The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-07-17
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

last week.
| According to information received
at Vancouver barracks, in the neigh
borhood of 500 recruits will be re-
ceived before July /.
Assessor Mcdonald. of Lewis
county, has decided temporarily to
abandon the idea Of assessing mon
eys and credits In this county, until
the supreme court has handed down
| q ruling.
| At Elma. Saturday morning, J. w.
Ray, a merchant of Summit, Wash,
was attacked by a pet deer belong
ing to w. J. Maize and seriously in
jured. He will recover.
Running abut wearing only a hat,
wild or insane man has selected
West Geneva as his stamping ground
and has badly frightened women by
chasing them.
The Spokane Chamber of Com
merce has chartered the steamer
Bellingham for TIT use of its men,
bers Tuesday. May 26, during the
programme of aquatic sports in Ell
lott bay.
The Syndicate Deep Mines has
about closed negotiations which will
result In that corporation gaining
control of the noted Quilp mine, the
second largest producer in the camp,
near Republic.
The first meeting of the recently
organized Northwest Music Teach
ers' Association will be held in Sc
attic June 80 and July l and 2.
| Many prominent educators and mu-
sicians will attend the meeting.
The Scandinavian Temperance AS
ISOLATION, of the Pacific Coast, held
its annual session here last week.
The temperance propaganda is being
presented to Scandinavians through
church organizations.
Representative Humphrey has re-
| ceived word from Annapolis that
Nelson w. Hibbs and r. w. Jack
line. of Seattle, the two young men
he last year appointed to the naval
academy. had successfully passed
their mental examinations for en-
| trance.
The building of a hall on the
Green Lake School grounds in which
societies and clubs may hold meet
ings was advocated at . meeting Of
| the Home Economic Society. The
school board may be asked to pro-
vide the building.
Upon Congressman Humphreys
recommendation, the postoffice de-
partment has agreed to appoint ad-
ditional clerks and place a cancelling
machine In the postofice at Bremen
ton. The postmaster complained
| that he and his clerks were forced to
| work overtime to handle the mail
and he appealed to Humphrey for
aid.
Despite the efforts Of Superintend-
ent Thompson to hide the facts. it
has been ascertafned that seventeen
boys have escaped from the State
| Training School at Chehalis. be-
tween April and May l Of this
year. OF this number, only few
have been recaptured. Six of these
boys escaped during the last week
or ten days of April.
Less than half an hour after q
police onicer placed a man, who gave
his name az John Brown. on Nor
thern Pacific freight train this morn
ing. ordering him out of town under
penalty of imprisonment on a va
grancy charge, fragments of his
body were found scattered for
quarter of mile along the North
ern Pacific Railroad tracks south of
South Tacoma.
Miss Eva Bailey. county superin-
tendent of schools of Snohmish, hav-
ing fled with the state land commits
sion q spirited protest against the
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school section about midway be-
tween Everett and Snohmish. Com
missioner Ross has assured her of q
full and fair investigation. This &C.
tion. the school authorities of this
county believe, will render unnec-
sssary the proposed Injunction suit.
A heavy, old-fashioned watch
which the owner had carried since
1S47. and the only thing he posses
sed when he died recently at the
County Hospital. was sent by Thos.
Clifford to E. Robinson, as a keep
cake. It IL a token which Robinson
prizes very highly. When Clifford
was living In . shack in Fremont,
Robinson visited him frequently.
They became friends. and when the
old California gold-hunter saw his
end approaching. he sent the time
peace to the Fremont man.