The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-05-22
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Seattle high school boys and girls
are to be educated separately in fu-
ture
The buildings at Charleston of the
Snake River Canning company are
now complete and the machinery is
being installed.
Renewed. trouble at the state train,
ing school has resulted in F. G.
Thompson resigning his position as SUI
perintendent.
When the Atlantic battleship~ fleet
arrived Off Grays harbor Wednesday it
was presented with 16 Teddy bears
live ones" The gift was from the city
of Aberdeen.
A section Of five blocks in Seattle
was flooded for two hours Saturday
night by the bursting of an 18-inch
high pressure water main on Melrose
avenue.
Navigation has opened on the Okan-
ogan river for the ensuing season.
Authorities of the naval academy
announce that Mldshipman o. Wilson
of Seattle, member of the graduating
class, is the winner of the handsome
sword presented annually by the class
| of 1871 for general excellence in gun
merry.
Marie j. Candy, whose husband,
Clinton E. Candy, was, sentenced to a
year i'm the Pierce county Jail for
Handwriting his wife, was granted a
decree of divorce.
The Rosalia public schools have
closed for the summer.
This week will mark the graduation
of the first class from the Kennewick
high school.
| James P. Goodhue, one of the Oldest
Odd Fellows in the northwest, a pio-
neer steamboat man and railroad
agent, died recently in Walla Walla.
The water has been turned into the
new high-line ditch on the East We.
natchee land. This means that 5000
acres more are now under water in
the Wenatchee valley.
An extra freight train was wrecked
three miles from Cheney recently and
10 cars loaded with coal were com
pletely wrecked, being smashed into
kindling wood.
| Recently Jay Barnhart, aged Is
years, was drowned in the Spokane
river while fishing with his brother or
Mitre rock.
Owing to the illness of Mr.. Hilliard
Hilliard & Co., bankers, of Cotton
have closed their bank Accounts will
be liquidated until May 81 and al
notes, etc., will be transferred to the
First State Bank of Uniontown
| A package containing $500 in silvel
was stolen from the Great Northern
depot at Elk recently.
"Old Man" Wheeler a track walker
has confessed that he was the maj
who made off with the money poucl
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
cific is preparing to begin work OF
the 100000 Point Defiance water
grade route out Of Tacoma to Port
!, land.
Ceremonies for the dead were hel,
over the body of Theodore Galland
who died in Spokane recently was lai'
to rest Friday.
, April reports from the superintend
ents Of the state institutions to tn
, state board of control show increase
in the number of inmates except a
the school for deaf and blind.
! Five thousand dollars in currenc
represents the loss to the Great NORTH
ern Express company in the robber
, of the company's strong box by tw
2 bandits in the Great Northern tunne
D in Seattle recently.
Guy c. Stratton, secretary-treasure
of the Acme Single company, wa
convicted of manslaughter in the s,
. perior court of King county for tn
death of year old Henrietta Ma
garet Johnson, who was killed by a
automobile.
y The steamer Yakima, which ha
been a freighter between Lewisto
and Riparia, on the Snake river, wi
be put into service between Paso
and Priest Rapids.
Fred L. Shaft, a wealthy retire
U lumberman, died suddenly in Spokan
Saturday. He was owner of the hors
Sherlock Holmes.