The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-07-03
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ITEMS CULLED FOR OUR
BUSY READERS.
ABOUT PEOPLE IN MONTANA,
IDAHO, WASHINGTON
AND OREGON.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Samuel l.. Wharton, familiar fig-
ure am Dng mining men of the north
west and a resident of Spokane for
the last 10 years, died recently.
A 100000 increase of stock for the
further development and improvement
of it's property in eastern Washington
was voted by the stockholders of the
Hanford Irrigation company at spe-
cial meeting.
The third annual convention of the
Stevens County Sunday School aso-
citation will be held in Colville June
80 and July 1.
An election was held at Pennington
recently by the school district to de-
eide as to issuing new bonds. The vote
was against issuing new bonds.
Throwing up her hands with pierre
ing scream, Mrs. Elizabeth Gauvitte,
wife of Joe Gauvitte, former proprietor
of the Bodega saloon, Spokane, fell
dead Saturday night, being shot by
her husband, who has confessed. They
had had domestic troubles.
To cross the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul line and cut Seattle and Ia
coma out as wheat shipping points for
the central Washington fields, are de-
clared to be objects and results of the
plan of James j. Hill to build another
railroad extension in eastern Wash
ington.
At the annual convention of the
state nurses association at Tacoma
recently it was decided to ask the next
legislature for the passage of bill
providing for the licensing of all
trained nurses of the state, provision
being made in the bill for an examin-
ing commission or board.
'We the jury, find the defendant,
Hezekiah W. Barnes, guilty of murder
in the first Degree" was the verdict
of the jury in the trial of Budd Barnes
at Walla. Walla for the murder of
Mrs. Anna Aldrich, whom he killed
with pick handle in the mountains
near Dixie May /.
| F. P. Greene, auditor of Spokane
county, was elected president of the
state organization of county auditors
recently in session at Mount Vernon.
Tacoma was selected as the next place
of meeting.
The Washington State Dental so.
ciety, at it's annual election of officers
at Spokane, selected George T. Will
Hams, Seattle, president. The associ
alton this year begins active opera
tons under the new constitution adopt
ed from that of the Illinois society
The association will meet next year
at Seattle.
Word was recently sent to Secretary
of the Treasury Cortelyou notifying
him that the Alaska Yukon-Pacif ex
position has complied with the con
gressional requirement that $1,OOO,O0(
be raised by subscriptions, nomina
lions, etc., irrespective of any state OF
federal appropriations, before the con
gresional appropriation of 100000 i:
made available.
Fire recently swept portion of The
business district of Tenino, and before
it had been extinguished had cause(
a loss of $4,000, with very little in
surance.
Fire destroyed the dry kilns of thu
Johnston-Dean Lumber company a
Robe, near Granite Falls, recently.
William Cox, who killed his step
father, Major Whitfield, near Rex
Douglas county, recently, gave himsel
: up to the officers. He claims to hav
Y fired the shots which killed White,
5 to protect his mother. He is in tn
, county Jail at Waterville.
3 Five saloons, barber shop and
t restaurant were burned at Mort
t Hooper, on the line of the S., P. &
4 railway, near Kahlotus, recently
General Manager Claghorn of tn
Northwestern Improvement compan
states that no troops had yet been rt
quested for the mines at Clealum an
- Roslyn, and that he did not fear tn
: strikers would become violent. H
p said, however, that the strike was nc
- ended and that officials of the union
would perhaps arrive from the cas-
!. to settle the dispute, as the local of
Gals of the union are unable to col
!, troll the strikers.
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