The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-10-23
WASHINGTON NOTES

| iooeA. oiAty-elSnt years ago ne
cast his ballot for Harrison and Ty-
Ter and he has voted in every Presi.
dental election since. He has re-
sided in the state Of Washington
since 1858.
Horse thieves raided the ranch OF
ex-United States Senator George
Turner and Colonel w. M. Ridpath
late Republican candidate for tn.
nomination for Governor, on the Co.
lumbia river in the Hanford district.
There were about a dozen horses on
| the ranch, most of which were valu.
able draft animals.
Madeline King, who confessed tc
having burned the body of her aged
husband, was acquitted of the charg
OF murder by jury at Port Orchard
last week. Mrs. King is about 60
years old, and claimed that she
found her husband dead in his chair
and that she ended years of torture
by him by burning the corpse.
BY a decision made last week BY
Judge Huneke, of the Spokane SUI
perior court, social clubs that dis
pense liquors must take out liquor
licenses, the same as saloons. The
! decision was rendered in the case OF
the Spokane Club, the most exclusive
social organization of it's kind in the
Inland Empire.
Because, as he alleged, his wife.
six inches taller than he, beat him
and threatened his life, Willis E
Kincaid was granted a divorce in
the Seattle superior court. 81 don't
think it is safe for a man of your
size to live with a woman as large
and as belligerent as your wife
seems to be-" said Judge Frater
''The decree is granted
1t has been decided that S. c. Cos.
grove, Republican candidate for Gov.
ernor of Washington, will not take
an active personal part in the pres
ent campaign. Mr.. Cosgrove began
his contest for the GovernorshiI
nearly two years ago, since which
time he has carried on an active, en-.
ergetic campaign, visiting every sec.
ton of the state and talking per-
sonally with thousands of voters.
Sixty thousand volts of electricity
passed through the body of Harvey
Dennis, city claim agent, as he stood
in the Seattle city lighting plant, last
week, and he was so badly burned
that even If he RECEIVERS he may lose
his feet and hands. A peculiar fea
ture of the accident Is the fact that
at the time Dennis was relating to q
friend about the grounding of the
same wire through the body of Finch
Haggerty two years ago.
After reclting how the State Bank
OF Washington, capitalized at $685..
900, was organized with but $1,000
real money. although the organizers
swore three-tifths of the capital stock
had been paid in. the state supreme
court has affirmed the judgment OF
the Spokane superior court, by which
the receiver of the State Bank will
recover $4,000 and interest from
the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, oil
Spokane.
Robert Serempus, 20 years old
proprietor Of a Tacoma dairy, was
shot and instantly killed on his ranch
by Fred Abel, Is years of age, who
with Fred Comfy, two years his jun.
Tor, was hunting upon the dairyman's
land. Tho boy murderer claims the
deed was done in self-defense. AT.
ter firing the fatal shot, Abel and
Comfy, without waiting to see whetf.
er the Young dairyman had beer
killed. hurried to the homes of their
parents by circuitous route and
later were placed under arrest.
A Yakima cup as trophy for an
international shoot between the
teams of the Duke of Connaught's
Own of Canada and the Second
Washington is being considered by
the North Yakima Commercial Club
North Yakima has produced some OF
the best riflemen in the Northwest
Captain J. M. Curry, of Company E.
at the recent shoot at American
Lake, carrying away the worlds
championship by making 241 out OF
a possible $50. Lieut. Harry Hum
phreys, of North Yakima, made the
best showing in the state rife team
which went to Camp Perry, Ohio.
The members of the crew of the
fishing schooner Edric were making
final arrangements to sail from Sc
attic last week, when yell resound-
ed out of the hold. A sailor burst
through the hatch, scrambled over
the side and made off before anyone
could stop him. While the others
were gazing after his retreating form
yowl resounded from the darkness
below and a black cat sprang on
| the deck. One look at the stub
tailed green-eyed grimalkin was
enough. Every man jack of the
crew picked up his bundle and 81.
lently departed. Nor can the captain
by any means lure one of them back
On board.
A hard legal question is to be de.
cided by the court at Port Town.
send as the result of the arrest of a
man named Bennett, alleged to be
from Seattle, and accused of having
| for some weeks past been operating