The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-07-16

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ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN
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AND WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


| State Treasurer J. G. Lewis reports
Isl, 395,994 cash ON hand.
w. T. Perkins, one of the old settlers
Of Medical Lake, died recently.
| While fishing at Spokane Burrel
Kimm, 9 years old, was drowned.
Alfalfa growing is rapidly increas
ing in favor in the Palouse country.
James A. Fife Of Seattle has beer
arrested, charged with kicking his wife
to death.
Elmer Miller, 10 years old, took
cramps while swimming at Spokane and
drowned Saturday.
While insane from excessive drink
j. H. Hamilton drowned himself in
Lake Chelan recently.
Joe Travis of Spokane, correspondent
of the International Correspondence
School, committed suicide.
Press Connors, alleged to be the
leader of gang of horse rustlers
was recently arrested at Ephrata.
The Swedish Glee club, comprising IL
Spokane men, will attend the sanger.
fest to be given at Seattle July %.
Closer estimates of the losses in the
fire in Wenatchee recently place the
amount at $4,000, partially covered by
insurance.
The county commissioners have
agreed to buy the bridge across the
Yakima river at Toppenish, and will
pay about $500.
| The famous old sidewheel steamer
Yosemite, which went on the rocks
near the Puget Sound navy yard re.
Gently, went to pieces.
K. A. Greek, aged %, sawmill
man, recently shot and killed 8. Hoff-
man, aged 26, fellow workman, rs
miles north of Spokane.
AS the result of frightful injuries
which she received by being crushed in
| an elevator at Spokane, Mrs. Margaret
NJ. Morrison died soon after.
Hon. James Burke of Kalama recent
| ly received a check for $372.S7 from
the state treasurer, the amount being
due for services rendered in the Indian
war Of 1855.
Losing his grip after boarding NOV
ing freight train on the Milwaukee
road at Rosalia, Gus Henroid of Walla
Walla, aged IS, Saturday fell As feet,
receiving fatal injuries.
A petition has been fled by J. L.
Smith to be appointed special admin
istrator of the estate of Henry Fowl
straw, the man who was shot by Ed
Scholis Thursday night in the woods
near Colbert.
The railroad commission August 2
will take up the final hearing on the
Cunningham petition for reduction
of grain rates from the East Side to
the Coast. The first hearing was had
at Ritzville May 10, 1908.
Chief Of Police Sullivan of Spokane
states that the cigarette law will be
strictly enforced in Spokane in spite
of the fact that judges at Tacoma and
Everett, on the Coast, have ruled that
the new law passed by the state legis-
lature is unconstitutional.
The farmers union of Ritzville has
fixed the following scale of wages for
the coming harvest: For haying-$1.5o
day; header box drivers, So; leaders
of header boxes, stackers and spike
pitchers, $3.50; running header, $3.50.
Combine work-Runner, $3.50; driver or
sack sewing, $3.50; tender, S.. The
wages are about the same as paid last
year.
| Information has been secured from
Ralph Carter, arrested at Garfield with
horse belonging to Henry Gable, the
Franklin county horseman, that points
to the disclosure of the most gigantic
organization of horsethieves that has
ever operated in the west, and the men
implicated are said to be scattered
through the country from Pasco and
Yakima to the British Columbia line.
The funeral of the late Francis W.
Cushman, congressman from the Third
district of Washington, was held at
Tacoma Tuesday afternoon in the
state armory. A detachment of Troop
E, w. N. G., of which Congressman
Cushman was formerly an active mem.
Der, acted as escort. The knights
Templar assisted in the funeral ser
vices and the deceased was given a
Masonic burial.