The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-01-20
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ance.
F. W. Ralston, travelling for a whole
sale drug house having Offices in New
York and Baltimore, was found dead
in his room at Seattle. Death by NOR
phine poisoning was indicated.
A free employment ONCE has been
opened in Spokane.
M. Gabel, charged with embezzlina
the funds Of a grain company, has con,
fessed his crime at Davenport and re
ceived a sentence Of one year in the
penitentiary.
For the second time Jerry Mccarthy
q. Spokane and Jim Burrows Of Nova
Scotia fought 20 rounds to q draw al
spokane Friday night.
The Palouse Flour mill has been
awarded a gold medal and diploma for
their -four exhibit at the st. Louis ex
position.
Senator Ankeny is mentioned for the
craftsmanship of the senate commit,
tee on irrigation and reclamation Of
arid lands.
James Clark and John GROCER were
severly burned, the latter seriously,
while vanishing a large vat in the
st. Louis brewery, in E%llensburg.
Produce growers around Spokane
will go before the city council at an
early date and urge 1t to establish q
city market.
During the last year the four ma.
tional banks of Spokane and the Spo.
kane & Eastern Trust company have
increased their deposits 81, SAC, 343.71
Word was received at Wilbur of
the death of William H. Penix at Vir.
ginia City, New, on the 7th Of this
month and his burial there on the 9Th.
The Spanish American war veterans
of Spokane will celebrate the battle of
Santa Ana, which took place Febru-
ary 4, s, 6 and formally opened the
campaign in the Philippines.
The public domain of the state of
Washington is rapidly becoming small.
Ter and the opportunity to secure good
agricultural and timber lands is grow
ing correspondingly less.
The monument of the late Governor
John R. Rogers was unveiled in
Olympia Thursday at 2 o'clock. Ad-
dresses were delivered by Governor
Mead, Ex-Governor Mcbride and others.
The next boxing contest under the
auspices Of the Spokane Amateur
Athletic club will take in the 8. A. A. c.
gymnasium about Feb. Is, between
Jerry Mccarthy of Spokane and Jack
Reilly of California.
Palouse.-By a quick dash to the
rescue, George Merriman saved his s
year old daughter, Beulah from the
talcns or a huge eagle, which twice
swooped down on the child in an at.
tempt to carry her away.
The Spokane Horticultural society
will meet in the chamber of commerce
rooms in Spokane on February Is.
The subject of spraying will be taken
up and treated by men who have had
practical experience in the mater.
The heirs of Edmund Sylvester, own
er of the original townsite of Olympia,
have commenced preliminary proceed
ings leading up to an attempt to Sc.
cure title to the 10 acre tract of land
upon which stands the foundation for
the million dollar capitol building once
started in that city.
Engineer Kelley, whose home is in
Spokane, was killed and a brakeman,
whose name is yet unlearned, was seri.
ously If not fatally injured, when the
work train on which they were en-
ployed ran into a handcar at a point
between Danville and Curlew, on the
Washington & Great Northern rail-
road.
J. R. Woodley, a Spokane married
man, is in the Seattle Jail accused of
enticing a 10 year old girl to leave her
home in that city and become an in.
mate Of a disorderly house in the Sc
attic restricted district. The girl, who
is Miss Mona Smith, daughter of a
Spokane drayman, is also in jail and
will be held as a witness against him.