The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-03-26
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WAoHlNGION STATE NEWS.
Governor S. G. Cosgrove is improv-
ing so rapidly he will be able to leave
for Washington state by May 1 to as
sumo the reins of government is the
opinion of DR.. F. w. Sawyer.
The regular annual meeting Of the
board of regents of Washington State
college will be held in Pullman April Z.
The aeroplane being built at Hatton
by Charles A. Zornes is attracting much
attention. Out-oftown visitors are
drawn to Hatton daily. Two Seattle
men visited town today to investigate
the work.
With record of giving 10 gallons
of milk every "a hours for several
weeks, a 3-year-old Shorthorn COW
owned by A. l.. McCauley of Dayton
promises to become the most famous
COW of this breed in the world. Mr..
McCauley says by April 1 the cow will
have made record of ~ gallons daily.
The new depot of the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle road at Kennewick is
now completed and in use.
Beginning March %, the single mills
will begin resuming operations and by
April 1 all the single cutting plants
in the northwest will be running
The Spokane spring building record
is still climbing beyond all precedent.
Saturday morning the total value of i'm
provements for which building permits
have been taken out amounted to 1904
$50.
A few minutes before the time set
for surprise party on her, Emil Carl
son IS daughter, age ~, living near
Ferndale, went for a bucket of water
In some manner she fell into the well
and drowned. When the party of
young people arrived to surprise the
girl, they found her dead.
The little 3-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Musolf of Bellingham
was burned to death recently.
| In the arrest of Joseph Gladney, J.
E. Davidson, Mrs. Grace Gilman and
H. Hardy, Sheriff R. T. Hodge of Seat
tie says he has in custody the ring
leaders of an organized band of con
fidence operators and passers of worth.
less checks.
ga man. thirst is not regulated
by the size of the town in which he
happens to be Sundaying," is a senti-
ment expressed by acting Governor
Hay in vetoing senate bill No. 81, the
Potter Sunday liquor license bill. He
refuses to veto clause in new criminal
code banishing cigarettes.
Cattlemen of Columbia county are
rounding up their herds on the winter
ranges and during the next few days
nearly 1000 head of cattle will pass
through Dayton on their way to sum
mer ranges in the Wenaha reserve.
Falling rs feet and striking on his
head at the foot of the Great Northern
trestle west of Spokane, G. L. Lam
phere, private in Company L of the
Third infantry at Fort Wright, was in
stantly killed.
Alice Griffin and Mary Miller, Mount
Vernon girls, each 16 years of age, dis
appeared from the University of Puget
Sound.
County Auditor F. P. Green of Spo,
kane has been rendered and will accept
the position of chief accountant OF the
commission to be selected by the gov.
ernor to devise and put into effect a
uniform accountancy system through
out the state. Bob Butler, the base.
ball "fan," will probably get Greene Is
LOB.
The growth of population and prop.
erty values on the Yakima Indian res,
ervation is shown by figures that have
just been compiled from the assessed
valuation of the school district, which
includes the greater part of the res
ervation, was $453,OOO, not enough to
permit bonding the district for new
school building. This year the as
sessed valuation is $1,042,Os5.
The supreme court has sustained the
manslaughter verdict against Charles
Churchhill, who, October z, 1907, shot
and killed Mary Ziegler in saloon al
North Yakima.
Nick Petrick, convicted of murder
ing Marshall Harry Miller at Kent OF
April 10, 1908, was sentenced at Seat
tie to be hanged at the state peniten
tiary at Walla Walla on May 21.