The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-22
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WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Joab Robertson, a pioneer Of Palouse,
is dead.
Rev. Isaac Newton Belknap of Ket-
tie Falls is dead.
Fire recently Quilted the Western
mills at Seattle. Loss, $15O,000.
Governor Cosgrove expects to leave
Paso Robles for Olympia this week.
The Kettle Falls sawmill, with most
Of its machinery, was burned recently.
Billy Sunday, the evangelist, will re-
main in Spokane until Sunday, Febru-
airy z.
Thu announcement is made that the
railroads early in the spring will re-
sumo the low cOlonist rates.
Partial paralysis of the brain causel
the death of Oliver ]. Graham, a pion-
err of Spokane county, recently.
So far as can be learned the recent
cold spell has not seriously affected the
fruit crop of the Inland Empire.
Senator Rosenhaupt has introduced a
tract index bill designed to permit coun-
ties to own and maintain tract indexes.
For the first time in history the Sun
day closing law, as it relates to other
than saloons, was put into effect in
Whitman county Sunday.
The criminal laws of the state will
be greatly simplifed in the new code
and the practice Hereunder improved
as compared with present methods.
Following the example set by the
towns in the Palouse country, various
communities in the Okanogan country
are now planning for widespread cam
paign of publicity.
Members of the legislature who are
not lawyers, and some who are, will
oppose the bills providing for addi-
tional Judges in King, Pierce and Spo.
kane counties.
Howard Cosgrove is now major on
the governors staff and assigned to
duty az assistant adjutant general and
military secretary, to succeed Frank
Dallam, resigned.
Cushman and Humphrey have re-
turned from Panama, where, with the
congressional party, they inspected the
canal. They are quite enthusiastic over
the prospects of lock canal construc-
ton.
Governor Mead has issued a proclama-
ton calling for general observance of
| the centennial of the birth of Lincoln,
proclaiming Friday, February IL, to be
appropriately observed throughout the
state.
The plan of the conservation COM
mission recently selected by Cover
nor Mead to have set aside in this state
national park, is enc that is deserv-
ing of many a boost from citizens of
| the state.
By placing statues in memory Of
| Marcus Whitman and Isaac I. Stevens
in the Hall of Fame at the nation 3
capital, the citizens of this state will
pay 4 fitting tribute to the memory of
two pioneers.
| The Edwall high school burned Satur
day night from an unknown cause. The
loss on the library and books belonging
to students is estimated at $500, max.
ing total loss of $500. The building
was insured for $4,000.
| The senate committee on Indian af-
fairs at Washington, D. c., has reported
adversely on the bill recommended by
Secretary Of the Interior James R. Gar
field for the reservation and sale of
water powers on the Colville Indian
reservation.
| Finding that Grace Paukschen, who
was committed to the Eastern Wash.
ington Hospital for the Insane, at Medi-
cal Lake, from Lincoln county last Sep.
TENDER, is now sane, Judge E. H. Sulli.
van of Spokane has decreed that she
is not to be returned to that institution
| from which she has been at liberty
pending hearing on habeas corpus pro.
ceedings.