The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-12-11

NEWS
ITEMS CULLED FOR OUR
BUSY
ABOUT PEOPLE IN MONTANA,
IDAHO, WASHINGTON
AND OREGON.
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The Elks of this state held their an
nual lodge of sorrow Sunday.
Royal w. Raymond, head of the anti
saloon league Of the state Of Washing
ton, has resigned.
In the superior court At Dayton, Les
ter Atwood and Archie Lindsley have
been acquitted of the charge Of stealing
cattle.
February 2, 3, 4 and s are the dates
fixed for the annual meetings Of the
Western Retail Lumbermen' g associa-
ton in Spokane.
Five thousand sheep, blindly follow
ing the leader over a low bank in the
Mckee c%oulee, resulted in smothering to
death Of 21O Of them recently.
Oliver v. Linn, superior judge of Ma
son and Thurston counties, died at his
Olympia residence Sunday night. He
leaves a widow and one son, Donald,
aged g..
The celebration Of the fftieth ami.
versary of the organization Of the
Masonic Grand Lodge in this jurisdic.
ton took place Monday and Tuesday at
Olympic.
The city council Of Prosser has unani.
mously decided to raise the liquor
license to $1,000 per year, but by a vote
Of one to three rejected the proposition
to limit the number of saloons.
Motorman Gus Olsen and two Others
were fatally hurt, % seriously injured
when an eastbound% university car rush
ed into an inbound at Roanoke street
and Eastlake avenue at Seattle Satur
day morning, owing to the fog.
Mrs. Frank Eggleston of Bellingham
who shot her husband in self-defens,
last July, has commenced suit in tn.
superior court against the Order Of
Maccabees to recover $500, for which
amount the deceased was insured.
James Devlin, a prominent young mai
of Centralia, wal accidentally shot an
instantly killed recently by Robert 7
Ready, a painter. The two men, il
company with two others, were shoot
ing at a target and Devlin was mark
ing the shots.
E. B Palmer, former law partner o
Judge Milo A. Root, who has becom
deeply involved in the Root scandal b,
testimony given in Spokane to the in
vestigating committee, now faces
prospective investigation by the stat
Legislature, which may result in his ez
pulsion from that body when it cor
venes in January.
Confined to his room, with the exceI
ton Of the two trips that are mad
daily in a wheel chair to the adjacen
%bathhouse, where he takes the treatmen
that has been prescribed for him, wit
no one ave the physicians in attend
ance, his wife and two close friends pei
mitted to talk with him, the exact cor
dition Of Governor-elect Cosgrove o
Washington is largely a matter of cor
lecture.
There was in the state treasury $674
463.65, as compared with but $433
7s7.4O December 1, 1907, according t
a statement prepared by Treasure
George G. Mills. The deposit interes
paid by the banks on average state d.
, posits has already reached the sum 0
$~11,295.sO since January i last. Inter
est for the current quarter will brin
this amount up to about $4,000, whic
will be apportioned the first of the yea
to the several state funds.
James Odgers, editor and publishe
of the Davenport Tribune, died Satul
day morning from perforation of tn
bowels. James Odgers was born i
Cornwall, England, January IA, 1874
, and came to America in 1867, settlin
in New Jersey and later in Nebrask,
In 1888 he came to Ellensburg, Wash
, where he. engaged in the real estat
business. Later he went to Coulee Cit,
where he entered the newspaper bus
ness. He came to Davenport in 1900.