The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1904-02-05
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-culiings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
There is not a case of smallpox at
Spokane at present.
On account of the prevalence of
diptheria the directors have closed the
public schools at Tekoa.
After February / until further notice
most of Odessa business houses will
close their places of business at p. m.
Walla Waua's fifth annual poultry
show opened Tuesday morning with
the largest display Of fine fowls ever
seen in that city.
The state grain commission will
establish dockage system for the
state of Washington and will have
it in effect for next years crop.
Charles w. Grant, who for seven
years has been secretary of the state
BOARD of control, has resigned and will
go into business IN North Yakima.
Changes have been ordered in
number of school buildings at Spokane
They are ordered to render the
buildings safer for egress in case of
ire.
Some Prescott business men and
farmers are trying to revive interest
in the irrigation and power project
started there some time ago, but now
lacking capital.
Spokane's exodus of vice has begun
in, nct
outpouring lately of the women who
have been occupying the properties Of
the vice landlords.
The weather throughout the Palouse
country is springlike and if it con-
tinues warm a few days more plows
will be started in the western part
of Whitman county. g
The pension claim of Charles H.
through to settlement. The claim
ant received accrued pension to the
amount of over $1,000.
William M. Clemenson of CLARK ston.
Richard Cornell of Odessa, Fl. @. Bill
ger of Gle Elum and w. P. Ward of
| Rosalia, Oscar G.. Truax of Tekoa,
have been confirmed as postmasters.
| Sixty single mil employees who are
on strike at Bellingham have reported
to State Labor Commissioner William
Blackman that the strike, if unsuccess'
full, presages general cut in mill en-
| ploye wages throughout the state.
R. G. McCroskey has bought 70
acres of land located just south of
Garfield, from J. G. Lawrence, for
$40 per acre. Mr.. McCroskey prev
iously owned 1850 acres almost sur
rounding Garfield.
Orders have been received at Hill.
yard that, beginning Monday, the men
in the blacksmith shops, the boiler
shops and the machine shops of the
| Great Northern will work nine hours
day, instead OF 10 hours.
At recent meeting of the stock.
holders of the Lincoln County Fair
association, Peter Leipham, president
of the association, was elected mana
ger for the coming season. Fred
Baske was elected secretary and Louie
| D. Todd assistant secretary.
Mrs. Aria Thorp, wife of DR.. Charles
w. Thorp, died at Spokane Sunday
Death followed an operation for ap
pendicitis. Mrs. Thorp was formerly
Miss Arta Cody, eldest daughter OF
Mrs. George R. Andrus, one of
Washington's pioneer residents and
in spite of her advanced years one
of the most active Sunday school and
church workers in the state, died
suddenly at Tacoma recently from
pleurisy at the age of 80 years.
Members of the Washington state
delegation have received invitations
from James j. Hill to attend the launch
ing of the steamship Dakota, now
building for the Great Northern Steam
ship Company, which takes place at
New London, Conn.,, February 6.
The burglar killed by Mayor Heintz
of Monroe, situate near Everett, was
Edward Sullivan, 20 years old, whose
parents live in Boston. Heintz heard
man in another room of the store
and ordered him out, and, without see
ing him, fired through the wall with
fatal effect. Walter Williams is un
der arrest as Sullivan's companion.
Buried under three tons of falling
earth, the body of little Ethel Gladys
Brown, was found recently by her
aunt, Mrs. McCloud. She had appar.
emily been playing at the foot OF
bank of clay on newly graded
street when the slide occurred that