The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-12-20
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
Tacoma four mills hsve advanced
the price Of bran and sherts II Z ton.
The next Convention q tho wash
ington State Federation Ct Laha1 will
be held at Tacoma Jaanary 6.
Attributtag he loss to tAe inahiNty
or unwihingness Of the railroads to
supply cars. O. q. Nesler. local man
ager for tho BiaioeIk Fruit company
at Walla Wal1a. dedareA uhas that
concern had suffered = iess q between
$1s,oee and $se.eos during tho saasea
past
Francis =. clarke has been appoint-
ed president q The Portland & Seattle
railroad.
The citizens Of Rosalia IRE eF9tiAed
to find that tlae flow q water which
had been str1oa In the Rsaalia Water
company's weA stands the test. Water
is being pumped at the rate sf 100000
gallons a day without reducing the
flow.
Repwesentative wheat dealers, ship
pers and exporters Of the Pacific
northwest went on record before the
state rsRrsaA commission Saturday
as unaaterably oRpOsed to the agita-
ten ana preposaa to handle the wheat
CROP of Ne state In bulk instead Of in
sacks.
Prosecuting Attorney Rowlaads of
Tacoma anno1nces his intention Of or
deFing all Tacoma theaters to close
Sundays beginning December ~.
Edward Spencer Of Spokane. the
revoaking Of whose Conditional pardon
by GoverRsr Mead was recently sus-
tanned By the supreme court. was in
carcerated In the peRitentiary Satur-
day.
Spokane is to have a real estate ex-
change.
The mixed train On the Colfax-
Moscow branch Of the o. r. Il N. was
wrecked recently at Richardson's
curve.
A lockout Of the organized building
tradesme1 and building laborers in
Seattle is predicted.
issuing mo fund" interest bearing
warrants en- it's general fund.
The state supreme court has handed
down decision holding valid the
S1S0, zoe bend issue by the city Of
Walla Walla for the building Of city
hall and FIRE station.
Beginnina Sunday, December Is
regular trains will be run by time
card on the Portland & Seattle rail
way from Pasco to Cliffs
William R. Day has been appointed
to the position of postmaster fol
Asotin.
A new town hall is proposed fol
TsppsnisA.
The whitman county superior cour
jury term was finished Saturday ant
the jury discharged.
Plans calling for an increase in thu
endowment of Whitman college o
S1,86500o for the addition of the de
partment of technology to the institu
ton, and for the expenditure of $685.
600 in buildings were decided on at
meeting of the board OF trustees an
representative Walla Walla bushes
men held recently.
In accordance with an order n
ceived from the pontiff at Rome, mad
at the request of the Right Rev. e.
O'Dea, the name of the diocese Mi
auany has been changed to the di'
cese Seattle.
Register Zenas Coleman of the Uni
ed States land Office at North Yakim
has compiled his report for the quartz
ended September 80, which shows
total business for the three month
of $31,8zS.45. The report shows
committed homesteads taken up, COZ
prisius 464S acres and valued at 81
362.8e. and 16 timber and stone claim
comprising 1811.74 acres, valued
S4519.4O. There were 4e entries {
desert lands, comprising 67s7.21 acre
IDAHO NEWS.
While Joseph Johnson was cleanfl
a fiue in his residence at Preston !
Gently q basin Of kerosene he was ,
ing hocaYnp fgnitad He ran and thre