loss of $4,000 t
the logging company which operate
at that point. Three men were on tn
dam when it started to give way. bu
they escaped injury.
An Olympia paper prints q story t
the effect that recently tremendou
landslide occurred on Mount Rainie
involving the highest peak of tn
mountain, reducing its height and con
pletely changing the configuration {
the southeastern slope.
Considerable interest Is manifesto
in the forthcoming election recent
ordered by the county commissioner
to determine whether or not the tow
of Starbuck, with its 400 inhabitant
shall be incorporated into q town
the fourth class.
. Ernest Stalberg broke both arm
by falling from a horizontal bar
the gymnasium of the Young Men
club at Davenport. Young Stalbel