The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-11-30
NEWsOFNORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
a Few interesting items Gathered
From our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
4 Place--Fail Trade Is Good.
WAsHlNcroN MOTIFS.

Shortage in the milk supply Is, one
CT the serious problems that Is con-
fronting Spokane dairymen.
It has been carefully estimated that
at least 1900 acres OF fruit trees will
be put in by the farmers in and close
around Brewster.
II Is reported gambling dens are
again running wide open In Tacoma.
Not the slightest effort is being MADE
10 conceal the fact.
Jacob Johnson, Northern Pacific
Waterman at Toppenish, was fright
fully mangIed at North Yakima re-
Gently by being run over by freight
train.
The State asylum at Medical Lake
has advertised to receive bids for 2700
cords of wood for the asylum. The
bids win be opened Saturday, Decem-
Der 8. at 2 p. m.
= The state superintendent announces
that 1T teachers certificates had been
issued to Spokane applicants and 16 to
Stevens county applicantstas result
Of; the recent examinations.
Chinese and Japanese are to be pro-
tectedI in Tacoma hereafter. Judge
Linck recently gave q white man and
. negro 80 days ON the chain gang for
beating Chinese restauranteurs.
"A, Fire in the interior of the Grand
opera house at Seattle recently caused
$1,000 damage. II is believed to have
started from lighted match or a
cigarette dropped by stage hands.
Special memorial services were held
I'm the First Presbyterian church in
Seattle Sunday afternoon IN honor Of
the victims Of the steamer Dix die,
aster. Many prominent divines assist
cd In the services.
Conductor F. n. Hatton of the Ida
no division Of the Northern Pacific
fell from the top OF boxcar recently.
while his train was pulling into the
siding, at SeIah, 2S miles east of Ell
iensburg. His injuries win not prove
fatal.
DR.. Levi l., Sutton, a farmer and
practicing physician, and one of the
flrst settlers In that part of the coun-
cry, died at his home seven and one
half miles east of Hatton, recently. He
was born In Orleans county, New
York, September /. 1885.
J. N. tompkins, president and found
OF of the Farmers & Mechanics bank
Of Cashmere and Wenatchee. died sud-
denly last Sunday In Seattle. He was
Sc years Of age, and until few hours
before death had been in what he. be-
lieved to be excellent health.
Governor Mead has summarily re-
moved Oil Inspector J. L. Canutt Of
Colfax from office for misconduct and
unfaithfulness to the duties of the
Office" and appointed f., A. Clark of
Enohomish county, who has been dep
uty inspector, to the POSITION.
@. B. Dunning. department COM
mander Of the department of Wash
ington and Alaska of the Grand Army
Of the Republic. accompanied by Ad-
jutant General William H. Wiscomb,
has returned from visit which they
were making to the posts Of western
Washington.
!. Major A., N. Brown, Governor Mead's
private, secretary, is working to se-
cure state rogues' gallery to be used
by the police departments Of the state,
says a west side report. The gallery
win probably be kept in Seattle when
completed, and pictures will be added
to It constantly.
After thorough inspection County
Commissioner Meter of Tacoma es-
Inmates that 1t will cost $4,000 to re-
store bridges and roads of Pierce
county to the condition they were in
before the floods. This does not in
clude the loss In the Stuck river val
ley, where the diversion Of the White
river has caused endless havoc.
A trio of cracksmen crawled through
a window Of Blackburn & Burrows
general store at Ridgefield recently.
unlocked the door, rolled 700 pound
safe two blocks and half down the
street into cut, punched Off the COM
bination, blew the safe open with
black powder and got safely away
with $500 In money.
Tacoma has 40 saloons, exactly the
same number as before the present
saloon ordinance went into eject
about SIX months ago. There Is APP
parentIy no tendency to decrease the
number, Of the increased fee. from
$500 to $500. as the opponents Of the
measure urged at the time of its pas
sage.
January will be busy month in
Pullman. There will be three big con-
ventions under the auspices of the
washington State college. The first
OF these will be the annual conven-
ton Of the Washington State Bee
keepers association. January Z, and
continue two days.
beginning Tuesday. January 8, the
Inland Registered Stock Breeders as.
sociation will hold its annual session
and i've stock show In the college
chapel and pavilion. respectively
Wednesday morning. January o, the
stock show and sale viii be held.
Thursday morning, January 10. the