The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08
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BUSY READERS.
ABOUT PEOPLE IN MONTANA.
IDAHO, WASHINGTON
AND OREGON.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A fire in the home Of Mrs. L. ). kol-
~, Spokane, w sufocated her that she
died.
On Monday the Washington State col
lege reopened after honday vacation
lasting two weeks-
Grant y. Bond, county school super
intendent at Malla MaAa, WILL resign
February to enter law.
Otto Link, rancAer living near
Washougal, WAS drowned a few days
ago IN the Columbia nver.
To MIR. and Mrs. Elmer E. Smith, at
Spokane, were born, december ~, three
sons, the only trlplets Ut the year Ia
that city.
j. J. BROWNE suggestion that city
beautiful be built by the state " DO tho
legislative, executive and educational
ionary.
Crying out for Bill Sunday to save
him, y naked man tried to run down u
side aisle ut the tabernacle during SER
vice at Spokane, evidently intending to
mount the r0strum.
George Wilson, IL years old, arrested
at BeiLRgham Oh suspicion Of having
had q hand in the hOlduy and robbery
Of woman on the streets couple OF
nights age, has confessed.
For the last eight years there has
been steady increase in the receipts
Of the Garfield postotiice and during
the year 1905 the growth has been be-
/ tween IL and II per cent.
Eugene Lorton, recently appointed to
Aplace on the state board OF control by
GU Fernor Albert Z. Mead, in accord
and e with a wish of Governor-elect s.
G. Cosgrove, is at Olympia.
The Washington Live Stock associa-
. tion will hold It's annual meeting Jan
nary 80 in Spokane. The meat inspec-
&i0n and herd laws will be brought up
for discussion with view to revision,
and Mark Whitlsw will speak ON the
subject Of "Horse Breedlng.'
A new venture in merchandising is
to be established at Pullman, the enter
prise being "Rochdale," or cooper
alive store, in which farmers will be
the principal stockholders. Local men
and farmers living near Pullman are to
be the stockholders. The capitalization
will be ample to conduct a general mer-
chandise business.
The cornerstone of the Odd Fellows
temple at Spokane was laid New Year 3
day by L. j. Birdseye, the grand mas
ter Of the order in this state, and sew
-eral Of the other high officers who came
. to Spokane to take part in the cere
monies. The laying of the cornerstone
was preceded by parade, in which 700
or 800 members took part.
Owing to his failure to walk ba- +
and flag the oncoming freight traih,
Rear Brakeman ID. Z. Cannon, who IS
thought to have gone to sleep at his
post, was killed when the freight pulled
in, and his body cremated in the bum
ing wreckage Of the caboose near Top
penish.
The state tax commissioners in the
annual report score the present method
of keeping public accounts in both coun-
ties and cities, and say that radical
change is necessary. The commission
recommends the passage by the legisia-
tare of the uniform accountancy bill
prepared by Auditor F. p. Greene of
Spokane county, which was appro, ed
by the County Auditors association
and the Washington state grange.
The fruitgrowers war dt North Yak
lima has reached an acute stage. a
meeting Of the fruitgrowers union,
which has effected temporary organ.
ization, was held recently and an uiti
matum was issued to the horticultural
union. The fruitgrowers announce they
will form their union and compete un.
less the horticultural union reorganises
under the law Of 1907 as cooperative
instead of stock corporation.
G. B. Kegley, master of the Washing
ton State grange, has sold his home
farm Of 320 acres, 10 miles southw est
of Pullman, to T. A. Howard Of Dayton
The price was $45 an acre. Mr.. kegle,
still retains 81 acres, which he expects
to hold. lie will move to Pullman.
No subject discussed at the recon
convention of the Washington EdLca
tional association transcends in impor
tance that of conservation of the stale !
school and granted lands held IN trus
for the future support of the publ,
schools. Properly administered the per
manent school fund of the state shout,
in time derive from the sale of thes,
lands between $2O.O00, 900 and $40, 900
900, the income from which would con
tribute vastly to the support of public
education.
Attorney Fl. G. Cosgrove is at Olym
pia. He will be at the state capito
on the day of the issuing of the Ger
tifcate of election of his father, s. @
Cosgrove, to the office of governor. an,
Immediately enter upon the duties o.
secretary to his father. II still unabl,
to return from Paso Robles, Governor
elect Cosgrove will discharge the duties
of the~ehief executive through his soi
at Olympia.~
Owing to the t~w vxatar in tha, Coirr.