The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-05-08
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
In the annual contest of the Lincoln
County School Declamatory associa-
ton Friday the first medal and honors
We're awarded to Louis Brislawn of
Sprague. the subject of his address be-
ing "Regulus to the Carthaginians"
The second medal was won by Miss
Ethel Despair of Harrington, her SUBJ
ject being The Sioux Chiefs Daugh-
ter"
Climbing aboard the tug Keros as
she lay moOred to the wharf at Ia
coma, two desperate burglars entered
the cabin occupied by Captain James
Eiird and Mate Henry Branaugh,
placed handkerchief saturated with
chloroform over the nostrils of each,
and then robbed the men of every
thing of value that they possessed.
Charles S. Warren, one of the cred
itors of the Vendome Hotel company
at Davenport, has filed a suit for s15,-
900 against the hotel company and
asked that receiver be appointed.
Mr.. Deary announces that the Pa
louise mill of the Potlatch Lumber COM
pany, which has been idle for more
than six months, started Monday for
the summers run. There are 100000
feet of logs in the river ready for the
saws. The mill will give employment
to Is men for the summer.
James Duff, we'll known citizen of
Chelan county. dropped dead at his
residence in Wenatchee recently.
The bodies of the two young men
who are believed to have stolen two
horses from the Arrow and Eagle liv-
cries in Wenatchee last week, were
found Saturday in the bottom of lake
near Stratford, having evidently been
drowned while attempting to cross.
The two bodies were locked in deadly
embrace at the bottom of the lake.
Eddie Gregg, IL years old, placed
a basket of flowers on the front door
knob of A. w. Copeland's home at
Foy station, few miles from Seattle,
as May day custom. He rang the
doorbell; nobody come, and he rang
again. Mrs. Copeland answered, did
not see the flowers, but saw the boy
run. Gregg rang again, when Cope
land opened the door and fired with
a shotgun. The boy received the load
in the thigh, and may die of blood
poisoning.
While going from the lobby of the
Montgomery hotel at Elk to her room,
Mrs. North, mistress of the hosiery,
was shot in the left temple by an un-
known assassin concealed outside the
house.
The directors of the Moran Ship
building company, Seattle, were re-
Gently offered 100000 for their
plant and business in Seattle and de-
clined to accept the consideration,
holding out for $2,500,000.
The funeral of Nathan West, SO
years old, and one of the oldest pion-
GERS of the Inland Empire, took place
in Tekoa Saturday.
Farmers from the fruit districts
along the Walla Walla river report
fears of considerable damage to fruit
and berries during the recent cold
snap.
The cornerstone of the new Baptist
church at North Yakima was laid Sat.
urday.
Colonel E. H. Morrison is rushing
work on his seed farm near Fairfield,
80 men being engaged in setting out
seed beets and planting varieties of
vegetables and seeds for the fall crop.
The University of Puget Sound
academy debaters were unanimously
awarded a decision over the Spokane
high school team in the interscholastic
debate held in Tacoma.
The democrats of Walla Walla have
pledged to raise $4,000 with which to
establish in Walla Walla a daily news
paper to represent their party.
]. P. Graves of the Inland Empire
system says that his automobile jour-
ney through the country west of the
Columbia river and back to Spokane
from Colville, Stevens county, was
not for the purpose of locating an ex-
tension of his electric system.
Overcome with grief because her
husband is slowly dying of an incur
years old, beautiful bride of six
months, took her own life by inhal-
ing Illuminating gas at Seattle.
The new Presbyterian church, built
at cost of 100000, was dedicated at
Aberdeen Sunday.
Laboring under the delusion that
every one was his enemy, William Bar
ton, an old man, swallowed a small
dose of laudanum and another of car
bolic acid at Vancouver recently with
deadly effect.
By forming a pool farmers of the
Big Bend country have sold their
wheat for IA cents a bushel
Word has been received from Wash
ington to the effect that free mail de-
livery will be established at Ellens-
burg August 1.
OREGON ITEMS.
A s150,000 land deal was consum-
mated in Pendleton recently when the