The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-05-21
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN
MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON
AND WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

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This week will mark the close Of the
Palouse schools and Is pupils will
graduate.
The Sprague roller mills have closed
down, as they have ground up the sup
ply Of wheat.
The mayor of Bellingham has issued
an order that all saloons and the cred
Light district must close at midnight
At the request Of the saloonkeepers
of Tacoma, the city council has abol
ished the free lunch feature of saloons
The Washington State Board of EN-.
balmers will meet in Seattle, June H.
Two examinations will be held at that
time.
The next annual convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples union of the
state of Washington will be held in
Spokane June 90.
The supreme court at Olympia has
affirmed the conviction of j. A. Nc.
Intire, who was held at Walla Walla
for horse stealing.
Husum.-The much talked-of Can.
field ditch, which is to supply water
for irrigating the Lyle section, is to
be pushed to completion.
A masked man held up the Jefferson
saloon, Tacoma, recently and held eight
customers at bay while he robbed the
till and made good his escape.
At the record price of $1.O5, Karl
johnson, living four miles east of Day
ton, has sold 1900 bushels of red chaff
wheat to the Portland Touring mills.
H. o. Eames, president of the Eames
Land company, Tacoma, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded his wife and
then swallowed quantity of carbolic
acid at Seattle.
Deputy Auditor Claude F. Gage of
Seattle Saturday issued a marriage
license to Masao Kuky, Jap, aged "a,
and Mayme Jeffrey, aged 21, both of
Denver, Col.
George 1ngrim, 10 years old, re-
Gently killed 6O0-pound black bear
near his fathers camp, four miles
east of st. Mary's mission on the Col
vile Indian reservation.
Under the last ruling of the inter
state commerce commission rates af-
fecting Spokane will be simultaneously
announced by the railroads affected
and by the commission on June 1.
While playing in the back yard at
his home near Pine City, James G..
Hodgens, the 2-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Hodgens, fell into a
barrel sunk in spring and was
drowned.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. M. Anderson was burned to
death while playing around some burn
ing straw at the home of John Camp
bell, seven mil s west of Hatton, re-
Gently.
Governor Hay expresses both sur
prise and displeasure that during his
absence the legislative investigating
committee had abandoned its original
plan to make special report of the
insurance department.
The victim of conspiracy entered
into between his wife and Charles F.
Newcomb, a laundry wagon driver,
Martin Kvalshaug, 81 years old, was
shot down about midnight, just after
alighting from streetcar at Tacoma
Saturday.
Cigarette smokers are dsmayed over
the discovery that the new criminal
code contains a paragraph which not
only prohibits the sale of cigarettes,
but makes it a misdemeanor for any
one to be found with the "makingsn
in his possession.
The first official act of Governor
Hay on his return Saturday was to ap-
prove the official bond of Secretary
of State I. M. Howell, who at once
took office. Ben Fish was reappointed
assistant secretary and the others of
the Office force are continued.
The postofice at Bremerton, situated
in building close to the Puget sound
navy yard, was entered recently by
professional craftsmen, who drilled the
safe and took away it's strong box
containing $4,000 worth of stamps,
diamond ring valued at $3.50 and
nearly 5000 in cash.
Inc tax commission has received re-
ports from all express companies do
ing business in this state showing their
gross income for state business for the
year ended March 81 last aggregated
$9O2,617, as against about $4,000 the
previous year. At the per cent tax
the companies pay $45,136 to the state.
The closing features of the inter
scholastic meet at Pullman was held
in the college gym Saturday when the
contest for the four oratorical medals
was won by Sprague. The first medal
was won by Gray Greenwood of
Sprague; second, Dudley Hagan, Spo-
kane; third, Ortis Harris, Dayton, and
fourth, Allen Phillips, Prosser.
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