The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-03-13

clared himself 70 be candidate for
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor.
The firm of Hilstrom and Burnett
who have been engaged in the fur
nlture business in Vancouver. has
been dissolved.
walter Phares committed suicide
IN a Main street saloon in Walla
"aila last week by drinking carboiic
acid. No cause is known.
Lewis Shaffer, who has been a resi-.
aent OF Vancouver for a number of
years, died Sunday at St. Joseph's
Hospital from an attack of grip.
AT meeting of the City Council
OF Chehalis last week the Chehalis
Land and Timber Company formally
decided 1882 acres of land to the
City OF Chehalis for use as a park.
The movement On foot in Port
townsend to entertain Rear Admiral
Evans On his arrival on Sound
waters, is rapidly gaining ground
among the citizens and city officials.
Welland c. Thorp, the Young
craftsman of the United States Rec
lamation Service at North Yakima.
VINO mysteriously disappeared from
Sunnyside last week, is in that place
and apparently suffering from
mental trouble.
George S. Raymond, who killed
george Dunn in saloon row in
Home Valley on the night of Feb
ruary 4th, was acquitted in the Su-
perior Court at Stevenson of the
charge of murder.
A committee named by tina
Citizens Club has taken up the
work of arranging for a stallion ex-
hibit on the streets of the CITY on
Saturday, April 4. This show ia
preliminary to a general street stock
show. /
Mrs. j. w. Mathews, running for
the three-year term on the School
Board Of Pullman, defeated w. l..
Lanning, the present incumbent. in
the elections Saturday, and will take
Office in August. !
The printers in the composinr
room of the Washington Printing
and Book Manufacturing Company
OF Walla Walla, which has the con-
tract for publishing the Morninx
Union and the Evening Statesman
went on strike Sunday night.
General Western Freight Agent
Henry Blakely, of the Northern Pa
cific, and General Freight Agent R. /
B. Miller, of the O. R. & ~. met
with a committee from the Farmers
Union last week and the matter of
reducing freight rates on grain bags
was thoroughly discussed. The mat
ter was taken under advisement.
Charged with obtaining $4,000
Clarence Collier CrandaI, alias
DR.. Charles Hudson, alias Hugh
Duffy, ex-convict. embezzler, forger,'
and the man who married Miss sybl
Anderson, a Seattle young woman, in
Tacoma, January 20, and deserted
her within week, has been arrested
by the San Francisco police for
uttering forged checks. I
The Fourth District convention of
the Knights Of Pythias lodges, in
GLIDING the cities Of Aberdeen. TO-
GUAM. Elma. Centralia, Chehalis.
South Bend and other towns was held
In the new Masonic building in Abec-
deem last Friday. There were so
delegates. An election OF Officers
Bowes, Aberdeen, president; e. r.
Jones, Aberdeen. secretary: D. w.
Bush, Chahalis, treasurer.
Clinging to a pile and screaming
for help, w. H. Kinney, a laborer.
was rescued from a watsry grave by
policeman in Seattle. Kinney's
Jaw was broken and his head was
badly bruised. while his person was
encased in tideland muck. He had
been beaten by a companion into
insensibility. robbed of a gold watch
and $50 and then thrown into the
bay.
under false pretenses. c. E. Dim
NIT has been arrested on a warrant
sworn out by s. E. Carr, with whom
he was associated in the MANAGEMENT
and ownership of the Golden Rule
department store at Walla Walla.
one of the largest dry goods con-
Germs in the city, which was CLOSED
out last fall through bankruptcy
The warrant was served
At Mr.. Dimmit's home after a day
had been spent in search for him.
The fishing schooner Maid of Or
eans, which arrived in Seattle Satur-
day, brings a report from Swan
aarbor, Unga Island, Alaska, that
he % sailors who survived the first
following the breaking up
II the John F. Miller on Ihatock
peninsula. Unfmak, January 8, have
'een picked up by another schooner
One hundred and fifty enthusiastic
admirers Of Secretary Taft eathered