The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-06-01
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FalI Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
David E. Cloyd, principal of the spo-
kane high school, has formally accep-
ted the position for next year.
John L. Kaiser, pioneer of Whit
man county, aged SO years, dropped
dead recently at his home in Colfax.
The Walla Walla lodge of Elks at it's
last meeting took initial steps toward
the erection of home for the order.
George Meredith was struck by a
circus train as it was pulling from the
North Yakima depot and sustained in
juries that will result in his death.
]. H. Young has sold the Charles Ed
wards farm, of 800 acres, three miles
northwest of Colville, to David Phil
pott of Lind, for $20,250 cash.
The date of the meeting of the
Washington State Press association
has been fixed for July oath, 25th and
26th.
Richard Fredrickson, in an encoun-
ter with holdup man at Puyallup was
shot through the left shoulder. His
wound is serious. The holdup man es-
capped.
The Knights of Pythias in the state
of Washington are soon to have a
home where old and INDECENT knights
are to be cared for in their declining
years.
The fourteenth annual commence
ment program of the state normal
school at Cheney will begin Friday,
June LIST, and close on Wednesday,
June 9Th.
Robert Wilson has been paroled from
the state penitentiary by Governor
Mead. Wilson was sent from Cowlitz
county, in November, 1902, for 10 years
for robbery.
Some of the TOWNSHIP residents of
Toppenish are addressing a protest to
the real estate men requesting them
not to sell or lease property on the
townsite to negroes.
The digert of the laws of Washing
ton which has been compiled by Ar
thur Remington, the supreme court re-
porter, is believed to have been lost in
the San Francisco disaster.
Governor Mead has received and ac-
cepted the resignation of State Sena-
tor Walker A. Henry of Spokane coun-
ty, who has accepted the appointment
to the federal land office at Waterville.
| William Malcolm, who is charged in
Passaic, N. j., with embezzling $780,
600 of the funds of the Passaic Build
ing & Loan association, was arrested
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store where he has been in business
for four years.
At the banquet given at Spokane in
honor of the visiting members of the
Portland Commercial club, Theodore
B. Wilcox, chairman of the executive
committee of that club, reused keen
enthusiasm with his plea for opening
the Columbia river.
Jones & Nicely. purchasers of the
large Babcock ranch at Trinidad, are
having 5000 feet of 16-inch pipe laid
to carry 5000 gallons of water a min
ute to reservoir on the high ground.
They are putting in many trees and
placing the land in good condition.
Charles Arneson, a North Bend sa-
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Jail at Seattle on suspicion of having
murdered p. H. Ross, a rival saloon
man, and his wife last August at Ker-
iston.
Representative Humphrey has intro
duced bill in the house authorizing
King county to construct ship canal
along the government right of way
connecting the waters of Puget sound
with Lake Washington.
While seated on a chair on the porch
of the family home at North Yakima
the 10 months old child of Henry An
derson fell into a boiler of warm water
the other afternoon and was dead be-
fore discovered.
Warden A. F. KEGS, in response to a
suggestion that it would be well to re-
turn to the pro rata system of distrib-
uting grain bags manufactured at the
penitentiary, among other things says:
This system has been tried fully and
the farmers do not want any more of
it. They say generally it resulted in
their not knowing what amount of
sacks they could depend upon"
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