The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-04-17
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ABOUT PEOPLE IN MONTANA,
IDAHO, WASHINGTON
AND OREGON.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS,

The regimental band of the Third
infantry, near Seattle, is at Spokane
for a month.
Whitman college will be nonsectar-
ian, but Christian, after next COM
| mencement.
The second annual horse show in
Colfax Saturday of this week prom
| ises to be big affair.
With fireworks, ringing speeches,
stirring music, sports and dancing,
| Walla Walla will celebrate the Fourth
of July
The Centralia Chronicle announces
that on and after May that publica-
ton would be issued daily instead of
semi-weekly.
| Charles Gunderson, well known
resident of Puyallup, died as the result
of injuries sustained by being struck
| by a train.
More than one-seventh of al the
money deposited in banks in the state
of Washington is in the vaults of the
banks in Spokane.
A man supposed to be John Victor
Lynnquist was struck by the incoming
Grays Harbor train at Chehalis re-
Gently and instantly killed.
The state board of control has re-
duced the price of grain bags from
$3.50 per hundred to $3.50, on account
Of reduction in cost of production.
John Goss, the Potato King"
brought to Garfield recently eight po-
tatoes that weigh 22A pounds, three
of them weighing three pounds each.
Hundreds of people thronged the
streets of North Yakima to see the
parade of the first horse show ever
given there. There were more than
100 fine animals shown.
Fire Saturday morning in the main
building of the plant Of the Washing
ton Mil company, Spokane, almost en-
tirely destroyed the plant, only few
buildings being saved. Loss nearly
100000, fully insured.
Judge Preble, in the superior court
at North Yakima, sentenced Joseph
Flanney, an Indian half breed, to 80
years in the penitentiary for killing
his wife near Toppenish last summer.
Active preparations are being made
to commence drilling for oil on the B.
H. Hench farm, one and one-half miles
northwest of Fairfield, and it is ex-
pected that actual operations will be-
gin soon.
After carrying the bank of which
he was an officer through the financial
stringency, and successfully consum
mating the sale of the institution, G
S. Thomas cashier of the First State
bank of Newport, committed suicide
at Spokane.
,, Russell & Babcock of Tacoma have
been selected by the governors man
sion building committee as the archi
tects for the new building. The site
selected for the building is directly
west Of the foundation of the new
state house on the capitol grounds on
the hill.
Professor ]. M. Layhue, superintend
ent of the Puyallup public schools, has
received notification of his appoint
e ment to the Office of assistant state
3 superintendent of public instruction tc
! succeed H. B. Dewey, who was ap
pointed to fill the vacancy caused by
b JllS uSdIll VI oldlC Oupcl lulCuu6HI II
B. Bryan.
0 The man arrested on suspicion a.
. HattOn has been long wanted by the
authorities of Spokane, Okanogan an(
, Douglas counties. He has been iden
= titled as Dan Farley, alleged to bt
one of the safe-crackers who blew VI
. the safe at Coulee City last winter
, and is also wanted on charges of horse
thievery.
. Fire again visited Toppenish earl.
Sunday morning and in less thai
= three-quarters of an hour it licked VI
the dry frame structures for an entir'
" block fronting on First street. TIT
o loss will run up to between 100000 ant
a $4,000. The total approximate in
t. surance is $4,000. This is the secon'
t, time within the last six months tina
n fire has practically destroyed thi
block.
v Il will find bride quickly in heay
|. en-" wrote Frank Sinkus, a prominen
German farmer of Castle Rock, Wash
r recently in brief note to his friends
, Then he set his rifle barrel agains
a his head and pulled the trigger. H
died four hours later. Sinkus declare,
that the comments of his friends upol
his failure to get married caused hin
to take the rash step.
:, Sluicing on the government irriga
ton dam at Conconully has begun
20 The hydraulic nozzles were directe
against the sides of Peacock mouI
tain and the water tore away rapid
vast quantities of the earth, forcin
it into the elevated sideways, whic
+ conveyed it to the site of the dan
b 1000 feet distant. The work was er
3 tirely successful. Active operation
l. will be continued until the dam spar
r ming Salmon creek canyon has bee
D. built up to a height of so feet.
IDAHO EVENTS.
An epidemic of measles has sprea