The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-11-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.


Ralph Doan, 16 years old, son of L. |
A. Doan of Endicott, while hunting for
ducks on the Palouse river, was &C
cidentally killed by the discharge of
his shotgun.
One of the most UP to date churches
In the northwest is the new Christian
church, just receiving finishing
touches at Walla Walla. The total
cost will be $4,000.
A poultry show will be held in Spo-
kane next January.
Spokane may get supreme court ses-
sions.
The executive council of the Wash
ington State Bankers association has
taken preliminary steps toward the
framing of a new state banking law.
Superior Judge Albertson of Seattle
has rendered an oral decision sustain
ing the legal validity of the proposed
issuance Of 100000 in King county
bonds to reimburse James A. Moore
after he has constructed the proposed
Lake Washington canal
Mrs. Maud Crefield. widow of the
notorious Holy Roller" Cref1eld, muir
dered by George Mitchell in Seattle,
who in turn was murdered by Esther
Mitchell, his sister, Is on the verge
of nervous collapse. Mrs. Crefield Is
held in the county jail in Seattle as
prisoner with Esther Mitchell.
Governor Mead has announced that
he will name citizens committees re-
spectively to visit the state school
for deaf and blind at Vancouver and
the state reform school at Chehahs
to investigate and make suggestions.
/ Strong pressure brought to bear by
the Washington farmers has done
/ much to induce the state of Oregon
to continue the operation of the por.
tage road along the Columbia river at
Cello.
Chester Thompson, accused of muir
der in the first degree for the killing
of G. Meade Emory on July Z, will be
tried in Tacoma, the county seat OF
Pierce county. Judge Frater has
granted change of venue asked fol
by Thompson.
u Free letter carriers will soon be in
stalled at Ellensburg.
Il. Wagner, one of the most extern
| sive fruit growers in the Wenatchet
valley, is in Australia marketing sill
, carloads of fancy apples which h
shipped from here few weeks ago.
Burglars recently entered the Ore
, gon Railroad & Navigation depot a
Garfield and dynamited the big rail
road safe, blowing it into small pieces
! They secured little cash.
The body Of an unknown man wa
found by the Great Northern section
gang near Winchester.
Action has been taken by the boar
/. of county commissioners to advanc
Pierce county from the third to tn
= first class.
A telegram to Olympia from Wall
3 Walla censures the board of contrc
q for not making more purchases of jut
q and stating that farmers of easter
II Washington would lose from $4,000
q to $750,000 this season" because of tn
). shutdown of the jutemill.
n The new town of Harvard, % mile
east of Palouse ON the Washington
"a Idaho & Montana railroad, has bee
"a given postoffice by the department
nil Henry Vincent, one Of the most e,
h. tensive wheatgrowers in the Wall
" Walla valley, mas acquired the entii
10 equipment of farm machinery and liy
l.. stock owned by John Hoffman. toget
,s er with lease of his $500 acre ranc
IS ON Eureka fat for six years, with q
option for 10.
ts w. H. Brown, aged rs, one Of Wal
n Walla's early pioneers, is dead at
~ home in Walla Walla. He died of hea
or failure.
q. The Building Trades assembly
ke Tacoma has decided TO adopt Il
ot "card rule" on all building operation
y. in Tacoma, as means of assisting Il
A. striking plumbers. This action W
nd result in union men refusing to wo
4. where plumbers are employed who
- not possess q card