The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-03-15
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acci-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fail Trade ls Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

wAsHlNoToN NOTES.
The school for the feeble minded at
Medical Lake has 124 attendants.
Samuel McCauley has been appoint
ed regular rural carrier at Dayton.
The embargo on through eastbound
dead freight. in effect west of White
fish, Mont, since January 2. will be
lifted March Is.
Victor Dessert. owner Of the Pacific
hotel and a pioneer resident of Spo-
kane, died recently. His fortune was
rated at $4,000.
The funeral of H. G. Stimmel, who
died in Seattle, was held Sunday art
ernoon at Spokane, where he had made
his home for 20 years.
A cooperative store, with capital
stock of $25. 600, fully subscribed, Is to
conduct general merchandise bust
ness in Harrington.
A number of schoolgirls in Walla
Walla, ranging in age from 10 to Is
years, have been stealing small arti-
Giles from the different stores in town.
John H. English. aged IS years, who
lived south of Palouse, was found dead
recently at the foot of bluff along
the Palouse river just east of the city
limits.
The case against Tacoma skating
rink proprietor who kept his place open
on Sunday has been dismissed. The
court held the prosecution had failed
to make case.
The February report from Medical
Lake hospital for the insane shows an
average attendance of 526 patients
with 16 new ones, six discharged and
two deaths.
1t now appears that Washington will
be divided into three congressional dis
tricts, one east of the mountains and
two west. Klickitat will be in the
Pierce county district
Roy N. Wolfe, who was selected last
December as the champion debater OF
Whitman college, will be given the
debate trophy, awarded by the gradu
ating class of last year for the best
debate:
The IL year old son of Mr.. Snead
of Garfield, while out hunting SPUR
rels recently with a younger brother
and a neighbours son named Davis
was accidentally shot dead by the
Davis boy.
County officers at Bellingham are
having trouble with negro laborers i'm
ported by J. ]. Hill to replace Japs or
the Great Northern. The negroes have
been quarantined, but refuse to remain
in the camps.
Mrs. Jane Anderson, the oldes
woman in the state of Washington ant
perhaps on the Pacific coast, died las
week at the home of her daughter
Mrs. w. H. Hamilton, in BeIlingham
She was 101 years old.
The body of woman was found
on the ice in the Mohawk river neal
, Schenectady, N. Y, recently. She
had jumped from a passenger train
Her ticket bore the name of Mrs
Maria Becker, of Chehalis, Wash.
Efforts are being made by the
friends of Herman Lown of Edmonds
Wash, to secure for the young hero
Carnegie medal. Young Lown saved
four girls from drowning last Sun
day after a boat in which they were
rowing had capsized, himself receiving
serious injuries.
Mother" Smith of Portland, known
over the northwest for her work in
trying to reform the criminal element
visited the Walla Walla Jail and peni
Tertiary and preached to the prisoners
recently. She travels without money
and says that God always provides fol
her wants.
1t is reported there is scarcity O.
farm laborers throughout the Paloust
country and wages have been ad
vanced. Farmers are paying 81 t.
$1.50 per day and board for common
farm work, and some are Offering 81
per month and board for steady work
with regular harvest wages during har
vest.
Former Railroad Commissioner Johr
s. McMillin of Roche Harbor, who wa
forced to resign by the joint legisla
tive committee on railroads, has re
turned to the State of Washington tn
$4,000 the Legislature said he did no
earn last year when he was giving al
his time to the defense of suit agains
the majority of stockholders in PR
vate enterprise at Roche Harbor.
The annual bean bake of the G. A
r. post and Woman's Relief corps a
Pullman last week was one of the BIZ
events of the season.
MONTANA ITEMS.
Patrick Jennings, one of the we
known saloon men Of Butte, was al
rested by United States Marshal Sar