The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-12-04
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NEWSNOTES
ITEMS CULLED FOR OUR
BUSY READERS.
ABOUT PEOPLE IN MONTANA,
IDAHO, WASHINGTON
AND OREGON.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Olympia is to have a new Y. M. c. A.
building.
The organization Of state bank at
Colfax is authorized.
w. V. Tanner, Seattle man, is now
assistant attorney general.
The Palouse -four mill, owned by the
Potlatch Lumber company, is being re-
modelled at an expense Of $4,000.
Township organization carried in the
following counties at the recent cleo
ton: Clark, Lewis, Skagit and Spo
kane.
The Oregon Railway & Navigator
company has made cash donation Of
$1,000 to the National Apple show al
Spokane.
Hosea Wise and Joseph Stennaker
prisoners, and Private Adolph Sprunkel
have deserted from Fort Wright, neal
Spokane.
With most impressive ceremonies the
new Catholic church, Our Lady OF
Lourdes, at Spokane, was dedicated
last week.
A terrible beating was administered
by three armed thugs to H. E. Kirk
patrick, plumber of Latah, Wash, at
Spokane recently.
Leo Bezemer, accused kidnaper of E.
z. English, will not be tried for the
alleged offense until the February jury
term in Skagit county.
Hugh Mcmahon, manager Of the
American cafe and well-known bust
ness man, was found Saturday, muir.
dered, in the front yard of his home in
Seattle.
With her pumps keeping the hold free
Of water from the leak in her bottom,
the steam schooner Northland of the
Ketchikan Steamship company has ar
rived in Seattle.
North Yakima, Wash.-J. II. Barnard
was struck by freight engine early
Saturday evening. He not only escaped
death, but two panes of glass he was
carrying were not broken.
The official county of Washington for
president is: Taft 1O6,31O, Bryan 49,
3S3, Debs 14,177, Hisgen 24s, Chain
400. For governor: Cosgrove, repub-
lican, 110,190; Pattison, democrat, So
1876.
Recently Fred Mailloux, North Yak
INA grocer, placed 1915 in checks, paper
money and gold in the stove with waste
paper. He was able to recover the
gold and portion of the paper. His
-
The affairs of the state insurance
office will undoubtedly be investigated
at the next session of the legislature,
owing to j. H. Shively's connection
with the defunct Spokane Livestock In
surance company at Spokane.
AS the result of an investigation of
the records of County Treasurer West of
Wahkiahum county that official has
been arrested on charge of embez-
cling sums aggregating nearly $4,000.
He is now under $4,000 bonds.
Representatives of the companies
owning 90 per cent of the oysters in
Willapa bay have organized sales
agency, to be known as the North Pa
cifc Oyster Agency, through which all
the oysters will hereafter be sold.
A gain of $2,o23, 723, or 81 per cent,
is shown by the Spokane bank clearings
for last week over the corresponding
week of last year. For the week ended
Saturday the clearipgs were $685. 24,
and for the same week last year, $685.
7O1.
George Brown, alias West, and Will
liam Brown pleaded guilty at Tacoma
to holding up saloon recently and
were sentenced to S to 20 years in
prison. They were the men who held
up the streetcars at Portland and Ia.
coma.
>Carelessness on the part of mer-
chants and others in cashing checks for
strangers has made forgery so easy that
the Washington State Bankers associ-
alton has sent out warning advising
patrons to cash no checks or drafts for
unidentified strangers.
Jealous-crazed Fred .Swindle, a farm
hand formerly employed on the farm
OF Mrs. Rose Huffman, widow living
IS miles from Vancouver, riddled A. B.
Newell, who married Mrs. Huffman four
days ago, with bullets and attemptedto
kill the bride. He then committed sui.
eide.
The Pacific Coast Elevator company e
warehouse at Tilma, three miles east of
Tekoa, was destroyed by fire with all
its contents. The building contained
$500 bushels of wheat and IFS tons of
oats. A. Bittner, a farmer living at
the Cove, lost 100 bushels Of wheat
and several bushels Of wheat and oats
belonged to L. Wallner.
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