The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-04-13
VI sHINeToN NOTES.

Mrs. Ruth Coston of Spokane will be
101 years old Saturday.
The battleship Oregon Is at Seattle,
where she will undergo repairs.
Extensive improvements are to be
made in the roads leading into Colfax.
Governor Mead has returned home
after several weeks visit in Califor-
mia.
Citizens of Seattle are organizing d.
rect primary leagues in every ward in
that city.
The Prosser school bond election to
vote $4,000 for a new brick building |
was carried by vote of IS to 30.
Archibald r. Voliva, one of the best
known bartenders in North Yakima, is
a first cousin of w. Glenn Voliva, who
has succeeded Dowie as a leader of the
sect.
Using stove poker as their only
tool, prisoners in the old Yakima coun-
ty Jail had started to dig to freedom.
Before ,ney had made much Roadway
they were detected.
The International Anticigarette
league is sending to Spokane its gen.
eral superintendent, Rev. Wallace r.
Struble, to engage in a crusade against
smoking by minors.
It is said that reckless Automobiles
who use the Tacoma public streets for
speeding will either have to run at a
slow speed while within the city limits
or suffer the penalty of arrest.
| Agent Jay Lynch of the Yakima In
dian reservation, has received an or
der from the Indian bureau to confis-
cate the drug stores on the reservation
which have been selling whisky to
| Indians.
| When inmates of state institutions
commit suicide and the coroner con-
ducts an inquest the coroner must be
paid by the county and not by the
state, according to an opinion rendered
by Attorney General Atkinson.
Archie Griffin, who escaped from the
Oroville jail recently and was reported
to have broken his neck by fall over
the cliff at McLaughlin's canyon, is
still alive and well ahead of the sher'
ifs posse on the Colville reservation
Information from all parts of the
Yakima valley point to record break
ing fruit crop in this section. Further
examination of the trees shows that
the apricot trees are the only ones
damaged to any appreciate extent by
the March freeze.
The new cruiser Washington, which
} has just been completed for the United
States government, is in readiness TO
. her speed trials, which will taxi
3 place during the week. The Washing
9 toms contract calls for a minimum
E speed Of % knots per hour.
: N. M. Cole, 6S years of age, fam
8 iliarly known as Mes" rancher, liV
= ing half a mile from the mouth of tn
: Little Spokane, 10 miles from Spokane
: has disappeared amid circumstance
g strongly suggestive of foul play. H
: has been missing from his cabin sine
Wednesday evening, March %.
t In order to break into the Elk lodg
= rooms in the fifteenth story of tn
n Alaska building, in Seattle, DARN
e burglar recently climbed up the fiji
It escape from the court to the top fioc
d and in that way gained easy entranc
9 He pried open the secretary's des
Ia and took about $50, overlooking $50
= which was few inches from tn
# smaller sum.
= Two batallions of colored trooI
d with regimental headquarters and tn
D. band for Fort Wright, at Spokane,
If the latest.
Is The sheep on the mountain range
j. are particularly fat and the wool e
s. ceptionally fine this spring. Thong
~ the winter was no milder than usua
the sheep came through it in goc
shape, and the losses were few. &c
w. Lowden of Loomis lost but one ev
): out of flock of 2O5O head, and the e
- perience of other stockmen was sill
III liar. 1t is estimated that there will
Us a CROP of 10000 pounds of high graz
ne wool from Okanogan county this shea
Oh ing.